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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Between You and Me By McLaughlin, Emma Author Kraus, Nicola 2012-06 - Atria Books 9781439188187 Check Our Catalog From the authors of the #1 New York Times-bestseller "The Nanny Diaries" comes a new novel that goes behind the scenes of stratospheric celebrity. McLaughlin and Kraus are masters at exploring the nuances of family relationships and current trends in the culture at large. …More

Tumbleweeds By Meacham, Leila 2012-06 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455509249 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Devoted readers of Meacham will devour this long, juicy page-turner about three young friends--the saint, the sinner, and the angel--growing up together in the sort of small Texas Panhandle town that lives and dies by its Friday night football games. …More

A Dad for Her Twins By Michaels, Tanya 2008-09 - Harlequin Books 9780373752294 Check Our Catalog When Kenzie Green relocates to Atlanta, she isn't looking for a man to complete her family. Then she meets her enigmatic new neighbor across the hall. Jonathan Trelauney seems to know just how to handle Kenzie's domestic handful. And her kids are already falling in love with the widowed artist. Kenzie's twin son and daughter are shattering his peace...and JT loves every minute of it! They're slowly but surely bringing him out of his reclusive shell. Now he'd like to do the same for their independent single mom. Can JT make Kenzie see that he's a man she can count on? That he can be the husband and father her family needs? …More

The Chaperone By Moriarty, Laura 2012-06 - Riverhead Books 9781594487019 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. …More

The Hypnotist's Love Story By Moriarty, Liane 2012-06 - Amy Einhorn Books 9780399159107 Check Our Catalog Ellen O'Farrell is a bit unusual. She's a hypnotherapist. She's never met her father. And she can't seem to keep a relationship going. When her new boy Patrick reveals that his ex-girlfriend is stalking him, Ellen is intrigued. …More

A Kind of Magic By Neels, Betty 2012-06 - Harlequin 9780373249527 Check Our Catalog …More

The Chalk Girl By O. Connell, Carol 2012-01 - G. P. Putnam's Sons 9780399157745 Check Our Catalog Before Lisbeth Salander, there was Kathy Mallory. The astonishing new Mallory novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author. The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect-except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. "Poor child, " people thought. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months' lost time, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, but she can tell a kindred spirit. And this one will lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes: murders stretching back fifteen years, blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all . . . in her own way. A page-turner mystery and savant character portrayal make for a very compelling read.  Author is clever and well-researched in a NYC police vs. uber rich plot.  Highly recommended. …More

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever By O'Reilly, Bill Author Dugard, Martin 2011-09 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805093070 Check Our Catalog The anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor" delivers a riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. With an unforgettable cast of characters, vivid historical detail, and fast-paced action, "Killing Lincoln" is history that sounds like a thriller. Fantastic.  I love historical thrillers.  This was an outstanding piece of work. …More

Invisible Monsters Remix By Palahniuk, Chuck 2012-06 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393083521 Check Our Catalog Injected with new material and special design elements, "Invisible Monsters Remix" fulfills Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. I rarely re-read a book after the initial read, but with the new format and added content, this remake/remix is as enjoyable the second time around (if not more so.) …More

Oath of Office By Palmer, Michael 2012-02 - St. Martin's Press 9780312587536 Check Our Catalog When Dr. John Merriman goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Merriman turns the gun on himself. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Dr. Lou Welcome is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he's incredulous. And when he begins to look into it further, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power. …More

All Our Yesterdays By Parker, Robert B. 1995-12 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440221463 Check Our Catalog They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century... and Chris, Gus's beloved son, a Harvard lawyer and criminologist, fated to risk everything to break the chain of obsession and rage... Three generations linked by crime and punishment--cops and heroes, fathers, sons, and lovers united at last by revelations that could bring a family to its knees... …More

Appaloosa By Parker, Robert B. 2010-01 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425233658 Check Our Catalog Parker, the author of more than 40 novels and an Edgar Awards Grand Master, returns with this richly imagined novel of the Old West. Interim lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch square off with Randall Bragg, an evil adversary, in the dusty town of Appaloosa. …More

Blue-Eyed Devil By Parker, Robert B. 2011-05 - Large Print Press 9781594134562 Check Our Catalog Once, Appaloosa law was Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. Now it's Amos Callico, a vindictive, power-hungry tin star with bigger aims-and he could use Cole and Hitch on his side. This time the paid guns aren't for hire, which makes Callico a very vengeful man. But threatening Cole and Hitch ignites something just as dangerous. …More

Brimstone By Parker, Robert B. 2010-05 - Berkley 9780425234617 Check Our Catalog When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than the innocent beauty she once was. Now they must save her, even if murder is the price of redemption. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Ceremony By Parker, Robert B. 1992-08 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440109938 Check Our Catalog From the bestselling author of Crimson Joy. Spenser's out to make war, not love, as he goes after Boston's entire X-rated industry. Pretty teenager April Kyle has disappeared into the city's darkest underworld, and to rescue her, Spencer pits muscle and wit against bullets and bullies. Part of Dell's ongoing Robert B. …More

Split Image By Parker, Robert B. 2011-02 - Berkley 9780425239735 Check Our Catalog After a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach, Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall realize just how much they really have in common with their victims, their suspects-and each other. …More

7th Heaven By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2008-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316017701 Check Our Catalog As fire after fire consumes couples in expensive neighborhoods, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Womens Murder Club race to find the arsonists responsible, in a thriller with unexpected twists and emotional extremes of the kind only Patterson can deliver. The fast-paced plot and unpredictable story made this audio book a great distraction on our drive from Michigan to New Jersey. …More

11th Hour By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2012-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097499 Check Our Catalog When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the death of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. …More

The Christmas Wedding By Patterson, James Author DiLallo, Richard 2011-10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097390 Check Our Catalog The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married--and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day--she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays. 272 pp. (General Fiction) Enjoyable, easy reading. …More

Private By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2011-07 - Vision 9780446574723 Check Our Catalog Jack Morgan inherits his father's renowned security and detective business. Getting to the bottom of an NFL gambling scandal and an unsolved LAPD investigation into 18 schoolgirl slayings would be enough. On top of all that, Morgan takes on solving the horrific murder of his best friend's wife. Available in a tall Premium Edition. …More

Fall from Grace By Patterson, Richard North 2012-03 - Scribner Book Company 9781451617054 Check Our Catalog The novel begins with the arrival of Adam Blaine at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his father's death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know. …More

Battle Cry By Pendleton, Don 2012-01 - Gold Eagle 9780373643981 Check Our Catalog A group of homegrown Scottish terrorists guns down an American businessman in the name of its cause--free Scotland from England, whatever the cost. But something more sinister lurks below the surface, and Mack Bolan is called in to stop the group before it strikes again. Original. Bolan to the rescue again this time to protect the English from Scottish Freedom fighters.  Will Bolan win again? …More

Shadow Strike By Pendleton, Don 2012-01 - Gold Eagle 9780373615506 Check Our Catalog Eco-Armageddon is the goal of a far-reaching group with the scope, vision, and power to strike oil rigs around the globe. With unprecedented disaster looming, Mack Bolan begins the hunt to identify and stop the terror dealers behind the threat. Original. Bolan needs to find and stop Eco-terrorist if the world's oil supply will remain. …More