Summer Reading Week 4

 
Welcome to the results of Week 4 of Summer Reading 2012.  We have 328 people signed up.  This week, out of 43 people submitting entries, 17 were new.  They read 150 books.  For the four weeks, 105 people read 466 books.

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The Drop By Connelly, Michael 2011-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316069410 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fiercely than ever. In one morning, he gets two. DNA from a 1989 rape and murder case matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? 416 pp. (Espionage/Thriller) …More

A Cold-Blooded Scoundrel By Cook, J. S. 2005-12 - Brandon/Mount Eagle 9780863223365 Check Our Catalog …More

KnockOut By Coulter, Catherine 2010-06 - Large Print Press 9781594133862 Check Our Catalog Seven-year-old Autumn Backman has a gift: she can communicate telepathically with others. Not everyone, mind you, but with a select few with whom she shares a special kinship. When Autumn and her mother, Joanna, take her father's ashes to be buried in the family plot in Brickers Bowl, Georgia, she witnesses a horrifying sight: her grandmother and two uncles, burying a pile of dead bodies in the middle of the night. …More

Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 By Craig, Maggie 2000-03 - Mainstream Publishing Company 9781840182989 Check Our Catalog Covering the history of the last Jacobite Rising, this book tells the stories of the many women caught up in the turbulent events of 1745-46. Female support for the Stuart cause was significant, and the government of the day feared these women who gave money and hospitality or acted as spies. Some stood with their men, while others acted in direct opposition to them. Eighteen of the most prominent women were arrested after the defeat of the Rising; hundreds actively involved themselves on both sides; and many others were raped, persecuted, or transported to the colonies. With one famous exception, historians have ignored female participation in the '45 Rising. This book, based largely on original documents and letters, aims to redress the balance. …More

All the Pretty Hearses By Daheim, Mary 2011-08 - William Morrow & Company 9780061351587 Check Our Catalog Bed-and-breakfast owner and amateur sleuth Judith McMonigle Flynn has to dealwith a case of insurance fraud--and a mystery meat gone bad. …More

Tangled Vines By Dailey, Janet 2010-09 - Zebra Books 9781420100044 Check Our Catalog Elegant 90-year-old Katherine Rutledge runs her family's Napa Valley winery. Her estranged son runs a rival winery and an alcoholic neighbor, Len Dougherty, lives on 10 acres of the Rutledge vineyard given to his family as compensation for the accidental death of his father. Meanwhile, beautiful, ambitious Kelly Douglas, a rising TV newscaster is assigned to prepare an in-depth report on the Rutledge winery, which is in negotiations to merge with a French winery. Kelly long ago escaped Dougherty, her physically abusive father and doesn't want to go back home. Then, there's a murder in which her father is the prime suspect while complications arise via a budding romance with Sam Rutledge, Katherine's grandson and the manager of the Rutledge winery. …More

Undead and Unpopular By Davidson, MaryJanice 2006-06 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425210291 Check Our Catalog In her fifth outing, Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor has a birthday coming up and she has a lot on her plate, including wedding plans. So when some birthday guests show up uninvited, she gets really cranky. RThink "Sex and the City"--only the city is Minneapolis and it's filled with demons and vampires.S--"Publishers Weekly." …More

Undead and Unreturnable By Davidson, MaryJanice 2006-05 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425210819 Check Our Catalog Queen of the Vampires Betsy Taylor is planning the perfect wedding to drop-dead gorgeous vamp Eric Sinclair. But in this fourth novel of Davidson's series, Betsy is plagued by ghosts, who demand her help in rectifying their past mistakes, and a serial killer on the loose. …More

The Thin Place By Davis, Kathryn 2006-01 - Little Brown and Company 9780316735049 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title In Varennes, a town near the Canadian border, three girls come across the body of a dead man on the local lake's beach. Two of them run to get help, but twelve-year-old Mees Kipp stays with the body and somehow, inexplicably, brings it back to life. Her mysterious gift is at the center of this haunting and transcendent novel. …More

First Impressions By Deveraux, Jude 2006-07 - Pocket Books 9780743437158 Check Our Catalog The much-loved, "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Summerhouse" presents an emotionally charged novel about one woman's bid to stand up to the tragedy of her past and reclaim the promise of her future. Available in a Premium Edition. …More

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance By de Waal, Edmund 2011-08 - Picador USA 9780312569372 Check Our Catalog February 12: Having spent 30 years making beautiful pots, de Waal has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story. …More

