Finished Reading - Elijah

Description:

Some Feelings You Just Can’t Fight

He is known as the Warrior Captain—a master of every weapon, a fierce soldier sworn to protect his kind. Powerful, relentless, merciless, Elijah has always won every battle he’s ever taken on—until now. Ambushed by necromancers, he is left for dead only to be discovered by the woman who could very well deliver the final blow…Siena, the Lycanthrope Queen.

With three centuries of warring, little more than a decade of uneasy peace has existed between the Lycanthropes and Elijah’s people. Now, after a lifetime of suspicion, the warrior in Elijah is consumed with a different battle—winning Siena’s heart by giving her pleasure beyond all boundaries. What starts as attraction and arousal soon burns into a passion with consequences that will echo through the ages for both their people. And as would-be enemies become inseparable lovers, another threat approaches, one with the power to destroy them all… Surrender to the night.

Book StatsTitle: Elijah
series: Nightwalkers

Author: Jacquelyn Frank
publisher: Zebra...imprint of Kensington
ISBN: 9780821780671
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: December 2007
format: Mass Market Paperback (also ebook)
genre: Paranormal Romance
pages:416
ages: 18+
Grade: A



My StatsDate Finished: April 30
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One Million Pages

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Finished Reading - Gideon

Description:

As a healer, he knows her body. But it's her heart he wants.For a thousand years, Gideon has healed his people. And as the oldest surviving male of his race, his wisdom has always been respected without question. But Gideon knows that even he is vulnerable to the powerful, primitive desires that befall his kind during Hallowed moons-and nine years ago that truth was hammered home when he found himself claiming Magdalena, the Demon King's sister, in a wild embrace. Horrified by his lack of control, he left her wanting and furious-and then exiled himself for the better part of a decade. Now, with necromancers threatening his people-and Magdalena nearly their victim-Gideon must face another truth. He and the beautiful, stubborn Magdalena are destined to be together, to share a love as deep and old as time itself. But first he needs to regain her trust. Then he'll have to save her life.

Book StatsTitle: Gideon
series: Nightwalkers
Author: Jacquelyn Frank
publisher: Zebra...imprint of Kensington
ISBN: 978-1420124835
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: April 2011
format: ebook (kindle)
genre: Paranormal Romance
pages: 352
ages: 18+
Grade: A








My StatsDate Finished: April 29
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Challenges150+
One Million Pages
ebook
Nightwalkers
Immortal
Spring Reading Thing
Spring into Horror RaT

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Finished Reading - Jacob

As Christine Feehan has changed our thoughts about vampires, so to does Jacquelyn Frank change our thought about demons.

Description:

Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers -- the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer…... For 700 Years, He Has Resisted Temptation. But Not Tonight... Jacob knows the excuses his people give when the madness overtakes them and they fall prey to their lust for humans. He’s heard every one and still brought the trespassers to justice. Immune to forbidden desires, uncontrollable hungers, or the curse of the moon, his control is total -- until the moment he sees Isabella on a shadowy New York City street. Saving her life wasn’t in his plans. Nor were the overwhelming feelings she arouses in him. But the moment he holds her in his arms and feels the soft explosion of her body against his, everything changes. Their attraction is undeniable, volatile, and completely against the law. Suddenly everything Jacob has ever believed is inflamed by the heat of desire... Bring on the night.

Book Stats
Title: Jacob
series: Nightwalkers
Author: Jacquelyn Frank
publisher: Zebra...imprint of Kensington
ISBN: 978-0821780657
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: December 2006
format: ebook (kindle
genre: Paranormal Romance
pages: 320
ages: 18+
Grade: A+







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Date Finished: April 29
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ebook
Nightwalkers
Immortal
Mt TBR
52 in 52
Spring Reading Thing
Spring into Horror RaT

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Finished Reading - My Little Pet Dragon

The graphics were amazing!

I'm sure that if I had a little one to read this too, who could enjoy the short sentences, I'd grade it better.

Description:

Find out what happens when the young reader gets a pet dragon for Christmas!

