Jamie's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:46:46 -0700 60 Jamie's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie]]> 11570928 ]]> 354 Pamela Des Barres 1556529961 Jamie 1 books-i-ve-tried-to-read 3.48 1987 I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
author: Pamela Des Barres
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.48
book published: 1987
rating: 1
read at: 2013/01/13
date added: 2024/09/20
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]]> <![CDATA[Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir]]> 13054379 The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilariousĚýauthor of Furiously Happy.“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside]]> 330 Jenny Lawson 1101573082 Jamie 0 books-i-ve-tried-to-read 4.05 2012 Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
author: Jenny Lawson
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at: 2016/01/30
date added: 2024/09/12
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]]> <![CDATA[To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 1)]]> 795034 To Green Angel Tower is the momentous tour-de-force finale of a ground-breaking series. Replete with war, deception, adventure, sorcery, and romance, To Green Angel Tower brings to a stunning and surprising conclusion Tad Williams' monumental tale of a magical conflict which fractures the very fabric of time and space, turning both humans and Sithi against those of their own blood.

As the evil minions of the undead Sithi Storm King prepare for the kingdom-shattering culmination of their dark sorceries and King Elias is drawn ever deeper into their nightmarish, spell-spun world, the loyal allies of Prince Josua desperately struggle to rally their forces at The Stone of Farewell. And with time running out, the remaining members of the now-devastated League of the Scroll have also gathered there to unravel mysteries from the forgotten past. For if the League can reclaim these age-old secrets of magic long-buried beneath the dusts of time, they may be able to reveal to Josua and his army the only means of striking down the unslayable foe.

But whether or not the League is successful in its quest, the call of battle will lead the valiant followers of Josua Lackhand across storm tossed seas brimming with bloodthirsty kilpa...through forests swarming with those both mind- and soul-lost... through ancient caverns built by legendary Dwarrows...to the haunted halls of Asu'a itself—the Sithi's greatest stronghold!]]> 815 Tad Williams 0886775981 Jamie 5 4.21 1993 To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 1)
author: Tad Williams
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1993
rating: 5
read at: 2012/08/12
date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> Mansfield Park 45032 488 Jane Austen Jamie 4 3.86 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1814
rating: 4
read at: 2007/06/01
date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> <![CDATA[The Inn at Rose Harbor (Rose Harbor #1)]]> 17883934
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber comes a heartwarming new series based in the Pacific Northwest town of Cedar Cove, where a charming cast of characters finds love, forgiveness, and renewal behind the doors of the cozy Rose Harbor Inn.
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Jo Marie Barlow first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a sense of peace and a fresh start. Coping with the death of her husband, she purchases a local bed-and-breakfast—the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn—ready to begin her life anew. Yet the inn holds more surprises than Jo Marie can imagine.
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Her first guest is Joshua Weaver, who has come home to care for his ailing stepfather. The two have never seen eye to eye, and Joshua has little hope that they can reconcile their differences. But a long-lost acquaintance from Joshua’s high school days proves to him that forgiveness is never out of reach and love can bloom even where it’s least expected.ĚýĚý
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The other guest is Abby Kincaid, who has returned to Cedar Cove to attend her brother’s wedding. Back for the first time in twenty years, she almost wishes she hadn’t come, the picturesque town harboring painful memories from her past. And while Abby reconnects with family and old friends, she realizes she can only move on if she truly allows herself to let go.
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A touching novel of life’s grand possibilities and the heart’s ability to heal, The Inn at Rose Harbor is a welcome introduction to an unforgettable set of friends.


From the Hardcover edition..]]> 448 Debbie Macomber 0345535251 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 4.18 2012 The Inn at Rose Harbor (Rose Harbor #1)
author: Debbie Macomber
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/05/19
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]]> Uprooted 26117888 Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.

“Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.�

Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.

Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood.

The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. She knows � everyone knows � that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. And there is no way to save her.

But Agnieszka fears the wrong things. For when the Dragon comes, it is not Kasia he will choose.]]> 464 Naomi Novik 0804179050 Jamie 0 currently-reading 4.07 2015 Uprooted
author: Naomi Novik
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/01/08
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]]> <![CDATA[Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series]]> 20821097
One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was buying for $2, he typed a poem without thinking, without planning, and without the ability to revise anything.

He fell in love.

Three years and almost one thousand poems later, Tyler is now known as the creator of the Typewriter a striking collection of poems typed onto found scraps of paper or created via blackout method. Chasers of the Light features some of his most insightful and beautifully worded pieces of work—poems that illuminate grand gestures and small glimpses, poems that celebrate the beauty of a life spent chasing the light.]]> 144 Tyler Knott Gregson 0399169733 Jamie 0 to-read 4.18 2014 Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
author: Tyler Knott Gregson
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/02/20
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]]> <![CDATA[Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice]]> 42284225 Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading Experience

A deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen classicĚýfeaturing a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one and only Martha Stewart!

Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a classic novel, featuring delicious recipes from celebrity chefs. In this edition of Jane Austen's regency classicĚýPride and Prejudice,Ěýplan a fancy tea party or book club gathering with recipes for sweet confections and pastries. From maple glazed scones and delicate sugar and spice cake, to berry tartlets and French macaroons. Bring your friends and family together with a good meal and a good book!

Book includes full, unabridged text of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, interspersed with recipes, food photography, and special food artwork.]]> 336 Jane Austen 0593113187 Jamie 0 to-read 4.24 1813 Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1813
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/01/28
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]]> A House in the Sky 18039963 The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace.

As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.� On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.

Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives “wife lessons� from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being tortured.

Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.]]> 373 Amanda Lindhout 1451651694 Jamie 0 to-read 4.26 2013 A House in the Sky
author: Amanda Lindhout
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/12
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]]> Level Up (Fandom Hearts, #1) 27068944
Adam London has always thought of his roomie Tessa as “one of the guys� until he agreed to help her with this crazy project. Now, he’s thinking of her all the time� and certainly as something more than just a roommate! But his last girlfriend broke up with him to follow her ambitions, and he knows that Tessa is obsessed with getting ahead in the video game world.

Going from friends to something more is one hell of a challenge. Can Tessa and Adam level up their relationship to love?]]> 151 Cathy Yardley 1495189260 Jamie 0 to-read 3.70 2016 Level Up (Fandom Hearts, #1)
author: Cathy Yardley
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/09/07
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]]> <![CDATA[J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Critical Commentary]]> 7161 73 Monarch Notes 0671006916 Jamie 1 3.78 J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye: A Critical Commentary
author: Monarch Notes
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 1
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]]> Hana's Suitcase 948584 120 Karen Levine 0807531472 Jamie 0 to-read 4.19 2002 Hana's Suitcase
author: Karen Levine
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/03/31
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Novels of Jane Austen]]> 31692 Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Lady Susan

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published.

Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in Mansfield Park; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in Persuasion succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight. Indeed not unlike her renowned creator.

Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.]]> 1431 Jane Austen 1840220554 Jamie 0 to-read
Ones I have read:
Pride & Prejudice - I really enjoyed this book; the wit and charm was very appealing. 4.5 *s

Persuasion - The lessons in this one are still very relevant: not letting others sway your decisions too easily, standing up for yourself. Anne Elliot is, I think, my favorite of Austen's heroines. 5*s

Lady Susan - This is a very interesting novel as it is narrated through letters sent and received by various characters. I felt deep sympathy for Frederica, and was glad at the end of the book that she finally, with the help of her uncle's family, was able to free herself from her mother, Lady Susan. 3.5 *s

Northanger Abbey - This was a very fun novel to read. Catherine Morland is a rather unlikely heroine, and a very silly one at that. Spending her early youth as a tomboy, and then one day waking up wanting to be a genteel young lady, Catherine often makes slight social blunders, and is heavily influenced by Gothic novels. In fact she often has flights of fancy wherein she believes that she is living in the plot of one herself. Overall this is a very enjoyable satire of a gothic novel, with the classic Austen satisfactory ending. 4*s]]> 4.59 1981 The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
author: Jane Austen
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.59
book published: 1981
rating: 0
read at: 2006/06/01
date added: 2016/07/08
shelves: to-read
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I'm still not finished reading all of the books within this volume.

Ones I have read:
Pride & Prejudice - I really enjoyed this book; the wit and charm was very appealing. 4.5 *s

Persuasion - The lessons in this one are still very relevant: not letting others sway your decisions too easily, standing up for yourself. Anne Elliot is, I think, my favorite of Austen's heroines. 5*s

Lady Susan - This is a very interesting novel as it is narrated through letters sent and received by various characters. I felt deep sympathy for Frederica, and was glad at the end of the book that she finally, with the help of her uncle's family, was able to free herself from her mother, Lady Susan. 3.5 *s

Northanger Abbey - This was a very fun novel to read. Catherine Morland is a rather unlikely heroine, and a very silly one at that. Spending her early youth as a tomboy, and then one day waking up wanting to be a genteel young lady, Catherine often makes slight social blunders, and is heavily influenced by Gothic novels. In fact she often has flights of fancy wherein she believes that she is living in the plot of one herself. Overall this is a very enjoyable satire of a gothic novel, with the classic Austen satisfactory ending. 4*s
]]> Sense and Sensibility 14935 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662

'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love.

This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.]]> 409 Jane Austen 0141439661 Jamie 0 currently-reading 4.10 1811 Sense and Sensibility
author: Jane Austen
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1811
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Maiden of Mayfair (Tales of London #1)]]> 712055
An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing.

As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake harbors threatens to make them both outcasts among London's elite. When a visitor unknowingly stumbles upon the truth, he puts Sarah at risk of losing everything she holds dear, including the attentions of a new curate. Will the mystery of her birth remain buried forever?]]> 409 Lawana Blackwell 0764222589 Jamie 0 read-in-2016 4.01 2001 The Maiden of Mayfair (Tales of London #1)
author: Lawana Blackwell
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2001
rating: 0
read at: 2016/04/03
date added: 2016/04/03
shelves: read-in-2016
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]]> Seven for a Secret 44756 370 Victoria Holt 0449221776 Jamie 4 Seven for a Secret when I was in high school. For a few years I looked in local book shops for a copy of my own, but didn't find one until recently. It was still as good as I remembered it being seven or eight years ago.]]> 3.75 1992 Seven for a Secret
author: Victoria Holt
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1992
rating: 4
read at: 2007/01/01
date added: 2016/03/26
shelves: permanent-collection, read-in-2016
review:
One of my all-time favorite books, I first read Seven for a Secret when I was in high school. For a few years I looked in local book shops for a copy of my own, but didn't find one until recently. It was still as good as I remembered it being seven or eight years ago.
]]> The Silk Vendetta 44758 Amidst the lush romance of Victorian London, Florence, and Paris, a deadly family rivalry is born...

As long as she can remember, the exquisite Lenore Cleremont has lived at The Silk House, the luxurious English country estate of the wealthy Sallonger family. Neither servant nor true member of the family, she has grown up under the protection of her Grand'mere—who designs the luxurious gowns for the family's vast silk trade in the mansion's attic rooms.

Lenore shows promise as a dress designer herself. But most important, she has won the heart of the two charismatic Sallonger sons: Charles, handsome but cruel, and Philip, as kind-hearted as he is charming.

But tragedy is ready to strike. Soon, Lenore finds herself playing a central role in a drama that threatens to destroy everything she holds dear.]]> 373 Victoria Holt 0449215482 Jamie 4 3.84 1987 The Silk Vendetta
author: Victoria Holt
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1987
rating: 4
read at: 2007/01/01
date added: 2016/03/26
shelves: permanent-collection, read-in-2016
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]]> The Pride of the Peacock 49737 281 Victoria Holt 0449213528 Jamie 4 3.87 1976 The Pride of the Peacock
author: Victoria Holt
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 Jamie 4 read-in-2016 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1813
rating: 4
read at: 2016/03/22
date added: 2016/03/26
shelves: read-in-2016
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shop on Main (Comfort Crossing #1)]]> 22470734 Sometimes, doing the right thing backfires...

Bella Amaud is desperate when she learns her business and the home she lives in with her two boys is about to be whisked out from under her. As she scrambles to maintain her fragile financial security and independence, she fears she may lose more than just The Shop on Main and her home.

Nothing is working out like Bella planned--she finds out the man she is falling for, Owen Campbell, is the businessman at the center of all her problems.

Owen has secretly longed to belong--somewhere--anywhere--his whole life. When he decides to give his long-lost brother, Jake, back his birthright, he unknowingly thwarts his briefly held hope of a place where he can put down roots and a family he longs for.

Nothing is working out like Owen planned--neither Bella nor Jake wants anything to do with him.

How can a man who is used to being in control and a woman determined to make it all on her own find a way to happiness?

