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Book reviews from participants:
Lovers and Players by Jackie Collins: Typical Jackie Collins-social elite rub elbows with working class. Bad choices, bad language, but good plot twist at end.
Unclutter your life in one week by Erin Rooney Doland: Written very well. Since I don't work in an office anymore, I skipped those areas, and the family areas (mine are on their own)-but there are many helpful, useful tipsI hadn't heard before which found useful.
Shadow tag by Louise Erdrich: Love based on control that soon becomes a love/hate/love relationship. There is no limit on how far some people will go to maintain control of another person or how far the person who thinks they are being controlled will go to be free. By any means neccessary.
Four to score by Janet Evanovich: Love her books! Awesome author.
High Five by Janet Evanovich: Awesome author-just when I thought I had it figured out-she throws in a twist. Knows how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
Hot Six by Janet Evanovich: Love Janet Evanovich stories! Stephanie Plum is so interesting. Great books to read-they sure did help me while receiving chemo. Helped keep my mind off the cancer.
Grace by Richard Paul Evans: The book was much more than I was expecting. I cried all the [way] through the last half of the final cassette. What a wonderful story and very well written.
A Funny thing happened on the way to the Future by Michael J. Fox: A Canadian high school drop out made his way to the states and became a well known actor. It's about twists and turns and lessons learned along the way.
Fordlandia by Greg Grandin: Non-fiction- a well researched eye opener. Ford at the turn of the century and into the 1920's. Fordlandia was a "suburb" built in the Amazon rainforest in the 1920's to build a rubber plantation. An amazing story of power, environmental mayhem, and politics that changed the Earth's environment, culture and economics in the 1920's on a large scale, and is still affecting us almost 100 years later. A MUST read for anyone interested in the global world in which we now live.
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham: John Grisham fans beware! This is not his usual fast paced, twisted and intriguing novel. It is a summer read of light romance set in Italy. It is also a novel if you love play by TEDIOUS play of football lingo and technical language about sports plays.
The Everything Health Guide to Schizophrenia by Dean Haycock: Very informative.
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith: This book so outdoes the 1951 Hitchcok film of the same title, fast paced and exciting. I would recommend this book to my friends.
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Book reviews from participants:
Lovers and Players by Jackie Collins: Typical Jackie Collins-social elite rub elbows with working class. Bad choices, bad language, but good plot twist at end.
Unclutter your life in one week by Erin Rooney Doland: Written very well. Since I don't work in an office anymore, I skipped those areas, and the family areas (mine are on their own)-but there are many helpful, useful tipsI hadn't heard before which found useful.
Shadow tag by Louise Erdrich: Love based on control that soon becomes a love/hate/love relationship. There is no limit on how far some people will go to maintain control of another person or how far the person who thinks they are being controlled will go to be free. By any means neccessary.
Four to score by Janet Evanovich: Love her books! Awesome author.
High Five by Janet Evanovich: Awesome author-just when I thought I had it figured out-she throws in a twist. Knows how to keep me on the edge of my seat.
Hot Six by Janet Evanovich: Love Janet Evanovich stories! Stephanie Plum is so interesting. Great books to read-they sure did help me while receiving chemo. Helped keep my mind off the cancer.
Grace by Richard Paul Evans: The book was much more than I was expecting. I cried all the [way] through the last half of the final cassette. What a wonderful story and very well written.
A Funny thing happened on the way to the Future by Michael J. Fox: A Canadian high school drop out made his way to the states and became a well known actor. It's about twists and turns and lessons learned along the way.
Fordlandia by Greg Grandin: Non-fiction- a well researched eye opener. Ford at the turn of the century and into the 1920's. Fordlandia was a "suburb" built in the Amazon rainforest in the 1920's to build a rubber plantation. An amazing story of power, environmental mayhem, and politics that changed the Earth's environment, culture and economics in the 1920's on a large scale, and is still affecting us almost 100 years later. A MUST read for anyone interested in the global world in which we now live.
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham: John Grisham fans beware! This is not his usual fast paced, twisted and intriguing novel. It is a summer read of light romance set in Italy. It is also a novel if you love play by TEDIOUS play of football lingo and technical language about sports plays.
The Everything Health Guide to Schizophrenia by Dean Haycock: Very informative.
