Summer Reading Week 6

Welcome to the results of Week 6 of Summer Reading 2012.  We have 357 people signed up.  This week 41 people read 134 books (17 submitted entries for the first time this week.)  So far, 392 people have read 757 books!

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A Fine and Bitter Snow: A Kate Shugak Novel By Stabenow, Dana 2002-06 - Minotaur Books 9780312205485 Check Our Catalog In a tense battle between conservationists and developers of Alaska's pristine wilderness, P.I. Kate Shugak finds herself in a murderous environment. Set in Alaska, Edgar Award-winner Stabenow's novels combine an evocative portrait of life in the frozen north with taut suspense and topnotch characters. …More

A Night Too Dark By Stabenow, Dana 2010-02 - Minotaur Books 9780312559090 Check Our Catalog Stabenow's "New York Times"-bestselling Kate Shugak series returns with a spectacular case of suicide by Alaska that may not be self-inflicted after all. …More

Betrayal By Steel, Danielle 2012-03 - Delacorte Press 9780385343190 Check Our Catalog In this riveting novel, "New York Times"-bestselling author Danielle Steel reveals the dark side of fame and fortune, as a renowned film director confronts an act of unimaginable treachery. At the same time, Steel brilliantly captures a woman's will to navigate a minefield of hurt and loss--toward a new beginning. …More

Family Album By Steel, Danielle 1985-02 - Delacorte Press 9780385293921 Check Our Catalog Through forty years -- from Hollywood's golden days in World War II to the present -- Faye Price would create first a career as a legendary actress, then a family, and finally she would realize her dream of becoming one of Hollywood's first woman directors. But nothing was more precious to Faye than her five children. In a changing world, a milieu where family values are constantly challenged from without and within, the Thayers would face the greatest challenges and harshest test a family can endure, to emerge stronger, bound forever by loyalty and love. It is only when Faye is gone that they can each assess how far they have come, and how important their family album is. …More

Legacy By Steel, Danielle 2010-09 - Delacorte Press 9780385343138 Check Our Catalog This compelling, centuries-spanning work brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women--a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the 18th century. The saga journeys from present-day Boston to the wilds of Dakota lands and the glittering palaces of Louis XVI. …More

Of Mice and Men By Steinbeck, John 1993-09 - Penguin Books 9780140177398 Check Our Catalog A Great Books Discussion Selection Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. …More

The Mysterious Island By Verne, Jules Author Carr, Caleb Translator Stump, Jordan 2004-04 - Modern Library 9780812972122 Check Our Catalog Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, "The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump" ("Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret. "From the Trade Paperback edition. Very interesting read.  I never expected to read it all but once I began it, I couldn't put it down.  It is a long book and refreshingly clear and believable. …More

My Family for the War By Voorhoeve, Anne C. Translator Reichel, Tammi 2012-02 - Dial Books 9780803733602 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Before the start of World War II, 10-year-old Ziska Mangold, who has Jewish ancestors but has been raised as a Protestant, is taken out of Nazi Germany on one of the Kindertransport trains, to live in London with a Jewish family, where she learns about Judaism and endures the hardships of war. …More

A Month of Sundays By White, Ruth 2011-10 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374399122 Check Our Catalog When Garnet's mother decides it's time for a change, she drops off her daughter at her aunt June's house in Black Rock, Virginia, while she goes to Florida to find a job. Garnet has never met her Aunt June, so she feels angry and abandoned. But Aunt June thinks Garnet is there for a reason. Each week, Garnet and June visit a different religious service as Aunt June, who has cancer, tries to find God. After a miraculous spiritual healing occurs and an unexpected visitor comes to town, Garnet learns the power of love and forgiveness, and what being a family truly means. …More

The Picture of Dorian Gray By Wilde, Oscar Author Wilde, Cscar Preface by Wilde, Oscar 1993-10 - Dover Publications 9780486278070 Check Our Catalog Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the picture is watching him, and, made hideous by the marks of sin, it confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace, the silent bearer of what is in effect a devastating moral judgement. …More

In Bed with a Stranger By Wine, Mary 2009-06 - Brava 9780758234636 Check Our Catalog Wine sweeps readers to Elizabethan England, where a a secret deception unitestwo lovers. …More

Lone Star Cafe By Wingate, Lisa 2005-04 - Center Point Large Print 9781585475254 Check Our Catalog …More

Nasty By Dr XYZ 2010-08 - Strebor Books 9781593092627 Check Our Catalog Good book about how sex can lead to bad judgment. …More