Summer Reading Week 6

Welcome to the results of Week 6 of Summer Reading 2012.  We have 357 people signed up.  This week 41 people read 134 books (17 submitted entries for the first time this week.)  So far, 392 people have read 757 books!

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The Wild Road: A Dirk & Steele Novel By Liu, Marjorie M. 2011-06 - Avon Books 9780062020185 Check Our Catalog In this loosely linked sequel to "Dark Dreamers," a new plot by the Consortium brings a beautiful athlete into concert with a man she soon discovers is a gargoyle--and the love of her life. …More

Gilt By Longshore, Katherine 2012-05 - Viking Children's Books 9780670013999 Check Our Catalog In 1539, Kitty Tylney and her best friend Catherine Howard--the audacious, self-proclaimed "Queen of Misrule"--both servants to the Duchess of Norfolk, move to the court of King Henry VIII, who fancies Cat. When Cat becomes queen, Kitty must learn to navigate the complexities and dangers of the royal court. …More

Scotland: A Concise History By MacLean, Fitzroy 2001-03 - Thames & Hudson 9780500282335 Check Our Catalog Magnificently illustrated, this look at Scotland's history is a brisk account enlivened with both wit and scholarship. Pictures from authentic contemporary sources illuminate the romantic figures and bloody battles, the country's politics and religion, and provide a rich visual record of Scotland's art, craftsmanship, and intellectual life. Updated by Magnus Linklater, former editor of "The Scotsman". 250 illustrations. …More

The Season By MacLean, Sarah 2010-06 - Orchard Books 9780545048873 Check Our Catalog Strong-willed and sharp-tongued, 17-year-old Lady Alexandra had to learn to hold her own growing up in a houseful of brothers in Regency England. But soon Alex finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery just as ball season begins. …More

Wickedly Ever After By Marcos, Michelle 2009-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312948511 Check Our Catalog After discovering her fiance in the arms of a parlor maid, Lady Athena McAlister comes to a frightful realization: Most men prefer the company of their mistresses to their wives. How can she, and other brides-to-be, become both wife and mistress to a man? In her quest for knowledge, she begs her wealthy grandfather for money to start a finishing school for marriageable young ladies. There she and her friends discreetly invite London's most notorious rakes to educate them on the art of seducing a man. Marshall Hawkesworth's sister has become far too knowledgeable about the ways of sex, and he suspects that her new finishing school is to blame. Marshall poses as a lecturer on several topics, including sensual kissing, and he soon finds Lady Athena to be a most apt pupil. But before he has her school shut down for good, he's determined to give her a few private lessons she won't soon forget... …More

Real Wifeys: Get Money: An Urban Tale By Mink, Meesha 2012-01 - Touchstone Books 9781451640823 Check Our Catalog This book shows how you can be so hell bent on getting even that you lose yourself.  Some things aren't worth trying to even fight about.  In the end the lesson:  you're not going to always get what you want. …More

Real Wifeys on the Grind By Mink, Meesha 2011-01 - Touchstone Books 9781439173114 Check Our Catalog The first of a new series featuring the scandalous life of a hood-fabulous wifey who uses her sex appeal and street smarts to make it big. This book makes you take a look at life from Goldie's view.  She had a lot of things to go through to she herself worthy of being happy. …More

To Tame a Highland Warrior By Moning, Karen Marie 1999-12 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440234814 Check Our Catalog Only her love could gentle his savage soul-- He was born to a clan of warriors of supernatural strength, but Gavrael McIllioch abandoned his name and his Highland castle, determined to escape the dark fate of his ancestors. Hiding his identity from the relentless rival clan that hunted him, he called himself Grimm to protect the people he cared for, vowing never to acknowledge his love for ravishing Jillian St. Clair. Yet even from afar he watched over her, and when her father sent an urgent summons, "Come for Jillian," he raced to her side--into a competition to win her hand in marriage. Why had he run from her so many years before? And why return now to see her offered as a prize in her father's manipulative game? Furious, Jillian vowed never to wed. But Grimm was the man she loved, the one who urged her to marry another. He tried to pretend indifference as she tempted him, but he could not deny the fierce desires that compelled him to abduct her from the altar. She was the only woman who could tame the beast that raged within him--even as deadly enemies plotted to destroy them both.... …More

The Center of Everything By Moriarty, Laura 2003-07 - Hyperion Books 9781401300319 Check Our Catalog In Moriarty's extraordinary first novel, a young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, ten-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself. Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 5, 18 Points. …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 Rest of Her Life By Moriarty, Laura 2008-06 - Hyperion Books 9781401309435 Check Our Catalog From the critically acclaimed author of "The Center of Everything" comes this luminous, provocative, and ultimately redemptive look at how even mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to each other. …More

Cat Fear No Evil By Murphy, Shirley Rousseau 2004-12 - Avon Books 9780061015601 Check Our Catalog When the strange disappearance of antiques and valuables leads to a murder, crime-solving cats Joe Grey and Dulcie detect the unmistakable scent of their yellow-eyed feline nemesis, Azrael. …More

Batter Off Dead By Myers, Tamar 2009-02 - New American Library 9780451225924 Check Our Catalog During a church breakfast, Minerva J. Jay, known for her prodigious appetite, slumps over after ingesting several stacks of pancakes. Police Chief Chris Ackerman wonders if the serving of the fatal flapjacks is a case of assault and batter. …More

Hades: Lord of the Dead By O'Connor, George 2012-01 - First Second 9781596437616 Check Our Catalog …More

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up By Parry, Richard Lloyd Author Parry 2012-05 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374230593 Check Our Catalog In 2000, a tall, blonde, 21-year-old went missing in Tokyo, and her remains were found several months later. Questions arose about her friendships, her career, and her intentions. …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

Kill Me If You Can By Patterson, James Author Karp, Marshall 2011-08 - Little Brown and Company 9780316097543 Check Our Catalog A poor art student living in New York City finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend fill his thoughts--until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won't stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge. …More

Now You See Her By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2012-04 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446574709 Check Our Catalog A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone about her past. When an innocent man is framed for murder, she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes. …More

Private Games By Patterson, James Author Sullivan, Mark 2012-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316206822 Check Our Catalog Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee has been killed. It's clear to Peter that this wasn't a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution. …More

Run for Your Life By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2009-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316018746 Check Our Catalog A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history. …More

Step on a Crack By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2007-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316013949 Check Our Catalog Meet Patterson's most compelling hero yet: Detective Michael Bennett, father of ten, as he pursues the most diabolical criminal ever to terrify New York City. …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

The Dante Club By Pearl, Matthew 2004-02 - Random House Trade 9780812971040 Check Our Catalog The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's Inferno. Only an elite group of America's first Dante scholars--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields--can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. …More