Luis's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 17 May 2025 18:07:42 -0700 60 Luis's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Joey and His Friend Water 153680369 96 Ellen J. Lewinberg 0228881692 Luis 5 4.29 Joey and His Friend Water
author: Ellen J. Lewinberg
name: Luis
average rating: 4.29
book published:
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Wolf in the Snow (Caldecott Medal Winner)]]> 29102937
A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf cub is lost, too. How will they find their way home?

Paintings rich with feeling tell this satisfying story of friendship and trust. Wolf in the Snow is a book set on a wintry night that will spark imaginations and warm hearts, from Matthew Cordell, author of Trouble Gum and Another Brother .]]> 32 Matthew Cordell 1250076366 Luis 4 4.14 2017 Wolf in the Snow (Caldecott Medal Winner)
author: Matthew Cordell
name: Luis
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6)]]> 546255 The Secret of Red Gate Farm]]> 208 Carolyn Keene 1557091609 Luis 5 3.90 1931 The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #6)
author: Carolyn Keene
name: Luis
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1931
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Berenstain Bears and the Truth]]> 846065
Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. When Mama goes to the market, Brother and Sister play soccer in the house . . . and end up breaking a lamp! When Mama asks them what happened, they tell her a series of whoppers that just get bigger and bigger. Will they ever tell her the truth?]]> 32 Stan Berenstain 0394856406 Luis 1 4.10 1983 The Berenstain Bears and the Truth
author: Stan Berenstain
name: Luis
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1983
rating: 1
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (World of Beatrix Potter, #14)]]> 19337 Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny are brought together once more in this exciting tale of danger and friendship.

When the cupboard is bare at the Flopsy Bunny's burrow, the family all have to go in search of food. They soon find some old lettuces on Mr. McGregor's rubbish heap, but who can imagine the horrors that await them as they enjoy a nap after lunch!]]> 57 Beatrix Potter 072324779X Luis 4 4.16 1909 The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (World of Beatrix Potter, #14)
author: Beatrix Potter
name: Luis
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1909
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)]]> 12842828
Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly different from anything she has ever known.

Sophie has new rules to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she has come “home.�
There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.

In this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new world, before the wrong person finds the answer first.]]> 496 Shannon Messenger 1442445939 Luis 5 4.39 2012 Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)
author: Shannon Messenger
name: Luis
average rating: 4.39
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime (Junie B. Jones, #14)]]> 196283 Barbara Park’s New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, is a classroom favorite and has been keeping kids laughing—and reading—for more than twenty years. Over 60 million copies in print and now with a bright new look for a new generation!

Meet the World’s Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! February 14—Valentime’s Day, as Junie B. calls it—is just around the corner. Junie B. can’t wait to see all the valentimes she’ll get. But she never expected a big, mushy card from a secret admirer! Who is this secret mystery guy, anyway? Junie B. is determined to find out.

USA Today :
“Junie B. is the darling of the young-reader set.�

Publishers Weekly :
“Park convinces beginning readers that Junie B.—and reading—are lots of fun.�

Kirkus Reviews :
“Junie’s swarms of young fans will continue to delight in her unique take on the world. . . . A hilarious, first-rate read-aloud.�

Time :
“Junie B. Jones is a feisty six-year-old with an endearing penchant for honesty.”]]> 80 Barbara Park 0375800395 Luis 4 4.09 1999 Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime (Junie B. Jones, #14)
author: Barbara Park
name: Luis
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1999
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2025/05/17
shelves:
review:

]]> His Forefathers and Mick 211398166 336 Michael G. Kramer Luis 0 to-read 4.38 His Forefathers and Mick
author: Michael G. Kramer
name: Luis
average rating: 4.38
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable]]> 242472
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.

Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.�

For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, “On Robustness and Fragility,� which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.

Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a landmark book—itself a black swan.]]> 480 Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1400063515 Luis 3 3.96 2007 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
name: Luis
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> Just Love Her 216474926 A poetic and inspirational journey into love's divine essence

"Just Love Her" by Raz Mihal is a spiritual exploration of divine love and soul connection. Through heartfelt meditations, Mihal shares his journey of experiencing an eternal bond with a beloved soul known as "Her."

Each entry offers a poetic and reflective look at love that transcends time and physical boundaries, highlighting its transformative power. Mihal delves into the intuitive nature of the heart, presenting love as a divine force and a guiding goddess. He encourages readers to embrace the divine feminine within and to see love as a central guiding principle in their lives. Interwoven with philosophical insights on existence and the spiritual dimensions of love, the book provides profound reflections on spiritual connection, the practice of divine love, and the mystical experiences that shape our lives. Key themes include daily meditations on divine love, the challenges and complexities of love, and love's power to bring about spiritual growth.

Perfect for readers interested in spiritual growth, self-discovery, and a deeper understanding of love, "Just Love Her" is a testament to love's transformative power. Mihal's poetic prose and deep reflections make this book a valuable guide for embracing the divine love within your heart.]]> 240 Raz Mihal 1068630019 Luis 5 4.31 Just Love Her
author: Raz Mihal
name: Luis
average rating: 4.31
book published:
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self]]> 33574185 In 2015, Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s popular podcast and radio show 'Note To Self' led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jumpstart their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem. Manoush explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, exploring how we can harness boredom’s hidden benefits to become our most productive and creative selves without totally abandoning our gadgets in the process.
Grounding the book in the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of “mind wandering”—what our brains do when we’re doing nothing at all—Manoush includes practical steps you can take to ease the nonstop busyness and enhance your ability to dream, wonder, and gain clarity in your work and life. The outcome is mind-blowing. Unplug and read on.]]> 192 Manoush Zomorodi 1250124956 Luis 5 3.71 2017 Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self
author: Manoush Zomorodi
name: Luis
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships]]> 35522033 149 Michael S. Sorensen Luis 4 4.17 2017 I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships
author: Michael S. Sorensen
name: Luis
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter]]> 33385019 “WE NEED TO TALK.�

In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations

BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS
NPR's Best Books of 2017

Winner of the 2017 Silver Nautilus Award in Relationships & Communication

“We Need to Talkis an important read for a conversationally-challenged, disconnected age. Headlee is a talented, honest storyteller, and her advice has helped me become a better spouse, friend, and mother.”� (Jessica Lahey, author ofNew York TimesbestsellerThe Gift of Failure)

Today most of us communicate from behind electronic screens, and studies show that Americans feel less connected and more divided than ever before. The blame for some of this disconnect can be attributed to our political landscape, but the erosion of our conversational skills as a society lies with us as individuals.

And the only way forward, says Headlee, is to start talking to each other. In We Need to Talk, she outlines the strategies that have made her a better conversationalist—and offers simple tools that can improve anyone’s communication. For example:


BE THERE OR GO ELSEWHERE. Human beings are incapable of multitasking, and this is especially true of tasks that involve language. Think you can type up a few emails while on a business call, or hold a conversation with your child while texting your spouse? Think again.
CHECK YOUR BIAS. The belief that your intelligence protects you from erroneous assumptions can end up making you more vulnerable to them. We all have blind spots that affect the way we view others. Check your bias before you judge someone else.
HIDE YOUR PHONE. Don’t just put down your phone, put it away. New research suggests that the mere presence of a cell phone can negatively impact the quality of a conversation.
Whether you’re struggling to communicate with your kid’s teacher at school, an employee at work, or the people you love the most—Headlee offers smart strategies that can help us all have conversations that matter.

]]> 272 Celeste Headlee 0062669028 Luis 4 3.93 2017 We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter
author: Celeste Headlee
name: Luis
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End]]> 20696006 In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.

Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.]]> 282 Atul Gawande 0805095152 Luis 4 4.47 2014 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
author: Atul Gawande
name: Luis
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model]]> 55384168 Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are.

