Finished Reading - Forbidden Heat

Description (from publisher):

If you could make your most forbidden fantasy come true, would you dare?

Danielle, Jake and Trey were inseparable back in college. They used to tell each other everything—except for one big secret Danielle always kept hidden. That even though they were best friends, Danielle always had a huge crush on them. But it was a harmless, hopeless crush, because the two men were in love…with each other.

Years later, Danielle learns a startling truth. Jake and Trey have not only broken up-- they date women now. Danielle’s most sinful fantasy has always been to have a threesome—and now she finally has the chance to spend the night with not just one, but with both sexy men. Yet when fantasy becomes reality, life gets complicated fast. Despite Jake and Trey’s rocky past, it’s clear to Danielle that they’re still deeply in love with each other. The trouble is, now Danielle’s falling for them too…

Book StatsTitle: Forbidden Heat
series:

Author: Opal Carew
publisher: St Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 978-0312580131
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: January 2010
format: Trade Paperback
genre: romance, erotica, MMF
pages: 266
ages: 18+
Grade: C+




My StatsDate Finished: May 31
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Finished Read - Death

Description (from book):

In the 1700s, Gatian Almasia was rich and a sought-after member of Parisian society. No one realised he’d lost his reason for living three years earlier. When his sister accuses another nobleman of raping her, Gatian does what any older brother would do. He challenges the man to a duel, and kills him. Later that night, the dead man’s family takes their revenge on Gatian.

Gatian’s death is just the beginning of the journey he must take as Death, the Pale Horseman of Apocalyptic fame. While he doesn’t regret taking the nobleman’s life, the guilt of not being there when his lover died builds a wall around his heart, and until he accepts forgiveness, he must always be Death.

Pierre Fortsecue is a spoilt rich young man whose heart is broken by the man he thinks he loves. Finding himself alone in Paris, Pierre sinks into a haze of heroin. He gets a tainted baggie of the drug, and almost dies from it. Death arrives to take his soul, and something about Pierre touches the Pale Horseman, who steals him away to help him heal.

As Pierre heals and Death begins to feel again, they begin to wonder if love really is the only emotion needed to overcome desolation and destruction.

Book StatsTitle: Death
series: The Four Horsemen

Author: T. A. Chase
publisher: Total-e-Bound
ISBN: 978-0-85715-940-3
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: April 2012
format: ebook
genre: paranormal romance, GBLT
pages: 137
ages: 18+
Grade: B+






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Finished Reading - Sub-Mission

Description:

How far would you go to save the one you love?

Pierce Hollister is a down-to-earth businessman. Most of the time. His romantic side has him secretly dreaming of Mr Right, a family and a happy ever after.

Noah Conway is a single father who doesn’t believe in happy families any more. When his daughter’s life is at stake, he would sell his soul to save her but as a sadistic Dom takes an interest in him, he sells his body instead.

A shared session at a BDSM club leaves Pierce intrigued and soon he finds himself willing to do anything in his power to heal the wounds that life has left on Noah’s soul. When he realises that the very thing Noah dreads the most might just be what he needs, Pierce sets out on a mission—but maybe it’s just not in his power to save Noah.

Will Noah be able to battle the demons that haunt him and find the happy ever after Pierce has dreamed up for them?

Book StatsTitle: Sub-Mission
series:

Author: Sage Marlowe
publisher: Total-e-Bound
ISBN: 978-0-85715-964-9
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: 2012 (May?)
format: electronic
genre: GBLT Romance, BDSM
pages: 152
ages: 18+
Grade: B+




My StatsDate Finished: May 30

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Finished Reading - Tombs of Endearment

Description (from publisher):

Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin never imagined she'd get to meet rock legend Damon Curtis, the bad boy poet who made millions of teenage girls scream. After all, he kicked the bucket years before she was born. But thanks to her newfound ability to chat up the dead, Pepper's got a front row seat perfect for swooning over the still-sexy Damon's latest lyrics. He's convinced that his former bandmate Vinnie Pallucci murdered him back in ‘71, and he's promised Pepper she won't get any rest or peace until she helps him prove it.

