Summer Reading Week 7

Here are the results of Week 7.  This week 30 people submitted entries, and 7 were new!  They read 97 books.  So far 102 people have submitted 660 entries, and 209 people have registered, 9 just this week.

Empire of Lies By Klavan, Andrew 2010-06 - Vanguard Press 9781593155988 Check Our Catalog Sustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism. Then he's contacted by a woman with whom he once shared a life of violence and desire. She claims her daughter is missing--and Jason is the one man who can find her. …More

A Killer in the Wind By Klavan, Andrew 2013-01 - Mysterious Press 9780802120670 Check Our Catalog Three years ago, working vice for the NYPD, Dan Champion uncovered a sex slavery ring run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Obsessed with bringing her down, Champion infiltrated a world of sexual obsession and perversity. He broke the case, but the case also broke him. …More

The Stranger By Lackberg, Camilla Translator Murray, Steven T. 2013-05 - Pegasus Books 9781605984254 Check Our Catalog In the new thriller by Lckberg, a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before. …More

The Law of the Desert Born By L'Amour, Louis Foreword by L'Amour, Louis 1984-03 - Bantam Books 9780553241334 Check Our Catalog A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION -- FROM AMERICA'S FAVORITE STORYTELLER This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L'Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another's life -- and must pay for his actions in a most punishing manner; a young thrill-seeker who finally finds a place he can call home, and vows to stay there -- regardless of the man who tries to stand in his way; and a drifter who honors a deathbed promise to a stranger by embarking on an unlikely mission of mercy. Complete with revealing author's notes, the stories in Law of the Desert Born are historically precise, and filled with L'Amour's trademark humor and adventure. They are nothing less than modern classics of the American West, told by one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. …More

Have a New Husband by Friday: How to Change His Attitude, Behavior &Amp; Communication in 5 Days By Leman, Kevin 2009-09 - Fleming H. Revell Company 9780800719128 Check Our Catalog There isn't a woman on this earth who hasn't wanted, at one time or another, to trade in her husband for a new one. Have a new husband by Friday? Is that even possible? To tell you the truth, it's a scam. You can have a new husband by Wednesday if you do it right. Even better, there's no need to trade your man in for a newer model; all he needs is a little tune-up. You can change your husband's attitude, behavior, and communication in just 5 days. Dr. Kevin Leman, New York Times bestselling author and internationally known psychologist, shows you how you can turn your man into the man of your dreams. It's the miracle turnaround you're longing for. Guaranteed. …More

Friends in High Places By Leon, Donna 2009-12 - Penguin Books 9780143117063 Check Our Catalog What begins as a red-tape headache for Commissario Brunetti regarding his Venice apartment building ends in murder after a bureaucrat on the case is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold. The winner of the Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Daggeravailable for the first time in the United States. …More

Girl of His Dreams By Leon, Donna 2008-09 - Gale Cengage 9781410408747 Check Our Catalog Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative portraits of Venetian life. In her novels, food, family, art, history, and local politics play as central a role as an unsolved crime. "The Girl of His Dreams" offers a spectacular, heart-wrenching addition to the series. …More

Death of a Neighborhood Witch By Levine, Laura 2012-08 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758238498 Check Our Catalog On the mean streets of Beverly Hills, freelance writer and chocoholic Jaine Austen battles crime--and cellulite. When Jaine's cat accidentally gives her neighbor's parakeet a heart attack, she becomes her neighbor's enemy. Then she's the #1 suspect when her neighbor is found dead. …More

Out of the Silent Planet By Lewis, C. S. 1996-10 - Scribner Book Company 9780684833644 Check Our Catalog In the first book of C.S. Lewis's legendary science fiction trilogy, Dr. Ransom is kidnapped and spirited by spaceship to the mysterious red planet of Malandra. He escapes and goes on the run, jeopardizing both his chances of ever returning to Earth and his very life. First published in 1943, this classic interplanetary fantasy continues to delight readers around the world. HPL patron:  Science Fiction has changed so much since the early years!  Lewis' work is very philosophical, especially when you consider how it fits in with his full body of work beyond Narnia. …More

Beautiful Ugly By Lipsey, Shelia E. 2009-08 - Urban Books 9781601629975 Check Our Catalog The empowering story of three women--each with her own set of problems, situations, and secrets--who share a friendship bound together by their need for each other. …More

