Books
List of books read in 2005 2006 2007 2008
To this date, I have read total of 135 books, which amounted to 49679 pages.
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1 Cross by James Patterson
Pages: 393
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: I'm Dr.Thompson, with the Berkshires Medical Center.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of Cross's wife, Maria, Patterson quickly introduces Michael Sullivan (aka the Butcher of Sligo). What follows is a frenetically paced series of brutal rapes and killings by Sullivan, once employed by the mob as a freelancer and now at war with them. Cross juggles being a single parent and being involved in the dangerous game of tracking serial killers until he finally decides to give it up for his family...
Favorite Quotes: NA
2 Beach Road by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge
Pages: 310
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: Seventeen and criminally cute, Nikki Robinson sulks through the sultry afternoon trying to keep from staring at this useless shocking-pink cell phone.
Last Sentence: Isn't that right, Wingo?
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Bestseller Patterson shows signs of having gone to the well too often in this slapdash collaboration with de Jonge, his coauthor on The Beach House (2002). Tom Dunleavy, a former professional basketball player and local East Hampton legend, is getting by as an underworked and unmotivated attorney. His sports glory days and his one true love are long in the past, but he gets second chances at personal and professional redemption when three locals are gunned down, apparently in the aftermath of racial tensions arising from a heated pickup game of hoops. The police seize on Dante Halleyville, the country's best high school star, as their suspect, and Dunleavy must dust off his old courtroom skills and enlist his lost love, Kate Costello, as his partner.
Favorite Quotes: NA
3 Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Pages: 258
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: It was a hospital bed, that much appeared certain, though certainty was coming and going.
Last Sentence: He allowed himself a smile of deep satisfaction.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Third-string Cleveland Browns quarterback Rick Dockery becomes the greatest goat ever by throwing three interceptions in the closing minutes of the AFC championship game. Fleeing vengeful fans, he finds refuge in the grungiest corner of professional football, the Italian National Football League as quarterback of the inept but full-of-heart Parma Panthers. What ensues is a winsome football fable, replete with team bonding and character-building as the underdog Panthers challenge the powerhouse Bergamo Lions for a shot at the Italian Superbowl. The book is also the author's love letter to Italy. Rick is first baffled and then enchanted by all things Italian-tiny cars! opera! benign corruption!-and through him Grisham (The Firm) instructs his readership in the art of gracious living, featuring sumptuous four-hour, umpteen-course meals...
Favorite Quotes: NA
4 All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell
Pages: 373
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: Saturday, the last day of August, I started work before dawn.
Last Sentence: I opened the windows and drove west toward home.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Edgar, Anthony, Creasey and McCavity Award winner Cornwell ( Body of Evidence ) combines bone-rattling suspense with an insider's view of forensic science as her sleuth, Richmond, Va., medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, investigates a series of grim murders of young couples. With bone fragments being, in effect, all that remains of badly decomposed corpses, Scarpetta, Richmond homicide detective Pete Marino, ace reporter Abby Turnbull and even psychic Hilda Ozimek must employ their combined expertise--and a good deal of raw courage--to trace the killer...
Favorite Quotes: NA
5 The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin
Pages: 384
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: Every season of my nanny career kicked off with a round of interviews so surreally similar that I'd often wonder if the mothers were slipped a secret manual at the Parents League to guide them through.
Last Sentence: Well, then, Grace, let's go home.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) A blistering satire based on the real-life experiences of former New York City nannies McLaughlin and Kraus, this hilarious examination of the upper echelons of Manhattan society and the unlovable Park Avenue X family is flawlessly complemented by Roberts's limber, metamorphosing vocal performance. Depicted by the Academy Award winner's detached, patronizing tone, Mrs. X, a housewife, has little more to do than spend her adulterous, workaholic husband's seven-figure salary on manicures, designer clothes and floral arrangements. She delegates the care of her bratty four-year-old son, Grayer, and other small "errands" (e.g., shopping for a 50-guest dinner party) to an NYU grad student, Nan...
Favorite Quotes: NA
6 CSS Mastery by Andy Budd
Pages: 245
Genre: Website Design
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Book Description) While CSS is a relatively simple technology to learn, it is a difficult one to master. When you first start developing sites using CSS, you will come across all kinds of infuriating browser bugs and inconsistencies. It sometimes feels like there are a million and one different techniques to master, spread across a bewildering array of websites. The range of possibilities seems endless and makes for a steep and daunting learning curve. By bringing all of the latest tips, tricks, and techniques together in one handy reference, this book demystifies the secrets of CSS and makes the journey to CSS mastery as simple and painless as possible. While most books concentrate on basic skills, this one is different, assuming that you already know the basics and why you should be using CSS in your work, and concentrating mainly on advanced techniques...
Favorite Quotes: NA
7 Inspirability by Pash
Pages: 238
Genre: Graphic Design
First Sentence:
Last Sentence:
Summary: (Amazon.com) It's hard for graphic designers to stay inspired when they're constantly working on deadline. Inspirability gives them a fresh look at how to keep those creative fires burning in the real world, with: -Interviews with 40 design luminaries, including Stefan Sagmeister, Paula Scher, Milton Glaser and Margo Chase -Fascinating pictures the designers took of themselves and their offices, as well as samples of their design work -Revealing insights into what inspires each designer on a day-to-day basis. This book offers an original take on one of the most requested topics by graphic designers. It's a must-have tool for lasting inspiration!
Favorite Quotes:
8 Frankenstein: Book 2 - City of Night by Dean Koontz
Pages: 455
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Having come to life in a thunderstorm, touched by some strange lightning that animated rather than incinerated, Deucalion had been born on a night of violence.
Last Sentence: The perfect hostess is creative, patient, and has a long memory - as does a wise wife.
Summary: (From Booklist) Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, volume one of which, Prodigal Son (2005), was a pulse-pounder all the way, is going to be a trilogy. But don't expect to relax all that much. This book cooks, no second-volume doldrums anywhere in it. Its short, punchy chapters, 80 in all, seem to reflect the whole saga's TV miniseries origins in their jump-cutting between plot trajectories, but that seeming also owes much to the visualizability, so to speak, of everything in the book. But enough about technique. The manufactured young man who went AWOL from 200-plus-year-old Victor Helios-ne-Frankenstein's labs in Prodigal Son turns out to be not the only improved Frankenstein monster who is behaving strangely. Since he was created autistic for experimental purposes, he may be the least strange of the lot. Some of his "normal" fellows are mutating a la Alien, none more spectacularly than Victor's body guard...
Favorite Quotes: Every setback must be viewed as an opportunity, a chance to learn.
9 Frankenstein: Book 1 - Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz
Pages: 469
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Deucalion seldom slept, but when he did, he dreamed.
Last Sentence: This child of Mercy, in the spidery dark, smiles.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In this grisly thriller, the first in a new series by bestsellers Koontz and Anderson, Dr. Frankenstein has survived into the 21st century, masquerading as biotech tycoon Victor Helios. Helios wants to replace flawed humanity with his New Race, people born and fermented in pods, their personalities programmed by him, their imperfections removed in the lab. But at least one of his creations has become a serial killer, trying to assemble the perfect woman from parts of many...
Favorite Quotes: NA
10 Brother Odd by Dean Koontz
Pages: 365
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: Embraced by stone, steeped in silence, I sat at the high window as the third day of the week surrendered to the fourth.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Bestseller Koontz's third Odd Thomas novel (after Forever Odd) offers an irresistibly offbeat mix of supernatural horror and laugh-out-loud humor. A resident of St. Bartholomew's Abbey, a monastery in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Thomas has the ability to see the spirits of the dead, a gift he has used to resolve mysteries and prevent future tragedies. As the story opens, the seer is unsettled by visions of bodachs, sinister ghostlike entities whose appearance precedes some dire tragedy. Thomas frantically searches for some sign that will help him head off disaster, even as St. Bart's is thrown into turmoil by the disappearance of one of its members...
