Books I've Read
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Date Read (from) - 2022-12-07
Date Read (thru) - 2022-01-01
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| 2022-12-07 | 7 | Winnie the Pooh (Milne, A.A. - 1926) |
Youth | Suggested By: Author. Colored illustrations version. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. Book 1. The adventures of Pooh and Piglet, Kanga and tiny Roo, Owl, Rabbit, and the ever doleful Eeyore are timeless treasures of childhood. In this beautiful edition of Winnie-the-Pooh, each of Ernest H. Shepard's beloved original illustrations has been meticulously hand painted. Bright in color and elegant in design, this lovely volume of Milne's classic tales welcomes friends old and new into the most enchanted of places, the Hundred Acre Wood. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-12-06 | 5 | Hot Six (Evanovich, Janet - 2000) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-12-05 | 4 | Spells for Forgetting (Young, Adrienne - 2022) |
Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: Amazon.com. A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love. I think this might have been an option for Amazon Kindle First Reads, but I picked a different book that month. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-12-04 | 6 | Desert Star (Connelly, Michael - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him--the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his "white whale" with the resources of the LAPD behind him. First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again--the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a "cold hit" connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-12-03 | 6 | No Plan B (Child, Lee and Andrew Child - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise--before swiftly grabbing the dead woman's purse and strolling away. When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-12-02 | 6 | Tahoe Ice Grave (Borg, Todd - 2002) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Owen McKenna Mystery Thriller book 3. Early one frigid morning in January, a young man named Thos Kahale walked into the icy waters of Lake Tahoe and died a brutal death. Hired to investigate, Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna learns that the Hawaiian side of the man's family had a secret shrine hidden in a cave in the cliffs of Kauai. Owen flies to Kauai and hears about a long-lost manuscript that Mark Twain left when he visited Kauai in 1866. The manuscript, which would be worth millions, is rumored to have been lost in a hurricane. Owen suspects that it was hidden in the secret shrine. As multiple people die, Owen tracks a vicious killer who looks like a Viking. Owen follows the Viking back to Tahoe and learns of a cave of ice that is sacred to Tahoe's Washoe Indians. Thos, who was half Washoe, may have hidden the manuscript in the Tahoe cave. Only one person, whose identity is unknown, knows the answer. Owen and his Great Dane Spot have to find that person before the Viking does, and they are running out of time as they chase the Viking up a mountain in a blizzard to a cave of ice and a battle to the death. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-12-01 | 6 | In a Midnight Wood (Hart, Ellen - 2020) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 27. Back in 1999, Emma's boyfriend and Castle Lake high school senior Sam Romilly went missing. Everyone thought he ran away, though the town rumor mill has always claimed his father murdered him. Today, within a week of his class's 20th reunion, Sam's remains are found in someone else's burial plot. Suddenly the case is warming up fast. People who knew Sam--friends and enemies alike--will be in town for the much anticipated reunion. It's up to Jane to sort the innocent from the guilty, before it's too late. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-23 | 6 | Twisted at the Root (Hart, Ellen - 2019) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 26. Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband's murder. Four years later, Rashad's brother contacts Ray Lawless – Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless's father and the original defense attorney on the case – with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction. When the case is reopened, Jane and her father must work together to attain justice for a grieving widower. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-11 | 6 | Tahoe Blowup (Borg, Todd - 2001) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Owen McKenna Mystery Thriller book 2. When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna's cabin narrowly escapes burning in an arson-set forest fire, the local fire department hires him to investigate. As more fires follow and people die, Owen can't tell if the fires are an act of eco-terrorism or a method of murder. Before Owen can solve the case, the firestarter kidnaps Owen's girlfriend Street Casey. Owen has just hours to save Street before she burns up in a fire so big, fire fighters call it a BLOWUP. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-10 | 5 | The Vanishing (Webb, Wendy - 2014) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Bought after reading the library Overdrive copy. This was a library Overdrive-only book. Eew. I really hate Overdrive. I couldn't make any notes or export my highlights. Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and rather eccentric horror novelist whom Julia has always admired . . . and who the world believes is dead. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-09 | 3 | I Will Judge You By Your Bookshelf (Snider, Grant - 2020) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Amazon.com. A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator and creator of Incidental Comics. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-08 | 5 | The Maid (Prose, Nita - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Suggested List. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter--she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-07 | 7 | Righteous Prey (Sandford, John - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Prey series book 32. So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as "The Five," shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is made up of vigilante killers who are very bored…and very rich. They target the worst of society--rapists, murderers, and thieves--and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they've killed, donating untraceable Bitcoin to charities and victims via the dark net. The Five soon become popular figures in the media …though their motives may not be entirely pure. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-06 | 4 | After Hello (McFarlane, Mhairi - 2017) |
Chick Lit | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. I got this in hopes of fulfilling an Amazon reading challenge (I don't think that it counted - I ended up reading a Jenny Lawson essay instead). There was a short blurb from Jenny Colgan on the cover. A short story sequel to the bestselling romcom You Had Me At Hello! In You Had Me At Hello!, the one who got away came back…but what happened next? Together, apart and then back together again, Rachel and Ben had a rollercoaster ride to get here. But now happily in love and partners in crime once more, it feels like it's all been worth it. But when a face from the past reappears, misunderstandings come between them once more. Can they hold on to their happy ever after? |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-05 | 7 | I Choose Darkness (Lawson, Jenny - 2022) |
Essays | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Kindle Prime book. I found this in a list of Great on Kindle books as part of a challenge for the Kindle reading program winter of 2022. This essay takes Jenny back to where it all started, from her humble beginnings as a trick-or-treater in the 1980s, on high alert for (logistically improbable) candy laced with razor blades and the (allegedly) ever-present threat of satanists on the loose. From there, she has risen from the candy-wrapper ashes of her childhood to claim her rightful lifestyle as the queen of Halloween. |
Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-04 | 5 | The Fate of Mercy Alban (Webb, Wendy - 2013) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace's aunt disappeared without a trace. The night has been shrouded in secrecy by the powerful Alban family for all of these years. Her mother intended to tell the truth about that night to a reporter on the very day she died--could it have been murder? Or was she a victim of the supposed Alban curse? Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansion's secret passages. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-03 | 6 | The Tale of Halcyon Crane (Webb, Wendy - 2010) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. When a mysterious letter lands in Hallie James's mailbox, her life is upended. Hallie was raised by her loving father, having been told her mother died in a fire decades earlier. But it turns out that her mother, Madlyn, was alive until very recently. Why would Hallie's father have taken her away from Madlyn? What really happened to her family thirty years ago? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-02 | 6 | The Clue of the Broken Locket (Keene, Carolyn - 1934) |
Youth | Suggested By: Author. When Nancy Drew and her friends arrive at Misty Lake, they meet pretty, red-haired Cecily Curtis, who seeks Nancy's help in solving two mysteries. One concerns Cecily's fiancé, Niko Van Dyke, a popular singer who believes that his record company is cheating him of royalty payments. The other involves a family treasure hidden before the start of the Civil War; Cecily's only clue is half of a gold locket. Nancy's investigations lead her to Pudding Stone Lodge, where the sinister Driscoll family lives. Strange coincidences give Nancy plenty of opportunity to test her sleuthing skills. Braving a series of dangerous situations and discouraging developments, the alert young detective perseveres in her attempts to solve both mysteries and reveal the astounding secrets of Pudding Stone Lodge. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-11-01 | 6 | The Bookstore Sisters (Hoffman, Alice - 2022) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She's a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley's Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island. What she finds there may forever alter her path--and change everything she thought she knew about her family, her home, and herself. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-10 | 6 | Wherever the Wind Takes Us (Harms, Kelly - 2022) |