Book StatsTitle: My Little Pet Dragon
series: My Little Pet...
Author: Scott Gordon
publisher: S.E. Gordon
ISBN:
ASIN: B006DTO23S
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: November 2011
format:
genre: picture book
pages: 40
ages: 3-6
Grade: D


My StatsDate Finished: April 28
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One Million Pages
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Spring into Horror
Spring Reading Thing

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Finished Reading - Holiday Hideout

Description (from publisher):

All Dr. Abby O'Sullivan wants for Christmas is to escape her guilt. Yet no matter how far and fast she runs, she can't leave behind her past or the grim secret she carries. Then a stalker's threats send her on a chilling journey to Rose Mountain, North Carolina, where she's forced to rely on a stranger's protection. But her reliance on handsome cop Cal MacIvers puts him and his family in danger. To survive a deadly showdown, Abby will have to choose: flee again or fight for her life—and for love.

Book StatsTitle: Holiday Hideout
series: Rose Mountain Refuge
Author: Lynette Eason
publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9780373444700
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: December 2011
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense
pages: 216
ages: 14+
Grade: C+




My StatsDate Finished: April 26
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One Million Pages
Spring into Horror
50 States/Where are you reading
Mt TBR

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Finished Reading - Ancient Awakening

Description (from book cover):

Hell comes home to Jersey.

Seven ancient demons known as the Fallen have awakened in New Jersey after a hundred years. Fortunately for Mike and Ann, so has the one man who can stop them, Jeseph Miller.

Trapped in a hospital filled with mythical monsters, only together can they unravel the mystery on the Cursed and escape with not only their lives but their very humanity.

Book StatsTitle: Ancient Awakening
series: The Ancient
Author: Matthew Bryan Laube
publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781448601547
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published:
format: Trade Paperback
genre: Horror/comedy
pages: 234
ages: 18 (bloody)
Grade: C



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One Million Pages
Spring Reading Thing
Spring into Horror RaT
ARC
12 in 12
Around the Stacks
The Eclectic Reader
Mixing it Up
50 States/Where are you reading

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Finished Reading- Nobody's Safe

Description (from book cover):

There are some secrets the government would kill to protect....

No door is locked....

Gregory Picaro lives in the shadows and works in the dark, finding his way into the most exclusive homes in the world and methodically taking away their treasures one precious item at a time. A man who has made safecracking an art form, who has never met a lock he couldn't pick, Picaro is at the top of his field. But he has just opened the wrong safe.

No treasure is secure....

Suddenly Picaro, in the company of a beautiful woman reporter, is on a harrowing cross-country odyssey in pursuit of a truth too extraordinary to guess, dodging enemies who want him dead--and want their evidence back. For over fifty years a mysterious organization has been guarding a secret that will change everything you have believed about our government. And the only person who can tell the truth is a master safecracker--holding the key to a mind-boggling revelation....

Nobody's Safe.

Book Stats
Title: Nobody's Safe
series:
Author: Richard Steinberg
publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0-307-57368-1
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: December 2009
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Thriller, espionage, Area 51
pages: 496
ages: 16, maybe even 14
Grade: B+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 24
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Mt TBR
Spring Reading Thing
Spring Reading Challenge
Mystery & Suspense

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DNF - Edenville Owls by Robert B. Parker

I picked this title for the Spring into Horror read-a-thon based on "There is something evil in the air."

I haven't read any of this author's books, figured if I liked his young adult stuff, there is a chance I'd like his adult stuff. Now I'm not sure.

Just being in middle school is hard enough but this group of boys wants to play basketball and there is no coach and they hitchhike to alot of their games. Then there is the Just because you say she is your girlfriend doesn't mean she can't be my friend stuff.

Throw in a strange man and a teacher who "fell down the stairs" and things are getting interesting. Except the strange man turns out to be a minister in the next town and he says things to the youth group like...."We were fighting to advance the cause of godless Communism" and calls the President Jewsavelt.

Okay, I can agree that "evil is in the air" but it makes me uncomfortable, I wanted to read some kind of thriller, and since I wasn't really liking the book anyways, I'm giving up.


