Summer Reading Week 7

Welcome to the results of Week 7 of Summer Reading 2012.  We have 358 people signed up.  This week 36 people read 114 books (8 submitted entries for the first time this week.)  So far, 147 people have read 871 books!

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Boneyards By Rusch, Kristine Kathryn 2012-01 - Pyr 9781616145439 Check Our Catalog …More

For the Thrill of It! By Ryan, Patricia 2011-07 - Harlequin Treasury - Harlequin Temptation 9781459278400 Check Our Catalog …More

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim By Sedaris, David 2005-05 - Back Bay Books 9780316010795 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title In this "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback, Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy, the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family, and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds. …More

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary By Sedaris, David Illustrator Falconer, Ian 2010-09 - Little Brown and Company 9780316038393 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Featuring Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of keen-eyed animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life. …More

Gunnerkrigg Court, Volume 2: Research By Siddell, Tom Illustrator Siddell, Tom 2009-11 - Archaia Studios Press 9781932386776 Check Our Catalog Annie and Kat begin their second year at Gunnerkrigg Court! Parts of Annie's past are revealed, as well as mysteries that tie back to the origins of the Court itself. …More

Night World #02: Dark Angel/The Chosen/Soulmate By Smith, L. J. 2008-11 - Simon Pulse 9781416974512 Check Our Catalog Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters--they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World. This second volume contains three full-length novels of Smith's Night World series. …More

Night World #03: Huntress/Black Dawn/Witchlight By Smith, L. J. 2009-04 - Simon Pulse 9781416974529 Check Our Catalog The Night World is a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other creatures of darkness that live among the humans. In the third collection in the series, the Night People are preparing for the apocalypse to destroy the human world. …More

Salty By Smith, Mark Haskell 2007-06 - Grove Press 9780802170347 Check Our Catalog Turk Henry is overweight, unemployed, and unafraid to have a cold beer for breakfast. He's also a rock star (the bassist for the defunct megaplatinum-selling Metal Assassin), married to a supermodel, and rich beyond his wildest dreams, and right now his pampered paunch is plopped on the beach in Phuket. Turk has discovered that Thailand is probably the last place a recovering sex addict should go on vacation, yet here he is, surrounded by topless groupies and haunted by the stares of hundreds of luscious bar girls. It is a catalytic environment cranked up to eleven. What would his therapist say? Turk's struggles with monogamy pale beside a greater challenge when his wife is abducted by a group of renegade, shipless Thai pirates. The U.S. government won't help--they suspect the pirates are terrorists--and the law forbids Turk from paying the ransom. As Turk, his life skills limited to playing bass and parrying, navigates the back alleys of Bangkok and the deadly jungles of Southeast Asia to save his wife, Salty heats up and sweats bullets. Featuring skinflint American tourists, topless beaches, a hypochondriac U.S. government agent, suitcases loaded with cash, an overeager "full service" personal assistant, a horny Australian commando, inventive prostitutes, and an urbane pirate with a fetish for alabaster skin, this is a hilariously entertaining, thoroughly debauched novel--with a happy finish. A nice easy read for a night in. …More

44 Charles Street By Steel, Danielle 2011-04 - Delacorte Press 9780385343145 Check Our Catalog A magical transformation takes place in "New York Times"-bestselling author Steel's luminous new novel: Strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn-of-the-century house in Manhattan's West Village. …More

Family Ties By Steel, Danielle 2010-06 - Delacorte Press 9780385343169 Check Our Catalog Danielle Steel delves deep under the surface of contemporary American life in this compelling ensemble novel written in the vein of her #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Sisters," as a young woman overnight becomes mother to her sister's three small children Annie was thrown into parenthood while she was in her twenties.  Her sister and brother-in-law were killed in a car crash.  Raising her sister's children along with her job as an architect didn't give her much time to live her own life until the "now" adult children lived theirs!  Good read! …More

Miracle By Steel, Danielle 2006-05 - Dell Publishing Company 9780440240778 Check Our Catalog It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has built around himself since his wife's death. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time when she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who will repair Quinn's and Maggie's homes, the storm brings an opportunity: to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all. As three lives come together and a unique friendship is forged, something extraordinary begins to happen...Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive again-and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion, and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choice-between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journey-and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him danger...or deliverance. Danielle Steel brings us miracles big and small-the kind we are blessed with and those we give to others. With a subtlehand and a flawless touch, she has written a novel that soars with hope, and makes us laugh, cry, and care. …More

No Greater Love By Steel, Danielle 1991-10 - Delacorte Press 9780385299091 Check Our Catalog Returning home from her engagement trip with her fiance and her family, Edwina Winfield finds her life forever altered when the ship they are sailing--the Titanic--hits an iceberg. (Historical Novels). …More

Sherlock Holmes and the King's Evil: And Other New Adventures of the Great Detective By Thomas, Donald 2009-05 - Pegasus Books 9781605980430 Check Our Catalog In these five tales, Sherlock Holmes is shown at the height of his powers: he co-operates with a young Winston Churchill in the famed Siege of Sydney Street; helps defeat a plan for a German invasion outlined in the Zimmerman Telegram; establishes a link between two missing light-house keepers and the royal treasures of King John; contends with a supernatural curse placed upon an eccentric aristocrat and discovers a lost epic of Lord Byron. But it is all in a days work for the great detective, who continues to defy the odds and lives to ratiocinate another day. …More

The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told By Underwood, Lamar 2000-09 - Lyons Press 9781585741403 Check Our Catalog This collection of 46 unforgettable fish tales are told by some of America's premier writers, including Zane Gray, Ernest Hemingway, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, W.D. Wetherall, and others. …More

The Perfect Outsider By White, Loreth Anne 2012-04 - Harlequin 9780373277742 Check Our Catalog …More

Halfway to Heaven By Wiggs, Susan 2001-10 - Mira Books 9781551668376 Check Our Catalog At a glittering White House gala, Abigail Cabot discovers the man of her dreams. Only, he's not interested...yet. So the gifted lady astronomer, whose passion for measuring stars has left her woefully lacking in social graces, seeks someone to educate her...someone who is a master at the art of seduction. Jamie Calhoun's handsome looks and easy charm have made him as popular on the Senate floor as he is with the capital's most attractive women. But secretly he loathes the cynical, manipulative man he's become. Initially, he befriends Abigail as a means to a political end. But somewhere along the way the plan goes awry. First laughter and then love take them completely by surprise in this wildly romantic story. For a man convinced he's incapable of love and a woman who believes she can reach the stars, could this be a match made in heaven? …More

Great Lakes Christmas Classics By Winters, Donna 2003-06 - Bigwater Publishing 9780923048518 Check Our Catalog …More

D.C. Dead By Woods, Stuart 2011-12 - Putnam Adult 9780399157660 Check Our Catalog After a shocking loss, Stone Barrington is at loose ends, unsure if he wants to stay in New York and continue his work as a partner at Woodman & Weld. It comes as a welcome relief when he's summoned to Washington, D.C., by President Will Lee. The president has a special operation that calls for Stone's unique skill set, and it's a mission that will reunite him with his former partner in bed and in crime, Holly Barker. …More