But when Pepper goes behind the music, she finds Vinnie with a knife in his heart and the rest of the band members running for their lives. And if Pepper doesn't snare the killer soon, Damon's next hit from the great beyond might be her swan song.

Book StatsTitle: Tombs of Endearment
series: A Pepper Martin Mystery

Author: Casey Daniels
publisher: Avon . . . HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0060821500
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: September 2007
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: cozy, paranormal
pages: 307
ages: 18+, maybe 14+
Grade: B+



My StatsDate Finished: May 29
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Finished Reading - The Second Door

Description (from publisher):

When Mitch’s relationship with his boyfriend implodes on Christmas Eve, it’s up to his best friend, Sam, to comfort him. It’s not like Sam has a choice. He cares deeply for Mitch. He even refrains from saying “I told you so.”

That one night of chaste comfort is all it takes to start Sam thinking about Mitch in ways he really shouldn’t. A spontaneous kiss that should have helped sort things out just makes everything more complicated, because Sam is terrified sex will ruin their friendship. Mitch is afraid that pushing Sam for more will drive a wedge between them, but he’s even more afraid of never trying for happiness with Sam at all.

Book StatsTitle: The Second Door
series:
Author: T.C. Blue
publisher: Dreamspinner Press
ISBN: 978-1-61372-134-6
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published:
format: ebook
genre: GBLT, Romance, Holiday
pages: 178
ages: 18+
Grade: B


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Finished Reading - One Small Thing

Description (from publisher):

“Daddy” is not a title Rue Murray wanted, but he never thought he’d have sex with a woman either. Now he’s the unwitting father of a newborn named Alice. Between bartending and cosmetology school, Rue doesn’t have time for babies, but he can’t give her up. What Rue needs is a babysitter, and he’s running out of options. He’s on the verge of quitting school to watch Alice himself when he remembers his reclusive new neighbor, Erik.

Erik Van Nuys is a sci-fi novelist with anxiety issues to spare. He doesn’t like people in general, and he likes babies even less. Still, with his royalties dwindling, he could use the extra cash. Reluctantly, he takes on the role of manny—and even more reluctantly, he finds himself falling for Alice and her flamboyant father.

Rue and Erik are as different as two people can be, and Alice is the unlikeliest of babies, but Rue has never been happier than when Alice and Erik are by his side. At least, not until he receives an offer that puts all his dreams within reach and he’s forced to choose: the future he’s always wanted, or the family he thought he never did.

Book StatsTitle: One Small Thingseries:
Author: Piper Vaughn & M.J. O'Shea
publisher: Dreamspinner Press
ISBN: 978-1-61372-496-5
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: May 4, 2012
format: ebook
genre: GBLT Romance
pages: 214
ages: 18+
Grade: B


My StatsDate Finished: May 28
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Finished Reading - Marathon Cowboys

Description (from publisher):

Jesse Clayton loves painting, his cowboy grandfather, and his life as an artist with a wild abandon that leaves scorch marks on everything he touches. Budding Navajo cartoonist Lorenzo Maryboy is a hard-working former Marine: staunch, brave, and honorable. Chance brings them together on the road to Marathon, Texas, and passion flares.

Just as always, Jesse puts his art ahead of everything. He betrays their growing trust, and that Lorenzo can’t forgive. But Jesse’s found something he loves more than his art, and what he does to win Lorenzo’s forgiveness is far more dangerous than either man understands.

Book StatsTitle: Marathon Cowboys
series:

Author: Sarah Black
publisher: Dreamspinner
ISBN: 978-1-61372-135-3
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: November 2011
format: ebook
genre: GBLT romance
pages: 172
ages: 18+
Grade: B



My StatsDate Finished: May 27
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Finished Reading - Hard Tail

 Description (from publisher):

Finding love can be a bumpy ride.

His job: downsized out of existence. His marriage: dead in the water. It doesn’t take a lot of arm twisting for Tim Knight to agree to get out of London and take over his injured brother’s mountain bike shop for a while. A few weeks in Southampton is a welcome break from the wreck his life has become, even though he feels like a fish out of water in this brave new world of outdoor sports and unfamiliar technical jargon.