Description (from author's website):

There is something evil in the air. Fourteen-year-old Bobby senses it. Who is that man he saw arguing with his pretty, new English teacher? And what was the real reason she missed school for days afterward? Bobby knows he should mind his own business, but times are confusing. World War II has just ended and the world is changing. Bobby's world, especially. There's his relationship with Joanie, for one-why does being her friend feel awkward all of a sudden? And then there are his buddies, the junior varsity Edenville Owls-a group of basketball players in need of a leader. Can they help each other off the court as well as they can on it? They will need to. Something evil is in the air.

Book Stats
Title: Edenville Owls
series:
Author: Robert B. Parker
publisher: Philomel
ISBN: 0399246568
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: April 2007
format: Hardcover
genre: Mystery/Thriller, Teen
pages: 224
ages: Young Adult
Grade: DNF


Challenges it could have counted for:
Spring into Horror RaT
PB&J
Mystery & Suspense
Criminal Plots
Monthly Mix-up Mania
Mt TBR
Spring Reading Thing
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Finished Reading- The Lost Gate

Description (from back cover):

A family of poor mages in exile in our world, existing in uneasy truce with other Families of Westil, the North clan lives in a rambling family complex, isolated in the hills of western Virginia.

Danny North knew from early childhood that his family was different, and that he was different from them. While his cousins were learning how to create the things that commoners called fairies, ghosts, golems, trolls, werewolves, and other such miracles that were the heritage of the North family, Danny worried that he would never show a talent, never form an outself.

He grew up in the rambling old house, filled with dozens of cousins, and aunts and uncles, all ruled by his father. Their home was isolated in the mountains of western Virginia, far from town, far from schools, far from other people.

There are many secrets in the House, and many rules that Danny must follow. There is a secret library with only a few dozen books, and none of them in English — but Danny and his cousins are expected to become fluent in the language of the books. While Danny’s cousins are free to create magic whenever they like, they must never do it where outsiders might see.

Unfortunately, there are some secrets kept from Danny as well. And that will lead to disaster for the North family.

Book Stats
Title: The Lost Gate
series: Mither Mages
Author: Orson Scott Card
publisher: Tor
ISBN: 9780765365385
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: November 2011
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: fantasy
pages: 446
ages: 14, maybe even 12
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 21
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150+
One Million Pages
Cardathon/Whittle
Spring Reading Thing
Mt. TBR
Dewey's RaT

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Finished Reading- The Ice Dragon

Description:

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land. But Adara was not afraid. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember.

Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adara's home. And only a winter child--and the ice dragon who loved her--could save her world from utter destruction.

Book Stats
Title: The Ice Dragon
series:
Author: George R. R. Martin
publisher: A Starscape Book/Tor
ISBN: 978-0-7653-5539-3
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: October 2007
format: 5x7ish paperback
genre: Middle Grade Fiction - Fantasy
pages: 107
ages: 10+
Grade:

My Stats
Date Finished: April 21
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150+
One Million Pages
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Spring Reading Thing
Dewey's Read-a-Thon
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Finished Reading- Dakota Born

This one is not your typical boy meets girl romance. It's the story of a community. The ups and downs of small town life, struggling farmers, relationship old and new-between friends, lovers and families.

A story about one person changing the future of the town.

Description (from back of book):

Buffalo Valley, North Dakota. Like so many small towns, it's dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks cracked, houses wanting a coat of paint. But despite it all, there's a spirit of hope here, of defiance. The few people still left in Buffalo Valley are fighting for their town.

Lindsay Snyder is a newcomer. She's an outsider, even though she spent childhood vacations here. Now she returns to see the family house again, to explore family secrets and to reevaluate her life.

To her own amazement she decides to stay. Her decision marks a new beginning for Buffalo Valley—and for Lindsay Snyder, who discovers in this broken little town the love and purpose she's been seeking.

Book Stats
Title: Dakota Born
series: Buffalo Valley
Author: Debbie Macomber
publisher: Mira
ISBN: 1-55166-576-x
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: 2000 (reprint in 2007 & 2010!)
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Romance
pages: 378
ages: 14? this one is sweet but still a little sexy
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 21
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150+
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Dewey's Read-a-Thon
Spring Reading Thing
50 States/Where are you reading

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Finished Reading- Dragondrums

Description:

In the world of Pern, Harpers with great musical ability are held in extreme regard. This is why the young, mischievous Piemur carries himself with so much pride, for he sings like an angel. But when his voice begins to change, Piemur loses all confidence and questions his role within Harper Hall.