Beneath Southern Skies By Little, Terra 2013-03 - Kimani Press 9780373863037 Check Our Catalog …More

After Rome: A Novel of Celtic Britain By Llywelyn, Morgan 2013-02 - Forge 9780765331236 Check Our Catalog Anarchy rules in Britannia as the Roman Empire collapses, and two men fight to build stable lives among the chaos. …More

Wolf Hall By Mantel, Hilary 2009-10 - Henry Holt & Company 9780805080681 Check Our Catalog 2009 Man Booker Prize Winner 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: Fiction In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. HPL patron:  A personal and in depth treatment of Thomas Cromwell.  From child to adult.  A view more compassionate than history-well researched but still fiction-illuminating about the political and religious pressures that pre-cursed the English Reformation. …More

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet: Horror Stories By Matheson, Richard Introduction by King, Stephen 2002-01 - Tor Books 9780312878276 Check Our Catalog Remember that monster on the wing of the airplane? William Shatner saw it on "The Twilight Zone, " John Lithgow saw it in the movie--even Bart Simpson saw it! "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is just one of many classic Richard Matheson stories in this collection of 20 of his most memorable tales of fear and paranoia. …More

Red Heart Tattoo By McDaniel, Lurlene 2012-07 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers 9780385734622 Check Our Catalog At 7: 45 a.m. on the day before Thanksgiving break, a bomb goes off at Edison High. Nine people die instantly. Fifteen are critically injured. Twenty-two suffer less severe injuries. And one is blinded. Those who survive struggle to cope with the loss and destruction. All must find new meaning for their lives as a result of something they may never understand. …More

Pushing the Limits By McGarry, Katie 2013-04 - Harlequin Teen 9780373210862 Check Our Catalog No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner explodes into her life with his surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. Original. …More

Tropical Fantasy By McKayhan, Monica 2013-04 - Kimani Press 9780373863075 Check Our Catalog Sasha Winters has it all planned. She'll spend two days-exactly 48 hours-in the Bahamas for her sister's wedding. Then it's back to her hectic life as a lawyer on the fast track to partner. But when a storm strands her on an exotic island, Sasha's suddenly giving in to her sensual side and making moonlit magic with Vince Sullivan, a man she barely knows. Original. …More

The Eternal Ones: What If Love Refused to Die? By Miller, Kirsten 2010-08 - Razorbill 9781595143082 Check Our Catalog Haven Moore can't control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. Then an impossible group of coincidences forces her to flee from her small Tennessee town to New York, to discover who she is, and who she had been. …More

Superfood Kitchen: Cooking with Nature's Most Amazing Foods By Morris, Julie 2012-11 - Sterling Publishing (NY) 9781454903529 Check Our Catalog …More

Immortal Rain: Volume 1 By Ozaki, Kaori 2004-06 - TokyoPop 9781591827221 Check Our Catalog A boyish, energetic 14-year-old girl who set out to kill a 624-year-old immortal--the one bounty her late assassin grandfather couldn't collect on--ends up being saved by him from the aspiring bounty hunters who are stalking them both. …More

Immortal Rain: Volume 2 By Ozaki, Kaori 2004-08 - TokyoPop 9781591827238 Check Our Catalog A boyish, energetic 14-year-old girl who sets out to kill a 624-year-old immortal--the one bounty her late assassin-grandfather couldn't collect on--ends up being saved by him from the aspiring bounty hunters who are stalking them both. …More

Immortal Rain: Volume 3 By Ozaki, Kaori 2004-11 - TokyoPop 9781591827245 Check Our Catalog After arriving in "The Angel's Graveyard," a frigid wasteland, the secrets that seem to be buried deep in Rain are all revealed in a chilling dream of sin and sadness. Illustrations. …More

Cross Fire By Patterson, James 2010-11 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036177 Check Our Catalog Detective Alex Cross's wedding plans are put on hold when he is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington, D.C.'s, most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians. …More

The Boyfriend By Perry, Thomas 2013-03 - Mysterious Press 9780802126061 Check Our Catalog After a respected career as a LAPD homicide detective, Jack Till now works as a private investigator. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case. As Till digs deeper, he realizes that the victim is just one of several young female escorts killed in different cities in the exact same way. …More

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Summer Reading Week 7

Here are the results of Week 7.  This week 30 people submitted entries, and 7 were new!  They read 97 books.  So far 102 people have submitted 660 entries, and 209 people have registered, 9 just this week.