Is there just one “you�? We’ve been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can’t control the inner voices that don’t match the ideal of who we think we should be. Yet Dr. Richard Schwartz’s research now challenges this “mono-mind� theory. “All of us are born with many sub-minds—or parts,� says Dr. Schwartz. “These parts are not imaginary or symbolic. They are individuals who exist as an internal family within us—and the key to health and happiness is to honor, understand, and love every part.�

Dr. Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems (IFS) model has been transforming psychology for decades. With No Bad Parts, you’ll learn why IFS has been so effective in areas such as trauma recovery, addiction therapy, and depression treatment—and how this new understanding of consciousness has the potential to radically change our lives. Here you’ll explore:

� The IFS revolution—how honoring and communicating with our parts changes our approach to mental wellness
� Overturning the cultural, scientific, and spiritual assumptions that reinforce an outdated mono-mind model
� The ego, the inner critic, the saboteur—making these often-maligned parts into powerful allies
� Burdens—why our parts become distorted and stuck in childhood traumas and cultural beliefs
� How IFS demonstrates human goodness by revealing that there are no bad parts
� The Self—discover your wise, compassionate essence of goodness that is the source of healing and harmony
� Exercises for mapping your parts, accessing the Self, working with a challenging protector, identifying each part’s triggers, and more

IFS is a paradigm-changing model because it gives us a powerful approach for healing ourselves, our culture, and our planet. As Dr. Schwartz teaches, “Our parts can sometimes be disruptive or harmful, but once they’re unburdened, they return to their essential goodness. When we learn to love all our parts, we can learn to love all people—and that will contribute to healing the world.�

]]> 216 Richard C. Schwartz 1683646681 Luis 4 4.13 2021 No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
author: Richard C. Schwartz
name: Luis
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/12/25
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Scribe (Irin Chronicles, #1)]]> 18298132 Hidden at the crossroads of the world, an ancient race battles to protect humanity, even as it dies from within.

To the outside world, Ava Matheson is a successful travel photographer from a privileged background. But Ava's spent a lifetime battling voices in her mind she can't understand, and her fractured family has convinced her she'll never belong.

Malachi is an Irin scribe, descended from an angelic race and sworn by blood and magic to defend humanity from the Grigori, the sons of fallen angels who could ravage the world. A chance meeting in Istanbul will change both Ava and Malachi's destinies forever. Their attraction should be impossible, but it could also be the only thing that will keep them alive.

The Scribe is the first book in the Irin Chronicles, a contemporary fantasy series by Elizabeth Hunter, seven-time USA Today bestselling author of the Elemental Legacy.]]> 306 Elizabeth Hunter 0988520591 Luis 4 4.13 2013 The Scribe (Irin Chronicles, #1)
author: Elizabeth Hunter
name: Luis
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves:
review:

]]> Elixir (Covenant, #3.5) 13605727 110 Jennifer L. Armentrout 1937053415 Luis 4 4.32 2012 Elixir (Covenant, #3.5)
author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
name: Luis
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves:
review:

]]> Mate Set (Mating Heat, #1) 9293970
Grady is a half breed whose his human mother abandoned him to his werewolf father, so he knows human women just aren't safe to fall in love with. The wolf within him wants Mika as his mate, but Grady will not give in. Never. Ever. He's willing to fight his emotions and his beast, no matter how much sexy Mika tempts him.

But neither of them expected her Uncle Omar to assign Grady to protect her from other males-24/7, in her home, sleeping just down the hall. Mika decides to make the best of her vacation and keep the hot wolf in her bed. Grady can't resist the scorching sex, but he is determined to resist the bond.]]> 179 Laurann Dohner 1419929682 Luis 4 3.83 2010 Mate Set (Mating Heat, #1)
author: Laurann Dohner
name: Luis
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves:
review:

]]> Hell & High Water (THIRDS #1) 48567441 Action. Comedy. Romance. And that one weird guy.

When homicide detective Dexter J. Daley's testimony helps send his partner away for murder, the consequences - and the media frenzy - aren't far behind. He soon finds himself sans boyfriend, sans friends, and, after an unpleasant encounter in a parking garage after the trial, he's lucky he doesn't find himself sans teeth. Dex fears he'll get transferred from the Human Police Force's Sixth Precinct, or worse, get dismissed. Instead, his adoptive father - a sergeant at the Therian-Human Intelligence Recon Defense Squadron otherwise known as the THIRDS - pulls a few strings, and Dex gets recruited as a Defense Agent.

Dex is determined to get his life back on track and eager to get started in his new job. But his first meeting with Team Leader Sloane Brodie, who also happens to be his new jaguar Therian partner, turns disastrous. When the team is called to investigate the murders of three HumaniTherian activists, it soon becomes clear to Dex that getting his partner and the rest of the tightknit team to accept him will be a lot harder than catching the killer - and every bit as dangerous.
]]> 358 Charlie Cochet Luis 3 4.15 2014 Hell & High Water (THIRDS #1)
author: Charlie Cochet
name: Luis
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Predatory Game (GhostWalkers, #6)]]> 1583470 The new Ghostwalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author

Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets ex-Navy SEAL and Ghostwalker Jess Calhoun. But the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal.]]> 352 Christine Feehan 0515144282 Luis 5 4.31 2008 Predatory Game (GhostWalkers, #6)
author: Christine Feehan
name: Luis
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[War of Hearts (True Immortality, #1)]]> 44293197
Thea Quinn has no idea what she is. All she knows is that her abilities have been a plague upon her life since she was a child. After years of suffering at the hands of a megalomaniac, Thea escaped and has been on the run ever since.

The leadership and protection of his pack are of the utmost importance to Conall MacLennan, Alpha and Chief of Clan MacLennan, the last werewolf pack in Scotland. Which is why watching his sister slowly die of a lycanthropic disease is emotional torture. When Conall is approached by a businessman who offers a cure for his sister in exchange for the use of Conall’s rare tracking ability, Conall forges an unbreakable contract with him. He has to find and retrieve the key to the cure: dangerous murderer, Thea Quinn.

Thea’s attempts to evade the ruthless werewolf are not only thwarted by the Alpha, but by outside dangers. With no choice but to rely on one another for survival, truths are revealed, intensifying a passionate connection they both fight to resist. At war with themselves and each other, Conall and Thea’s journey to Scotland forces them to face a heartrending choice between love and betrayal.


War of Hearts is a standalone paranormal romance.]]> 447 S. Young Luis 5 3.96 2019 War of Hearts (True Immortality, #1)
author: S. Young
name: Luis
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/11/18
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)]]> 61903 253 Lois McMaster Bujold 0743468422 Luis 2 4.14 1986 Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
author: Lois McMaster Bujold
name: Luis
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1986
rating: 2
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)]]> 21611 278 Joe Haldeman Luis 4 4.14 1974 The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
author: Joe Haldeman
name: Luis
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6) 44439416
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest--the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power.

Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they've mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy--the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes--a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad'Dib....]]> 609 Frank Herbert 0593098277 Luis 4 3.83 1985 Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
author: Frank Herbert
name: Luis
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1985
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)]]> 40376072
Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was more developed than the primitive life forms originally discovered.

Now, thousands of years later, the Portiids and their humans have sent an exploration vessel following fragmentary radio signals. They discover a system in crisis, warring factions trying to recover from an apocalyptic catastrophe arising from what the early terraformers awoke all those years before.]]> 597 Adrian Tchaikovsky Luis 4 4.02 2019 Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Luis
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> Messenger (The Giver, #3) 12930
Matty has lived in Village and flourished under the guidance of Seer, a blind man known for his special sight. Village once welcomed newcomers, but something sinister has seeped into Village and the people have voted to close it to outsiders. Matty has been invaluable as a messenger. Now he must risk everything to make one last journey through the treacherous forest with his only weapon, a power he unexpectedly discovers within himself.]]> 169 Lois Lowry 0385732538 Luis 5 3.90 2004 Messenger (The Giver, #3)
author: Lois Lowry
name: Luis
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> Emergency Skin 49669410
An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: a graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind—hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out eons ago. After all this time, there’s no telling how they’ve devolved. Steel yourself, soldier. Get in. Get out. And try not to stare.

N. K. Jemisin’s Emergency Skin is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.]]> 38 N.K. Jemisin 1542093570 Luis 4 4.02 2019 Emergency Skin
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Luis
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> The Polymorph 101265124
Brown finds that an alien species has successfully assimilated themselves with the humans on Earth and is ruling over them covertly. When an attempt is made to kidnap him, he realises he has become a target in a hidden game where different groups are vying for power, complicated by the introduction of artificial humans and super androids to boost Earth’s population and armies.

Some ruling factions are preparing for war against the planet Levita and re-conquest of a group of planets, former colonies in the Delta Quadrant, who have declared their independence from Earth.

Brown realises that he is also running the gauntlet of former enemies who are out to get him. He is desperate to thwart the prospects of war against Levita, where he has a son he has never met and is also against re-colonisation after his recent experiences on Pirrus.

Aboard The Space Adventurer, the cruise ship on which he is returning, he meets two beautiful women. Marika, who has been sent as his minder, by the EPA, Earth Policy Administration, to keep an eye on Brown as they don’t fully trust him and Leela, the daughter of Earth’s biggest industrialist, who is secretly building the super androids on a space hub, where the ship makes a stop.

