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The Vampire Chronicles continue in Prince Lestat. Look for a special preview in the back of the book.

Praise for Interview with the Vampire
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“A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth–the education of the vampire.����Chicago Tribune
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“Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.����Washington Post
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“If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.����Boston Globe
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“A chilling, thought-provoking tale, beautifully frightening, sensuous, and utterly unnerving.����Hartford Courant


From the Paperback edition.]]> 340 Anne Rice Tracey 4 vampires 3.78 1976
author: Anne Rice
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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]]> 751769 245 Ellis Peters 0446400181 Tracey 5 historical-romance, mystery 4.04 1991
author: Ellis Peters
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1991
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/01
date added: 2025/04/04
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This is leas a mystery and more of an adventure story with a little romance. Love ❤️ this one so much
]]> 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Tracey 0 4.48 2006
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> 410047 The abbey's wise herbalist, Brother Cadfael, follows the trail of bloodied petals. He knows the lovely widow's dowry is far greater with her house included, and she will likely wed again. But before Cadfael can ponder if a greedy suitor has done this dreadful deed, another crime is committed. Now the good monk must thread his way through a tangle more tortuous than the widow's thorny bushes -- or there will be more tears...]]> 240 Ellis Peters 0446405337 Tracey 4 mystery, 12th-century 4.15 1986
author: Ellis Peters
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1986
rating: 4
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]]> 7981206 here.

With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows...]]> 336 Charlaine Harris Tracey 4 mystery, paranormal, romance 3.82 2011
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/15
date added: 2025/03/17
shelves: mystery, paranormal, romance
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Nearing the end of the series
]]> 815856 A.D. 663

Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously altered to show the man stabbing his lover. The magistrate fears he is losing his mind and will murder his own wife. Meanwhile, a banker has inexplicably killed himself, and a lovely lady has allowed Dee's lieutenant, Chiao Tai, to believe she is a courtesan. Dee and Chiao Tai go incognito among a gang of robbers to solve this mystery, and find the leader of the robbers is more honorable than the magistrate.

"One of the most satisfyingly devious of the Judge Dee novels, with unusual historical richness in its portrayal of the China of the T'ang dynasty."-��New York Times Book Review

"Even Judge Dee is baffled by Robert van Gulik's new mysteries in The Lacquer Screen. Disguised as a petty crook, he spends a couple of precarious days in the headquarters of the underworld, hobnobbing with the robber king. Dee's lively thieving friends furnish some vital clues to this strange and fascinating jigsaw."-��The Spectator

"So scrupulously in the classic Chinese manner yet so nicely equipped with everything to satisfy the modern reader."-��New York Times

Robert Van Gulik (1910-67) was a Dutch diplomat and an authority on Chinese history and culture. He drew his plots from the whole body of Chinese literature, especially from the popular detective novels that first appeared in the seventeenth century.

]]> 183 Robert van Gulik 0226848671 Tracey 4 mystery 4.06 1962
author: Robert van Gulik
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1962
rating: 4
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]]> 10236714
She witnessed a murder—and now her life is in danger...Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast into a cruel, heartless world.

Snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, she is made a courtesan in New Orleans. At the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her, Belle's dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle's courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home?

Lesley Pearse, author of the UK and international best-sellers A Lesser Evil and Trust Me, takes her heroine from London to New Orleans and beyond in her powerful and moving historical novel Belle. Belle is a heroine of our times- a strong woman trying to be good in a world gone bad. Fans of Susan Lewis will love Lesley Pearse's style.

Praise for Lesley Pearse:
“With characters it is impossible not to care about ... this is storytelling at its very best�� ��Daily Mail
“An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry�� ��Woman's Weekly]]> 576 Lesley Pearse 0718157036 Tracey 0 to-read 3.87 2011
author: Lesley Pearse
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 138325 250 Ellis Peters 0446400009 Tracey 3 mystery 4.13 1989
author: Ellis Peters
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/02/21
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the first part was a little too preachy for my taste and not much of Cadfael, finally half-way through the mystery picked up and we got more of Cadfael, thank god :)
]]> 18769 Clau-Clau-Claudius the stammerer was known as a buffoon and a pitiful fool.

He made it his business to watch from the sidelines and record the antics, funny, violent and lustful, of the imperial household as its members vied with each other for power. Then he found himself Emperor.

From the great days of Augustus and the cruelties of Tiberius to the deified insanity of Caligula, he records a story breathtaking in its murderousness, greed and folly. Throughout the swings of fortune, his own disastrous love affair with the depraved Messalina and surprisingly successful reign, his voice sometimes puzzled, sometimes rueful, always sane, speaks to us across the centuries in two great, classic historical novels.]]> 839 Robert Graves 0140093141 Tracey 4 4.45 1934
author: Robert Graves
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.45
book published: 1934
rating: 4
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]]> 173754979 A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385550369.]]> 303 Percival Everett Tracey 4 4.46 2024
author: Percival Everett
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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The story just got better and better.
]]> 65213662 370 Douglas Preston 0765317702 Tracey 4 mystery, sci-fi-fantasy This was a great fun book. 3.88 2024
author: Douglas Preston
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/22
date added: 2025/01/24
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This was a great fun book.
]]> 216670100 Senator Tom Cotton offers an unflinching look at the deadly threat of Communist China and reveals the truth about America’s most dangerous enemy. ��

“As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I’m often asked if the threat from China is as bad as it seems. My answer is no—it’s worse than you can imagine.��

��Seven Things You Can’t Say About China is Tom Cotton’s provocative exposé about the gravest threat to American freedom. The media, Hollywood, academia, Wall Street, and most politicians can’t—or won’t—speak the truth about China. But Senator Cotton will, because America needs to know.

��In this hard-hitting book, he reveals what others refuse to say,

The inside story—drawn from his intelligence and national-security experience and knowledge—on how deeply the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated America.How China persecutes Christians and commits genocide against religious and ethnic minorities.The alarming rise of China’s armed forces and nuclear arsenal, which will soon rival our own.The danger our children face from China’s influence on Hollywood, the NBA, TikTok, and so much more.How China lied, stole, and cheated its way to wealth while devastating America’s workers and businesses.��Seven Things You Can’t Say About China sounds the alarm about Communist China’s carefully crafted plans to defeat America in the coming decade—and what we must do to fight back.]]> 208 Tom Cotton 0063392305 Tracey 0 3.39
author: Tom Cotton
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.39
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]]> 35271523
Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.

Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so he'll have to navigate madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassins, and the long guns of a flying fortress. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just endure.

This quiet man of letters must become a man of action.

The first book in the stunning and strange debut fantasy series that's receiving major praise from some of fantasy's biggest authors such as Mark Lawrence and Django Wexler.]]> 448 Josiah Bancroft 0316517917 Tracey 0 to-read 4.08 2013
author: Josiah Bancroft
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Tracey 4 dystopia 4.14 2012
author: Hugh Howey
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2013/05/30
date added: 2025/01/09
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]]> 211003830 The Mystery of Mrs. Christie returns with a thrilling story of Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women.

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second-class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the group includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. They call themselves the Queens of Crime. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.

May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods. The murder has all the hallmarks of a locked room mystery for which these authors are famous: how did her killer manage to sneak her body out of a crowded train station without anyone noticing? If, as the police believe, the cause of death is manual strangulation, why is there is an extraordinary amount of blood at the crime scene? What is the meaning of a heartbreaking secret letter seeming to implicate an unnamed paramour? Determined to solve the highly publicized murder, the Queens of Crime embark on their own investigation, discovering they’re stronger together. But soon the killer targets Dorothy Sayers herself, threatening to expose a dark secret in her past that she would do anything to keep hidden.

Inspired by a true story in Sayers�� own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict brings to life the lengths to which five talented women writers will go to be taken seriously in the male-dominated world of letters as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels.]]> 310 Marie Benedict 1250280753 Tracey 0 to-read, mystery 3.82 2025
author: Marie Benedict
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 58662236
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.]]> 128 Claire Keegan 0802158749 Tracey 3 4.13 2021
author: Claire Keegan
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 3
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]]> 202795132
Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luchan por el dominio durante generaciones. Una atmósfera única para una lectura adictiva. Un retrato realista con toques sobrenaturales. Escritura magistral y visual en un ambicioso proyecto entre el pulp y HBO.

«Michael Mcdowell: mi amigo, mi maestro. Fascinante, aterrador, simplemente genial. El mejor de todos nosotros.» STEPHEN KING

«Una sabia combinación entre Dumas y Lovecraft. Un cruce entre Stephen King y Gabriel García Márquez. Despiadadamente adictivo.» ROBERT SHAPLEN, THE NEW YORK TIMES

Las gélidas y oscuras aguas del río Blackwater inundan Perdido, un pequeño pueblo al sur de Alabama. Allí, los Caskey, un gran clan de ricos terratenientes, intentan hacer frente a los daños causados por la riada. Liderados por Mary-Love, la incontestable matriarca, y Óscar, su obediente hijo, los Caskey trabajan por recomponerse y salvaguardar su fortuna. Pero no cuentan con la aparición de la misteriosa Elinor Dammert. Una joven hermosa pero parca en palabras con un único lente: acercarse a los Caskey cueste lo que cueste.]]> 260 Michael McDowell 8419654892 Tracey 0 to-read 3.68 1983
author: Michael McDowell
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> 301538 The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.]]> 608 R. Scott Bakker 1585676772 Tracey 0 sci-fi-fantasy, to-read 3.82 2003
author: R. Scott Bakker
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> 35519109
Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.

But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?

And what will become of it when it’s caught?]]> 163 Martha Wells Tracey 3 sci-fi-fantasy Fun adventurous story. 4.38 2018
author: Martha Wells
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/28
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
review:
Fun adventurous story.
]]> 43352954 Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.]]> 209 Amal El-Mohtar Tracey 3 sci-fi-fantasy, romance 3.86 2019
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy, romance
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Half the time I didn't know what the hell was going on
]]> 24717411 On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.

The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs...]]> 316 Vaseem Khan 0316386820 Tracey 0 mystery, to-read 3.64 2015
author: Vaseem Khan
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 58340706
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.

But nothing comes for free, especially magic.

When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason.

Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.]]> 399 Rachel Gillig 0316312487 Tracey 0 sci-fi-fantasy, to-read 4.25 2022
author: Rachel Gillig
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 83814905 An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her family's Cotswold manor house. But behind the holly and pine boughs, secrets are about to unravel, revealing this seemingly charming English village's grim history.

Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall, country residence of the Chapman family. The Cotswold manor house, festooned in pine boughs and crammed with guests for Christmas week, is a dream come true for Ashley. She is mesmerized by the cozy, firelit house, the large family, and the charming village of Clevemoor, but also by Adam Chapman, Emma's aloof and handsome brother.

But Adam is being investigated by the local police over the recent brutal slaying of a girl from the village, and there is a mysterious stranger who haunts the woodland path between Starvewood Hall and the local pub. Ashley begins to wonder what kind of story she is actually inhabiting. Is she in a grand romance? A gothic tale? Or has she wandered into something far more sinister and terrifying than she'd ever imagined?

Over thirty years later the events of that horrific week are revisited, along with a diary from that time. What began in a small English village in 1989 reaches its ghostly conclusion in modern-day New York, many Christmas seasons later.]]> 96 Peter Swanson 0063297450 Tracey 4 mystery 3.58 2023
author: Peter Swanson
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/22
date added: 2024/12/22
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]]> 208430658 Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling.

An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant.

What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power.

Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance?

A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

(Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)]]> 430 M.L. Wang 0593873351 Tracey 0 to-read, sci-fi-fantasy 4.40 2023
author: M.L. Wang
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 216476388 My husband is dead.

I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car.

My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.

So why do I still see his face everywhere I go?

The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie is an utterly addictive, unputdownable, nail-biting, absolutely gripping psychological thriller novella with a shocking, breathtaking, heartstopping, spine-chilling twist that you won't see coming, will leave you stunned, and will literally have you picking your jaw up off the floor and bringing it to the nearest hospital for major facial reconstructive surgery.]]> 152 Freida McFadden Tracey 3 mystery Glad it was short 3.34 2024
author: Freida McFadden
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/17
date added: 2024/12/17
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Glad it was short
]]> 60296157 The past isn't always dead and buried . . .