Chick Lit | Suggested By: Author. $5.28 Kindle book. When normally cautious Becca proposes a girls' trip with her daughter, Liv, boating from Maine to a ready buyer for the boat in Miami, it seems like a recipe for a fun summer and a fresh start. After all, how hard can this sailing thing be? Enter Grant Murphy, a stunning Irish sailing coach that Liv can barely stand--and Becca can't seem to resist. Grant's too young for Becca, but he's insightful and kind, and his passion for sailing is contagious. Through his eyes, Becca sees for the first time in years a future she might want to navigate toward. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-09 | 6 | The Haunting of Brynn Wilder (Webb, Wendy - 2020) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Amazon labeled it "gothic fiction". After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a (fictional) tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, cared for by a married couple with a heartbreaking story of their own; LuAnn, the eccentric and lovable owner of the inn; and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man inked from head to toe in mesmerizing tattoos. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-08 | 5 | Hell and Back (Johnson, Craig - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies, along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust, something the Northern Cheyenne refer to as the Éveohtsé-heómėse, the Wandering Without, the Taker of Souls? What if the only way you know who you are is because your name is printed in the leather sweatband of your cowboy hat, and what if it says your name is Walt Longmire . . . but you don't remember him? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-07 | 6 | A Whisper of Bones (Hart, Ellen - 2018) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Britt Ickles doesn't remember much from her only visit to her mother's childhood home when she was a kid, except for playing with her cousin Timmy and the eruption of a sudden family feud. That's why, when she drops by unannounced after years of silence, she's shocked when her aunts tell her Timmy never existed, that she must be confusing him with someone else. But Britt can't shake the feeling that Timmy did exist…and that something horrible has happened to him. Something her aunts want to cover up. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-06 | 6 | The Stroke of Winter (Webb, Wendy - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter. As the house's restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess's late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations. But these appear to be the works of a twisted mind, almost unrecognizable as paintings she and others familiar with his art would expect. The sinister canvases raise disturbing questions for Tess, sparking nightmares and igniting in her an obsession to unearth the truth around their origins. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-05 | 6 | The Quarry Girls (Lourey, Jess - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-04 | 3 | Propeller One-Way Night Coach (Travolta, John - 1992) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. Ever since he could remember, young Jeff wanted to fly in an airplane more than anything in the world. His mother had told him that if he saved his pennies, they would take a trip together. And here they were, on the first of a series of connecting flights that would take them from Newark all the way to Los Angeles. |
Source: Owned. Format: Hardcover. |
| 2022-10-03 | 4 | Ellie Dwyer's Big Mistake (Winger, Diane - 2020) |
Chick Lit | Suggested By: Author. $3.23 Kindle book. Book 2 of the Ellie Dwyer Series. Ellie Dwyer, 63, embraces her new lifestyle – living full-time out of her tiny camper and sharing outdoor adventures with her energetic 82-year-old friend, Ruth. But Ellie's idyllic world is interrupted when she is contacted by a woman who knows her oldest and best-kept secret. Viewing her past in a different light, Ellie undergoes an uplifting change of heart. Will her relationship with her new acquaintance bring them a fairytale ending, or is that too much to hope for? |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-02 | 6 | Fever in the Dark (Hart, Ellen - 2017) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Fiona and Annie return home from their one year anniversary trip to discover that their poignant proposal video has been posted on YouTube and has garnered hundreds of thousands of hits. The video is on the verge of going viral, and there's enormous media interest in Fiona and Annie, as their fame comes just on the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage across the country. As some of the attention starts to turn vicious, Fiona pulls in an old friend, private investigator Jane Lawless, to help separate the harmless threats from the potentially harmful. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-10-01 | 5 | The Grave Soul (Hart, Ellen - 2015) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 23. An injured woman gropes her way through the woods seeking help. Hart soon reveals that this battered woman is none other than Jane Lawless, who's been beaten to the point of partial amnesia. Her loss of memory is so profound that even reuniting with her oldest friend, the dramatic Cordelia, barely strikes a chord with Jane. It all started when Guthrie Hewitt calls on restaurateur and private investigator Jane Lawless, he doesn't know where else he can turn. Guthrie has fallen for a girl-Kira Adler. In fact, he was planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. But his trip home with Kira over Thanksgiving made him uneasy. All her life, Kira has been haunted by a dream-a nightmare, really. In the dream, she witnesses her mother being murdered. She knows it can't be true because the dream doesn't line up with the facts of her mother's death. But after visiting Kira's home for the first time, and receiving a disturbing anonymous package in the mail, Guthrie starts to wonder if Kira's dream might hold more truth than she knows. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-09 | 5 | Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape (Winger, Diane - 2019) |
Chick Lit | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $1.07 Kindle book. Book 1 of the Ellie Dwyer Series. According to one review, this is an accurate depiction of living in an Alina A-Frame camper trailer (I loved the look of those - we saw one with D and Beth and Mel). Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in threes, and not just garden-variety, oh-well bad luck. How many people have to flee not one, but two natural disasters? And in between the wildfire and the hurricane, her husband of nearly forty years suddenly up and left her for no reason she could fathom, disappearing from her life without a clue to his whereabouts. Determined to reinvent her life, Ellie sets out on a journey across the country. Along the way to nowhere in particular, she buys a camper, becomes friends with a remarkable octogenarian, and starts to believe that good luck might also come in threes. RVing. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-08 | 4 | The Jack Reacher Cases (A Hard Man To Forget) (Child, Lee and Dan Ames - 2017) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed Kindle Prime book. Former FBI agent Lauren Pauling met Jack Reacher in THE HARD WAY, the 10th Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Now, in A Hard Man To Forget, Pauling is a private investigator in New York and receives a mysterious letter with Jack Reacher's name, along with a phone number. Pauling calls the number and reaches a woman whose husband has gone missing. Even stranger, the woman claims she didn't contact Pauling, and has no idea who Jack Reacher is. |
Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-07 | 5 | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith, Betty - 1943) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $0.00 Kindle book. A young girl in a shabby neighborhood lived with dreams in an innocent time before the war. I thought I hadn't read this, so I read my Kindle copy. Looks like I already read it back in 2005. Go figure. Since this my second time reading it, I'm logging the price as $0.00. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-06 | 5 | Tahoe Deathfall (Borg, Todd - 2001) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Other. Free Kindle book. Owen McKenna Mystery Thriller book 1. When 14-year-old Jennifer Salazar approaches Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna, she explains that her identical twin sister Melissa died 8 years before on their 6th birthday. Now, at the ripe old age of 14, Jennifer has come to believe that her sister's death was not the accident that everyone says. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-05 | 6 | Other Birds (Allen, Sarah Addison - 2022) |
Magical/Mystical | Suggested By: Author. $16.17 Kindle book. Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it's named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-04 | 6 | Rules at the School By The Sea (Colgan, Jenny - 2009) |
Brit Lit | Suggested By: Author. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie's just got to stop thinking about David McDonald, her colleague at the boys' school down the road. Well, hasn't she? Can Maggie take a leaf out of the Well Behaved Teacher's exercise book and stick to her plan for a small but elegant wedding and settled life of matrimony? Even as Maggie tries to stay within the lines, rules are being broken all around her. Maggie's boss, headmistress Veronica Deveral, has more to lose than anyone. When Daniel Stapleton joins the faculty, Veronica finds herself forced to confront a scandalous secret she thought she'd carefully buried forever. How long will she be able to keep her past under wraps? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-03 | 4 | I Spy Birds: A Fun Guessing Game Picture Book (Malkovich, Alek - 2020) |
Youth | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. For Kids Ages 2-5, Toddlers and Kindergartners. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-02 | 3 | She-Hulk Vol. 3: Time Trials (She-Hulk (2005) (Slott, Dan - 2005) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. I don't get the Disney+ streaming, so I can't watch the new She-Hulk with Tatiana Maslany. I checked out a few graphic novels from the library. Collects She-Hulk (2005) #1-5. Join She-Hulk as she deals with the bizarre legal problems of the Marvel Universe! Strange twists, exciting adventures and lots of guest-stars! And She-Hulk isn't the only one returning. Get ready, True Believer! Hawkeye's back! We kid you not! So why is Clint Barton giving Jen Walters such a hard time? And how is his fate tied in to She-Hulk's latest case? Featuring guest appearances by the New Avengers and Cassie Lang (Stature from Young Avengers). |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-09-01 | 6 | An Island Wedding (Colgan, Jenny - 2022) |
