[bksvol-discuss] English-Language books added Sat., June 14
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All Books are downloadable in BRF and Daisy unless otherwise stated; May
include (or not) Adult-rated books.
THIS LIST DOES NOT INCLUDE books only available to public K-12 schools and
organizations in the United States for use with students with an IEP (NIMAC)
Abbreviations Used: LJ= Library Journal;' SLJ=School Library Journal;
PW=Publishers' Weekly; PD=Product Details--from Publisher; A=Amazon;
BN=Barnes&Noble; K=Kirkus; BL = Booklist; CL=Children's Literature
***The Case of the Angry Actress by E. V. Cunningham (Masao Masuto mystery)
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Synopsis: The host at a black-tie dinner, at which five beautiful wives and
their rich, middle-aged husbands are present, drops dead. Heart attack? Murder?
Is this just one of a series of killings? Detective Sergeant Masao Masuto must
find out.
Copyright Date: 1967
***Falling For Him by Morgan Hayes (Harlequin Superromance No. 886)
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Synopsis: A year after policewoman Claudia Parrish's partner and lover dies,
she gets a new partner. She doesn't know he's an internal affairs agent trying
to find a bad cop.
Copyright Date: 2000
***The Case of the Beautiful Beggar by Erle Stanley Gardner
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: A beautiful debutante is shocked. Her beloved wealthy uncle is
missing. Strange relatives are in charge of his fortune- and they're counting
her out. Then a dead man surfaces, pointing his finger straight at her.
Copyright Date: 1965
***The Dark Side of the Game: My Life in the NFL by Tim Green
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Nonfiction
Synopsis: Insider's view of life in the NFL from an eight-year-veteran.
Copyright Date: 1996
***A Gentle Giving by Dorothy Garlock
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction; western
Synopsis: She had narrowly escaped the lynch mob that unjustly hanged her
foster father. Now lonely Willa Hammer had nothing left—except her dog Buddy,
her faith in herself, and the protection of a strange, secretive family.
Copyright Date: 1993
***Blue Moon by Laurell K. Hamilton
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Vampire Fiction
Synopsis: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, has problems with her ex-fiance, a
werewolf who just got arrested on an assault charge. His guilt or innocence is
not the issue - there's a full moon on the rise...
Copyright Date: 1998
***Triplet Trouble and the Cookie Contest (Triplet Trouble, Book 2) by Debbie
Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Juvenile fiction; age range 7-9 (PD on BN); age range 4-8 (PD on A)
Synopsis: Meet the Tucker Triplets, Alex, Adam and Ashley! Mrs. Parker's class
is in for triplet trouble and laughs!
Copyright Date: 1996
***No Questions Asked: The Secret Life of Women in the Mob by Clare Longrigg
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Nonfiction
Synopsis: The biographies and a study of women in the Mafia, from mafia wives,
girlfriends, and daughters.
Copyright Date: 2004
***The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: In this humorous novella, the Queen becomes an avid reader under the
tutoring of palace servant Norman. Routines surrounding the monarchy are jolted
by the Queen's changed life style and expanded interests.
Copyright Date: 2007
***More than a Mistress by Mary Balogh
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: In her captivating novel, Mary Balogh invites you into a world of
scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant
duke does the unthinkable — he falls in love with his mistress. ...
Copyright Date: 2000
***Other Bells for Us to Ring by Robert Cormier
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Young Adult fiction; ages 12 UP (PW); grades 7 Up (S:J)
Synopsis: Unitarian Darcy and best friend Kathleen, both 11, are growing up
during World War II. Then Darcy's father is missing in action and Kathleen
vanishes. Without her Shirley Temple doll to talk to, Darcy learns of love and
miracles from a kind nun.
Copyright Date: 1990
***To Catch an Heiress by Julia Quinn
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: When Caroline Trent is kidnapped by Blake Ravenscroft, she doesn't
even try to elude this dangerously handsome agent of the crown. After all,
she's been running from unwanted marriage proposals.
Copyright Date: 1998
***The Billionaire Who Bought Christmas by Barbara Dunlop
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: To save the family fortune, billionaire Jack Osland had to marry a
woman he barely knew. Getting struggling clothing designer Kristy Mahoney to a
Las Vegas chapel a minute after meeting her was no problem.
Copyright Date: 2007
***For Blackmail ... or Pleasure by Robyn Grady
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: Multimillionaire Tate Bridges wouldn't let anything threaten what
was his, whether it was his sprawling Australian media empire or his troubled
family. And he'd do whatever it took to protect his own—even blackmailing the
only woman he'd ever loved.
Copyright Date: 2008
***Slightly Scandalous by Mary Balogh (Book 5 of the Bedwyn series)
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: Freyja, independent daughter of the Duke of Bewcastle, encounters
Joshua, Marquess of Hallmere. Both are on their way to Bath, where they meet
again under different circumstances. To avoid an arranged marriage for Joshua,
they pretend a betrothal.