The young man who falls—literally—through the door of the shop brings everything into sharp, unexpected focus. Tim barely accepts he’s even in the closet until his attraction to Matt Berridge pulls him close enough to touch the doorknob.

There’s only one problem with the loveable klutz: his bullying boyfriend. Tim is convinced Steve is the cause of the bruises that Matt blows off as part of his risky sport. But rising to the defense of the man he’s beginning to love means coming to terms with who he is—in public—in a battle not even his black belt prepared him to fight. Until now.

Book StatsTitle: Hard Tail
series:
Author: JL Merrow
publisher: Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-61921-039-4
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: May 8, 2012
format: ebook
genre: GBLT Romance
pages: 198
ages: 18+
Grade: C+



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Finished reading - Xenofreak Nation

Description (from smashwords):

Twenty years into the future, bioengineered animals provide organs for human transplantation. Grafts of animal skin have replaced tattoos in popularity, which gives rise to a unique new demographic: xenofreaks. Bryn Vega’s father is head of the Pure Human Society and when she’s kidnapped by the Bestia Butcher, the most notorious of the criminal xenosurgeons, she assumes it's payback for her father’s anti-xeno activities. Scott Harding is her taciturn jailer-called Cougar because of the claws replacing his fingers-but Scott is not who he seems. Deep under cover for the Xenofreak Intelligence Agency, he’s been given unprecedented immunity to find the Bestia Butcher’s lair and do whatever it takes to bring him to justice. When Bryn is forced to undergo a radical xenoalteration, she discovers a terrible secret: her father is using The Pure Human Society as a front for his own purposes. His willingness to sacrifice his daughter to accomplish them sends her running to Scott for protection, and into the hard-core underground subculture of the very xenofreak society she once despised.

Book StatsTitle: Xenofreak Nation
series:
Author: Melissa Conway
publisher:
ISBN:
ASIN: B0052TBS7S . . . also sold at smashwords
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: May 2011
format: ebook
genre: science fiction, dystopia
pages: 262
ages:14+
Grade: B



My StatsDate Finished: May 26
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Dystopia
Read Dystopia
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12 in 12
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Finished Reading - Stamped Out

Description:

A professional rubber stamper who creates intricate patterns on walls, April Buchert is back home in Aldenville, Pennsylvania, helping her father restore the famous Winchester mansion.

But when a human skull tumbles out of the rubble, all eyes are on April’s father, who oversaw the construction twenty years ago. As unexplained deaths pile up and a dangerously handsome carpenter becomes a pleasant distraction, can April chip away at the truth before another innocent victim is stamped out?

Book StatsTitle: Stamped Out
series: A Stamping Sisters Mystery

Author:Terri Thayer
publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 978-0425223291
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: September 2008
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Cozy
pages: 276
ages: 18+, maybe 14
Grade: C+



My StatsDate Finished:  May 25
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Finished Reading - Town in a Blueberry Jam

 Description (from publisher):

In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. But, when an aging playboy and the newly crowned Blueberry Queen are killed, Candy investigates to clear the name of a local handyman. And as she sorts through the town's juicy secrets, things start to get sticky indeed...

Book StatsTitle: Town in a Blueberry Jam
series: A Candy Holliday Murder Mystery

Author:B. B. Haywood
publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425232651
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2010
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: cozy mystery
pages: 320
ages: publisher says 18+, I say maybe 14
Grade: C



My StatsDate Finished:  May 25
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The Unread Book
Foodies
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Finished Reading - Devil's Food Cake Murder

Description (from publisher):

Hannah Swensen has to admit life is pretty sweet. Things are going well in the romance department and her bakery’s delectable confections are selling as fast as she can bake them. Even her good friend Claire is head over heels with her new husband, Reverend Bob Knudson. If only they could find time to take their honeymoon!