Brit Lit | Suggested By: Author. On the little Scottish island of Mure--halfway between Scotland and Norway--Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of "sweetheart weddings," a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them. Not everyone on the island is happy about being excluded, though. The temperature rises even further when beautiful Olivia MacDonald--who left Mure ten years ago for bigger and brighter things--returns with a wedding planner in tow. Her fiancé has oodles of family money, and Olivia is determined to throw the biggest, most extravagant, most Instagrammable wedding possible. And she wants to do it at Flora's hotel, the same weekend as Flora's carefully planned micro-wedding. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-11 | 2 | Fated To The Ruthless Alpha King, Episode 1: The Lotus Princess (Unknown - 2022) |
Fantasy | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Amazon has added some new crap called "Kindle Vellas". It looks like some really awful fan-fiction type stuff. I had to read one in order to collect one of the badges/awards in the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge. |
Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-10 | 4 | She-Hulk Vol. 2: Superhuman Law (Slott, Dan - 2014) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. She-Hulk (2004-2005) collects 2004 issues 7-12. We don't get the channel with the Tatiana Maslany She-Hulk series, so I thought I'd check out some of the graphic novels at the library. As a superhuman lawyer, She-Hulk has tried some of the strangest cases on Earth... but all of that is about to change! Empowered by the Living Tribunal, Shulkie is heading into deep space to practice Universal Law! Guest-starring Adam Warlock, Gamora, and Pip the Troll! Plus: Out of all of She-Hulk's enemies, no one hates her more than Titania! |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-09 | 5 | Cardboard Loom Weaving: 25 Fast and Easy Projects (Kageyama, Harumi - 2019) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. Looks decent. Consider buying a copy. Start weaving today on your own handmade cardboard looms! With the instructions in this book, you are only minutes away from creating your own one-of-a-kind woven scarves, pillows, handbags, and more. Step-by-step instructions walk you through how to make simple looms from cardboard. Make flat looms, circular looms, and three-dimensional looms for tubular weaving. Then follow the instructions to learn to weave a variety of textile patterns, and make the 25 original projects. Hats, wrist warmers, boot toppers, blankets, seat cushions, pot holders, and more--there is no limit to what you can weave once you know how! |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-08 | 6 | The Old Deep and Dark (Hart, Ellen - 2014) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 22. Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouse's future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes by its past. Nicknamed "The Old Deep and Dark" because of the Prohibition-era double murder that occurred in the basement-then a speakeasy-there are a wealth of secrets hidden inside its walls. And, to her shock and horror, Cordelia discovers that there is also one present-day body literally buried in a basement wall. Cordelia immediately calls on her best friend, P.I. Jane Lawless. Although Jane is already in the thick of another investigation-she's embroiled in a well-known country-western singer's family scandal-she agrees to help Cordelia out on the side. But show-biz is a small world, and as Jane starts tracing the trails of two separate investigations, she's surprised to find they might not be as unconnected as she thought. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-07 | 5 | The Magic of Found Objects (Dawson, Maddie - 2021) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Phronsie Linnelle was conceived at Woodstock in a serendipitous liaison between a free-spirited hippie and a farmer's son and was born with magical wonder flickering in her DNA and rationality knit into her bones. All her life she's been torn between the two. But now that she's been betrayed by both love and the mother she once idolized, her rational side is winning. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-06 | 4 | The Infinite Pieces of Us (Crane, Rebekah - 2018) |
Youth | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $1.07 Kindle book. Bought to complete Amazon Kindle 2022 "Epic Summer Challenge" Topshelf award. From the author of The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about coming apart, getting it together--and moving on. It's just a two-hour drive. Pondering math problems is Esther Ainsworth's obsession. If only life's puzzles required logic. Her stepfather's solution? Avoidance. He's exiled the family to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, to erase a big secret from Esther's past. So much for the truth. Now for the consequences: an empty swimming pool, a water-sucking cactus outside her window, a goldfish rescued from a church festival, and Esther's thirst for something real. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-05 | 3 | She-Hulk Vol. 1: Single Green Female (She-Hulk (2004)) (Slott, Dan - 2004) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. I don't get the Disney+ streaming, so I can't watch the new She-Hulk with Tatiana Maslany. I checked out a few graphic novels from the library, and I bought a the first three issues of the Rainbow Rowell She-Hulk series for 99-cents apiece. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-04 | 5 | Did Not Believe: Misadventures in Running, Cycling and Swimming (Mahood, George - 2022) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Author. $1.61 Kindle book. DNF Series Book 7. Used some Kindle credits. Still living in the shadow of a global pandemic, George and Rachel attempt some of their toughest events so far. Rachel decides to sign up to her first iron-distance triathlon. But a broken bone threatens to derail George's chances of joining her. They take on their longest ever run, most challenging swim, their first swim/run event, and a backyard ultra - a race that can only have one finisher. Ludo - the family's hairy, four-legged friend - gets in on the action as an official competitor in a muddy fun run. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-03 | 6 | Rest for the Wicked (Hart, Ellen - 2012) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 20. Read after Book 21, Taken By the Wind, because of a library ebook licensing lapse. DeAndre Moore came to Minneapolis from St. Louis with a purpose, but things aren't going as he planned. When it becomes clear he's in way over his head, DeAndre can think of only one person to call for help--his Uncle Nolan's business partner, newly licensed private investigator Jane Lawless. However, by the time Jane listens to his voice mail, she's hearing a voice from beyond the grave--DeAndre left the message only minutes before he was knifed to death outside a gentlemen's club. Soon his murder isn't the only one. With Nolan in the hospital, Jane sets out to find out who killed DeAndre, how his death is connected with the others, and what he was doing in Minneapolis in the first place. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-02 | 6 | Taken By the Wind (Hart, Ellen - 2013) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 21. Read before Book 20, Rest for the Wicked , because of library ebook licensing issues. Although Eric and Andrew have been trying to keep up a semblance of normal life, they know their thirteen-year-old son Jack has been having a tough time of it since they separated. They've been concerned, but now they're terrified--Jack has run away from home. It happened once before, just after the separation, but then it was only a matter of hours before Eric found him. This time, Jack disappeared with his cousin, and the two of them haven't been seen for more than twenty-four hours. Desperate, Eric and Andrew call on private investigator Jane Lawless, a friend of Andrew's from years ago. Despite the fact that her business partner, A.J. Nolan, is now in a wheelchair and struggling with depression, Jane agrees to help out. But after examining Eric and Andrew's home, Jane's first impression of the case isn't good--in fact, she's not convinced the boys ran away at all. She thinks they may have been abducted…or worse. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-08-01 | 6 | The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Baum, L. Frank - 1913) |
Classic | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle Book. Book 7/15. Ojo the very unlucky is a young Munchkin boy who, devoted to life with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the wilderness but on the verge of starvation, goes to see a neighboring "magician" and old friend of Unc, Dr. Pipt. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-12 | Castle in The Air (Westlake, Donald E. - 1980) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. In the funniest crime caper ever from Grandmaster Donald Westlake, four teams of international thieves race through Paris to steal a king's ransom from the walls of a disassembled castle. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-07-11 | 7 | Dancing Aztecs (Westlake, Donald E. - 1976) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. A small South American republic has decided to capitalize on its national symbol: a prized gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest. The president asks a sculptor to make sixteen copies of it for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with one of his fakes, and ships the real one to New York City for an under-the-table sale to a museum. The statues travel to America spread out among five crates, labeled to ensure that delivery goes as planned. But it doesn't work. Asked to pick up the crate marked "E" at the airport, delivery man Jerry Manelli, confused by his client's Spanish accent, takes crate "A" instead. The statue disappears into the city, leading him on a baffling chase, which--if he comes up with the wrong Aztec--could cost him his life. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-10 | 6 | The Seven Day Switch (Harms, Kelly - 2021) |