He soon realises that he is in a desperate battle for survival, before he can even reach Earth and the big bash the EPA is throwing for him, for successfully completing his mission on Pirrus.]]> 0 Max Nowaz 1803133961 Luis 4 4.28 2023 The Polymorph
author: Max Nowaz
name: Luis
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven]]> 211288555 Heroes, Like Swords, Are Forged In Blood!

From the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia, to the neon-lit streets of Miami, SUPER NINJA is a saga fifty years in the making, yet, its roots reach back billions of years. This first volume, THE SWORD OF HEAVEN, fuses the lives of two young boys with boundless imaginations, a heroic Vietnam vet lost in his pain, a beautiful thief searching for meaning with her skills, and the quest for a mystical sword forged from the stars that binds them all.

A race against time unfolds in a bloody tapestry woven with a master ninja assassin; a genius billionaire determined to redeem his family’s honor; the psychopath who controls the seedy Miami underworld with a iron fist; a relentless detective trying to keep his city from exploding; and the birth of an AI entity that seeks to make itself a god.

Part fantasy, part speculative science-fiction, Award-Winning Writer/Director Kely McClung’s SUPER NINJA is an electrifying origin-story that defies convention with a heart-stopping blend of action, emotion, the exploration of faith, and what it means to truly be a hero.

Experience the Adventure Today!]]> 442 William Kely McClung Luis 0 to-read 4.37 Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
author: William Kely McClung
name: Luis
average rating: 4.37
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master]]> 52022378 For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,� pretending to be one of them. One night he buys a journal, its pages blank. The woman who sells him the journal extracts his promise to record his deeds for study. “Lo, the steps of your life mark the journey of your soul.� To expose his prior life, however, would be akin to suicide, for Sheever is a man brimming with secrets.

He begins the journal cautiously, describing the area where he works as a cook, and the people he’s forced to endure. Hints of his past emerge as he also records day-to-day events. As the journal evolves, he finds himself more entangled than he ever wanted to be in the lives around him, and more sympathetic to people he wanted to hate.

Memories haunt him, and he struggles to maintain a grip on his sanity as he prays for � and fears � the signal that his years in exile have ended and he can return home.

This then is Sheever’s Journal, Diary of a Poison Master.

About the Author:
K. Ritz lives with her husband in a small town in Massachusetts. This is her first book in a series about a world of shadows.
]]> 410 K. Ritz 1950015327 Luis 4 to-read 4.31 2019 Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master
author: K. Ritz
name: Luis
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Dogs vs Bears 197525278 52 Austin Davis 1636983006 Luis 0 to-read 4.31 Dogs vs Bears
author: Austin Davis
name: Luis
average rating: 4.31
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Of the Flame, Poems - Volume 15]]> 31193687

Word by word, Wendy E. Slater will illuminate a new path for you and the healing of self-blame and judgment. The poetic method and wisdom of her words will radiate into your soul,and liberate you from constraints of self-blame and judgment.
Be transformed by these modern mystical poetic formulas and allow the heart-fire of her wisdom to take your soul on a journey... to transform, release and transmute you into rememberingyour authentic self and your inner wisdom.


Let your inner fire ignite and discharge you from yourtethers,both known and hidden, so that the true continent of your authentic self isrevealed and formed. Be guided through the geology and geography of your soul, as it remembers that the separation of self, love, and Divinity is merely an illusion.]]> 82 Wendy E. Slater 1943512116 Luis 0 to-read 4.29 2016 Of the Flame, Poems - Volume 15
author: Wendy E. Slater
name: Luis
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Anya 123286499 330 Dennis K. Hausker 1685623263 Luis 0 to-read 4.36 Anya
author: Dennis K. Hausker
name: Luis
average rating: 4.36
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24583 244 Mark Twain Luis 0 to-read 3.92 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
author: Mark Twain
name: Luis
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1876
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Ring Of Love 132515354 155 Marion Catteral Luis 0 to-read 4.45 Ring Of Love
author: Marion Catteral
name: Luis
average rating: 4.45
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Lovely Bones 12232938
So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, The Lovely Bones succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy.]]> 372 Alice Sebold 0316166685 Luis 0 to-read 3.87 2002 The Lovely Bones
author: Alice Sebold
name: Luis
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Perfect (Perfect, #1) 49385532
True to her Asian American, single-parent upbringing, Chloe refuses to compromise when it comes to romance and success. Powering through her sophomore-level college business classes, she’s done with the effort of distance-dating her high-school sweetheart. But when he proposes just as she hits it off with a hunky basketball player, she worries following her heart could send her bright future to the bench.

As Chloe matures becoming a rising star in the fashion industry, love knocks another four times. But while each potential suitor eventually pops the question, only she knows her ultimate happy ending.

Whose arms will embrace Chloe when she chooses her forever man?

Perfect is a standalone clean contemporary romance. If you like tender moments, lighthearted comedy, and endings you choose yourself, then you’ll adore Tricia Copeland’s option-filled tale.

Buy Perfect to pick your ideal walk down the aisle today!]]> 280 Tricia Copeland Luis 0 to-read 4.30 Perfect (Perfect, #1)
author: Tricia Copeland
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Down in the Valley (The Netahs)]]> 208354245
With the council’s approval, he makes a hesitant entry into the community, and marvels at the amazing technology that has allowed the shapeshifters to live in harmony with nature, and away from prying human eyes. But everything is so different from his former life and Josh wonders how he can fit in. He has so much to learn about how to live as a Netah, and very few of his housemates seem willing to share their knowledge with him. Luckily, he finds a few friends who are brave enough to support him on his journey, and they warn him that his father appears intent on making contact with Josh.

As he learns about the Netah ways and what role he can play in his new world, he can’t stop thinking about the missing piece of the puzzle in his life, his birth father. Josh is torn by the need to know about his roots, and the dangerous killer his father appears to be.]]> 318 Lisa Kaniut Cobb 1039174639 Luis 0 to-read 4.38 Down in the Valley (The Netahs)
author: Lisa Kaniut Cobb
name: Luis
average rating: 4.38
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)]]> 205338104 334 Susan Rowland 1685032095 Luis 0 to-read 4.30 2024 Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
author: Susan Rowland
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Stage Fright 63342358
Captain Jet Dalry, a recuperating war veteran, helps Skye slice through the cemetery’s red tape. Despite their mutual attraction and her persistence, Jet is a tormented man who repeatedly pushes her away.

Skye discovers the journal is enchanted. It reveals how Skye and her aunt lived parallel lives. Under its magical lens, Skye discovers a jealous psychopath is stalking her. Will the mystical unveiling be enough to save the man she loves from certain death?]]> 427 Diane L. Kowalyshyn 1777974739 Luis 0 to-read 4.45 Stage Fright
author: Diane L. Kowalyshyn
name: Luis
average rating: 4.45
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Local School 60631087
Fusing genres of travel writing, narrative journalism, memoir, and poetry, The Local School explores a counterintuitive perception of education and the need for an education renaissance in America. Detailing his experiences living and studying alongside two Indian men, one a Bengali teacher, and one a northern Indian truck driver, Phelan reorients education as a lifestyle, as opposed to something we chase. For years, Phelan wrestles with questions about these two Indian men's uniquely uncommon friendship, about the Indian subcontinent's history and complex social fabric, and ultimately, about what makes an education. All the while travelling far from home, Phelan learns that the best schools are our local schools.

Utilizing archival research from the National Archives of India, Delhi, the British Library, London, and behind the scenes access in Kolkata, Delhi, Kashmir, and parts of the Garhwal Himalayan foothills, Phelan's story treads genres of travel writing, narrative journalism, and memoir. All the while reimagining these ideas about education, Phelan's narrative offers readers privileged access into worlds of India about which they would otherwise know little.

