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Book reviews from participants July 26:
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood: Interesting tale of family history and what might haveled to great grandmother's coldness and her daughter's insanity.
Secrets of Eden by Chris Bohjalian: Liked it.
A Time for Silence by Phillipa Carr: I found this to be an enjoyable book delving into peopel's characters. Set in France and England during WWI. Two young women are contrasted in their responses to various events.
Snagged by Carol Higgins Clark: This book was interesting had a good plot.
Twanged by Carol Higgins Clark: The ending had a surprise ending to it.
Where are you now by Mary Higgins Clark: Not so good-boring.
Lift by Kelly Corrigan: Book written to her kids inspirational little stories.
Next by Michael Crichton: Easy read, but fairly silly. At times it was a little freaky.
 | Climate of Change Anthony, Piers 2010-05 - Tor Books 9780765323538 Check Our Catalog
In this latest novel of Geodyssey, Anthony introduces a new cast of characters, including the Keeper, who knows the way of nature; Rebel, a headstrong girl; Craft, a cunning inventor; and Crenelle, who uses her seductive charms to defend her people. …More |
| The Year of the Flood Atwood, Margaret 2009-09 - McClelland & Stewart 9780771008443 Check Our Catalog
The long-awaited new novel from the author of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "The Blind Assassin, The Year of the Flood" is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to Atwood's visionary power. …More |
 | True Blue Baldacci, David 2009-10 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446195515 Check Our Catalog
What begins as a fairly routine homicide investigation quickly turns into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal for Mace Perry--a former D.C. cop working gang narcotics--who is rebuilding her life after being framed and imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit. …More |
 | Night Games Bangs, Nina 2005-02 - Love Spell 9780505524805 Check Our Catalog
In a futuristic world where sex is a spectator sport, Brian Byrne is the champion. Burned out, he takes a vacation to the past. American divorce Ally O'Neill is a rarity Brian has never before encountered--a woman who wants no part of him. Reissue. …More |
 | A Stranger in the Family Barnard, Robert 2010-06 - Scribner Book Company 9781439176740 Check Our Catalog
Diamond Dagger award-winner Barnard--one of the deftest stylists in the field ("New York Times Book Review")--returns with an exquisitely written mystery about a man who discovers he had been abducted as a baby. …More |
 | The Overton Window Beck, Glenn 2010-06 - Threshold Editions 9781439184301 Check Our Catalog
Seamlessly weaving together American history, frightening facts about the country's present condition, and a fast-paced plot, Beck's new thriller considers the consequences the nation will soon face if its citizens continue to take their freedom for granted. …More |
 | Powers Bendis, Brian Michael 2004-01 - Marvel Comics 9781415595206 Check Our Catalog
Following hot on the heels of the first-ever Powers hardcover, it's a hardcover collection of the entire second year of Powers in chronological order! These epic Powers stories are presented in order of publication - remastered, redesigned and reformatted! Also featuring all the Powers bonus features you've come to know and love: sketchwork, scripts, interviews, galleries, original designs and another Powers Best of the Letter Column, Year Two! This is the most celebrated year of the award-winning title! A must-have for your comic library! Collects Powers (Vol. 1) #12-24. …More |
| Great Granny Webster Blackwood, Caroline Introduction by Moore, Honor 2002-06 - New York Review of Books 9781590170076 Check Our Catalog
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives. …More |
| Secrets of Eden Bohjalian, Chris A. 2010-02 - Shaye Areheart Books 9780307394972 Check Our Catalog
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Midwives" and "The Double Bind" comes a novel of shattered family ties, intimate secrets, and the nature of sacrifice. Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power.--"New York Times Book Review." …More |
 | The Atlantis Code Brokaw, Charles 2009-11 - Forge 9780765315311 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title
A thrill-seeking Harvard linguistics professor and an ultrasecret branch of the Catholic Church go head-to-head in a race to uncover the secrets of the lost city of Atlantis. …More |
 | Chicken Soup for the Soul Canfield, Jack Author Hansen, Mark Victor 2001-07 - Health Communications 9781558749207 Check Our Catalog
Two of America's best-loved inspirational speakers share the very best of their collected stories and favorite tales that have touched the hearts of people everywhere. Canfield and Hansen bring you wit and wisdom, hope and empowerment to buoy you through life's dark moments. …More |
 | What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up?: Starting the Next Chapter of Your Life Cantor, Dorothy With Thompson, Andrea 2002-01 - Little Brown and Company 9780316127981 Check Our Catalog
This practical and inspiring guide to negotiating lifes passagesespecially career change and retirementtakes readers on a richly rewarding voyage of self-discovery. The ultimate destination: personal as well as professional fulfillment. A much-needed manual in this era of widespread layoffs, corporate downsizing, and a workforce in seemingly perpetual transition. …More |
 | Time for Silence Carr, Philippa 1994-05 - Ivy Books 9780449149171 Check Our Catalog
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 | Snagged Clark, Carol Higgins 1994-04 - John Curley & Associates 9780792719151 Check Our Catalog
The smart, saucy sleuth from Decked returns to the delight of her growing audience of fans in an entertaining new puzzler, where she does some clever silk stalkings at a murderous pantyhose convention. Actress and writer, Clark is the daughter of mystery master Mary Higgins Clark. …More |
