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Bettina Daniels lived a fairytale existence of glamour, endless parties, and luxury among America's top celebrities--simply because she was the beautiful daughter of famous American author Justin Daniels. Then, in one moment of tragedy, her father was dead, and Bettina discovered the truth--he had spent every dime he'd ever earned and run up millions in debt. At eighteen, penniless and alone, she had lost everything except her father's dearest friend, Ivo Stewart. A wealthy, handsome publisher of sixty-two, he offered Bettina a way out: marriage. But only for a time. What lay ahead for Bettina was a life filled with shocks and surprises--and eventually a chance to become a playwright, and a writer like her father. Having learned her lessons dearly, Bettina blossoms into her own person at last.]]> 384 Danielle Steel 0440146577 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.67
author: Danielle Steel
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.67
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]]> 2955323
In a suburb near Albany, New York, Ted and Ann Waring are waiting for divorce papers. Ted is hoping for reconciliation, but when he returns from a hunting trip with the couple’s two adolescent daughters, he loses his temper one last time, shooting and killing Ann in their living room. He claims it was an accident, but his thirteen-year-old daughter, Julia—the only witness—is sure it was murder. The younger girl, Ali, doesn’t know which way to turn. And when Julia testifies against her father, she sets into motion a struggle that pits family, friends, and townspeople against one another.

As the many layers of truth unfold in this “chilling meditation on the so-called acts of love� ( The New York Times ) Emily Listfield’s lean and subtle prose reveals the ways in which the emotions and evasions of the past reverberate uncontrollably into the present.]]> 384 Emily Listfield 1416558748 Jackie 0 to-read 3.09 2007
author: Emily Listfield
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.09
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rating: 0
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]]> 9438700 �Library Journal

Ěý

Sena Jeter Naslund, the New York Times bestselling author of Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance explores both the dark nature of fundamentalism and the brightness of true faith in her dazzling novel, Adam & Eve. A provocative, eloquent, and deeply compelling story of a woman caught between two warring worlds—science and religionâ€�Adam & Eve raises timely questions about identity, innocence, and sin, and represents a new literary high-water Ěýmark for New York Times Notable author and Harper Lee Award-winner Naslund.]]> 0 Sena Jeter Naslund 0062013823 Jackie 4 work-review-related-reading a thriller. It's magical. It's gritty. It's about religion. It's about science. It's about the past. It's about the future. There is art. There is murder. There is profound innocence. There is evil. It is a compelling, confusing, contemplative, page-turning, wondrous read. ]]> 2.89 2010
author: Sena Jeter Naslund
name: Jackie
average rating: 2.89
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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Oh, my, there are so many layers to this book I don't even know where to start. It's a love story. It's an adventure story. It's a mystery. It's psychological suspense. It's
a thriller. It's magical. It's gritty. It's about religion. It's about science. It's about the past. It's about the future. There is art. There is murder. There is profound innocence. There is evil. It is a compelling, confusing, contemplative, page-turning, wondrous read.
]]> 18522265
"Impressively original." --The New York Times

"Sparkles in every way. A love letter to the open lonely American heartland…A must-read." --People

"The kind of book that restores your faith in humanity." --Toronto Star

Welcome to Little Wing.

It's a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends--all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town--it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own or struggling to do so.

One of them never left, still working the family farm that has been tilled for generations. But others felt the need to move on, with varying degrees of success. One trades commodities, another took to the rodeo circuit, and one of them even hit it big as a rock star. And then there's Beth, a woman who has meant something special in each of their lives.

Now all four are brought together for a wedding. Little Wing seems even smaller than before. While lifelong bonds are still strong, there are stresses--among the friends, between husbands and wives. There will be heartbreak, but there will also be hope, healing, even heroism as these memorable people learn the true meaning of adult friendship and love.

Seldom has the American heartland been so richly and accurately portrayed. Though the town may have changed, the one thing that hasn't is the beauty of the Wisconsin farmland, the lure of which, in Nickolas Butler's hands, emerges as a vibrant character in the story. Shotgun Lovesongs is that rare work of fiction that evokes a specific time and place yet movingly describes the universal human condition. It is, in short, a truly remarkable book--a novel that once read will never be forgotten.]]> 320 Nickolas Butler 146684079X Jackie 5 3.93 2014
author: Nickolas Butler
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.93
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rating: 5
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]]> 17504987 In this heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of Must Love Dogs and Wallflower in Bloom, a recently separated woman faces her highway driving phobia and takes a road trip with her best friend to their high school reunion.

Years ago, Melanie followed her husband, Kurt, from the New England beach town where their two young sons were thriving to the suburbs of Atlanta. She’s carved out a life as a successful metal sculptor, but when Kurt leaves her for another woman, having the tools to cut up their marriage bed is small consolation. She’s old enough to know that high school reunions are often a big disappointment, but when her best friend makes her buy a ticket and an old flame gets in touch to see whether she’ll be going, she fantasizes that returning to her past might help her find her future…until her driving phobia resurfaces and threatens to hold her back from the adventure of a lifetime.

Time Flies is an epic road trip filled with fun, heartbreak, and friendship, and explores what it takes to conquer your worst fears…so you can start living your future.]]> 337 Claire Cook 1451673698 Jackie 4 3.72 2013
author: Claire Cook
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2013/04/21
date added: 2024/09/13
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]]> 452235 Ěý
For a young lawyer on the make, it was an offer Mitch McDeere couldn’t a position at a law firm where the bucks, billable hours, and benefits are over the top. It’s a dream job for an up-and-comer—if he can overlook the uneasy feeling he gets at the office. Then an FBI investigation into the firm’s connections to the Mafia plunges the straight and narrow attorney into a nightmare of terror and intrigue.ĚýWith no choice but to pit his wits, ethics, and legal skills against the firm’s deadly secrets—if he hopes to stay alive…]]> 501 John Grisham 044021145X Jackie 4 pleasure-reading 4.26 1991
author: John Grisham
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1991
rating: 4
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]]> 2340033 Edgar Allan Poe Jackie 4 youth-school-reading 4.02 1842
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1842
rating: 4
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]]> 3032453 0 Stephen Crane 0451506715 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 2.87 1895
author: Stephen Crane
name: Jackie
average rating: 2.87
book published: 1895
rating: 3
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]]> 7354
A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
(back cover)]]> 337 Annie Proulx 0743225422 Jackie 3 pleasure-reading 3.88 1993
author: Annie Proulx
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1993
rating: 3
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]]> 30244 368 Laurell K. Hamilton 0425209067 Jackie 5 4.14 1997
author: Laurell K. Hamilton
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1997
rating: 5
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]]> 7800188
As the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes, they must combine their scientific curiosity with their newfound physical gifts to solve a cold-case murder that has suddenly become very hot--if they can stay alive long enough to catch the killer's scent.

Fortunately, they are now more than friends--they're a pack. They are Virals.]]> 454 Kathy Reichs 1595143424 Jackie 4 possibly biggest fan). She's a science loving brainiac living on a sparsely populated island off the South Carolina coast. She's got three friends, also "sci-philes" and somewhat social outcasts because of it. In this first book of a planned
series, the group rescues a puppy from a lab, only to find that it had been infected with a strange virus that infects them too, giving them unusual sense perceptions and other "powers". On top of that, they discover an old murder case that's VERY close to home and trigger a reaction from the vengeful murderer. This is definitely a page turning adventure that maintains Reichs' status in the land of well written, science based mystery, now with just a touch of fantasy to it. Recommended for 12 and up. ]]> 3.95 2010
author: Kathy Reichs
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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After 13 books in her "Temperance Brennan/Bones" series,Reichs is trying somethingnew--young adult fiction. And she does quite well at it. It's not TOO far off a familiar path--the main character is Tory Brennan, Tempe's 14 year old niece (and
possibly biggest fan). She's a science loving brainiac living on a sparsely populated island off the South Carolina coast. She's got three friends, also "sci-philes" and somewhat social outcasts because of it. In this first book of a planned
series, the group rescues a puppy from a lab, only to find that it had been infected with a strange virus that infects them too, giving them unusual sense perceptions and other "powers". On top of that, they discover an old murder case that's VERY close to home and trigger a reaction from the vengeful murderer. This is definitely a page turning adventure that maintains Reichs' status in the land of well written, science based mystery, now with just a touch of fantasy to it. Recommended for 12 and up.
]]> 13571953
Miki Jones's carefully controlled life spins into chaos after she's run down in the street, left broken and bloody. She wakes up fully healed in a place called the lobby - pulled from her life, through time and space into some kind of game in which she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures.