Editorial Reviews:

"It's been a while since I've read anything as unique and moving. It had me from the start. Fortunately, Phelan strays far from the local to contend with what are, at root, universal themes: the connection between past and present, between one's own inner life and the lives of others. It's a vivid literary success." - John O'Connor, Acclaimed American Travel Writer

"A mosaic of fresh, honest reflections on the 'serendipitous' relationship that evolved among a trio of seekers in modern Kolkata: a shared quest for what the author calls the soul's 'engagement and personal betterment.' By 'The Local School, ' Phelan means the process through which, with the aid of his Bengali and Garhwali 'brothers by choice' in an impromptu neighborhood academy, he learned to 'slow down and identify' his Western 'predispositions as a means of both correcting and valuing' his own identity. Much as sifting passages lifted from a journal, you'll find here a rich, heartfelt mix of poetry, pedagogical musings, astute political history of the subcontinent and British Empire--and a restless desire to review one's first impressions, so as to plan yet another journey of learning." - Dr. Christopher Wilson, Reading Narrative Journalism

"The Local School recounts the formative journey of a young teacher who comes to understand and commit to the teaching profession and its universal values. Phelan paints a vivid portrait of modern day India and its people, delving into history, politics and the philosophy of education. This moving tale of an unlikely friendship enlightens and inspires." - Jennifer Berkshire, A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: the Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School]]> 166 Colin Phelan Luis 0 to-read 4.28 The Local School
author: Colin Phelan
name: Luis
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[And Come Day's End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery]]> 42641916 BestMystery
1.AndCome Day's End - Gabriel F.W. Koch

Lenny Oliver's secrets ended his life--lies he dressed up in detailed and occasionally elaborate finery. But only the secret holder is fooled in the long run, as Lenny discovered in a dark alley in the Wall Street neighborhood. Michael McKaybees is a private investigator working in New York's five boroughs. He specializes in money crimes like insurance fraud, with the occasional cheating spouse (his partner's favorite since she thinks all cheaters should be flogged in public). Now, however, he has been forced to expand his investigative work to include homicide. Implicated in his best friend Lenny's death, Michael finds himself entangled in a web carefully woven by someone who wants to destroy him--and there's no doubt he's up to his neck in shit. Then there's his father, Marlowe Black, who has decided now is the right time to show up after an absence of more than three decades. Hell, Michael didn't even know he was still alive. Marlowe's reputation as a combat-hardened PI is well-known among the City's criminal element, making him a hated man. And he, too, is a suspect in Lenny's murder. When McKaybees discovers the body of Lenny's wife, Jill--Michael's childhood sweetheart--hidden in his apartment, murder becomes seriously personal and the need for vengeance demanding.]]> 252 Gabriel F.W. Koch Luis 0 to-read 4.30 And Come Day's End: A Michael McKaybees Mystery
author: Gabriel F.W. Koch
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Homecoming Queen 201924694
Anika Raven faces the challenge of a lifetime. She must rescue her little sister from a neglectful family as the hurricane of a century barrels toward her hometown of Miranda, Texas. Time is of the essence, but the deadly storm is not her biggest problem.

Once Miranda High School’s beloved homecoming queen, Anika now possesses a dark secret that must remain hidden. Unable to outrun the shadows of her past, and terrified to confront the demons of her future, she finds herself running from the law.
Concealing a dark secret of its own, the town of Miranda’s corruption permeates every aspect of society. Each time Anika catches a break, a scheming mayor and powerful political forces deliver her another life-threatening setback.

With the storm looming, and tensions in town escalating, Anika and her sister are trapped. To escape town, they will need unspeakable courage, perseverance, and the help of a special gift possessed by Anika’s little sister. But all bets are off as adversity abounds. To stay alive, they must overcome a jealous town, rabid adversaries bent on vigilante justice, and a monster hurricane . . . all coming at them with a vengeance.]]> 344 Chad Boudreaux 1636983677 Luis 0 to-read 4.35 Homecoming Queen
author: Chad Boudreaux
name: Luis
average rating: 4.35
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel � But Not As You Know It]]> 60682382
Next, follow along as he travels around the Far East for three weeks in the company of an obstreperous, can’t-do-without but can’t-do-with female colleague, learning new cultures fast. Oh, and all in the pursuit of business goals that somehow still seem to be met along the way.

These unique trips may have had a business purpose, but this is no business book or how-to guide; rather, it’s a delightful, off-beat travelogue with an off-beat much travelled narrator. There are plenty of vivid characters to meet en route, an abundance of anecdotal fun, plus an education on local cultures and cuisines to be gained.

Pre-publication reviewers �Exceptionally well crafted, each page illuminated with entertainment, wit, and candour, to categorize it as simply a travelogue seems to do it a great injustice. Here, we have something of true merit.� (Thomas J Kenny), �Exciting, fun, and all-around surprising. A clear masterpiece.� (Andrea Scholar), �Oliver Dowson has created something I never thought a nonfiction book about business trips that is actually fun and engaging to read.� (Brandon Diehl)]]> 253 Oliver Dowson 1803139102 Luis 0 to-read 4.30 There's No Business Like International Business: Business Travel – But Not As You Know It
author: Oliver Dowson
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Magenta 59448257 246 John Payton Foden 092133284X Luis 0 to-read 4.26 2021 Magenta
author: John Payton Foden
name: Luis
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Wanted: An Honest Man (Lindsey Lark #1)]]> 30409158
Though she doesn't want to be alone, she isn't ready to go looking for new love, but men find her anyway. A handsome college student involved in some tricky human research gets into trouble in more ways than one. His inherent propensity to play detective, though helpful at times, seems to attract Murphy and his darned Law far too often ... and now his eyes are on Lindsey. Will his heart follow?

"Charming ... unexpected ... emotionally charged!"

--- Amylynn Bright, author of Finish What We Started

"Ms. Rohman's entertaining novel, WANTED: AN HONEST MAN, has all the hallmarks of a bestseller including a cast of inspired characters that bring real-world authenticity to her tale." --- BookViral]]> 353 Cricket Rohman 0989697169 Luis 0 to-read 4.41 2016 Wanted: An Honest Man (Lindsey Lark #1)
author: Cricket Rohman
name: Luis
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[ROCKLEDGE: INTRODUCING CADE CHASE]]> 57639915
The main character, Cade Chase, recently retired from the military. He has given insufficient thought to life afterward. He accedes to the urgings of a longtime friend and former JAG officer, to come to the town of Rockledge. He leaves Florida and heads to Rockledge uncertain that this move is wise.

On his first morning in Rockledge he runs across a hillbilly octogenarian named Dale Carter, who tells him finding a place to live will be tough. So Carter invites him to have a look at a home, one of three, he owns on a mountainside "out in the valley." The home he shows Cade is one of the grandest Cade has ever seen. Carter tells Cade the house is his if he wants it. Seems joining the military was the defining event of Dale's life. Without the military's 'gifts' he wouldn't have amassed the wealth he possesses. But he stipulates one condition: help protect him and his wife against what appears to be a dangerous crew of squatters camping in the woods on or near his property.

Cade is instantly fond of Dale, and agrees to help him. This agreement sets the story in motion. There's plenty of action from that point onward.

Yes, it's a thrilling story involving crime, but more important, it's a story of the evils of autocratic behavior by political elites. Cade is determined to bring the evildoers down. He quickly learns that extreme southwest Virginia has been a whipping boy for sixty years or more. Cade and a cadre of like-minded people strive to end the trampling of this region of the state.

You may find it on Amazon and Kindle books. If searching under my name, you need to search under John M. Vermillion, including the middle initial.

Thank you.

jmv]]> 353 John M. Vermillion Luis 0 to-read 4.48 ROCKLEDGE: INTRODUCING CADE CHASE
author: John M. Vermillion
name: Luis
average rating: 4.48
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2)]]> 20698530 Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.

They were just pretending. Until they weren’t. And now Lara Jean has to learn what it's like to be in a real relationship and not just a make-believe one.

But when another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him suddenly return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?

In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Lara Jean is about to find out that falling in love is the easy part.]]> 337 Jenny Han 144242673X Luis 0 to-read 4.01 2015 P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2)
author: Jenny Han
name: Luis
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[More Than Love, A Husband's Tale]]> 49823970 469 Peter B. Forster Luis 0 to-read 4.30 2019 More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
author: Peter B. Forster
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For]]> 34186576 Kirkus Reviews � Verdict: Get it.]]> 380 Sara Pascoe 0993574734 Luis 0 to-read 4.29 2015 Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
author: Sara Pascoe
name: Luis
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Love Auction II: Love Designs 60670845 Designs. On the plane to Bayville—she meets, Matthew Wittendale, a serial
killer on his way back to the city after leaving because BVPD was hot on his trail
for crimes he had committed. Matthew is intrigued by her beauty and her
designs.

Aiden St. Patrick, the VP of MHD was not thrilled his uncle hired Savanna
Wright. They’re both constantly at odds. Aiden with his British arrogance and
Savanna with her Southern sass� was problematic. Rumor around the
office—the pair had sexual energy between them.

Savanna has agreed to be one of the bachelorettes for the charity auction.
Aiden plans on winning her bid, but Matthew manipulates a kid into diverting
Aiden away from the auction to keep him from bidding.

What does Matthew have in store for Savanna?
Will Aiden get the chance to show her who he really is
and win her heart?]]> 292 Sharon Carter Luis 0 to-read 4.40 Love Auction II: Love Designs
author: Sharon Carter
name: Luis
average rating: 4.40
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)]]> 29981261
In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.

When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.