Favorite Quotes: NA
11 Make The Right Choice by Joel Zeff
Pages: 160
Genre: Career Development
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From the Inside Flap) Joel Zeff creates energy. His spontaneous humor and insightful messages have thrilled audiences for years. A national speaker and humorist, he has presented to more than 1,000 companies and organizations. He connects to his audience with humor that has them laughing so uncontrollably that their mascara runs, their cheeks hurt, and their bellies ache. And he doesn't do it alone. Volunteers from the audience join him on stage and play an integral role in an improvisation game in front of hundreds or thousands of people—something they have never done. He expects nothing less than their success. He expects the volunteers to focus and work together as a team; communicate effectively; posi-tively support each other; and take responsibility. In Make the Right Choice, Joel shares his expe-rience and insight on creativity, communication, teamwork, passion, and fun. With wit, a sharp observational eye, and playful irreverence, he discusses the choices we all encounter in our careers. We each have the ability to take initiative and make the right choice to live a more creative, passionate, effective, and productive life...
Favorite Quotes: NA
12 Icebound by Dean Koontz
Pages: 408
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
13 Whispers by Dean Koontz
Pages: 509
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Tuesday at dawn, Los Angeles trembled.
Last Sentence: As they walked toward Laurenski, the autumn rain hammered softly on them and whispered in the grass.
Summary: (Book Description) For 35 years, Bruno Frye has lived in the shadow of the mother who made his heart beat with constant fear. And even though she died five years ago, the whispers still haunt him in the dark... enough to make him kill-and kill again. Hilary Thomas is one of his intended victims. And she's about to learn that even death can't keep a bad man down...
Favorite Quotes: NA
14 Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
Pages: 355
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: When the monsters finally came through the door, he was wearing a mask.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: )From Publishers Weekly) One plot element¢a case of child molestation involving a Catholic priest¢in Picoult's latest novel (after Salem Falls) now seems eerily prescient, but that's only part of the saga she weaves, which is primarily an indictment of the current criminal justice system. Nina Frost, an assistant district attorney in Maine, knows how hard it is to obtain a conviction for a sex crime when the victim is a juvenile, so when her five-year-old son, Nathaniel, identifies their priest as being the man who raped him, Nina's grievances with the system become personal. Frustrated by the threat of an unsatisfactory legal outcome, she takes the law into her own hands, killing the priest in open court...
Favorite Quotes: NA
15 My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Pages: 448
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy), teen suicide (The Pact) and sterilization laws (Second Glance), turns her gaze on genetic planning, the prospect of creating babies for health purposes and the ethical and moral fallout that results. Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned. Meanwhile, Jesse, the neglected oldest child of the family, is out setting fires, which his firefighter father, Brian, inevitably puts out...
Favorite Quotes: NA
16 City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Pages: 394
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: The old lady had changed her mind about dying but by then it was too late.
Last Sentence: He held the boxes against his chest and waited in the rain.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Harry Bosch is at the top of his form which is great news for Connelly fans who might have been wondering how much life the dour, haunted LAPD veteran had left in him. His latest adventure is as dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch's past outings, but it also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives?
Favorite Quotes: NA
17 The Girl Next Door by Patricia MacDonald
Pages: 290
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: Nina Avery tried to concentrate on her highlighted script.
Last Sentence: Her father had seen to it before he left her.
Summary: (From Booklist) Nina Avery is taking a break from her acting "career" (she survives on bit parts in soaps and the occasional commercial) so that she can help her father adjust to life on the outside. Nina was only 16 when she found her mother dead, stabbed with a kitchen knife. But Nina's father, Duncan, a doctor, found her first, and he was implicated, charged, and eventually convicted of murdering his wife. Nina never thought he was guilty, unlike her older brother, Patrick...
Favorite Quotes: NA
18 The Double Bind by Chris Bonjalian
Pages: 360
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: Laurel Estabrook was nearly raped the fall of her sophomore year of college.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Readers will be startled to learn early on that the heroine of this engrossing puzzle, 26-year-old Laurel Estabrook, was born in West Egg. Wait a minute, wasn't West Egg where Jay Gatsby lived? Laurel works in a Burlington, Vt., homeless shelter and is trying to overcome mental and physical scars incurred from a brutal assault some six years earlier. After being given a portfolio of photographs taken by a recently deceased resident of the shelter, Bobbie Crocker, she becomes obsessed with questions surrounding what appears to be a picture of herself shot on the day of her attack...
Favorite Quotes: NA
19 Identity by Milan Kundera
Pages: 168
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: A hotel in a small town on the Normandy coast, which they found in a guidebook.
Last Sentence: Every night.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In his second novel written in French (after Slowness), Czech-born novelist Kundera employs spare prose in the service of a meditation on the precarious nature of the human sense of self. Recently divorced ad executive Chantal, on a vacation with her younger boyfriend, Jean-Marc, believes that she is too old to be considered attractive by other men. For Chantal, identity is defined by the perceptions of strangers. Her dreams, to the extent that they impose a "leveling contemporaneity of everything a person has ever experienced," disturb Chantal. They remind her that she has a past, when she feels that she exists only in the present, that she is who she is only at any given moment. When she returns from her vacation, she begins to receive letters from an anonymous admirer. She suspects each new man she encounters to be the mysterious scribe and fantasizes how each might perceive her...
Favorite Quotes: NA
20 Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
Pages: 175
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: How would you have me write about it?
Last Sentence: Look, Ma, the world.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) This short, self-assured novel by Australian-born Jennings (Snake) brilliantly depicts the complicated life of a working woman on Wall Street during the dot-com boom. Cath, a freelance writer in her 40s, is married to Bailey, who's 25 years her senior. When he develops Alzheimer's, she takes a speech-writing job at an investment bank to pay for his expensive medical care. Wry but realistic, and realizing her position in a rigid boys' club hierarchy, she suppresses her liberal sensibility and defers to the chauvinists who dominate the firm, even cozying up to Horace, the company's most Machiavellian executive...
Favorite Quotes: NA
21 Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
Pages: 430
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Even before the events in the supermarket, Jim Ironheart should have known trouble was coming.
Last Sentence: Purpose.
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
22 The Door to December by Dean Koontz
Pages: 510
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: As soon as she finished dressing, Laura went to the front door and was just in time to see the Los Angeles Police Department squad car pull to the curb in front of the house.
Last Sentence: It's enough.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Published pseudonymously in 1985, Koontz has revised this thriller portraying a pediatric psychiatrist's attempts to unravel the mental trauma suffered by her estranged nine-year-old daughter...
Favorite Quotes: NA
23 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Pages: 400
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.
Last Sentence: I ran.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid '90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies...
Favorite Quotes: NA
24 The Eyes of Darkness by Dean Koontz
Pages: 369
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: At six minutes past midnight, Tuesday morning, on the way home from a late rehearsal of her new stage show, Tina Evans saw her son, Danny, in a stranger's car.
Last Sentence: She wondered what lay ahead of them.
Summary: A year has passed since little Danny's death - a year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But tonight, Tina Evans swore she saw her Danny in a stranger's car. Then she dreamed that Danny was alive. And when she woke, she found a message waiting for her in Danny's bedroom...
Favorite Quotes: NA
25 Dark Fall by Dean Koontz
Pages: 384
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Penny Dawson woke and heard something moving furtively in the dark bedroom.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Publishers Weekly) Swift, entertaining...a classic race to the rescue.
Favorite Quotes: NA
26 The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Pages: 340
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: When Isaac Amin sees two men with rifles walk into his office at half past noon on a warm autumn day in Tehran, his first thought is that he won't be able to join his wife and daughter for lunch, as promised.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Sofer's family escaped from Iran in 1982 when she was 10, an experience that may explain the intense detail of this unnerving debut. On a September day in 1981, gem trader Isaac Amin is accosted by Revolutionary Guards at his Tehran office and imprisoned for no other crime than being Jewish in a country where Muslim fanaticism is growing daily. Being rich and having had slender ties to the Shah's regime magnify his peril. In anguish over what might be happening to his family, Isaac watches the brutal mutilation and executions of prisoners around him...
Favorite Quotes: NA
27 Wife in the fast lane by Karen Quinn
Pages: 448
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: Look for Highway 380.