Incapable of singing, Piemur is sent on various errands by Masterharper Robinton, including the task of learning the complicated beats of the messenger drums, Piemur has no clue of the grand adventures that await him, and he'll need to find the courage within himself to survive.

Book Stats
Title: Dragondrums
series: Harper Hall trilogy
Author: Anne McCaffrey
publisher: Spectra/Bantam
ISBN: 0-553-25855-9
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: November 1987 (14th printing)
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Fantasy
pages: 193
ages: 12+
Grade: B+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 21
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150+
One Million Pages
Pern
Spring Reading Thing
PB&J

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Finished Reading- Just a Little White Lie

Description (from publisher):

Lucinda Darling thinks she's ready to get married. Even though Donald doesn't give her butterflies, the heiress is ready to make her marriage work. She's got the dress, she's at the church and her fiancé...is making out with his ex. So Lucinda stuffs her tulle skirts into her tiny sports car and hits the road...only to have her car break down.

Jake Parker knows he's not ready to settle down. But Grandma Hattie is sick, so, to make her happy, he's returning home to find himself a fake fiancée. When Jake rescues Lucy from the side of the highway, she goes from runaway bride to temporary fiancée.

Lucy hopes to escape the public eye in small-town Georgia, but she doesn't expect to fall for Jake's charming hometown, let alone Jake himself. Soon Jake and Lucy both start to wish their lie were true. But Lucy knows she must stop their pretense before Jake's family—and her heart—are hurt so badly they'll never recover.

Book Stats
Title: Just a Little White Lie
series:
Author: Lynette Hallberg
publisher: Carina Press
eISBN: 9781426892226
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: September 2011
format: ebook
genre: Romance
pages: 201
ages: 18+ (but it's sweet so 16?)
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 20
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150+
One Million Pages
ebook
Harlequin
Color Coded
Spring Reading Thing

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Finished Reading- Loving the Highlander

Description (from back of book):

A tempestuous passion begins with a battle of wills...

When Sadie Quill comes upon an unbelievably gorgeous man lying naked beside a lake, she can't resist taking his photo -- and is quickly trapped in a passionate confrontation with the fierce stranger. Discovering the identity of this irresistible warrior will complicate Sadie's search for a legendary gold mine. For he is Morgan MacKeage, a medieval highlander in modern-day Maine, a man with the fury of the untamed wilderness pounding in his veins -- and the power to unlock Sadie's fragile heart.

Book Stats
Title: Loving the Highlander
series: Highlander, book 2
Author: Janet Chapman
publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780743453073
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: May 2003
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Romance
pages: 384
ages: 18+
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: 4-19
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150+
One Million Pages
Spring Reading Thing

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Finished Reading- Blueberry Hill

Description:

When a beautiful assistant attorney having a mid-career crisis and a town sheriff having a life-crisis cross paths, the end result is big trouble! It all starts when Jocelyn Fletcher flees her job in Baltimore to take a well needed break in Misty Harbour with her sisters. But the independent Jocelyn wants her own place to live and a job - preferably the farthest thing from the law she can find. What County sheriff Quinn Larson wants - make that needs - is a live in house keeper / nanny for his three children. But this is hardly a match made in heaven. Jocelyn's bee stung lips and long blonde hair give Quinn second, third, and fourth thoughts about inviting her into his home. And if a well ordered life is what he was hoping form, he's got a surprise in store. Jocelyn soon turns his house up side down and wraps his children around her little finger - which is where he just might find his heart if he's not careful.

Book Stats
Title: Blueberry Hill
series: Misty Harbor
Author: Marcia Evanick
publisher: Zebra
ISBN: 978-0821774250
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: December 2003
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Romance
pages: 304
ages: 18+......16?
Grade: C

My Stats
Date Finished: 4-18
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150+
One Million Pages
Foodies
Spring Reading Thing

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Finished Reading- Dragonsinger

Description (from amazon):

Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words.

