TW's - 2014 Book List
2014 Book List
List created by Terry W. -, on Jan 6, 2014
List Votes: 1 Books: 44 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 2 List Type: Friends
List created by Terry W. -
List Votes: 1 Books: 44 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 2 List Type: Friends
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Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 14) by Kathy Reichs
Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve... more
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Overbite (Insatiable, Bk 2) by Meg Cabot
Overbite is author Meg Cabot’s sexy and hip sequel to her bestselling Insatiable, the story of a soap opera writer with precognitive powers who is recruited into the Vatican’s war against demons and the undead. Unfortunately Meena Harper has a major Achilles Heel -- namely her... more
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Dark Places (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by Gillian Flynn & Cassandra Campbell (Narrat...
Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club, a secret society obsessed with notorious... more
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If I Stay by Gayle Forman
On a day that started like any other,
Mia had everything: a loving family, a gorgeous, admiring boyfriend, and a bright future full of music and full of choices. In an instant, almost all of that is taken from her. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an unknowable future,... more
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Where She Went (If I Stay, Bk 2) by Gayle Forman
It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever.
Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam... more
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Cinder (Lunar Chronicles, Bk 1) by Marissa Meyer
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . .
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a... more
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Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, Bk 2) by Marissa Meyer
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison -- even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's... more
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Cress (Lunar Chronicles, Bk 3) by Marissa Meyer
In this third book in Marissa Meyer's bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth.
Their best hope lies with... more
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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Some race to win. Others race to survive.
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He... more
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The Silent Sister (Riley MacPherson, Bk 1) by Diane Chamberlain
Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive... more
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Abandon (Abandon, Bk 1) by Meg Cabot
Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone ... because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants... more
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Landline by Rainbow Rowell
In New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's Landline, Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it?s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply ? but that almost seems besides the point now.Maybe that was always... more
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Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
What's an American girl with a big mouth, but an equally big heart, to do?
Lizzie Nichols has a problem, and it isn't that she doesn't have the slightest idea what she's going to do with her life, or that she's blowing what should be her down payment on a cute little Manhattan apartment on a... more
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Big Boned (Heather Wells, Bk 3) by Meg Cabot
Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with "rebound beau," vigorous vegan... more
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Death on Eat Street (Biscuit Bowl Food Truck, Bk 1) by J. J. Cook
When she’s once again passed over for a promotion at work, Zoe decides to take the big leap and go for her dream. She quits, gives up her fancy digs, and buys a fixer-upper diner in a shady part of town. To keep above water during the renovation, she buys a used food truck to serve the... more
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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, Bk 1) by Tahereh Mafi
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy... more
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So Pretty It Hurts (Bailey Weggins, Bk 6) by Kate White
True-crime journalist and sassy amateur sleuth Bailey Weggins has scarcely begun her hard-earned weekend getaway when something comes up: a dead body, belonging to one of the world's most glamorous supermodels. Now Bailey's trapped at an upstate New York home amidst the glitterati--and... more
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Unite Me: Destroy Me / Fracture Me (Shatter Me) by Tahereh Mafi
Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects her two companion novellas, Fracture Me and Destroy Me, in print for the first time ever. It also features an exclusive look into Juliette's journal and a preview of Ignite Me, the hotly... more
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Unravel Me (Shatter Me, Bk 2) by Tahereh Mafi
Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her -- people with gifts -- and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance.
She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never... more
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Ignite Me (Shatter Me, Bk 3) by Tahereh Mafi
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn’t know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won’t keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never... more
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
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 suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about... more
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The Giver (Giver, Bk 1) by Lois Lowry
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce new-children, who are assigned to appropriate family units: one male, one female, to each. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. The community is a... more
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After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris
Dead Ever After marked the end of the Sookie Stackhouse novels -- a series that garnered millions of fans and spawned the hit HBO television show True Blood. It also stoked a hunger that will never die…a hunger to know what happened next.
With characters arranged alphabetically... more
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Allegiant (Divergent, Bk 3) by Veronica Roth
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find... more
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Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, Bk 13) by Kathy Reichs
One man, two deaths -- four decades apart. This story can't stay buried forever. Shocking discoveries await Tempe at the scene of a Quebec drowning: the victim -- identified as one John Lowery -- was engaged in a bizarre sexual practice when he died; the same John Lowery was an... more
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger,... more
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Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, Bk 1) by Dean Koontz
The dead don't talk. I don't know why. But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously... more
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Dream Girl by Lauren Mechling
CLAIRE VOYANTE HAS been having strange visions ever since she can remember. But the similarity between her name and her talents is purely coincidental. The name is French, and unlike the psychics on TV, she can?t solve crimes or talk to the dead. Whenever Claire follows her hunches, she comes up... more
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The Beach House by Jane Green
Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their... more
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Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life?and she?s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it?s what got them through... more
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Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, Bk 17) by Janet Evanovich
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list.
Short on time to find evidence proving... more
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Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, Bk 18) by Janet Evanovich
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying back to New Jersey solo. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead --... more
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Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, Bk 19) by Janet Evanovich
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility,... more
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Julie of the Wolves (Julie, Bk 1) by Jean Craighead George
Lost on the Tundra
To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When the village is no longer safe for her, Miyax runs away. But she soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness, without food, without even a compass to guide her.... more
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Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston... more
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The Associate (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by John Grisham & Erik Singer (Narrator)
Kyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless potential. But Kyle has a secret, a dark one, an episode from college that he has tried to forget. The... more
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth
We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. But... more
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan...
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets chronicles the next chapter in British history?the actual historical backdrop for Game of Thrones
The fifteenth century saw the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands... more
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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Black Beauty's story, as told by himself, is the fascinating tale of the life of a horse a hundred years ago, when horses were a part of daily life.
Although his early colthood is happy, Black Beauty later tastes the bitterness of cruel handlers and indifferent masters as he passes from hand... more
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
A feature film in 2012 starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Paul Rudd and written and directed by the author?the provocative and poignant ?coming-of-age tale in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace? (USA TODAY) that has affected an entire generation of young... more
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Woodburning Project and Pattern Treasury: Create Your Own Pyrography Art with 70 Mix ...
From the simple beauty of a single oak leaf to an elaborate portrait of nature ? the patterns of woodburning artist, Deborah Pompano are beyond compare. Inside this, her first book, Pompano shares techniques for getting started in woodburning. You?ll learn what 5 tips she recommends, how to... more
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The Art of Woodburning: 30 Useful & Decorative Projects by Betty Auth
“Auth, an artist who has been featured on HGTV’s Home Matters and in numerous craft magazines, offers an excellent introduction. Filled with numerous attractive photos and patterns, this title offers such an exceptionally clear introduction to the subject that success is virtually... more
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Your Pet's Peeves: What Your Pet's Issues Say about You by Anastasia Nikolskaya
If you're frustrated with your pet for habitual or chronic misdeeds, well, guess what, that animal may have even more reason to be frustrated with you. Anastasia Nikolskaya, or "Dr. Stacey," says pet owners who complain about a problematic pet are often surprised to discover they are the basis... more
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