Last Sentence: He kissed her good-bye.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Quinn (The Ivy Chronicles) spins a delightful story about the unsinkable Christy Hayes, a former Olympic gold medalist turned successful entrepreneur whose comfy life is about to hit a bumpy patch. Founder and CEO of athletic shoe company Baby G, Christy lands an ideal husband, Michael Drummond, a wealthy media mogul who's survived a bad marriage. Things are swell until Christy's housekeeper and confidant dies, leaving behind her precocious 11-year-old granddaughter, Renata Ruiz, whom Christy takes in...
Favorite Quotes: NA
28 Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Pages: 370
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: There should have been a dark whisper in the wind.
Last Sentence: And that, I knew, would always be enough.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Every writer likes to stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed Myron Bolitar mysteries (Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his. He doesn't quite kick his reputation aside in the process. This thriller, Coben's first non-Bolitar novel, is a breezy enough read, but it's not up to snuff. It's got a nifty setup, though. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is kidnapped...
Favorite Quotes: NA
29 This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff
Pages: 288
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: Our car boiled again just after my mother and I crossed the Continental Divide.
Last Sentence: It was a good night to sing and we sang for all we were worth, as if we'd been saved.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Wolff's fourth book, he recounts his coming-of-age with customary skill and self-assurance. Seeking a better life in the Northwestern U.S. with his divorced mother, whose "strange docility, almost paralysis, with men of the tyrant breed" taught Wolff the virtue of rebellion, he considered himself "in hiding," moved to invent a private, "better" version of himself in order to rise above his troubles...
Favorite Quotes: NA
30 The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
Pages: 350
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: Abby Reynolds braked her truck on the icy highway, startled by what she imagined she saw off to the side of the road.
Last Sentence: It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making him think that maybe she hadn't minded his devotion after all.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Pickard (Storm Warnings) probes the truth behind miracles and the tragedies behind lies in this mesmerizing suspense novel set in Kansas. While rounding up newborn calves during a 1987 blizzard, Nathan Shellenberger, sheriff of Small Plains, and his teenage sons, Rex and Patrick, discover the naked frozen body of a beautiful teenage girl. Later, Nathan and Dr. Quentin "Doc" Reynolds bash the girl's face to an unrecognizable pulp, since they know who she is and fear that either Patrick or Rex's best friend, 17-year-old Mitch Newquist, is her killer...
Favorite Quotes: NA
31 Dating without Novocaine by Lisa Cach
Pages: 280
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: "Anoint your sacred body parts," Sapphire said, passing 'round a small blue-and-white Chinese bowl.
Last Sentence: And either way, I was going to be all right.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Talented seamstress Hannah O'Dowd cuffs men's pants to pay the rent, but while her hands hover at ankle-height, her attentions are focused a bit farther up. She's 29 and hasn't yet found her backyard barbecue guy: "I don't want to turn thirty and still not know who I'm going to marry," she gripes, setting the tone for this mild single-girl tale set in Portland, Ore. At least she has company in her loyal but flaky roommate, Cassie, who is taking belly-dancing classes to unblock her "sex chakra," and the more sensible Louise, a phone counselor at a crisis center...
Favorite Quotes: When you're truly strong, you can admit ignorance or errors without it being a threat. You can admit you need help with something.
32 Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Pages: 384
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: The dirt trail was narrow.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: The fever is spreading, seizing the men and women of Black River. Plaguing them with night chills. Driving them to violent acts of rape, murder - and mutilation...
Favorite Quotes: NA
33 The People's Act of Love by James Meek
Pages: 388
Genre: Historical Novel
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Book Description) In a remote Siberian village, amid a lawless, unforgiving landscape, lives Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, willfully self-reliant widowed mother. A mystical, separatist Christian sect, a stranded regiment of restless Czech soldiers, and an eerie local shaman live nearby, all struggling against the elements and great social upheaval to maintain a fragile coexistence. Out of the woods trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia’s northernmost prison camp, with a terrifyingly outlandish story to tell about his journey. Immediately apprehended, he is brought before the Czech regiment’s megalomaniac, Captain Matula. But the stranger’s appearance has caught the attention of others, including Anna Petrovna’s...
Favorite Quotes: NA
34 America on Six Rubles a day by Yakov Smirnoff
Pages: 124
Genre: Biography/Memoir
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
35 Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
Pages: 304
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In her second novel, Sheehan switches genres from her debut historical about Sojourner Truth to a contemporary tale of grief featuring Rocky Pelligrino, a woman reeling from her husband's death. After her husband dies of a heart attack, Rocky leaves behind her career as a psychologist in the Berkshire Mountains and moves to Peak's Island, Maine, taking a job as an Animal Control Warden. Her first catch is a black Lab with an arrow lodged in his shoulder. She takes him in, searches for his owner and tries to solve the mystery behind the arrow's origin. Rocky makes a few friends-anorexic teenage neighbor Melissa and strangely attractive archery instructor Hill Johnson-and her mission takes a surprisingly dark turn after she learns of Cooper's original owners. Dog lovers will adore Sheehan's portrayal of Cooper, who, in contrast to all the human suffering, comprises the bright spot in a melancholy novel...
Favorite Quotes: NA
36 Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
Pages: 280
Genre: Website Design
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: No matter how visually appealing or packed with content your Web site is, it isn’t succeeding if it’s not reaching the widest possible audience. If you get this guide, you can be assured it will! By deconstructing a series of real-world Web sites, author and Web designer extraordinaire Dan Cederholm outlines 10 strategies for creating standards-based designs that provide flexibility, readability, and user control—key components of every successful Web site. Each chapter starts out with an example of what Dan refers to as an “unbulletproof” concept—an existing site that employs a traditional approach and its associated pitfalls. Dan then deconstructs that approach, noting its downsides and then making the site over using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). By the end of each chapter, you’ll have replaced traditional, bloated, inaccessible page components with lean markup and CSS. The guide culminates with a chapter that pieces together all of the page components discussed in prior chapters into a single page template...
Favorite Quotes: NA
37 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Pages: 287
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Dennis Lehanne) Cormac McCarthy sets his new novel, The Road, in a post-apocalyptic blight of gray skies that drizzle ash, a world in which all matter of wildlife is extinct, starvation is not only prevalent but nearly all-encompassing, and marauding bands of cannibals roam the environment with pieces of human flesh stuck between their teeth. If this sounds oppressive and dispiriting, it is. McCarthy may have just set to paper the definitive vision of the world after nuclear war, and in this recent age of relentless saber-rattling by the global powers, it's not much of a leap to feel his vision could be not far off the mark nor, sadly, right around the corner...
Favorite Quotes: NA
38 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Pages: 0
Genre: Drama Novel
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Amazon.com) It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview copies of Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating at Amazon.com, readers reacted with a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special as The Kite Runner was, those readers said, A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope...
Favorite Quotes: NA
39 250 HTML and Web Design Secrets by Molly E. Holzschlag
Pages: 400
Genre: Website Design
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
40 The Voice of the night by Dean Koontz
Pages: 339
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: "You ever killed anything?"
Last Sentence: He called the ambulance, then the police.
Summary: No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was nervous around girls; Roy was a ladies' man. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy asked his timid friend: "Your ever killed anything?". And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine... and too irresistible to stop.
Favorite Quotes: NA
41 The Hard Way by Lee Child
Pages: 478
Genre: Thriller/Suspense
First Sentence: Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.
Last Sentence: He had left Grange Farm two hours after the backhoe had shut down, and there had been no news of him since.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In bestseller Child's 10th novel to feature ex-army MP Jack Reacher (after 2005's One Shot), a sidewalk cafe encounter in New York City plunges Reacher into one of his most challenging—and thoroughly engrossing—adventures to date. Acting out of "reflex and professional curiosity" (and the promise of a generous fee), Reacher agrees to help sinister ex-army officer Edward Lane, whose posse of six Special Forces veterans are even more ominous than he, track down his kidnapped daughter and trophy wife...
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42 The Bone Parade by Mark Nykanen
Pages: 374
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Ba-WAAAAH-WAAH-WAH.
Last Sentence: I just came from my mother's funeral.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) An award-winning former investigative journalist, Nykanen (Hush) falters in his second novel, a gruesome chiller that's an amalgamation of Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Ashley Stassler is a world-famous sculptor who abducts and kills entire families (cue the Red Dragon) in order to make the ultimate "art" from their dying flesh (remember Buffalo Bill?), and his ego is even bigger than his reputation ("I expect I'll not only be forgiven but I'll be more sought after than ever before...