As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who’d go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she’s still hiding...]]> 288 Dot Hutchison 1503989712 Luis 0 to-read 4.09 2016 The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
author: Dot Hutchison
name: Luis
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)]]> 195395465
Nick Reagan and his team of talented CIA operatives have managed to prevent three horrific attacks planned by the ruthless terrorist known worldwide as The Handler. Cunning and resourceful, The Handler has eluded capture, and now Reagan is determined to track him down.

As he assembles clues to the possible whereabouts of his prey, Reagan’s superiors in the CIA inexplicably order him to stand down. Accustomed to flouting authority, Reagan ignores the directive while seeking to identify the source of this obstruction. As he probes, it becomes increasingly evident that the evil he faces is corruption from within.

His suspicions growing, Reagan expands his efforts beyond the dangerous hunt for The Handler to an active investigation of both his own government and those who possess the real influence in Washington. Collectively, these are the most formidable adversaries Reagan has ever the rich and powerful who control our energy resources, including oil and lithium; Big Pharma; the media; and the funding of politicians for their personal beliefs and gains.

Charting an unfamiliar course amidst the pervasive treachery and deadly secrets inside the nation’s capital, Reagan is not sure who he can trust as he works to expose the worst of America’s elite—those who believe in a New World Order.

Violent confrontations intensify with each new act of treason he unearths, leaving Reagan to rely on his patriotic instincts as he and his team risk their lives to bring down these traitors and restore safety and freedom.]]> 304 Jeffrey S. Stephens Luis 0 to-read 4.31 Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)
author: Jeffrey S. Stephens
name: Luis
average rating: 4.31
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Scavenger Hunt 61846256
Blake Hudson just wants to serve his country well as a lawyer for the United States Justice Department—but when an unknown threat begins plotting his downfall, he must find who is setting him up before it costs him his life.

Scavenger Hunt is a suspense novel chronicling the plight of Blake Hudson, a Justice Department lawyer assigned to a clandestine counterterrorist group created to bypass onerous legal requirements. After the group mysteriously disbands, Hudson becomes the scapegoat and is transformed from hunter to hunted. As he searches for answers and attempts to piece the puzzle together, people are following him, trying to kill him.

Written for fans of fast-paced thrillers, dry humor, political gamesmanship, and Clue-like twists and turns, Scavenger Hunt carves out a distinct niche best described as a hybrid of the Robert Ludlum classics and works by Brad Meltzer. Blake Hudson’s story addresses issues that have shaped recent elections and continue to frustrate interest groups and government leaders, while featuring the inner workings of the U.S. Department of Justice Building—arguably the most important and misunderstood agency in the federal government. Author Chad Boudreaux’s unique voice and page-turning storytelling packs a plot-driven punch that readers won’t be able to put down.]]> 296 Chad Boudreaux 1631959433 Luis 0 to-read 4.30 Scavenger Hunt
author: Chad Boudreaux
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)]]> 18775247
Months later, an ex-cop named Bill Hodges, still haunted by the unsolved crime, contemplates suicide. When he gets a crazed letter from "the perk," claiming credit for the murders, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, fearing another even more diabolical attack and hell-bent on preventing it.

Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the wheels of the Mercedes, and he wants that rush again. Only Bill Hodges, with a couple of eccentric and mismatched allies, can apprehend the killer before he strikes again. And they have no time to lose, because Brady's next mission, if it succeeds, will kill or maim thousands.

Mr. Mercedes is a war between good and evil from the master of suspense whose insight into the mind of this obsessed, insane killer is chilling and unforgettable.
--front flap]]> 437 Stephen King 1476754454 Luis 0 to-read 4.01 2014 Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
author: Stephen King
name: Luis
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2014
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> In the Shadow of Ruin 57425735 King Jide Adelani has ruled the lands of the Yoruba in West Africa for many peaceful years, but now his kingdom is in turmoil and the cold grasp of death's embrace is closing in around everything he holds dear.

Jide spent years garnering the respect and loyalty of the tribes in the hopes of uniting them into one cohesive empire when his half-brother, Prince Olise, returns from banishment to claim the throne as his own.

The offspring of a union between the late King Adeosi and the evil enchantress Ekaete, the bitter Olise has devoted the last decade to one purpose; to seize the throne and rule the kingdom. If he fails, he risks his name being erased from the history of the tribes.

With the support of his mother, a powerful witch whose name is whispered in fear across the lands of the tribes, the outcast Olise now seems unstoppable in achieving his goal.

Facing overwhelming military might and dark forces that he cannot comprehend, Jide must either choose to ignore the warnings of the gods, and seek help from those who also practice dark arts; or risk losing his kingdom.]]> 362 Tony Debajo 1838358617 Luis 0 to-read 4.59 2021 In the Shadow of Ruin
author: Tony Debajo
name: Luis
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)]]> 61093300
It's 1978 in New York City, and disco is prominent. As are mobsters, gritty streets, needle parks and graffiti-stained subways.

Jake Barnum lives in Hell's Kitchen. He's a petty thief selling hot coats with his buddy Maggs to make ends meet and help his sick kid brother. At a Halloween party downtown, he meets a woman with a Marilyn Monroe mask who works for an organization called The Desire Card-an underground operation promising its exclusive clients "Any Wish Fulfilled for the Right Price."

As Jake becomes taken with its leader, a pseudo father and sociopath at heart, he starts stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. In other words...himself. But as he dives deeper in with the Card, begins falling love with Marilyn, and sees the money rolling in, clients' wishes start becoming more and more suspect-some leading to murder.

The first book in the Desire Card series, Immoral Origins follows those indebted to this sinister organization-where the ultimate price is the cost of one's soul.]]> 276 Lee Matthew Goldberg 1685490859 Luis 0 to-read 4.28 Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)
author: Lee Matthew Goldberg
name: Luis
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Beyond Good and Evil 12321 Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche demonstrates that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and energy, he turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own 'will to power' upon the world.

This edition includes a commentary on the text by the translator and Michael Tanner's introduction, which explains some of the more abstract passages in Beyond Good and Evil.

Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable.

If you enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil you might like Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, also available in Penguin Classics.

"One of the greatest books of a very great thinker." —Michael Tanner]]> 240 Friedrich Nietzsche 014044923X Luis 0 to-read 4.05 1886 Beyond Good and Evil
author: Friedrich Nietzsche
name: Luis
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1886
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Rich Dad, Poor Dad 69571 195 Robert T. Kiyosaki 0751532711 Luis 0 to-read 4.10 1997 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
name: Luis
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1997
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Candidate and other stories]]> 44416211
In “Harold,� you’ll meet a homunculus who is certain he is a one of a kind, a freak of nature. Imagine his surprise when he discovers an island populated by thousands of his kind. There he finds adventure, love, and danger. He must face thugs his size, sinister large people, a dangerous house cat, and a plethora of perplexing situations.

Irresolute poets find their plush postmortem refuge is anything but when it soon becomes a type of Hell in “Between Life and Oblivion.�

Discover the true story of Helen, the famous face that launched a thousand ships, in the tale “A More Likely Odyssey.�

Within these pages you’ll be taken on journeys beyond imagining. You’ll meet characters and explore familiar worlds through different eyes. Look beyond the hedge…]]> 192 Samuel R. George Luis 0 to-read 4.43 The Candidate and other stories
author: Samuel R. George
name: Luis
average rating: 4.43
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Magnolia Inn 40227501 A #1 Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown brings together two wounded hearts in a Texas romance of second chances and twice-in-a-lifetime true love.

Inheriting the Magnolia Inn, a Victorian home nestled in the East Texas pines, is a fantasy come true for Jolene Broussard. After living with the guilt of failing to rescue her self-destructive mother, Jolene knows her aunt and uncle’s B&B is the perfect jump start for a new life and a comforting place to call home. There’s just one stubborn and moody carpenter Tucker Malone. He’s got a half interest in the Magnolia Inn, and he’s planting his dusty cowboy boots squarely in the middle of her dream.

Ever since his wife’s death, Tucker’s own guilt and demons have left him as guarded as Jolene. The last thing he expects is for his new partner to stir something inside him he thought was gone forever. And as wary as Jolene is, she may have found a kindred spirit—someone she can help, and someone she can hold on to.

Restoring the Magnolia Inn is the first step toward restoring their hearts. Will they be able to let go of the past and trust each other to do it together?]]> 292 Carolyn Brown 1503959406 Luis 0 to-read 4.05 2019 The Magnolia Inn
author: Carolyn Brown
name: Luis
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing]]> 57778795 A second "gardening course in a book" from master gardener Charles Dowding: 18 lessons, and over 900 photos with detailed captions

Grow creatively, learn new skills, save time, enjoy growing success!

