Josie's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:11:09 -0700 60 Josie's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Josie 5 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Josie
average rating: 3.86
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Year of Wonders 4965
Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition.

As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love.

As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders."

Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. ]]>
304 Geraldine Brooks 0142001430 Josie 4 4.00 2001 Year of Wonders
author: Geraldine Brooks
name: Josie
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)]]> 8293751 They open a door and enter a world

NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure begins.

Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever.]]>
224 C.S. Lewis 1616790881 Josie 5 4.10 1950 Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
author: C.S. Lewis
name: Josie
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1950
rating: 5
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Under the Lilacs 17554 191 Louisa May Alcott 1406927708 Josie 5 3.76 1878 Under the Lilacs
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: Josie
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1878
rating: 5
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The Distant Hours 6746018
Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother’s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in ‘the distant hours� of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it.

Morton once again enthralls readers with an atmospheric story featuring unforgettable characters beset by love and circumstance and haunted by memory, that reminds us of the rich power of storytelling.]]>
562 Kate Morton 1439152780 Josie 4 3.88 2010 The Distant Hours
author: Kate Morton
name: Josie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2010
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Josie 5 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Josie
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Thirteen (Women of the Otherworld, #13)]]> 10863148
Savannah Levine - fiery and unpredictable - stands at the heart of the maelstrom. There is a new, dark magic inside her, granting her the power to summon spells of terrifying strength. But whether this magic is a gift or a curse, no one knows.

On the eve of battle, all the major players must come together in a last, desperate fight for survival - Elena and Clay; Adam and Savannah; Paige and Lucas; Jeremy and Jaime; Hope, Eve and more...They are fighting for lives.

They are fighting for their loved ones.

They are fighting for the Otherworld.]]>
444 Kelley Armstrong 1841498033 Josie 5 4.31 2012 Thirteen (Women of the Otherworld, #13)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Spell Bound (Women of the Otherworld, #12)]]> 7797032 352 Kelley Armstrong 1841498076 Josie 5 4.24 2011 Spell Bound (Women of the Otherworld, #12)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2011
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld, #11)]]> 6725785
Suddenly, Savannah gets the chance she's been waiting for: Recruited by another supernatural detective, she travels to Columbus, Washington, a small, dying town. Two troubled young women have been found in an abandoned warehouse, murdered. Now a third woman's dead, and on closer inspection small details point to darker forces at play. Savannah feels certain she can handle the case, but with signs of supernatural activity appearing at every turn, things quickly become more serious- and far more dangerous-than she realizes.]]>
309 Kelley Armstrong 0525951784 Josie 5 4.18 2010 Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld, #11)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld, #10)]]> 4107256 Smart, sexy, supernatural—the men and women of the Otherworld live and love, fight and die, among us. Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled—and cold with terror....

Being the world’s only female werewolf has its advantages, such as having her pick of the Otherworld’s most desirable males. And Elena Michaels couldn't have picked a more dangerously sexy and undyingly loyal mate than Clayton Danvers. Now their bond will be put to the ultimate test as they follow a bloody trail of gruesome slayings deep into Alaska’s frozen wilderness.

There’s nothing the werewolf community dislikes more than calling attention to itself. So when a pair of rogue man-eaters begins hunting humans, it’s up to Elena and Clayton to track down the predators. But any illusions their task would be simple are quickly dispelled. For even in werewolf terms, there’s something very disturbing taking place in the dark Alaskan forests. A werewolf more wolf than human and more unnatural than supernatural is on the hunt—a creature whose origins seem to spring from ancient legends of the shape-shifting Wendigo.

And if that wasn't bad enough, Clayton and Elena find themselves confronting painful ghosts from their pasts � and an issue neither of them is eager to discuss. For one of them has been chosen to become the new Pack leader, and as every wolf knows, there can be only one Alpha. They've always been equals in everything. Now, when their survival depends more than ever on perfect teamwork, will instinct allow one of them to lead...and the other to follow?]]>
352 Kelley Armstrong 1841497762 Josie 5 4.27 2009 Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld, #10)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, #8)]]> 1541884
The head of the powerful Cortez Cabal—a family that makes the mob look like amateurs—has a little problem in Miami: a gang of wealthy, bored offspring of supernaturals is getting out of hand, and Hope is needed to infiltrate. As spells, astral projections, and pheromones soar across South Beach, Hope weaves her way through its elite hot spots, posing as upscale eye candy and reading the auras of the clientele—and potential marks.

As it turns out, Hope is a little too good at this job. And soon she’s in a little too deep, needing to be bailed out by her jewel-thief werewolf ex-boyfriend and by the Cortez heir himself. And when a killer goes to work, Hope is among many targets at the pinnacle of Cabal rule. For a woman who didn’t know what she was getting into, there’s only one way out: it’s time for Hope to unleash her most potent primal instincts—and open herself, mind and body, to everything she most fears . . . and desires.]]>
371 Kelley Armstrong 0553806610 Josie 5 4.09 2008 Personal Demon (Women of the Otherworld, #8)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Living with the Dead (Women of the Otherworld, #9)]]> 2813124
Robyn moved to LA after her husband died to try to put some distance between herself and the life they had together. And the challenges of her job as the PR consultant to a Paris Hilton wannabe are pretty distracting. But then her celebutante is gunned down in a night club, and Robyn is suddenly the prime suspect. The two people most determined to clear her are her old friend, the half-demon tabloid reporter Hope Adams, and a homicide detective with an uncanny affinity for the dead.

Soon Robyn finds herself in the heart of a world she never even knew existed � and which she was safer knowing nothing about . . .]]>
372 Kelley Armstrong 0553806645 Josie 5 4.04 2008 Living with the Dead (Women of the Otherworld, #9)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Haunted (Women of the Otherworld, #5)]]> 11919 The afterlife isn’t all it’s cracked up to be�

Former supernatural superpower Eve Levine has broken all the rules. But she’s never broken a promise—not even during the three years she’s spent in the afterworld. So when the Fates call in a debt she gave her word she’d pay, she has no choice but to comply.

For centuries one of the ghost world’s wickedest creatures has been loosed on humanity, thwarting every attempt to retrieve her. Now it has fallen to Eve to capture this demi-demon known as the Nix, who inhabits the bodies of would-be killers, compelling them to complete their deadly acts. It’s a mission that becomes all too personal when the Nix targets those Eve loves most—including Savannah, the daughter she left on earth. But can a renegade witch succeed where a host of angels have failed?]]>
510 Kelley Armstrong 0553587080 Josie 5 4.08 2005 Haunted (Women of the Otherworld, #5)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2005
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<![CDATA[Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2)]]> 11922 Bitten, Kelley Armstrong's debut novel, that thirty-year-old Elena Michaels came to terms with her feral appetites and claimed the proud identity of a beautiful, successful woman and the only living female werewolf.

In Stolen, on a mission for her own elite pack, she is lured into the net of ruthless Internet billionaire Tyrone Winsloe, who has funded a bogus scientific investigation of the "other races" and their supernatural powers. Kidnapped and studied in his underground lab deep in the Maine woods, these paranormals - witches, vampires, shamans, werewolves - are then released and hunted to the death in a real-world video game. But when Winsloe captures Elena, he finally meets his match.