There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Every moment of the game is kill or be killed, and Miki has only the questionable guidance of Jackson Tate, the team's alluring and secretive leader. He evades her questions, holds himself aloof from the others, and claims it's every player for himself. But when he puts himself at risk to watch Miki's back, he leaves her both frustrated and fascinated. Jackson says the game isn't really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival. And the survival of every other person on the planet. She laughs. He doesn't. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.]]> 364 Eve Silver 0062192132 Jackie 5 3.88 2013
author: Eve Silver
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 5
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]]> 19301
Since Pippi Longstocking was first published in 1950, the escapades of the incomparable Pippi,the girl with upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do, have delighted boys and girls alike. Now, for the first time, Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board , andĚý Pippi in the South Seas are all together in one bumper volume, with new illustrations in full-color and black-and-white.The collection is an ideal introduction for anyone discovering Pippi for the first time, while confirmed fans will enjoy revisiting their favorite episodes and recalling some they've forgotten. Her admirers will also find fascinating new biographical information about author Astrid Lindgren and the origin of the Pippi stories. Astrid Lindgren was awarded the 1958 Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her contribution to international children's literature.]]> 290 Astrid Lindgren 0670876127 Jackie 5 4.23 1945
author: Astrid Lindgren
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1945
rating: 5
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]]> 51914
Left blind, deaf, and mute after an illness in infancy, Helen Keller overcame her disabilities with the help of Anne Sullivan, her inspired teacher. Her classic autobiography, first published in 1903, covers her first twenty-two years, including the memorable moment at a water pump when she first made the connection between the word “water� and the cold liquid flowing over her hand. She also discusses her friendships with Oliver Wendell Holmes and other notables, her education at Radcliffe, her joy at learning to speak, and above all, her extraordinary relationship with her teacher. This deeply moving memoir, full of love and compassion for others, offers an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women.

Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research.

Read with confidence.]]> 304 Helen Keller 1416500324 Jackie 5 youth-school-reading 3.85 1902
author: Helen Keller
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.85
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rating: 5
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]]> 861511 The I Ching or Book of Changes has been consulted for sage advice at life's turning points. When its wisdom is sought with sincerity and sensitivity, this Chinese oracle will help to promote success and good fortune and to impart balance and perspective to your life. Its everlasting popularity lies in the lessons that it teaches about how to use your positive qualities in order to attain life's greatest rewards-prosperity, understanding, and peace of mind.

Brian Browne Walker's new, highly accessible translation of the I Ching, because it is clear and direct, allows you to make the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sages your own. Brian Browne Walker has studied the Chinese language for twelve years, and has studied and practiced Taoist philosophy with a number of teachers in the United States and abroad. Among his mentors are a Taoist master in California and Sawat Pracheron in Thailand.

This new translation's easy-to-use format and contemporary language will be a boon to new users. Devotees of the I Ching will find that this version enhances their understanding of the ancient text.]]> 144 Anonymous 0312098286 Jackie 3 from-my-seeker-days 4.35 -850
author: Anonymous
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.35
book published: -850
rating: 3
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]]> 165910 - Preface (1981, in a letter) by Philip K. Dick
- Introduction (October 1986) by Roger Zelazny
- Stability (1987)
- Roog (1953)
- The Little Movement (1952)
- Beyond Lies the Wub (1952)
- The Gun (1952)
- The Skull (1952)
- The Defenders (1953)
- Mr. Spaceship (1953)
- Piper in the Woods (1953)
- The Infinites (1953)
- The Preserving Machine (1953)
- Expendable (1953)
- The Variable Man (1953)
- The Indefatigable Frog (1953)
- The Crystal Crypt (1954)
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1954)
- The Builder (1953)
- Meddler (1954)
- Paycheck (1953)
- The Great C (1953)
- Out in the Garden (1953)
- The King of the Elves (1953)
- Colony (1953)
- Prize Ship (1954)
- Nanny (1955)
- Notes

Front cover illustration by Chris Moore

Other editions of this volume were published under these titles:
- The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford (1990)
- Paycheck and Other Classic Stories (2003)
- The King of the Elves (2011, plus Menace React, a one page fragment)

]]> 510 Philip K. Dick 0586207643 Jackie 0 forget-me-not-maybes 3.94 1987
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.94
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rating: 0
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]]> 105613
Through this splendid translation by Arnold J. Pomerans, commissioned by the Etty Hillesum Foundation, readers everywhere will resonate with the spirit of this amazing young woman.]]> 800 Etty Hillesum 0802839592 Jackie 0 to-read, nonfiction 4.40 1981
author: Etty Hillesum
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> 1107746 Introduction by Robert Reich
Commentary by R. H. Campbell and A. S. Skinner
Ěý
Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich’s Introduction both clarifies Smith’s analyses and illuminates his overall relevance to the world in which we live. As Reich writes, “Smith’s mind ranged over issues as fresh and topical today as they were in the late eighteenth century—jobs, wages, politics, government, trade, education, business, and ethics.�
Ěý
Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
Ěý




From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 1131 Adam Smith 0679424733 Jackie 2 youth-school-reading 4.01 1776
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name: Jackie
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 474109 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.]]> Mark Twain 1406952923 Jackie 3 3.57 1896
author: Mark Twain
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1896
rating: 3
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]]> 14770 SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION —THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE PAST TWO DECADES

Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene—it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.

Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become real. And yet, William Gibson's gritty, sophisticated vision still manages to inspire the minds that lead mankind ever further into the future.]]> 384 William Gibson 0441012035 Jackie 3 3.82 1984
author: William Gibson
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.82
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rating: 3
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]]> 128507 The Jungle Book.]]> 24 Walt Disney Company 0736420967 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 4.30 2003
author: Walt Disney Company
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2003
rating: 3
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]]> 8810
The basis for one of the most notorious films ever made, A Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will.

'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book'
William S. Burroughs]]> 159 Anthony Burgess 0141182601 Jackie 0 3.97 1962
author: Anthony Burgess
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1962
rating: 0
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]]> 542820
When Thad Beaumont wakes to the nightmare of George Stark, he hears birds, thousands of them, all cheeping and twittering at the same time, and with the sound comes a presentiment full of memory and foreboding: The sparrows are flying again.

Thad Beaumont is a writer, and for a dozen years he secretly published novels under the name of "George Stark" because he was no longer able to write under his own name. He even invented a slightly sinister author biography to satisfy the many fans of Stark's violent bestsellers. But Thad is a healthier and happier man now, the father of infant twins, and starting to write as himself again. He no longer needs George Stark, and in fact has a good reason to lay Stark to rest. So, with nationwide publicity, a bit of guilt, and a good deal of relief, the pseudonym is retired.

In the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, where Thad and Liz keep a summer home, Sheriff Alan Pangborn ponders the brutal roadside murder of a man named Homer Gamache. When Homer's pick-up truck is found, the bloody fingerprints of the perpetrator are all over it. They match Thad Beaumont's exactly. Armed with evidence, Pangborn pays the Beaumonts a visit, and suddenly he too is thrust into a dream so bizarre that neither criminal science nor his own sharp mind can make sense of it.

At the center of the nightmare is the devastating figure of George Stark, Thad Beaumont's dark half--impossibly alive and relentlessly on the loose--a killing machine that destroys everyone on the path that leads to the man who created him. As Stark approaches, as Thad and Liz contend with the escalating horror and implacable threat of his existence and Thad reaches deep inside his own mind to mount a defense, forces gather in the air above Castle Lake, outriders of the dead to the land of the living....To whom do they belong?

Here is The Dark Half, a tale of terror so real and fascinating that Stephen King's growing legion of fans will find themselves squirming in the master's heart-stopping, blood-curdling grip--and loving every minute of it.]]> 431 Stephen King 067082982X Jackie 3 pleasure-reading 3.72 1989
author: Stephen King
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> 1384415 408 Sophie Hannah 034084034X Jackie 0 forget-me-not-maybes 3.74 2007
author: Sophie Hannah
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 338023 The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde's wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on it's head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, "by a butterfly for butterflies," this, his last and greatest play, is not only wonderfully lighthearted, but a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment.

Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original.

Also included in this special collection are Wilde's first comedy success, Lady Windermere's Fan and his richly sensual melodrama, Salome, which he called "that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote" - and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time.

With an introduction by Sylvan Barnet, Professor of English at Tufts University.]]> 240 Oscar Wilde 0451525051 Jackie 0 i-just-cant-do-it 4.20 1898
author: Oscar Wilde
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1898
rating: 0
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]]> 2177980 189 Lewis Carroll Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.55 1871
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.55
book published: 1871
rating: 3
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]]> 36723246 Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends- men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel.]]> 285 Michael Ondaatje 0525521194 Jackie 0 to-read 3.50 2018
author: Michael Ondaatje
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 36521316
Then, one fateful night, she sees something she was never meant to see, the Center’s most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent, capable of language and of understanding emotions…and Elisa can’t keep away. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Soon, affection turns into love, and the creature becomes Elisa’s sole reason to live.

