Adult Summer Reading

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Book reviews from participants July 22:

Mail Order Marriages by Debbie Macomber: Women sometime have to fight and not give up no matter what the other person says when you love someone.

Saving our last nerve: the black woman's path to mental health by Marilyn Martin: All women should read this book-it identifies what the specific problem is when all the strange things are happening to women. Sometime we know something need to be addressed but we don'tknow what. This is a book I will buy and keep close to me.

Thank you for firing me by Kitty Martini: This book is a boost if you need a new direction in life. It is strenghthening to see other move past certain misfortunes and lets you know you can too.

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham: I couldn't not get to the end to see how his romances finally came to an end! I wanted to leave this but there were a few gems here and there of observances on Life which reminds me, why does he repeat his descriptions, word for word, of some characters? Did he think no one would read the whole thing? What did he say of this being in America toward the end of the book when the whole thing was in England? Typo, "cutter" instead of "butter." I really did like one phrase which I should have writtendown and now cannot find (or remember at the moment.) Some philosophical thought by poor Phillip as he matured.

Approval Addiction by Joyce Meyer: How to correct your unhealthy need for affirmation with the word of God. "Overcoming your need to please everyone."

Look Great Feel Great by Joyce Meyer: Twelve-key plan to overcoming poor eatingand lack of exercise habit. A guide to a healthier way of living.

G. Spot by Noire: About a guy who owned a club and his name started with G. and his club wasthe best place 2 hang out in. A learning lesson 2 a pretty young lady thats trying to support her family (siblings) inany way.

9th Judgment by James Patterson: I enjoy reading "The Women's Murder Club" books. They are very exciting and it is hard to put the books down.

Taming the Spirited Child by Michael Popkin: Great strategies to use with any child!

Mail-Order Marriages By Macomber, Debbie, Cathy 2000-03 - Harlequin Books 9780373834341 Check Our Catalog One of Macomber's most beloved series, "Midnight Sons, " returns to stores with the release of this special 2-in-1 collector's edition featuring "Brides for Brothers" and "The Marriage Risk." Macomber takes readers back to Hard Luck, Alaska, where two bush pilot brothers have launched a campaign to bring women to their hometown. …More

The Christmas Clock By Martin, Kat 2009-10 - Vanguard Press 9781593155476 Check Our Catalog Bestselling romance author Martin presents a charming, inspiring holiday taleof love lost and found, and of bonds broken and healed. …More

Saving Our Last Nerve: The African American Woman's Path to Mental Health By Martin, Marilyn Author Martin, M. D. 2002-05 - Hilton Publishing 9780967525877 Check Our Catalog This guide offers advice for helping African-American women handle the stresses of everyday life and anticipate and prepare for long-term mental health. Also included are tips for negotiating the mental health system and understanding various types of treatments, as well as advice for instilling good health habits in the next generation. …More

Thank You for Firing Me!: How to Catch the Next Wave of Success After You Lose Your Job By Martini, Kitty Author Reed, Candice 2010-03 - Sterling 9781402769566 Check Our Catalog Unfortunately, unemployment is on the rise--leaving many people anxious about how to recreate themselves and renew their careers after being fired. This fresh, funny, and smart guide will be their life saver, providing them with the information they need to thrive even in this tight economic environment. It will help jobseekers and prospective entrepreneurs figure out what they really want to do next, understand the changing job market, and find work in growth areas such as green technology. There's also advice on retraining, freelancing and independent contracting, and Internet marketing options, as well as a chapter devoted specifically to women. Personal interviews with workers who changed their lives after getting laid off--and who are now doing what they love--offer additional inspiration. …More

Of Human Bondage By Maugham, W. Somerset 1998-12 - Transaction Large Print 9781560005001 Check Our Catalog The short stories in this extraordinary collection -- with the exception of one -- were written after the close of World War I. Maugham shrewdly and brilliantly exploited the public taste of his time to put on display the changing morality of the century. An expert storyteller, he was also a master of fictional technique. His fiction offers a synthesis of pleasures in the form of realism, exoticism, shrewd and ironic observation, careful craftsmanship, and characterization. Among the stories included in Creatures of Circumstance are "The Colonel's Lady", "Flotsam and Jetsam", "Sanatorium", "Appearance and Reality", "The Point of Honour", "A Woman of Fifty", "The Man from Glasgow", and "The Kite". …More

