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
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at
challenge or just because but fits several challenges


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Book Dragon's Lair
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari

Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
Mt TBR
Spring Reading Thing
Spring Reading Challenge
Mystery & Suspense

copyright Gina Francis 2009-2012

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
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at
challenge or just because


Reviewed at...
Book Dragon's Lair
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari

Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
Pern
Spring Reading Thing
PB&J

copyright Gina Francis 2009-2012

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
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at
challenge or just because


Reviewed at...
Book Dragon's Lair ~ planned
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari

Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
Pern
Read & Review
Spring Reading Thing

copyright Gina Francis 2009-2012

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
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at
challenge or just because


Reviewed at...
Book Dragon's Lair-planned
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari

Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
The Eclectic Reader
Around the Stacks
Spring Reading Thing
Mystery & Suspense
Criminal Plots
Pick Your Thon
Where are you reading

copyright Gina Francis 2009-2012

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
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at: Target
challenge & just because...like the author, fit a challenge


Reviewed at...
Book Dragon's Lair
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari

Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
What an animal
cozy
Spring Reading Thing
50 States
Where are you reading
Girl Power

copyright Gina Francis 2009-2012

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
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
own or borrowed or review
from the shelf or new purchase
print or electronic
if new...purchased at
challenge or just because


Reviewed at...
Book Dragon's Lair
amazon
Powell's
Fictionwise/eReader
Book Depository
Barnes & Noble
publisher
GoodReads
LibraryThing
Shelfari

Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
Pern
Girl Power
What an Animal
PB&J

copyright Gina Francis 2009-2012