A house with history. That's how the estate agent described the old toll house on the edge of the town. For Kelda it's the perfect rural home for her young son Dylan after a difficult few years.

But when Kelda finds a death mask concealed behind one of the walls, everything changes. Inexplicable things happen in the house, Kelda cannot shake the feeling of being watched and Dylan is plagued by nightmares, convinced he can see figures in his room. As Dylan's behaviour becomes increasingly challenging, Kelda seeks answers in the house's mysterious past. But she's running out of time.

Because something has awoken.

And now it won't rest . . .]]> 352 Carly Reagon 1408726440 Tracey 0 to-read 3.75 2022
author: Carly Reagon
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 40717572 "Three classic stories featuring Brother Cadfael . . . whose powers of deduction are practically miraculous" in the Silver Dagger-winning medieval mystery series (Booklist).

"Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured." So writes Ellis Peters in her introduction to A Rare Benedictine--three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery featuring the monastic sleuth who has become the best-loved ecclesiastical detective since Father Brown.

Although Cadfael has appeared in twenty novel-length chronicles, the story of his entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers. Now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order.]]> 130 Ellis Peters 1497671671 Tracey 4 12th-century, mystery 4.11 1988
author: Ellis Peters
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/14
date added: 2024/12/14
shelves: 12th-century, mystery
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I love Cadfael ❤️ such a cozy mystery
]]> 213309864
Neither is the encounter with an enemy soldier.

Returning home to Alaha, she’s confronted with the aftermath of the day’s events. The future is uncertain as the threat of hunger looms over the people. With rumors of a growing rebellion, Brynn and her closest friends promise to stick together.

When an unexpected visitor arrives, Brynn’s loyalty will be tested as she learns of a world of magic and treachery. Once her enemy, always her enemy, right? But the dark, knowing eyes of a stranger make her question everything��

…including her heart.]]> 497 Rachel Schneider Tracey 0 to-read 4.28
author: Rachel Schneider
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.28
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]]> 7091488
Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and a telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric's vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric's 'brother' in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie's tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton.

In addition to the multitude of family issues complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.]]> 320 Charlaine Harris 0441018645 Tracey 3 3.90 2010
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/09
date added: 2024/12/11
shelves: mystery, paranormal, sci-fi-fantasy, vampires
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But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?]]> 224 Arthur C. Clarke Tracey 3 sci-fi-fantasy 4.12 1953
author: Arthur C. Clarke
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1953
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/06
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]]> 36454667 Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders.
But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.
Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.]]> 753 Christopher Ruocchio 0756413028 Tracey 0 to-read 4.01 2018
author: Christopher Ruocchio
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 1527934 443 Anne Golon 055312532X Tracey 5
"France's daughter of joy seeks lusty new adventures as a Sultan's pampered slave

Angelique one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Saucy, emerald-eyed slave of passion, Angelique's stormy adventurer have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a king.

Angelique begins a perilous search for her lost love in the lawless, savage world of the Mediterranean, where her beauty is plunder for pirates, treasure for the slave traders, a helpless plaything for the lust-crazed Sultan."

I haven't read this book in over 30 years or I would give you a review, but I will say that I have carried it from one country to the next, its been one of my most favorite books and I have it next to my bed to read again soon.]]> 4.17 1960
author: Anne Golon
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1960
rating: 5
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"France's daughter of joy seeks lusty new adventures as a Sultan's pampered slave

Angelique one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Saucy, emerald-eyed slave of passion, Angelique's stormy adventurer have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a king.

Angelique begins a perilous search for her lost love in the lawless, savage world of the Mediterranean, where her beauty is plunder for pirates, treasure for the slave traders, a helpless plaything for the lust-crazed Sultan."

I haven't read this book in over 30 years or I would give you a review, but I will say that I have carried it from one country to the next, its been one of my most favorite books and I have it next to my bed to read again soon.
]]> 61834 A Night to Remember remains the definitive, classic tale of the sinking of the Titanic. Walter Lord interviewed more than sixty survivors before committing their searingly vivid recollections to his minute-by-minute account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the experiences of both passengers and crew under pressure of the unthinkable: the swift plummet into icy waters of the ship promised never to sink.

With a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick, bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Sea of Glory, this fiftieth-anniversary edition of Walter Lord's classic brings the drama of that night back to life. As Philbrick concludes in his introduction: "From first to last, A Night to Remember is about the people who briefly inhabited the Titanic, and never again will an author have the opportunity to speak to so many of them. In this most essential way, Lord's book can never be outdone, making A Night to Remember the ultimate survivors' tale."]]> 182 Walter Lord 0805077642 Tracey 4 4.07 1955
author: Walter Lord
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> 826845 A world paralysed by genetic mutation

John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.]]> 200 John Wyndham Tracey 4 3.92 1955
author: John Wyndham
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1955
rating: 4
read at: 2005/05/27
date added: 2024/12/01
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]]> 171646527 0 Sax Rohmer Tracey 3 mystery 3.00
author: Sax Rohmer
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.00
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rating: 3
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]]> 17899950
In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long she comes to the notice of the Duke of York.

With her taste for luxury and power, Mary Anne, now a royal mistress, must aim higher. Her lofty connections allow her to establish a thriving trade in military commissions, provoking a scandal that rocks the government - and brings personal disgrace.

A vivid portrait of overweening ambition, MARY ANNE is set during the Napoleonic Wars and based on du Maurier's own great-great-grandmother. In Regency London, the only way for a woman to succeed is to beat men at their own game. So when Mary Anne Clarke seeks an escape from her squalid surroundings in Bowling Inn Alley, she ventures first into the scurrilous world of the pamphleteers. Her personal charms are such, however, that before long she comes to the notice of the Duke of York.With her taste for luxury and power, Mary Anne, now a royal mistress, must aim higher. Her lofty connections allow her to establish a thriving trade in military commissions, provoking a scandal that rocks the government - and brings personal disgrace.]]> 351 Daphne du Maurier 0316323713 Tracey 3 romance 3.44 1954
author: Daphne du Maurier
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.44
book published: 1954
rating: 3
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]]> 311150
On her way to London Arabella's carriage breaks down outside the hunting lodge of the wealthy and socially prominent Robert Beaumaris, fate cast her in his path. Arabella's only fault is impetuosity, and her pride stung when she overhears a remark of her path of arrogant host, who accused her of being another petty female after his wealth, the proud, headstrong ingenue made a most startling claim -- she was an heiress! A pretense that deeply amuses the jaded Beau. To counter her white lie, Beaumaris launches her into high society and thereby subjects her to all kinds of amorous fortune hunters in London and other embarrassments.