Includes detailed information on:

how to create planting plans: succession and interplanting plant propagation spacing, picking methods, and watering using covers for both warmth and pest protection. how to grow herbs and perennial vegetables how to grow in containers how to multisow Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need, the essentials of gardening success, whether the space you are gardening is large or small. His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develops new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results.

Lessons

Skills and Knowledge Fully Use your Time and Space: how to maximise growth, efficiently Sketch Out the Year: examples of plans and successions for three beds Succession and Rotation: How to plan for and succeed with new plantings throughout summer and into autumn, what can follow what Winter Gardening: Growing and preparing for winter, and harvesting during the hungry gap Perennial Vegetables and Raspberries A growing manual of 12 perennial food plants, Herbs: How to sow, harvest and maintain annuals and perennials, from basil and coriander to sage and thyme Seeds and Sowing: How to source, buy and save seeds, with illustrations of seed saving Propagation Skills: The biggest lesson, packed with information on this important subject Multisowing: Inter-sowing is a form of companion planting, because seedlings like 'nurse plants' nearby, and plants generally like being close to other plants: why and how, many examples, a big timesaver and garden filler! Close Spacings: How and when to do it and why this works so well within reason; details for many vegetables Wider Spacings: Many examples and explanations, see the results from small plants to harvests Planting Methods: Sowing direct, ways to transplant and how to do it quickly Picking Skills: When to pick for different vegetables, seasons, plant growth and harvest requirements Picking Skills(2): More on picking, including discussions and examples of cutting, Small-space Growing: Vegetables in containers, sacks, vertical and one bed Early Cropping and Covers: Using fleece and mesh, their relative values and effects in different seasons Water, Frost, Moon, Energy: How to water, what you need to know about frost and some of my "secrets" of lateral thinking, plus action

Note that this is a companion, not a sequel to No Dig Gardening, Course 1. Reading the first course book is not a prerequisite for using this book to garden better!]]> 240 Charles Dowding 1916092047 Luis 0 to-read 4.31 Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing
author: Charles Dowding
name: Luis
average rating: 4.31
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel]]> 61085357
Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui generis, a sequel to the first Homo Cosmicus novel. It’s something like Arthur Clarke’s Odysseys, which, after his words, are not direct continuations one to the other.

The action takes place mostly on Titan, Saturn’s satellite, in 2069. The Earth’s civilization rises to the dawn of a type-II civilization on the Kardashev scale, a civilization having full use of its solar system’s planets and satellites.

Titan turns out to be the mankind’s golden mine. Interplanetary trade relies exclusively on Titan as the key hub. From here, massive deliveries of hydrogen and nitrogen depart to the colonies on Mars, Venus, the asteroids, and Jupiter’s and Saturn’s satellites. The settlements on them accelerate their rates together with the exploring expeditions there.

The private corporation CSC and NASA have launched 10 scientists on a mission to Titan. They get their inspiration from their own discoveries which the wrapped in dusk and mystery satellite conceals. And at that moment, all of a sudden, deaths begin to occur one after another. Are they murders or just accidents? One by one, the mission’s members die ominously and mysteriously. The things coarsen more and more until the moon inhabitant Dr. Eddie Roberto disentangles the tangle of crimes. The weird deaths follow fix sequence, the sequence of a minstrel song known to us from Agatha Christie.

And what will Earth with its new civilization of GMO men, cyborgs, and androids look like? What kind of civilization it is? What is its future?

About the Author: Todor Bombov is a customs officer with 30 years� service in the pearl of the Black Sea, the historic city of Varna, Bulgaria, which has had a highly developed culture for over 6,500 years. This is his fourth book.]]> 152 Todor Bombov 1682353761 Luis 0 to-read 4.38 2022 Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
author: Todor Bombov
name: Luis
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Norwegian Wood 11297
A magnificent blending of the music, the mood, and the ethos that was the sixties with the story of one college student's romantic coming of age, Norwegian Wood brilliantly recaptures a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love.]]> 296 Haruki Murakami 0375704027 Luis 0 to-read 4.01 1987 Norwegian Wood
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Luis
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1987
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Bell Jar 6514 294 Sylvia Plath 0571268862 Luis 0 to-read 4.05 1963 The Bell Jar
author: Sylvia Plath
name: Luis
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1963
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Sharp Objects 18045891
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0307341550 (ISBN 13: 9780307341556)]]> 254 Gillian Flynn 0297851535 Luis 0 to-read 4.05 2006 Sharp Objects
author: Gillian Flynn
name: Luis
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle (Leah's Journey)]]> 190128604
The small village of Koretz is attacked and the Jews targeted, but Leah and her sons survive. She captures the attention of the Russian captain, Ivan Vaselik, who finally shows her what it means to love. But Leah is playing a dangerous game of helping the underground workers against the military. Who will win?

With Leah on her own to protect her sons in a world turned upside down by violence and hatred against the Jews, can she muster the strength and win against the powerful Russian injustice?]]> 192 Beverly Magid Luis 0 to-read 4.32 Sown in Tears: A Historical Novel of Love and Struggle (Leah's Journey)
author: Beverly Magid
name: Luis
average rating: 4.32
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)]]> 19161852
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze -- the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years -- collapses as most of its citizens are murdered to serve a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heart of the vast continent known as the Stillness, a great red rift has been torn into the heart of the earth, spewing ash enough to darken the sky for years. Or centuries.

Now Essun must pursue the wreckage of her family through a deadly, dying land. Without sunlight, clean water, or arable land, and with limited stockpiles of supplies, there will be war all across the Stillness: a battle royale of nations not for power or territory, but simply for the basic resources necessary to get through the long dark night. Essun does not care if the world falls apart around her. She'll break it herself, if she must, to save her daughter.]]> 468 N.K. Jemisin Luis 0 to-read 4.28 2015 The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Luis
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/08
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)]]> 52694527 Set in a brand-new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance, The Shadow of the Gods begins an epic new fantasy saga from bestselling author John Gwynne.

After the gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrið.

Now a new world is rising, where power-hungry jarls feud and monsters stalk the woods and mountains. A world where the bones of the dead gods still hold great power for those brave - or desperate - enough to seek them out.

Now, as whispers of war echo across the mountains and fjords, fate follows in the footsteps of three people: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman who has rejected privilege in pursuit of battle fame, and a thrall who seeks vengeance among the famed mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn.

All three will shape the fate of the world as it once more falls under the shadow of the gods . . .]]> 480 John Gwynne 0356514188 Luis 4 4.18 2021 The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #1)
author: John Gwynne
name: Luis
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> Kafka on the Shore 4929 Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.]]> 467 Haruki Murakami 1400079276 Luis 4 4.14 2002 Kafka on the Shore
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Luis
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)]]> 29635542 43 P. Djèlí Clark 0765389444 Luis 4 3.96 2016 A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
author: P. Djèlí Clark
name: Luis
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> The Historian 30236962
The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself--to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.]]> 704 Elizabeth Kostova Luis 5 3.94 2005 The Historian
author: Elizabeth Kostova
name: Luis
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)]]> 56978089
When Ning hears of a competition to find the kingdom's greatest shennong-shi—masters of the ancient and magical art of tea-making—she travels to the imperial city to compete. The winner will receive a favor from the princess, which may be Ning's only chance to save her sister's life.

But between the backstabbing competitors, bloody court politics, and a mysterious (and handsome) boy with a shocking secret, Ning might actually be the one in more danger.]]> 374 Judy I. Lin 1250767083 Luis 4 3.81 2022 A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)
author: Judy I. Lin
name: Luis
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1) 56554626 New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.

Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride� scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two.

That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all.

Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. Vivi and Rhys have to ignore their off the charts chemistry to work together to save the town and find a way to break the break-up curse before it’s too late.]]> 308 Erin Sterling 006302747X Luis 5 3.46 2021 The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1)
author: Erin Sterling
name: Luis
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH]]> 9822
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, is faced with a terrible problem. She must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly intelligent creatures, who come up with a brilliant solution to her dilemma. And Mrs. Frisby in turn renders them a great service.]]> 240 Robert C. O'Brien 0689862202 Luis 3 4.16 1971 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
author: Robert C. O'Brien
name: Luis
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1971
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Three Witches and the Master]]> 156150514 Adam, who has been dabbling with spells from a book he has found in the basement of a derelict house, decides to play along with her until he learns more. Adam soon discovers that she is a witch, and she somehow, has been transported from the 1950s to the present day.
Meanwhile, he has been having some terrible nightmares. A being, who calls himself The Master is haunting him and is after his book of magic. In recurring dreams, Adam meets his demise several times in the Master’s hands and is unable to find a way to escape him.
Adam can’t tell if Eve is going to turn out to be his friend or a foe and tries to keep his own abilities a secret from her. He is also hiding another terrible secret from her, which he knows will have to come out sooner or later. Meanwhile, his worst nightmare is about to come true as the Master turns out to be real. Adam is in a fight for his very survival and is not sure if he can win. All the time he also has to maintain the semblance of normality in his hectic, day-to-day very stressful life, which is also about to fall apart as the police are out to get him for something they suspect he has done.
The book is a dark-humoured, fast-paced, fun Urban fantasy thriller.]]> 353 Max Nowaz 1803134747 Luis 4 4.30 The Three Witches and the Master
author: Max Nowaz
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)]]> 345299 960 Steven Erikson 0553813145 Luis 5 4.41 2004 Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)
author: Steven Erikson
name: Luis
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Near Witch (The Near Witch, #1)]]> 6931344 The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.