But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland, the obsessed soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon, wants nothing more than to dissect it before the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles, Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are, indeed, coming.]]> 315 Guillermo del Toro 1250165342 Jackie 0 to-read 3.88 2017
author: Guillermo del Toro
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 35425827
Time is running out.
Together, they can save the world.
But they each other's worst nightmare.

In Renegades, Nova and Adrian (aka Insomnia and Sketch) fought the battle of their lives against the Anarchist known as the Detonator. It was a short-lived victory.

The Anarchists still have a secret weapon, one that Nova believes will protect her. The Renegades also have a strategy for overpowering the Anarchists, but both Nova and Adrian understand that it could mean the end of Gatlon City - and the world - as they know it.]]> 560 Marissa Meyer 1250311446 Jackie 0 to-read 4.25 2018
author: Marissa Meyer
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 40668729 The heroic journey of an Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior in an epic tale of survival, love, and clashing gods in the frozen Arctic of 1000 AD.

Born with the soul of a hunter and the language of the gods, Omat is destined to become a shaman like her grandfather. To protect her people, she invokes the spirits of the sky, the sea, and the air.

But the gods have stopped listening, the seals won't come, and Omat's family is starving.

Desperate to save them, Omat journeys through the icy wastes, fighting for survival with every step. When she meets a Viking warrior and his strange new gods, together they set in motion a conflict that could shatter her world...or save it.

The Wolf in the Whale is a powerful tale of magic, discovery and adventure, featuring an unforgettable narrator ready to confront the gods themselves.]]> 562 Jordanna Max Brodsky 0316417149 Jackie 0 to-read 4.20 2019
author: Jordanna Max Brodsky
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 3591259
A young professional woman finally meets the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, only to discover that he is terminally ill. After her beloved John's death from cancer, Virginia was faced with addressing the chronic rising damp problem in the house they had shared and, over her first year as a young widow, her house had to dry from the inside out � and so did Virginia. The Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement is a wry and touching love story that plays with the parallels between our homes and ourselves.]]> 266 Virginia Lloyd 0702236810 Jackie 0 to-read 3.87 2008
author: Virginia Lloyd
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 36576036
The memory that Murphy was asked to draw was from an Alaskan hunter who discovered five bodies on remote Ruuwaq Island ten years ago, but has only shared the information with the police now that he’s dying of cancer. When they go to the island to investigate, no skeletons remain but there is evidence that the bodies may have been deliberately destroyed. But the big discovery is of a World War II Quonset hut.

As one by one the people who were at the hut die, Murphy knows there is something much deeper at stake. What happened there during WWII? And who is willing to kill to keep those secrets buried?]]> 320 Carrie Stuart Parks 0718083857 Jackie 0 to-read 4.00 2018
author: Carrie Stuart Parks
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.00
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]]> 6576 336 John Saul 0553173871 Jackie 3 pleasure-reading 3.84 1982
author: John Saul
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1982
rating: 3
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Leslie Carroll's books on royalty are "an irresistible combination of People Magazine and the History Channel."--Chicago Tribune

When Prince Harry of Wales took his American girlfriend, Meghan Markle, to have tea with his grandmother the queen, avid royal watchers had a hunch that a royal wedding was not far off. That prediction came true on November 27, 2017, when the gorgeous, glamorous twosome announced their engagement to the world. As they prepare to tie the knot in a stunning ceremony on May 19, 2018, that will be unprecedented in royal history, people are clamoring to know more about the beautiful American who captured Prince Harry's heart.

Born and raised in Los Angeles to a white father of German, English, and Irish descent and an African American mother whose ancestors had been enslaved on a Georgia plantation, Meghan has proudly embraced her biracial heritage. In addition to being a star of the popular television series Suits, she is devoted to her humanitarian work--a passion she shares with Harry. Though Meghan was married once before, Prince Harry is a modern royal, and the Windsors have welcomed her into the tight-knit clan they call "The Firm." Even a generation ago, it would have been unthinkable, as well as impermissible, for any member of Great Britain's royal family to consider marrying someone like Meghan. Professional actresses were considered scandalous and barely respectable. And the last time an American divorcee married into the Royal Family, it provoked a constitutional crisis!

In American Princess, Leslie Carroll provides context to Harry and Meghan's romance by leading readers through centuries of Britain's rule-breaking royal marriages, as well as the love matches that were never permitted to make it to the altar; followed by a never-before-seen glimpse into the little-known life of the woman bringing the Royal Family into the 21st century; and her dazzling, thoroughly modern romance with Prince Harry.]]> 256 Leslie Carroll 0062859455 Jackie 0 to-read 3.28 2018
author: Leslie Carroll
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.28
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]]> 35008762 Just outside of Cambridge, Lilling seems like an unassuming idyllic English village, but it’s home to a dark history. In 1976, a teenage girl named Annalise Wood disappeared while riding her bike home from school. Though her body was later discovered in a shallow grave, the culprit was never found. Decades later, Annalise maintains a perverse kind of celebrity in the small town, and is still the focus of grief, speculation, and for one young woman, a disturbing, escalating jealousy.
When DNA linked to the Annalise murder unexpectedly surfaces, cold case investigator Morris Keene realizes he may now have the chance of his career. Morris and his former partner, Chloe Frohmann, hope to finally solve this perplexing mystery, and bring closure to a traumatized community. But the new evidence that should be the simple solution instead undoes the case's only certainty: the buried body that had long ago been confidently identified as Annalise may be someone else entirely, and instead of answers, the investigators face only new puzzles.
Whose body was unearthed all those years ago, and what happened to the real Annalise? Could she have had a secret child? Is someone interfering with the investigation? And is there a link to a present-day drowning with eerie connections? With piercing insight and fascinating twists, Emily Winslow explores the dark side of sensationalized crime in this haunting psychological thriller.]]> 304 Emily Winslow 006257258X Jackie 0 to-read 3.33 2017
author: Emily Winslow
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.33
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Fast forward to present day, and Colin is Brighton’s most eligible bachelor now that cousin Stephen has married. When Avery’s father dies of a heart attack, she puts her life on hold and returns home to St. Simons Island, Georgia, to help Mama with the family restaurant. But Mama misses Avery’s sister Susanna, who lives four thousand miles away in Brighton Kingdom—and is expecting her first child. So Mama insists she and Avery spend the Christmas season in Brighton.

Colin and Avery are going to see each other a lot while she’s visiting. But she can’t forget the way he hurt her, and he didn’t expect his feelings to still be so strong.

Avery is torn between considering a future in Brighton and taking a coaching job in Georgia, and Colin is finally pushed to pursue what he really wants. Is it too late to convince Avery that she is his true love? And even if he does, will she make it to the chapel on Christmas Day to give him her heart?]]> 227 Rachel Hauck 0310344530 Jackie 0 to-read 4.04 2016
author: Rachel Hauck
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.04
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Brendan Waddell needs a place to recuperate. Lauren Everman needs a place to hide. It's going to be an unexpectedly romantic Christmas at Bluebird Ranch.

Brendan Waddell has always considered Bluebird Ranch a little piece of heaven: an idyllic ranch that pairs abused children with abused horses, run by one of his old Marine buddies. Now, recovering from an on-the-job injury, Brendan thinks the ranch is the perfect place to spend Christmas healing up.

When Lauren Everman was a seventeen-year-old foster kid, Bluebird Ranch was the safest place she knew. Now it's the perfect hideout for a woman on the run. As the witness to a murder, Lauren needs somewhere to lie low, and her skill with horses means she'll be able to lend a hand with the troubled kids at Bluebird—without answering too many questions.

Lauren's rich hair, high cheekbones, and dark eyes immediately get Brendan's attention—but so does her secretive behavior. This Special Ops Intel man knows a woman on the run when he sees one, and he's not about to let her put Bluebird Ranch at risk.

But as Brendan and Lauren get to know each other, their suspicions evaporate and romance starts to sizzle. But this would-be couple has more to worry about than each other—there's a killer on the loose who wants Lauren kept quiet.

All Is Bright

A romantic, Christmas wedding at her seaside hotel gives Delilah a chance to shine with her unique gifts. But will her light be snuffed out before the bride and groom say “I do�?