Favorite Quotes: NA
43 Sams Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours by Kynn Bartlett
Pages: 504
Genre: Website Design
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Learning to apply CSS is the HTML Web publisher's next developmental step toward a professional and stable Web design. A prerequisite to learning higher-level languages like Javascript, Java, and Flash, CSS is gaining increasing support among major browsers, including Netscape, Internet Explorer (together 94% market share) and newcomers Opera, Mozilla and NeoPlanet, and backwards-compatibility with older browser versions and specialized browsers. The key to successful CSS implementation is in understanding how different browsers use and interpret CSS. This tutorial takes the unique position of teaching the reader how to make smart decisions about how and when to apply CSS, based on browser support and intended effects. In 24 straightforward, hourly lessons, the reader learns by accomplishing hands-on tasks that can be applied to his own site in every hour.
Favorite Quotes: NA
44 The Vision by Dean Koontz
Pages: 353
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: "Gloves of blood".
Last Sentence: And I'm not afraid of the dark anymore.
Summary: He's watching you. He knows what you're doing. He knows what you're thinking. He's coming after you. He has a knife. The steel blade gleams. Whenever you close your eyes, you can see it - the tip of his knife, pointing at your chest...
Favorite Quotes: NA
45 Shattered by Dean Koontz
Pages: 288
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Only four blocks from the furnished apartment in Philadelphia, with more than three thousand miles to drive before they joined Courtney in San Fransisco, Colin began one of his games.
Last Sentence: And right now, more than anything, he wanted to cry.
Summary: The van was in back of them again. Closer this time. There could be no mistake - they were being followed. But why? The question kept nagging at Alex and Colin as they left Philadelphia behind and sped toward their new home in San Fransisco. Courtney would be waiting for them, ready to begin a wonderful new life with her husband, her brother...
Favorite Quotes: NA
46 The Cellar by Richard Laymon
Pages: 310
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: Jenson grabbed the radio mike.
Last Sentence: "I think they're coming"
Summary: Awakened by the early-morning phone call, Donna found out that her ex-husband, Roy, has been released from prison. She immediately dragged her twelve-year-old daughter out of bed and together they hit the road - fast. The last thing she wants is for Roy to get his hands on them again. But in fleeting one danger, Donna and her daughter are unknowingly heading straight toward another. They're heading toward Beast House.
Favorite Quotes: NA
47 Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
Pages: 464
Genre: Sci/Fi
First Sentence: Congratulations.
Last Sentence: I'm over it now.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Themes from Patterson's popular adult titles When the Wind Blows and The Lake House waft through this YA thriller, the author's first in the genre. Wood stars as Maximum Ride, 14-year-old leader of a band of kids who have escaped the lab where they were bred as 98% human and 2% bird (wings being a key component) and developed a variety of other-worldly talents...
Favorite Quotes: NA
48 PHP for the world wide web by Larry Ullman
Pages: 440
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Book Info) Beginner to intermediate level self-study guide on PHP for the World Wide Web. Takes a visual approach, offering readers step-by-step instructions with illustrations and screen shots to clarify procedures. Includes a companion Web site which features the code for the text, updates, and online resources.
Favorite Quotes: NA
49 Defensive design for the web by 37signals
Finish Date: Saturday, July 28, 2007
Pages: 236
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Let's admit it: Things will go wrong online. No matter how carefully you design a site, no matter how much testing you do, customers still encounter problems. So how do you handle these inevitable breakdowns? With defensive design. In this book, the experts at 37signals (whose clients include Microsoft, Qwest, Monster.com, and Clear Channel) will show you how. Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. The same way drivers must always be on the lookout for slick roads, reckless drivers, and other dangerous scenarios, site builders must constantly search for trouble spots that cause visitors confusion and frustration. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 236
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Let's admit it: Things will go wrong online. No matter how carefully you design a site, no matter how much testing you do, customers still encounter problems. So how do you handle these inevitable breakdowns? With defensive design. In this book, the experts at 37signals (whose clients include Microsoft, Qwest, Monster.com, and Clear Channel) will show you how. Defensive design is like defensive driving brought to the Web. The same way drivers must always be on the lookout for slick roads, reckless drivers, and other dangerous scenarios, site builders must constantly search for trouble spots that cause visitors confusion and frustration. Good site defense can make or break the customer experience...
Favorite Quotes: NA
50 Contest by Matthew Reilly
Finish Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) ETs with a mordant sense of drama turn the New York Public Library into "the labyrinth" for an interstellar survival game show in this ungainly thriller from Australian Reilly (Ice Station). Seven players, each from a different world, compete for their lives, combating not only each other but also a monster called the Karanodon. The earthly representative is Dr. Steven Swain, chosen for his courage in successfully fighting off a gang of thugs who invade his operating room...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) ETs with a mordant sense of drama turn the New York Public Library into "the labyrinth" for an interstellar survival game show in this ungainly thriller from Australian Reilly (Ice Station). Seven players, each from a different world, compete for their lives, combating not only each other but also a monster called the Karanodon. The earthly representative is Dr. Steven Swain, chosen for his courage in successfully fighting off a gang of thugs who invade his operating room...
Favorite Quotes: NA
51 The Beast House by Richard Laymon
Finish Date: Thursday, July 19, 2007
Pages: 334
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 334
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
52 Web Designer's Reference by Craig Grannell
Finish Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Pages: 390
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 390
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
53 Demon Seed by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Saturday, July 14, 2007
Pages: 302
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: This darkness troubles me.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 302
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: This darkness troubles me.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
54 Meg: a novel of deep terror by Steve Alten
Finish Date: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Pages: 264
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: From the moment the morning fog had begun to lift, they sensed they were being watched.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 264
Genre: Horror Fiction
First Sentence: From the moment the morning fog had begun to lift, they sensed they were being watched.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
55 Constructing Accessible Web Sites by Jim Thatcher, Cynthia Waddell, Shawn Henry
Finish Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Pages: 415
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: "This book is for anyone who owns or makes websites: from the freelance web professional to the corporate in-house design and development department, as well as all companies and government policy makers involved in the development and maintenance of web sites for their institutions, and organizations that provide web-based services to the public. Provides practical techniques for developing completely accessible web sites with a quick reference guide to accessible web site design."
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 415
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: "This book is for anyone who owns or makes websites: from the freelance web professional to the corporate in-house design and development department, as well as all companies and government policy makers involved in the development and maintenance of web sites for their institutions, and organizations that provide web-based services to the public. Provides practical techniques for developing completely accessible web sites with a quick reference guide to accessible web site design."
Favorite Quotes: NA
56 At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
Finish Date: Sunday, July 8, 2007
Pages: 210
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: An autumn storm has pounded Cambridge all day and is set to play violent encore into the night.
Last Sentence: "Funny how it's always about you, Monique."
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 210
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: An autumn storm has pounded Cambridge all day and is set to play violent encore into the night.
Last Sentence: "Funny how it's always about you, Monique."
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
57 The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
Finish Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Pages: 264
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: They came down to the emergency ward at noon at sat on the bench just behind the swinging doors that led in from the ambulance parking lot.
Last Sentence: She began to cry.
Summary: (Amazon.com) Harry has a problem. Ever since getting in a car accident, he's suffered from "thought seizures," violent fits in which he attacks other people. He used to be an artificial intelligence researcher, which may explain why he targets anyone who either works on machines or who acts like a machine--mechanics, gas-station attendants, prostitutes, exotic dancers...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 264
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: They came down to the emergency ward at noon at sat on the bench just behind the swinging doors that led in from the ambulance parking lot.
Last Sentence: She began to cry.
Summary: (Amazon.com) Harry has a problem. Ever since getting in a car accident, he's suffered from "thought seizures," violent fits in which he attacks other people. He used to be an artificial intelligence researcher, which may explain why he targets anyone who either works on machines or who acts like a machine--mechanics, gas-station attendants, prostitutes, exotic dancers...
