Wendy's bookshelf: jul-10 en-US Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:21:22 -0800 60 Wendy's bookshelf: jul-10 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, #9)]]> 7156505 The most personal

A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick.

The most dangerous

The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat burglar who is about to steal millions of dollars' worth of precious jewels. In just seconds there is a nearly empty safe, a lifeless body, and another mystery that throws San Francisco into hysteria.

The most exciting Women's Murder Club novel ever

Lindsay spends every waking hour working with her partner, Rich--and her desire for him threatens to tear apart both her engagement and the Women's Murder Club. Before Lindsay and her friends can piece together either case, one of the killers forces Lindsay to put her own life on the line--but is it enough to save the city? With unparalleled danger and explosive action, The 9th Judgment is James Patterson at his compelling, unstoppable best!

]]> 355 James Patterson 0316036277 Wendy 4 jul-10 4.12 2010 The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, #9)
author: James Patterson
name: Wendy
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/10
date added: 2010/12/02
shelves: jul-10
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]]> The Strain (The Strain #1) 6065215
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.]]> 403 Guillermo del Toro 0061558230 Wendy 5 jul-10 3.81 2009 The Strain (The Strain #1)
author: Guillermo del Toro
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2010/07/30
date added: 2010/07/30
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]]> Whispers and Lies 244474 Terry Painter enjoys her quiet life in tranquil Delray, Florida, where the single, forty-year-old nurse lives alone in the house she inherited from her mother. When young, vibrant Alison Simms rents the cottage on her property, the two women strike up a fast friendship -- and Terry is swept into a fantastic new life: dinners out, shopping, makeovers, even flirting with the handsome son of one of her elderly patients. But nothing about her newfound companion is as it appears, as Terry discovers when Alison's closely guarded past comes to light. Now Terry is locked into a race to reclaim her own life -- before she opens the door any further to the stranger she thought she knew...
]]> 357 Joy Fielding 0743448642 Wendy 5 jul-10 3.71 2002 Whispers and Lies
author: Joy Fielding
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2002
rating: 5
read at: 2010/07/26
date added: 2010/07/26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)]]> 4836308
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.

As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined.

Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.
(katherinehowe.com)]]> 371 Katherine Howe 1401340903 Wendy 4 jul-10 3.72 2009 The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane (The Physick Book, #1)
author: Katherine Howe
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/25
date added: 2010/07/25
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]]> The Black Donnellys 747381 -- Donnellys first victim How could one family -- mom, dad, and seven sons -- terrorize an entire Canadian community for 33 years? The Black Donnellys is the classic account of how James, Johannah and their sons used brute force to brawl, steal, burn, and murder their way into the dark side of Canadian history. A popular bestseller since 1954, this gripping book covers the family's horrific crimes in unflinching detail through to their decimation at the hands of a murderous vigilante mob.]]> 180 Thomas P. Kelley 1895565243 Wendy 4 jul-10 3.66 1954 The Black Donnellys
author: Thomas P. Kelley
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.66
book published: 1954
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/20
date added: 2010/07/20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn Wendy 4 jul-10 4.26 2001 The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
author: Carlos Ruiz ZafĂłn
name: Wendy
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2001
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/20
date added: 2010/07/20
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]]> <![CDATA[Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)]]> 428263 "BELLA?"
Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.
This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.

As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?

READERS CAPTIVATED BY Twilight AND New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much-anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga.]]> 629 Stephenie Meyer 0316160202 Wendy 5 jul-10 3.73 2007 Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
author: Stephenie Meyer
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2010/07/16
date added: 2010/07/16
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]]> The Last Song 6400090 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here

Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller’s life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone’s best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie’s father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.

The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms - first love, the love between parents and children - that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts . . . and heal them.]]> 390 Nicholas Sparks 0446547565 Wendy 4 jul-10 4.16 2008 The Last Song
author: Nicholas Sparks
name: Wendy
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/13
date added: 2010/07/14
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]]> <![CDATA[Shelter Mountain (Virgin River, #2)]]> 184854 For the second time in a year a woman arrives in the small town of Virgin River trying to escape the past.