Pineapple Grenade By Dorsey, Tim 2012-01 - William Morrow & Company 9780061876905 Check Our Catalog In the latest laugh-riot thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling author Dorsey, Serge Storms has finagled his way into becoming a secret agent in Miami, spying for the president of a banana republic. Will he still have time for a cocktail before Homeland Security brings him down? An entertaining and fast paced story set in modern-day Miami.  Written in a style reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson.  Many tongue-in-cheek metaphors are delivered by the main character, who is unpredictiable, yet successful in his attempt at being a "spy." Very clever plot that keeps the reader guessing until the very end.  Enjoyable summer read. …More

The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever By Dukan, Pierre 2011-04 - Crown Archetype 9780307887962 Check Our Catalog Devised by a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like. "The Dukan Diet" has helped millions in France, where it has been #1 for more than 10 years and adopted in 20 countries. …More

Explosive Eighteen By Evanovich, Janet 2011-11 - Bantam 9780345527714 Check Our Catalog With the arrival of "Explosive Eighteen", readers won't have to wait very long to find out what happens next in Evanovich's popular Stephanie Plum adventure series. 320 pp. (General Fiction) Stephanie Plum is up to her old tricks with cohort Lula, and still is in the Ranger/Joe Morelli triangle.  A light summer read (listen.) …More

Wicked Appetite By Evanovich, Janet 2010-09 - St. Martin's Press 9780312652913 Check Our Catalog The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author is back with a brand-new series. Diesel, the man with unmentionable talents, leaves the world of Stephanie Plum for the North Shore of Boston, where he partners with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker to stop his criminal mastermind cousin, Gerewulf Grimorie, from intercepting a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins. …More

Love in a Nutshell By Evanovich, Janet Author Kelly, Dorien 2012-01 - St. Martin's Press 9780312651312 Check Our Catalog Number-one bestselling author Evanovich teams up with award-winning author Dorien Kelly to deliver a sparkling novel of romantic suspense, small-town antics, secretive sabotage, and lots and lots of beer. Filled with humor, heart, and lovable characters, "Love in a Nutshell" is delicious fun. Fun read. …More

Shop Your Closet By Charlton Fascitelli, Melanie 2008-04 - HarperCollins 9780061644160 Check Our Catalog …More

Danger in the Wind: An Aurelia Marcella Roman Mystery By Finnis, Jane 2011-12 - Poisoned Pen Press 9781590588901 Check Our Catalog A fine summer in 100 AD and good government under Trajan Caesar promise well for the Roman settlers in the frontier province of Britannia. Aurelia Marcella runs a mansio on a busy road to York. June is always busy, but one day two unusual events occur: a soldier is murdered in his bed at the inn, and a letter arrives from Isurium, a small fort north of the city. It is from a cousin, Jovina, inviting Aurelia to a midsummer birthday party. But the missive also reads as a plea for help, referring to "danger in the wind." The murdered soldier also bore a message, locked in Aurelia's strongbox, indicating violence would erupt at the very same fort on the day of the party. At Isurium, Aurelia finds Jovina and her drunken husband and unruly children caught in a tangled web of greed, love, intrigue, and death. When violence engulfs the district, Aurelia suddenly finds herself in peril from enemies engaged in an anti- Roman plot and from family members bent on misguided or evil agendas of their own. This is the 4th in a series. …More

Silence By Fitzpatrick, Becca 2011-10 - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 9781442426641 Check Our Catalog The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past, bridged two irreconcilable worlds, and faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust--and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in one another, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they've worked for--and their love--forever. 400 pp. 350,000 print. (Children's - Young Adult) …More

Devil's Food Cake Murder By Fluke, Joanne 2011-02 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758234919 Check Our Catalog A new minister has come to Lake Eden, Minnesota, to fill in for Reverend Bob Knudson, who's on his honeymoon. But when the replacement is found dead in a plate of devil's food cake with a bullet in his head, Hannah Swensen starts asking questions. …More

Gone Girl By Flynn, Gillian 2012-06 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780307588364 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Flynn's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit with deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds readers at every turn. When his wife disappears on their anniversary, Nick starts having cringe-worthy daydreams and becomes oddly evasive, eschewing his golden boy past. …More

Shifting Sands By Fraser, Anthea 2011-10 - Severn House Publishers 9780727880574 Check Our Catalog "A gripping psychological mystery and a warm, sympathetic exploration of widowhood - "Anna's family hope that a South African safari holiday will help her to get over her beloved husband's death. No one is more surprised than Anna herself when she finds herself strongly attracted to a fellow traveller, Lewis Masters, and despite her initial resistance, she is soon drawn into a new relationship. But back home, Anna's journalist son Jonathan is being repeatedly contacted by a young woman asking for his help, even though she's too frightened to say what is worrying her . . . …More

The Nightmare Thief By Gardiner, Meg 2011-07 - Dutton Books 9780525952213 Check Our Catalog Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and her partner, Gabe Quintata, return in a fourth taut, groundbreaking thriller from Edgar Award-winner Gardiner. …More