When Bob’s childhood friend, Matthew Walters, comes to town, it seems like divine intervention. Matthew, like Bob, is a Lutheran minister with a stubborn sweet tooth. Since he’s on sabbatical, Matthew is happy to fill in for Bob while he and Claire take that long-awaited honeymoon. It sounds like the perfect plan—until Hannah finds Matthew face-down in a plate full of Devil’s Food Cake, a single bullet in his head. It will take some sleuthing to sift out the killer, but Hannah is sure of one thing: even the most half-baked murder plot can be oh so deadly…

Book StatsTitle: Devil's Food Cake Murder
series: Hannah Swensen

Author: Joanne Fluke
publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-7582-3492-6
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: January 2012
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: cozy mystery
pages: 304
ages:14+
Grade: C+




My StatsDate Finished: May 24
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Criminal Plots
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Finished Reading - The Blind Side

Description (from publisher):

One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

Book StatsTitle: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game 
series:

Author: Michael Lewis
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 978-0-393-33838-6
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: October 2009 (movie tie-in edition)
format: Trade Paperback
genre: nonfiction - sports
pages: 352
ages: 16? 12?
Grade: C+



My StatsDate Finished: May 22
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Finished Reading - Love Bites

Description (from publisher):

True love: good from the first bite . . .

Etienne Argeneau's three hundred years of bachelorhood were at an end. Either that, or he'd be forever alone. He could turn only one human in his lifetime, and most of his kind created a life mate. If he turned this stranger . . . But what choice did he have? He had to help Rachel Garrett. The beautiful coroner had saved his life. To save hers, he would make her immortal.

. . . to the last

Rachel Garrett awoke surprised. All she'd wanted was to get off the night shift in the morgue; now here she was staggering to her feet naked and in a strange place. But everything would be all right. She'd just make like a bat out of— Then she saw the man of her dreams emerging from his . . . coffin? And the look in his bright silver eyes said they'd be spending a lot of time together. She just hoped he tasted as good as he looked.

Book StatsTitle: Love Bites
series: An Argeneau Novel
Author: Lynsay Sands
publisher: Avon ... HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062019745
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: Original--January 2004, Reissue--March 2009, ePub--April 2010
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Paranormal Romance
pages: 384
ages: 18+
Grade: B+

My StatsDate Finished: May 20
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Finished Reading - Under a Vampire Moon

Description (from publisher):

Escaping a horrible marriage, Carolyn Connor has no desire to think about men—a vow she's determined to keep while on vacation in St. Lucia. She'll take the Caribbean sun and sea and plenty of tropical drinks with those cute umbrellas poolside, thank you. She absolutely does not need male company, no matter how tan and rock-hard his body may be. Easy enough, but then Carolyn meets the charming Marguerite Argeneau, who is infamous among her family for her matchmaking prowess . . . Christian Notte has well known the power of finding a life mate. He's seen enough of his Argeneau relatives taken down for the count, but he never imagined he'd let himself fall in love—until he meets the enthralling, charmingly skittish, and oh-so-mortal Carolyn. But how will he reveal what he is and still convince this once-bitten mortal to trust him with her heart . . . and her forever?

Book StatsTitle: Under a Vampire Moon
series: An Argeneau Novel
Author: Lynday Sands
publisher: Avon ... HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062100207
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: April 2012
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Paranormal Romance
pages: 384
ages: 18+
Grade: B+



My StatsDate Finished: May 19

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Finished Reading - When You Call My Name

Description (from Barnes and Noble):

She had given him the most precious gift of all--the gift of life. But something more than a mere blood transfusion linked Wyatt Hatfield to the stranger who had saved him. Something that allowed her to call out to him for help in the stillness of the night--without ever speaking a word....

And now it was his turn to give. For the connection that linked Wyatt to Glory Dixon was the only hope he had of saving her from danger. And he had to try--because without ever trying, Glory had become more precious to him than his own life.

Book StatsTitle: When You Call My Name
series:
Author: Sharon Sala
publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 9781426833823
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: January 1996
format: Mass Market Paperback (also Nook & Kindle)
genre:  Romance ...with a touch of the paranormal
pages: 256
ages: 16+
Grade: B+





My StatsDate Finished: May 17

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Finished Reading - Micro

Description (from amazon):

In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye.