Book Stats
Title: Dragonsinger
series: Harper Hall trilogy
Author: Anne McCaffrey
publisher: Spectra/Bantam
ISBN: 0-553-25854-0
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: January 1997
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: fantasy
pages: 256
ages: 12+
Grade: A+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 17
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Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
Pern
Read & Review
Spring Reading Thing

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Finished Reading- The Gardner Heist

Description (from publisher):

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads—and a $5 million reward—none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth as much as $500 million, the missing masterpieces have become one of the nation's most extraordinary unsolved mysteries.

After the death of famed art detective Harold Smith, reporter Ulrich Boser decided to take up the case. Exploring Smith's unfinished leads, Boser travels deep into the art underworld and comes across a remarkable cast of characters, including a brilliant rock 'n' roll thief, a gangster who professes his innocence in rhyming verse, and the enigmatic late Boston heiress Isabella Stewart Gardner herself. Boser becomes increasingly obsessed with the case and eventually uncovers startling new evidence about the identities of the thieves. A tale of art and greed, of obsession and loss, The Gardner Heist is as compelling as the stolen masterpieces themselves.

Book Stats
Title: The Gardner Heist
The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
series:
Author: Ulrich Boser
publisher: Harper Paperback....HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061451843
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: March 2010
format: Trade paperback
genre: True Crime (Art related)
pages: 226
ages: 18+
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 16
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
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challenge & just because...had it on my shelf since 2010, fit a challenge but sounded good


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Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
Spring Reading Challenge
Mt TBR
Read 52 books in 52 weeks
Spring Reading Thing
Spring Reading Challenge
Read & Review
50 States
Where are you reading
Memorable Memoirs

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Finished Reading- The 4 Phase Man

Description:

The last man standing...

At the height of the cold war, a few elite secret agents earned the title of "4 Phase Man." From Berlin to the Middle East, only two of them survived....

The first man in...

Once he was a man with a family and a home. Then Gerald Goldman rose through the ranks of the CIA with his ability to survive in any situation, and to kill. Now he is called Xenos, the outsider, the exile. But Xenos has just come in from the cold, searching for a missing young man and finding an astounding conspiracy to co-opt the United States government.

Between a tough and beautiful U.S. congresswoman who is being forced to betray her country and a deep-cover spy who is aiming at the second-highest office in the land, Xenos finds himself at war. And standing against him is the one man as deadly as Xenos himself: the only other 4 Phase Man in the world....

Book Stats
Title: The 4 Phase Man
series:
Author: Richard Steinberg
publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0553583205
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2001
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Thriller (spy)
pages: 384
ages: 16+
Grade: B+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 14
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The Eclectic Reader
Around the Stacks
Spring Reading Thing
Mystery & Suspense
Criminal Plots
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Where are you reading

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Finished Reading- The Hunger Games

Description (from author):

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place.

Book Stats
Title: The Hunger Games
series: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
publisher: Scholastic Press
ISBN: 978-0439023528
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: July 2010
format: paperback
genre: Dystopia, Fantasy
pages: 374
ages: 12+
Grade: A

My Stats
Date Finished: April 13
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150+
One Million Pages
Dystopia/Read Dystopia
12 in 12
Mt TBR (purchased Aug 2010!)
PB&J
Banned or Challenged/ALA's 2010 Top Ten
Around the Stacks
The Eclectic Reader
101 Fantasy Books
Spring Reading Thing
Pick Your Thon

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Finished Reading- Hiss of Death

Description (from publisher):

Ah, spring! The brighter days and singing birds have a way of lifting people’s spirits, as well as those of their animal companions. But the season can also bring out the first blossoms of murder. As the redbuds open in Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is especially excited—until a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and procedures. Surviving this journey will be tough, but Harry has her animal friends—and her ever-helpful husband, Fair—to support her. Others are considerably less fortunate: A promising nurse’s lifeless body is discovered without a mark on her. Then another hospital employee, who had seemed in perfect health, is also found dead. There’s a mystery afoot—and that’s one thing Harry and her menagerie can’t keep their noses out of.