Favorite Quotes: NA
58 The Elements of Graphic Design by Alex White
Finish Date: Monday, June 25, 2007
Pages: 143
Genre: Graphic Design
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Approach page design in a revolutionary new way! Unlike other graphic design books, The Elements of Graphic Design reveals the secrets of successful graphic design from the unique perspective of the page’s "white space." With the help of carefully selected examples from art, design, and architecture, the role of white space as a connection between page elements is thoroughly explored...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 143
Genre: Graphic Design
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Approach page design in a revolutionary new way! Unlike other graphic design books, The Elements of Graphic Design reveals the secrets of successful graphic design from the unique perspective of the page’s "white space." With the help of carefully selected examples from art, design, and architecture, the role of white space as a connection between page elements is thoroughly explored...
Favorite Quotes: NA
59 Monster Careers: Networking by Jeff Taylor with Doug Hardy
Finish Date: Saturday, June 23, 2007
Pages: 162
Genre: Career
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 162
Genre: Career
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
60 The Husband by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Pages: 416
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: A man begins dying at the moment of his birth.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: We have yous wife. You can get her back for two million cash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modest means, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. The caller is dead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind of money. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 416
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: A man begins dying at the moment of his birth.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: We have yous wife. You can get her back for two million cash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modest means, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. The caller is dead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind of money. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough...
Favorite Quotes: NA
61 Voushie Psi Odinochestva by Alexandra Marinina
Finish Date: Sunday, May 27, 2007
Pages: 632
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA`
Pages: 632
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA`
62 Dragon Tears by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Friday, May 25, 2007
Pages: 401
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Tuesday was a fine California day, full of sunshine and promise, until Larry Lyon had to shoot someone at lunch.
Last Sentence: And here comes a slice of chicken, thick and juicy!
Summary: Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. His partner urged him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believed in order and reason. Then one fatefull day, he was forced to shoot a man - and a homeless stranfer with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challanged Harry Lyon's sanity...
Favorite Quotes: Sometimes life can be as bitter as dragon tears. But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweet depends entirely on how each man perceives the taste.
Pages: 401
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Tuesday was a fine California day, full of sunshine and promise, until Larry Lyon had to shoot someone at lunch.
Last Sentence: And here comes a slice of chicken, thick and juicy!
Summary: Harry Lyon was a rational man, a cop who refused to let his job harden his soul. His partner urged him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believed in order and reason. Then one fatefull day, he was forced to shoot a man - and a homeless stranfer with bloodshot eyes uttered the haunting words that challanged Harry Lyon's sanity...
Favorite Quotes: Sometimes life can be as bitter as dragon tears. But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweet depends entirely on how each man perceives the taste.
63 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Finish Date: Thursday, May 10, 2007
Pages: 432
Genre: Dramatical Novel
First Sentence: The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began.
Last Sentence: He walked accross the grass and touched her shoulder, to take her home
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Edwards's assured but schematic debut novel (after her collection, The Secrets of a Fire King) hinges on the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, resulting in the father's disavowal of his newborn daughter. A snowstorm immobilizes Lexington, Ky., in 1964, and when young Norah Henry goes into labor, her husband, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry, must deliver their babies himself, aided only by a nurse...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 432
Genre: Dramatical Novel
First Sentence: The snow started to fall several hours before her labor began.
Last Sentence: He walked accross the grass and touched her shoulder, to take her home
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Edwards's assured but schematic debut novel (after her collection, The Secrets of a Fire King) hinges on the birth of fraternal twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down syndrome, resulting in the father's disavowal of his newborn daughter. A snowstorm immobilizes Lexington, Ky., in 1964, and when young Norah Henry goes into labor, her husband, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Henry, must deliver their babies himself, aided only by a nurse...
Favorite Quotes: NA
64 The Face of Fear by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Pages: 320
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Wary, not actually expecting trouble but prepared for it, parked his car across the street from the four-story brownstone apartment house.
Last Sentence: "No, it wasn't much, Nora"
Summary: (Amazon.com) You and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like frightened cockroaches, but the doors are forced open, revealing your antenna-quivering vulnerability. In desperation, you scramble up and down elevator shafts with one lame leg dangling helplessly behind, and try other life-threatening feats that seem to be more appealing than getting an ice-pick through your skull...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 320
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Wary, not actually expecting trouble but prepared for it, parked his car across the street from the four-story brownstone apartment house.
Last Sentence: "No, it wasn't much, Nora"
Summary: (Amazon.com) You and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like frightened cockroaches, but the doors are forced open, revealing your antenna-quivering vulnerability. In desperation, you scramble up and down elevator shafts with one lame leg dangling helplessly behind, and try other life-threatening feats that seem to be more appealing than getting an ice-pick through your skull...
Favorite Quotes: NA
65 Deliver First Class Web Sites by Shirley Kaiser
Finish Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Pages: 352
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Book Description) Drawing on dozens of books, studies, and research papers, this book distills not-so-common wisdom into 500 digestible guidelines & checkpoints that can be quickly applied to any Web Development project. Organized by chapter, the guidelines cover everything from color usage & navigation, to accessibility, usability and webpage architecture...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 352
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (Book Description) Drawing on dozens of books, studies, and research papers, this book distills not-so-common wisdom into 500 digestible guidelines & checkpoints that can be quickly applied to any Web Development project. Organized by chapter, the guidelines cover everything from color usage & navigation, to accessibility, usability and webpage architecture...
Favorite Quotes: NA
66 Shock by Robin Cook
Finish Date: Sunday, April 22, 2007
Pages: 0
Genre: Medical Thriller
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The medical thriller has come a long way since Cook and Michael Crichton invented it: recent practitioners like Tess Gerritson have polished it into a powerful dramatic and social engine. Alas, Cook appears to have gotten off at the wrong station or missed the train entirely, judging by his latest effort, a crudely conceived, ineptly written and most damning of all totally unexciting story ripped from old headlines. Things have been going to hell at the Wingate Fertility Clinic, housed in a rambling Victorian mansion near Boston, ever since the gifted Dr. Spencer Wingate decided to take some time off to write a novel and chase women...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 0
Genre: Medical Thriller
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The medical thriller has come a long way since Cook and Michael Crichton invented it: recent practitioners like Tess Gerritson have polished it into a powerful dramatic and social engine. Alas, Cook appears to have gotten off at the wrong station or missed the train entirely, judging by his latest effort, a crudely conceived, ineptly written and most damning of all totally unexciting story ripped from old headlines. Things have been going to hell at the Wingate Fertility Clinic, housed in a rambling Victorian mansion near Boston, ever since the gifted Dr. Spencer Wingate decided to take some time off to write a novel and chase women...
Favorite Quotes: NA
67 Professional Web site design by Anne-Marie Concepcion
Finish Date: Monday, April 16, 2007
Pages: 160
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: If I gave you a box of carpentry tools, could you build me a house? While having the right tools to do a project is a great first step, you still need to learn the overall process of how and when to use those tools to achieve your goals, knowledge that few other web design books present. This book starts from the assumption that you have the right tools -- an Internet connection and a web authoring program or an HTML reference book -- to begin with.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 160
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: If I gave you a box of carpentry tools, could you build me a house? While having the right tools to do a project is a great first step, you still need to learn the overall process of how and when to use those tools to achieve your goals, knowledge that few other web design books present. This book starts from the assumption that you have the right tools -- an Internet connection and a web authoring program or an HTML reference book -- to begin with.
Favorite Quotes: NA
68 3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Cross
Finish Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007
Pages: 340
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: It was a clear, calm, lazy April morning, the day the worst week of my life began.
Last Sentence: That sounds a bit more interesting...
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) San Francisco Homicide lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, who narrates most of the action, is jogging with assistant DA Jill Barnhardt when Lindsay notices two things: first, bruises on Jill's shoulder; then the explosion of a nearby townhouse, into which Lindsay rushes to save a child. With the juxtaposition of these two plotlines, Patterson jumpstarts this enjoyably convoluted tale...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 340
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: It was a clear, calm, lazy April morning, the day the worst week of my life began.
Last Sentence: That sounds a bit more interesting...