***Catching Katie by Robin Lee Hatcher
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: A historical novel about womens' suffrage, Christian values, Idaho
and the early 1910's
Copyright Date: 2003
***Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
by Stephen King, Stewart O'Nan
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Nonfiction
Synopsis: This book chronicles the historic 2004 baseball season from the
perspectives of novelists Stuart O'Nan and Stephen King.
Copyright Date: 2004
***The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors by Ann Gibbons
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Nonfiction
Synopsis: An account of the search for the oldest human ancestor.
Copyright Date: 2006
***New Beginnings (Clearwater Crossing, #7) by Laura Peyton Roberts
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Young adult fiction (PD)
Synopsis: Seventh in the inspirational teen series featuring eight students at
Clearwater Crossing High School. During Christmas break, the Prime Eight must
find a child who has disappeared from the winter camp they had set up for the
Junior Explorers.
Copyright Date: 1999
***Into the Deep (Rock Harbor Series, #3) by Colleen Coble
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: Search and rescue K-9 handler Bree Nichols encounters plenty of
missing persons and mysteries in the untamed wilderness of Michigan's Upper
Peninsula...
Copyright Date: 2004
***Double Blind (Hideaway, Book 9) by Hannah Alexander
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: Sheila Metcalf's nightmares have returned. She feels it has something
to do with her childhood and the Navajo reservation she grew up on but what....
Copyright Date: 2008
***Prince of Christler-Coke by Neal Barrett Jr.
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: On his happy Merger day, the Prince is brought down by a hostile
takeover. This whimsical novel uses gangster and feudal warfare as a frame of
reference with which to satirize corporate culture.
Copyright Date: 2004
***If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction
Synopsis: Elizabeth keeps her life, home and emotions under control, to
counteract the chaos of her family. When she meets Ivan, with his zest for
adventure, he opens her eyes to a whole new way of living.
Copyright Date: 2006
***The Plantagenet Prelude by Jean Plaidy
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Historical fiction
Synopsis: First in Plaidy's Plantagenet saga. Historical fiction about Henry
II, King of England, his consort Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Thomas a Becket
Copyright Date: 1976
***Queen Geeks in Love by Laura Preble
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Young Adult fiction (PD); grades8-10 (S:J)
Synopsis: For Queen Geeks, boys have been secondary to the goal of spreading
"geekiness" to every corner of the High School, until Shelby is swept off her
feet by a boy named Fletcher, and Becca and Amber fall for an artistic computer
genius.
Copyright Date: 2007
***Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Science fiction/fantasy
Synopsis: With the entire galaxy at war, 7 pilgrims set forth on a voyage to
the Time Tombs. They seek answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. What
they find may be the key to the deliverance of humanity.
Copyright Date: 1989
***Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Fiction; fantasy
Synopsis: In this haunting novel, the destinies of two women separated by more
than a century are entwined by mysterious events that take place on a French
estate and that are controlled by tarot cards.
Copyright Date: 2007
***A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul: 101 More Stories to Open the
Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women by Mark Victor Hansen (editor), Jack
Canfield (editor), Marci Shimoff (editor), Jennifer Read Hawthorne (editor)
Nonfiction
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Synopsis: More wonderful stories for a woman's soul
Copyright Date: 1998
***Von Neumann's War by John Ringo, Travis S. Taylor
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Science fiction
Synopsis: When Mars, once the red planet, turns black, scientists send a probe
to investigate. When the probe is destroyed before reaching the planet, they
realize that robots have picked Earth as their next target.
Copyright Date: 2006
***The Wind Dancer by Iris Johansen
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Historical fiction
Synopsis: In 16th century Italy, the Wind Dancer, a legendary family statue,
has been stolen. To recover it, Lionello Andreas buys a 16-year-old female
thief named Sanchia. A saga of romance, familial duty, slavery, violence,
vengeance, and politics.
Copyright Date: 1991
***Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Lesbian fiction
Synopsis: A female Lothario who falls in and out of love meets Louise, married
to Elgin, and is hopelessly smitten. She is later heart-stricken, grieving the
loss of her true love, Louise, who has flowing Pre-Raphaelite hair and a body
besieged by leukemia.
Copyright Date: 1992
***Deadly Summer (Sweet Valley High Super Thriller #4) by Kate William
Quality: Excellent, almost no errors.
Young Adult fiction
Synopsis: It isn't enough that a bomb-building madman with a grudge against
teenagers has escaped. Jessica plays a joke with a Ouija board which could
cause her twin sister Elizabeth to lose both her boyfriend and her life,
turning an ordinary summer deadly.
Copyright Date: 1989
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