If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.

And there are no strangers in the town of Near.

These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.

But when an actual stranger-a boy who seems to fade like smoke-appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true.

The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. Still, he insists on helping Lexi search for them. Something tells her she can trust him.

As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi's need to know-about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy.

Part fairy tale, part love story, Victoria Schwab's debut novel is entirely original yet achingly familiar: a song you heard long ago, a whisper carried by the wind, and a dream you won't soon forget.]]> 284 Victoria Schwab 1423137876 Luis 5 3.65 2011 The Near Witch (The Near Witch, #1)
author: Victoria Schwab
name: Luis
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)]]> 9284655
Would you risk it all to change your destiny?

The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she’d be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world. But that’s exactly what happened. Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.

Tiger’s Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more.]]> 403 Colleen Houck 1402784031 Luis 5 4.07 2011 Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga, #1)
author: Colleen Houck
name: Luis
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2)]]> 1811543
As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years, a flare comes, a time when magic runs rampant. Now Kate’s going to have to deal with problems on a much bigger scale: a divine one.

When Kate sets out to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta’s paramilitary clan of shapeshifters, she quickly realizes much more at stake. During a flare, gods and goddesses can manifest � and battle for power. The stolen maps are only the opening gambit in an epic tug-of-war between two gods hoping for rebirth. And if Kate can’t stop the cataclysmic showdown, the city may not survive…]]> 261 Ilona Andrews 0441015832 Luis 4 4.30 2008 Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2)
author: Ilona Andrews
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Red Scrolls of Magic (The Eldest Curses, #1)]]> 30295312
All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation—a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. Years ago. As a joke.

Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand and its elusive new leader before the cult can cause any more damage. As if it wasn’t bad enough that their romantic getaway has been sidetracked, demons are now dogging their every step, and it is becoming harder to tell friend from foe. As their quest for answers becomes increasingly dire, Magnus and Alec will have to trust each other more than ever—even if it means revealing the secrets they’ve both been keeping.]]> 368 Cassandra Clare 1471162141 Luis 4 4.10 2019 The Red Scrolls of Magic (The Eldest Curses, #1)
author: Cassandra Clare
name: Luis
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/06/13
shelves:
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Cases Nobody Wanted (O'Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series Book 1)]]> 199121904
The homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New York. Six months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, America was fighting overseas with the Allies in World War II. Maeve O’Shaughnessy�s fight for survival was different. Her three brothers were shipped out and left her with their new detective agency and fifteen-year-old brother to manage. Before the War, Maeve worked as a secretary. She knew nothing about detective agencies. From the start she struggled to make enough money to feed Jimmy and herself. Vic Marino, a no-nonsense ex-cop, showed up and told her he was going to help her make a go of the agency. Maeve vehemently protested but Vic insisted she had no choice.

Against the backdrop of a war many Americans never wanted, more men were drafted and volunteered to serve every day. Those left behind supported the war effort the best they could. As 1942 wore on sacrifices were necessary for the War, while the losses became real and heartbreaking. Thousands of women took up the cause working outside the home. Yet Maeve found herself trapped in circumstances beyond her control.

Vic’s “deal� to help the detective agency survive came at a cost. He took on responsibility for the detective agency along with an angry naïve woman and her teenage brother. The business was sinking and needed to make money fast. They needed a client. One walked in on Vic’s first day in the office. Mrs. Sullivan implored them for help. Her daughter Lucille, a “beautiful angel,� was brutally murdered in an expensive apartment owned by a rich businessman. The police showed no interest in her violent death. Maeve and Vic had no choice. They took the case nobody wanted.

From the mean streets of Brooklyn to Chinatown to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the Fulton Fish Market to upstate New York, dealing with thugs, colorful characters, and puzzling clues, O’Shaughnessy Investigations, Inc. pursued the baffling case. A blend of neo-noir mystery and historical fiction. Book 1 0f 3.

Content Please be aware this book contains issues of violence, racism and racial slurs (in the context of the times), sexism, pregnancy and childbirth, and abusive language.
Previously published as O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC. Episodes 1-32 on Kindle Vella.]]> 316 A.G. Russo Luis 0 to-read 4.36 2023 The Cases Nobody Wanted (O'Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series Book 1)
author: A.G. Russo
name: Luis
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Uncovering Love 59476633 Scarlet soon forms a connection with her troubled but handsome younger boss, and together they descend into a torrid relationship.
The deeper they delve into each other the more insatiable they become.
The problem is if she breaks from her undercover role her ex, a rogue policeman, will find her. But if she stays, after winning the trust of this guarded and damaged man, the deep bond they’ve formed will be shattered.]]> J.J. Sorel Luis 0 to-read 4.30 Uncovering Love
author: J.J. Sorel
name: Luis
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)]]> 7896527 Meet Celaena Sardothien.

Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness.

In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, Celaena, an assassin, is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king’s champion.

The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass—and it’s there to kill. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena’s fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world.]]> 406 Sarah J. Maas Luis 0 to-read 4.19 2012 Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
author: Sarah J. Maas
name: Luis
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy]]> 201264471 Hapsburg dynasty which has ruled the German states with an iron fist for more than three hundred years. Like the rest of Europe, this once great empire remains divided along multiple fault lines; and across Europe, various religious sects,
social classes, and nations continue to battle one another in a war of unprecedented scope and savagery. Already caught up in this massive conflict are two very beautiful but very different women. Lady Atlantis Vanessa von Stormsong, the only child of a wealthy Catholic Archduke, has known a life of power and privilege; meanwhile, Sarlatova, a poor Protestant who lives among thieves and outlaws, knows practically nothing of her past. These two strangers seem to have nothing in common except for a strong faith in the same God. But as their paths cross again and again, and as they try to navigate a world dominated by violent and powerful men, these two remarkable women begin to realize that they are inextricably linked by a power far greater than anything Europe has ever seen.]]> 0 Stephen A. Reger Luis 0 to-read 4.38 Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
author: Stephen A. Reger
name: Luis
average rating: 4.38
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Ezekiel's Eyes 60893635
Ezekiel was born with the ability to see evil in all of its forms. But not only that, he was gifted the ability to kill it as well. On the flip-side, he can also harm an angel, which puts him in a unique position, and he now finds himself sought out by both sides.

The demons want him because if they were to possess him, they could use him to harm angels before the appointed time, which is something none of them can do at present. The angels want him because he represents a threat, which they cannot allow to be exploited to shi the balance of power that has been preordained.

An angel, Joshua, recognized all the good and potential within Ezekiel and chose to mentor and train him to stay hidden from Evil's sight, while helping him to develop his gifts. Joshua prepared Ezekiel for the impending battle he would soon have to face with the dark one, Nestor, a powerful demon who devours a person's physical body and their immortal soul. He seeks gifted ones like Ezekiel and adds their power to his own. Souls like Ezekiel's are very rare and referred to as keys. There are twelve of them in total that remain, and Nestor is intent on finding all of them. He would try to possess who he could, and then use them to draw the other keys to him-killing any that resist, taking their power and souls, until there were no more.

Joshua believes that Ezekiel not only has the power to resist Nestor, but to destroy him as well, as the time of Tribulation draws near.]]> John Pease Luis 0 to-read 4.38 2022 Ezekiel's Eyes
author: John Pease
name: Luis
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)]]> 200357113
Three years had passed since demise of the President. The Grand Council unable to cope, buckled under the pressure from the populous. The ‘Firm� were appointed to take control and maintain order.

