Summer Reading Week 3

Welcome to the results of Week 3 of Summer Reading 2012.  We have 322 people signed up.  This week, out of 45 people submitting entries, 22 were new.  They read 148 books.  For the three weeks, 88 people read 318 books.

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Breathless By Koontz, Dean R. 2010-11 - Bantam 9780553591736 Check Our Catalog A #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains--and the balance of the world begins to tilt. Available in a tall Premium Edition. Like all Koontz books you will rethink what you believe and who you want to be. …More

The Face By Koontz, Dean R. 2009-09 - Bantam 9780553593419 Check Our Catalog Acknowledged as America's most popular suspense novelist ("Rolling Stone"), Koontz delivers an unforgettable journey to the heart of darkness and to the pinnacle of grace. "The Face" is that rare novel that manages to be entertaining, provocative, and uplifting at the same time. Perfection and loved by all is not always a good thing; as an actor is about to find out.  Will this spector be able to destroy this actor's perfection or instead destroy the actor himself. …More

Frankenstein: City of Night By Koontz, Dean R. Author Gorman, Edward 2009-07 - Bantam 9780553593334 Check Our Catalog From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. The mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic continue. . . . They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created-and they must be destroyed. Not even Victor Helios-once Frankenstein-can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Only the one-time "monster" Deucalion and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison, stand in their way. But as the three race to uncover the true dimensions of an age-old conspiracy, they will discover that Victor's new, improved models have infiltrated every level of the city's society . . . and far beyond. You will wish Victor dead, the detectives to state their feelings and wish Deucalion the strength to fulfill his destiny.  You will only want to read book three and four even more. …More

Frankenstein: Dead and Alive By Koontz, Dean R. 2009-07 - Bantam 9780553587906 Check Our Catalog From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . . As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the only hope rests with Victor's first, failed attempt to build the perfect human. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision-and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have conceived-an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining. In this third installment you get to see one Victor move on while a new life is brought about.  Life, death, imagination is only going to be higher.  Keep an eye out for the fourth book. …More

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son By Koontz, Dean R. Author Anderson, Kevin J. 2009-07 - Bantam 9780553593327 Check Our Catalog From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of . . . Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion's path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire race""of killers who are much more-and less-than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios-once known as Frankenstein. Frankenstein has a new look and you will be repulsed as well as pant for the second and third and fourth book.  You have never loved a monster so much! …More

The Key to Midnight By Koontz, Dean R. 2010-08 - Berkley 9780425235911 Check Our Catalog A haunting nightmare is the key to one woman's mysterious past in this spine-tingling novel from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Koontz, now available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue. Koontz disturbs us again with this terrifing thriller of Alex Hunter and Joanna Rand fight to not only recover who they were but also to stop the evil that wants to make sure they don't remember. …More

Phantoms By Koontz, Dean R. Afterword by Koontz, Dean R. 2002-02 - Berkley 9780425181102 Check Our Catalog In an all-new afterword, Koontz explains the impact this novel has had on his career. One of his most chilling bestsellers--a tale of an abandoned town and the unimaginable truth behind its silence--was the basis for the 1998 motion picture starring Peter O'Toole and Ben Affleck, with the screenplay written by Koontz. Know how civilizations disappeared throughout history?  Koontz will have you rethinking what you have ever known.  ARe you ready for a frightening history lesson? …More

Gods Without Men By Kunzru, Hari 2012-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307957115 Check Our Catalog "Gods Without Men" is a branching and multilayered novel by one of the world's most acclaimed young writers that centers on a couple searching for their young son, lost in the brutal, strangely powerful landscape of the Mojave Desert. …More

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest By Larsson, Stieg 2010-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307269997 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Lisbeth Salander is ready to fight back. "[The trilogy] is intricately plotted, lavishly detailed but written with a breakneck pace and verve . . ["Hornet's Nest"] is a tantalizing double finale--first idyllic, then frenetic . . . Larsson has made the literary moods of saga and soap opera converge--with suspense as the adhesive."--"Independent." The author really brings the characters to life in this book.  Definitely would suggest this book. …More

The Girl Who Played with Fire By Larsson, Stieg 2010-03 - Vintage Books 9780307476159 Check Our Catalog The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" features Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, as the focus and fierce heart of its story. Masterpiece written by a good writer.  there should be more books like this. …More

The Fiddler By Lewis, Beverly 2012-04 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764209772 Check Our Catalog When Amy DeVries, thoroughly modern and disillusioned, sets out on a road trip, she unexpectedly meets an Amishman--and community--that changes her life forever. …More

Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House By Long, Carolyn Morrow 2012-03 - University Press of Florida 9780813038063 Check Our Catalog More history than ghost story but was macabre all the same. …More