As manager of the Tidewater Inn, Delilah Carter has been planning a spectacular Christmas wedding for her friends at the grand hotel overlooking the ocean. While picking up still more twinkly lights and some last-minute groceries for the reception dinner, a huge truck runs her off the freezing, wet roads into the dark night. Her car stops just short of an enormous tree and the truck speeds off into the night. Delilah escapes with her life and has almost convinced herself the whole thing was an accident, but then she begins to receive threatening phone calls. With the wedding just hours away, she's distracted and anxious. Then Sheriff Tom Bourne stops by the inn and volunteers to help.

Tom has always had a soft spot for Delilah, and he's determined to protect her. But he is pulled away by a bizarre Christmas stunt that has the neighborhood reeling, and Delilah is attacked again.

Will Delilah have to cancel the Christmas wedding at Tidewater Inn? And will Tom's protection be enough to save Delilah from the shadowy figure looming in the background?]]> 200 Colleen Coble 0718037820 Jackie 0 to-read 3.72 2015
author: Colleen Coble
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2015
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]]> 34460582 A Christmas novella to launch a brand new three-book series . . . The Carnton NovelsĚý ĚýAmid war and the fading dream of the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas - and of sacrificial love.
Ěý Recently widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to hold life together for herself and her six-year old son.With the bank threatening to evict, she discovers an advertisement for the Women's Relief Society auction and applies for a position - only to discover it's been filled. Then a chance meeting with a wounded soldier offers another opportunity - and friendship. But can Aletta trust this man?
Ěý Captain Jake Winston, a revered Confederate sharpshooter, suffered a head wound at the Battle of Chickamauga. When doctors deliver their diagnosis, Jake fears losing not only his greatest skill but his very identity. As he heals, Jake is ordered to assist with a localĚýWomen's Relief Society auction. He respectfully objects.Kowtowing to a bunch of "crinolines" isn't his idea of soldiering. But orders are orders, and he soon discovers this group of ladies - one, in particular - is far more than he bargained for.
Ěý Set against the backdrop and history of the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, Christmas at Carnton is a story of hope renewed and faith restored at Christmas.]]> 256 Tamera Alexander 0310293243 Jackie 0 to-read 4.08 2017
author: Tamera Alexander
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.08
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Speeding north through rural Maine, Eden Martelli wonders how her life came to this—on the run with her mute five-year-old son dozing fitfully in the passenger seat. When a breakdown leaves them stranded in Summer Harbor, Eden has no choice but to stay put through Christmas . . . even though they have no place to lay their heads.

Beau Callahan is a habitual problem solver—for other people anyway. He left the sheriff’s department to take over his family’s Christmas tree farm, but he’s still haunted by the loss of his parents and struggling to handle his first Christmas alone.

When Eden shows up looking for work just as Beau’s feisty aunt gets out of the hospital, Beau thinks he’s finally caught a break. Eden is competent and dedicated—if a little guarded—and a knockout to boot. But, as he soon finds out, she also comes with a boatload of secrets.

Eden has been through too much to trust her heart to another man, but Beau is impossible to resist, and the feeling seems to be mutual. As Christmas Eve approaches, Eden’s past catches up to her.

Beau will go to the ends of the earth to keep her safe. But who’s going to protect his heart from a woman who can’t seem to trust again?]]> 352 Denise Hunter 0718023714 Jackie 0 to-read 4.15 2015
author: Denise Hunter
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.15
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]]> 35207298 One is playing a long game. But which one?

They meet at a local tavern in the small town of Belleville, Delaware. Polly is set on heading west. Adam says he’s also passing through.

Yet she stays and he stays—drawn to this mysterious redhead whose quiet stillness both unnerves and excites him. Over the course of a punishing summer, Polly and Adam abandon themselves to a steamy, inexorable affair. Still, each holds something back from the other—dangerous, even lethal, secrets that begin to accumulate as autumn approaches, feeding the growing doubts they conceal.

Then someone dies. Was it an accident, or part of a plan? By now, Adam and Polly are so ensnared in each other’s lives and lies that neither one knows how to get away—or even if they want to. Is their love strong enough to withstand the truth, or will it ultimately destroy them?

Something—or someone—has to give.

Which one will it be?]]> 292 Laura Lippman 0062389920 Jackie 0 to-read 3.43 2018
author: Laura Lippman
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2018
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]]> 30653710 A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.

As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she’s fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa’s wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.

But their relationship subtly shifts when her bachelor brother, Ox, decides to tie the knot with the sweet younger daughter of a newly wealthy inventor. Engaging a longstanding family tradition, Theresa enlists the Boy to act as her brother’s cavalier, presenting the family’s diamond rose ring to Ox’s intended, Miss Sophie Fortescue—and to check into the background of the little-known Fortescue family. When Octavian meets Sophie, he falls under the spell of the pretty ingénue, even as he uncovers a shocking family secret. As the love triangle of Theresa, Octavian, and Sophie progresses, it transforms into a saga of divided loyalties, dangerous revelations, and surprising twists that will lead to a shocking transgression . . . and eventually force Theresa to make a bittersweet choice.

Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams� fiction and alternating between Sophie’s spirited voice and Theresa’s vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss’s comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby’s New York.]]> 352 Beatriz Williams 0062404962 Jackie 0 to-read 3.58 2016
author: Beatriz Williams
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.58
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]]> 33640777 Not every door should be opened...

With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan.

Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with dust and secrets: full of priceless artworks hidden away for decades.

High-flying fine art agent Flora from London, more comfortable with the tension of a million-pound auction than a cosy candlelit dinner for two, is called in to assess these suddenly discovered treasures. As an expert in her field, she must trace the history of each painting and discover who has concealed them for so long.

Thrown in amongst the glamorous Vermeil family as they move between Paris and Antibes, Flora begins to discover that things aren't all that they seem, while back at home her own family is recoiling from a seismic shock. The terse and brooding Xavier Vermeil seems intent on forcing Flora out of his family's affairs - but just what is he hiding?]]> 408 Karen Swan 0062672827 Jackie 0 to-read 3.73 2016
author: Karen Swan
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.73
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]]> 837212 558 Catherine Marshall 0380001411 Jackie 4 4.18 1967
author: Catherine Marshall
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1967
rating: 4
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In Basic Witches, readers will discover how to tap into their inner sorceress and channel the dark arts for everything from cluttered apartments to dating disasters. Want to enhance your attractiveness? Pick the right power color of eyeshadow and project otherworldly glamour. Need to exorcise a toxic friendship? Say the right symbolic curse and banish it from your life. Need to boost your self-confidence? Whip up a tasty herbal “potion� to strengthen your inner resolve. Plus historical and pop culture sidebars that situate the new witchcraft trend within a broader context. With humor, heart, and a hip modern sensibility, journalists Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman dispense witchy wisdom for the curious, the cynical, and anyone who could use a magical boost to get through the day. This ain’t your grandma’s grimoire!]]> 208 Jaya Saxena 1594749779 Jackie 0 to-read 3.25 2017
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name: Jackie
average rating: 3.25
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]]> 31682017 Be careful what you check out...

Ever since he could remember Simon Santiago could see and talk to the dead. When his parents are killed in a train accident, he is sent to live with his estranged con man of an uncle. Soon Simon is put on as his uncle's assistant in a Ghost Expelling agency and carries out the hard work for his uncle: getting rid of the ghosts.

Now thirteen with his ability at full maximum Simon is ready to take on bigger tasks with his uncle's booming agency getting more and more calls day by day. When a phone call comes in from a desperate librarian at an infamously haunted library, Simon is all too eager to get to work. But when they arrive at the sprawling mansion of a library, Simon quickly discovers that there's something else haunting the library and its thirst for Simon's soul is dangerously clear from the moment he steps foot into the building.

With the help of one of the young library volunteers and a mute spirit of the library, Simon is determined to find out what is really going on before his soul as well as his uncle's are added to the ever-growing system of The Library of Souls. Will Simon and his new friend make it out alive?

Find out in the brand new Middle-Grade Horror novel from YouTube personality Richard Denney, featuring an array of spooky photographs that will chill you to the bone... if you're not already dead.]]> 161 Richard Denney Jackie 0 to-read 4.13 2017
author: Richard Denney
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 33783910 Les Liaisons Dangereuses, it’s the summer when Jackie Robinson breaks Major League Baseball’s color barrier and a sweltering stretch has Harlem’s elite fleeing the city for Westchester County’s breezier climes. But there two predators stalking amidst the manicured gardens and fine old homes.

Heiress Mae Malveaux rules society with an angel’s smile and a heart of stone. She made up her mind long ago that nobody would decide her fate. To have the pleasure she craves, control is paramount, especially control of the men Mae attracts like moths to a flame.