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468 Kelley Armstrong 0452285933 Josie 5 4.15 2002 Stolen (Women of the Otherworld, #2)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.15
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<![CDATA[Broken (Women of the Otherworld, #6)]]> 11915 Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on the twenty-first century � and become his next target�

Ever since she discovered she’s pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she’s never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who’s given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enough � only the letter contains a portal to Victorian London’s underworld, which Elena inadvertently triggers � unleashing a vicious killer and a pair of zombie thugs.

Now Elena must find a way to seal the portal before the unwelcome visitors get what they’re looking for � which, for some unknown reason, is Elena�


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460 Kelley Armstrong 0553588184 Josie 5 4.18 2006 Broken (Women of the Otherworld, #6)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, #3)]]> 125926 448 Kelley Armstrong 0553590154 Josie 5 4.08 2004 Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld, #3)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Industrial Magic (Women of the Otherworld, #4)]]> 125925
Kelley Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow-up to Dime Store Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents from the most insidious evil of all.. . .

In the aftermath of her mother’s murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty-something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention.

Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworld’s most influential Cabals � a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isn’t blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural-born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, it’s a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance.]]>
560 Kelley Armstrong 0553590162 Josie 5 4.13 2004 Industrial Magic (Women of the Otherworld, #4)
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Josie
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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The Day the Crayons Quit 16101018 Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!

Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown. Blue needs a break from coloring all that water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Black wants to be used for more than just outlining. And Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking—each believes he is the true color of the sun.

What can Duncan possibly do to appease all of the crayons and get them back to doing what they do best?

Debut author Drew Daywalt and New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers create a colorful solution in this playful, imaginative story that will have children laughing and playing with their crayons in a whole new way. Join in on the fun and games. Find out why the crayons are mad and how Duncan takes care of this dilemma!

Age Range: 3-6+ / Lexile Score AD730L
Edition MSRP: US $17⁹⁹ (ISBN 978-0-399-25537-3)
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30 Drew Daywalt 0399255370 Josie 4 4.42 2013 The Day the Crayons Quit
author: Drew Daywalt
name: Josie
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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The Babymoon 4758689 408 Melanie La'Brooy 0718104951 Josie 4 3.81 2005 The Babymoon
author: Melanie La'Brooy
name: Josie
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Little Lady Agency (The Little Lady Agency, #1)]]> 137098 406 Hester Browne 1416527265 Josie 4 3.75 2005 The Little Lady Agency (The Little Lady Agency, #1)
author: Hester Browne
name: Josie
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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Cocktails for Three 129645 Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks.

Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man

Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -- motherhood

Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes -- until a ghost from her past turns up

At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed.

In Cocktails for Three, Madeleine Wickham combines her trademark humor with remarkable insight to create an edgy, romantic tale of secrets, strangers, and a splash of scandal.]]>
301 Madeleine Wickham 0312349998 Josie 2 3.45 2001 Cocktails for Three
author: Madeleine Wickham
name: Josie
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2001
rating: 2
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<![CDATA[Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville, #1)]]> 14461 259 Carrie Vaughn 0446616419 Josie 3 3.68 2005 Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville, #1)
author: Carrie Vaughn
name: Josie
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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April Fool's Day 510247 673 Bryce Courtenay 0140272933 Josie 4 4.21 1993 April Fool's Day
author: Bryce Courtenay
name: Josie
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen]]> 13747
Julie Powell is 30-years-old, living in a rundown apartment in Queens and working at a soul-sucking secretarial job that’s going nowhere. She needs something to break the monotony of her life, and she invents a deranged assignment. She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she will cook all 524 recipes. In the span of one year.

At first she thinks it will be easy. But as she moves from the simple Potage Parmentier (potato soup) into the more complicated realm of aspics and crépes, she realizes there’s more to Mastering the Art of French Cooking than meets the eye. With Julia’s stern warble always in her ear, Julie haunts the local butcher, buying kidneys and sweetbreads. She sends her husband on late-night runs for yet more butter and rarely serves dinner before midnight. She discovers how to mold the perfect Orange Bavarian, the trick to extracting marrow from bone, and the intense pleasure of eating liver.

And somewhere along the line she realizes she has turned her kitchen into a miracle of creation and cuisine. She has eclipsed her life’s ordinariness through spectacular humor, hysteria, and perseverance.]]>
310 Julie Powell 031610969X Josie 5 3.74 2005 Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
author: Julie Powell
name: Josie
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2005
rating: 5
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Room 7937843
Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience—and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.

Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.]]>
321 Emma Donoghue Josie 5 4.04 2010 Room
author: Emma Donoghue
name: Josie
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Lake in the Clouds: #3 in the Wilderness series]]> 19490663
Lake in the Clouds picks up the story of the spirited Elizabeth and her beloved frontiersman Nathaniel, known by the Mohawk as 'Between-Two-Lives', in spring 1802 as the village of Paradise is still reeling from a typhoid epidemic. Nathaniel's beautiful half-Indian daughter Hannah, has become a gifted healer and doctor in training but her determination to give refuge to a dangerously ill slave puts both her family and her heart in jeopardy for the bounty hunter tracking the runaway is Hannah's childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.

Hannah's action sets off a chain of events that sees Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey across the wilderness and Hannah embark on a quest to New York City to learn the secrets of smallpox and to discover what made Liam change so drastically from the boy she once loved. Along the way the Bonners must confront more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. And the obstacles Hannah faces make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world - and where she truly belongs.]]>
668 Sara Donati 1742747914 Josie 5 4.51 2002 Lake in the Clouds: #3 in the Wilderness series
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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The Champion 509957 499 Elizabeth Chadwick 0312192460 Josie 4 4.07 1997 The Champion
author: Elizabeth Chadwick
name: Josie
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square]]> 1579099 368 Rosina Lippi 0399154663 Josie 5 3.58 2008 The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square
author: Rosina Lippi
name: Josie
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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Tied to the Tracks 9570475 DESCRIPTION OF BOOK
Seemingly out of the blue, tiny documentary company Tied to the Tracks is handed the opportunity of breata lifetime: a personal invitation from reclusive literary legend Miss Zula Bragg to make a film about her life. For Angie Mangiamele and her award-winning team, it's almost too good too be true - and impossible to pass up.
But for Angie, the prospect of visiting Miss Zula's home town in the Deep South is a mixed blessing because it means coming face to face with the man she once thought was the love of her life. Now head of Ogilvie University's literature department, John Grant is engaged to local beauty Caroline Rose. In a small town rich in tradition and rife with gossip, the sparks that fly when the two former lovers meet again can't escape the attention of the closeknit community, mind Caroline's four sisters and the overbearing Aunt Patty-Cake, who aren't about to let any strangers from the city interfere with the impending nuptials.
Beautifully drawn with a vibrant cast of characters more than ready for their close-ups, TIED TO THE TRACKS a sharp, witty and grown up love story.]]>
292 Sara Donati Josie 4 3.64 2006 Tied to the Tracks
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2006
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Endless Forest (Wilderness, #6)]]> 5292764
In the spring of 1824, in the remote village of Paradise on the New York frontier, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner celebrate a glorious reunion as their children return from far-off Lily and her husband from Italy, and Martha Kirby, the Bonners� ward, from Manhattan. In the peace that follows a devastating flood, childhood friends Martha and Daniel, Lily’s twin brother, suddenly begin to see each other in a new light. But their growing bond is threatened when Martha’s estranged mother arrives back in Paradise. Jemima Southern is a dangerous schemer who has destroyed more than one family, and her anger touches everyone, as do her secrets. Has Jemima come to claim her daughter—or does she have other, darker motives? Whatever transpires, Martha, Daniel, and all the Bonners must stand united against the threats to both heart and home.]]>
628 Sara Donati 1863255419 Josie 5 4.44 2009 The Endless Forest (Wilderness, #6)
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 4.44
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<![CDATA[Queen of Swords (Wilderness, #5)]]> 72848
To claim the child, Hannah, Luke, and Jennet must journey first to Pensacola. There they learn a great deal about the family that has the baby. The Poiterins are a very rich, very powerful Creole family, totally without scruple. The matriarch of the family has left Pensacola for New Orleans and taken the child she now claims as her great-grandson with her.