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory By Macintyre, Ben 2011-04 - Broadway Books 9780307453280 Check Our Catalog In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated--Operation Mincemeat--to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. Excellent read about a "truth is stranger than fiction" event that may have changed teh course of WWII.  British Intelligence planted a dead body in the ocean off the coast of Spain and put documents on it to mislead the Nazis about an Allied invasion of Sicily- an effort that saved thousands of lives and led to Allied success. …More

X Files #09 E.B.E. By Royce, Easton Author Martin, Les Author Martin 1996-01 - HarperEntertainment 9780064406536 Check Our Catalog Special agent Fox Mulder is convinced that we are not alone, especially after hearing rumors that a UFO shot down over Iraq has mysteriously disappeared. Was an E.B.E.--an extraterrestrial biological entity--on board? Has it been spirited away by hostile government forces? Mulder is willing to stake his life on it--and he may have to! …More

X Files #05 Humbug By Martin, Les Author Martin 1996-01 - HarperEntertainment 9780064406277 Check Our Catalog Scully and Mulder have to throw the rule book away when they investigate a murder in Gibsonton, Florida, where normal does not exist. The natives are circus and sideshow performers. The victim, the Alligator Man, died a bizarre, mysterious death, and the agents' list of suspects is beginning to look like a page out of Ripley's Believe It or Not. …More

X Files #01 X Marks the Spot By Carter, Chris Author Martin, Les 1995-07 - HarperEntertainment 9780064406130 Check Our Catalog The first novels for middle graders based on the hit TV series (winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Dramatic Series). The novels are based on actual TV show screenplays. In X Marks the Spot, The FBI thinks Agent Fox Mulder is weird--or worse. He keeps insisting that aliens are running amok on earth. Fox Mulder may not be weird at all. He may just be the one with the answers nobody's ready to hear. …More

Tag Man By Mayor, Archer 2011-09 - Minotaur Books 9780312681944 Check Our Catalog Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits, ) and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The Press loves the story and dubs the burglar the Tag Man. But who is he? And what's he actually doing? In fact, he's quickly running for his life, for what he discovers in one of these houses appears to be proof of a heinous string of murders. But is it? Joe Gunther, struggling to recover from a devastating personal loss, leads his VBI team to untangle the many conflicting pieces of evidence, while the burglar himself struggles for survival in the no-man's-land between the police and the villains. With no one knowing what to believe, or who to trust, with Tag Man running for his life in a way he never imagined possible, as no one knows who's watching as they sleep, or who truly did what, the Tag Man is critically acclaimed author Archer Mayor at his very finest …More

The Dry Grass of August By Mayhew, Anna Jean 2011-03 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9780758254092 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title In a personal, powerful debut, Mayhew explores the explosive tensions of the South in the mid-1950s through the prism of a young girl's friendship with her black maid and the currents of violence, infidelity, and corruption that run beneath the police surface of her family's life. …More

Between You and Me By McLaughlin, Emma Author Kraus, Nicola 2012-06 - Atria Books 9781439188187 Check Our Catalog From the authors of the #1 New York Times-bestseller "The Nanny Diaries" comes a new novel that goes behind the scenes of stratospheric celebrity. McLaughlin and Kraus are masters at exploring the nuances of family relationships and current trends in the culture at large. …More

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy: A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich By Metaxas, Eric 2011-08 - Thomas Nelson Publishers 9781595552464 Check Our Catalog From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Amazing Grace," a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism. After discovering the fire of true faith in a Harlem church, Bonhoeffer returned to Germany and became one of the first to speak out against Hitler. As a double-agent, he joined the plot to assassinate the Fuhrer, and was hanged in Flossenberg concentration camp at age 39. Since his death, Bonhoeffer has grown to be one of the most fascinating, complex figures of the 20th century. "Bonhoeffer" presents a profoundly orthodox Christian theologian whose faith led him to boldly confront the greatest evil of the 20th century, and uncovers never-before-revealed facts, including the story of his passionate romance. …More

Whispers Along the Rails By Miller, Judith 2007-09 - Bethany House Publishers 9780764202773 Check Our Catalog Olivia Mott finds herself juggling two jobs: her assistant chef position at Hotel Florence and her undercover work for the Pullman Rail Car Company. Olivia thinks the suggestions she relays to Pullmans town manager are being used to improve conditions for workers and save the company money, but is something much more sinister happening behind the scenes? …More

Spirits & Wine By Newhof, Susan 2011-10 - University of Michigan Press 9780472118007 Check Our Catalog …More

Promised Land By Parker, Robert B. 1992-12 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440171973 Check Our Catalog Acclaimed mystery author Robert B. Parker continues to win an even greater audience with each new Spenser novel. For all crime fiction lovers who discovered Parker through his latest bestsellers "Pastime" and "Double Deuce", his entire Dell backlist is now available in attractively repackaged editions. …More