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) San Francisco Homicide lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, who narrates most of the action, is jogging with assistant DA Jill Barnhardt when Lindsay notices two things: first, bruises on Jill's shoulder; then the explosion of a nearby townhouse, into which Lindsay rushes to save a child. With the juxtaposition of these two plotlines, Patterson jumpstarts this enjoyably convoluted tale...
Favorite Quotes: NA
69 A Dog Year by Jon Katz
Finish Date: Sunday, April 15, 2007
Pages: 212
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: He was a two-year old border collie of Australian lineage, well-bred by high-strung, and in big trouble.
Last Sentence: I couldn't wait to see what they had in mind for me next.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The story line of Katz's latest book can be summed up very simply two dogs die and two new ones join the family but its charm comes from an intricate blend of witty anecdote and touching reflection. Katz (Geeks, Virtuous Reality) has shared his affection for years with two low-maintenance Labs, whose "chosen work was to reflect on the state of the world, lick neighborhood kids, and accompany [him] through midlife." So it is somewhat surprising that he next adopts a frenetic and demanding border collie he occasionally refers to as "Helldog."..
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 212
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: He was a two-year old border collie of Australian lineage, well-bred by high-strung, and in big trouble.
Last Sentence: I couldn't wait to see what they had in mind for me next.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The story line of Katz's latest book can be summed up very simply two dogs die and two new ones join the family but its charm comes from an intricate blend of witty anecdote and touching reflection. Katz (Geeks, Virtuous Reality) has shared his affection for years with two low-maintenance Labs, whose "chosen work was to reflect on the state of the world, lick neighborhood kids, and accompany [him] through midlife." So it is somewhat surprising that he next adopts a frenetic and demanding border collie he occasionally refers to as "Helldog."..
Favorite Quotes: NA
70 Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Pages: 512
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: "I need..."
Last Sentence: They found it to be admirably well-imagined, ang they regretted that they would never have the opportunity to express their admiration to the author
Summary: (Amazon.com) Martin Stillwater is a novelist with a wife and children he adores -- and an imagination he can't control. One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into Martin's house and accuses him of stealing his family, his name, and his life. Martin has no choice but to take his family and flee, even as he questions his own sanity. But wherever they go, the stranger is right behind them.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 512
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: "I need..."
Last Sentence: They found it to be admirably well-imagined, ang they regretted that they would never have the opportunity to express their admiration to the author
Summary: (Amazon.com) Martin Stillwater is a novelist with a wife and children he adores -- and an imagination he can't control. One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into Martin's house and accuses him of stealing his family, his name, and his life. Martin has no choice but to take his family and flee, even as he questions his own sanity. But wherever they go, the stranger is right behind them.
Favorite Quotes: NA
71 The Principles of Beautiful Web Design by Jason Beard
Finish Date: Friday, April 6, 2007
Pages: 168
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: For many web developers, myself included, the most intimidating part of the design process is getting started.
Last Sentence: I wish you the best of luck in your future design endeavors, and hope you've found this book to be both helpful and encouraging as you kick off a career - or hobby - in web design.
Summary: (amazon.com) A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 168
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: For many web developers, myself included, the most intimidating part of the design process is getting started.
Last Sentence: I wish you the best of luck in your future design endeavors, and hope you've found this book to be both helpful and encouraging as you kick off a career - or hobby - in web design.
Summary: (amazon.com) A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.
Favorite Quotes: NA
72 Life Expectancy by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Monday, April 2, 2007
Pages: 496
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Joseph Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life.
Last Sentence: Prepare to be enchanted.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly)... His narrator is Jimmy Tock, a pastry chef in a Colorado resort town. On the day he was born, Jimmy's dying grandfather predicted five future dates that would be terrible for Jimmy; he might have mentioned, but didn't, the birth day itself, which sees a mass slaying by a bitter, deranged circus clown in the hospital where Jimmy is born...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 496
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Joseph Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life.
Last Sentence: Prepare to be enchanted.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly)... His narrator is Jimmy Tock, a pastry chef in a Colorado resort town. On the day he was born, Jimmy's dying grandfather predicted five future dates that would be terrible for Jimmy; he might have mentioned, but didn't, the birth day itself, which sees a mass slaying by a bitter, deranged circus clown in the hospital where Jimmy is born...
Favorite Quotes: NA
73 Network+ by Glen Clarke
Finish Date: Monday, April 2, 2007
Pages: 919
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Network+ Study Guide, Third Edition is the most exam focused self-study preparation available for this vendor-neutral networking certification. The book covers all the official objectives for the exam and includes 300+ practice exam questions, step-by-step exercises, and chapter self-tests. The CD-ROM features MasterExam software with hundreds of practice questions, CertCam training videos, an electronic copy of the book, and more.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 919
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Network+ Study Guide, Third Edition is the most exam focused self-study preparation available for this vendor-neutral networking certification. The book covers all the official objectives for the exam and includes 300+ practice exam questions, step-by-step exercises, and chapter self-tests. The CD-ROM features MasterExam software with hundreds of practice questions, CertCam training videos, an electronic copy of the book, and more.
Favorite Quotes: NA
74 Green with Envy by Shira Boss
Finish Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Pages: 224
Genre: Finance Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Freelance journalist Boss performs a real service by putting some of America's financial hangups on trial, charging that "the money taboo"—our good-manners reluctance to discuss what we earn and spend—is "destructive nonsense" that leads to debt and despair. Boss argues that envy ("the only vice warned against in both the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins") can be good for the economy, but our drive to keep up with our neighbors can be unhealthy. In five case studies, she shows the consequences of maintaining appearances when we can't afford it; the highlight is a chapter in which Boss lives a fantasy by interrogating her seemingly well-off next-door neighbors and getting the real scoop on their savings, income and credit card bills...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 224
Genre: Finance Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Freelance journalist Boss performs a real service by putting some of America's financial hangups on trial, charging that "the money taboo"—our good-manners reluctance to discuss what we earn and spend—is "destructive nonsense" that leads to debt and despair. Boss argues that envy ("the only vice warned against in both the Ten Commandments and the Seven Deadly Sins") can be good for the economy, but our drive to keep up with our neighbors can be unhealthy. In five case studies, she shows the consequences of maintaining appearances when we can't afford it; the highlight is a chapter in which Boss lives a fantasy by interrogating her seemingly well-off next-door neighbors and getting the real scoop on their savings, income and credit card bills...
Favorite Quotes: NA
75 The Innocent by Harlan Coben
Finish Date: Sunday, March 11, 2007
Pages: 506
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: You never meant to kill him.
Last Sentence: Back in Livingston.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Once listeners get past an awkward prologue told in second person, present tense ("Your name is Matt Hunter. You are 20 years old..."), this twisty thriller reverts to the more familiar objective point of view, and the combination of Coben's yarn spinning and Brick's crisp, thoughtful narration mesmerizes. Listeners are drawn into the nightmare world of Matt Hunter who, in that off-putting prologue, is attacked by a gang of drunken frat boys, accidentally kills one of them, is found guilty of murder, serves four years of hard time, picks up the pieces of his life, marries a loving woman and is on the cusp of fatherhood when he receives an ominous phone call...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 506
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: You never meant to kill him.
Last Sentence: Back in Livingston.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Once listeners get past an awkward prologue told in second person, present tense ("Your name is Matt Hunter. You are 20 years old..."), this twisty thriller reverts to the more familiar objective point of view, and the combination of Coben's yarn spinning and Brick's crisp, thoughtful narration mesmerizes. Listeners are drawn into the nightmare world of Matt Hunter who, in that off-putting prologue, is attacked by a gang of drunken frat boys, accidentally kills one of them, is found guilty of murder, serves four years of hard time, picks up the pieces of his life, marries a loving woman and is on the cusp of fatherhood when he receives an ominous phone call...
Favorite Quotes: NA
76 Cradle and All by James Patterson
Finish Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Pages: 356
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the unever rooftops of South Boston.
Last Sentence: He watched her - with thousands of vengeful, bestial eyes.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The narrative features the first-person/third-person narrative mix that's Patterson's trademark. The "I" belongs to ex-nun Anne Fitzgerald, now a PI. Her latest case for the Church involves investigating--and guarding--Newport, R.I. (i.e., rich), teenager Kathleen Beavier, who's eight months pregnant but, by expert medical testimony, a virgin. The Church is particularly anxious about Kathleen's condition because the Third Secret of Fatima (a real-life secret guarded by the Church since the Virgin Mary allegedly revealed it in 1917) prophesied two pregnant virgins: one bearing the Savior, the other the Devil's child.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 356
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the unever rooftops of South Boston.