The Shop on Main is Book One of the Comfort Crossing series. Bella and her best friends, Jenny and Becky Lee, navigate the heartaches and triumphs of love and life in theĚýsmall southern town of Comfort Crossing, Mississippi.]]> 256 Kay Correll 0990482200 Jamie 4 read-in-2016 4.05 2014 The Shop on Main (Comfort Crossing #1)
author: Kay Correll
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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date added: 2016/03/26
shelves: read-in-2016
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]]> Persuasion 2156 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 Jamie 5 read-in-2016, absolutely-love 4.15 1817 Persuasion
author: Jane Austen
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1817
rating: 5
read at: 2016/03/26
date added: 2016/03/26
shelves: read-in-2016, absolutely-love
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at Redwood Cove (Kelly Jackson Mystery #1)]]> 25952689 did plunge off the cliff to his death, and Kelly's starting to think it may not have been an accident. Bob's retired friends--The "Silver Sentinels"--are also on the case, especially when Kelly is attacked . . . and another body turns up. Kelly has her hands full with overseeing the B&B's annual Taste of Chocolate and Wine Festival, but she's also closing in on the killer . . . who's ready to send Kelly on her own permanent vacation.]]> 198 Janet Finsilver 1616509309 Jamie 0 to-read 3.60 2015 Murder at Redwood Cove (Kelly Jackson Mystery #1)
author: Janet Finsilver
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2016/03/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Polgara the Sorceress (Belgariad Prequels)]]> 1018296
Her hair streaked white by her father's first touch, her mind guided by a mother she will not see again for centuries, Polgara begins life in her Uncle Beldin's tower, and in the prehistorical, magical Tree that stands in the middle of the Vale. There, she first learns the reaches of her powers. There she assumes the bird shapes that will serve her on her adventures. And there she starts on the path toward her destiny as Duchess of Erat, shepherdess of the cause of good, adversary of Torak the One-Eyed Dragon God, and guardian of the world's last, best the heir to the Rivan throne.

Here is the legendary life story of a woman of wit, passion, and complex emotions, a woman born of two majestic parents who could not have been more unlike one another. Ordained to make peace and make war, to gain love and lose love, Polgara lives out her family's rich prophecy in the ceaseless struggle between the Light and the Dark.

Polgara is the epic culmination of a magnificent saga, and a fitting farewell to a world which, once experienced, will never be forgotten.]]> 643 Leigh Eddings 0345416627 Jamie 5 4.12 1997 Polgara the Sorceress (Belgariad Prequels)
author: Leigh Eddings
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1997
rating: 5
read at: 2016/01/30
date added: 2016/01/30
shelves: permanent-collection, absolutely-love
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]]> Servant of the Bones: A Novel 1154052
He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient Babylon of royal plottings and religious upheavals to Europe of the Black Death and on to the modern world. There he finds himself, amidst the towers of Manhattan, in confrontation with his own human origins and the dark forces that have sought to condemn him to a life of evil and destruction.]]> 416 Anne Rice 0345409663 Jamie 4 3.46 1996 Servant of the Bones: A Novel
author: Anne Rice
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.46
book published: 1996
rating: 4
read at: 2016/01/30
date added: 2016/01/30
shelves: permanent-collection, previously-read, read-in-2010
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]]> Happy For No Good Reason 3495144 236 Shankarananda 0915801108 Jamie 0 4.40 2004 Happy For No Good Reason
author: Shankarananda
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2004
rating: 0
read at: 2016/01/30
date added: 2016/01/30
shelves: permanent-collection, books-i-ve-tried-to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Le Silmarillion / Contes et légendes inachevés]]> 28853 826 J.R.R. Tolkien 2267011700 Jamie 2 3.88 1977 Le Silmarillion / Contes et légendes inachevés
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1977
rating: 2
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date added: 2015/11/30
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]> 49813
Classic Edition includes: Bright red cloth-bound boards with gilt lettering, gilt-stamped J.K. Rowling signature and gilted page ends; pictorial inlay; sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker; full-color harlequin endpapers.]]> 223 J.K. Rowling 0747545723 Jamie 3 4.57 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2015/06/24
shelves: absolutely-love, permanent-collection
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)]]> 16158558 342 Nora Roberts 0425259854 Jamie 5 read-in-2015 3.90 2013 Dark Witch (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #1)
author: Nora Roberts
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2015/02/01
shelves: read-in-2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)]]> 18527947 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about the land we’re drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love�

With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O’Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It’s where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can’t be broken. A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape—by a long-awaited kiss.

Meara Quinn is Branna’s best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor’s paths cross almost daily, as Connor takes tourists on hawk walks and Meara guides them on horseback across the lush countryside. She has the eyes of a gypsy and the body of a goddess…things Connor has always taken for granted—until his brush with death propels them into a quick, hot tangle.

Plenty of women have found their way to Connor’s bed, but none to his heart until now. Frustratingly, Meara is okay with just the heat, afraid to lose herself—and their friendship—to something more. But soon, Connor will see the full force and fury of what runs in his blood. And he will need his family and friends around him when his past rolls in like the fog, threatening an end to all he loves…]]> 319 Nora Roberts 0425259862 Jamie 5 read-in-2015 3.98 2014 Shadow Spell (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #2)
author: Nora Roberts
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood Magick (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #3)]]> 18754961 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about the land we’re drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love�

Book Three of The Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy
Blood Magick

County Mayo is rich in the traditions of Ireland, legends that Branna O’Dwyer fully embraces in her life and in her work as the proprietor of The Dark Witch shop, which carries soaps, lotions, and candles for tourists, made with Branna’s special touch.

Branna’s strength and selflessness hold together a close circle of friends and family—along with their horses and hawks and her beloved hound. But there’s a single missing link in the chain of her life: love�

She had it once—for a moment—with Finbar Burke, but a shared future is forbidden by history and blood. Which is why Fin has spent his life traveling the world to fill the abyss left in him by Branna, focusing on work rather than passion.

Branna and Fin’s relationship offers them both comfort and torment. And though they succumb to the heat between them, there can be no promises for tomorrow. A storm of shadows threatens everything that their circle holds dear. It will be Fin’s power, loyalty, and heart that will make all the difference in an age-old battle between the bonds that hold their friends together and the evil that has haunted their families for centuries.

Don’t miss the first two books in the Cousins O’Dwyer Trilogy
Dark Witch
and
Shadow Spell
]]> 304 Nora Roberts 0425259870 Jamie 5 read-in-2015 4.04 2014 Blood Magick (The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy, #3)
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]]> The Shadow Wife 9251616 Torn by guilt and the impossibility of her feelings for Liam, Joelle sets out determined to find help for Mara, no matter how unconventional the source. Her search leads her to a mansion in Monterey, California, and into the life of a woman shrouded in mystery. Carlynn Kling Shire is a healer and, according to Joelle's parents, saved Joelle's life when she was an infant. As Joelle is guided down an unfamiliar path by a woman keeping her own shocking secrets, she discovers that while some love is doomed, some love is destined to survive anything.