Chick Lit | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Hopefully this one will be better than Kelly Harms' last with the "social media influencer". Who do Celeste and Wendy think they are? They're about to find out thanks to one freaky week. After a neighborhood potluck and too much sangria, they wake up--um, what?--in each other's bodies. Everything Celeste and Wendy thought they knew about the "other kind of mom" is flipped upside down--along with their messy, complicated, maybe not so different lives. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-09 | 6 | The Lost Women of Lost Lake (Hart, Ellen - 2011) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 19. Restaurateur and part-time P.I. Jane Lawless is taking some much-needed time off at her family's lodge when her best friend, Cordelia, arrives with news that Tess, one of their good friends, has taken a nasty fall and needs their help with rehearsals for a play that is set to open in a week. When Tess isn't on crutches, she helps run the Thunderhook Lodge, the premier resort on Lost Lake. And while she clearly needs Jane and Cordelia's assistance, she isn't exactly acting all that grateful. A man who claims to be a journalist has arrived in Lost Lake with an old photograph and some questions for Tess that go back decades. His questions have put her on edge, and when he shows up peeking through her kitchen window, everyone else is right there with her. As beloved as Tess is, there are plenty of people who don't care about any so-called journalist and are happy to protect her, but how far are they willing to take it? And when will they need answers to questions that that only Tess can provide? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-08 | 6 | Fangirl, Volume 2 The Manga (Rowell, Rainbow (Creator) and Gabi Nam (Illustrator) and Sam Maggs (Adapter) - 2022) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Author. Cath just wants to hang out with her twin sister and write fanfiction. But now that they're in college, her sister doesn't have time for her. And life keeps pulling Cath further and further out of her shell. For the first time ever, Cath has her own social circle. There's Nick, her handsome classmate who wants her to write short stories with him… And then Levi, who keeps showing up when she isn't looking for him… |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-07 | 7 | The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Ackerman, Jennifer - 2020) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. $6.46 Kindle book. Bought after starting, but not finishing, the library eBook. After reading Ackerman's The Genius of Birds, you may listen harder to the various chirps, cheeps, and coos coming from your backyard. Her new book reminds us that we have a lot in common with birds. Like us, they are capable of deception and manipulation, not to mention cooperation, culture, and communication. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-06 | 6 | The Cruel Ever After (Hart, Ellen - 2010) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 18. The shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he'd never see again is nothing compared to Chester's own. After their divorce many years ago, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant, which worked out well for Jane but less so for Chester. Now he's back and penniless, or as he would prefer to say, between fortunes. He's working an angle to make his next one by selling a priceless artifact recently looted from the Baghdad Museum, but it all falls through when he wakes up next to the dead body of his buyer with no memory of what happened the night before. Panicked, Chester flees the scene, eventually returning to cover his tracks only to find that someone has already taken care of that for him, but at what price? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-05 | 6 | Cook Real Hawai'i (Simeon, Sheldon - 2021) |
Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Through stunning photography, poignant stories, and dishes like wok-fried poke, pork dumplings made with biscuit dough, crispy cauliflower katsu, and charred huli-huli chicken slicked with a sweet-savory butter glaze, Cook Real Hawai‘i will bring a true taste of the cookouts, homes, and iconic mom and pop shops of Hawai‘i into your kitchen. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-04 | 3 | Two Much! (Westlake, Donald E. - 1975) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Art doesn't mean to tell Liz Kerwin that he has a twin. He's on Fire Island, and she's so beautiful that he's willing to say anything for a chance at getting rid of her clothes. So when Liz mentions an identical twin sister, Art blurts out that he has a twin too. His name is Bart, he says, and describes the most boring man he can dream up. Liz thinks he would be perfect for her sister Betty. When Art meets Betty--who is, of course, just as lovely as her twin--she asks about his brother. Hoping for a chance at the family fortune, Art dons a pair of glasses, slicks back his hair, and soon has "Bart" engaged to the sister. As his simple lie spins out of control, Art learns that wooing sisters is never as easy as it seems. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-03 | 5 | A Superior Death (Barr, Nevada - 1994) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Anna Pigeon Mysteries Book 2. Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool damp of Lake Superior and the spirits and lore of the northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself 260 feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-02 | 3 | Saga Vol. 1 (Vaughan, Brian K. (Author) andFiona Staples (Artist) - 2012) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Friend. SAGA is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. Recommended by a Swap-Bot partner. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-07-01 | 5 | My Evil Mother (Atwood, Margaret - 2022) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may--or may not--be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother's claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-17 | 5 | Track of the Cat (Barr, Nevada - 1993) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Anna Pigeon Mysteries Book 1. Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna's first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain lion attack, Anna's rage knows no bounds. It's up to her to save the protected cats from the politics and prejudices of the locals--and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare… |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-16 | 6 | Brothers Keepers (Westlake, Donald E. - 1975) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. What will a group of monks do when their two-century-old monastery in New York City is threatened with demolition to make room for a new high-rise? Anything they have to. "Thou Shalt Not Steal" is only the first of the Commandments to be broken as the saintly face off against the unscrupulous over that most sacred of relics, a Park Avenue address. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-15 | 5 | Fangirl, Volume 1 The Manga (Rowell, Rainbow (Creator) and Gabi Nam (Illustrator) and Sam Maggs (Adapter) - 2020) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Author. The manga adaptation of the beloved novel featuring all-new scenes by Rainbow Rowell. This seems to be the first half, more or less, of the original novel. Cath doesn't need friends IRL. She has her twin sister, Wren, and she's a popular fanfic writer in the Simon Snow community with thousands of fans online. But now that she's in college, Cath is completely outside of her comfort zone. There are suddenly all these new people in her life. She's got a surly roommate with a charming boyfriend, a writing professor who thinks fanfiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome new writing partner… |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-14 | 6 | Small Space Living (Sandenbergh, Roberta - 2018) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. Expert Tips and Techniques on Using Closets, Corners, and Every Other Space in your Home. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-13 | 2 | Declutter Anything (Morrow, Ed and Sheree Bykofsky and Rita Rosenkranz - 2015) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Other. A Room-by-room Guide to Cleaning your Home and Simplifying your Life. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-12 | 6 | Bare Minimum Dinners (Helwig, Jenna - 2021) |
Cookbook | Suggested By: Other. Recipes and Strategies for Doing Less in the Kitchen. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-11 | 4 | In Plain Sight (Box, C.J. - 2006) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Joe Pickett Series Book 6. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in. But when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him has a vicious debt to collect, and wants Joe to pay...and pay dearly. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-10 | 4 | Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat (Mann, Jen - 2015) |
Humorous | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Yuletide Yahoos, Ho-Ho-Humblebraggers, and Other Seasonal Scourges. Oddly endearing collection of essays. For fans of Jenny Lawson and Laurie Notaro. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-09 | 4 | The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters (Wood, Sherri - 2015) |
Craft | Suggested By: Amazon.com. A Guide to Creating, Quilting, and Living Courageously |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-08 | 6 | Help I Am Being Held Prisoner (Westlake, Donald E. - 1974) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. $5.36 Kindle book. I used a coupla bucks of Amazon credits. It isn't easy going to jail for a practical joke. Of course, this particular joke left 20 cars wrecked on the highway and two politicians' careers in tatters - so jail is where Harold Künt landed. Now he's just trying to keep a low profile in the Big House. He wants no part of his fellow inmates' plan to use an escape tunnel to rob two banks. But it's too late; he's in it up to his neck. And that neck may just wind up in a noose... |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-07 | 6 | The Flight Attendant (Bohjalian, Chris - 2018) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-06 | 6 | Soup of the Day: 365 Recipes for Every Day of the Year (Williams-Sonoma) (McMillan, Kate - 2016) |
Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $1.07 Kindle book. The recipes don't look overly complicated, and I saw a bunch of tasty looking recipes. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-05 | 5 | Fangirl (Rowell, Rainbow - 2013) |