In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.

But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.

Book StatsTitle: Micro
series:

Author: Michael Crichton and Richard Preston
publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0060873028
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: November 2011
format: hardcover
genre: Thriller, Medical
pages: 448
ages:
Grade: A



My StatsDate Finished: May 16
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50 States/Where are you reading

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Finished Reading - Academic Pursuits

Description (from publisher):

Jamie Brennan is putting “cad” back into academia!

The son of a well-to-do family and blessed with both dark good looks and buckets of confidence, Jamie lives for the chase. He has a well-deserved reputation around college as a seducer of straight frat boys. No man is off-limits to Jamie—he’s happy to help fellow gay students out of the closet, too. He even has lustful designs on his oblivious English professor, so it’s no surprise that his amorous pursuits often land him in sticky situations.

There's just one flaw in Jamie's perfect world—Roger Hunt. The hunky grad student, who dresses more like a lumberjack than the talented artist he is, gives Jamie hostile looks every time their paths cross. Jamie tries to ignore Roger, but they can't seem to stop running into each other, and Jamie's beginning to wonder if it’s more than chance that continues to steer them down the same halls...

Book StatsTitle: Academic Pursuits
series: Hot College Daze
Author: Lou Harper
publisher: Amber Quill Press
ISBN: 978-1-61124-240-9
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: January 2012
format: ebook
genre: erotica, m/m
pages: 115
ages: 18+
Grade: C+


My StatsDate Finished:  May 16
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Finished Reading - For the Attention Of ...

Description:

Scott gets Joe's attention with a written invitation.

Each story in the series, so far, revolves around a different invitation.

2. RSVP
3. Written Request
4. Orders Enclosed
5. Cordially Invited
6. For His Eyes Only
7. Yours Sincerely
8. Be There
9. By Hand




Book StatsTitle: For the Attention Of
series: Pushing the Envelope
Author: Kim Dare
publisher: Amber Quill Allure
ISBN:
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published:
format: ebook
genre: erotica, m/m, BDSM
pages: Amber Kiss
ages: 18+
Grade: C+



My StatsDate Finished: May 15
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Finished Reading - The Candlestone

Description (from publisher):

A mysterious book leads Billy into mortal combat with a powerful dragon slayer. Separated from his friends and finding his dragon traits useless against this enemy, he has to rely on new weapons, a sword and shield he cannot even see.

A scientist lures Bonnie to his laboratory with amazing news—her mother is still alive! And he should know; he’s her father. He has learned the secret of long life—dragon blood, and he wants Bonnie to help him with his experiments. But first he must send her to retrieve her mother from the candlestone, that strange, paralyzing gem that absorbs light and with it the strength of dragons and their offspring.

The candlestone is also a prison that imprisons people who have been transformed into light energy by Excalibur, King Arthur’s great sword. When Bonnie enters the stone, she learns that many disembodied souls have fallen prey to the gem’s powers, but no one has ever escaped. Her only hope is for Billy to overcome the dragon slayer and find a way into the candlestone, and, more importantly, a way out.

Billy and Bonnie face their greatest fears, and they learn to use their strengths, both innate and newly found, as they battle powerful enemies, ancient fiends from times long past, and the horrors of the blackest of prisons, captivity with the walls of unearthly darkness, the crystalline tomb of the candlestone.

Book StatsTitle: The Candlestone
series: Dragons in Our Midst
Author: Bryan Davis
publisher: Living Ink Books
ISBN: 9780899571713
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: September 2004
format: Trade Paperback
genre: Christian Fantasy
pages: 388
ages:13+ per publisher
Grade: C+




My StatsDate Finished: May 13

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Finished Reading - 28 Days to Hope for Your Home

Description (from publisher):

Are you overwhelmed by the mess in your home?

Have you ever wondered if there’s no hope for you?

I know that feeling. I’ve experienced it too. I’m so glad that now I can say . . .

There is hope! For anyone!

28 Days to Hope for Your Home is not for the mildly disorganized! Develop four habits over four weeks. Discover hope for real change in your home.