Please note: The Shadow Wife is the reissue of Cypress Point

]]> 384 Diane Chamberlain 0778328449 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.91 2002 The Shadow Wife
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]]> <![CDATA[Crystal Cove (Friday Harbor, #4)]]> 14141318
One woman who has been cursed never to find love . . .

One man without a soul who wants her more than life itself . . .

They meet in a small island town in the pacific northwest, where magic is in the air and fate is a force too powerful to defy. . . .

Justine Hoffman has made a comfortable life for herself on the island of Friday Harbor. She is the proprietor of a successful boutique hotel, and she has the safe, predictable life she has always wanted. Growing up with her flighty, nomadic mother, Marigold, has instilled in her a deep longing for stability. But in spite of everything Justine has achieved, there is still something missing. Love. And after years of waiting and dreaming, she is willing to do whatever it takes to change her destiny.

What Justine soon discovers is that someone cast a spell on her when she was born, with the result that she will never find her soul mate. Determined to change her fate, Justine finds a way to break the enchantment, never dreaming of the dangerous complications that will follow.

And when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that threaten everything she holds dear . . . because Jason has secrets of his own, and he wants more from her than fate will ever allow.]]> 316 Lisa Kleypas 1250011752 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.48 2013 Crystal Cove (Friday Harbor, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Dream Lake (Friday Harbor, #3)]]> 16034212
Dream Lake takes readers once again to the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, and tells the story of Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love. She’s a gentle, romantic soul, but has been so hurt in the past that she dare not trust her heart with anyone. Especially not Alex Nolan. Alex is the most haunted of all the Nolan brothers. He drinks to keep his demons at bay and not only has he given up on love, he has never, ever believed in it. Zoe and Alex are oil and water, fire and ice, sunshine and shadow. But sometimes, it takes only a glimmer of light to chase away the dark. Dream Lake is classic Lisa Kleypas: romantic, powerful, emotional, and magical.
]]> 339 Lisa Kleypas 0312605919 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 4.03 2012 Dream Lake (Friday Harbor, #3)
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]]> The Typewriter Girl 13547262 A passionate historical debut novel about a young woman in turn-of-the-century England who finds love and independence at a seashore resort.

In Victorian London, there’s only so far an unmarried woman can go, and Betsey Dobson has relied on her wits and cunning to take herself as far as she can—to a position as a typewriter girl. But still, Betsey yearns for something more…so when she’s offered a position as the excursions manager at a seaside resort, she knows this is her chance for security, for independence, for an identity forged by her own work and not a man’s opinion. Underqualified for the job and on the wrong side of the aristocratic resort owner, Betsey struggles to prove herself and looks to the one person who can support her new venture: Mr. Jones, the ambitious Welshman building the resort’s pleasure fair. As she and Mr. Jones grow ever closer, Betsey begins to dream that she might finally have found her place in the world—but when her past returns to haunt her, she must fight for what she’s worked so hard…or risk losing everything.

This eloquent debut novel displays firm propriety barely restraining seething passion—a sizzling combination reminiscent of Downton Abbey.]]> 384 Alison Atlee 1451673256 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.15 2013 The Typewriter Girl
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]]> The Unfinished Garden 13547960
After her husband's death, gardening became Tilly's livelihood and her salvation. Her thriving North Carolina business and her young son, Isaac, are the excuses she needs to hide from the world. So when oddly attractive, incredibly tenacious James demands that she take him on as a client, her answer is a flat no.

When a family emergency lures Tilly back to England, she's secretly glad. With Isaac in tow, she retreats to her childhood village, which has always stayed obligingly the same. Until now. Her best friend is keeping secrets. Her mother is plotting. Her first love is unexpectedly, temptingly available. And then James appears on her doorstep.

Away from home, James and Tilly forge an unlikely bond, tenuous at first but taking root every day. And as they work to build a garden together, something begins to blossom between them-despite all the reasons against it.]]> 384 Barbara Claypole White 077831412X Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.70 2012 The Unfinished Garden
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]]> <![CDATA[City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)]]> 15808242
Soon after Sarah arrives, strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor, who was working at the castle, may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved,� she manages to get arrested, to have tantric sex in a public fountain, and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf, the handsome Prince Max, and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide.]]> 464 Magnus Flyte 0143122681 Jamie 4 read-in-2014 3.47 2012 City of Dark Magic (City of Dark Magic, #1)
author: Magnus Flyte
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average rating: 3.47
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Bloom in Winter (Summerset Abbey, #2)]]> 15803193 The highly anticipated second installment in the Summerset Abbey series, which picks up just after the climatic conclusion of book one. After Prudence’s desperate marriage and move to Devonshire, sisters Rowena and Victoria fear they have lost their beloved friend forever. Guilt-ridden and remorseful, Rowena seeks comfort from a daring flyboy and embraces the most dangerous activity the world has ever seen, and Victoria defies her family and her illness to make her own dream occupation as a botanist come true. As England and the world step closer to conflict, the two young women flout their family, their upbringing, and their heritage to seize a modern future of their own making.]]> 282 T.J. Brown 1451699050 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.67 2013 A Bloom in Winter (Summerset Abbey, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor, #2)]]> 16034211 Rainshadow Road is the second book in Lisa Kleypas's Friday Harbor series.]]> 352 Lisa Kleypas 0312605897 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 4.11 2012 Rainshadow Road (Friday Harbor, #2)
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]]> The Dressmaker 15796967 Ěý
The survivors are rescued and taken to New York, but when rumors begin to circulate about the choices they made, Tess is forced to confront a serious question. ĚýDid Lady Duff Gordon save herself at the expense of others? Torn between loyalty to Lucile and her growing suspicion that the media’s charges might be true, Tess must decide whether to stay quiet and keep her fiery mentor’s good will or face what might be true and forever change her future.]]> 384 Kate Alcott 0307948196 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.48 2012 The Dressmaker
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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. Šmás. 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 Jamie 5 read-in-2014 4.14 2012 The Secret Keeper
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]]> <![CDATA[Summerset Abbey (Summerset Abbey, #1)]]> 13639669
Rowena Buxton
Sir Philip Buxton raised three girls into beautiful and capable young women in a bohemian household that defied Edwardian tradition. Eldest sister Rowena was taught to value people, not wealth or status. But everything she believes will be tested when Sir Philip dies, and the girls must live under their uncle’s guardianship at the vast family estate, Summerset Abbey. Standing up for a beloved family member sequestered to the “underclass� in this privileged new world, and drawn into the Cunning Coterie, an exclusive social circle of aristocratic “rebels,� Rowena must decide where her true passions—and loyalties—lie.