New Orleans is a city on the brink of war, a city where prejudice thrives and where Hannah, half Mohawk, must tread softly. Careful plans are made as the Bonners set out to find and reclaim young Nathaniel Bonner. Plans that go terribly awry, isolating them from each other in a dangerous city at the worst of times.

Sure that all is lost, and sick unto death, Hannah finds herself in the care of a family and a friend from her past, Dr. Paul de Guise Savard dit Saint-d’Uzet. It is Dr. Savard and his wife who save Hannah’s life, but Dr. Savard’s half brother who offers her real hope. Jean-Benoit Savard, the great-grandson of French settlers, slaves, and Choctaw and Seminole Indians, is the one man who knows the city well enough to engineer the miracle that will reunite the Bonners and send them home to Lake in the Clouds. With Ben Savard’s guidance, allies are drawn from every segment of New Orleans’s population and from Andrew Jackson’s army, now pouring into the city in preparation for what will be the last major battle of the War of 1812.]]>
576 Sara Donati 055380149X Josie 5 4.35 2006 Queen of Swords (Wilderness, #5)
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2006
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness, #4)]]> 72856
The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left. For their daughter has come home without her husband and without her son…and with a story of loss and tragedy that she can’t bear to tell. Yet as Hannah resumes her duties as a gifted healer among the sick and needy, she finds that she is also slowly healing herself. Little does she realize that she is about to be called away to face her greatest challenge ever.

As autumn approaches, news of the latest conflict with Britain finds the young men of Paradise—including eighteen-year-old Daniel Bonner—eager to take up arms. Against their better judgment, Nathaniel and Elizabeth must let him go, just as they must let his twin sister Lily, a stubborn beauty, pursue her independence in Montreal. But on the eve of the War of 1812, an unexpected guest arrives from It is the Bonners� distant cousin, the newly widowed Jennet Scott of Carryckcastle. Far from home, Lily and Jennet will each learn the price of pursuing their dreams and the possibility of true love.

But it’s Hannah herself who must risk everything once more—this time to save Daniel, who’s been taken prisoner by the British. As the distant thunder of war threatens Paradise, Hannah may learn to live—and maybe love—again in one final act of courage, duty, and sacrifice.

A gifted writer, a master storyteller, and a first-rate historian, Sara Donati has written a powerful, poignant, and movingly romantic novel that chronicles the lives and adventures of a family as compelling and unforgettable as any in American fiction.]]>
655 Sara Donati 0553582771 Josie 5 4.30 2004 Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness, #4)
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name: Josie
average rating: 4.30
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<![CDATA[Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, #3)]]> 72855 In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning author Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilds of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the spirited Bonner family. Now she takes on a new chapter in the life of Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner--as their brave and beautiful oldest daughter comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. . . .

It is the spring of 1802 and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. But despite a devastating personal loss, the Bonners persevere, with Hannah, Nathaniel's half-Indian daughter, working as a doctor in training. A gifted healer, this striking young woman of two worlds finds herself in peril when a dangerously ill runaway slave is discovered near the family home and Hannah insists on nursing the outlaw. Her determination places both her family and her heart in jeopardy, for a bounty hunter is afoot--and he is none other than Hannah's childhood friend and first love. So begins a journey that will test the strength of the Bonners' love for one another--and bring Hannah to face the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mother's people?]]>
651 Sara Donati 0553582798 Josie 5 4.34 2002 Lake in the Clouds (Wilderness, #3)
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 4.34
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<![CDATA[Dawn on a Distant Shore (Wilderness, #2)]]> 820956 647 Sara Donati 0553578553 Josie 5 4.21 2000 Dawn on a Distant Shore (Wilderness, #2)
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)]]> 72854
It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered - a white man dressed like a Native American, Nathanial Booner, known to the Mohawk people as Between-Two-Lives. Determined to provide schooling for all the children of the village, she soons finds herself locked in conflict with the local slave owners as well as her own family.
Interweaving the fate of the Mohawk Nation with the destiny of two lovers, Sara Donati's compelling novel creates a complex, profound, passionate portrait of an emerging America.]]>
876 Sara Donati 0553578529 Josie 5 4.10 1998 Into the Wilderness (Wilderness, #1)
author: Sara Donati
name: Josie
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1998
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great]]> 16250904
Things were just fine around here until UNICORN showed up.

So what if he can fly?

Or make it rain cupcakes?

And turn stuff into gold?

Big deal.

I can do some cool stuff too, like...

Hey! What are you doing? Why are you opening the book?

He's just going to tell you how great he is. Blah, blah, blah.

Go ahead. Just don't say I didn't warn you.

Dopey Unicorn.]]>
32 Bob Shea Josie 0 to-read 4.09 2013 Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great
author: Bob Shea
name: Josie
average rating: 4.09
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<![CDATA[Hunted (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #6)]]> 16071748
Crashing the pantheon marathon is the Norse god Loki. Killing Atticus is the only loose end he needs to tie up before unleashing Ragnarok—AKA the Apocalypse. Atticus and Granuaile have to outfox the Olympians and contain the god of mischief if they want to go on living—and still have a world to live in.

Also contains the novella "Two Ravens and One Crow" (#4.5).]]>
384 Kevin Hearne 0345533631 Josie 4 4.29 2013 Hunted (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #6)
author: Kevin Hearne
name: Josie
average rating: 4.29
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rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Royal Mess (Alaskan Royal Family, #3)]]> 574852 The Royal Mess

Jeffrey Rodinov is descended from one of the oldest families in Alaska, and a Rodinov has been protecting a Baranov for generations. It's a job Jeffrey takes VERY seriously. Six feet four inches, 220 fatless lbs., black hair, and blue eyes;weapon of choice: the 9 mm Beretta. In a pinch? His fists. IQ: 157. (Yes, crossword puzzle, in ink, just after taking out the guy behind you. No thanks necessary.) No one ever sees Jeffrey Rodinov coming, and no one--not even a mouthy, illegitimate princess--is going to keep him from playing bodyguard when his king decrees it.

Right. But no Rodinov ever had to protect Princess Nicole Krenski. Her credentials? Hunting guide in the Alaskan wilderness. Smart. Stubborn bordering on exasperating. Five-seven. Blue eyes. Very kissable mouth. Very kissable neck, back, legs, wrists, earlobes. The lady says she doesn't need a bodyguard, but that's where she's wrong. Someone needs to watch her and show her the royal ropes (and cuffs. . .and scarves. . .). Someone who can make her feel like a queen--in and out of bed. And that's a job Jeffrey Rodinov takes very seriously as well. . .