The Way to Write for Children: An Introduction to the Craft of Writing Children's Literature By Aiken, Joan 1998-11 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312200480 Check Our Catalog Revised and updated, this essential and practical guide by an award-winning children's author explains how to write books for children, from where to look to inspiration to practical advice on how to create characters and structure a plot. …More

Haven Creek By Alers, Rochelle 2013-05 - Forever 9781455501397 Check Our Catalog After architect Morgan Dane is offered her dream jobNthe restoration of historic Angels Landing Plantation on beautiful Cavanaugh IslandNher life takes an unexpected turn. Morgan returns to Haven Creek and is reunited with a schoolmate, carpenter Nathaniel Shaw. The wallflower he knew in high school has grown into a beautiful woman. Original. …More

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife By Alexander, Eben 2012-10 - Simon & Schuster 9781451695182 Check Our Catalog This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life. HPL patron:  Very enlightening book.  "God and the soul are real, and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition." …More

Say It with Roses By Archer, Devon Vaughn 2013-03 - Kimani Press 9780373863006 Check Our Catalog …More

Aunt Dimity Digs in By Atherton, Nancy 1999-03 - Penguin Books 9780140275698 Check Our Catalog The favorite ghost of cozy mystery lovers unearths the sinister secrets of the idyllic town of Finch. …More

Aunt Dimity's Good Deed By Atherton, Nancy 1996-10 - Viking Books 9780670867158 Check Our Catalog Imagine a scene of rural serenity, a night scene. Above the mountains surrounding this faraway place, the stars are a menagerie of silver flickering motes. Imagine a solitary ranch, a man and a woman asleep. It would be hard to fathom a purer vision of people at peace in the natural world. Who could foresee that this tranquility would be so brutally shattered by the night visitors? When Grant hears of the campaign of malice being waged against his only living relatives, he abandons Rome and a crumbling marriage to do what he can to help them. His brash confidence is quickly bruised as the night visits escalate in violence, and the death of Giovanni Trentas, a dear family friend found mutilated in a gorge above the ranch, takes on new meaning. When his aunt presents him with Giovanni's legacy - an old cigar box filled with letters, photos, and seemingly random knick-knacks - Grant finds himself in possession of a puzzle that might hold the answers to much more than Giovanni's death. Grant's unfolding passion for Giovanni's daughter, Helen, forces him to choose between loyalty and love as the night terrors come to their catastrophic end. …More

Yotsuba&!, Volume 1 By Azuma, Kiyohiko 2009-09 - Yen Press 9780316073875 Check Our Catalog "First published in Japan in 2003 by Media Works Inc., Tokyo"-- Colophon. …More

Yotsuba&!, Volume 2 By Azuma, Kiyohiko 2009-09 - Yen Press 9780316073899 Check Our Catalog School's out for the summer and Yotsuba is looking for things to do. …More

Yotsuba&!, Volume 3 By Azuma, Kiyohiko 2009-09 - Yen Press 9780316073905 Check Our Catalog Yotsuba attempts to give flowers to everyone in the world. …More

Yotsuba&!, Volume 4 By Azuma, Kiyohiko 2009-09 - Yen Press 9780316073912 Check Our Catalog "First published in Japan in 2005 by Media Works, Inc., Tokyo"-- Colophon. …More

The Perfect Ghost By Barnes, Linda 2013-04 - Minotaur Books 9781250023636 Check Our Catalog Mousy, timid, and shy to the point of agoraphobic, Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner, Teddy, does the schmoozing. But Em's dependence on Teddy runs deeper than just the job--Teddy is her bridge to the world and the only source of love in her life. HPL patron:  A superbly well-written, engrossing tale with a particularly satisfying ending. …More

Track of the Cat By Barr, Nevada 2003-06 - Berkley 9780425190838 Check Our Catalog The first novel featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon is reissued. When a fellow ranger is killed and his death is ruled a mountain lion attack, Anna's suspicions are raised. It's up to her to save the protected cats from the prejudiced locals--and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare. …More