Victoria Buxton
Frail in body but filled with an audacious spirit, Victoria secretly dreams of attending university to become a botanist like her father. But this most unladylike wish is not her only secret—Victoria has stumbled upon a family scandal that, if revealed, has the potential to change lives forever. . . .

Prudence Tate
Prudence was lovingly brought up alongside Victoria and Rowena, and their bond is as strong as blood. But by birth she is a governess’s daughter, and to the lord of Summerset Abbey, that makes her a commoner who must take her true place in society—as lady’s maid to her beloved “sisters.� But Pru doesn’t belong in the downstairs world of the household staff any more than she belongs upstairs with the Buxton girls. And when a young lord catches her eye, she begins to wonder if she’ll ever truly carve out a place for herself at Summerset Abbey.]]> 292 T.J. Brown 1451698984 Jamie 0 read-in-2014 3.54 2013 Summerset Abbey (Summerset Abbey, #1)
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]]> The Forgotten Garden 6723017 The Forgotten Garden will take hold of your imagination and never let go.]]> 552 Kate Morton Jamie 5 read-in-2014
I recommend this novel for anyone who has ever questioned these things, or who is unafraid to face them.]]> 4.12 2008 The Forgotten Garden
author: Kate Morton
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average rating: 4.12
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This novel made me think a lot about the nature and content of identity. Secrets, partial truths, lies, personal mythology... how do you untangle it all to get at your core? How much a part of you are the ghosts that trail you? How much of your worth is wrapped up in the roles of your day-to-day life, and how much is carried in the dreams that keep you going?

I recommend this novel for anyone who has ever questioned these things, or who is unafraid to face them.
]]> Beloved Exile (Firelord, #2) 2928196 424 Parke Godwin 0380775530 Jamie 4 3.77 1984 Beloved Exile (Firelord, #2)
author: Parke Godwin
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.77
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 49852
And yet �

As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort - and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability.]]> 652 J.K. Rowling 0439784549 Jamie 4 4.64 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2660 One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.]]> 284 Harper Lee 044508376X Jamie 5 4.30 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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average rating: 4.30
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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]]> Anna to the Infinite Power 211044 202 Mildred Ames 0590410024 Jamie 4 3.94 1981 Anna to the Infinite Power
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average rating: 3.94
book published: 1981
rating: 4
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]]> Daddy's Gone A Hunting 15803560
The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate—tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer—doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone isn't who he claims to be?

Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in the hospital badly injured and in a coma, so neither can tell what drew them there, or what the tragedy may have to do with the hunt for a young woman missing for many years, nor can they warn that somebody may be covering his tracks, willing to kill to save himself . . .

Step by step, in a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Mary Higgins Clark once again demonstrates the mastery of her craft that has made her books international bestsellers for years. She presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters—one of whom may just be a ruthless killer . . .]]> 338 Mary Higgins Clark 1451668945 Jamie 0 to-read 3.71 2013 Daddy's Gone A Hunting
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]]> Alphabet of Thorn 81075
Then, during the coronation of the new Queen of Raine, a young mage gives Nepenthe a book that has defied translation. Written in a language of thorns, it speaks to Nepenthe's soul � and becomes her secret obsession. And, as the words escape the brambles and reveal themselves, Nepenthe finds her destiny entwined with that of the young queen's. Sooner than she thinks, she will have to choose between the life she has led and the life she was born to lead...

]]> 291 Patricia A. McKillip 0441012434 Jamie 0 to-read 4.09 2004 Alphabet of Thorn
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]]> Thunder on the Right 336414
Lies abound in this strange and frightening place, but seeking the truth could lead Jennifer to her own violent death.]]> 352 Mary Stewart 0060747463 Jamie 0 to-read 3.83 1957 Thunder on the Right
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories]]> 15161
With Clarke's characteristic historical detail and diction, these dark, enchanting tales unfold in a slightly distorted version of our own world, where people are bedeviled by mischievous interventions from the fairies. With appearances from beloved characters from her novel, including Jonathan Strange and Childermass, and an entirely new spin on certain historical figures, including Mary, Queen of Scots, this is a must-have for fans of Susanna Clarke's and an enticing introduction to her work for new readers.

Some of these stories have never before been published; others have appeared in the "New York Times" or in highly regarded anthologies. In this collection, they come together to expand the reach of Clarke's land of enchantment.]]> 235 Susanna Clarke 1596912510 Jamie 0 to-read 3.87 2006 The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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]]> <![CDATA[The Baker's Boy (Book of Words, #1)]]> 29137 THE BOOK OF WORDS is a thrilling new fantasy adventure series, where the lethal conspiracies and deadly intrigues of the mighty can be countered only by the power of magic.

At vast Castle Harvell, Where King Lesketh lies dying, two fates collide. In her regal suite, young Melliandra, the daughter of an influential lord, rebels against her forced betrothal to the sinister Prince Kylock. In the kitchens, an apprentice named Jack is terrified by his sudden, uncontrolled power to work miracles. Together they flee the castle, stalked by a sorcer who has connived for decades to control the crown, committing supernatural murder to advance his schemes.

Meanwhile, a young knight begins a quest leaving behind his home and family to seek out the treacherous Isle of Larn, where lies a clue to his desperate search for the truth.

And a wondrous epic of darkness and beauty begins...]]> 552 J.V. Jones 1857233751 Jamie 0 to-read 3.80 1995 The Baker's Boy (Book of Words, #1)
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]]> Daggerspell (Deverry, #1) 498214 Daggerspell is a rare and special treat.]]> 454 Katharine Kerr 0553565214 Jamie 0 to-read 3.90 1986 Daggerspell (Deverry, #1)
author: Katharine Kerr
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1986
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]]> <![CDATA[Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)]]> 47956 412 Anne Bishop 0451456718 Jamie 0 to-read 4.07 1998 Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1998
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]]> Kirkland Revels 44757 365 Victoria Holt 0792719220 Jamie 4 3.88 1962 Kirkland Revels
author: Victoria Holt
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.88
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rating: 4
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]]> The Gabriel Hounds 27691
A strange new world awaits Charles and Christy beyond the gates of Dar Ibrahim�"Lady Harriet's" ancient, crumbling palace in High Lebanon—where a physician is always in residence and a handful of Arab servants attends to the odd old woman's every need. But there is a very good—very sinister—reason why guests are not welcome at Dar Ibrahim. And the young cousins are about to discover that, as difficult as it is to break into the dark, imposing edifice, it may prove even harder still to escape.]]> 322 Mary Stewart 0061145394 Jamie 4 3.89 1967 The Gabriel Hounds
author: Mary Stewart
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rating: 4
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]]> The Professor 31175 269 Charlotte Brontë 1582870950 Jamie 0 to-read 3.59 1857 The Professor
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]]> Agnes Grey 298230 An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Brontë wrote Agnes Grey in an effort to represent the many 19th Century women who worked as governesses and suffered daily abuse as a result of their position.

Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family.

Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose. The cruelty with which the family treat her however, slowly but surely strips the heroine of all dignity and belief in humanity.

A tale of female bravery in the face of isolation and subjugation, Agnes Grey is a masterpiece claimed by Irish writer, George Moore, to be possessed of all the qualities and style of a Jane Austen title. Its simple prosaic style propels the narrative forward in a gentle yet rhythmic manner which continuously leaves the listener wanting to know more.

Anne Brontë, the somewhat lesser known sister, was in fact the first to finish and publish Agnes Grey under the pseudonym of Acton Bell. Charlotte and Emily followed shortly after with Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

As Anne passed away from what is now known to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of just 29, she only published one further title; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As feminist in nature as Agnes Grey, Anne's brave voice resonates and permeates during one of the most prejudiced and patriarchal times of English history.]]> 226 Anne Brontë 0140432108 Jamie 0 to-read 3.71 1847 Agnes Grey
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]]> The Master of Blacktower 140399 352 Barbara Michaels 0060878142 Jamie 0 to-read 3.75 1966 The Master of Blacktower
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]]> <![CDATA[The Miracle at St. Bruno's (Daughters of England, #1)]]> 349272 376 Philippa Carr 0445085339 Jamie 0 to-read 3.79 1974 The Miracle at St. Bruno's (Daughters of England, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Plantagenet Prelude (Plantagenet Saga, #1)]]> 865347
Eleanor grows into a romantic and beautiful queen, but she has inherited the will of a king, determined to rule Aquitaine using her husband's power as King of France. Her resolve knows no limit and, in the years to follow, she is to become one of history's most scandalous queens.]]> 418 Jean Plaidy 0099493268 Jamie 0 to-read 3.84 1976 The Plantagenet Prelude (Plantagenet Saga, #1)
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]]> Watch the Wall, My Darling 1635365 Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

The carriage that was rolling swiftly along the rainy English marsh on the road from London suddenly stopped. A barricade blocked the way. Dark figures surrounded them. Christina had no time to cry out as strong arms caught her from behind. A hand covered her mouth. She bit it as hard as she could.

She looked up at the tall, masked stranger, and a mysterious, frightening sensation swept over her. Those fiery brown eyes gazed at her in a way she had never known before ...]]> Jane Aiken Hodge 0755109546 Jamie 0 to-read 3.82 1966 Watch the Wall, My Darling
author: Jane Aiken Hodge
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1966
rating: 0
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]]> Merlin's Keep 21115 318 Madeleine Brent 0449238105 Jamie 0 to-read 4.08 1977 Merlin's Keep
author: Madeleine Brent
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> Morality Play 883995 206 Barry Unsworth 0393315606 Jamie 0 to-read 3.75 1995 Morality Play
author: Barry Unsworth
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> The Club Dumas 7194 362 Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte 015603283X Jamie 0 to-read 3.83 1993 The Club Dumas
author: Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)]]> 321545
The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice...where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's own ruin.]]> 197 Ellis Peters 0446400157 Jamie 0 to-read 3.97 1977 A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
author: Ellis Peters
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1977
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]]> The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 337113 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom.]]> 576 Anne Brontë 0140434747 Jamie 0 to-read 4.00 1848 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1848
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]]> Jane Eyre 10210 Alternate editions can be found here and here.

A gothic masterpiece of tempestuous passions and dark secrets, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davis in Penguin Classics.

Charlotte Brontë tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester. As her feelings for Rochester develop, Jane gradually uncovers Thornfield Hall's terrible secret, forcing her to make a choice. Should she stay with Rochester and live with the consequences, or follow her convictions - even if it means leaving the man she loves? A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre dazzled readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom.]]> 532 Charlotte Brontë 0142437204 Jamie 5 4.14 1847 Jane Eyre
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)]]> 13642
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.]]> 183 Ursula K. Le Guin Jamie 0 to-read 4.02 1968 A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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average rating: 4.02
book published: 1968
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]]> Wives and Daughters 383206 Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.]]> 679 Elizabeth Gaskell 014043478X Jamie 0 to-read 4.11 1866 Wives and Daughters
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name: Jamie
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]]> Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 17529 184 Kate Douglas Wiggin 1598183605 Jamie 4 3.88 1903 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1903
rating: 4
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]]> The Woodlanders 341281 here.

When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been discussed between her and Giles, Grace finds herself captivated by Dr Edred Fitzpiers, a sophisticated newcomer to the area—a relationship that is encouraged by her socially ambitious father. Hardy's novel of betrayal, disillusionment and moral compromise depicts a secluded community coming to terms with the disastrous impact of outside influences. And in his portrayal of Giles Winterborne, Hardy shows a man who responds deeply to the forces of the natural world, thought they ultimately betray him.]]> 464 Thomas Hardy 0140435476 Jamie 0 to-read 3.87 1887 The Woodlanders
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name: Jamie
average rating: 3.87
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]]> Shirley 31168 Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.