Book StatsTitle: 28 Days to Hope for Your Home
(NOT for the Mildly Disorganized)
series:
Author: Dana White
publisher: Amazon Digital Services
ISBN:
ASIN: B007VQE8NG
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2012
format: ebook
genre: nonfiction, How-to, cleaning
pages: 72
ages:
Grade: B


My StatsDate Finished:  May 12
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Finished Reading - Damien

Description (from publisher):

They are the Nightwalkers, mysterious beings who dwell in the shadows of our world, and Damien, the Vampire Prince, is among the most powerful of them all. But one woman will tempt him with a desire unlike anything he has known, and together they will face a terrifying and relentless foe…

He’d Never Loved.

But She Was Irresistible.

As reigning Vampire Prince, Damien has tasted every pleasure the world has to offer—consorting with kings and queens and delighting in sensual adventure. Now, tired of such pursuits, he devotes his energies to protecting his people. The war between human necromancers and Nightwalkers has escalated, and when the enemy makes a daring move, kidnapping Syreena, a Lycanthrope Princess, Damien boldly follows. He succeeds in rescuing her, but is unprepared for the erotic longing her lush sensuality awakens in him.

Gifted with rare abilities, Syreena grew up in a cloistered setting and was forbidden to form attachments to others, yet the connection Damien feels with her is immediate, intoxicating, and impossible for either to resist. But claiming Syreena as his mate could have shattering repercussions for every Nightwalker—and leave their enemies more dangerous than ever before…

Temptation tastes sweetest at night.

Book StatsTitle: Damien
series: The Nightwalkers
Author: Jacquelyn Frank
publisher: Zebra ... Kensington
ISBN:  0-8217-8068-9
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: may 2008
format: Mass Market Paperback/ebook
genre: Paranormal
pages: 352
ages: 18+
Grade: B



My StatsDate Finished:  May 12
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Finished Reading - Sunrise Point

Description (from book):

Former marine Tom Cavanaugh has come home to Virgin River, ready to take over his family's apple orchard and settle down. He knows just what the perfect woman will be like: sweet, decent, maybe a little naive. The marrying kind.

Nothing like Nora Crane. So why can't he keep his eyes off the striking single mother?

Nora may not have finished college, but she graduated with honors from the school of hard knocks. She's been through tough times and she'll do whatever it takes to support her family, including helping with harvest time at the Cavanaughs' orchard. She's always kept a single-minded focus on staying afloat…but suddenly her thoughts keep drifting back to rugged, opinionated Tom Cavanaugh.

Both Nora and Tom have their own ideas of what family means. But they're about to prove each other completely wrong.…

Book StatsTitle: Sunrise Point
series: Virgin River
Author: Robyn Carr
publisher: Mira
ISBN:  9780778313175
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: April 2012
format: Mass Market Paperback
genre: Romance
pages: 384
ages: 18+ (maybe 14)
Grade: B+







My StatsDate Finished:  May 10
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Finished Reading - Always Room for One More

Description (from cover:

Lachie MacLachlan, the generous hero of this enchanting tale, is the exception to the rule that the Scots are a thrifty lot. In his "wee house in the heather," where he lives with his family of twelve, he welcomes to his hearth every weary traveler who passes by on a stormy night. "There's always room for one more," says Lachie, and how his grateful guests say a wonderful "Thank you" provides a delightfully warm and tender ending to this hilarious tale of kindness.

1966 Winner of the Caldecott Medal.

Book StatsTitle: Always Room for One More
series:
Author: Sorche Nic Leodhas
publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 978-0805003307
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: March 1972
format: paperback
genre: Children's Book, Scottish Folk Song
pages: 32
ages: 3+
Grade: C




My StatsDate Finished: May 9
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Finished Reading - Raising Dragons

Description (from B&N):