John “Preacher� Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of a wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one—the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and he wants to punish whoever did this to her, but he knows immediately that this inclination to protect is something much more. Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in this gentle giant of a man—emotions that he has never allowed himself to feel.

But when Paige’s ex-husband turns up in Virgin River, Preacher knows his own future hangs in the balance. And if there’s one thing in the marines� motto of Semper Fidelis—always faithful—has taught him, it’s that some things are worth fighting for.]]> 384 Robyn Carr 077832429X Wendy 5 jul-10 4.13 2007 Shelter Mountain (Virgin River, #2)
author: Robyn Carr
name: Wendy
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2007
rating: 5
read at: 2010/07/11
date added: 2010/07/12
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]]> The Map of True Places 7005509 New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader, offers an emotionally compelling novel about finding your true place in the world.

Zee Finch has come a long way from a motherless childhood spent stealing boats—a talent that earned her the nickname Trouble. She's now a respected psychotherapist working with the world-famous Dr. Liz Mattei. She's also about to marry one of Boston's most eligible bachelors. But the suicide of Zee's patient Lilly Braedon throws Zee into emotional chaos and takes her back to places she thought she'd left behind.

What starts as a brief visit home to Salem after Lilly's funeral becomes the beginning of a larger journey for Zee. Her father, Finch, long ago diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, has been hiding how sick he really is. His longtime companion, Melville, has moved out, and it now falls to Zee to help her father through this difficult time. Their relationship, marked by half-truths and the untimely death of her mother, is strained and awkward.

Overwhelmed by her new role, and uncertain about her future, Zee destroys the existing map of her life and begins a new journey, one that will take her not only into her future but into her past as well. Like the sailors of old Salem who navigated by looking at the stars, Zee has to learn to find her way through uncharted waters to the place she will ultimately call home. ]]> 403 Brunonia Barry 0061624780 Wendy 5 jul-10 3.66 2010 The Map of True Places
author: Brunonia Barry
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2010/07/06
date added: 2010/07/08
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]]> The Lace Reader 1951125
Can you read your future in a piece of lace? All of the Whitney women can. But the last time Towner read, it killed her sister and nearly robbed Towner of her own sanity. Vowing never to read lace again, her resolve is tested when faced with the mysterious, unsolvable disappearance of her beloved Great Aunt Eva, Salem s original Lace Reader. Told from opposing and often unreliable perspectives, the story engages the reader s own beliefs. Should we listen to Towner, who may be losing her mind for the second time? Or should we believe John Rafferty, a no nonsense New York detective, who ran away from the city to a simpler place only to find himself inextricably involved in a psychic tug of war with all three generations of Whitney women? Does either have the whole story? Or does the truth lie somewhere in the swirling pattern of the lace?

(back cover)]]> 368 Brunonia Barry 097915930X Wendy 5 jul-10 3.47 2006 The Lace Reader
author: Brunonia Barry
name: Wendy
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2010/07/03
date added: 2010/07/08
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]]> Bloodfever (Fever, #2) 344262
When my sister was found dead in a trash-filled alley in Dublin, I came over to get answers. Now all I want is revenge. And after everything I’ve learned about myself, I know I have the power to get it�.

MacKayla Lane’s ordinary life underwent a complete makeover when she landed on Ireland’s shores and was plunged into a world of deadly sorcery and ancient secrets.

In her fight to stay alive, Mac must find the Sinsar Dubh–a million-year-old book of the blackest magic imaginable, which holds the key to power over both the worlds of the Fae and of Man. Pursued by Fae assassins, surrounded by mysterious figures she knows she cannot trust, Mac finds herself torn between two deadly and irresistible men: V’lane, the insatiable Fae who can turn sensual arousal into an obsession for any woman, and the ever-inscrutable Jericho Barrons, a man as alluring as he is mysterious.

For centuries the shadowy realm of the Fae has coexisted with that of humans. Now the walls between the two are coming down, and Mac is the only thing that stands between them.…]]> 303 Karen Marie Moning 038533916X Wendy 4 jul-10 4.25 2007 Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
author: Karen Marie Moning
name: Wendy
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/02
date added: 2010/07/06
shelves: jul-10
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