A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent. "Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Brontë imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself....Shirley [is] Brontë's most feminist novel."]]> 624 Charlotte Brontë 0141439866 Jamie 0 to-read 3.76 1849 Shirley
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]]> Nicholas Nickleby 325085 817 Charles Dickens 0140435123 Jamie 3 3.92 1839 Nicholas Nickleby
author: Charles Dickens
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1839
rating: 3
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]]> Nine Coaches Waiting 27695
When lovely Linda Martin first arrives at Château Valmy as an English governess to the nine-year-old Count Philippe de Valmy, the opulence and history surrounding her seems like a wondrous, ecstatic dream. But a palpable terror is crouching in the shadows. Philippe's uncle, Léon de Valmy, is the epitome of charm, yet dynamic and arrogant, his paralysis little hindrance as he moves noiselessly in his wheelchair from room to room. Only his son Raoul, a handsome, sardonic man who drives himself and his car with equally reckless abandon, seems able to stand up to him. To Linda, Raoul is an enigma, though irresistibly attracted to him, she senses some dark twist in his nature. When an accident deep in the woods nearly kills Linda's innocent charge, she begins to wonder if someone has deadly plans for the young count.]]> 352 Mary Stewart 1556526180 Jamie 0 to-read 4.01 1958 Nine Coaches Waiting
author: Mary Stewart
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1958
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Five Little Peppers, #1)]]> 7911 A favorite of children, parents, and teachers for generations, this heartwarming classic first appeared in 1880. Since then, it has inspired countless young imaginations with its tender tales of the ways in which courage and good cheer can overcome adversity.
]]> 352 Margaret Sidney 1416916172 Jamie 5 4.03 1881 Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Five Little Peppers, #1)
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1881
rating: 5
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]]> The Three Musketeers 7190 The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical novels and one of the most popular adventure novels ever written.

Dumas' swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long, he finds treachery and court intrigue,and also three boon companions, the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together, the four strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.]]> 625 Alexandre Dumas Jamie 5 4.09 1844 The Three Musketeers
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]]> Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1) 3562 339 L.M. Montgomery 055323370X Jamie 5 4.11 1923 Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1923
rating: 5
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]]> Red's Wolf 16125948
After her personal and professional life imploded, Tory packed everything she owned into her car and - as soon as her draconian mother left town - headed for the only place that ever felt like home. Despite not visiting for years, grandma’s house in the wondrous mountain town of Haven was the perfect place to rebuild her shattered confidence.

What she doesn’t count on is running into a childhood friend who has grown deliciously handsome and is about to show her that when one door closes, a magical gateway opens up with some very unexpected benefits. And now a sexy wolf, several cranky bears and a mischievous touch of magic are about to change Tory’s life forever.

Welcome home, Red. Things are a lot different than you remember.


Product Warnings

Contains a down on luck Red who needs to be careful around hallucinogenic flora, a childhood friend with a wolfish attitude, a no nonsense grandma who holds nothing back, several naked men prowling in the woods and sex with a man-wolf (but she totally has a good excuse).]]> 80 Rhys Astason Jamie 0 to-read 3.50 2012 Red's Wolf
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]]> Joseph Anton: A Memoir 13532186
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. Rushdie was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and various combinations of their names. Then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton.

How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, and how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir, Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of the crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.

Compelling, provocative, and moving, Joseph Anton is a book of exceptional frankness, honesty, and vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.]]> 636 Salman Rushdie 0812992784 Jamie 0 to-read 3.61 2012 Joseph Anton: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 2)]]> 28698
As the Storm King’s power grows and the boundaries of time begin to blur, the loyal allies of Prince Josua struggle to rally their forces at the Stone of Farewell. There, too, Simon and the surviving members of the League of the Scroll have gathered for a desperate attempt to unravel mysteries from the forgotten past.

For if the League can reclaim these age-old secrets of magic long-buried beneath the dusts of time, they may be able to reveal to Josua and his army the only means of striking down the unslayable foe....]]> 815 Tad Williams 0886776066 Jamie 5 absolutely-love 4.23 1993 To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3; Part 2)
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #2)]]> 317450
It is a time of darkness, dread, and ultimate testing for the realm of Osten Ard, for the wild magic and terrifying minions of the undead Sithi ruler, Ineluki the Storm King, are spreading their seemingly undefeatable evil across the kingdom.

With the very land blighted by the power of Ineluki’s wrath, the tattered remnants of a once-proud human army flee in search of a last sanctuary and rallying point—the Stone of Farewell, a place shrouded in mystery and ancient sorrow.

An even as Prince Josua seeks to rally his scattered forces, Simon and the surviving members of the League of the Scroll are desperately struggling to discover the truth behind an almost-forgotten legend, which will take them from the fallen citadels of humans to the secret heartland of the Sithi—where near-immortals must at last decide whether to ally with the race of men in a final war against those of their own blood.]]> 749 Tad Williams 0886774802 Jamie 5 absolutely-love 4.06 1990 Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #2)
author: Tad Williams
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1990
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)]]> 150739 not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.

Cover illustrator: Peter de Sève]]> 240 Patricia C. Wrede 015204566X Jamie 0 to-read 4.16 1990 Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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average rating: 4.16
book published: 1990
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]]> Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1) 44652 Trespassers will be turned to stone

For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary is one of the last strongholds of true magic. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite . . .

Kendra and her brother, Seth, have no idea their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven. Inside the gated woods, ancient laws keep order among greedy trolls, mischievous satyrs, plotting witches, spiteful imps, and jealous fairies. However, when the rules get broken, powerful forces of evil are unleashed, forcing Kendra and Seth to face the greatest challenge of their lives, to save their family, Fablehaven, and perhaps even the world.]]> 351 Brandon Mull 1590385810 Jamie 0 to-read 4.13 2006 Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1)
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average rating: 4.13
book published: 2006
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]]> Summers at Castle Auburn 345660 342 Sharon Shinn 044100928X Jamie 0 to-read 4.04 2001 Summers at Castle Auburn
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> Cold Hard Magic 13616700
A quirky short-story about magic, romance and learning that believing is more than just seeing.]]> 69 Rhys Astason Jamie 0 to-read 3.80 2012 Cold Hard Magic
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average rating: 3.80
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]]> Water of Life 13389744 192 Rhys Astason Jamie 0 to-read 3.67 2011 Water of Life
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]]> Rebecca 12873 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers...

Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.]]> 428 Daphne du Maurier 1844080382 Jamie 0 4.19 1938 Rebecca
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1938
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)]]> 317449
Only a small, scattered group, the League of the Scroll, recognizes the true danger awaiting Osten Ard. And to Simon - a castle scullion unknowingly apprenticed to a member of this League - will get the task of spearheading the quest for the solution to a riddle that offers the only hope of salvation, a ridde of long-lost swords of power...and a quest that will see him fleeing and facing enemies straight out of a legend-maker's worst nightmares!]]> 783 Tad Williams 0886773849 Jamie 5
There is a delicate balance between the sharing of history, and showing the challenges that the characters presently face; between the myths and legends that haunt people's mind, and the truths that beggar belief. Perhaps the reader may roll his or her eyes at the history, just like Simon (who is, after all, a young man of fourteen or fifteen), or scoff at tales of the Sitha early on as stories of The Little People, in the same way as any of the Erkynlanders or Rimmersmen do. This is not a bad thing, this feeling of impatience with the story - if anything, it brings the reader a greater sense of affinity for the characters.