The Road By McCarthy, Cormac 2007-01 - Center Point Large Print 9781585478934 Check Our Catalog A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential sometime terrifying power of filial love. It is a masterpiece. …More

Death by Chocolate: A Savannah Reid Mystery By McKevett, G. A. 2003-01 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781575667126 Check Our Catalog With business a little slow at the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency, full-figured detective Savannah Reid jumps at the chance to be a round-the-clock bodyguard for Lady Eleanor, "The Queen of Chocolate, " when she begins getting death threats. …More

Approval Addiction: Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone By Meyer, Joyce 2005-04 - Faithwords 9780446578523 Check Our Catalog A New York Times Bestselling Author Bestselling author Joyce Meyer confronts the need for approval that is so evident in today's world. So many people have an unhealthy need for constant affirmation and are unable to feel good about themselves without it. Her abiding message is that God provides all the security one needs, and through Him one can attain freedom from the approval addiction. Available only in Dist. Deluxe …More

Look Great, Feel Great: 12 Keys to Enjoying a Healthy Life Now By Meyer, Joyce 2006-04 - Faithwords 9780446579469 Check Our Catalog Reminding believers that their bodies are God-given instruments meant for living a fulfilling life, doing good works, and developing spiritually, this book reveals 12 keys to reclaiming health through exercise, eating habits, soul care, and responsibility. …More

Deception By Mina, Denise 2004-11 - Wheeler Publishing 9781587248030 Check Our Catalog "Glasgow writer Mina has carved a niche for herself writing about very mean Scottish streets and slums and very desperate and depraved characters. Mina takes a walk on the posh side here, as she examines the case of a woman psychiatrist convicted of murdering her serial-killer lover."--"Booklist." …More

Sound the Trumpet, Song in a Strange Land, and Tread Upon the Lion: Volume1-3 By Morris, Gilbert 1996-10 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764280849 Check Our Catalog Perfect for the gift-giving season, this three-volume boxed set includes Sound the Trumphet, Song in a Strange Land and Tread Upon the Lion. …More

The Mark By Nadol, Jen 2010-01 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781599904313 Check Our Catalog Cassandra Renfield has always seen the mark--a glow around certain people reminiscent of candlelight. But the one time she mentioned it, it was dismissed as a trick of the light. Until the day she watches a man awash in the mark die. After searching her memories, Cassie realizes she can see a person's imminent death. Not how or where, only when: today. Armed with a vague understanding of the light, Cassie begins to explore her "gift," seeking those marked for death and probing the line between decision and destiny. Though she's careful to hide her secret--even from her new philosophy-obsessed boyfriend--with each impending death comes the temptation to test fate. But so many questions remain. How does the mark work? Why is she the only one who sees it? And finally, the most important of all: If you know today is someone's last, should you tell them? …More

G-Spot: An Urban Erotic Tale by By Noire 2005-01 - One World/Strivers Row 9780345477217 Check Our Catalog "Her man demanded loyalty, but her body wouldn't obey. "Have you ever rolled over in the middle of the night and realized you were doing things you swore you'd never do? Sexing brothers you vowed you'd never touch? Bending backwards and stooping lower than you ever thought you'd stoop? Well if you can feel me even a little bit, then let me hit you with a story that just might blow your mind. . . . Nineteen-year-old Juicy Stanfield is the sexy young girlfriend of Granite "G" McKay, owner of Harlem's notorious G-Spot Social Club. A drug dealer with a lethal streak, he runs Harlem with an iron fist. But even the cash and the bling can't keep Juicy from getting restless, and while G fulfills her every material desire, she's burning up with unrequited sexual energy. To cheat on him would mean a death sentence; so Juicy finds pleasure in secret ways: fantasizing on crowded subways or allowing her eyes to hungrily take in the male dancers on the club's ladies night. But as Juicy's sexual cravings grow stronger, one thing becomes frighteningly clear: She's a virtual prisoner in G's dangerous world. As G begins to suspect her of playin' him, he pulls the reins he keeps on her even tighter. If she's ever to escape and get a life of her own she must find a way to start stashing away some of G's cash. But doing that under G's watchful eye is a challenge she might not live up to-especially when her appetite tempts her with the deadliest desire of all: G's very own son. . . . …More