Book Stats
Title: Hiss of Death
series: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery
Author: Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown
publisher: Bantam Books ...Random House
ISBN: 978-0-553-59161-3
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2012
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: cozy
pages: 336
ages: 16ish
Grade: C+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 12
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What an animal
cozy
Spring Reading Thing
50 States
Where are you reading
Girl Power

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Finished Reading- Dragonsong

Description (from inside flap):

Anne McCaffrey's best-selling Harper Hall Trilogy is a wonder-filled classic of the imagination. Dragonsong, the first volume in the series, is the enchanting tale of how Menolly of Half Circle Hold became Pern's first female Harper, and rediscovered the legendary fire lizards who helped to save her world.

This description leaves much to be desired! Menolly, of Half Circle Sea Hold, is a girl who loves music. As long as the Harper is alive, her father (and leader) has no problem with her twiddles. What to do with a sensitive girl now that the Harper has died? Girls can't be Harpers!

Book Stats
Title: Dragonsong
series: Pern
Author: Anne McCaffrey
publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 978-0553258523
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: April 1, 1977
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: fantasy
pages: 176
ages: 10+
Grade: A+

My Stats
Date Finished: Apr 12
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Pern
Girl Power
What an Animal
PB&J

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Finished Reading- Quinn

Description (from publisher):

The Truth Can Be an Irresistible Temptation . . .

As a young boy, Quinn Conway was shattered by his mother's mysterious disappearance. Today, as the oldest of the Conway brothers, his only concern is protecting his family and their ranch. One look at beautiful, strong-willed Cheyenne O'Brien tells him she's also no stranger to tragedy. A series of increasingly dangerous "accidents" are plaguing her and her land, and Quinn can't stand idly by while a woman is in danger. Fiercely independent, Cheyenne isn't one to lean on others, yet she can't deny her attraction to the rugged rancher offering help. Soon, the passion building between them proves as wild and untamed as the land she loves-and just as impossible to resist. But a relentless enemy is about to make one final devastating move. To survive, Quinn and Cheyenne must put their cherished freedom-and their hearts-at risk . . .

Book Stats
Title: Quinn
series: Wyoming Sky
Author: R. C. Ryan
publisher: Grand Central Publishing (Hachette)
ISBN: 9781455502455
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: March 2012
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Romance, Western
pages: 319
ages: 18+ (maybe 16)
Grade: B+

My Stats
Date Finished: 4-9
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150+
One Million Pages
Spring Reading Thing
A to Z
Girl Power
50 States
Where are you reading?
12 in 12
Pick Your Thon
read & Review ~ planned

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Finished Reading- Protecting the Princess

Description:

A series of explosions took out the royal motorcade and threw the country of Lydia into chaos. Princess Anastasia missed her limo, and doesn’t know what has become of the rest of her family. Whisked away from her native country for her protection, Stasi is dismayed that her life is now in shambles. But at least she’s not alone. Kirk Covington pledges to keep her safe. He’s a royal guard… and the man she’s spent years blaming for her brother’s disappearance. Now she’ll have to trust him with her life— and her heart— in order to regain the throne.

Book Stats
Title: Protecting the Princess
series: Reclaiming the Crown
Author: Rachelle McCalla
publisher: Harlequin Love Inspired
ISBN: 9780373444786
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2012
format: ebook (also mmp)
genre: Inspirational Romance
pages: 224
ages: 12+
Grade: C+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 9
fiction or non-fiction
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Girl Power

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Finished Reading- Splash and Elegance

Alternative Romance (M/M)

Description (from book):

Gathering is called. The spell is cast. There is no escaping the Midnight Matings.

Socially awkward and practically invisible to the rest of the world, Whitley Turner wasn’t overly upset by the elders’ announcement. Either he’d find someone to claim him or he’d disappear completely. So when he finds himself mated to a sexy-as-sin orca shifter, he’s not sure whether to jump for joy or run screaming.

Jude Chambers knows exactly who the shy swan shifter is. He’s been looking for a way to get close to him for months. Using the forced mating decree and a little cunning help from a friend, landing Whitley as his mate was a piece of cake. Feeling guilty about the situation wasn’t supposed to happen. Why couldn’t Whitley be the egotistical jerk he imagined him to be?