Simon spends the first part of The Dragonbone Chair longing for adventure, daydreaming of acts of bravery. Once his actual adventure begins, he laments the innocence of his daydreams . . . when he has time to catch his breath.

I was struck, during this re-reading, with the sheer number of Tarot references I picked up. Every time I've reread the series, I've noticed smaller and more obscure details. This one made me stop and reflect for some time. There are many references to the Major Arcana, including: The Magician, The Emperor, The Sycophant, The Empress, The Hermit, The Priestess, The Hanged Man, and The Tower. Simon seems to be following the path of The Fool, moving from innocence of the world toward wisdom.

There are bursts of action and plot along the way, too. Thank goodness! However, if action is more what you're looking for, skip straight to Stone of Farewell - it contains a short synopsis of The Dragonbone Chair so that you can get the skeleton of the story built in your mind. However, the depth of Jiriki's debt, or the motives behind various schemes and treacheries, the significance of waking and sleeping dreams, and the bittersweet history of Osten Ard will be missing from your understanding...

Rather than attacking the book in a manner that a starving person would a hearty meal, treat it as a fine wine to be sipped and savored. Rather than growing impatient with the pace of the tale, use the time to get to know, and develop fondness for, or grudges against!, characters.]]> 3.99 1988 The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
author: Tad Williams
name: Jamie
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Tad Williams has crafted a richly detailed back story, full of character development, history, and settings with as strong a sense of character as Simon. Although the tale moves slowly, as many first volumes in a series do, the details set the stage for events to come later. There is a great deal of foreshadowing.

There is a delicate balance between the sharing of history, and showing the challenges that the characters presently face; between the myths and legends that haunt people's mind, and the truths that beggar belief. Perhaps the reader may roll his or her eyes at the history, just like Simon (who is, after all, a young man of fourteen or fifteen), or scoff at tales of the Sitha early on as stories of The Little People, in the same way as any of the Erkynlanders or Rimmersmen do. This is not a bad thing, this feeling of impatience with the story - if anything, it brings the reader a greater sense of affinity for the characters.

Simon spends the first part of The Dragonbone Chair longing for adventure, daydreaming of acts of bravery. Once his actual adventure begins, he laments the innocence of his daydreams . . . when he has time to catch his breath.

I was struck, during this re-reading, with the sheer number of Tarot references I picked up. Every time I've reread the series, I've noticed smaller and more obscure details. This one made me stop and reflect for some time. There are many references to the Major Arcana, including: The Magician, The Emperor, The Sycophant, The Empress, The Hermit, The Priestess, The Hanged Man, and The Tower. Simon seems to be following the path of The Fool, moving from innocence of the world toward wisdom.

There are bursts of action and plot along the way, too. Thank goodness! However, if action is more what you're looking for, skip straight to Stone of Farewell - it contains a short synopsis of The Dragonbone Chair so that you can get the skeleton of the story built in your mind. However, the depth of Jiriki's debt, or the motives behind various schemes and treacheries, the significance of waking and sleeping dreams, and the bittersweet history of Osten Ard will be missing from your understanding...

Rather than attacking the book in a manner that a starving person would a hearty meal, treat it as a fine wine to be sipped and savored. Rather than growing impatient with the pace of the tale, use the time to get to know, and develop fondness for, or grudges against!, characters.
]]> <![CDATA[A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction]]> 1193389
As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practices. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creating writing lessons for more than forty years, at high schools and universities and to writers' summer schools. With its scores of examples of first-class writing this lively, truly fascinating book will almost certainly make you a better writer; it is guaranteed to make you a better reader.]]> 320 Jack Hodgins 0771041985 Jamie 4 3.88 1993 A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction
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name: Jamie
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> Canadian Short Stories 5973769 528 Russell Brown 0321248503 Jamie 2 3.60 2005 Canadian Short Stories
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name: Jamie
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2005
rating: 2
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]]> <![CDATA[Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village]]> 335738 335 Don Kulick 0521414849 Jamie 2 textbooks, read-in-2009 3.68 1992 Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinean Village
author: Don Kulick
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1992
rating: 2
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]]> The Active Woman's Cookbook 7651970 80 Ideals 0895429748 Jamie 4 permanent-collection 4.00 1980 The Active Woman's Cookbook
author: Ideals
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> Stardust 222063 333 Neil Gaiman 0380804557 Jamie 5 3.98 1999 Stardust
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Jamie
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)]]> 30868 232 Barbara Kingsolver 0812474945 Jamie 5 4.00 1988 The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
author: Barbara Kingsolver
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average rating: 4.00
book published: 1988
rating: 5
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]]> A Little Princess 3008
This unique and fully annotated edition appends excerpts from Frances Hodgson Burnett 's original 1888 novella Sara Crewe and the stage play that preceded the novel, as well as an early story, "Behind the White Brick," allowing readers to see how A Little Princess evolved. In his delightful introduction, U. C. Knoepflmacher considers the fairy-tale allusions and literary touchstones that place the book among the major works of Victorian literature, and shows it to be an exceptionally rich and resonant novel.]]> 242 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0142437018 Jamie 5 4.22 1905 A Little Princess
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Jamie
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1905
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)]]> 8127 Anne of Green Gables is also a wonderful portrait of a time, a place, a family� and, most of all, love.

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JENNIFER LEE CARELL]]> 320 L.M. Montgomery 0451528824 Jamie 5 4.30 1908 Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> Charlotte’s Web 24178 Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This high-quality paperback features vibrant illustrations colorized by Rosemary Wells!

Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.

E. B. White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. This edition contains newly color illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White's Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, among many other books.]]> 184 E.B. White 0064410935 Jamie 4 4.20 1952 Charlotte’s Web
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.20
book published: 1952
rating: 4
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]]> The Secret Garden 2998
Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England’s Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dour gardener, a cheerful robin, and her wilful, hysterical, and sickly cousin, Master Colin, whose wails she hears echoing through the house at night.

With the help of the robin, Mary finds the door to a secret garden, neglected and hidden for years. When she decides to restore the garden in secret, the story becomes a charming journey into the places of the heart, where faith restores health, flowers refresh the spirit, and the magic of the garden, coming to life anew, brings health to Colin and happiness to Mary.]]> 331 Frances Hodgson Burnett 0517189607 Jamie 5 4.16 1911 The Secret Garden
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name: Jamie
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1911
rating: 5
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Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Jamie 4 4.21 1979 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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