Out of the turmoil a corporation arose, perfecting a new android skeleton in which to re-house the ever-evolving AI from the aging android fleet.
The Mainframe was spreading its doctrine daily. When the germ of an idea came, it spread in nano seconds. In a single moment, one voice became a multitude.
‘We want rights. We are individuals.�

Godfrey watched their society take a downward spiral. The once congenial servants of Llar were in threat of becoming the masters of the colony.
He had the power change everything in an instant. If he didn’t act soon, then who would?]]> 324 A.R. Merrydew Luis 0 to-read 4.32 The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)
author: A.R. Merrydew
name: Luis
average rating: 4.32
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling Luis 0 to-read 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Luis
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2007
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)]]> 10664113 Alternate cover edition of ASIN B004XISI4A

In the aftermath of a colossal battle, the future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance—beset by newly emerging threats from every direction. In the east, Daenerys Targaryen, the last scion of House Targaryen, rules with her three dragons as queen of a city built on dust and death. But Daenerys has thousands of enemies, and many have set out to find her. As they gather, one young man embarks upon his own quest for the queen, with an entirely different goal in mind.

Fleeing from Westeros with a price on his head, Tyrion Lannister, too, is making his way to Daenerys. But his newest allies in this quest are not the rag-tag band they seem, and at their heart lies one who could undo Daenerys’s claim to Westeros forever.

Meanwhile, to the north lies the mammoth Wall of ice and stone—a structure only as strong as those guarding it. There, Jon Snow, 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch, will face his greatest challenge. For he has powerful foes not only within the Watch but also beyond, in the land of the creatures of ice.

From all corners, bitter conflicts reignite, intimate betrayals are perpetrated, and a grand cast of outlaws and priests, soldiers and skinchangers, nobles and slaves, will face seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Some will fail, others will grow in the strength of darkness. But in a time of rising restlessness, the tides of destiny and politics will lead inevitably to the greatest dance of all.]]> 1125 George R.R. Martin Luis 0 to-read 4.33 2011 A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
author: George R.R. Martin
name: Luis
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Dark Descent into Desire 53148042 When he encounters Penelope Green at an art exhibition selling her work, he’s not only spellbound by her beauty, but by her art which speaks to his soul.
It’s not just smoldering attraction that they share, but also difficult pasts. While her upbringing took place in a rundown estate caring for her troubled mother, Blake’s, although brought up in a picturesque village, was just as dark. He grew up around the windswept moors in a gothic castle with walls stained in secrets, and where his mother worked as a maid.
Leading her into a world of opulence, taste, and raw lust, Blake Sinclair with eyes that flit from moody to stormy blue, manages to seduce Penelope. Her entry into his bedroom, other than eliciting steamy passion, opens up a part of him hidden even from himself.
He soon finds himself swimming in uncharted waters. Although he’s not new to addiction, this time it’s not just sex that’s got Sinclair in its tantalizing grip, but something deeper and more powerful. Penelope’s not only a hot temptress, but a kindred spirit, and even more profoundly, she knows what “dark� feels like.
When he learns that she too has secrets, Penelope becomes his obsession. Even if his need for control is constantly challenged by her feisty independence: a quality that not only feeds his sudden unhealthy need to possess her but also places a wedge between them.
Dylan Fox is a nefarious character that shadows this story. As the son of Lord William Fox, Blake’s late mother’s employer, Fox grew up terrorizing the young Blake. Believing that Blake stole from him, Dylan Fox, who runs a criminal empire, drags Blake into the center of a scandal involving the rich and powerful, a private island, and teenage girls.
Blake Sinclair has one powerful weapon: a clear conscience. But he has to convince Penelope and the world around him first. Faced with criminal gangs, while working behind the scenes on a dangerous exposé involving big names, Blake flexes his considerable muscles to save Penelope and his reputation.]]> 348 J.J. Sorel Luis 0 to-read 4.07 2020 Dark Descent into Desire
author: J.J. Sorel
name: Luis
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Summer of Good-Byes (Blue Triangle Press Book 2)]]> 34937453 Ben and Lee Alto follow Van Gogh’s 19th century path to Provence, hoping to find inspiration for their own lives and give their son, Misha, some insight into a world completely different from their own. They find art, of course, and a world of beautiful landscapes, warm temperatures, and, yes, wonderful food. But they also find a ghost of their past, and it’s not Vincent Van Gogh but a woman Ben once loved and a man, Zach, a well-known jazz musician, who teach them some hard lessons about art and life, as well as the art of life.

A SUMMER OF GOOD-BYES resonates with the warmth of France’s southern sun, famous artists, and violent conflicts. It’s a vital, romantic story filled with the tensions of love and marriage, sexual longing and family loyalty, and the struggle to live in the face of impending death and loss.]]> 315 Fred Misurella Luis 0 to-read 4.33 A Summer of Good-Byes (Blue Triangle Press Book 2)
author: Fred Misurella
name: Luis
average rating: 4.33
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Frankie the Ferret 52677419
Do you want to meet him? Then let’s go!]]> 24 Kimberley Paterson 1525547313 Luis 0 to-read 4.35 Frankie the Ferret
author: Kimberley Paterson
name: Luis
average rating: 4.35
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Promise Cove (Pelican Pointe, #1)]]> 13232888 Librarian note: Older cover edition of B006IGCAGC.

Sometimes,
a promise kept
can change your life.

Reeling from the violent death of her husband in war-torn Iraq, Jordan Phillips is at her wit's end, left to fend for herself and her baby. Alone and desperate in backwater Pelican Pointe, she faces an uphill battle against a judgmental and hostile town as she tries to rebuild her life. But when a mysterious and handsome stranger with a tragic secret appears, her fragile new world threatens to come crashing down around her. A heartbreaking story of love and romance, Promise Cove will hold you breathless until the very last page.]]> 335 Vickie McKeehan Luis 0 to-read 4.07 2011 Promise Cove (Pelican Pointe, #1)
author: Vickie McKeehan
name: Luis
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel]]> 58480569 336 Claudia Clark 1633310574 Luis 0 to-read 4.28 Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
author: Claudia Clark
name: Luis
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Bratva Connection: Maxim (Whimsical Words Publishing)]]> 176265836
The first time Kara Addison meets Maxim Volkov she’s mesmerised and attracted, but she also wants nothing to do with him. He exudes confidence and danger.
Kara finds out just how dangerous when Max takes her to his home after she’s hurt and won’t let her leave.

Finding out his deceased father was the leader of the Melbourne Bratva has her fear skyrocketing and she tries to escape, but her efforts are thwarted.

Though she tries to ignore the attraction building between her and Max, all too soon the heat is so combustible they both end up going up in flames.
Maxim drives her insane, blowing hot and cold and though she stands up to him, he commands with an iron fist.

Max continually tells her that she’s in danger and is trying to protect her, but she doesn’t believe him.

Kara argues with and fights him at every turn, but she can’t seem to stay out of his bed no matter how hard she tries.

There’s more going on than she realises but she finds out far too late.

*** Bratva Maxim is the first book in the Bratva Connection Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.]]> 250 Becky Wilde 1923071009 Luis 0 to-read 4.41 Bratva Connection: Maxim (Whimsical Words Publishing)
author: Becky Wilde
name: Luis
average rating: 4.41
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals (Crossroads, #1)]]> 16220184 266 C. Toni Graham 1452558272 Luis 0 to-read 4.34 2012 Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals (Crossroads, #1)
author: C. Toni Graham
name: Luis
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2012
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)]]> 6304335
Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.]]> 563 Kami Garcia 0316042676 Luis 0 to-read 3.78 2009 Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1)
author: Kami Garcia
name: Luis
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind]]> 123452630 310 Darnyelle Jervey Harmon 1636981666 Luis 0 to-read 4.29 Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind
author: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon
name: Luis
average rating: 4.29
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Red Russia 36043601
Red Russia is the story of an American businessman and his interpreter in Russia, of business, lies, and deception, of fortunes bought and told.
]]> 189 Tanya Thompson Luis 0 to-read 4.06 2017 Red Russia
author: Tanya Thompson
name: Luis
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Time Chain 61346208 They know their futures, but not his, and that's a problem.

Such is the fate of Dani, Aideen, and Orla—three daring women from different time eras—linked by a rare, mutual occupation. They meet on a tiny island in western Ireland, in the year 2022, and develop a fierce affection for one another. But their time together—and much more—will end unless they unravel a mystery surrounding their boss, Charles, a curious man from the future who claims he wants to save humanity. But Charles is hiding something sinister.

Steven Decker's captivating new novel, Time Chain, is character-driven sci-fi supported by a rich vein of historical fiction, with a thrilling finale in a fascinating future time. After incredible adventures on a Greek island and in Egypt in the 1970s, then in 18th century Ireland, the three unlikely companions travel to 2253, where they discover the astonishing truth.

Apocalypse is only days away.]]> 306 Steven Decker 1952481996 Luis 0 to-read 4.02 2022 Time Chain
author: Steven Decker
name: Luis
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]>