It doesn’t take long for Whitley to realize something isn’t right. When the truth is revealed, how can Whitley forgive his mate when being invisible was far less painful?

Book Stats
Title: Splash and Elegance
series: Midnight Matings
Author: Gabrielle Evans
publisher: Siren Publishing
ISBN:
ASIN: B006QXC9G8
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: Dec 2011
format: ebook
genre: paranormal GBLT romance (shape-shifter)
pages: 106 (amazon estimate)
ages: 18+
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 9
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ebook
Spring Reading Challenge (S)

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Finished Reading- Pieces of a Rainbow

Description:

A collection of seven short stories, each one based on a different colour of the rainbow. You will find a full spectrum of emotions within the stories. Some are sad, some uplifting. There are not always happy endings, but the tales reflect the real world, and the forces of nature at work in our lives; sometimes beyond our control. The stories are diverse in style, and the characters, although fictional, are true-to-life. There is something for everyone in this inspired collection.

Book Stats
Title: Pieces of a Rainbow
series:
Author: Maria Savva
publisher: Rose And Freedom Books
ISBN: 978-0956410108
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: Nov 2009
format: Trade paperback (my copy was an ebook)
genre: fiction, short stories
pages: 150
ages: ???
Grade:

My Stats
Date Finished: April 8
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150+
One Million Pages
ebooks
Why Buy the Cow
Color Coded

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Finished Reading- Home Ice

Alternative Romance (M/M)

Description:

When they were young men playing on the same hockey team, the heat between Jason and Mike had been almost enough to melt the ice they were skating on. But Mike went off to be a star in the NHL and Jason stayed behind to start his life as the dedicated, deeply closeted coach of the town’s junior hockey team.

Now Mike is back in town and Jason finds that their passion burns as hot as ever. But they’re both still in the closet, and when Jason is threatened with exposure, he freezes. The flames of desire can’t melt Jason’s fears but maybe, just maybe, the warmth of love will thaw the ice.

Book Stats
Title: Home Ice
series: Oh Canada!
Author: Kate Sherwood
publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 9781419937156
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: November 2011
format: ebook
genre: GBLT romance
pages: 89 (amazon estimate)
ages: 18+
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 7
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ebook
Where are you reading
Sports Romance (Hockey)

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Finished Reading- Stripes and Twin Horns

Alternative Romance (M/M/M)

Description (from book):

The chaos of the Midnight Matings continues. Everyone attending the UPAC Conference has twenty-four hours to claim a mate of a different species or risk being without one forever. After this announcement, Blake and Drake see a man offering himself up and decide they want him for their own. Blake and Drake Collier are ancient unicorn shifters used to keeping to themselves. Mating Gilbert gives them a chance for true love and happiness if they can learn to put his needs before theirs.

Quinby is a raccoon shifter who has been sexually abused due to the traditions of his shifter community. Blake and Drake may be his ticket to freedom and to love. Will Blake, Drake, and Gilbert’s attendance at the UPAC Conference be a blessing for them all, or will the trauma caused by Gilbert’s horrible past be a stumbling block they may not be able to overcome?

Book Stats
Title: Stripes and Twin Horns
series: Midnight Matings
Author: Joyee Flynn
publisher: Siren
ISBN:
ASIN: B007FTNAI8
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: march 2012
format: ebooks
genre: paranormal GBLT romance
pages: 96
ages: 18+
Grade: C

My Stats
Date Finished: April 7
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ebook
Paranormal Romance

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Finished Reading- Princess in Peril

Description:

“I’m going to open the door and we’re both going down the manhole,” her new bodyguard told her.

“No!” Princess Isabelle attempted to free herself. Her royal motorcade was under attack, but that didn’t mean she was going underground.

Levi had her clamped against him so securely she couldn’t move more than an inch in any direction. She felt his neatly-trimmed beard brush her temple as he spoke briskly into her ear. “Once I open the door we’ll be vulnerable. We need to get below ground as quickly as possible.”

Isabelle took a shaky breath. To his credit, though he held her immobile, Levi wasn’t squeezing her too hard for her to breathe. Maybe it was that small allowance that made her decide to trust him.

