tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79008140929774773962012-01-27T12:57:42.184-08:00Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me. - "Losing Julia" by Jonathan HullKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.comBlogger3801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-33631569792701865722011-02-22T00:00:00.000-08:002011-02-22T00:00:06.652-08:00

From Fantastic Fiction—Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thiefAt twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avenge him.Now, with a new

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In Brad Meltzer’s The Inner Circle, conspiracies and mysteries span the centuries. The protagonist of the novel, Beecher White, is an archivist who works at the National Archives in Washington D.C. Beecher is struggling to recover from a recent split with his fiancé when an old childhood crush appears back into his life. Clementine Kaye contacts Beecher and asks him to help her find her long

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REAGLE BEAGLE by Eddie MejiaMr. and Mrs. Beagle have been blessed with four puppies, three girls and a boy. The girls are a rambunctious bunch; happy, mischievous and energetic. But their boy, Reagle, never speaks, plays alone and avoids contact with his siblings. Mr. and Mrs. Beagle are quite concerned about Reagle and encourage him to join in. One day, while playing, the girls get into quite a

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In Lisa Gardner’s newest entry into her D. D. Warren series, Live to Tell, D.D. is investigating a brutal and heartbreaking crime. An apparent murder-suicide has occurred in one of Boston’s neighborhoods, and the father, who is a suspect, is barely alive in the ICU. Mostly written off as a murder-suicide, Detective Warren believes that there is more to this case. Investigating this tragedy will

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Synopsis from Fantastic Fiction website:Cemetery DanceWilliam Smithback, a NY Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archeologist, are found brutally attacked in their apartment on the Upper West side of Manhattan. Eyewitnesses claim and the security camera confirms the killer seen leaving the building was the strange, sinister man who had previously occupied

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In 1692, Susannah Layhem, who is a healer and purveyor of herbs and natural healing stands accused of witchcraft. Subsequently convicted and while awaiting her execution, she delivers her stillborn baby, alone and frightened in a filthy jail cell. She is burned at the stake, but as she dies, she is confronted by a demon named Rabishu. She is filled with anger and bitterness and accepts his offer

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From www.amyefaw.comWho would leave her own baby in the trash to die?Certainly not someone like Devon—straight-A student, soccer player with Olympic dreams, more mature than her own mother. But desperation and panic drove her to do what most people can’t even imagine. Now Devon’s in a juvenile detention center charged with attempted murder. If she’s tried as an adult, she faces life in

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From Barnes and NobleThe day Monica learns that her lovable, brilliant three-year-old son, Wills, has autism spectrum disorder, she takes him to buy an aquarium. It's the first in a string of impulsive trips to the pet store to buy animals as a distraction from the uncontrollable, crushing reality of Wills's diagnosis. But while Wills diligently tends to the growing menagerie, what he really

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One beautiful morning, Rose Mae Grandee got her Pawpy’s old gun from the box she’d hidden in the closet and went to shoot her husband, Thom, while he was on his morning run. All because a gypsy at the airport told her to. I’m not kidding. And as absurd as this sounds, it is the beginning of a really good book. Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson is the story of Rose Mae, a beautiful young woman,

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Synopsis (fantasticfiction.co.uk)Julia 'Jules' Farentino knows that her teenaged half-sister, Shaylee, has been having problems lately. But when she learns of her mother's plan to send Shay to an elite boarding school in southern Oregon, she's skeptical. The Academy is a remote, secluded institution with a reputation for turning wayward kids around. With its emphasis on structure, discipline, and

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Mary Beth Latham is the mother of three kids, has a good marriage, and a small thriving landscaping business. Like most mom’s, if you were to ask Mary Beth which of these was the most important and defining role in her life, she’d say it was motherhood. Mary Beth is a good mom, and when one of her kids, Max, sinks into a deep depression, she focuses her concern on him, certain that her other

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In Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth, we meet Zach Barrows, an ambitious go-getter working in the White House. He anticipates a career in public service and expects an almost meteoric rise. But his career takes an unexpected detour when he is assigned to assist a Secret Service agent, Nathaniel Cade. Like all Secret Service agents, Cade is sworn to protect the president. However Cade is unlike