The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living By Bittman, Mark 2010-09 - Simon & Schuster 9781439120231 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title The follow up to Bittman's "New York Times" bestseller, "The Food Matters Cookbook" offers approximately 450 recipes that designed to save people's health and the planet. …More

Algebra I By Bobrow, Jerry 2001-05 - Wiley Publishing 9780764563706 Check Our Catalog We take great notes--and make learning a snap When it comes to pinpointing the stuff you really need to know, nobody does it better than CliffsNotes. This fast, effective tutorial helps you master core algebraic concepts--from monomials, inequalities, and coordinate geometry to functions and variations, roots and radicals, and word problems--and get the best possible grade. At CliffsNotes, we're dedicated to helping you do your best, no matter how challenging the subject. Our authors are veteran teachers and talented writers who know how to cut to the chase--and zero in on the essential information you need to succeed. Study smarter @ cliffsnotes.com Free CliffsNote-A-Day tips Free test-taking tips and tricks Free test samples and schedules Free info on other test resources Plus hundreds of downloadable Cliffs titles 24 hours a day Make the grade with CliffsQuickReviews CliffsQuickReviews are available for more than 30 introductory level courses. See inside for a complete listing of these and other bestselling Cliffs titles. …More

When She Said I Do By Bradley, Celeste 2013-06 - Thorndike Press 9781410458193 Check Our Catalog …More

If You Were Here By Burke, Alafair 2013-06 - Harper 9780062208354 Check Our Catalog Magazine journalist McKenna Wright is chasing the latest urban folktale--the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks, seconds before an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a short video snippet that purportedly captures part of the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition. …More

Darius By Burrowes, Grace 2013-04 - Sourcebooks Casablanca 9781402278518 Check Our Catalog …More

The Selection By Cass, Kiera 2012-04 - Harper Teen 9780062059932 Check Our Catalog Sixteen-year-old America Singer is living in the caste-divided nation of Illea, which formed after the war that destroyed the United States. America is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her. …More

Bone River By Chance, Megan 2012-12 - Amazon Publishing 9781612184845 Check Our Catalog …More

The Giving Quilt By Chiaverini, Jennifer 2012-10 - Dutton Books 9780525953609 Check Our Catalog "New York Times"-bestselling author Chiaverini's artful, inspiring novel imagines what good would come from practicing the holiday spirit each and every day of the year. …More

Sweet Tea Revenge By Childs, Laura 2013-03 - Berkley Publishing Group 9780425252888 Check Our Catalog In the latest novel from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Agony of the Leaves," Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning may always be a bridesmaid, never a bride. However, this groom is never going to make it to the altar. HPL patron:  Entertaining, good read. …More

Daddy's Gone a Hunting By Clark, Mary Higgins 2013-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781451668940 Check Our Catalog In this new novel by #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Clark, a dark secret from a family's past threatens the lives of two sisters. When the family-owned furniture firm explodes into flames, Kate must escape to save her life. But the suspicious circumstances point to her involvement. …More

The Lost Years By Clark, Mary Higgins 2012-04 - Simon & Schuster 9781451668865 Check Our Catalog In her long career as America's most beloved suspense writer, this is Clark's most astonishing and dramatic novel: a breathless murder mystery and a hunt for what may be the most precious religious treasure of all time. …More

Algebra II By Cliffs Notes Author Kohn, Edward Joint Author Herzog, David Alan 2001-05 - Wiley Publishing 9780764563713 Check Our Catalog We take great notes--and make learning a snap When it comes to pinpointing the stuff you really need to know, nobody does it better than CliffsNotes. This fast, effective tutorial helps you master core algebraic concepts--from linear equations, relations and functions, and rational expressions to radicals, quadratic systems, and factoring polynomials--and get the best possible grade. At CliffsNotes, we're dedicated to helping you do your best, no matter how challenging the subject. Our authors are veteran teachers and talented writers who know how to cut to the chase--and zero in on the essential information you need to succeed. Study smarter @ cliffsnotes.com Free CliffsNote-A-Day tips Free test-taking tips and tricks Free test samples and schedules Free info on other test resources Plus hundreds of downloadable Cliffs titles 24 hours a day Make the grade with CliffsQuickReviews CliffsQuickReviews are available for more than 30 introductory level courses. See inside for a complete listing of these and other bestselling Cliffs titles. …More