My February reading list:
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"Blood Brothers" by Nora Roberts (A+) In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called the seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things begin to happen. It began when three young boys - Caleb, Fox and Gage - went on a camping trip to the Pagen Stone. And twenty-one years later, it will end in a showdown between evil and the boys who have become men - and the women who love them.
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"Cradle and All" by M.J. Rodgers (another Cooper's Corners book) (B+) When Tom Christen, the new Episcopal priest in Cooper's Corner, found a baby on his doorstep, he wasn't about to give the infant to some bureaucrat. And Judge Anne Vandree might have had hair like a halo - but she was definitely a bureaucrat, informing him that by law he must surrender the baby. So Tom told her the truth. He was the baby's father!
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"Ready" by Lucy Monroe (book #1) (A-) As a writer, Lise Barton is used to coming up with wild scenarios for her characters, but the one that's playing out right now is no fiction, it's frighteningly real. Someone is stalking her, someone who knows where she lives and what she does. Joshua Watt's mission is simple: Go to Seattle and bring Lise home for Thanksgiving or he'll never hear the end of it from his sister.
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"My Sister Life" by Maria Flook (C) When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister disappeared, the author was changed forever. Karen became Maria's secret heroine - the sole example to follow in her journey into womanhood. In her story of two castaways from suburbia who live in mysteriously parallel lives, Flook gives us an intimate account of her sister's life as a child prostitute and of their coming of age in the disenfranchised 1960s, in the domestic fallout of the Vietnam War. Forced to flee a beautiful and tormented matriarch with secrets of her own, the sister's form a lifesaving bond.
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"Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon (A++) The year is 1945 and Claire Beauchamp Randall, a former British combat nurse, is on holiday in Scotland with her husband, looking forward to becoming reacquainted after the war's long separation. Like most practical women, Claire hardly expects her curiosity to get the better of her. But an ancient stone circle near her lodgings holds an eerie fascination, and when she innocently touches a corner of one of the giant boulders, she is hurtled backward in time more than two hundred years, to 1743.
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"Charles Kuralt's America" an audiocassette book by Charles Kuralt (A+) Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to it's people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chroniclers - a man who has helped us see and celebrate our country in a way we never had before. After retiring from CBS News in 1994, he set out to spend a perfect year in America - traveling to his twelve favorite American places, in just the right month for a visit to each. With his well-known warmth, humor and insight, he shows them to us. From Montana in September and Alaska in June to winter in Cajun country and the North Carolina mountains in spring, Kuralt's accounts are filled with people, stories and experiences.
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"Willing" by Lucy Monroe (book #2) (A) Josie McCall has been raised to be a soldier, and she could be the best - if she wanted it. Instead, she left her dad's mercenary school behind for a normal job in computers. But now that someone has torched the school and her dad is MIA from the hospital, Josie's going to use every bit of her merc training to find him and hunt down the culprits who took him. Josie knows a lot about explosives, hand-to-hand combat, and tracking. What she doesn't know about is sex. She has no idea what to do with the volcanic attraction she feels for her dad's new partner, Daniel Black Eagle. And that feels more dangerous than any bomb.
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"The Search" by Iris Johansen (B-) As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others. This time Sarah is being forced to take part in a deadly mission...by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation.
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"Charles Kuralt's Spring" an audiocassette book by Charles Kuralt (A) From a garden blossoming along a Virginia roadside and the sap rising in the maple trees of Vermont to butterflies awakening and migrating along the California coast and jazz musicians chasing the winter blues away, Kuralt captures the beauty of spring in all its glory.
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"Rattlesnake Crossing" by J.A. Jance (book #6) (A) A local gun dealer has died violently, and his stock of high-powered weapons has been cleaned out. When two more slayings follow soon after, suspicion falls upon rancher Alton Hosfield, an embittered man at war with the federal government, environmentalists, area newcomers, the local law - with anyone, in fact whom he perceives as a threat to his home, his family, his freedom, and his isolation. Sherrif Brady suspects, however, that the solution is not so cut-and-dried.
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"Her Stolen Past" by Amanda Stevens (another Cooper's Corners book) (B) Librarian Beth Young was so quiet, she simply blended into the town of Cooper's Corner. But Clint Cooper, co-owner of Twin Oaks, couldn't help but notice her as she played piano each evening at the B and B. Her music was haunting...and to Clint, so was her beauty. But Beth didn't dare act on the attraction she felt for Clint.