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Isn’t it odd, how similar things often appear simultaneously? Remember that "disaster summer" at the movies, Deep Impact and Armageddon? It seems like I inadvertently read similar books near the same time too. Two such books, which I probably should review individually, (but heck..it’s my blog and I’ll double up is I want to) were Hush by Kate White and Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd. In

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From Fantastic Fiction website'It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.' First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that

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While on a medical conference trip in Wyoming, Maura Isles, a medical examiner from Boston, meets up with an old friend from med school. On the spur of the moment, she joins him, his daughter and two other friends on a ski trip. On the way to the ski lodge, they take a wrong turn and end up stuck on a little used road in the mountains just as a blizzard begins. On foot, they find a small road and

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When Bennie Rosato is invited to her identical twins for a housewarming dinner, she never suspects the true motive behind the invitation. Alice Connelly, Bennie’s twin is in big trouble; her drug-dealing partners are trying to find and kill her. Alice has decided the only way out of her trouble is to kill her twin and assume her identity. She believes her plan as worked and she fools everyone.

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Knot Crew, a twelve-year-old African American boy in a small South Georgia town, finds a bag of cash dropped by a bank robber in an alley. Alternating between fear and joy, Knot takes the cash home. He knows he can’t spend it; Knot is a good boy with a strong moral compass and he’s smart enough to know that if he’s caught with it, he’ll be in real trouble. After a great deal of thought, he

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In this second in the “Jack McClure” series, author Eric Van Lustbader takes us on a Ludlem-esque journey from the island of Capri to Moscow to the Ukraine. Political intrigue, deals and double-crosses, diplomats, organized crime figures, rotten politicians and secret agents a-plenty. The Last Snow has a complicated plot line, all centering upon a treaty being signed by Russia and the United

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Phantom Prey, published in May of 2008 is the eighteenth installment of John Sandford’s Lucas Davenport series. Phantom Prey begins with the disappearance and suspected murder of the adult daughter of a wealthy widow, Alyssa Austin. Austin has returned home one evening and discovered her security system had been turned off, and there are bloodstains on the walls. The blood belongs to her

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The tagline in Jonathan Maberry’s novel Patient Zero reads, “ When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, there’s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills…and there’s nothing wrong with joe Ledger’s skills." Okay, my interest is piqued. In this novel, the first book in the Joe Ledger series, Joe is a Baltimore detective who has been assigned to an

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From Amazon:Chloe Marin was lucky. She was just a teenager when a party at a Florida beachside mansion turned into a savage killing spree, and she was one of the few to survive. Bloody handwriting on the walls pointed to a cult whose rituals included human sacrifice. Chloe’s sketch of one of the killers linked two dead cult members found in the Everglades to the massacre, closing the case as far

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On September 12, 1944, the USS Pampanito, was part of a submarine “wolf pack” patrol along with the USS Growler and USS Sealion. Coming upon a convoy of ships, the Pampanito fired upon and sunk a transport ship, a tanker and badly damaged a third ship. When she moved back into the area of the original attack three days later, her crew found men clinging to makeshift rafts. After moving closer to

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After another long night of anger and alcohol, Ig Perrish wakes to a pounding headache, and a pair of horns growing out of his temples. The second son of a “golden” family, reared in a life of comfort and privilege, Ig’s father is a famous musician, his mother a former showgirl and his older brother is a late-night television star. Ig met the love of his life, Merrin Williams while still a kid.