Valiant Jackson always gets what he wants—and he’s wanted Mae for years. The door finally opens for him when Mae strikes a bargain: seduce her virginal young cousin, Cecily, who is engaged to Frank Washington. Frank values her innocence above all else. If successful, Val’s reward will be a night with Mae.

But Val secretly seeks another prize. Elizabeth Townsend is fiercely loyal to her church and her civil rights attorney husband. Certain there is something redeemable in Mr. Jackson. Little does she know that her most unforgivable mistake will be Val’s greatest triumph.]]> 517 Sophfronia Scott 0062655655 Jackie 0 to-read 3.75 2017
author: Sophfronia Scott
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.75
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]]> 34150793
New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War.

August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as everyone does—that it will be over by Christmas, when the trio plan to celebrate the holiday among the romantic cafes of Paris.

But as history tells us, it all happened so differently�

Evie and Thomas experience a very different war. Frustrated by life as a privileged young lady, Evie longs to play a greater part in the conflict—but how?—and as Thomas struggles with the unimaginable realities of war he also faces personal battles back home where War Office regulations on press reporting cause trouble at his father’s newspaper business. Through their letters, Evie and Thomas share their greatest hopes and fears—and grow ever fonder from afar. Can love flourish amid the horror of the First World War, or will fate intervene?

Christmas 1968. With failing health, Thomas returns to Paris—a cherished packet of letters in hand—determined to lay to rest the ghosts of his past. But one final letter is waiting for him…]]> 368 Hazel Gaynor 0062562681 Jackie 0 to-read 4.16 2017
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name: Jackie
average rating: 4.16
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Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She's found new friends and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larsson. But her past isn't far behind.

Then, one by one, the students of Osborne Hugh begin to die in a series of gruesome murders, each with increasingly grotesque flair. As the terror grows closer and her feelings for Ollie intensify, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets.]]> 287 Stephanie Perkins 0525426019 Jackie 0 to-read 3.39 2017
author: Stephanie Perkins
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.39
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]]> 29085448
A witch and her master capture a young faery and command her to kill their enemy. Adela has no choice but to obey. If she does not, they will force the location of her people’s mountain home from her and kill her. To make matters even worse, the person she is to kill is only a man struggling to save his dying land and mend a broken heart.
Count Stefan is a man simply trying to forget the woman he loves and save a land crippled by drought. When a mysterious woman arrives at his castle claiming to be a seamstress, he knows she is more than she seems.
Adela enlists the help of Damian, another faery, to try and delay the inevitable. He insists she has a choice. But with the witch controlling her every move, does she?]]> 115 Claire M. Banschbach 1523996633 Jackie 0 to-read 4.00 2016
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average rating: 4.00
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The next morning, long before sunup, a waitress offers Mamie more than a free cup of coffee. She paints a picture of a quaint Ozark town less than an hour away and then flips a coin. In hopes of finding a peaceful life, Mamie accepts the waitress's challenge and soon finds herself aboard a ferry crossing Norfork Lake, for Mountain Home, Arkansas.

When a dirt-layered, five-year-old tyke waltzes uninvited into Mamie’s life, she becomes entangled in a web of abuse. She’s no match for the abuser. Battered and afraid, Mamie accepts a man, QUINN RAGLAND’s protection. Then the unthinkable happens, he confesses deepening feelings for her. Now Mamie must face her worst fear…love.]]> 224 Amanda Sue King 0999046802 Jackie 0 to-read 4.50
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]]> 33385438 The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.

"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under snow? Or—is it possible—you are still alive?"

Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon’s Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now—if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder," Naomi is their last hope.

Naomi’s methodical search takes her deep into the icy, mysterious forest in the Pacific Northwest, and into her own fragmented past. She understands children like Madison because once upon a time, she was a lost girl, too.

As Naomi relentlessly pursues and slowly uncovers the truth behind Madison’s disappearance, shards of a dark dream pierce the defenses that have protected her, reminding her of a terrible loss she feels but cannot remember. If she finds Madison, will Naomi ultimately unlock the secrets of her own life?

Told in the alternating voices of Naomi and a deeply imaginative child, The Child Finder is a breathtaking, exquisitely rendered literary page-turner about redemption, the line between reality and memories and dreams, and the human capacity to survive.]]> 274 Rene Denfeld 0062659057 Jackie 0 to-read 3.91 2017
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name: Jackie
average rating: 3.91
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]]> 34217599
Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity.]]> 269 Louise Erdrich 0062694057 Jackie 0 to-read 3.58 2017
author: Louise Erdrich
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.58
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A dying man with a scheme
A charming smuggler one step ahead of the law
A former foundling with a mangled hand
A family of kingmakers
A printing tycoon
A constable on the trail of justice
An idealistic solicitor with secrets of his own
&
The genius at the center of it all, Quincy St. Claire]]> 592 Beth Brower 0998063606 Jackie 0 to-read 4.50 2016
author: Beth Brower
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.50
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]]> 6452913 336 Rachel Johnson 1416532080 Jackie 0 forget-me-not-maybes 2.42 2008
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name: Jackie
average rating: 2.42
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When Emi and her mother are abruptly sent back to Japan, Christian enlists in the US Army, with his sights set on the Pacific front—and, he hopes, a reunion with Emi—unaware that her first love, Leo Hartmann, the son of wealthy of Austrian parents and now a Jewish refugee in Shanghai, may still have her heart.

Fearful of bombings in Tokyo, Emi’s parents send her to a remote resort town in the mountains, where many in the foreign community have fled. Cut off from her family, struggling with growing depression and hunger, Emi repeatedly risks her life to help keep her community safe—all while wondering if the two men she loves are still alive.

As Christian Lange struggles to adapt to life as a soldier, his unit pushes its way from the South Pacific to Okinawa, where one of the bloodiest battles of World War II awaits them. Meanwhile, in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, as Leo fights to survive the squalor of the Jewish ghetto, a surprise confrontation with a Nazi officer threatens his life. For each man, Emi Kato is never far from their minds.

Flung together by war, passion, and extraordinary acts of selflessness, the paths of these three remarkable young people will collide as the fighting on the Pacific front crescendos. With her “elegant and extremely gratifying� (USA Today) storytelling, Karin Tanabe paints a stunning portrait of a turning point in history.]]> 451 Karin Tanabe 1501110470 Jackie 0 to-read 3.79 2017
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name: Jackie
average rating: 3.79
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]]> 30039025 A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.

Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards—a clean sweep of the crime fiction award field—along with rave reviews from critics. He crafts masterful stories, often from multiple perspectives, in which the human condition is on full display.

The Violated is no exception. In Echo Park, in the small town of Santa Rita, California, the mutilated body of Martin Torrey is found by two passersby. A registered sex offender, Torrey has been a suspect in a string of recent rapes, and instant suspicion for his murder falls on the relatives and friends of the women attacked. Police chief Griffin Kells and detective Robert Ortiz are under increasing pressure from the public and from a mayor demanding results in a case that has no easy solution. Pronzini cleverly unfolds the case through alternating perspectives—Martin Torrey’s wife, caught between her grief and the fear her husband was guilty; the outraged husbands of the women violated; the enterprising editor of the local paper; the mayor concerned most with his own ratings; the detectives, often spinning in circles—until a surprising break leads to a completely unexpected conclusion. The Violated is Bill Pronzini at the height of his storytelling powers.]]> 272 Bill Pronzini 1632866609 Jackie 0 to-read 3.31 2017
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name: Jackie
average rating: 3.31
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]]> 2074777 379 John Bunyan 1557480745 Jackie 2 youth-school-reading 3.96 1678
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name: Jackie
average rating: 3.96
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rating: 2
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]]> 574440 The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century

"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't-which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. The Omnivore's Dilemma is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.

Pollan has divided The Omnivore's Dilemma into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a meal--at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.

We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. The Omnivore's Dilemma is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?]]> 464 Michael Pollan 0747586837 Jackie 0 4.17 2006
author: Michael Pollan
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 171228
In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.]]> 520 Clarissa Pinkola Estés 0345377443 Jackie 3 from-my-seeker-days 4.16 1992
author: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1992
rating: 3
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date added: 2016/10/04
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]]> 28512547 Where is home when you were born in the stars?

Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend Jason is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She’s living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you’ve spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world.

As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground.