Suddenly Arabella found herself the talk of the ton and pursued by some of the most eligible young men of the day. But only one caught Arabella's fancy: Beaumaris, the handsome and dedicated bachelor. She should know better than to allow herself to be provoked by nonpareil Beau. But would her deceitful charade destroy her one chance for true love...?

Beaumaris, however, although a most artful matrimonial dodger, badly underestimated his seemingly naive adversary... When compassionate Arabella rescues such unfortunate creatures as a mistreated chimney sweep and a mixed-breed mongrel, she foists them upon Beaumaris, who finds he rather enjoys the role of rescuer and is soon given the opportunity to prove his worth in the person of Bertram Tallant, the also impetuous young brother of Arabella....]]> 280 Georgette Heyer 0099465620 Tracey 4 romance 4.04 1949
author: Georgette Heyer
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1949
rating: 4
read at: 2004/04/18
date added: 2024/12/01
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]]> 12510655 Rupert Furneaux Tracey 3 3.33
author: Rupert Furneaux
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.33
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2003/07/06
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]]> 18130793 Maude Hutchins Tracey 3 3.00 1964
author: Maude Hutchins
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1964
rating: 3
read at: 2003/03/19
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]]> 61337597 A heartwarming and humorous blend of fantasy, romance, and mystery featuring a witch with domestic powers and the royal household he serves . . . dinner.

When Finlay Ashowan joins the staff of the King and Queen of Daxaria, he’s an enigma. No one knows where he comes from or how he came to be where he is, which suits Fin just fine. He’s satisfied simply serving as the royal cook, keeping nosy passersby out of his kitchen, and concocting some truly uncanny meals.

But Fin’s secret identity doesn’t stay hidden for long. After all, it’s not every day a house witch and his kitten familiar, Kraken, take to meddling in imperial affairs. As his powers are gradually discovered by the court, Fin finds himself involved in a slew of intrigues: going head-to-head with knights with less-than-chivalrous intentions, helping to protect the pregnant queen, fending off the ire of the royal mage, and uncovering a spy in the castle. And that’s only the beginning—because Fin’s past is catching up with him just as his love life is getting complicated . . .]]> 658 Delemhach 1039410243 Tracey 0 to-read 4.16 2022
author: Delemhach
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 214298303 I didn’t ask for it.
Didn’t even see it coming.
But the moment I do, it’s too late.
Killian Carson is a predator wrapped in sophisticated charm.
He’s cold-blooded, manipulative, and savage.
The worst part is that no one sees his devil side.
I do.
And that will cost me everything.
I run, but the thing about monsters?
They always chase.

This book is not a conventional romance and contains themes that aren't to everyone's liking. Please check the author's note before reading. ]]> 576 Rina Kent 1464238863 Tracey 0 to-read 3.86 2022
author: Rina Kent
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 138383323
Olivetti gets a rare glimpse of action from Ernest’s mom, Beatrice--his used-to-be most frequent visitor—only for her to drop him off at Heartland Pawn Shop and leave him helplessly behind. When Olivetti learns Beatrice has mysteriously gone missing afterward, he believes he can help find her. He breaks the only rule of the “typewriterly code�� and types back to Ernest, divulging Beatrice’s memories stored inside him.

Their search takes them across San Francisco—chasing clues, maybe committing a few misdemeanors. As Olivetti spills out the past, Ernest is forced to face what he and his family have been running from, The Everything That Happened. Only by working together will they find Beatrice, belonging, and the parts of themselves they’ve lost.]]> 252 Allie Millington 125032694X Tracey 0 to-read 4.06 2024
author: Allie Millington
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 203019740 From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that spans decades.

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Mohammed Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the small town of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.

When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges—Patch, a local boy with one eye, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake.

Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another.

A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession, and the blinding light of hope.]]> 608 Chris Whitaker 0593798872 Tracey 0 mystery, to-read 4.23 2024
author: Chris Whitaker
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile�� humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 528 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 Tracey 3 4.56 2023
author: Rebecca Yarros
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/06
date added: 2024/11/25
shelves: dragons, paranormal, sci-fi-fantasy, romance
review:
I wasn't feeling the romance you could see that one coming, or the world-building.
]]> 5161066
The great revelation goes well at first - then the horribly mutilated body of a were-panther is found in the parking lot of Merlotte's, and Sookie agrees to use her telepathic talent to track down the murderer. But there is a far greater danger than this killer threatening Bon Temps: a race of unhuman beings, older, more powerful, and far more secretive than the vampires or the werewolves, is preparing for war. And Sookie is an all-too-human pawn in their ages-old battle...]]> 320 Charlaine Harris 0441017150 Tracey 4 4.02 2009
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/25
date added: 2024/11/25
shelves: paranormal, romance, sci-fi-fantasy, vampires, mystery
review:
I've been enjoying this series, a little mystery and a little rommance what more could a girl ask for.
]]> 32075854
When Susan receives Alan's latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pünd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, and plenty of red herrings and clues. But the more Susan reads, the more she realizes that there's another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript—one of ambition, jealousy, and greed—and that soon it will lead to murder.

Masterful, clever, and ruthlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage crime fiction.]]> 477 Anthony Horowitz 0062645226 Tracey 0 mystery, to-read 3.93 2016
author: Anthony Horowitz
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 199700434 When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances.

Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet, The God of the Woods is a story of inheritance and second chances, the tensions between a family and a community, and a history that will not let any of them go.]]> 478 Liz Moore 0593418913 Tracey 0 to-read 4.09 2024
author: Liz Moore
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 44081573 Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the multiverse has to offer with the everyday awfulness of low-wage work. It explores queer relationships and queer feelings, capitalism and accountability, labor and love, all with a bouncing sense of humor and a commitment to the strange.