Last Sentence: He watched her - with thousands of vengeful, bestial eyes.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) The narrative features the first-person/third-person narrative mix that's Patterson's trademark. The "I" belongs to ex-nun Anne Fitzgerald, now a PI. Her latest case for the Church involves investigating--and guarding--Newport, R.I. (i.e., rich), teenager Kathleen Beavier, who's eight months pregnant but, by expert medical testimony, a virgin. The Church is particularly anxious about Kathleen's condition because the Third Secret of Fatima (a real-life secret guarded by the Church since the Virgin Mary allegedly revealed it in 1917) prophesied two pregnant virgins: one bearing the Savior, the other the Devil's child.
Favorite Quotes: NA
77 The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon
Finish Date: Saturday, March 3, 2007
Pages: 372
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read: "Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry."
Last Sentence: This is Dana Evans, reporting for WTE, Washington, D.C.
Summary: (Amazon.com) The latest from the indefatigable Sheldon is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power--political, financial, sexual, or all the above; in other words, business as usual in Sidney's World. The Best Laid Plans begins with the meeting and mating of Oliver Russell, a promising young attorney-cum-gubernatorial candidate, and Leslie Stewart, the beautiful go-getter who is running his public relations campaign...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 372
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read: "Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry."
Last Sentence: This is Dana Evans, reporting for WTE, Washington, D.C.
Summary: (Amazon.com) The latest from the indefatigable Sheldon is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power--political, financial, sexual, or all the above; in other words, business as usual in Sidney's World. The Best Laid Plans begins with the meeting and mating of Oliver Russell, a promising young attorney-cum-gubernatorial candidate, and Leslie Stewart, the beautiful go-getter who is running his public relations campaign...
Favorite Quotes: NA
78 Airframe by Michael Crichton
Pages: 435
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Emily Jansen sighed in relief.
Last Sentence: Internal procedures are being reviewed by the carrier.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In this slight, enjoyable thriller, the moral is the superficiality of TV, especially of its simplistic news coverage. Readers willing to overlook the irony of this message being broadcast by the man who created TV's top-rated drama (E.R.) will marvel again at Crichton's uncanny commercial instincts. The event that launches the story, conceived long before TWA Flight 800's last takeoff, is an airline disaster. Why did a passenger plane "porpoise"-pitch and dive repeatedly-enroute from Hong Kong to Denver, killing four and injuring 56?
Favorite Quotes: NA
79 Light Steps of Madness by Polina Dashkova
Finish Date: Monday, February 19, 2007
Pages: 416
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 416
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
80 Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Finish Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Pages: 352
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) "Ruth remembered drowning." The first sentence of this brilliantly understated psychological thriller leaps off the page and captures the reader's imagination. In Schwarz's debut novel, brutal Wisconsin weather and WWI drama color a tale of family rivalry, madness, secrets and obsessive love. By March 1919, Nurse Amanda Starkey has come undone...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 352
Genre: Literary Fiction
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) "Ruth remembered drowning." The first sentence of this brilliantly understated psychological thriller leaps off the page and captures the reader's imagination. In Schwarz's debut novel, brutal Wisconsin weather and WWI drama color a tale of family rivalry, madness, secrets and obsessive love. By March 1919, Nurse Amanda Starkey has come undone...
Favorite Quotes: NA
81 The Cradle will fall by Mary Higgins Clark
Finish Date: Friday, February 2, 2007
Pages: 320
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: If her mind had not been on the case she had won, Katie might not have taken the curve so fast, but the intense satisfaction of the guilty verdict was still absorbing her.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 320
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: If her mind had not been on the case she had won, Katie might not have taken the curve so fast, but the intense satisfaction of the guilty verdict was still absorbing her.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
82 Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
Finish Date: Sunday, January 21, 2007
Pages: 390
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Thirty days have passed in measured shades of sunlit color and changes in the wind.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Library Journal) Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and heroine of Postmortem , gets involved in the case of a brutal stabbing death in Richmond of romance writer Beryl Madison. Now Madison's greedy lawyer accuses Scarpetta of losing his client's latest manuscript, an autobiographical expose of Beryl's early life as protege of a legendary novelist...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 390
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Thirty days have passed in measured shades of sunlit color and changes in the wind.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Library Journal) Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and heroine of Postmortem , gets involved in the case of a brutal stabbing death in Richmond of romance writer Beryl Madison. Now Madison's greedy lawyer accuses Scarpetta of losing his client's latest manuscript, an autobiographical expose of Beryl's early life as protege of a legendary novelist...
Favorite Quotes: NA
83 The Switch by Sandra Brown
Finish Date: Monday, January 8, 2007
Pages: 576
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Kiss, kiss. Melina Lloyd kissed the air in the general direction of her twin sister's cheeks...
Last Sentence: She shook her head and whispered, "But I was the one listening."
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) With some 60 novels, including 40-plus bestsellers already to her credit, it seems a sure bet that this new romantic thriller will not blemish Brown's phenomenal track record. On a whim, the same day she is artificially inseminated at a Dallas fertility clinic, Gillian Lloyd switches places with her identical twin sister, Melina, a professional celebrity escort assigned to chauffeur astronaut Col. Christopher Hart (or "Chief," as he is called by his NASA cohorts because his mother was a Native American)...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 576
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Kiss, kiss. Melina Lloyd kissed the air in the general direction of her twin sister's cheeks...
Last Sentence: She shook her head and whispered, "But I was the one listening."
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) With some 60 novels, including 40-plus bestsellers already to her credit, it seems a sure bet that this new romantic thriller will not blemish Brown's phenomenal track record. On a whim, the same day she is artificially inseminated at a Dallas fertility clinic, Gillian Lloyd switches places with her identical twin sister, Melina, a professional celebrity escort assigned to chauffeur astronaut Col. Christopher Hart (or "Chief," as he is called by his NASA cohorts because his mother was a Native American)...
Favorite Quotes: NA
84 MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270) by Walter Glenn and Anthony Northrup
Finish Date: Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Pages: 1394
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, this popular kit delivers in-depth preparation for core MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-270, including self-paced training, expert exam tips, full review, 425-question test bank, case studies, trial software, and more.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 1394
Genre: IT Study Reference
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: Fully updated for Windows XP Service Pack 2, this popular kit delivers in-depth preparation for core MCSA/MCSE Exam 70-270, including self-paced training, expert exam tips, full review, 425-question test bank, case studies, trial software, and more.
Favorite Quotes: NA
85 Spies Among Us by Ira Winkler
Finish Date: Thursday, December 28, 2006
Pages: 346
Genre: IT Security/Espionage/Computer Crimes
First Sentence: James Bond is the second worst spy in history; the first worst spy is Sydney Bristow from the TV show Alias.
Last Sentence: There is no hype, just common sense based on common knowledge.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Those who are already paranoid about information theft, both personal and professional, should take a muscle relaxant before reading this eye-opening survey of the many holes that exist in our security and intelligence systems. Author Winkler (Corporate Espionage) began his career at the National Security Agency, and his exploits in the private sector, testing security systems by breaking into banks and high-profile companies, have earned him a place in the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 346
Genre: IT Security/Espionage/Computer Crimes
First Sentence: James Bond is the second worst spy in history; the first worst spy is Sydney Bristow from the TV show Alias.
Last Sentence: There is no hype, just common sense based on common knowledge.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Those who are already paranoid about information theft, both personal and professional, should take a muscle relaxant before reading this eye-opening survey of the many holes that exist in our security and intelligence systems. Author Winkler (Corporate Espionage) began his career at the National Security Agency, and his exploits in the private sector, testing security systems by breaking into banks and high-profile companies, have earned him a place in the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame.
Favorite Quotes: NA
86 Chill Factor by Sandra Brown
Finish Date: Friday, December 15, 2006
Pages: 340
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The grave was substandard.