 | Twanged Clark, Carol Higgins 2008-05 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446508759 Check Our Catalog
Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. Brigid O'Neill, a rising country star, has been getting frightening "love notes" and she hires Regan as her bodyguard for a Fourth of July concert in Southampton. Brigid plans to play a fiddle given to her in Ireland and said to have magic powers. She later learns the rest of its legend - whoever takes it out of Ireland will have an accident or face death. Brigid and her band are invited to stay at Chappy Tinka's oceanfront compound. Tinka, heir to a thumbtack fortune, and Bettina, his ditzy wife, are social climbers trying to get on the Hamptons "A" list. At Chappy's castle, Regan encounters a cast of characters including Chappy's bumbling sidekick and accomplice, Duke; Bettina's live-in guru, "Peace Man"; and a feng shui specialist obsessed with rearranging furniture. A guest found floating face-down in a pool at Chappy's welcoming party for Brigid is only the first in a series of ominous incidents. As Brigid's Fourth of July concert nears, it looks as if the cursed fiddle should be shipped back to Ireland - Express Mail! It's Regan's job to hold the curse at bay and fend off Brigid's pursuers. …More |
 | No Place Like Home Clark, Mary Higgins 2005-04 - Simon & Schuster 9780743264891 Check Our Catalog
In the latest thriller from America's queen of suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever--her childhood home. …More |
 | Where Are You Now? Clark, Mary Higgins 2008-01 - Thorndike Press 9781405687225 Check Our Catalog
International bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark proves she knows how to tell a gripping story with this mystery of a family tragedy and one woman's dangerous quest for the truth. …More |
 | He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson Conlon, Christopher 2009-02 - Gauntlet Press 9781887368100 Check Our Catalog 2010 Bram Stoker Anthology Winner
An anthology of original stories paying tribute to acclaimed short stories and novels of Richard Matheson. Includes the first collaboration between father/son Stephen King and Joe Hill. Also includes work by Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, Joe Lansdale, John Shirley as well as a collaboration between Matheson and the late Charles Beaumont ("Conjure Wife"). …More |
 | Crisis Cook, Robin 2007-08 - Large Print Distribution 9781594131738 Check Our Catalog
When Dr. Craig Bowman is served with a summons for medical malpractice, he's shocked, enraged, and more than a little humiliated. A devoted physician who works continuously in the service of others, he endured grueling years of training and is now a partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice. No longer forced to see more and more patients while spending less and less time with each one just to keep his office door open, he now provides the kind of medical care he is trained to do, lavishing twenty-four-hour availability and personalized attention on his handpicked patients. And at last, he is earning a significant income, no longer burdened by fallinfalling reimbursements from insurance companies.But this idyllic practice comes to a grinding halt one sunny afternoon-and gets much, much worse. Enter Dr. Jack Stapleton, a medical examiner in New York City and Bowman'sbrother-in-law: Jack's sister Alexis-now Craig's estranged wife-tearfully begs for his help as her husband's trial drags on. Jack agrees to travel to Boston to offer his forensic services and expert witness experience to Craig's beleaguered defense attorney. But when Jack's irreverent suggestion to exhume the corpse to disprove the alleged malpractice is taken seriously, he opens a Pandora's box of trouble. As Craig Bowman's life and career are put on the line, Jack is on the verge of making a mostunwelcome discovery of tremendous legal and medical significance-and thereare people who will do anything to keep him from learning the truth. …More |
 | Lift Corrigan, Kelly 2010-03 - Voice 9781401341244 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title
From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Middle Place" comes this memoir of Corrigan's struggle with cancer and her family's support and strength that sees her through. …More |
 | Blowout Catherine Coulter 2004-07 - Putnam 0399151877 Check Our Catalog
Now in paperback--Coulter's electrifying "New York Times" bestseller featuring married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock in their most challenging case yet: an investigation into the killings of some of Washington's most prominent figures. …More |
| Again Calls the Owl Craven, Margaret 1983-12 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440300748 Check Our Catalog
Deceptively simple in style, stunning in its implication, this gem of an autobiography, Again Calls the Owl, carries readers back to the beginning of the century when Margaret Craven - one of a handful of women at Stanford and a groundbreaking woman journalist - made the audacious decision not only to work for a living, but to work as a writer. …More |
| Next Crichton, Michael 2006-11 - HarperCollins 9780060872984 Check Our Catalog
In his brilliant new blockbuster, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" journeys into the realm of genetics: fast, furious and out of control. Provocative yet playful, dark and disturbing, "Next" is Crichton as he has never been seen before. …More |
| The Norse Myths Crossley-Holland, Kevin 1981-07 - Pantheon Books 9780394748467 Check Our Catalog
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, the author has re-created 32 classic Norse Myths that compete in power with Greek mythology. …More |
 | The Spy Cussler, Clive 2010-07 - Wheeler Publishing 9781410424778 Check Our Catalog
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder. (Men's Adventure) …More |
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