When an elderly customer at a big box furniture store slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.

To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.]]> 103 Nino Cipri 1250245729 Tracey 0 sci-fi-fantasy, to-read 3.64 2020
author: Nino Cipri
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 61111302 The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War.

July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe has begun.

Heading ever deeper into enemy territory toward Crécy, this band of brothers knows they are off to fight a battle that will forge nations, and shape the very fabric of human lives. But first they must survive a bloody war in which rules are abandoned and chivalry itself is slaughtered.

Rooted in historical accuracy and told through an unforgettable cast, Essex Dogs delivers the stark reality of medieval war on the ground - and shines a light on the fighters and ordinary people caught in the storm.
]]> 464 Dan Jones 0593653785 Tracey 0 14th-century, to-read 3.82 2022
author: Dan Jones
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 168494732 Columba's Bones is an utterly unique and thrilling read, exploring the clash of early Christianity and paganism, and expanding into a sharp, witty meditation on philosophy, redemption, shame, violence, love, transcendence and reality.

'Stupendously earthy, laugh out loud funny in places, visceral writing' - Sally Magnusson]]> 175 David Greig 1788855965 Tracey 0 to-read 4.17 2023
author: David Greig
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 150247395
Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities.

At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol. Din is an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory. His job is to observe and report, and act as his superior’s eyes and ears--quite literally, in this case, as among Ana’s quirks are her insistence on wearing a blindfold at all times, and her refusal to step outside the walls of her home.

Din is most perplexed by Ana’s ravenous appetite for information and her mind’s frenzied leaps—not to mention her cheerful disregard for propriety and the apparent joy she takes in scandalizing her young counterpart. Yet as the case unfolds and Ana makes one startling deduction after the next, he finds it hard to deny that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.

As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.

Featuring an unforgettable Holmes-and-Watson style pairing, a gloriously labyrinthine plot, and a haunting and wholly original fantasy world, The Tainted Cup brilliantly reinvents the classic mystery tale.]]> 410 Robert Jackson Bennett 1984820702 Tracey 0 to-read 4.28 2024
author: Robert Jackson Bennett
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 573373 Tales of the South Pacific, the Pulitzer Prize winner that brought him international acclaim. In this sequel collection, Michener once again evokes the magic of the extraordinary isles in the Pacific—from Fiji and Gaudalcanal to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea—through stories that burst with adventure, charm, and local color. For Michener’s many fans around the globe, Return to Paradise is a precious second look at a land of enchantment by one of the most gifted storytellers of the twentieth century.
��
Praise for Return to Paradise
��
“A brilliant book and a worthy successor to Tales of the South Pacific.����The Atlanta Constitution
��
“This is a book that should be read by everyone. . . . All who have seen the South Pacific will find on every page the odors of frangipani, copra, blood, and beer.����The New York Times
��
“There’s drama and pathos and adventure and humanity . . . and a very high degree of excellence. Michener can write.����Kirkus Reviews]]> 416 James A. Michener 0449206505 Tracey 0 to-read 3.76 1951
author: James A. Michener
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1951
rating: 0
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]]> 48132 My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many eccentric hangers-on to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.]]> 273 Gerald Durrell 0142004413 Tracey 4 classics 4.19 1956
author: Gerald Durrell
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1956
rating: 4
read at: 2014/09/30
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: classics
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]]> 34755608
In this book you will-
- Discover how a 10-year old brought shame on San Francisco
- Spend time in a city with no girls of any kind, not even animals
- Swim the Panama Canal
- Cross the Alps on an elephant
- Unearth a city frozen in time
- Jump into a lake like a human sacrifice
...and so much more!]]> 296 Richard Halliburton 064803562X Tracey 4 4.50 1937
author: Richard Halliburton
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.50
book published: 1937
rating: 4
read at: 2012/03/14
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 128091 Two couples,
One year that will change their lives.

Liz and Sean, both beautiful and popular, are madly in love and completely misunderstood by their parents. Their best friends, Maggie and Dennis, are shy and awkward, but willing to take the first tentative steps toward a romance of their own. Yet before either couple can enjoy true happiness, life conspires against them, threatening to destroy their friendships completely.]]> 163 Paul Zindel 0060757361 Tracey 3 3.64 1969
author: Paul Zindel
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.64
book published: 1969
rating: 3
read at: 2014/09/10
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 3024510 Vintage paperback 256 Lance Horner 0449139689 Tracey 3 3.73 1965
author: Lance Horner
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1965
rating: 3
read at: 2013/02/10
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 530075 335 Dee Brown 0803250258 Tracey 3 3.65 1958
author: Dee Brown
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1958
rating: 3
read at: 2013/07/16
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 25199790 256 F.W. Holiday Tracey 3 3.00 1973
author: F.W. Holiday
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1973
rating: 3
read at: 2014/10/28
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 1262657
Pietro di Donati, son of a 13th-century Sicilian peasant, who was born at almost the exact same moment as the Emperor Frederick. Their stories are linked and backdrop of the Children’s and Albigensian Crusades. Pietro slashed his way across across the teeming, violent world and carved out his destiny with the fury of a man possessed - by God or Satan, none knew which. He was a man of many enemies and many loves, a man born to battle who mocked at death, a man for whom no danger was too great if it brought him nearer the power he craved or the women he lusted for....]]> Frank Yerby 0899662161 Tracey 4 3.95 1952
author: Frank Yerby
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1952
rating: 4
read at: 2014/08/24
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 682020 188 Cheiro 8121604281 Tracey 3 3.83 1935
author: Cheiro
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1935
rating: 3
read at: 2013/11/01
date added: 2024/11/10
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]]> 2233407
It's clear that things are changing whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like it or not. And Sookie, Friend to the Pack and blood-bonded to Eric Northman, leader of the local vampire community is caught up in the changes.