In this deliciously sexy, wickedly funny companion to The Royal Treatment and The Royal Pain, a reluctant princess and a determined royal bodyguard are about to discover that when it comes to powerful love, there are no defenses. . .]]>
210 MaryJanice Davidson 0758212089 Josie 4 3.84 2007 The Royal Mess (Alaskan Royal Family, #3)
author: MaryJanice Davidson
name: Josie
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Royal Pain (Alaskan Royal Family, #2)]]> 514113
The Royal Pain
Marine biologist Dr. Shel ("Never Sheldon") Rivers has a problem. Some princess expects him to wait on her, hand and dimpled foot. His boss is taken with the royal redhead -- brunette, whatever, it's not like he keeps track of that stuff -- and nobody realizes that he just wants to be left alone in his lab. All alone. All the time. Weekends, holidays -- it's all good.

Now here's Miss Royalpants, insisting that he escort her around the marine institute, explain what he s doing, kiss her until her toes curl -- no, wait, that was his idea. She's not even apologetic about being born into a royal family! Says it's his problem to overcome, not hers. Which leaves him with one option: to kiss her again. And again. And...

So she's nothing like he expected. In fact, Dr. Rivers can see that this fantastic, exasperating woman has problems no princess should ever have to deal with. And he has an idea to help her get some much-needed sleep. Of course, it involves getting very, very tired beforehand, but if she's up to it, then so is he...

In this delightfully madcap sequel to The Royal Treatment, the Baranov family is back and as unpredictable as ever, and a prickly princess and cranky Ph.D. are about to discover that love conquers attitude every time!]]>
352 MaryJanice Davidson 0758208065 Josie 4 3.79 2005 The Royal Pain (Alaskan Royal Family, #2)
author: MaryJanice Davidson
name: Josie
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[The Royal Treatment (Alaskan Royal Family, #1)]]> 574854 288 MaryJanice Davidson 0758208022 Josie 4 3.83 2002 The Royal Treatment (Alaskan Royal Family, #1)
author: MaryJanice Davidson
name: Josie
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2002
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Drop Dead, Gorgeous! (Gorgeous, #2)]]> 610762 352 MaryJanice Davidson 0758212046 Josie 3 3.53 2006 Drop Dead, Gorgeous! (Gorgeous, #2)
author: MaryJanice Davidson
name: Josie
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Hello, Gorgeous! (Gorgeous, #1)]]> 615919 They Want Her To Save The World. As If.

One minute I'm out with my sorority sisters; the next there's a terrible accident (beyond my friend Stacey's outfit) and I'm waking up in some weird clinic transformed into a human cyborg--with a mission: to stop evil and stuff. Uh, hello? I've got a beauty salon to run.

Granted, it is cool to run faster than a Ford Mustang when I need to, even if it's totally hard on my shoes. But then I have to bring in another human cyborg on the run? One who happens to be male, totally gorgeous, smart, funny--and, um, his "enhancements"?--as if!

"Davidson's over-the-top humor and raunchily funny sex scenes will delight her fast-growing cadre of fans, while Janet Evanovich fans will also enjoy Davidson's rough-talking heroine." --Booklist]]>
224 MaryJanice Davidson 0758208057 Josie 3 3.59 2005 Hello, Gorgeous! (Gorgeous, #1)
author: MaryJanice Davidson
name: Josie
average rating: 3.59
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rating: 3
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<![CDATA[Sleeping with the Fishes (Fred the Mermaid, #1)]]> 285105
Being a mermaid does help Fred when she volunteers at the New England Aquarium. But, needless to say, it’s there that she gets involved in something fishy. Weird levels of toxins have been found in the local seawater. A gorgeous marine biologist wants her help investigating. So does her merperson ruler, the High Prince of the Black Sea. You’d think it would be easy for a mermaid to get to the bottom of things. Think again…]]>
268 MaryJanice Davidson 0515142220 Josie 4 3.66 2006 Sleeping with the Fishes (Fred the Mermaid, #1)
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name: Josie
average rating: 3.66
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<![CDATA[Dead and Loving It (Wyndham Werewolf, #5; Undead, #4.5)]]> 394373 Naughty or Nice anthology)
-Monster Love
-There's No Such Thing as Werewolves (originally published in Lighthearted Lust: Three Not So Serious Tales anthology)
-A Fiend in Need


The queen of comic, erotic, other-species romance brings her best setups and hottest sex scenes to this four-novella party. Three of them feature the bad Wyndham werewolves, who find unanticipated love with often reluctant earthlings.



In "Santa Claws," Alec Kilcurt, the most powerful werewolf in Europe, falls for Santa-clad Giselle Smith and wins her over with lots of oral sex and a heavy Scottish accent. In "Monster Love," bad-tempered Janet Lupo is kidnapped by a sexy werewolf. Then there's the story of Doctor Drake Dragon and his unusual encounter with Crescent. Finally, following the events of Undead and Unreturnable, a psychic werewolf, Antonia Wolfton, receives a vision to show up at Queen Betsy's Minneapolis home to help and falls hard for George, the fiend in the basement. It's all pure Davidson fun. Ginger Curwen]]>
305 MaryJanice Davidson 0425207951 Josie 4 3.89 2006 Dead and Loving It (Wyndham Werewolf, #5; Undead, #4.5)
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average rating: 3.89
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<![CDATA[Undead and Unwelcome (Undead, #8)]]> 5465066 Darque Reviews). And heroine Betsy Taylor has problems that only a suburban vampire-queen housewife could possibly understand, such as...

FIFTY THOUSAND ANGRY WEREWOLVES.

That's what Betsy is facing when she takes her werewolf friend Antonia's body to Cape Cod, where the Pack resides at Wyndham Manor. Because Antonia died in her service, Betsy is alive and well—and wracked with guilt. She has no idea if the Wyndham werewolves will greet her with fangs or friendship.

While Betsy and her husband, Sinclair, try to make nice, their legal ward, BabyJon, freaks out every werewolf he meets. Meanwhile, Betsy's posse back at the St. Paul mansion is not LOLing. Increasingly frantic e-mails alert Betsy to her half sister's increasingly erratic behavior. Looks like the devil's daughter is coming into her own—and raising hell. All in the name of making Betsy's life easier, of course.]]>
282 MaryJanice Davidson 0425227731 Josie 4 3.78 2009 Undead and Unwelcome (Undead, #8)
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average rating: 3.78
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<![CDATA[Undead and Unworthy (Undead, #7)]]> 2255114
Betsy's husband, Sinclair, has been perusing the Book of the Dead, and Betsy's visited by a ghost who's even more insufferable, stubborn, and annoying in death than she was in life. She not only blames Betsy for her condition but insists she fix it. It's all just a prelude to the fun and games awaiting Betsy and Sinclair when a pack of formerly feral vampires, hungry for blood and power, pays a visit to the happy couple.]]>
285 MaryJanice Davidson 0425221628 Josie 4 3.83 2008 Undead and Unworthy (Undead, #7)
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average rating: 3.83
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<![CDATA[Undead and Uneasy (Undead, #6)]]> 478658
In the days leading up to The Big Day, Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor seems to have a full house - and the wedding guests have yet to arrive. Along with her human buddies, there's a ghost, a werewolf, and a Fiend crashing at her place. And though her fiancé, Vampire King Eric Sinclair, conveniently disappears when the conversation turns to seating charts and flower arrangements, he does manage to make his oh-so-sexy presence known at other moments.

