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List created by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , on Feb 14, 2015
List Votes: 2 Books: 23 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 0 List Type: Closed
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The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, Bk 1) by Robert Galbraith ( Pseudonym of J. K....
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through...  more


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The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 election, he thought he?d highlight the singular moment by exploring the life of someone who had come of age when segregation was so widespread, so embedded in the culture as to make the very...  more


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Letters My Mother Never Read by Jerri Diane Sueck
When her mother died in a fire, eight-year-old Jerri thought life couldnÕt get worse. She was wrong. Sent to live with people who didnÕt want her, Jerri was powerless to stop her once-happy childhood from becoming a nightmare of cruelty and neglect. Only a stubborn belief in her own...  more


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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho & Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No...  more


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One Summer by David Baldacci
From #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci comes a moving family drama about learning to love again after heartbreak and loss. ONE SUMMER It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends...  more


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Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Hollis Woods is the place where a baby was abandoned, is the baby's name, is an artist, and is now a twelve-year-old-girl who's been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. Hollis Woods is a mountain of trouble. She runs away even from the Regans, the one family...  more


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This Is Graceanne's Book by P. L. Whitney
The story is told by a nine-year old boy, Charlie, who observes with an encompassing awe a pivotal year in the life of his older sister Graceanne. She's loud, intellectual and a ruthless physical and psychological daredevil, a girl whose ferocious exploits are the stuff of local legend and the...  more


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The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine -- who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years -- learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the adventure...  more


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That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton
Published four years after her phenomenally successful first novel, The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now confirmed S. E. Hinton's place in the canon of young adult literature. Returning to the same working-class landscape, Hinton paints a deeply-felt portrait of best friends Bryon and Mark,...  more


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The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death.  When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the...  more


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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns...  more


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The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Grigsby Doss
This long-awaited new edition of Helen Doss's beloved memoir, originally published in 1954, is the remarkable and inspiring true story of a couple who adopted twelve children, ten of them considered "unadoptable" because of mixed racial parentage. Doss's charming, touching, and at times...  more


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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of...  more


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Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf 's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home...  more


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The Fault in Our Stars (Movie Tie-in) by John Green
Winner of the 2013 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters...  more


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The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable. Features a 3,000 word Introduction by Stephen King!


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Birthmarked (Birthmarked, Bk 1) by Caragh M. O'Brien
IN THE ENCLAVE, YOUR SCARS SET YOU APART, and the newly born will change the future. Sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone and her mother faithfully deliver their quota of three infants every month. But when Gaia's mother is brutally taken away by the very people she serves, Gaia must question whether...  more


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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, Bk 1) by Deborah Harkness
Deep in the heart of Oxford's Bodleian Library, Diana Bishop -- a young scholar and the descendant of witches -- unearths an enchanted alchemical manuscript.  Wanting nothing to do with sorcery, she banished the book to the stack.  But her discovery has set a fantastical...  more


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Method 15/33 (Method 15/33, Bk 1) by Shannon Kirk
Imagine a helpless, pregnant 16-year-old who's just been yanked from the serenity of her home and shoved into a dirty van. Kidnapped. Alone. Terrified. Now forget her ... Picture instead a pregnant, 16-year-old, manipulative prodigy. She is shoved into a dirty van and, from the first...  more


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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
This novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy.With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty...  more


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Wake (Wake, Bk 1) by Lisa McMann
Not all dreams are sweet. For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. She...  more


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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad & Ingrid Christophersen (Translator)
This profile of the pseudonymous Sultan Khan, proprietor of a Kabul bookstore whose passionately liberal ideas about literature and freedom to read are at odds with his traditional ones about the place of women, has been an international bestseller. It has also been the subject of controversy,...  more


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White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brillant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrd worships her mother and cherishes thier private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart...  more


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Comment added 11/16/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
white finished 11/15 good story of bad parenting and the foster system

Comment added 10/30/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
Bookseller finished 10/15 Haunting story of life in Afganistan

Comment added 10/13/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
wake finished 10/15 ok quick read YA

Comment added 10/10/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
the girl finished 10/15 ok story not spellbinding

Comment added 9/28/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
15/33 finished 9/15 good suspense novel by Dannielle's aunt!

Comment added 9/20/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
witches finished 9/15 good vampire /witch mystery...1st in series

Comment added 8/29/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
birth finished 8/15 great story of future bad gov't...will read 2nd in series

Comment added 8/27/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
Girl finished 8/15 very disturbing acct of abuse...based on true story. Would not recommend

Comment added 8/9/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
Fault finished 8/15 Excellent book about kids dealing with cancer

Comment added 8/2/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
listen finished 8/15 immature YA book

Comment added 8/1/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
lesson finished 7/15 Ok story of black man on death row

Comment added 7/27/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
family finished 7/15 good story, true

Comment added 7/20/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
watchman finished 7/16 Excellent look at race relations in deep south

Comment added 7/16/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
storyteller finished 7/15 good story of holocaust/ not her usual twisty read

Comment added 7/5/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
that was then...finished 6/15 YA coming of age...ok

Comment added 5/20/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
magician finished 5/14 well written but long

Comment added 5/3/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
graceanne finished 5/15 interesting read, triumph over tragedy

Comment added 4/22/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
Hollis finished 4/15 easy read ya story

Comment added 4/18/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
summer finished 4/17 sappy love story

Comment added 4/13/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
alchemist finished 4/15 good spiritual lessons

Comment added 3/26/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
letters finished 3/15 Good story of triumph

Comment added 3/1/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
Butler finished 2/15 ok story but more about movie than original story

Comment added 2/14/15 by Bonnie (LoveNE) - , :
cuckoo finished 2/15 ok murder mystery