In the ensuing battles, Sookie faces danger, death, and once more, betrayal by someone she loves. And when the fur has finished flying and the cold blood finished flowing, her world will be forever altered.]]> 368 Charlaine Harris 0441015891 Tracey 4 paranormal, romance, vampires 4.02 2008
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2008
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/09
date added: 2024/11/10
shelves: paranormal, romance, vampires
review:
hope we see more of the king!
]]> 170210 295 Charlaine Harris 0441013333 Tracey 4 4.01 2005
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/01
date added: 2024/11/03
shelves: paranormal, romance, vampires, mystery
review:
This one is a little darker than the other books. Seems like everyone is trying to kill poor Sookie.
]]> 16101090 You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return.

Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott, soldier and aristocrat, wakes up in a hospital bed in modern London. The Guild, an entity that controls time travel, showers him with life's advantages. But Nick yearns for home and for one brown-eyed girl, lost now down the centuries. Then the Guild asks him to break its own rule. It needs Nick to go back to 1815 to fight the Guild’s enemies and to find something called the Talisman.

In 1815, Julia Percy mourns the death of her beloved grandfather, an earl who could play with time. On his deathbed he whispers in her ear: “Pretend!�� Pretend what? When Nick returns home as if from the dead, older than he should be and battle scarred, Julia begins to suspect that her very life depends upon the secrets Grandfather never told her. Soon enough Julia and Nick are caught up in an adventure that stretches up and down the river of time. As their knowledge of the Guild and their feelings for each other grow, the fate of the future itself is hanging in the balance.]]> 452 Bee Ridgway 0525953868 Tracey 0 romance, time-travel, to-read 3.70 2013
author: Bee Ridgway
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/29
shelves: romance, time-travel, to-read
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]]> 55868456 Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.
]]> 525 Simon Jimenez 0593156595 Tracey 0 sci-fi-fantasy, to-read 4.17 2022
author: Simon Jimenez
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/24
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy, to-read
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]]> 60531406 #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?]]> 443 Brandon Sanderson Tracey 5 sci-fi-fantasy, nautical
My first Brandon Sanderson book, why did i wait so long :) ]]> 4.35 2023
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/10/06
date added: 2024/10/08
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy, nautical
review:
This is adorable i had a big smile the whole time i was reading it.

My first Brandon Sanderson book, why did i wait so long :)
]]> 140082 274 Charlaine Harris Tracey 4 4.03 2003
author: Charlaine Harris
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/21
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: funny, paranormal, romance, sci-fi-fantasy, vampires
review:
I forgot how much I enjoy these books
]]> 52534683
When kitchen witch Gwen Young discovers the spirit of King Arthur in the suit of armour that stands in her café only an hour after finding a dead body in the library, she knows it’s going to be a very strange day��

~

Gwen Young runs The Avalon Cafe in Glastonbury, England, and solves murders with a psychic Labradoodle called Merlin and a boyfriend who only materializes when she’s in trouble. Well, every girl needs a knight in shining armour! Join Gwen, Arthur, and the rest of their friends as they solve mysteries and murders, and fall in love along the way!

If you enjoy books by authors such as Amanda M. Lee, Adele Abbott, Annabel Chase, Kristin Painter, or Charlaine Harris, you might enjoy these cozy witch mysteries with a sprinkle of romance, by USA Today bestselling author Serenity Woods writing as Hermione Moon.

Contains British English spelling and usage. The Avalon Café stories are clean reads with no graphic violence, strong language, or sex.]]> 163 Hermione Moon Tracey 4 mystery, paranormal 4.30 2020
author: Hermione Moon
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/01
date added: 2024/09/13
shelves: mystery, paranormal
review:

]]> 58989360 Gemma ditches her high-flying job and returns to Oxford to follow her dream: opening a traditional English tearoom serving warm buttery scones with jam and clotted cream... Only problem is--murder is the first thing on the menu and Gemma is the key suspect! And the only people Gemma can turn to for help are four nosy old ladies from her local Cotswolds village - not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli. Who was the mysterious woman Gemma met on the flight back from Australia and why was she murdered? Now Gemma must find the killer, solve the mystery and clear her name if she's to have her cake--and serve it too.

This PREQUEL to the OXFORD TEAROOM MYSTERIES includes BONUS CHAPTERS FROM "A SCONE TO DIE FOR" (BOOK 1). It is slightly shorter than the rest of the series - which are all full length novels - and can be read as a standalone, before or after any other book in the series.

THE OXFORD TEAROOM MYSTERIES:
All-Butter ShortDead (Prequel)
A Scone to Die For (Book 1)
Tea with Milk and Murder (Book 2)
Two Down, Bun To Go (Book 3)
Till Death Do Us Tart (Book 4)]]> H.Y. Hanna Tracey 3 mystery 3.91 2016
author: H.Y. Hanna
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/06
date added: 2024/09/13
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> 50657995 When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in Gemma Rose’s quaint Oxfordshire tearoom, she suddenly finds herself apron-deep in a mystery involving long-buried secrets from Oxford’s past.

Armed with her insider knowledge of the University and with the help of four nosy old ladies from the village (not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli), Gemma sets out to solve the mystery—all while dealing with her matchmaking mother and the return of her old college love, Devlin O’Connor, now a dashing CID detective.

But with the body count rising and her business going bust, can Gemma find the killer before things turn to custard?
(**Traditional English scone recipe included)]]> 328 H.Y. Hanna Tracey 3 mystery 4.18 2016
author: H.Y. Hanna
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/12
date added: 2024/09/13
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> 61294937 Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend.

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.

But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will.

Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.]]> 483 Shannon Chakraborty Tracey 0 to-read 4.25 2023
author: Shannon Chakraborty
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60714999 Human or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always �� always �� guard your heart.

The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself.

But winning won’t be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.

Everything about Raihn is dangerous. He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father’s crown�� and her greatest competition. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.

But there’s no room for compassion in the Kejari. War for the House of Night brews, shattering everything that Oraya thought she knew about her home. And Raihn may understand her more than anyone �� but their blossoming attraction could be her downfall, in a kingdom where nothing is more deadly than love.

The Serpent and the Wings of Night is the first book in a new series of heart-wrenching romance, dark magic, and bloodthirsty intrigue, perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses.]]> 504 Carissa Broadbent Tracey 4 vampires 4.30 2022
author: Carissa Broadbent
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/18
date added: 2024/08/18
shelves: vampires
review:

]]> 59344312
Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.

Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.]]> 336 Colleen Hoover 153872474X Tracey 4 4.29 2018
author: Colleen Hoover
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/08/11
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]]> 2458559 Following their spoors, the ape-man came upon the lost Valley of the Sepulcher, where Knights Templar still fought to resume their Holy Crusade to free Jerusalem.
Soon Tarzan, true Lord of their ancient motherland, was armed with lance and shield, mixed into their jousting and ancient combat.
It was then that the slavers struck!]]> 0 Edgar Rice Burroughs 0345279859 Tracey 3 3.14 1928
author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.14
book published: 1928
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> 12983100 Angelfall, the survivors of the angel apocalypse begin to scrape back together what's left of the modern world.

When a group of people capture Penryn's sister Paige, thinking she's a monster, the situation ends in a massacre. Paige disappears. Humans are terrified. Mom is heartbroken.

Penryn drives through the streets of San Francisco looking for Paige. Why are the streets so empty? Where is everybody? Her search leads her into the heart of the angels' secret plans where she catches a glimpse of their motivations, and learns the horrifying extent to which the angels are willing to go.

Meanwhile, Raffe hunts for his wings. Without them, he can't rejoin the angels, can't take his rightful place as one of their leaders. When faced with recapturing his wings or helping Penryn survive, which will he choose?]]> 438 Susan Ee Tracey 5 angels, dystopia, young-adult 4.24 2013
author: Susan Ee
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2014/07/08
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: angels, dystopia, young-adult
review:
Loved this book almost as much as the first :)
]]> 1130964 467 Jan Guillou 0752846485 Tracey 4 12th-century 4.17
author: Jan Guillou
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.17
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2021/03/17
date added: 2024/08/06
shelves: 12th-century
review:
I am really enjoying The Crusades Trilogy this book has more action than the last one.
]]> 664773
Ovo je izuzetan završetak trilogije o stvaranju jedne nacije i ratniku koji je svojom ljubavlju uspeo da se izbori za kraljevstvo.]]> Jan Guillou Tracey 4 12th-century 4.12
author: Jan Guillou
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.12
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2021/10/18
date added: 2024/07/25
shelves: 12th-century
review:

]]> 5165804 205 Edgar Rice Burroughs 1438260814 Tracey 4 sci-fi-fantasy 3.89 1991
author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1991
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/07/25
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
review:

]]> 8548708
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer-and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.]]> 338 Kimberly Derting 0061985740 Tracey 4 3.86 2010
author: Kimberly Derting
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2011/11/22
date added: 2024/07/23
shelves: mystery, paranormal, young-adult
review:

]]> 847875 196 Ellis Peters 0445408553 Tracey 3 mystery, 12th-century 3.98 1988
author: Ellis Peters
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1988
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/07/18
shelves: mystery, 12th-century
review:

]]> 1951436 245 Ellery Queen 9997528824 Tracey 3 mystery 3.84 1949
author: Ellery Queen
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1949
rating: 3
read at: 2004/07/17
date added: 2024/07/17
shelves: mystery
review:

]]> 6668560
Here in the Wadi Zuran, sheltered by friendly Bedouins who did not ask questions about his identity, he felt safe for the first time since Cidi's warning, not a minute too soon, had plunged him into flight on the beautiful white mare Saffana. But he knew that the Caliph's men would search him out to the ends of the earth; the shadow of death rode with him, and his future was in the hands of Allah.

Thus begins this extraordinary tale of adventure, a drama of tense excitement that ranges across the vast Moslem world of the Middle Ages. For Abderahman, whose love for the shepherdess Alohra would have kept him in the Wadi Zuran forever, is forced to flee once more. Pursued relentlessly across the barren wastes of the Arabian desert, the young prince escapes to Egypt, only to find that the fame of his swift Syrian mare has preceded him. And so, on again, to the land of the Berbers, homeland of his new friend Tarrif, and finally, in a last desperate, hair-raising race across the Chott Djerid that left both horse and rider more dead than alive, to refuge with the fierce, war-loving Zenates. And it is there, among his mother's people, that Abderahman's destiny as prophesied by the gypsy Hisham comes clear: "I see water-- wide water -- and a land beyond the water. I see banners and swords, many swords, flashing as on a field of battle, and voices that cry "Hail to thee! Hail to thee! as for a leader of hosts!"

Rich in history and the colorful detail of life in the Middle East and Africa during the 8th dentury, The Prince of Omeya is a splendid romance.]]> 300 Anthony Fon Eisen Tracey 4 4.18 1964
author: Anthony Fon Eisen
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1964
rating: 4
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]]> 1528295 Faithful Wife of Slave of Passion?
Separated from her husband and all alone i the savage wilderness, Angelique learned to be strong enough to brave all the perils of frontier life. Then an intruder entered the forest; the dashing, roguish pirate who had set her heart aflame once before. Angelique soon found her new strength give way to the familiar weakness of passion. It seemed impossible to remain faithful to her distant husband in the face of such glorious temptation.

Have you met Angelique?
She's one of the most irresistible heroines in the history of fiction. Her stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a King. Angelique has loved, intrigued, hated and fought her way into the hearts of millions of readers all over the world. Once you've met Angelique, you won't want to miss any of the sensational Angelique novels:

#1 ANGELIQUE
#2 ANGELIQUE AND THE KING
#3 ANGELIQUE IN BARBARY
#4 ANGELIQUE IN REVOLT
#5 ANGELIQUE IN LOVE
#6 THE COUNTESS ANGELIQUE
#7 THE TEMPTATION OF ANGELIQUE]]> Anne Golon 0399107916 Tracey 4 historical-romance, romance 4.09 1966
author: Anne Golon
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1966
rating: 4
read at: 2002/07/17
date added: 2024/07/17
shelves: historical-romance, romance
review:

]]> 75061
Excerpt:
For a moment I literally staggered beneath the terror of the shock. Then I roused myself from my despair. I bade the native run and alarm the people at the kraals, telling them to come armed, and bring me guns and ammunition. He went like the wind, and I turned to follow the spoor. For a few yards it was plain enough--Stella had been dragged along.]]> 131 H. Rider Haggard 1587157101 Tracey 4 sci-fi-fantasy 3.69 1889
author: H. Rider Haggard
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1889
rating: 4
read at: 2002/02/23
date added: 2024/07/17
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
review:

]]> 50856 E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him:

"ARE YOU A COWARD? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English, with some French, proficient in all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential, willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger. You must apply in person, rue Dante, Nice, 2me étage, apt. D."