When Jason’s paranoia over Aza’s safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza finds herself a fugitive in Magonia, tasked with opposing her radical, bloodthirsty, recently-escaped mother, Zal Quel, and her singing partner, Dai. She must travel to the edge of the world in search of a legendary weapon, the Flock, in a journey through fire and identity that will transform her forever.]]> 307 Maria Dahvana Headley 0062320556 Jackie 0 to-read 3.43 2016
author: Maria Dahvana Headley
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/08/05
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]]> 543102 324 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0192833669 Jackie 4 4.04 1818
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1818
rating: 4
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]]> 18054071
Lee and her friends have the chance to be the most prosperous settlers in California, but Hiram hasn’t given up trying to control Lee and her power. Sabotage and kidnapping are the least of what he’ll do to make sure Lee is his own. His mine is the deepest and darkest in the territory, and there Lee learns the full extent of her magical gift, the worst of her uncle, and the true strength of her friendships. To save everyone, she vows to destroy her uncle and the empire he is building—even at the cost of her own freedom.

The second epic historical fantasy in the Gold Seer trilogy by Rae Carson, the acclaimed author of The Girl of Fire and Thorns.]]> 432 Rae Carson 0062242962 Jackie 0 to-read 4.01 2016
author: Rae Carson
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 27917957 The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret.

Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy.

For Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even more difficult, as he is only recently married to Sophie, the wife he had perhaps never expected to find. Sophie is pregnant with their first child, and does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband embarks upon the journey of a lifetime. She has genuine cause to worry about her pregnancy, and it is with deep uncertainty about what their future holds that she and her husband part.

A story shot through with a darker but potent strand of the magic that illuminated The Snow Child, and with the sweep and insight that characterizes Rose Tremain's The Colour, this novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey singles her out as a major literary talent.]]> 417 Eowyn Ivey 0316242853 Jackie 0 to-read 4.10 2016
author: Eowyn Ivey
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 1027571 Hans Christian Andersen 1905432224 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.33 1835
author: Hans Christian Andersen
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.33
book published: 1835
rating: 3
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date added: 2016/06/28
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]]> 37624
With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With a new introduction by Lindbergh’s daughter Reeve, this fiftieth-anniversary edition will give those who are revisiting the book and those who are coming upon it for the first time fresh insight into the life of this remarkable woman.

The sea and the beach are elements that have been woven throughout Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s life. She spent her childhood summers with her family on a Maine island. After her marriage to Charles Lindbergh in 1929, she accompanied him on his survey flights around the North Atlantic to launch the first transoceanic airlines. The Lindberghs eventually established a permanent home on the Connecticut coast, where they lived quietly, wrote books and raised their family.

After the children left home for lives of their own, the Lindberghs traveled extensively to Africa and the Pacific for environmental research. For
several years they lived on the island of Maui in Hawaii, where Charles Lindbergh died in 1974.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh spent her final years in her Connecticut home, continuing her writing projects and enjoying visits from her children and grand-children. She died on February 7, 2001, at the age
of ninety-four.

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many books for both adults and children, including the memoirs Under a Wing and No More Words.]]> 132 Anne Morrow Lindbergh 0679406832 Jackie 5 4.31 1955
author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1955
rating: 5
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date added: 2016/06/01
shelves: from-my-seeker-days, pleasure-reading, 5-star
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]]> 8306857 In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

]]> 487 Veronica Roth 0062024027 Jackie 5 4.28 2011
author: Veronica Roth
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2011/04/11
date added: 2016/05/27
shelves: 5-star, series, pleasure-reading, work-review-related-reading, ya
review:
This book is amazing, especially since it's a debut novel by a very young new writer. It pulls you into a perfectly planned world--just as it begins to fall apart. In this world, you must decide your allegiance to one of the five factions of society when you are 16 based on a creepy drug induced hallucination/simulation that is meant to show your aptitudes. But Beatrice's didn't come out clear cut--she's warned by her tester that she is a "Divergent", someone who crosses faction lines, which is a very, very, very dangerous thing to be in this society. I will not tell you more because I do not want to spoil one moment of the thrill ride that this book holds for its reader. This is a tale of coming of age, adventure, breath-stealing action, psychological suspense, young love, society, ideals, peer pressure, family and so very much more. It's the first book of a planned trilogy, which is a good thing because once you have entered this world of Roth's, you do not want to leave it. This is going to be a HUGE hit, perhaps even big enough to break the vampire thrall that still lingers over YA lit! I know that I could NOT put it down!
]]> 231614 --back cover]]> 109 Elie Wiesel 0553272535 Jackie 0 4.29 1956
author: Elie Wiesel
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1956
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, books-i-think-i-should-read
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]]> 548258 0 Beth Gutcheon 0440194962 Jackie 0 to-read 3.79 1980
author: Beth Gutcheon
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/04/11
shelves: to-read
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]]> 25982831 One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort

Praise for The Mathews Men

“The German U-Boat war against American merchant men was deadly and dramatic—in World War II, the U.S. Merchant Marine had twice the fatality rate of the U.S. Navy. William Geroux has unearthed a fascinating tale of one small coastal town caught in the thick of the fight, and he tells it with a sharp reporter’s eye and a real feel for the heroic men who went down to the sea in ships.�
—Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon and Sea of Thunder

Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent one of the largest concentrations of sea captains and U.S. merchant mariners of any community in America to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942.
ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý From the late 1930s to 1945, virtually all the fuel, food and munitions that sustained the Allies in Europe traveled not via the Navy but in merchant ships. After Pearl Harbor, those unprotected ships instantly became the U-boatsâ€� prime targets. And they were easy targets—the Navy lacked the inclination or resources to defend them until the beginning of 1943. Hitler was determined that his U-boats should sink every American ship they could find, sometimes within sight of tourist beaches, and to kill as many mariners as possible, in order to frighten their shipmates into staying ashore.
ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý As the war progressed, men from Mathews sailed the North and South Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and even the icy Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, where they braved the dreaded Murmansk Run. Through their experiences we have eyewitnesses to every danger zone, in every kind of ship. Some died horrific deaths. Others fought to survive torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, mine blasts, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys—only to ship out again on the next boat as soon as they'd returned to safety.
ĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚýĚý The Mathews Men shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields—often the U.S. merchant marinersâ€� life-and-death struggles took place just off the U.S. coast—but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. “When final victory is ours,â€� General Dwight D. Eisenhower had predicted, “there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine.â€� Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.]]> 400 William Geroux 0525428151 Jackie 0 to-read 3.80 2016
author: William Geroux
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/03/23
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]]> 20579282 One woman will stop at nothing to discover the devastating truth about her family�

Chasing disasters around the globe keeps humanitarian aid worker Gia Andrews away from her own ground zero. Now, after sixteen years in jail for the murder of her stepmother in small-town Tennessee, Gia's father has come home to die of cancer. And she's responsible for his care.

Resuming the role of daughter to the town's most infamous murderer means confronting the past she's spent over a decade avoiding. But in the end, the truth about what really happened may have deadlier consequences than she could have ever anticipated…]]> 370 Kimberly Belle 0778317226 Jackie 0 to-read 3.74 2014
author: Kimberly Belle
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/01/09
shelves: to-read
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]]> 21793182
When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...]]> 362 Melissa Landers 1484723244 Jackie 0 to-read 3.85 2016
author: Melissa Landers
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/01/02
shelves: to-read
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]]> 23492800
Robin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true.

She is a meticulous accountant, almost forty. He is an artist and university professor, twenty years older. When Paul suggests a month in Morocco, where he once lived and worked, a place where the modern meets the medieval, Robin reluctantly agrees.

Once immersed into the swirling, white hot exotica of a walled city on the North African Atlantic coast, Robin finds herself acclimatizing to its wonderful strangeness. Paul is everything she wants him to be—passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant.

But then Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry. As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape.

With his acclaimed ability to write thought-provoking page-turners, Douglas Kennedy takes readers into a world where only Patricia Highsmith has ever dared. The Blue Hour is a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the What would you do if your life depended on it?]]> 368 Douglas Kennedy 1451666373 Jackie 0 to-read 3.50 2015
author: Douglas Kennedy
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/11/22
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]]> 13259307
Sixty years after its publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.

"Fahrenheit 451- The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns."

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.

The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature.]]> 159 Ray Bradbury Jackie 5
The premise, of course, is that in this version of the future, firemen don't put out fires, they set them. They are called in when suspicions arise about someone owning books, as books are now illegal. The houses are burned with the books inside, and the owners of those books are imprisoned or worse. It's a short book, and I don't want to spoil the story, but I will say that I am deeply shocked that this book, written 59 years ago, can speak so much to me today--the anti-intellectualism and the walls of televised "parlor" people (seemingly like reality shows) mirror this modern day in a truly haunting (and terrifying) way.]]> 3.92 1953
author: Ray Bradbury
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1953
rating: 5
read at: 2012/06/10
date added: 2015/11/19
shelves: 5-star, books-i-think-i-should-read, work-review-related-reading
review:
I really have not read much by Ray Bradbury--sci-fi just isn't my thing. But his death inspired me give him a try. As a book seller, Fahrenheit 451 (the temperature at which paper burns) seemed the most likely title relevant to me. Little did I know just HOW relevant it was.