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"Legend" by Dinah McCall (A-) As teenagers, Raine Beaumont and Joseph Colorado tasted the joys of first love, until her father's lies destroyed their fragile bond. Now, twelve years later, Raine receives news that will take her back to her hometown of Oracle, Arizona, where she will face her lost love again. Haunted by the memory of the boy she once adored, Raine was not prepared for the mysterious, seductive man before her. For deep in Joseph's eyes lies a power that binds him to his Apache heritage, a power that promises to heal all wounds and restore long-lost dreams...and love.
Currently Reading -
- "Dragonfly in Amber" by Diana Gabaldon (book #2)
- "The Preacher's Daughter" by Beverly Lewis
To Be Read -
- "A Long Walk Home" by Diane Amos
- "Kate Remembered" by A. Scott Berg
- "Freedom's Price" by Suzanne Brockmann
- "Future Hero" by Suzanne Brockmann
- "Hero Under Cover" by Suzanne Brockmann
- "The Princess's White Knight" by Carla Cassidy
- "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben
- "Once Upon A Family" by Margaret Daley
- "The Day the World Came to Town - 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland" by Jim DeFede
- "Voyager" by Diana Gabaldon (book #3)
- "Drums of Autumn" by Diana Gabaldon (book #4)
- "The Fiery Cross" by Diana Gabaldon (book #5)
- "A Breath of Snow and Ashes" by Diana Gabaldon (book #6)
- "The Prodigal Daughter" by Ginna Gray
- "The Witness" by Ginna Gray
- "On Mystic Lake" by Kristin Hannah
- "The Shape Shifter" by Tony Hillerman
- "Angel Creek" by Linda Howard
- "Outlaw Mountain" by J.A. Jance (book #7)
- "Devil's Claw" by J.A. Jance (book #8)
- "Paradise Lost" by J.A. Jance (book #9)
- "Exit Wounds" by J.A. Jance (book #10)
- "Partner in Crime" by J.A. Jance (book #11)
- "The Search" by Iris Johansen
- "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon" by Billie Letts
- "The Preacher's Daughter" by Beverly Lewis
- "The Englisher" by Beverly Lewis
- "The Brethren" by Beverly Lewis
- "The Manning Sisters" by Debbie Macomber
- "A Royal Baby On the Way" by Susan Mallery
- "Dancing in the Dark" by Sandra Marton (another Cooper's Corners book)
- "Rhett Butler's People" by Donald McCaig
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"And Able" by Lucy Monroe (book #3)
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"3 Brides for 3 Bad Boys" by Lucy Monroe
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"Breakwater" by Carla Neggers
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"Night's Landing" by Carla Neggers
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"Mary, Mary" by James Patterson (Alex Cross, book #11)
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"7th Heaven" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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"The Privilege of Youth - A Teenager's Story" by Dave Pelzer
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"A Brother's Journey - Surviving a Childhood of Abuse" by Richard B. Pelzer
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"Man...Mercenary...Monarch" by Joan Elliott Pickart
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"Mercy" by Jodi Picoult
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"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult
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"For Better or for Worse" by Debbi Rawlins (another Coopers Corners book)
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"Blackwood Farm" by Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles #9)
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"Safe Harbor" by Luanne Rice
- "Beachcomber" by Karen Robards
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"Silent Night" by J.D. Robb, Susan Plunkett, Dee Holmes, Claire Cross
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"Strangers in Death" by J.D. Robb
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"The Gift" by Nora Roberts
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"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See
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"Jesus Land" by Julia Scheeres
- "Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks
- "At First Sight" by Nicholas Sparks
- "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks
- "A Walk to Remember" by Nicholas Sparks
- "Moon Dance" by Mariah Stewart
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"Born on a Blue Day" by Daniel Tammet
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"First They Killed My Father" by Loung Ung
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"Just One Look" byJoanna Wayne (another Cooper's Corners book)
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"Summer at Willow Lake" by Susan Wiggs (book #1)
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"The Winter Lodge" by Susan Wiggs (book #2)
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"Dockside" by Susan Wiggs (book #3)
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"The Hostage" by Susan Wiggs (book #1)
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"The Mistress" by Susan Wiggs (book #2)
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"The Firebrand" by Susan Wiggs (book #3)
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"The Pregnant Princess" by Anne Marie Winston
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"Everlasting" by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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