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Amy Rosenblatt Solomon was only 38 years old when an undiagnosed and asymptomatic heart condition caused her to collapse and die. Amy’s father and mother, Roger and Ginny Rosenblatt moved into her family’s home to help her husband with their three small children. Roger has written a heartfelt memoir of the making of a new life and a new family after the loss of the central character. Making Toast

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When Liz runs away from her Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth birthday, her guilt-ridden mother, Laura, writes her a letter about her own adolescence, hoping to give Liz insight into her mother as a woman who has enough of her own precarious history to understand her daughter. In her painfully candid confession, Laura reveals the reasons her parents sent her away to a strict Catholic

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Johanna Moran’s debut novel, The Wives of Henry Oades is based on a legal case from late 1800’s. The author was inspired by a story she first learned of from her father who had studied the case as a law student.The novel opens with Henry Oades accepting a position in Wellington, New Zealand in 1890. He arrives in Wellington with his wife and their small children. One night while he is away, Maori

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In the basement visa and passport office of an Indian Consulate office, nine very different people are trapped together after a massive earthquake strikes. Their situation is grim, the hallways are blocked with shaky debris on the precipice of total collapse, phones and electricity are out and there is a broken water pipe somewhere that is soaking through the walls and slowly pouring into the

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When I was offered the opportunity to read and review Jonathan Maberry’s newest book, The Dragon Factory, I was intrigued enough by the name to consider it. It’s a genre I like, that’s a plus. It’s the second in a series, and you all know that I’m a sucker for a good series, that’s another plus. What clinched it though, was the mention that Maberry is the author of Patient Zero. "I loved Patient

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My Thoughts--Leigh Hunter is a smart, ambitious and popular high school kid, with big future plans. At the request of his step-sister, Millie, whose father has just died, he moves back to his father’s home to help Millie cope with her loss. Maia Morland is a recovering anorexic and self-mutilating girl who has dinner with the Hunter family every night as part of her recovery. At first, Leigh

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Matt Prior’s life is in the toilet. Jess Walter put him there. by Luke BaumgartenTwo men walk into a 7/11. (Stop me if you’ve heard this one.)Because they’re out of milk, and because their children will want milk in the morning, and because it’s too damn late to get milk anywhere else — two men walk into a 7/11.Both have left their stately, hundred-year-old homes, bought at relative bargains

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When Trish from TLC Book Tours asked me if I'd be interested in participating in a blog tour of John Grogan's book, The Longest Trip Home, I couldn't say "yes!!" any faster or louder. I'd read Grogan's wonderful memoir last year and had already reviewed it for the blog, and I loved having an excuse to re-read the book. You can see my review from last year by clicking here. Kristen at BookNAround

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In Andrea Sisco’s debut novel, A Deadly Habit, Penelope Santucci is a probation officer with a penchant for trouble. She can’t seem to help it; trouble just finds Pen, no matter where she is. As a child Pen, the product of a Protestant Italian home in a neighborhood of Polish Catholics, always fantasized about becoming a Catholic nun. Pen would dress in bed sheets and roller skate to the local

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Nora Grey is a nice girl, bright and hard working. Her mother travels frequently for work in a struggle to keep their home after her father’s death, and Nora; responsible, steady Nora does all she can to make sure her mom doesn’t worry too much. Then Nora is partnered with Patch in a school project. Mysterious and borderline creepy, Nora just wants to stay the heck away from him, but he seems to

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Sometimes we just fall behind!!And boy, did I fall behind. Life frequently conspires against us in accomplishing all we want to do. I doubt I'll be able to go back to daily posting for a while. The best way to explain my absence is simply say, "Man plans, God laughs."I hope everyone hasn't given up on me. It's good to be back!

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Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. What books came into your home last week?Minotaur Books, in their latest "Beast in a Jiffy" mailing, sent me two new ARC's, both from authors I've never read. The first book is by Paul Dorion. I know you're saying, "Paul who?" But don't worry, the fine folks at Minotaur know that none of us have heard of him, and remind us that before The

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In Richard North Patterson's book, The Spire, Mark Darrow grew up in small town Ohio, with an alcoholic and absent father and a mentally ill mother. Being blessed with intelligence and athletic ability, Mark was lucky to cross paths with Lionel Farr, a professor at the local college. This chance meeting gave Mark entry into a world he’d only dreamed of. With a scholarship to the college and the

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Watch this one, it's not too long and completely worth the time!Perhaps I've mentioned my favorite book this year in passing? No..you don't recall? Oh, well then, let me tell you about it. It's called Big Sid's Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime by Matthew Biberman. Rather than re-run every thing I've said, you can read my review of this book here, read a bit