Betsy knows the next few weeks won't be smooth sailing - but she never expects just what's in store for her. Cold feet are no surprise, especially with an undead groom. But when Sinclair truly goes missing - and not just to avoid wedding preparations - along with most of her friends and loved ones, Betsy is frantic. Alone and afraid for the fate of everyone she loves, Betsy can't trust anyone as she tries to find them and whoever is behind all the disappearances. And what happens next will shake the foundation of the vampire world forever.]]>
272 MaryJanice Davidson 0425213765 Josie 4 3.90 2007 Undead and Uneasy (Undead, #6)
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average rating: 3.90
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<![CDATA[Undead and Unpopular (Undead, #5)]]> 478659 Listening length: 5 hours, 35 minutes

As Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor approaches the big 3-1 (in human years, that is), she has a lot on her plate. There are wedding plans to finalize, with no help from her fiance Eric. And Betsy's decided to stop drinking blood, something Eric, the vampire king, may not understand...

So when some guests show up uninvited, and they happen to be the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects the week before her birthday, Betsy gets really cranky...]]>
286 MaryJanice Davidson 0425215997 Josie 4 3.85 2006 Undead and Unpopular (Undead, #5)
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<![CDATA[Undead and Unappreciated (Undead, #3)]]> 583924
But Betsy's "life" takes an interesting turn at a shower for her wicked stepmother, who lets it slip that Betsy has a long-lost half sister. Now twenty years old, this woman just so happens to be the devil's daughter - and destined to rule the world...]]>
271 MaryJanice Davidson 0425204332 Josie 4 3.89 2005 Undead and Unappreciated (Undead, #3)
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<![CDATA[Undead and Unreturnable (Undead, #4)]]> 478657
But all is not bouquets and bridal showers—Betsy is plagued by ghosts who demand her help in rectifying their past mistakes, and a serial killer is on the loose. With his victims all being tall, blond women, Betsy fits the profile exactly…]]>
288 MaryJanice Davidson 0425210812 Josie 4 3.89 2005 Undead and Unreturnable (Undead, #4)
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<![CDATA[I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban]]> 17851885 I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

Instead, Malala's miraculous recovery has taken her on an extraordinary journey from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the halls of the United Nations in New York. At sixteen, she has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls' education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.]]>
327 Malala Yousafzai 0316322407 Josie 0 to-read 4.15 2012 I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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<![CDATA[The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum]]> 16056498 A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate.

When Temple Grandin was born in 1947, autism had only just been named. Today it is more prevalent than ever, with one in 88 children diagnosed on the spectrum. And our thinking about it has undergone a transformation in her lifetime: Autism studies have moved from the realm of psychology to neurology and genetics, and there is far more hope today than ever before thanks to groundbreaking new research into causes andtreatments. Now Temple Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to a thrilling journey into the heart of the autism revolution.

Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show us which anomalies might explain common symptoms. We meet the scientists and self-advocates who are exploring innovative theories of what causes autism and how we can diagnose and best treat it. Grandin also highlights long-ignored sensory problems and the transformative effects we can have by treating autism symptom by symptom, rather than with an umbrella diagnosis. Most exciting, she argues that raising and educating kids on the spectrum isn't just a matter of focusing on their weaknesses; in the science that reveals their long-overlooked strengths she shows us new ways to foster their unique contributions.

From the "aspies" in Silicon Valley to the five-year-old without language, Grandin understands the true meaning of the word spectrum. The Autistic Brain is essential reading from the most respected and beloved voices in the field.]]>
240 Temple Grandin 0547636458 Josie 0 to-read 4.09 2013 The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
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<![CDATA[Black Dawn (The Morganville Vampires, #12)]]> 9526658 When a tide of ferocious draug, the vampire's deadliest enemy, floods Morganville, its eclectic mix of residents must fight to save their town from devastation.

Chaos has taken over the quiet college town of Morganville as the threat of the of draug rapidly spreads with the help of the city's water system. Whilst most of the locals have already fled, student Claire Danvers and her friends Shane, Eve and Michael choose to stay and fight.

Things take a turn for the worse when vampire Amelie, the town's founder, is infected by the master draug's bite. Unless Claire and her friends can find an antidote to save Amelie and overcome the draug, Morganville's future looks bleak . . .

'Thrilling, sexy, and funny! These books are addictive. One of my very favourite vampire series.'Richelle Mead, author of the international bestsellingVampire Academy series

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367 Rachel Caine 0451236718 Josie 3 4.24 2012 Black Dawn (The Morganville Vampires, #12)
author: Rachel Caine
name: Josie
average rating: 4.24
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<![CDATA[The Calling (Darkness Rising, #2)]]> 11765920
Now Maya and her friends have been forced to flee from their homes during a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set. Then they're kidnapped, and after a chilling helicopter crash, they find themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness with nothing but their extraordinary abilities to help them get back home.

In THE CALLING, the sizzling second book in the Darkness Rising trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong pumps up the romance, danger, and suspense that left readers of THE GATHERING clamoring for more.]]>
326 Kelley Armstrong 0061797057 Josie 4 4.08 2012 The Calling (Darkness Rising, #2)
author: Kelley Armstrong
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average rating: 4.08
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<![CDATA[Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)]]> 12680907
But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck's death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign; and to forget every dark event that ever happened. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her castle - curious, disguised and alone - to walk the streets of her own city, that she begins to realise the truth. Her kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year long spell of a madman, and now their only chance to move forward is to revisit the past.

Whatever that past holds.

Two thieves, who have sworn only to steal what has already been stolen, change her life forever. They hold a key to the truth of Leck's reign. And one of them, who possesses an unidentified Grace, may also hold a key to her heart . . .]]>
576 Kristin Cashore 0803734735 Josie 3 3.99 2012 Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)
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average rating: 3.99
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<![CDATA[Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #10)]]> 10993282 shellan, Tohrment has been unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was. Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy.

When Tohr begins to see his beloved in his dreams—trapped in a cold, isolated netherworld far from the peace and tranquillity of the Fade—he turns to the angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. But because Lassiter tells him he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed....

Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past and a very hot, passion-filled future…but can his heart let go and set all of them free?]]>
572 J.R. Ward 0451235843 Josie 1 4.32 2012 Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #10)
author: J.R. Ward
name: Josie
average rating: 4.32
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<![CDATA[Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)]]> 10407279
There's a thing or two she'd like to say about that, but she has to keep quiet--Felipe de Castro, the vampire king of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It's the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric's front yard--especially the body of the woman whose blood he just drank.

Now it's up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who's set out to make Sookie's world come crashing down.]]>
327 Charlaine Harris 0575096578 Josie 4 3.72 2012 Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse, #12)
author: Charlaine Harris
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average rating: 3.72
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<![CDATA[City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5)]]> 8755776 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.

What price is too high to pay, even for love? When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith’s magic has bound her beloved Jace together with her evil brother Sebastian, and that Jace has become a servant of evil. The Clave is out to destroy Sebastian, but there is no way to harm one boy without destroying the other. As Alec, Magnus, Simon, and Isabelle wheedle and bargain with Seelies, demons, and the merciless Iron Sisters to try to save Jace, Clary plays a dangerous game of her own. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace’s soul. She’s willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost?

Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge. Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.]]>
535 Cassandra Clare 1442416866 Josie 2 4.22 2012 City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5)
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average rating: 4.22
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Insurgent (Divergent, #2) 11735983
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian DIVERGENT series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.]]>
525 Veronica Roth 0007442912 Josie 4 3.97 2012 Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
author: Veronica Roth
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average rating: 3.97
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The Casual Vacancy 13497818 A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN�

When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford appears to be an English idyll—with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey—but behind its charming façade lies a town at war. The rich clash with the poor, teenagers battle their parents, wives contend with their husbands, and teachers struggle with their pupils. Pagford is far from what it seems.

The empty seat Barry leaves on the town council becomes the catalyst for the fiercest conflict the town has ever seen. The election to fill his seat is fraught with passion, duplicity, and unexpected revelations. Who will triumph in this battle of wills?

Blackly comic, thought-provoking, and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.]]>
503 J.K. Rowling 0316228532 Josie 2 3.28 2012 The Casual Vacancy
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 3.28
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<![CDATA[The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)]]> 17167572 The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. Mankind is shaping the Long Earth - but in turn the Long Earth is shaping mankind... A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, with core American values restated in the plentiful environment of the Long Earth - and Valhalla is growing restless under the control of the Datum government...

Meanwhile the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids. But the trolls are beginning to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation... Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a gathering multiple crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.]]>
419 Terry Pratchett 006206777X Josie 5 3.61 2013 The Long War (The Long Earth, #2)
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The Secret Keeper 13508607
1941: Elsötétítés. Harsognak a szirénák, Londonra bombák hullanak, ám Dorothy csak azzal törődik, hogy megteremtse saját önálló életét. Ő más. Nem olyan, mint a szülei, ő sikeres, gyönyörű, és boldog akar lenni Jimmyvel. Mindenáron.
1961: Egy forró nyári napon, míg családja a suffolki tanyaháznál, a patak partján piknikezik, a tizenhat esztendős Laurel gyermekkori lombkunyhójában bújik meg, és arról álmodozik, hogy Londonba szökik, ahol fényes jövő vár rá. De még mielőtt véget érne az idilli délután, Laurel szemtanúja lesz egy döbbenetes bűnténynek, ami a világon mindent megváltoztat.
2011: Laurelt, aki immár körülrajongott színésznő, egyre inkább elborítják a múlt árnyai. Emlékek kísértik: édesanyja halálos ágya mellett testvéreivel felidézi azt a hajdani nyári napot. A rejtély vonzerejének engedve visszatér egykori otthonába, hogy megpróbálja összerakosgatni a titokzatos történetet darabkáit. Három idegen � Dorothy, Vivien és Jimmy � története ez, akik három nagyon különböző világból származtak, három idegené, akiket valamikor régen a háborús Londonban hozott össze a véletlen, és akiknek az élete sorsszerűen egybefonódott.

Kate Morton legutóbbi sikerregényének szálai az 1930-as, az 1960-as évek és a jelen között szövődnek. Egy bűntett, a szerelem és a kiszámíthatatlan véletlen szolgáltatja a történet bonyodalmait, és az olvasó alig várja, hogy feltáruljanak a szereplők titkai, s megtudja, vajon a végén minden a helyére kerül-e.

Az ausztrál KATE MORTON Queensland hegyei között nőtt fel. Tanult színjátszást Londonban és angol irodalmat Ausztráliában, ma pedig Brisbane-ben él a családjával, dzsesszzenész férjével és három gyermekükkel. Ahogy korábbi regényei mindegyike, a Titkok őrzője is számos országban óriási sikert aratott. A világszerte rendkívül népszerű szerző négy kötetéből összesen immár közel tízmillió példány kelt el.]]>
484 Kate Morton 1439152802 Josie 5 4.14 2012 The Secret Keeper
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<![CDATA[Demons Are Forever (Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom, #3)]]> 23239
“Kenner scores a direct hit with this offbeat and humorous adventure, which has an engaging cast of characters. Car pools and holy water make an unforgettable mix."—RT Book Reviews


Once again, Kate Connor has a problem. Several, actually.

For one thing, her daughter has figured out that mom is a demon-hunter—and wants to be just like her when she grows up.
And there’s that nagging suspicion that her dead husband has come back to life in the body of another man. Plus, her living husband still doesn’t know her secrets.

Not to mention the fact that she’s acquired a mystical item that the entire demon community seems hell-bent on reclaiming.

It’s all in a day’s work for this stay-at-home mom. But one thing is for certain: sometimes life in the suburbs really can be hell.]]>
292 Julie Kenner Josie 5 3.89 2007 Demons Are Forever (Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom, #3)
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average rating: 3.89
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Always and Forever 82451 When the going gets tough...

In the Irish town of Carrickwell, with its lush, endlessly rolling hills and authentic country tranquility, three women's lives are anything but calm. There's Mel, a compulsively ambitious mother/publicity manager at a high-powered PR firm — living proof that balancing motherhood and a full-time job is no walk in the park. The hot-headed, indomitable Cleo, just out of college with a degree in hotel management, would like nothing better than to modernize and revive her family's dwindling hotel — but faces a constant battle with her old-fashioned parents. And finally, there's the stylish, sweet-tempered Daisy, a self-consciously curvy fashion buyer for an upscale clothing boutique, who has been struggling — and longing — to have a baby with her absolutely perfect boyfriend. Although unconnected, these three women have one thing in common: they all need a break from their stressful lives.

...these tough gals hit the nearest spa!

So each one sets out for a little R & R at the new Clouds Hill spa, built by an American woman with her own secret turmoil. It is there that Mel, Cleo, and Daisy meet — their worlds and troubles colliding — forming an intimate bond that helps them to realize what matters most in life, always and forever.

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454 Cathy Kelly 1416531580 Josie 3 3.75 2004 Always and Forever
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average rating: 3.75
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<![CDATA[Urban Shaman (Walker Papers, #1)]]> 297929
No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.

And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body -- but she's just come across her second in three days.

It's been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet.]]>
410 C.E. Murphy 0373802234 Josie 0 to-read 3.73 2005 Urban Shaman  (Walker Papers, #1)
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average rating: 3.73
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<![CDATA[Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)]]> 6294549
The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby must resume her former position as knight errant and renew old alliances. As she steps back into fae society, dealing with a cast of characters not entirely good or evil, she realizes that more than her own life will be forfeited if she cannot find Evening's killer.]]>
346 Seanan McGuire 0756405718 Josie 0 to-read 3.76 2009 Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)
author: Seanan McGuire
name: Josie
average rating: 3.76
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Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1) 7909
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy become such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.

Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib.

Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.]]>
144 Maud Hart Lovelace 0064400964 Josie 0 to-read 4.08 1940 Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy, #1)
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name: Josie
average rating: 4.08
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Stray (Shifters, #1) 793399
And I'm one of them.

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I'd been warned about Strays � werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female, and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.