Last Sentence: Already he had been granted a second chance to do it right.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 340
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The grave was substandard.
Last Sentence: Already he had been granted a second chance to do it right.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their attempt at a fresh start with the purchase of a vacation cabin in bucolic Cleary, N.C., where the novel opens on the divorced couple discussing its sale. Dutch is now Cleary's chief of police, and Lilly is a magazine editor in Atlanta...
Favorite Quotes: NA
87 Infernal by F. Paul Wilson
Finish Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Jack checked his watch: 2:30.
Last Sentence: day by day...
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In Wilson's well-wrought ninth Repairman Jack novel (after 2004's Crisscross), the off-the-books fix-it man, urban vigilante and paranormal adventurer reconnects with his estranged brother, Tom, after their father is gunned down in a terrorist attack at La Guardia Airport. Tom, a corrupt Philadelphia judge who's fleeing the law and rapidly running out of money, persuades Jack to help him look for the wreckage of a Spanish treasure ship that sank in 1598 off Bermuda...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 420
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Jack checked his watch: 2:30.
Last Sentence: day by day...
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In Wilson's well-wrought ninth Repairman Jack novel (after 2004's Crisscross), the off-the-books fix-it man, urban vigilante and paranormal adventurer reconnects with his estranged brother, Tom, after their father is gunned down in a terrorist attack at La Guardia Airport. Tom, a corrupt Philadelphia judge who's fleeing the law and rapidly running out of money, persuades Jack to help him look for the wreckage of a Spanish treasure ship that sank in 1598 off Bermuda...
Favorite Quotes: NA
88 Heat by Stuart Woods
Finish Date: Sunday, November 26, 2006
Pages: 365
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Atlanta Federal Prison swam slowly out of the smog as the helicopter beat its way south from Fulton County Airport.
Last Sentence: If he hurried, he would be in time for lunch.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In this artfully plotted thriller, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden, wrongly convicted of a murder he suspects was the work of Dan Barker, his former superior, is offered a chance at a presidential pardon if he will infiltrate the sinister religious cult that has taken control of St. Clair, Idaho. Despite knowing that he will again be under the control of Barker and that two previous agents investigating the cult have vanished, Jesse can't refuse...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 365
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Atlanta Federal Prison swam slowly out of the smog as the helicopter beat its way south from Fulton County Airport.
Last Sentence: If he hurried, he would be in time for lunch.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) In this artfully plotted thriller, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden, wrongly convicted of a murder he suspects was the work of Dan Barker, his former superior, is offered a chance at a presidential pardon if he will infiltrate the sinister religious cult that has taken control of St. Clair, Idaho. Despite knowing that he will again be under the control of Barker and that two previous agents investigating the cult have vanished, Jesse can't refuse...
Favorite Quotes: NA
89 Killing Time by Linda Howard
Finish Date: Saturday, November 18, 2006
Pages: 336
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: THERE WAS A SMALL TURNOUT, ABOUT FIFTY PEOPLE, TO watch the time capsule being buried next to the flagpole in front of the county.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 336
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: THERE WAS A SMALL TURNOUT, ABOUT FIFTY PEOPLE, TO watch the time capsule being buried next to the flagpole in front of the county.
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: NA
Favorite Quotes: NA
90 Mirage by F.Paul Wilson and M.Constello
Finish Date: Saturday, November 11, 2006
Pages: 375
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Julie careened into her office.
Last Sentence: Because they had plenty of time now.
Summary: Julie Gordon, a 28-year-old New York neurophysiologist, is pulled away from a breakthrough research project investigating memory via virtual reality technology when she gets an anxious call from her uncle in France. Her estranged twin sister, Samantha, has fallen into an unexplainable coma and seems to be dying, though she does not have a discernible illness. Julie agrees to use "memoryscape," the spectacular computer program she helped create, to search the minefield of her sister's memory. As Julie already knows, both sisters' history is irrevocably scarred by visions of the tragic house fire that killed their parents 23 years ago...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 375
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: Julie careened into her office.
Last Sentence: Because they had plenty of time now.
Summary: Julie Gordon, a 28-year-old New York neurophysiologist, is pulled away from a breakthrough research project investigating memory via virtual reality technology when she gets an anxious call from her uncle in France. Her estranged twin sister, Samantha, has fallen into an unexplainable coma and seems to be dying, though she does not have a discernible illness. Julie agrees to use "memoryscape," the spectacular computer program she helped create, to search the minefield of her sister's memory. As Julie already knows, both sisters' history is irrevocably scarred by visions of the tragic house fire that killed their parents 23 years ago...
Favorite Quotes: NA
91 Strange Highways by Dean Koontz
Finish Date: Thursday, November 2, 2006
Pages: 615
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Collection of tales from horror novelist Koontz.
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 615
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: NA
Last Sentence: NA
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Collection of tales from horror novelist Koontz.
Favorite Quotes: NA
92 Tin City by David Housewright
Finish Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Pages: 280
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The old man held three dead honeybees in the palm of his caramel-colored hand.
Last Sentence: But whenever I hear a song I like, I now check the liner notes to see who wrote it.
Summary: From Publishers Weekly In Edgar-winner Housewright's entertaining second noirish mystery starring Twin Cities ex-cop Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie (after 2004's A Hard Ticket Home), an elderly family friend, Mr. Mosley, asks Mac to look into the mysterious deaths of some bees at his honey farm. A University of Minnesota graduate student, Ivy Flynn, identifies an insecticide as the cause, but not before Mr. Mosley's surly new neighbor, Frank Crosetti, takes a shot at Ivy while she's collecting soil samples near his property...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 280
Genre: Suspense/Crime/Mystery
First Sentence: The old man held three dead honeybees in the palm of his caramel-colored hand.
Last Sentence: But whenever I hear a song I like, I now check the liner notes to see who wrote it.
Summary: From Publishers Weekly In Edgar-winner Housewright's entertaining second noirish mystery starring Twin Cities ex-cop Rushmore "Mac" McKenzie (after 2004's A Hard Ticket Home), an elderly family friend, Mr. Mosley, asks Mac to look into the mysterious deaths of some bees at his honey farm. A University of Minnesota graduate student, Ivy Flynn, identifies an insecticide as the cause, but not before Mr. Mosley's surly new neighbor, Frank Crosetti, takes a shot at Ivy while she's collecting soil samples near his property...
Favorite Quotes: NA
93 Snow Island by Katherine Towler
Finish Date: Friday, October 20, 2006
Pages: 287
Genre: Dramatical Novel
First Sentence: George Tibbits stepped from the 4:03 with a small leather suitcase, the only passenger to disembark in Barton.
Last Sentence: Alice gazed up at the white shape of a gull coasting overhead and waited for the ferry to pull alongside the dock.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Wartime disrupts the lives of the inhabitants of a New England islet off the coast of Rhode Island in this graceful debut novel. The men of Snow Island engage in the dangerous business of quahogging, and their families eke out a living running small businesses that depend on the wealthier summer residents for survival. Alice Daggett is 16 years old in 1941. She attends school in a one-room schoolhouse with twins Lydia and Pete Giberson, the only companions her age on the island, and has shouldered the responsibility of keeping the family store running since the death of her father five years earlier...
Favorite Quotes: NA
Pages: 287
Genre: Dramatical Novel
First Sentence: George Tibbits stepped from the 4:03 with a small leather suitcase, the only passenger to disembark in Barton.
Last Sentence: Alice gazed up at the white shape of a gull coasting overhead and waited for the ferry to pull alongside the dock.
Summary: (From Publishers Weekly) Wartime disrupts the lives of the inhabitants of a New England islet off the coast of Rhode Island in this graceful debut novel. The men of Snow Island engage in the dangerous business of quahogging, and their families eke out a living running small businesses that depend on the wealthier summer residents for survival. Alice Daggett is 16 years old in 1941. She attends school in a one-room schoolhouse with twins Lydia and Pete Giberson, the only companions her age on the island, and has shouldered the responsibility of keeping the family store running since the death of her father five years earlier...
Favorite Quotes: NA
94 Project + Study Guide by William Heldman and Lona Cram
Finish Date: Sunday, October 15, 2006
Pages: 448
Pages: 448