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith: This book so outdoes the 1951 Hitchcok film of the same title, fast paced and exciting. I would recommend this book to my friends.
  | Dying for Mercy: A Novel of Suspense Clark, Mary Jane 2009-07 - William Morrow & Company 9780061286117 Check Our Catalog A fabled estate becomes a twisted puzzle involving secrets and murder, in this fast-paced thriller featuring the KEY News sleuths introduced in "It Only Takes a Moment" and "When Day Breaks." …More |
 | It Only Takes a Moment Clark, Mary Jane 2008-08 - William Morrow & Company 9780061286094 Check Our Catalog The "New York Times"-bestselling author who has perfected the suspense novel . . . in classic Christie fashion ("Booklist") returns with an addictively readable thriller based on real-life FBI case files. …More |
 | Lovers & Players Collins, Jackie 2006-01 - St. Martin's Press 9780312341770 Check Our Catalog Dazzling, internationally renowned, bestselling author Jackie Collins pulls out all the stops with this highly charged love story about family relationships, deadly choices, mysterious murder, and dangerous sex. …More |
 | Outlaw's Bride Copeland, Lori 2009-07 - Harvest House Publishers 9780736927512 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author Copeland weaves together elements of a classic Western romance with themes of forgiveness and grace. This tender story reveals how even the hard law of the land doesn't stand a chance when God's mercy and true love come to reside in the heart. …More |
 | Deadline Crutcher, Chris 2007-09 - Greenwillow Books 9780060850890 Check Our Catalog Tayshas Reading List 2008-2009 At the beginning of his senior year, Ben Wolf discovers he has an aggressive form of leukemia. Ben decides to tell no one; he wants his last year of school to be normal. Only, not telling the truth is the same as lying, and it takes Ben almost a year to figure that out. And what a year it is. …More |
  | The Letter and the Scroll: What Archaeology Tells Us about the Bible Currie, Robin Author Hyslop, Stephen 2009-11 - National Geographic Society 9781426205149 Check Our Catalog Meticulous, scholarly, yet always accessible, this work examines the discoveries and transformations that have effected biblical interpretations over the centuries and places them into their cultural timeline. …More |
 | Flood Tide Cussler, Clive 1997-09 - Simon & Schuster 9780684802985 Check Our Catalog The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in Flood Tide is human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States. Tracking the smuggler's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location? The trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure when he fled China in 1949, including the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had vanished at the beginning of World War I. As Pitt prepares for a final dramatic showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered. …More |
 | Thin Places DeMuth, Mary E. 2010-01 - Zondervan 9780310284185 Check Our Catalog In this moving spiritual memoir---Thin Places---Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of thin places in her life, places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. From surviving abuse as a latchkey kid to discovering a heavenly Father who never leaves, Mary's story invites you to a deeper understanding of your own story. She calls you to discover new ways to look for God in the past so that you might experience him more profoundly in the present. What if you could retrace your life and discover its thin places---places where the division between this world and the eternal fades? 'Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just catch a glimpse of eternity. They are aha moments, beautiful realizations, when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh. He has come near to my life. I will tell you how.' …More |
 | Unclutter Your Life in One Week Doland, Erin Rooney Foreword by Allen, David 2009-11 - Simon Spotlight Entertainment 9781439150467 Check Our Catalog From organizational expert Doland comes a fun, accessible, and highly practical guide for getting and staying organized in all aspects of life. b&w illustrations throughout. 35,000 …More |
 | Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat Dosa, David 2010-02 - Hyperion Books 9781401323233 Check Our Catalog An otherwise ordinary cat, Oscar has the uncanny ability to predict when people in the Steere House nursing home are about to die. Dr. Dosa tells the stories of several patients and examines end-of-life care as it exists today. …More |
 | Shadow Tag Erdrich, Louise 2010-02 - Harper 9780061536090 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title When Irene America discovers that her husband has been reading her diary, she begins a secrets Blue Notebook, as much the truth about her life and her marriage as the Red Diary is a farce. Alternating between these two records, "Shadow Tag" is an eerily gripping novel. …More |
 | Four to Score Evanovich, Janet 1998-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312185862 Check Our Catalog Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Novels Are: "Suspenseful." --"Los Angeles Times" "Terrific." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "Irresistible." --"Kirkus Reviews" "Thrilling." --"Midwest Book Review" "Hilariously funny." --"USA Today" "A blast of fresh air." --"Washington Post" "Inventive and fast-paced." --"San Diego Union-Tribune" "Superb." --"Detroit Free Press" …More |
 | High Five Evanovich, Janet 1999-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312203030 Check Our Catalog The bestselling author of "Four to Score" brings back bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, in her fifth hilarious, high-octane thriller. Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and engages in some morally correct yet marginally legal enterprises, including tracking down her Uncle Fred, who's missing after arguing with his garbage company. …More |
 | Hot Six Evanovich, Janet 2000-06 - St. Martin's Press 9780312205409 Check Our Catalog In this sixth Stephanie Plum adventure, Ranger the super bounty hunter is on the lam and Stephanie has to team up with vice-cop Joe Morelli to find him. But has Ranger really broken the law? Is he a psychotically dangerous criminal? "(Evanovich) is in a class by herself when it comes to plot and humor".--Liz Smith, syndicated columnist. National consumer advertising blitz. …More |