This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back... for my own protection. Yeah, right. But I'm no meek kitty. I'll take on whatever � and whoever � I have to in order to find my friends. Watch out, Strays � 'cause I got claws, and I'm not afraid to use them...]]>
624 Rachel Vincent 0778324214 Josie 0 to-read 3.79 2007 Stray (Shifters, #1)
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<![CDATA[I'm the Vampire, That's Why (Broken Heart, #1)]]> 263176
But though my stretch marks have disappeared and my vision has improved, I can’t rest until the thing that did this to me is caught. My kids� future is at stake…figuratively and literally. As is my sex life. Although I wouldn’t mind finding myself attached to Patrick’s juicy thigh again, I learned that once a vampire does the dirty deed, it hitches her to the object of her affection for at least one hundred years. I just don’t know if I’m ready for that kind of commitment....
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321 Michele Bardsley 0451219376 Josie 0 to-read 3.87 2006 I'm the Vampire, That's Why (Broken Heart, #1)
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average rating: 3.87
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<![CDATA[Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)]]> 6148028 Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.]]>
391 Suzanne Collins 0439023491 Josie 5 4.34 2009 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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Deviants (Dust Chronicles #1) 13633610 From Book 1:

In Glory's world, different means deviant—and dead.

In a post-apocalyptic world, where the earth is buried by asteroid dust that’s mutated the DNA of some humans, an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Glory, must hide and protect her younger brother. If their Deviant abilities are discovered, they’ll be expunged—kicked out of the dome to be tortured and killed by the Shredders. Glory would give anything to get rid of her unique ability to kill with her emotions, especially when Cal, the boy she’s always liked, becomes a spy for the authorities. But when her brother is discovered, and she learns their father, who was expunged for killing their mother, is still alive, she must escape the domed city that’s been her entire world.

Outside in the ruins, they’re pursued by the authorities and by sadistic, scab-covered Shredders who are addicted to the lethal-to-humans dust now covering the planet. Glory’s quests to transport herself and her brother to safety make up the thrilling and fascinating first volume of The Dust Chronicles.

The author of Deviants has donated this book to the Worldreader program.

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312 Maureen McGowan 1612183670 Josie 2 3.71 2012 Deviants (Dust Chronicles #1)
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Born (Born, #1) 16007911
Ten years ago when the world ended she ran for her life.

Five weeks ago the world she'd hidden from came knocking on the door of her secluded cabin.

Ten days ago she found salvation hiding amongst the dead.

Yesterday she went back for the living.

Today she wonders if she will live to see tomorrow.

What do you do when the world you were born to is gone?

Where do you hide when even your own body isn't safe?

Emma ran when her daddy told her to. She hid like he said she should. He was the first person she turned her back on. The first one she let die.

Ten years has gone by and she still lives by the simple rules he taught her when she was nine years old.

"Don't help anyone. Don't go where other people are unless you have to. Trust no one. Always pull the trigger."

Until one night she hears the worst sound in the world, a knock. A simple, timid knock, on the door to her cabin.

Only the voice of the brave little girl, ready to die for her brother, persuades Emma to open the door.

As her fingers turn the lock, she has a terrible feeling she will regret her decision.

But even as regret fills her world, so do love and companionship. Things she never imagined she would ever have again.

Everything comes at a cost; you decide what you'll pay.]]>
274 Tara Brown Josie 2 4.06 2012 Born (Born, #1)
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Raw Deal (Bite Back, #0.5) 17999754
“I’d lost my entire team, and nearly lost my life. In a way, I had lost my life, and was left with this—a tightrope walk between hunting down creatures people didn’t believe existed, and being locked up as one.�

After a career-ending incident on a covert military operation, Amber Farrell is surprised to find herself back in her home town of Denver working as a rookie policewoman. But what happened in the army casts a shadow across her life from which she will never be free.

The prequel to the Bite Back series introduces Amber Farrell, a kick ass lady with a secret problem—she’s been bitten by a vampire. She’s working hard to start a new life, hold down a job and meet all the expectations put on her. When people start to die suspiciously in Denver, Amber has to decide between duty and instinct, between what she should do and what she must do.]]>
180 Mark Henwick Josie 4 3.95 2013 Raw Deal (Bite Back, #0.5)
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Hidden Trump (Bite Back, #2) 17159412
Amber Farrell, Denver PI, is coming to terms with being part of the paranormal community, but she’s about to find that includes very dangerous responsibilities for her. Nothing is quite what it seems, least of all, Amber herself, and to survive, she must form alliances with powerful groups whose interests are in conflict. But she knows she’s expendable and betrayal is inevitable.

Denver is hosting a meeting of the opposing Athanate creeds who are stirring after a hundred years of peace. War between them would be disastrous for everyone, human and paranormal, and it’s Amber who’s being blamed for the troubles in the run-up to the Assembly.

And it’s going to get very personal…]]>
590 Mark Henwick 0957374631 Josie 4 4.14 2012 Hidden Trump (Bite Back, #2)
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<![CDATA[Sleight of Hand (Bite Back, #1)]]> 15822593 Librarian Note: This a previously-published edition of ASIN B008RJXPQM

“Vampires are the flickering illusions of Hollywood. They don’t exist. We do. We are the Athanate.�

For Amber Farrell, post-military life as a PI has its ups and downs: She’s been hit by a truck. She’s being sued by a client. Denver’s newest drug lord just put out a contract on her. The sinister Athanate want her to come in for a friendly chat. And it’s only Tuesday.

Enter Jennifer Kingslund: rich, gorgeous—a tough businesswoman who’s known for getting what she wants in the boardroom and the bedroom. Someone’s trying to sabotage her new resort and destroy her company—and she wants Amber to find out who.

The answers lead Amber past Were and Adepts, right back to the Athanate—and a centuries-old war that could threaten not just Denver, but the nation that Amber swore to protect and serve.

And all sides want to claim her for their own…]]>
575 Mark Henwick Josie 4 3.96 2012 Sleight of Hand (Bite Back, #1)
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2) 93 352 Johanna Spyri 0753454947 Josie 5 4.02 1880 Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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name: Josie
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1880
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Hop On Pop 206962
By combining the funniest stories, craziest creatures and zaniest pictures with his unique blend of rhyme, rhythm and repetition, Dr. Seuss helps children of all ages and abilities learn to read.]]>
64 Dr. Seuss 0007158491 Josie 4 4.04 1963 Hop On Pop
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average rating: 4.04
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<![CDATA[Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)]]> 19302 160 Astrid Lindgren 0142402494 Josie 0 to-read 4.15 1945 Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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name: Josie
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1945
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<![CDATA[The Monster at the End of this Book]]> 44186 "On the first page, what did that say? Did that say there will be a Monster at the end of the book???"

Read along as Grover begs you not to turn the page—because there is a monster at this end of this book!

Lovable, furry old Grover is distressed to learn that there's a monster at the end of this book! He begs readers not to turn the pages, but of course kids feel they just have to see this monster for themselves. Grover is astonished—and toddlers will be delighted—to discover who is really the monster at the end of the book!

Many adults name this book as their favorite Little Golden Book. This all-time favorite is now available as a Big Little Golden Book—perfect for lap-time reading.