Noelle By Palmer, Diana 1996-04 - Ivy Books 9780804112819 Check Our Catalog He was a hard case with a soft spot for her. Jared Dunn was a desperado turned lawyer, haunted by the past he couldn't escape. Noelle Brown was a green girl tormented and attracted to him. She would have to convince a man unwilling to believe in love to believe in her. From the author of Nora and Amelia. …More

The 9th Judgment By Patterson, James Author Paetro, Maxine 2010-04 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036276 Check Our Catalog In the most exciting Women's Murder Club novel yet, Detective Lindsay Boxer spends every waking hour working to piece together clues in two area murders. One of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but will that be enough? …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

Worst Case By Patterson, James Author Ledwidge, Michael 2010-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316036221 Check Our Catalog From the authors of "The Quickie" comes their most action-packed series yet. When the children of many of New York's elite become murder victims, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker set out to capture a killer before he sends out a deadly message for the entire city to witness. …More

Hot Property By Phillips, Carly 2008-07 - Harlequin Books 9780373773336 Check Our Catalog Once the darling of pro baseball, John Roper's lucky streak has run out. Now it's up to Hot Zone publicist Amy Stone to help Roper get his life back on track. Easier said than done. What with the constant intrusions by his nutty family, a crazed stalker, and Roper's refusal to put his own needs first, Amy has her work cut out for her. Original. …More

Lucky Charm By Phillips, Carly 2009-01 - Wheeler Publishing 9781597228732 Check Our Catalog The first novel in a brand-new, hero-driven trilogy. Long ago, as revenge on a Corwin who stole her son's fiance, a witch proclaimed an eternal curse that every Corwin male who marries for love is destined to lose his woman and fortune. Original. …More

Natural Born Charmer By Phillips, Susan Elizabeth 2007-02 - Harperluxe 9780061233050 Check Our Catalog Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he can't imagine. A young woman . . . dressed in a beaver suit. Blue Bailey is on a mission. As for the beaver suit she's wearing . . . Is it her fault that life keeps throwing her curve balls? Witness the expensive black sports car pulling up next to her on the highway and the Greek god stepping out of it. They're soon heading for his summer home, where their already complicated lives and inconvenient attraction to each other will become entangled with a charismatic but aging rock star; a beautiful, fifty-two-year-old woman trying to make peace with her rock and roll past; an eleven-year-old who desperately needs a family; and a bitter old woman who hates them all. "Natural Born Charmer" . . . for anyone who's ever thought about leaving their old life in the dust. …More

Shameless By Pierce, Vonetta C. 2005-01 - Holsey Corporation/Q-Boro Books 9780975306666 Check Our Catalog Reality sets in for Jasmyn when she tests HIV positive. Now, she must take responsibility for her impulsive college days. You'll laugh and you'll cry as you witness Jasmyn and Kyle dealing with the demons from their past and the hard-core reality of their present. Sometimes, love has consequences. Especially when the things you do are just downright SHAMELESS. …More

Winter Solstice By Pilcher, Rosamunde 2000-08 - Thomas Dunne Books 9780312244262 Check Our Catalog With "Winter Solstice", the bestselling author of "The Shell Seekers" brings her readers into the lives of five very different but equally intriguing people. Plagued by loneliness, regret, abandonment, and loss, they are united by fate in a dilapidated estate house in Northern Scotland. It is in this house, on the shortest day of the year, that they will find each other and ultimately find themselves. …More

The Bell Jar By Plath, Sylvia 1998-08 - Everyman's Library 9780375404634 Check Our Catalog Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963 -- only a month before the author's suicide -- Sylvia Plath's harrowing autobiographical novel traces a young woman's descent into an emotional breakdown. This brilliant and disturbing story of Esther Greenwood's journey from the glamorous world of magazine publishing in New York to the isolating world of the asylum has become one of the most famous books of the late 20th century, and still has all its power to shock and move us. …More

Perfect Together By Plumley, Lisa 2003-06 - Zebra Books 9780821773413 Check Our Catalog This funny screwball comedy delivers an unlikely romance between an actress who appears on a reality dating show to boost her career and the under-the-gun sportscaster who's her fellow contestant. Original. …More

Taming the Spirited Child: Strategies for Parenting Challenging Children Without Breaking Their Spirits By Popkin, Michael 2007-03 - Fireside Books 9780743286893 Check Our Catalog A pioneer parent educator presents his comprehensive and prescriptive program for helping spirited children live more peacefully in the family and in the world. …More