Youth | Suggested By: Author. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to. Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-04 | 6 | The Mirror and the Mask (Hart, Ellen - 2009) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 17. Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is at crossroads. The rough economy has put her plans for a third restaurant on hold, and her long distance romance is on the rocks and quite possibly unsalvageable. A girl, down on her luck, turns up at the restaurant looking for some temporary work. Jane is attracted to her, and after some questioning, finds out that the girl is in town trying to find her long-lost stepfather. Jane volunteers to help. All she had to do is find Annie Archer's stepfather. Jane tracks down a likely match--a man who has made a small fortune in real estate. The clues in this seemingly simple case point to more threatening family secrets than where Annie's father has been hiding out. WEIRD THING: every description I could find for this book says that Jane is adrift in tough financial times and takes this case from Nolan, her ex-cop private guy friend. That did NOT happen. I wonder why the interwebs think that? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-03 | 5 | Sweet Poison (Hart, Ellen - 2008) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 16. Corey Hodge is one of the convicts that took Jane's dad, Ray Lawless', advice to plead guilty for a crime that he swears he didn't commit. Bitter from time served, revenge lurks in the back of his mind. Then one of Ray's young campaign volunteers is killed, and with the murder mirroring the crime Corey was convicted of, Jane has to bring the killer to justice to save her father's political career and to keep Corey from going to prison again. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-02 | 6 | The Thing with Feathers (Strycker, Noah - 2014) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. $2.15 Kindle book. Exploration of the lives of birds. Nutcrackers have great memories. Penguins are afraid of the dark. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-06-01 | 4 | The Mortal Groove (Hart, Ellen - 2007) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 15. Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is in the middle of ringing in the New Year the best way she knows how--with her family, friends, and some excellent champagne--when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics break up the party with a little backroom proposition for her father: How'd he like to be the state's next governor? |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-25 | 6 | More Quick & Easy Quilts for Kids (Annie's - 2017) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. GET AGAIN FROM THE LIBRARY!! Maybe not quite as good/inspirational as some of the other books by Annie's.
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Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-24 | Row Quilts, Longitudes & Latitudes Longitudes & Latitudes (Annie's - 2014) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. NOT A KINDLE BOOK. DON'T BOTHER. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-05-23 | Blocks With Options Quick & Easy Quilts With Color & Size Variations (Annie's - 2014) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. NOT A KINDLE BOOK. DON'T BOTHER. Quilters explore color options for each project with this guide that shows just how amazing patterns can be with a few easy changes. Twisting and turning the blocks, changing the fabrics, and resizing them can help personalize quilts, and this book shows crafters how to achieve this. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-05-22 | 3 | Quick & Easy Baby Quilts: Trendy or Traditional (Annie's - 2015) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. DON'T BOTHER AGAIN WITH THIS ONE. This collection of eight keepsake projects is perfect for all your baby and toddler needs. Each quilt has an optional color selection to help you visualize other fabrics in the patterns. These designs have endless possibilities if you change the fabric colors and themes. Quick & Easy Baby Quilts also features two tutorial sidebars for raw-edge fusible appliqué and making three-dimensional flowers and leaves. A 21- by 15-inch insert that contains all of the templates is included with the book. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-21 | 3 | Quilt Essentials - 5 In-a-Weekend Quilts (Snyder, Karen - 2014) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. Use big prints to make quick quilts! Don't bother with this one - it didn't inspire me to start making quilts from my stash. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-20 | 6 | Jelly Roll Quilts II (Annie's - 2016) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. GET AGAIN FROM THE LIBRARY!! Includes smaller projects like bed runners cup cozies.
Enjoy 8 inspirational patterns perfect for weekend projects. All designs use 2 1/2" strips in the construction making this your go-to book for moments when you want to create the perfect quilt without all the added planning and preping. Save time and frustration by using preselected and precut strips. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-19 | 6 | Stash-Busting Quilts aka Stash Busting Quilts (Annie's - 2017) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. GET AGAIN FROM THE LIBRARY!! Included smaller projects like table runners. Fewer inspirations in this book than the others. Nothing to lose by skipping this one.
Here's your answer to the scrap dilemma. If your scraps are out of control and you need help finding ways to use them and if you're not a scrappy quilter well here's the solution. Stash-Busting Quilts is a unique collection of patterns for the quilter with lots of stash and scraps but really doesn't like the scrappy look. Let our designers show you how to put those gorgeous morsels of prime fabric to work. How to make the most of small amounts of fabric. Here you'll find 9 scrap possibilities that will change you you feel about scraps. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-18 | 6 | Jiffy Quick Quilts: Quilts for the Time Challenged (Annie's - 2015) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. GET AGAIN FROM THE LIBRARY!! Includes smaller projects like table runners and bed runners.
Here is your go-to book when you want to make a fast but stylish quilt. All the projects in this book can easily be made in a weekend, and some in a day. 10 projects have size options making a total of 20 possible projects. Imagine your fabric choices in one of these beautiful patterns. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-17 | 6 | Quick & Easy Charity Quilts (Annie's - 2018) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. GET AGAIN FROM THE LIBRARY!!
Bonus: Optional Color Ways for Every Day Quilts. Includes 8 great quilt patterns with color options for everyday quilting. Also includes 3 bonus projects for charity giving, Chemo Scarf, pillowcase, and seat belt pillow. Article on how to find a charity Quick & easy projects for the novice quilter. Quick & Easy Charity Quilts has everything you'll need to make a great quilt for either a favorite charity or a good friend. Every quilt pattern can easily be made to support a cause but also can be used for everyday quilting. The patterns are that good. You'll be amazed and how versatile they are. This book is destined to become your go-to book. 8 great quilt designs and three other patterns for charity giving are included. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-16 | 3 | How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography (Bruce, Lenny - 1965) |
Auto/Biography | Suggested By: Author. During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, "So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed through the doors Lenny opened. He utterly changed the world of comedy." Although Bruce died when he was only forty, his influence on the worlds of comedy, jazz, and satire are incalculable. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People remains a brilliant existential account of his life and the forces that made him the most important and controversial entertainer in history. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-15 | 5 | The Investigator (Sandford, John - 2022) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Letty Davenport series book 1. By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master's in economics, she's restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty's ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have reported thefts of crude, Colles tells her. He isn't so much concerned with the oil as he is with the money: who is selling the oil, and what are they doing with the profits? Rumor has it that a fairly ugly militia group might be involved. Colles wants to know if the money is going to them, and if so, what they're planning. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-14 | Simple Sashiko: 8 Sashiko Sewing Projects for the Modern Home (Briscoe, Susan) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. Got this from the library. Did NOT get around to reading it. It did look worth checking out again. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-05-13 | 7 | Beartown (Backman, Frederik - 2017) |
Fiction | Suggested By: Author. This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-12 | 4 | More 90 Minute Quilts 20+ Quick and Easy Projects With Triangles and Squares (Butler, Meryl Ann) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS ONE. NOT WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
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Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-11 | 7 | Packing for Mars (Roach, Mary - 2010) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Author. Space trips make astronauts taller - and other cool answers to questions you didn't even know you had. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-10 | 3 | The Weekend Quilter (Wilkinson, Rosemary (editor) - 2019) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. 25+ Fabulous Quilts to Make in A Weekend. I am looking for a book to inspire me to use my fabric stash. This is NOT that book. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-09 | 3 | Gaudy Night (Sayers, Dorothy L. - 1935) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 12. Favorite book of a swap partner. Since she graduated from Oxford's Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her. Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held high--only to find that her life is in danger once again. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-08 | 7 | The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (Grossman, Lev - 2017) |
SciFi | Suggested By: Movie/TV. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman comes a magical-realist romance that turns the Groundhog Day premise inside-out and upside-down--coming soon to Amazon as a major motion picture. Mark is 17-years-old and trapped in a time loop, and that's just fine with him. It's summertime and he's spending this one infinitely repeating day reading his way through the town library. Then he discovers someone else in the loop with him: the brilliant, haunted Margaret. Together Mark and Margaret set out to find every wonderful, amazing, perfect thing that happens in that one day--a journey that will take them to the dark secret that waits at the very heart of their endless day. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-07 | 7 | Full Out: Lessons in Life and Leadership from America's Favorite Coach (Aldama, Monica - 2022) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Author. Coach Monica from the repeat national champion Navarro Cheer Team. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-06 | 4 | The Last Conversation (Tramblay, Paul - 2019) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed from Amazon.com. Part of the "Forward" collection of sci-fi short stories. On the eve of Earth's destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope.