A boy learns of his dragon past; a girl has known of hers for years. They combine their faith, courage, and love to overcome evil, a slayer who seeks to bring an end to dragon heritage, forever. The kids at school call Billy “Dragon Breath” for good reason. His breath is bad! It isn’t the normal, morning-mouth bad; it’s the hot-as-fire, “don’t-you-dare-get-near-me” bad. Trouble erupts when his hot breath sets off the fire sprinklers in the boys’ restroom at school, and his parents learn that they’ve kept their secret for too long. Billy finally discovers the secret. His father was once a dragon! Now that’s a piece of news a guy doesn’t deal with every day! Billy feels betrayed, alien, lost. When the dragon slayer traps him on a cold mountaintop in West Virginia, Billy learns to battle with weapons of steel and spirit while relying on a power he doesn’t understand, a power that helps him learn to trust again. Bonnie, an orphan, tries to find a home, someone to love her, even though she feels like a freak because of a body feature that she calls a deformity. But this unusual feature becomes a life-saving attribute as she discovers that her love for others and her faith in a creator hold the answers she’s looking for.

Book StatsTitle: Raising Dragons
series: Dragons in Our Midst
Author: Bryan Davis
publisher: Living Ink Books ... AMG Publishers
ISBN: 978-0899571706
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2000
format: Trade paperback
genre: Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction
pages: 371
ages: 12?
Grade: B+







My StatsDate Finished:  May 8
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Finished Reading - Bodyguards in Bed

Description (from publisher):

There’s just one cardinal rule when it comes to being a bodyguard: no matter how tempting it may be, never, ever get romantically involved with the person you’re protecting. But as these sensual novellas prove, even the most important rules are made to be broken—again and again and again. Join acclaimed authors Lucy Monroe, Jamie Denton, and Elisabeth Naughton as they open the files on an undercover operative who finds a sexy surprise under his covers, a hot case involving mixed messages and mistaken identities, and a mission impossible protecting a provocative beauty who lives to love dangerously. Yeah, it’s a hard job, but someone’s gotta do it.

Book StatsTitle: Bodyguards in Bed
series:
Author:anthology (Lucy Monroe, Jamie Denton, Elisabeth Naughton)
publisher: Brava ...Kensington
ISBN: 978-0758210333
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: may 2011
format: Trade Paperback
genre: Contemporary Romance
pages: 275
ages:18+
Grade: C+







My StatsDate Finished: May 8
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Finished Reading - Famine

Description (from book):

Having been sacrificed by his village shaman, Famine knows what it’s like to do anything to survive. He wanders the world, sowing drought and starvation in his wake. Yet he hates being the Black Horseman more than anything in the world, except the man who ended his life all those centuries ago. Famine never stops doing his job, and never allows himself to fall in love.

Ekundayo wants a better life for himself, so he steals a diamond from the mine where he works. Nothing goes well for him after that, and he finds himself dying in the desert on his way to the border. When he’s rescued by Famine, Ekundayo isn’t sure if his luck has changed or not. The longer he stays in Famine’s company, the more Ekundayo discovers he just might be falling in love with Famine.

One bad choice on Ekundayo’s part and a future together seems out of reach. Will Famine let his only possibility of love go or will he defy Death himself to keep Ekundayo?

Book StatsTitle: Famine
series: The Four Horsemen
Author: T. A. Chase
publisher: Total-e-Bound
ISBN: 978-0-85715-892-5
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2012
format: ebook
genre: paranormal romance, GBLT
pages: 142
ages: 18+
Grade:





My StatsDate Finished: May 7
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Finished Reading - Zero Day

Description (from book jacket):

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has stumbled onto a brutal crime scene, a family slaughtered. The local homicide detective, a headstrong woman with personal demons of her own, joins forces with Puller in the investigation. As Puller digs through deception after deception, he realizes that absolutely nothing he's seen in this small town, and no one in it, are what they seem. Facing a potential conspiracy that reaches far beyond the hills of West Virginia, he is one man on the hunt for justice against an overwhelming force.

Book StatsTitle: Zero Day
series:
Author: David Baldacci
publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780446573016
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: October 2011
format: Hardcover
genre: Suspense. Thriller. Military
pages: 448
ages: 16?
Grade: B





My StatsDate Finished: May 6
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