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Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!I was so excited this week to discover that one of my all time favorite authors, James Rollins has a brand spankin' new book coming out in December. This is on the heels of another new book that just came out in June! How does this writer do it?? I have his June book, The Doomsday Key on deck to read next and can't wait to get to it. The Doomsday

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This week's Super Scientific method of choosing the winner of Chelsea Cain's Evil at Heart, was, once more, actually...scientific! Of course that was because the in-house expert name-picker-out-of-the-oatmeal-box-person was already in bed, so science won out this week. (School is such a bummer, going to bed early, being responsible, doing homework....not for the kid, mind you, but for me, I'd

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Station FireTime: Sunset at JPL Time Lapse #4 from Dan Finnerty on Vimeo.From August 29th:Time lapse video of the fire burning through the Arroyo Seco and making runs on to Starlight Mesa and JPL. Thats JPL in the bottom right of center. The top of the ridge above the lab is the antenna test range.

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Taken August 29 of JPL in Pasadena, CA showing fires above the Lab. (Click on the photo to enlarge it)

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Dexter Morgan is back. After a picture book honeymoon in Paris, Dexter is back in Miami, and darned happy to be home. Blood spatter analyst for the Miami P.D. by day, sociopath serial killer (with a strict adherence to the rules and something almost resembling a conscience) by night, Dexter returns to work on the day that artfully posed corpses are found on a local beach. More bodies follow,

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Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. What books came into your home last week?Mistress of the Game by Tilly BagshaweThe spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon's Master of the Game. One of most glamorous and suspenseful tales ever told! It began with Jamie MacGregor, stealing diamonds in Africa. It continued with his daughter, the powerful Kate Blackwell who grew her father's

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It's time for my regular drum beating for my favorite book this year. If you're a new-ish reader, I'm talking about the wonderful book Big Sid's Vincati by Matthew Biberman. (You can see my review here, and also a bit of information about how Jay Leno and the Vincati became acquainted here.) Jay Leno filmed the Vincati for his website and the video is going up tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 7th. Be sure

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Cookie learned to jump through a hula hoop for watermelon. I suspect she'd jump through a flaming hula hoop if there was a piece of watermelon on the other side. She has no interest in dog biscuits, however, I suspect she'd walk a mile over broken glass for a chunk o' juicy goodness. Yup...she's a little weird...What about you? What weird stuff do your critters do that make you laugh? Feel free

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Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!Oh my gosh...I'm doing the Snoopy Happy Dance...lookie--lookie--see what I found??! Pirate Latitudes by...(yes, I mean it...) MICHAEL CRICHTON!!!! Whoopie!!!From WikipediaAccording to Jonathan Burnham, a publisher of an imprint of HarperCollins, the book was written concurrently with Crichton's most recent novel, Next. The novel stars a pirate named

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This week's Super Scientific method of choosing the winner of Hell's Gate by Stephen Frey, was actually...scientific! Of course that was because the in-house expert name-picker-out-of-the-oatmeal-box-person was already in bed, so science won out this week. Using Random.org, I plugged all the numbers in, hit the button and tada!!The winner is....Kaye.....of Pudgy Penguin Perusals!! Kaye says she's

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All photos above from the Los Angeles Times website. ('Cause my momma didn't raise no fool and I'm not getting that close..) All were taken from the Acton, California end of the "Station" fire, which has, at this point, has burned over 140,000 acres, or almost 220 square miles. To put that into some perspective, the square miles of Boston, Manhattan, Seattle and San Francisco combined are roughly

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Just like I promised...yup, I'm parting with Chelsea Cain's brand new book, Evil at Heart. Okay, I'm not parting with my copy....I somehow received two ARC's of this novel, so I'm keeping mine and putting the extra book up for grabs. The book came out yesterday, Sept. 1, so when I say brand new...I mean it! You can read my review of the book here, and if it tickles your fancy and you're saying to