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Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-05 | 3 | Emergency Skin (Jemisin, N.K. - 2019) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed from Amazon.com. Part of the "Forward" collection of sci-fi short stories. On the eve of Earth's destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope.
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Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-04 | 6 | Ark (Roth, Veronica - 2019) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed from Amazon.com. Part of the "Forward" collection of sci-fi short stories. On the eve of Earth's destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope.
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Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-03 | 5 | You Have Arrived at Your Desination (Towles, Amor - 2019) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed from Amazon.com. Part of the "Forward" collection of sci-fi short stories. Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future.
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Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-02 | 3 | Parrots of the World (Forshaw, Joseph M.) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $20.36 Kindle book. CHECK PUBLICATION DATE!! Princeton Field Guides Book 70. I originally got a sample from Amazon.com, then bought the book much later after reading the sample. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-05-01 | Night Vision (Hart, Ellen - 2006) |
Crime/Mystery | Suggested By: Author. Jane Lawless series Book 14. Joanna Kasimir, an old friend of Jane Lawless, left Minneapolis years ago to make it big in Hollywood and, unlike so many others, she succeeded. Unfortunately, her stardom came at a price. Early in her career, Joanna was involved with a man who quickly went from being an idle interest to a dangerous stalker. Nearly a decade has passed since she sent him to prison, but just as she is about to leave for her hometown to star in her friend Cordelia Thorn's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, she receives one of his ominous calling cards. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-04-17 | 4 | Queen Bees & Wannabes (Wiseman, Rosalind - 2016) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Movie/TV. The book which inspired Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" movie. 3rd Edition. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-16 | 6 | The Copper Beech (Binchy, Maeve - 1992) |
Brit Lit | Suggested By: Author. In the little Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials--and those of their loves--into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig's closed doors, or Dr. Jims, the village doctor, who knows all the rest, realize that not everything in the placid village is what it seems. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-15 | 5 | One-Block Wonders Cubed!: Dramatic Designs, New Techniques, 10 Quilt Projects (Rosenthal, Maxine and Joy Pelzmann. - 2010) |
Craft | Suggested By: Author. $12.93 Kindle book. Originally read the library eBook. One Block Wonders. It's pretty complicated. It might be helpful to have the book on hand. Add New Dimension to Your Favorite Hexagon Quilts. Your favorite One-Block Wonders authors are back with new graphic techniques using triangles, cubes, and appliqué. Learn how to create optical illusions with your fabrics. Bonus projects include totes, coasters and placemats for using up left-over hexagons. Create interesting shadow effects with clever fabric placement. Try new kinds of borders with uneven edges, creative shapes, and hexagon strips. From the best-selling authors of the One-Block Wonders books. New techniques and design strategies using simple geometric shapes give you dramatic quilt imagery that seems to defy logic! Take the ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary with this book. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-14 | 4 | The Fortress of the Pearl (Moorcock, Michael - 1989) |
Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. Lord Gho Fhaazi seeks the principal seat on the ruling Council of Seven of the city of Quarzhasaat. He lures Elric into seeking the Pearl at the Heart of the World--the price of admission to the council--by addicting him to a slow-acting poison to which he, the Lord Gho, has the only antidote. Moorcock leads Elric over a course of monstrous and horrifying obstacles, pits him against the Sorcerer Adventurers, servants of Quarzhasatt's jaded rich, and then thrusts him into a dreamworld within the mind of an adoelscent girl. Trapped in a comatose state by the Sorcerer Adventurers, she is undergoing her own rite of passage into adulthood. Through the vast and turbulent landscape of the Dream Realm, guided by the Dreamthief Lady Oone, Elric seeks the Pearl. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-13 | 5 | One Block Wonders: One Fabric, One Shape, One-of-a-Kind Quilts (Rosenthal, Maxine - 2010) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. GET THIS BOOK AGAIN!!! I was looking for a book about Stack-and-Whack/Kaleidescope/One-Block-Wonder quilts because that is the quilt challenge for 2022/2023. 1 Great Fabric + 1 Block = 1 Stunning Quilt! Brand new technique is all about texture, movement, sparkle, and swirl! Choose hexagons or octagons-you're the designer. Easy random cutting! No planning, no fussy cuts, no mess-ups. Simple piecing with NO Y-SEAMS! Amaze your friends! Maxine shows you exactly how to choose a large-scale print, figure yardage, cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. Big pieces and clever short-cut methods make these quilts go together faster than you'd think. Choose one of two projects or use the techniques in any size quilt you can imagine. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-12 | Stack & Cut Hexagon Quilts: Mix & Match 38 Kaleidoscope Blocks & 12 Quilt Settings • New Serendipity Patterns (Newphew, Sara and Marci Baker - 2018) |
Craft | Suggested By: Other. I was looking for a book about Stack-and-Whack/Kaleidescope/One-Block-Wonder quilts because that is the quilt challenge for 2022/2023. Show off your large-scale prints and add a WOW factor to your quilts. Take advantage of the surprising designs that appear as you stack and cut triangles, diamonds, flat pyramids, gem shapes, and more. Each beautiful block design frames a unique kaleidoscope hexagon, for stunning results! Select from 38 hexagonal blocks, 7 setting triangles, 12 quilt layouts, and 5 pieced borders, plus get Sara and Marci's tips for picking the best fabric for this technique, lining up stacked repeats, and cutting shapes to take advantage of large-scale print fabric. Fair warning: you may never want to make a quilt any other way again! |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-04-11 | 3 | Quilt Big: Bigger Blocks for Faster Finishes (Flendt, Jemima) |
Craft | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Approaching quilting in a big way, Quilt Big takes the inherent beauty found in single block patterns and creates big, bold quilts, quickly and easily. Whether you're simply short on time or intimidated by complex quilts, Quilt Big will show you how super-sizing your blocks make for faster finishes and so much more. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-10 | 5 | Summer Frost (Crouch, Blake) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed from Amazon.com. Part of the "Forward" collection of sci-fi short stories. A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human. The "Forward" Collection |
Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-09 | 5 | Randomize (Weir, Andy - 2019) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Borrowed from Amazon.com. Part of the "Forward" collection of sci-fi short stories. An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house--unless human ingenuity isn't entirely a thing of the past.