The premise, of course, is that in this version of the future, firemen don't put out fires, they set them. They are called in when suspicions arise about someone owning books, as books are now illegal. The houses are burned with the books inside, and the owners of those books are imprisoned or worse. It's a short book, and I don't want to spoil the story, but I will say that I am deeply shocked that this book, written 59 years ago, can speak so much to me today--the anti-intellectualism and the walls of televised "parlor" people (seemingly like reality shows) mirror this modern day in a truly haunting (and terrifying) way.
]]> 24611846 From the acclaimed author ofĚý The Book of Night Women Ěýcomes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.Ěý

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years.

Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven KillingsĚýis the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the ďż�70s, to the crack wars in ďż�80s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the ďż�90s. Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon Jamesâ€� place among the great literary talents of his generation.
]]> 688 Marlon James 1594633940 Jackie 0 to-read 4.00 2014
author: Marlon James
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/10/02
shelves: to-read
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]]> 70944 276 D.H. Lawrence 1840224886 Jackie 4 youth-school-reading 3.35 1928
author: D.H. Lawrence
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.35
book published: 1928
rating: 4
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date added: 2015/09/04
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]]> 3049143 54 Ouida 1428052771 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.00 1872
author: Ouida
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1872
rating: 3
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date added: 2015/08/26
shelves: youth-school-reading
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]]> 238000 Romeo and Juliet" is ideally suited for the manga formatit has teenage heroes, scheming and villainous adults, heartbreaking tragedy, and the ultimate romantic plot about star-crossd lovers. Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall deeply in loveand they refuse to let their parents age-old feud get in their way. When Romeo is banished from their town, a series of mistakes and misunderstandings, along with their families mutual hatred, finally manages to end their love. An exciting introduction to the Bard for reluctant readers and manga fans alike.]]> 208 Richard Appignanesi 0810993252 Jackie 0 to-read, hmmmmmmmm 3.62 2007
author: Richard Appignanesi
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2015/08/11
shelves: to-read, hmmmmmmmm
review:

]]> 170453
The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea.]]> 326 Yann Martel 0156027321 Jackie 5 pleasure-reading, 5-star 3.88 2001
author: Yann Martel
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 2005/01/01
date added: 2015/06/06
shelves: pleasure-reading, 5-star
review:
I resisted this book for a very long time because it was SOOO hyped. But when I finally picked it up, I discovered the hype was all true. It truly blew me away--it's such an imaginative and intriguing story that continues to resonate in me years later. I even got a reluctant adult reader friend to read--and of course fall in love with--this book. If it can grab someone who doesn't WANT to be grabbed by a book, imagine what it can do for folks who LOVE reading!
]]> 3295509 40 Maya Angelou 0375841504 Jackie 3 That is truly what the greatest world hunger today is.]]> 4.30 2005
author: Maya Angelou
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2008/11/26
date added: 2015/02/27
shelves: children-s-lit, work-review-related-reading
review:
This book is based on a poem performed by Angelou at the 2005 White House tree lighting ceremony. The painting by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher are truly amazing. One line of the poem especially captured me: "It is what we have hungered for. Not just the absence of war. But true Peace."
That is truly what the greatest world hunger today is.
]]> 24581
Scott created these drawings in scratchboard ­ an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally.

]]> 224 Mark Twain 1402714602 Jackie 4 youth-school-reading, ya 3.80 1876
author: Mark Twain
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1876
rating: 4
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date added: 2014/10/24
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]]> 2887768 64 Hans Christian Andersen 0786850604 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.98 1836
author: Hans Christian Andersen
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1836
rating: 3
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date added: 2014/09/10
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]]> 11457525
Includes a bonus story "The Vittra Attacks"]]> 318 Amanda Hocking 1250006317 Jackie 5 ]]> 3.92 2010
author: Amanda Hocking
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2011/12/31
date added: 2014/08/29
shelves: 5-star, pleasure-reading, series, vamps-and-other-paranormal-pleasure, ya
review:
Amanda Hocking is one of those publishing prodigies--she sold over a million copies of her self-published books and has a huge on-line following. After reading "Switched", now being published by St. Martin's Griffin, I understand why. This is great stuff. She has created the world of the Trylle, the modern day, PC, not your Grimm character trolls, who secretly trade their own babies for human babies, then collect them again once they've grown up and have begun to manifest powers. Trylles have all sorts of possible powers, many related to the natural world, but mixed breeding and young Trylles refusing to remain in the isolated Trylle communities are threatening Trylles everywhere, and the present queen is not going to allow that. "Switched" concerns Wendy, a 17 year old who suddenly finds herself in mysterious danger and is whisked away by a Trylle tracker only to find out that she is, in fact, the Princess, and there are many, many expectations placed upon her because of that. And, it seems, she is one of the most powerful Trylles of all. Thank heavens Book 2, "Torn", is coming out in February, and Book 3, "Ascend", is coming out in April, so we all can find out what happens to the reluctant Princess and her people--human and Trylle.

]]> 540134 1509 Merck Publishing 0911910875 Jackie 5 5-star, nonfiction 4.29 1997
author: Merck Publishing
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 2005/01/01
date added: 2014/07/09
shelves: 5-star, nonfiction
review:
This is an excellent resourse, even in this internet age. I've been known to lose an hour or two with the darn thing when I was just looking up one thing. It's packed with information that is easy to understand and references that are easy to navigate.
]]> 1069096
Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. During the divorce proceedings, he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven is demanding the money guaranteed by the bond to find Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Bail Agency wants to take possession of the house.

Finding a kidnapped child is not an assignment for a bounty hunter. But Evelyn's grandmother lives next door to Stephanie's parents, and Stephanie's mother and grandmother are not about to see their neighbor lose her house because of abduction.

Even though Stephanie's plate is full with miscreants who missed their court dates, including old nemesis and violent drunk Andy Bender and an elusive little old lady accused of grand theft auto, she can't disappoint Grandma Mazur! So she follows the trail left by Annie and Evelyn-- and finds a lot more than she bargained for. Steven is somehow linked with a very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fiance Joe Morelli and Stephanie's mentor and tormentor, Ranger, warn Stephanie about Abruzzi, but it's Abruzzi's eyes and mannerisms that frighten Stephanie the most. Stephanie needs Ranger's savvy and expertise, and she's willing to accept his help to find Annie even though it might mean becoming too involved with Ranger.

Stephanie, Ranger, Lula (who's not going to miss riding with Ranger), and Evelyn's lawyer/laundromat manager set out to find Annie. The search turns out to be a race among Stephanie's posse, the True Blue Bonds' agent, a Rangerette known as Jeanne Ellen Burrows, and the Abruzzi crew. Not to mention the fact that there's a killer rabbit on the loose!

Strap on your helmet and get ready for the ride of your life. Hard Eight. The world of Plum has never been wilder.]]> 311 Janet Evanovich 0312265859 Jackie 5 pleasure-reading 4.01 2002
author: Janet Evanovich
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2014/07/06
shelves: pleasure-reading
review:

]]> 11137 Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books - The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis saw as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity's many denominations, C.S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that "at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks the same voice.]]> 227 C.S. Lewis Jackie 3 4.37 1952
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1952
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2014/06/23
shelves: from-my-seeker-days, nonfiction
review:

]]> 483721 Robert Sabuda 0689840144 Jackie 5 pleasure-reading 4.75 2010
author: Robert Sabuda
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.75
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2014/06/13
shelves: pleasure-reading
review:

]]> 2515605 80 World Book, Inc. 0716608871 Jackie 5 3.88
author: World Book, Inc.
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.88
book published:
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2014/06/09
shelves: 5-star, series, youth-school-reading, formative
review:

]]> 13542732 It's past midnight, but Connie Bowskill can't sleep. To pass the time, she logs on to a real estate website in search of a particular house, one she is obsessed with for reasons she's too scared to even admit to herself. As she clicks through the virtual tour, she comes across a scene from a a woman lying facedown on the living room floor in a pool of blood. But when she returns to show her husband, there is no body, no blood—just a perfectly ordinary room, with a perfectly clean beige carpet.
The sixth book in Sophie Hannah’s beloved Zailer and Waterhouse series, The Other Woman’s House offers unforgettable suspense and a heart-stopping conclusion that Ruth Rendell and Tana French fans will love.]]> 464 Sophie Hannah 0143121510 Jackie 4 3.33 2011
author: Sophie Hannah
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/07/23
date added: 2014/06/08
shelves: pleasure-reading, work-review-related-reading
review:
I'm not much for UK based mysteries--I just don't understand how it all works over there. But I do make an exception for Sophie Hannah--she keeps me too busy trying to figure out her very complicated characters and the even more complicated situations they find themselves in. Connie and her husband Kit, the main characters in "The Other Woman's House" are not exceptions. It starts out simple enough--Connie can't sleep so she's up looking at a house tour online when she sees a woman laying in a pool of blood. She races to the bedroom to get her husband, who dutifully goes to see things for himself--finding no sign of blood or any woman, let alone a dead one. But Connie knows what she's seen, and, it turns out, knows a bit about that house and the people who live there. This opens the door to the labyrinth of lies, tricks, cheats, doubts and long held psychosis--and a very complex puzzle for the reader to figure out. This book features some characters from previous books, but this one stands alone just fine. The important part is to remember that calling what Hannah does "plot twists" is like calling a tornado a summer rain, so be prepared.
]]> 620572 Or rather, it makes Arrietty careless. She befriends a "human bean," and the next thing Arrietty knows, she and her family have been kidnapped. Their captors are a greedy married couple, called the Platters, who have big plans for the little people. They have created their own miniature village in a glass case and plan to imprison the Borrowers within - like animals in a zoo - for the rest of their lives.

Also features the short Borrowers tale Poor Stainless]]> 224 Mary Norton 0152105247 Jackie 5 youth-school-reading 3.88 1961
author: Mary Norton
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1961
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2014/06/01
shelves: youth-school-reading
review:

]]> 28561 This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780743491563.

Unlocking a cold case with explosive implications for the future of civil rights, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, must outguess a killer who has targeted a high school girl from Harlem who is digging into the past of one of her ancestors, a former slave. What buried secrets from 140 years ago could have an assassin out for innocent blood? And what chilling message is hidden in his calling card, the hanged man of the tarot deck? Rhyme must anticipate the next strike or become history.]]> 576 Jeffery Deaver Jackie 0 to-read, pleasure-reading 3.78 2005
author: Jeffery Deaver
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2014/05/02
shelves: to-read, pleasure-reading
review:

]]> 3032296 0 Mark Twain 045150447X Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.60 1881
author: Mark Twain
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.60
book published: 1881
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2014/05/01
shelves: youth-school-reading
review:

]]> 20564828
The foe she now faces is human: the vampire hunter called Danaus, who has already destroyed so many undead. For Mira, the time has come to hunt . . . or be hunted.]]> 370 Jocelynn Drake 0061542776 Jackie 0 3.68 2008
author: Jocelynn Drake
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2014/04/28
shelves: to-read, vamps-and-other-paranormal-pleasure
review:

]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Jackie 4 4.57 2005
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2014/04/28
shelves: work-review-related-reading, ya, series
review:

]]> 21881461
Banyan was once a tree builder, creating scrap-metal forests for rich clients in a barren burned-out world. Now he's traded his scaffolds for lookouts, his tools for guns. On a stolen boat, surrounded by a mutinous crew, Banyan has escaped from Promise Island with the last living trees on earth, and he's desperate to smuggle them to safety.

But powerful enemies are in pursuit, seeking to claim the trees for themselves. To reach a safe haven, Banyan will need the help of the pirate girl he loves, Alpha, his broken friend, Crow, and his troubled sister, Zee. Only together can they cross the mysterious molten wasteland of THE RIFT. And when Banyan discovers a new threat to Alpha's life, he fears he'll lose not only the trees they sacrificed so much to find, but the girl who inspires him and gives him hope.

Howard's "gift for the phantasmagoric" (Kirkus) is on full display in this thrilling second book of the Rootless trilogy.]]> 358 Chris Howard Jackie 0 to-read 4.33 2014
author: Chris Howard
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2014/04/11
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 1108048 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.�

When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back?
For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.

Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working–a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart? Together with his daughter, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, Pierce is battling the local authorities, racing against time, and frantically searching for answers to all the questions he’s been afraid to ask.

One man knows what happened that night. Adopting the alias of a killer caught eighty years before, he has already contacted the press. His terms are clear: he wants money, he wants power, he wants celebrity. And if he doesn’t get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good.

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, it’s still not enough.
As the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Pierce plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a lethal truth, and for the love of his life, who may forever be…gone.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 352 Lisa Gardner 0553804316 Jackie 0 to-read, pleasure-reading 3.96 2006
author: Lisa Gardner
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2014/03/26
shelves: to-read, pleasure-reading
review:

]]> 574773 152 H.A. Rey 0395735181 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 4.25 1941
author: H.A. Rey
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1941
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2014/02/21
shelves: youth-school-reading
review:

]]> 90072 Note: This book is for the Musical Study Score. For the original Dr. Seuss story, see: Green Eggs with Ham (1988).

A children's classic, now available in this version for Soprano, Boy Soprano and Full Orchestra.

Duration: ca. 18 minutes.

Also available for:
- Chamber Ensemble (Score #50482454)
- Vocal Score (Score #50482453)]]> 96 Robert Kapilow 0793551617 Jackie 5 4.47 1996
author: Robert Kapilow
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2014/01/22
shelves: youth-school-reading, 5-star, children-s-lit
review:

]]> 11527279 Ěý
Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.]]> 338 Vanessa Diffenbaugh Jackie 5 work-review-related-reading 4.19 2011
author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2011/05/28
date added: 2014/01/18
shelves: work-review-related-reading
review:
Victoria spent her whole childhood in the foster system, if you could call it a childhood. She is filled with guilt, mistrust and desires only solitude when she "ages out" of the system. The one thing that she knows and loves is flowers, and the Victorian language that is based on them. She uses that knowledge to gain a job at a florist, who takes her under her wing and opens the world of possibilities that Victoria never had any access to before and still doesn't trust. Throughout the book we find this reluctant, damaged flower bloom into a woman with a family and a future. This is a wonderful, hopeful, intense read that really tugged at my heart. This is Diffenbaugh's debut novel, which makes it even more impressive. I urge all of you to read it, and I will be definitely eagerly waiting for more from this very talented writer (and foster mother, so she truly knows the foster system that she is describing in this book).
]]> 253011 29 Ronne Randall 1405447834 Jackie 3 youth-school-reading 3.95
author: Ronne Randall
name: Jackie
average rating: 3.95
book published:
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2014/01/15
shelves: youth-school-reading
review:

]]> 18167456 A novel based on a true story, a mother and daughter risk their lives to provide shelter to two families and aĚýGerman soldier--all unbeknownst to each other--in a tiny two-room house in Sokal, Poland, during the Nazi invasion.

Based on a true story, MY MOTHER'S SECRET is a profound, captivating, and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the clever and "righteous" mother and daughter who teamed up to save them.

Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are unlikely heroines. They are simple people who mind their own business and don't stand out from the crowd. Until 1939, when crisis strikes. The Nazis have invaded Poland and they are starting to persecute the Jews. Providing shelter to a Jew has become a death sentence. And yet, Franciszka and Helena decide to do just that. In their tiny, two-bedroom home in Sokal, Poland, they cleverly hide a Jewish family of two brothers and their wives in their pigsty out back, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a makeshift cellar under the kitchen floorboards, and a defecting German soldier in the attic--each group completely unbeknownst to the others. For everyone to survive, Franciszka will have to outsmart her neighbors and the German commanders standing guard right outside her yard.

Told simply and succinctly from four different perspectives, MY MOTHER'S SECRET is a reminder that there are,Ěýin fact,Ěýno profiles of courage and each individual's character is a personal choice.

This book was inspired by the true story of Franciszka Halamajowa, who, with her daughter, saved the lives of fifteen Jews in Poland during the Second World War. She also hid a young German soldier in her attic at the same time. Before the war, there were six thousand Jews in Sokal, Poland. Only thirty survived the war and half of those did so because of Franciszka.]]> 208 J.L. Witterick 0399168540 Jackie 5 4.14 2013
author: J.L. Witterick
name: Jackie
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2013/09/24
date added: 2014/01/12
shelves: 5-star, books-i-think-i-should-read, formative, pleasure-reading, work-review-related-reading
review:
This book is one of the most beautiful I've ever read. While it's set in the time of the Holocaust, there is love, joy, compassion and profound bravery. This is a novel, but it is based on real people, a woman and her daughter, who saved 15 people from death despite the many difficulties and sorrows of their own. This will make you remember how good people can be, how amazingly resilient they are, and what even just a couple of people can do to truly change the world. This book renewed my faith in humanity, and I will put this book in as many hands as I possibly can.
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