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On a beautiful afternoon, while Professor Lila Cole is working in her office, writing a paper about Herman Melville, her beloved twin brother is sitting in the window of a building across from an elementary school with a rifle pointed at the school windows. While Lila works, Bobby, her twin dies. He sought this death; the police called it “suicide by cop”. The weapon he pointed at the school wasn

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If my review on Sunday made you just a teeny bit curious...you can read the first couple of chapters HERE!!And there's a link to a fun website put together for this book...the I Heart Gretchen Lowell site.. great fashion tips, celebrity sightings, and Gretchen's favs for the killer fan those who just must be in the know about all things Gretchen!! Here's where you can find those, "hard to find"

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Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. What books came into your home last week?A Big Little Life by Dean KoontzDean Koontz thought he had everything he needed. A novelist for nearly forty years, with more than twenty #1 New York Times bestsellers to his credit , his career was thriving. He had been married to his high school sweetheart, Gerda, since the age of twenty, and

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Gretchen Lowell, America’s most gorgeous, insane and sexy serial killer has escaped. The camera loves Gretchen and so, it seems, does America. Her picture graces magazine covers, t-shirts with “Run Gretchen” appear on our teenagers, coffee mugs with “I’d Kill for a Cup of Coffee” and her visage appear in break rooms throughout offices, women read articles on how to “get Gretchen’s hairstyle” in

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Fire season is here early this year. This is the view from the front yard, of the Station Fire, burning up in Big Tujunga canyon area. Which looks a whole lot closer than it really is...its probably 20 miles from where we are...but the smoke is awful with this fire, the clear blue sky on the edges is the first blue sky we've seen in two days, mostly its been as overcast as cloudy day, with heat

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Here's another critter pic this week. Cookie was a wee little pup then, only about 6 pounds, and Bear was, at the time, well, the big 14 pound boy he still is today. This was one of those..."Hmm...what's this? It's furry like me, but something's wrong with this picture".... moments. Then Cookie grew up a bit, and discovered that if she can surprise Bear, he'll run and YAY! She has an excuse to

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Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!This weeks find is Chelsea Cain's newest novel, which goes on sale next Tuesday, Sept. 1, Evil at Heart. I finished the book a couple of nights ago, you can see my review on Sunday. It's absolutely the ultimate in suspense thriller awesomeness. To tide you over...here's a trailer from Youtube for the book.If they ever make a movie out of this, I'm

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This week's Super Scientific method of choosing the winner of Robin Cook's Intervention involved an empty Quaker Oats box and the ever popular, little slips of paper. At 9pm last night, (okay, it was closer to 8:45, but I can be arbitrary if I choose to be....) with YD's superb assistance we drew the lucky winner!And the winner is.......an anonymous entry who's "sister reads lots of his books too

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In The Rapture by Liz Jensen, the world is a place of overwhelming heat, frequent natural disasters, suicide bombings, morgues “bursting at the seams” and prophets of doom and destruction. The world’s religions are filled with fanatical, self-righteous and extreme believers. It is truly a world on the abyss of despair and death. Gabrielle, a therapist in some pretty serious need of therapy

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A number of students seem to have disappeared from the Yale campus, including some very high profile kids; the sons of both the Secretary of Defense and the newest Supreme Court Justice. The Yale Campus Police and the New Have PD don’t know if it’s terrorism, kidnapping or something completely unforeseen. Suspended Boulder police officer, Sam Purdy goes to Yale at the behest of a friend, in the

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WIN!! Intervention by Robin Cook ends Wednesday! Click HERE and enter for a chance (or three) to win!!C'mon...click the link...you know you want to....It's Robin Cook for cryin' out loud....Whaddya got to lose?