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Source: Borrowed/Friend. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-08 | 6 | Welcome to the School by the Sea (Colgan, Jenny - 2022) |
Brit Lit | Suggested By: Author. $2.15 Kindle book. Bought soon after reading the library eBook. Little School by the Sea Book 1 coming Mar 29, 2022 for $11.99. The first book of Jenny Colgan's delightful new four-part series, set at a charming English boarding school on the sea. Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely salt air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the sea before? Why had she always looked out on housing estates and not the little white hulls of trawlers bobbing off in the distance? |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-07 | 6 | Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World (Parker, Matt - 2019) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. The book-length answer to anyone who ever asked, "When am I ever going to use this in the real world?" Fun, informative, and relentlessly entertaining, Humble Pi is a charming and very readable guide to some of humanity's all-time greatest miscalculations. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-06 | 6 | The Iron Girl (Hart, Ellen - 2005) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Jane Lawless series Book 13. After years spent mourning the death of her partner, Christine Kane, Minneapolis restaurateur, Jane Lawless, thinks she's ready to move on. That is, until she finds a gun among Christine's belongings. The night before Christine died of cancer, three members of the Simoneau family, Christine's real estate clients, were murdered. The timing of their deaths appeared coincidental and Jane always assumed Christine knew nothing of the family's secrets. But as she searches for clues to understand what really happened all of those many years ago, the gun and a few other discoveries begin to convince Jane otherwise. Where past and present collide, Ellen Hart's latest mystery in this Lambda and Minnesota Book Award-winning series proves that she remains one of the genre's best. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-05 | 3 | Locke & Key: Heaven & Earth (Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2017) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. This special deluxe release finally collects the oft-requested and long-denied "Open the Moon!" from the GUIDE TO THE KNOWN KEYS one-shot. Plus the other long-sold-out one-shot, "Grindhouse!" PLUS plus: the even more hard-to-find IDW 10th anniversary Locke & Key tale, "In the Can!" And additional covers, behind-the-scenes photos and more, all wrapped up in a beautiful 72-page package. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-04 | Locke & Key Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega ((Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2014) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it's time to say goodbye. Omega and Alpha, the final two storylines of the New York Times bestselling series, are collected together to offer a thunderous and compelling conclusion to Locke & Key. An event not to be missed! |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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| 2022-04-03 | 2 | I'm With the Band Confessions of A Groupie (Des Barres, Pamela - 1987) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-02 | 3 | Baofeng - UV5R: Quick Reference Guide (Kimball, Matthew and Joy Kimball - 2015) |
Technical/Reference | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $2.69 Kindle book. A Quick Reference CGuide for programming and operating the Baofeng UV-5R amateur radio. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-04-01 | 6 | Getting Started with the Baofeng UV-5R (Hall, Allan - 2020) |
Technical/Reference | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $2.69 Kindle book. Are you a new proud owner of the Baofeng UV-5R? The Baofeng UV-5R is probably one of the best amateur radios of all time. It is impressive, inexpensive, and it is often the first radio that people get introduced to when getting into the hobby. But this radio has one fatal flaw - the instruction manual. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-16 | 6 | An Intimate Ghost (Hart, Ellen - 2004) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Jane Lawless series Book 12. Formerly owned in paperback, but donated book to the library. Jane gets a shock at a wedding she's hired to cater: arriving late to check in with her crew, she finds that guests are in various stages of undress on the lawn, many seem to be taking an unusual interest in mundane objects like houseplants and the night sky, and more than a few are engaged in some very indiscreet activities in plain view. It doesn't take Jane long to figure out that someone has spiked the food at the party, most likely with hallucinogenic mushrooms. As the police arrive, the groom takes an unfortunate dive off a diving board and Jane realizes that if she can't figure out exactly what has happened the blame will fall squarely on her own shoulders. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-15 | 2 | Led Zeppelin: The Biography (Spitz, Bob - 2021) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Unknown. From the author of the definitive New York Times best-selling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group many call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-14 | 4 | All Boys Aren't Blue (Johnson, George M. - 2020) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Unknown. In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-13 | 6 | Locke & Key Vol. 5: Clockworks ((Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2012) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-12 | 6 | Locke & Key Vol. 4: Keys To the Kingdom ((Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2011) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Collects Locke & Key: Keys To the Kingdom #1-6 plus bonus materials! Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mysteries ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-11 | 5 | The K Chronicles: The Incredible Cuteness of Being (Knight, Keith - 2013) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. $3.76 Kindle book. By the creator of the Hulu series, Woke. The sixth collection of Keith Knight's multi award-winning comic strip finds ye olde gentleman cartoonist welcoming his progeny into the world alongside America's first Black president! Will the nation's premier race cartoonist mellow out now that he's a new dad in a "post-racial" world? |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-10 | 5 | Immaculate Midnight (Hart, Ellen - 2001) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Jane Lawless series Book 11. Ray Lawless, prominent defense attorney and father of Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless, tries his biggest case yet defending an accused serial murderer and arsonist whom the media has dubbed "The Fireman." Ray's client is eventually convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences, though he proclaims his innocence to the end, and a few days later, he kills himself in his cell. Someone in The Fireman's life, however, can't let go, and, blaming Ray for the man's death, plots a meticulous revenge. With the help of her best friend, Cordelia, Jane sets out to discover why this person is so determined to undo her family. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-09 | 6 | The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Bechdel, Alison - 2021) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Author. Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eyes through an ever-evolving panoply of running shoes, bicycles, skis, and sundry other gear. But the more Bechdel tries to improve herself, the more her self appears to be the thing in her way. She turns for enlightenment to Eastern philosophers and literary figures, including Beat writer Jack Kerouac, whose search for self-transcendence in the great outdoors appears in moving conversation with the author's own. This gifted artist and not-getting-any-younger exerciser comes to a soulful conclusion. The secret to superhuman strength lies not in six-pack abs, but in something much less clearly defined: facing her own non-transcendent but all-important interdependence with others. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-08 | 6 | Locke & Key Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows (Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2011) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Collects Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows, #1-6! The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the acclaimed series. Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become their enemy. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-07 | 6 | Locke & Key Vol. 2: Head Games ((Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2010) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Collects all six issues of LOCKE & KEY: HEAD GAMES, plus bonus materials! New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, Head Games. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret. Open your mind-- the head games are just getting started! |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-06 | 6 | Locke & Key Vol. 1: Welcome To Lovecraft (Hill, Joe and Gabriel Rodriguez (Artist), Jay Fotos (Colorist) and Robbie Robbins (Letterer) - 2009) |
Graphic Novel | Suggested By: Movie/TV. Note: Joe Hill is Stephen King's son. Read this after watching the Netflix series. Collects Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1-6! The Eisner-nominated Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all! |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-05 | 6 | Quilting Modern: Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilts (Gering, Jacquie and Katie Pedersen - 2013) |
Craft | Suggested By: Amazon.com. THIS BOOK IS IN AZ!!! Quilting Modern: Techniques and Projects for Improvisational Quilts Jacquie Gering, Katie Pedersen |
Source: Owned. Format: Paperback. |
| 2022-03-04 | 6 | Quilt As-You-Go Made Modern Quilt As You Go Made Modern (Brandvig, Jera - 2014) |
Craft | Suggested By: Amazon.com. $7.54 Kindle book. Read library e-book before buying Kindle book. Do you believe rules were meant to be broken? If so, this improvisational quilt-as-you-go technique is for you. Instead of dealing with precise paper patterns and cutting measurements, you'll learn how to piece fabric onto small, manageable batting blocks. Let your creative juices flow as you quilt directly on the blocks (not the whole quilt!), whether in large abstract zigzags or small structured stitches. After the blocks have been joined, all you need to do is add backing fabric and binding, and--voila--it's finished! |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-03 | 4 | Modern Quilt Bible (Betts, Elizabeth - 2019) |