 | Plum Lovin' Evanovich, Janet 2007-01 - St. Martin's Press 9780312306342 Check Our Catalog Love is in the air in Trenton, New Jersey, in the latest Stephanie Plum novel by #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Evanovich. It's a new year for Stephanie, Lula, and the gang--and Connie Rosolli has a secret admirer. Or does she? Connie is receiving both love and hate letters. Could they be from the same person, or does she have two stalkers? Stephanie is determined to find out. …More |
 | Grace Evans, Richard Paul 2008-11 - Center Point Large Print 9781602853102 Check Our Catalog Grace is the story of a young runaway girl and the boy who hides her from a frightening world too large and unfathomable for him to comprehend. It is also about two brothers and the love that binds them together through difficult times. Excerpt: She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone, my innocence left with her . . . I pray I can get the story right. My memory, like my eyesight, has waned with age. Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older. This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days. Things that never should have been hidden. And things that should have been. …More |
 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned Fox, Michael J. 2010-04 - Hyperion Books 9781401323868 Check Our Catalog This optimistic volume by the author of the bestselling "Always Looking Up" inspires and motivates readers to work hard, achieve the most they can, and maximize their abilities. …More |
 | Life Support Gerritsen, Tess 1997-09 - Pocket Books 9780671553036 Check Our Catalog The overnight ER rotation at Springer Hospital is a calm one, which suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine. While Toby is fiercely proud of the stripes she earned as a resident in a big-city ER, she's come to appreciate the pace at Springer. But no hospital could have been prepared for the man Toby admits one quiet night. Delirious and in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without a trace. Under fire from the hospital administration for literally losing a patient, and fearful that she's missed a life-threatening diagnosis, Toby knows she must find the patient. Her hunt is intensified when a second delirious patient dies in the hospital's care. But even more chilling is the discovery that the infection can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. …More |
 | The Surgeon Gerritsen, Tess 2002-07 - Ballantine Books 9780345447845 Check Our Catalog In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, "New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again. He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon." The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon. Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands--and savors--the secret fears of every woman he kills. Filled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author . . . and peopled with rich and complex characters--from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue--here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, "The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet. "From the Hardcoveredition. …More |
 | Black Ships Graham, Jo Author Wyrick, Jo 2008-03 - Orbit 9780316068000 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Gull--chosen at the age of seven to be the voice of the Lady of the Dead--is destined to counsel kings. When nine black ships appear, captained by an exiled Trojan prince, Gull must decide whether to accept the life for which she has been chosen. …More |
 | Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City Grandin, Greg 2009-06 - Metropolitan Books 9780805082364 Check Our Catalog 2010 Michigan Notable Book The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. …More |
 | Playing for Pizza Grisham, John 2007-09 - Doubleday Books 9780385525008 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title John Grisham's comic novel, Playing For Pizza, is about a one-time American football star who moves to Italy to play for the Parma Panthers and finds himself entangled in a series of cultural misadventures. …More |
 | The Everything Health Guide to Schizophrenia: The Latest Information on Treatment, Medication, and Coping Strategies Haycock, Dean A. With Shaya, Elias K. 2009-08 - Adams Media Corporation 9781605500362 Check Our Catalog The effects of schizophrenia can be devastating for both the 3.3 million adults living with the disease as well as their families and friends. This guide offers help to those who suffer from schizophrenia and their loved ones, including information on how to: Get a correct diagnosisUnderstand the various types of schizophreniaHandle resulting problems such as substance abuseFind the right doctorChoose and manage medicationsFind support from family, friends, and the communityVolunteer and spread awareness for the causeSymptoms of schizophrenia and resulting problems can be severe. In this book, readers find the information, reassurance, and advice they need to work toward a better life. …More |
 | All Creatures Great and Small Herriot, James 1992-09 - St. Martin's Press 9780312084981 Check Our Catalog Twenty years ago, St. Martin's Press published a volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian named James Herriot. Its title was "All Creatures Great and Small," Within a year, the book had become recognized as a masterpiece. In the two decades that have followed, James Herriot has become one of the most universally loved authors of our time. Now, as we celebrate the publication of "Every Living Thing"-- the country vet's fifth book of memoirs-- St. Martin's is proud to reissue the book that started it all. Its pages, now as then, are full of humor, warmth, pathos, drama, and James Herriot's unique, richly justified love of life. His journeys across the Yorkshire dales, his encounters with humans and dogs, cows and kittens are illumined by his infinite fascination and affection, and rendered with all the infectious joy of a born storyteller. As one reviewer wrote," If you ever loved a friend, human or otherwise, this is the book for you." …More |
 | Strangers on a Train Highsmith, Patricia 2001-08 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393321982 Check Our Catalog Two men, a tennis star and a psychopath, meet by chance on a train and "swap" murders. "Strangers on a Train", Highsmith's first novel, was the source for Alfred Hitchcock's classic masterpiece. …More |
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