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Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. What books came into your home last week?To answer my own question:El huevo de ganso grandeLe grand oeuf d'oieIl grande uovo di ocain any language, otherwise known as.....The Big Goose EggYup, zip, zilch, nada, nothin'....*sighAnd although I'm really sorta bummed, its just sorta. I'm almost secretly relieved. The stacks are building up a

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Giveaway time once more, this week it's a gently read hardcover copy of Hell's Gate by Stephen Frey!From Fantastic FictionIt's fire season in Montana...From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey comes a riveting new thriller about a disillusioned star litigator who goes west to forge a new life in Big Sky Country -- and stumbles onto the toughest case of his career.When

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com53tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-29220791468156112622009-08-22T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-22T05:00:02.198-07:00

It seems like I often come across really good recipes while checking out blogs, so I thought I'd share the Fruit Cobbler recipe I adapted for a low calorie desert.Fruit Cobbler3 cups fresh, frozen or drained canned (unsweetened) fruit, sliced up. (I used fresh peaches and a few raspberries in this one)2 TBSP Butter (it's not THAT much butter...trust me..it'll be okay to use a little)1 cup

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Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!On August 25th, Dean Koontz's memoir of Trixie goes on sale, and I'm not going to order it. (That would be because I want to get it that day, I don't want to wait. If you work at my local bookstore, please, be kind and open early that day. Or I'll be standing out there, in the blazing August sun, melting before your eyes waiting...like the old

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From Telegraph.co.ukZombies: the only pandemic that can really get usYesterday, the end of the human race was predicted (for those that credit the existence of zombies, at any rate).Mathematicians from the University of Ottawa, using models designed to determine the effect of pandemic diseases, have calculated in their study “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie

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Who doesn't love Stephen King...he's Stephen King for cryin' out loud! And, I just discovered he has a new novel coming out in November. Just in time for the holidays, (any family reading this...hint..hint..) on November 10th. From Fantastic Fiction:Under the DomeOn an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of

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It’s summer. Hot, dry, windy and Montana is burning. Hunter Lee, at the suggestion of his brother Strat, has left New York City, a failed marriage and an extremely successful junior partnership at a prestigious law firm behind and moved to Fort Mason, Montana. Hunter and his brother attempt to uncover the identity of who is behind the recent mega-fires that are destroying homes, thousands of

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Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. Check it out, and see what other readers are finding in their mailboxes! I had another terrific week! What books came into your home last week?The Spire by Richard North PattersonBoth a razor-sharp thriller and a poignant love story, this twisting tale of psychological suspense is Patterson’s most compelling novel in yearsMark Darrow grew up

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It's time for another giveaway! This time its for a once-read hardcover copy of Robin Cook's brand spankin' new novel: Intervention!From Fantastic FictionIt's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation and almost as long since he'd been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist,

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In Robin Cook’s new novel, Intervention, we meet up once more with New York City medical examiner, Jack Stapleton. Jack and his wife, Laurie recently had a baby boy. Their baby, JJ, has been diagnosed with a form of childhood cancer, neuroblastoma. Jack throws himself into his work to distract himself from the problems with JJ, and while researching alternative medicine discovers its dangers. In

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Kelly's response to Anonymous comment on Robin Cook Intervention review:Anonymous, thanks for taking the time to comment on my review. With respect, I disagree with some of your perceptions.Actually, there certainly ARE chiropractors that would x-ray a patient with every visit. Just as there are unethical medical doctors who would, oh, give a patient a hospital grade anesthetic in the patients’

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I've probably sat down at least four times since Wednesday to write this up. And its hard to write something when you're sort of speechless! I had the happy good fortune to be able to meet the author of Big Sid's Vincati on Wednesday! You all know what a huge fan of this book I am. (If you're thinking....huh? you can see my review here.) This week, the author of the book, Matthew Biberman, the

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This week's Super Scientific method of choosing the winner of Mating Rituals of the North American Wasp involved a Starbucks cup and little slips of paper. At 9pm last night, just before YD hit the hay in preparation for today's dreaded First Day of School...with YD's superb assistance we drew the lucky winner!And the winner is.......Rebecca of ccqdesigns! Yay! The book will go out today Rebecca!

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From Cheer CampWe returned yesterday from a long weekend getaway in Big Bear California. Our YD (youngest daughter) had to attend a 4 day "cheer camp", where the girls pretty much get the phooey whupped out of them for four days, while lifting other girls almost equal to their own weight above their heads and tossing them around. When we arrived at the camp to pick her up on Tuesday morning, one

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WIN!! Mating Rituals of the North American Wasp Giveaway ends tomorrow! Click HERE to win!!C'mon...click the link...you know you want to....