Jon Stone (1931�1997) is the author of this book, but he was also Sesame Street's principal director until 1996. Working with Jim Henson, he helped create many of the Muppet characters, including Big Bird and Cookie Monster. He was also responsible for the show's format and setting. Stone contributed occasional announcer voices (such as the soap opera promo spoof "School in the Afternoon"), and served similar duty on two Muppet Meeting Films. Stone died of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease on March 30th, 1997. In his New York Times obituary, Joan Ganz Cooney describes Stone as "probably the most brilliant writer of children's television material in America".]]>
32 Jon Stone 037582913X Josie 4 4.45 1971 The Monster at the End of this Book
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The Twits 31456 96 Roald Dahl 0141318309 Josie 4 3.97 1980 The Twits
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<![CDATA[Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)]]> 8337
Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.

Pioneer life isn’t easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa’s fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep.

The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s real childhood as an American pioneer, and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier, and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.]]>
224 Laura Ingalls Wilder 0060885378 Josie 0 to-read 4.21 1932 Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
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average rating: 4.21
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<![CDATA[A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel]]> 13513205
Never before illustrated, A Wrinkle in Time is now available in a spellbinding graphic novel adaptation. Hope Larson takes the classic story to a new level with her vividly imagined interpretations of Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, Mrs Which, the Happy Medium, Aunt Beast, and the many other characters that readers have loved for the past fifty years. Winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal, A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet.]]>
392 Hope Larson 0374386153 Josie 0 to-read 3.88 2012 A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel
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Coraline 17061
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.]]>
176 Neil Gaiman 0061139378 Josie 0 to-read 4.13 2002 Coraline
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<![CDATA[I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Charlie and Lola)]]> 137045 32 Lauren Child 0763621803 Josie 4 4.21 2000 I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Charlie and Lola)
author: Lauren Child
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average rating: 4.21
book published: 2000
rating: 4
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<![CDATA[Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy]]> 1153709 36 Lynley Dodd 0670913502 Josie 5 4.29 1983 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
author: Lynley Dodd
name: Josie
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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<![CDATA[Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book]]> 809849
Dear Zoo is twenty-five years old -- and still as popular as ever!

And with an updated look, this children's classic is sure to delight a new generation of readers!]]>
18 Rod Campbell 141694737X Josie 5 4.29 1982 Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
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Mr. Gumpy's Outing 999371 Mr. Gumpy's Outing is a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner and an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. In England, illustrator John Burningham, with Mr. Gumpy's Outing, became the first artist ever to win England's Kate Greenaway Medal twice.

Mr. Gumpy lives by a river. One sunny day he decides to take a ride in his small boat.

It is such a perfect idea, for such a perfect summer day, that he soon has company: first the children, then the rabbit, the cat, the dog, the pig, the sheep, the chickens, and still others until-- Mr. Gumpy's outing comes to an inevitable but not unhappy, conclusion.

"Come for a ride another day," says Mr. Gumpy at the book's end. And young readers will return again and again to this sprightly story with its clever, captivating illustrations that reflect the sunlit quality of a lazy summer afternoon.

An ALA Notable Children's Book
A New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book
A Child Study Association Children's Book of the Year
A Library of Congress Children's Book of the Year]]>
32 John Burningham 0805013156 Josie 4 4.00 1970 Mr. Gumpy's Outing
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Dogger 1145614 32 Shirley Hughes 068811704X Josie 4 4.31 1977 Dogger
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average rating: 4.31
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Fox in Socks 105551 An alternate cover edition exists here.

This is a book you READ ALOUD to find out just how smart your tongue is. The first time you read it, don't go fast! This Fox is a tricky fox. He'll try to get your tongue in trouble.

Dr. Seuss gives fair warning to anyone brave enough to read along with the Fox in Socks, who likes to play tongue-twisting games with his friend Mr. Knox.

"Here's an easy game to play. Here's an easy thing to say.... New socks. Two socks. Whose socks? Sue's socks."

But Mr. Fox Socks isn't about to let Knox off so easy. Soon Goo-Goose is choosing to chew chewy gluey blue goo, while tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle (in case you were wondering, that's called a "tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle"). Mr. Knox gets exasperated: "I can't blab such blibber blubber! My tongue isn't made of rubber." But he catches on to the game before it's all through.

One of Dr Seuss' best, this must-read-aloud classic is guaranteed to get many giggles out of readers young and old.

Best Audience: Ages 4 to 8]]>
64 Dr. Seuss 0007158475 Josie 5 4.10 1965 Fox in Socks
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The Wishing-Chair Again 480034 181 Enid Blyton 0749732121 Josie 5 4.14 1950 The Wishing-Chair Again
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Galax-Arena 925361 199 Gillian Rubinstein 0689812353 Josie 5 3.85 1992 Galax-Arena
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Imagine a Day 618060
Imagine a Day is the companion book to the critically acclaimed Imagine a Night , which School Library Journal declared "a fascinating foray into the imagination." Renowned Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves once again stretches the limits of visual exploration with his breathtaking paintings and encourages parents and children alike to look beyond the limits of the everyday world and imagine.]]>
40 Sarah L. Thomson 0689852193 Josie 1 4.35 2005 Imagine a Day
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The Water Hole 143981
“An absorbing visual feast.� � Kirkus Reviews

One Rhino drinking at the water hole.
“Snort, splosh!� (Mmm, delicious!)
Two Tigers lapping at the water hole.
“Grrrrr!� (Goodness gracious, how very delectable!)
Three Toucans squawking around the water hole.
“Ark, ark! Arrrk!� (It’s party time, fellas! Drink up!)

Children will love counting from one to 10 as animals of the world gather around a water hole. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, then three toucans, on up to 10 kangaroos, die-cut pages reveal the water hole in 10 different worldwide habitats, from African plains to Himalayan mountains to the Australian outback.

But the water hole keeps shrinking, and with it the number of frolicking frogs. Can anything bring back the water that the animals all need to survive?

A stunning fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook, and art book with timeless colors and humor, The Water Hole features the layers of interest that make Graeme Base’s books among the world’s best-loved picture books. Careful readers will find additional animals, many of them endangered, silhouetted in the borders of every spread and hiding within every landscape. It’s a book children will ask to be read again and again.]]>
32 Graeme Base 0810945681 Josie 4 4.26 2001 The Water Hole
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Blinky Bill 1455149 Blinky Bill, Blinky Bill Grows Up, and Blinky Bill and Nutsy.]]> 356 Dorothy Wall 020715385X Josie 4 3.92 1939 Blinky Bill
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The Twins at St Clare's 735693 160 Enid Blyton 0603559581 Josie 4 4.06 The Twins at St Clare's
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What Katy Did 730501 Grade 5-8]]> 136 Susan Coolidge 0543904709 Josie 5 3.91 1872 What Katy Did
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average rating: 3.91
book published: 1872
rating: 5
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I Can Jump Puddles 1954212 264 Alan Marshall 0143003046 Josie 5 3.93 1955 I Can Jump Puddles
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average rating: 3.93
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My Brilliant Career 119042 278 Miles Franklin 1600963781 Josie 0 to-read 3.80 1901 My Brilliant Career
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average rating: 3.80
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rating: 0
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Playing Beatie Bow 395868 188 Ruth Park 1903015111 Josie 5 3.96 1980 Playing Beatie Bow
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name: Josie
average rating: 3.96
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Picnic at Hanging Rock 791345
Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.

They never returned.

Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.]]>
189 Joan Lindsay 0099750619 Josie 4 3.65 1967 Picnic at Hanging Rock
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name: Josie
average rating: 3.65
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rating: 4
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