Finished Reading - A Deadly Chocolate Pi

Description (from amazon):

When one of Liz's cookery class students, a brilliant scientist, mathematician and antique house restorer dies of rat poison in a chocolate cream pie, the off-season in this summer tourist Mecca gets sticky and ugly. Old animosities, a lost property deed, two cousins with opposing evil agendas and the usual host of quirky, lovable and not so lovable characters will bring you back to Provincetown to join in the fun.

Book StatsTitle: A Deadly Chocolate Pi
series: A Cape Cod Cozy Mystery
Author: Cynthia Gallant-Simpson
publisher: Cape Cod Cozies & Mysteries, INK
ISBN:
ASIN: B005G8L5C8
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published:  August 2011
format: kindle
genre: Cozy Mystery
pages: 266
ages: maybe 14+
Grade: C+




My StatsDate Finished: June 1
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Challenges150+
One Million Pages
Foodies
Spring Reading Thing
The Unread Book
ebook

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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



My StatsDate Finished: April 26
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Challenges150+
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 - Taking Love in Stride

Description (from amazon):

Track coach Andrea O'Connor fumed at the audacity of Ian Powers, the very attractive father of one of her students. He had offered to buy school equipment only if Andrea agreed to train him for a half-marathon. Well, train him, she would. And not just in running. As a widower with a high-powered job, Ian needed some instruction in being a father to an active teenage daughter. Yet as this overbearing man opened up, Andrea found herself learning lessons--in loving. Ian knew that, with her assertive attitude and penchant for stilettos, Andrea was some woman! But her vulnerable heart was on the run, so he'd have to prove that his love, unlike his running, had limitless endurance--and once he caught this swift beauty, he'd never let her go.

Book Stats
Title: Taking Love in Stride
Author: Donna Fasano
publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1461014331
ASIN:
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: March 2011
format: paperback/ebook
genre: romance
pages: 200


My Stats
Date Finished: February 11
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Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
ebook
50 States
Where are you reading
Sports Romance

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Finished Reading - The Book of Deacon

Description (from amazon):

Myranda is a young woman more interested in staying alive than being a hero. Orphaned by a continent-spanning war that has gone on for decades too long and shunned for failing to support it, she has been on the move since she was only a child. One can hardly blame her when she thinks that the chance discovery of a fallen soldier's priceless cargo is the moment that will change her life. No one could predict just how great that change would be. It will lead her through an adventure of rebels and generals, of wizards and warriors, and of beasts both noble and monstrous. Each step of the way will take her closer to the truth of her potential, of the war, and of the fate of her world.

Book Stats
Title: The Book of Deacon
Series: The Book of Deacon
Author: Joseph Lallo
publisher: Amazon Digital Services
ASIN: B0036FTF4S
(Amazon Standard Identification Number)
date published: February 2010
format: ebook (check out Smashwords)
genre: epic fantasy
pages: 426


My Stats
Date Finished: February 10
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GoodReads
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Challenges
150+
One Million Pages
ebook
Mt TBR
Free Reads
Why Buy the Cow
12 in 12
Off the Shelf
Around the Stacks
The Eclectric Reader
What's in a name

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Finished Reading - Wife by Wednesday

Description (from amazon):

Blake Harrison: Rich, titled, and charming… And in need of a wife by Wednesday so he turns to Sam Elliot who isn’t the business man he expected. Instead, Blake is faced with Samantha Elliot, engaging and spunky with a voice men call 900 numbers to hear.

Samantha Elliot: Owner of Alliance, her matchmaking firm, and not on the marital menu... That is until Blake offers her ten million dollars for a one-year contract. All she needs to do is keep her attraction to her husband to herself and avoid his bed.

But Blake’s toe-curling kisses and charm prove too difficult to combat. Now she needs to protect her heart so she can walk away when their mercenary life together is over.

Book Stats
Title: Wife by Wednesday
Author: Catherine Bybee
publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1467964401
date published: October 2011
format: ebook (kindle)
genre: Romance
pages: 222

Grade: C


My Stats
Date Finished: February 4
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
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Challenges
150+
One Million Pages Read
ebook
Romance (and completes the challenge)
Mt. TBR
Off the Shelf
What's in a Name
52-52-52
The Eclectic Reader

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Finished Reading - Nitt Witt Hill

Description:

What's causing the country and now the President to lose their crackers and voters to elect Nitt Witts? Clowns and Turkeys are running Congress and the Nitt Witts are everywhere. But will one more Clown in Congress make any difference? Would the country be better off with some real Turkeys instead of those Clowns? Or are the Nitt Witts destined to run Washington? Set on historic Nitt Witt Ridge in Cambria, California and Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., Sebastian Gibson's satire paints the absurdities of the political world and of daily life with his unique sense of humor. The top political parties have degenerated into the Nitt Witts, the Turkeys and the Clown Party and the country is becoming deranged. Unless Mark Twain (Mark, a political consultant and his dog, Twain) can determine what's making people so neurotic and make sense of the madness, riots may cause the country's collapse. The Clowns are running for office with the slogan, "One more Clown in Congress probably won't make any difference." The Turkey candidates are running against the Clowns with their counter slogan, "Isn't it time we had some real Turkeys in office instead of those Clowns?" But it's the Nitt Witt Party who may have the most appeal to voters with their slogan, "Elect a Nitt Witt and see what some real Nitt Witts can do in Washington." Meanwhile, believing a lightweight metal alloy in bras when placed in contact with the wearer's skin is causing electrostatic interference with aircraft navigation equipment and with people themselves, Homeland Security and the Senate take action to prohibit the wearing of bras on airplanes and their sale in America. Still, the situation fails to improve and the country is on the verge of losing its collective mind. With the rhetoric of political parties at a level never seen before ("Turkeys are made for stuffing, Clowns are for Congress") and as protesters riot over the right to wear or go without bras and try to take control of the White House it's up to Mark and his dog Twain to determine the cause of the country's mental imbalance and find a way to save the country. Read the novel that's making Washington laugh so hard, Congress can't accomplish anything. It all begins and ends on Nitt Witt Hill.

Book Stats
Title: Nitt Witt Hill
Author: Sebastian Gibson
publisher: Sebastian Gibson Publishing
ISBN: 978-0984777624
date published: Feb 1, 2012
format: Trade paperback
genre: political humor
248 pages

Grade: B

as for age...I'd say 14+, use your own judgement, this is a political book but I say if they're interested, let them read it.


My Stats
Date Finished: Jan 24
fiction or non-fiction
new or re-read
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Reviewed at, so far...
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GoodReads
LibraryThing
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Challenges
What's in a Name (land formation)
Free Reads
Read 52 Books in 52 Weeks
A to Z mini challenge
Personal ARC read and review
Winter's Respite Read-a-thon
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