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Blindman's Bluff by Faye KellermanLAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murder in this twisting tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman."They say dead men don't talk, but if you listen, they do."As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. unless a

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I've been doing the Snoopy Happy Dance all week long! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. Check it out, and see what other readers are finding in their mailboxes! What books came into your home last week?Hell's Gate by Stephen FreyFrom "New York Times"-bestselling author Frey comes a riveting new thriller about a world-weary star litigator who goes west to become a firefighter

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-43725621330182139972009-08-09T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-09T07:58:42.734-07:00

(Or our favorite under-appreciated, under-loved, long-forgotten or never heard of books that we know you'll love just as much as we do when we convince you to finally read them!...phew....books....)It's time for another installment!This time, I wanted to talk a bit about a much loved, but sometimes overlooked and forgotten series...The Boxcar Children. So many of us grew up reading the Boxcar

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-39695448660388683302009-08-08T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-08T05:00:04.092-07:00

Maybe this explains why the quality of my posting varies so greatly. Meet my handsome ghost writer...Bear. Bear's a former pound kitty, adopted with his sister Molly when they were about 7 weeks old. He's, lemme think, sheesh, I think he's 10 now...wow, I didn't realize that until just now. Time, it do fly by.....Really, he's not as cranky as he appears in the photo, he merely doesn't wish to be

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-85873801978233536552009-08-07T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-07T05:42:43.208-07:00

Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!Stephen Frey has a new book coming out soon! Hell's Gate hits the shelves on August 18th!From Fantastic Fiction:It's fire season in Montana...From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey comes a riveting new thriller about a disillusioned star litigator who goes west to forge a new life in Big Sky Country -- and stumbles onto the toughest

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-53590243346752107452009-08-06T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-06T05:03:56.553-07:00

In Jason Starr’s novel, Panic Attack, Adam Bloom is successful psychologist with a busy practice and happily married to his wife Dana. They live in a beautiful three-story home with their 22-year-old daughter, Marissa. Late one night, Marissa wakes Adam and Dana; there is someone in their home. Adam takes his gun from the closet and uses it to kill one of the intruders. The Bloom’s lives change

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It's time for another giveaway!From Fantastic FictionAfter arguing with her live-in boyfriend about his inability to commit, Peggy Adams flies to a friend's bachelorette party in Las Vegas, and wakes up next to a man she can't remember. Hung-over and miserable, she sneaks out of the sleeping man's hotel room and returns home to New York, where her boyfriend apologizes for the fight and gives her

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The Siege (Dr. Alan Gregory series) by Stephen WhiteIn The Siege, Gregory's longtime friend Sam Purdy takes center stage in a story that feels ripped from tomorrow's headlines. From the first page on, readers need to be buckled in for a nonstop ride full of terror and pathos. As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students - including the sons of both the

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*Possible spoilersWhile leaving Chicago after burying his father, Conrad Harrison takes a wrong road and ends up in Wisconsin. He stops at a diner for a meal and stumbles across an ad for a home for sale in Black Earth, Wisconsin. The ad speaks to him and he feels compelled to follow up. Conrad purchases the house in hopes of moving with his wife to Black Earth. In Los Angeles, their marriage is

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-55364635056550666472009-08-03T04:00:00.000-07:002009-08-03T05:59:50.227-07:00

Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. Check it out, and see what other readers are finding in their mailboxes! What books came into your home last week? I had a spectacular mailbox week!!Intervention by Robin CookIt's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation and almost as long since he'd been in touch with former

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-10404635781880121172009-08-02T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-02T05:00:01.083-07:00

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-57407755883284085392009-08-01T05:00:00.000-07:002009-08-01T06:16:30.737-07:00

You've all seen the picture of our dog Cookie. I came across this old photo today and thought I'd share with you how darn little and cute she was as a puppy. This is a picture of her very first night with us, sitting on my son's lap on possibly the ugliest couch on the planet, in April of 2006. She was 8 weeks old here...can I hear an "awwww"? Wasn't she just the cutest????What about you? I know

Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05811292947565794018noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7900814092977477396.post-57602472024698849352009-07-31T05:00:00.000-07:002009-07-31T08:27:01.094-07:00

Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!How in the heck did I miss this??? Lisa Gardner wrote another book...and I didn't know it....arrrrggggghhhh!! Where was I???? I am NOT a happy camper and I have got to get this book. Gardners last book, Say Goodbye, was way past complete and total AWESOME-ness! This is what happened in the last six hours of the world as I knew it...It was a case

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Using my "oh so very scientific method" (which involved a baseball cap and little pieces of paper this week) at 9:00 pm (pacific) last night I drew the winning name for Ted Dekker's Boneman's Daughter. And the winner is.......So...whatcha doin' today? How's the weather? It's a wee bit cooler here, thanks for asking! But I hear its cranking up to the 100+ again. Lordy, I hate summer....what? Oh..

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Wooo--hooo!! I'm featured this week over at Kittling: Books weekly feature, Scene of the Blog! Cathy, who does all the hard work for this feature found out a few months ago that my wee little desk where *ahem....."the magic happens!" had a birthday this week and turned 100 years old. So....a big THANK YOU to Cathy and a Happy Birthday to my desk. It a little discombobulating, but awfully cool to

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WIN!! Boneman's Daughters by Ted Dekker! Giveaway ends tomorrow! Click HERE to enter!!C'mon...click the link...you know you want to....

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The Last Bridge by Teri CoyneAfter a ten-year absence, Alex 'Cat' Rucker returns to her Ohio hometown because of a letter left on her mother's kitchen table - a suicide note, carefully preserved in a Ziploc® bag, that reads:'He isn't who you think he is. Love, Mom'Thus opens this stunning debut novel from author Teri Coyne, who, with wry humor and sharp wit, follows Alex's journey through the

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Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia of The Printed Page. Check it out, and see what other readers are finding in their mailboxes! What books came into your home last week?The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world. Adam One is the leader of the God's Gardeners, a religious group

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From Fantastic FictionSAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, June 23, 2009EVENT: The next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten.WHERE: Wherever books are sold across AmericaWHAT TO BRING: Sunglasses, insect repellant, a flotation device, suntan lotion, cheez-doodles, extra-large towel, fire extinguisher, baseball bat, lip balm,

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(Or our favorite under-appreciated, under-loved, long-forgotten or never heard of books that we know you'll love just as much as we do when we convince you to finally read them!...phew....books....)The last books that DesLily talked with me about is the Dragonlance series. ".....And how do I speak of Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's, Dragonlance? Many know the game, and it is still fairly

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A headline in today's L.A. Daily News reads:Killer Likely Targeted Dead ManReally? That seems sort of pointless.....

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Thanks to MizB for hosting this fun Friday meme!Oh boy oh boy oh boy!! There's another Dexter book coming out on September 8th! I know that Dexter is popular now, I mean...he's got his own TV show! But I've been reading the series since its inception and I'm thrilled that there's another one on the way. Creepy, macabre and TOTALLY AWESOME!! But I haven't watched the show....I don't ever seem to

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(Or our favorite under-appreciated, under-loved, long-forgotten or never heard of books that we know you'll love just as much as we do when we convince you to finally read them!...phew....books....)Let's continue with DesLily's favorite long-forgotten books:......Then there is David Eddings and his Belgariad series. Sadly Mr Eddings recently passed away, but he did leave a legacy of his books

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(My daughter looked at this and said, "Hm, I work with all seven of them..")I laugh only because I wonder which one am I?? (Is it hot in here...or is it just me???)

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It's time for a giveaway!Boneman's Daughter's by Ted Dekker was a pretty darn good read, and I'm giving away my own personal hardcover copy...yep...I said it...giving it away!! (I must be nuts!!)I really liked this book and rather than have it sit and gather dust, I'd love for another reader to enjoy it. (You can see my review here)To enter this giveaway, please leave me a comment and include an

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