Craft | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Over 100 Techniques and Design Ideas for the Modern Quilter. Try your hand at improv piecing, free motion quilting, playing with scale, curved piecing, and much more. There are featured quilts from the world's best modern quilt designers and ten unique quilted projects using a range of modern quilt techniques so you can practice your newfound skills. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-02 | 6 | Elric of Melniboné (Moorcock, Michael - 1972) |
Fantasy | Suggested By: Author. $0.00 Kindle book. I actually read this out of the collection, Elric of Melniboné: The Elric Saga Part 1 which includes four books, of which is this is the first. The youthful Elric is a cynical and melancholy king, heir to a nation whose 100,000-year rule of the world ended less than 500 years hence. More interested in brooding contemplation than holding the throne, Elric is a reluctant ruler, but he also realizes that no other worthy successor exists and the survival of his once-powerful, decadent nation depends on him alone. Elric's nefarious, brutish cousin Yrkoon has no patience for his physically weak kinsman, and he plots constantly to seize Elric's throne, usually over his dead body. Elric of Melniboné follows Yrkoon's scheming, reaching its climax in a battle between Elric and Yrkoon with the demonic runeblades Stormbringer and Mournblade. In this battle, Elric gains control of the soul-stealing Stormbringer, an event that proves pivotal to the Elric saga. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-03-01 | 6 | Around the World in 80 Days (Verne, Jules - 1873) |
SciFi | Suggested By: Author. Free Kindle Book. Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,075,400 in 2017) set by his friends at the Reform Club. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-08 | 4 | Barking Up the Wrong Tree (Barker , Eric - 2017) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong.By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them--and find out in some cases why it's good that we aren't. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn't so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
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Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-07 | 3 | Solutions and Other Problems (Brosh, Alli - 2020) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: Author. Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-06 | 6 | The Storyteller (Grohl, Dave - 2021) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Dave Grohl's memoir. Kewl d00d from Nirvana, etc. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-05 | 4 | Hyperbole and a Half (Brosh, Allie - 2013) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Other. Imagine if David Sedaris could draw. This book was a suggested read by one of the Washington Post advice columnists as a good source to understand what it feels like to be depressed. The question to the advice columnist was pretty much "I have a depressed friend who makes plans to do stuff with, and then bails without telling me. Do I still have to be her friend?" The columnist said, "yes, should stay friends." Really? how much does it have to hurt before you're allowed to leave them to it and get on with your own life? She did have some helpful suggestions like, "when you plan to do things with this person, always have a backup plan so your day isn't wasted when she stands you up again." My friend, K, suggested that you invite a third person, so that the two of you who do show up can do something when the other gal stands you up. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-04 | 3 | Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life (Walsh, Peter - 2017) |
Non-fiction | Suggested By: BookBub.com. n Let It Go, Peter will help you turn downsizing into a rejuvenating life change with his useful tips and practical takeaways, including how to:
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Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-03 | 6 | Maid (Land, Stephanie - 2019) |
Memoir | Suggested By: People Mag. A single mom aiming to be a writer, Land made ends meet by cleaning houses. Her memoir is an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-02-02 | 5 | 100 Days of Intention (King, Matt - 2016) |
Art | Suggested By: Author. Copyright Matthew Thomas King. I downloaded this from somewhere, probably MattKing.com, but I couldn't find it there as of February 2022. This is stored as a PDF file in my google drive. Every page has an image and a sentence or two of text for "100 days". |
Source: Owned. Format: Other. |
| 2022-02-01 | 4 | Off Balance (Rose, Terez Mertes - 2015) |
Chick Lit | Suggested By: Other. $1.07 Kindle book. Ballet Theater Chronicles book 1. Alice thinks she's accepted the loss of her ballet career, injury having forced her to trade in pointe shoes onstage for spreadsheets upstairs. That is, until the day Alice's boss asks her to befriend Lana, a pretty new company member he's got his eye on. Lana represents all Alice has lost, not just as a ballet dancer, but as a motherless daughter. It's pain she's kept hidden, even from herself, as every good ballet dancer knows to do. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-11 | 5 | Almost Romance (Balbirer, Nancy - 2022) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Free Kindle book. Free with Amazon Prime First Reads. Howard J. Morris is a co-creator of Grace and Frankie. When a mysterious woman summons Nancy Balbirer to a Russian restaurant in New York City, the near stranger's shocking purple hair and even more shocking news send Balbirer simultaneously reeling back to her past and hurtling toward a future that, at almost fifty years old, she never dreamed possible. This romantic-comedy memoir tells the true story of how a pack of Hollywood television writers and the denizens of a fabled but cursed Manhattan apartment building helped the author and one of her best friends turn a thirty-two-year almost romance into a real one. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-10 | 4 | The Merchant of Venus (Hart, Ellen - 2001) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Jane Lawless series Book 10. Formerly owned in paperback, but donated book to the library. A high profile celebrity Hollywood wedding--just the diversion Jane Lawless needs. Recovering from injuries, single again, with the dreaded holidays closing in, Jane happily agrees to attend the soiree with her best friend, Cordelia Thorn. It's not just any wedding. Cordelia's Broadway diva sister, Octavia, is tying the knot for the third time. Nobody knows how Octavia met octogenarian Roland Lester, a reclusive relic of Tinseltown's Golden Age, and the secret has brought out all the paparazzi. When bodies start to fall, it's clear to jane that the nuptials have brought out something far more sinister. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-09 | 4 | Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories (Various - 2016) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Amazon.com. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love. Authors: Stephanie Perkins, Leigh Bardugo, Francesca Lia Block, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Brandy Colbert, Tim Federle, Lev Grossman, Nina LaCour, Veronica Roth, Jon Skovron, Jennifer E. Smith. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-08 | 6 | Sorry I'm Late I Didn't Want To Come (Pan, Jessica - 2019) |
Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she'd normally avoid at all costs? Writer Jessica Pan intends to find out. With the help of various extrovert mentors, Jessica sets up a series of personal challenges (talk to strangers, perform stand-up comedy, host a dinner party, travel alone, make friends on the road, and much, much worse) to explore whether living like an extrovert can teach her lessons that might improve the quality of her life. Chronicling the author's hilarious and painful year of misadventures, this book explores what happens when one introvert fights her natural tendencies, takes the plunge, and tries (and sometimes fails) to be a little bit braver. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-07 | 5 | My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories (Various - 2014) |
Short Stories | Suggested By: Unknown. Mostly YA-type Christmas-time stories. Authors: Stephanie Perkins, Holly Black, Ally Carter, Mathew de la Pena, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Kiersten White.
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Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-06 | 5 | 5-Ingredient Cooking for Two (Donovan, Robin - 2020) |
Cookbook | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. $2.69 Kindle book. 100 Recipes Portioned for Pairs. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-05 | 4 | Which Fish is This? (Lilek, Joe - 2020) |
Youth | Suggested By: eBookDaily.com. Free Kindle book. A Beginner's Guide to Fish of the Midwest. Illustrated kid's book. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-04 | 5 | Hill Women (Chambers, Cassie - 2020) |
Memoir | Suggested By: BookBub.com. Cassie Chambers grew up in poverty in rural Kentucky. In this gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities she pays tribute to her mountain town and the women who defined it. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-03 | 5 | Hunting the Witch (Hart, Ellen - 1999) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Jane Lawless series Book 9. A case gone bad has left Jane Lawless with a serious head injury and vulnerable enough to accept help from former lover, Dr. Julia Martinsen. The TLC is welcome--if only Jane didn't suspect the jittery, secretive Julia of hiding something. As Jane checks into the doctor's past, she turns up chilling details. When a shocking death disrupts her recovery, even Jane's love for Julia can't protect them from a murderer out for more blood. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-02 | 6 | Wicked Games (Hart, Ellen - 1998) |
GLBT | Suggested By: Author. $4.30 Kindle book. Jane Lawless series Book 8. The last thing Jane Lawless needs is a strange man renting the third floor apartment in her home, and yet that's the situation she finds herself in. Her hands are already full with running her restaurant and maintaining a long-distance and often volatile relationship with Dr. Julia Martinsen. Little does Jane know that her troubles are only beginning. |
Source: Owned. Format: eBook. |
| 2022-01-01 | 6 | Rabbit (Williams, Patricia with Jeannine Amber - 2017) |
Memoir | Suggested By: Entertainment Weekly Mag. Williams - better known as comedian Ms. Pat - recounts her difficult life growing up in crack-addled Atlanta and having two kids by age 15. With a sparse education but plenty of humor and "hustling", she details how she made it work. |
Source: Library. Format: eBook. |
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