Or maybe it was because she didn’t have any choice.

Book Stats
Title: Princess in Peril
series: Reclaiming the Crown
Author: Rachelle McCalla
publisher: Harlequin Love Inspired
ISBN: 978-0373444625
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: October 2011
format: ebook (also mmp)
genre: Inspirational Romance
pages: 224
ages: 12+
Grade: C+

My Stats
Date Finished: April 7
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
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150+
One Million Pages
ebook
Harlequin/Silhouette
A to Z
Romantic Suspense

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Finished Reading- Magician's Chains

Alternative Romance (M/M)

Description (from publisher):

Jesse and Savin shared one strange, hot kiss and an even stranger mystical connection over a decade ago. Now reunited at a BDSM-flavored erotic magic show in Las Vegas, Jesse finds Savin performing as the Dominant magician. He’s one sexy, powerful package, and Jesse fights the call to expose himself to Savin, giving up body, soul and heart. But dark fae nightmares prophesy a more dangerous magic than stage tricks at work as their lives collide.

Jesse has given up on his dreams after a personal tragedy. Savin’s only dream is to be human, although he is not. Drawn to one another, the men enter into a weekend Master/slave contract. In Savin’s chains, Jesse submits, letting loose destructive passion and grief. Both resist the craving to make their bond permanent, sure that if they do they place one another in jeopardy. If they cannot accept the magic they create together and their joined destinies, the survival of two worlds will be at stake.

Book Stats
Title: Magician's Chains
series:
Author: Michelle Polaris
publisher: Ellora's Cave
ISBN: 9781419928819
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published:
format: ebook
genre: paranormal GBLT romance
pages: 288
ages: 18+
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 7
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150+
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Immortals (Fae)
50 States/Where are you reading

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Finished Reading- The Dragon & His Houseboy

Alternative Romance (M/M)

Description (from publisher):

Saeran’s dreamed about retiring from his lifestyle as a male prostitute for a while. But would catering to a dragon shifter be the best thing? Dragons are known to bite now and again.

Barro is enamored with Saeran and his luscious body. Inviting Saeran back to his house to be at his beck and call seemed the logical thing to do at the time. When Saeran accepts, he is overjoyed and can’t fight the growing attraction between them.

Saeran becomes more to Barro than the houseboy he originally planned on. The question is, what exactly is Saeran becoming? They open their hearts to one another, and all secrets are revealed.

Book Stats
Title: The Dragon and His Houseboy
series:
Author: Crymsyn Hart
publisher: Sugar and Spice Press
ISBN: 978-1-936668-45-8
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: January 2012
format: ebook
genre: Paranormal GLBT Romance
pages: 47 (amazon estimate)
ages: 18+
Grade: C

My Stats
Date Finished: April 6
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What an Animal
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Finished Reading- Fire & Fang

Alternative Romance (M/M)

Description (from publisher):

Brody arrived at the yearly meeting to discover the Draken council requires him to mate immediately. They've decided that he will be the first of the dragon shifters to mate with a male because of their dwindling numbers and few women. Only when a Draken mates can he shift into a powerful dragon. As if that wasn't bad enough, they've not only selected one man but two for him to mate with. Brody can't believe this is happening to him when the two men who bullied him as kids walk into the council chambers.

Parker's kiss, and Jax's touch send Brody running from the only home he's ever known, to cross into the human lands. He meets Matt on the way, a man he thinks is human. Matt is everything that his dragon mates are not. He's gentle and loving, and Brody learns to accept the feelings he's always had. When he doesn't shift to a dragon being with Matt, Brody thinks they can live happily together away from his homeland. But Parker and Jax will not give up on the man they have wanted for so long, even if it means hiring a werewolf to track him.

Book Stats
Title: Fire and Fang
series:
Author: Eden Cole
publisher: Sugar and Spice Press
ISBN:
ASIN: B007O47SDC
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: March 2012
format: ebook
genre: Romance, GLBT, Paranormal, Multiple partners
pages: 24,171 words
ages: 18+
Grade: B

My Stats
Date Finished: April 6
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150+
One Million Pages
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What an Animal

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