How could you not answer an ad like that, especially when it seemed to describe you perfectly? Well, except maybe for the "handsome" part, but that was in the eye of the beholder anyway. So he went to that apartment and was greeted by the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. She seemed to have many names, but agreed he could call her "Star." A pretty appropriate name, as it turned out, for the empress of twenty universes.

Robert A. Heinlein's one true fantasy novel, Glory Road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger in a Strange Land. Heinlein proves himself as adept with sword and sorcery as with rockets and slide rules and the result is exciting, satirical, fast-paced, funny and tremendously readable -- a favorite of all who have read it. Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail.
]]> 320 Robert A. Heinlein 0765312220 Tracey 3 sci-fi-fantasy 3.78 1963
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1963
rating: 3
read at: 2002/01/29
date added: 2024/07/17
shelves: sci-fi-fantasy
review:

]]> 33361549
Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together?

It's time to fuck with their minds.
It's time to finish it all.
It's time to paint it all red...

Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters.]]> 177 S.T. Abby Tracey 4 romance 4.56 2016
author: S.T. Abby
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/17
date added: 2024/07/17
shelves: romance
review:
the series had just the right amount of mayhem & sex
]]> 40916679
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?

Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.]]> 433 Holly Jackson 1405293187 Tracey 4 young-adult 4.30 2019
author: Holly Jackson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/08
date added: 2024/07/12
shelves: young-adult
review:
This was fun, nice little mystery
]]> 29780253
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents�� indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.]]> 289 Trevor Noah 0385689225 Tracey 4 4.48 2016
author: Trevor Noah
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/29
date added: 2024/07/12
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The audiobook was so good!! He sure went through a lot
]]> 95784
This book tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured it, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved many.]]> 290 Iris Chang 0140277447 Tracey 4 true-crime, world-war 4.23 1997
author: Iris Chang
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1997
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/25
date added: 2024/07/12
shelves: true-crime, world-war
review:
Great, interesting and very sad. Well worth the read
]]> 56269205 From holy cup comes holy light;
The faithful hand sets world aright.
And in the Seven Martyrs�� sight,
Mere man shall end this endless night.

It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.

Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains.

Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope:

The Holy Grail.

From author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga.]]> 739 Jay Kristoff 1250245281 Tracey 4 vampires 4.29 2021
author: Jay Kristoff
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/21
date added: 2024/05/21
shelves: vampires
review:

]]> 40496 How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics

Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.

Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, claimed to have been born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex. His famous first novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India, and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford. None But the Lonely Heart, his second novel, was published in 1943, and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore. As well as novels including Green, Green My Valley Now (1975) and I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982), Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays, Poison Pen and Noose

If you enjoyed How Green Was My Valley, you might like Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'Vivid, eloquent, poetical, glowing with an inner flame of emotion'
The Times Literary Supplement]]> 448 Richard Llewellyn Tracey 4 4.19 1939
author: Richard Llewellyn
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1939
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/12
date added: 2024/05/21
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It is a nice companion piece to the movie by John Ford.
]]> 20897517
Two years into the voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march with minimal supplies across the endless ice pack.

Enduring everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and labyrinths of ice, the crew battled madness and starvation as they struggled desperately to survive. With thrilling twists and turns, In The Kingdom of Ice is a tale of heroism and determination in the most brutal place on Earth.]]> 454 Hampton Sides 0385535376 Tracey 4 nautical 4.24 2014
author: Hampton Sides
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2020/10/04
date added: 2024/05/07
shelves: nautical
review:
You wouldn't get me on that voyage! Very interesting story and Hampton Sides did a great job.
]]> 33361546
But that's never happened to me...

I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.

But fuck this case. I don't even know what side I'm on anymore. I don't understand how this town can continue to function without breaking under the weight of all the lies they've spun and lived.

Every time I find a shard of truth, my gut twists, my heart beats faster, and I hate this place a little more. Every time I think I've heard the worst, another truth is dug up from the ashes of more burning lies.

Worst of all, I don't even know who to trust anymore. My head is all messed up.

I pride myself on being impossible to fool.
I'm an expert at knowing when someone is lying to me.
I never believed in being blinded by love...until Lana.

**BE WARNED: Some flashbacks can get intense to readers with a sensitive trigger. Skip the blocks in italics if that's the case.]]> 141 S.T. Abby Tracey 4 4.52 2016
author: S.T. Abby
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/17
date added: 2024/04/28
shelves:
review:
Have been enjoying this series a LOT
]]> 60784306 Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring water back to his city and save his mother’s life. Prepare to enter the Forever Desert.

A Library Journal Best Book of the Month!

They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of Lies. But would you believe what they say in the City of Lies?

In the City of Lies, they cut out your tongue when you turn thirteen, to appease the terrifying Ajungo Empire and make sure it continues sending water. Tutu will be thirteen in three days, but his parched mother won’t last that long. So Tutu goes to his oba and makes a deal: she provides water for his mother, and in exchange he will travel out into the desert and bring back water for the city. Thus begins Tutu’s quest for the salvation of his mother, his city, and himself.

The Lies of the Ajungo opens the curtains on a tremendous world, and begins the epic fable of the Forever Desert. With every word, Moses Ose Utomi weaves magic.]]> 87 Moses Ose Utomi 1250849063 Tracey 0 to-read 4.20 2023
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> 998880 Alternate cover edition of Angels & Demons

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and deserted cathedrals, and into the depths of the most secretive vault on earth...the long-forgotten Illuminati lair.]]> 496 Dan Brown Tracey 5 mystery 4.00 2000
author: Dan Brown
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> 140303 420 Agatha Christie 0425200469 Tracey 4 mystery 3.93 1937
author: Agatha Christie
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1937
rating: 4
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]]> 206173 22 Edgar Allan Poe 1860920195 Tracey 3 horror 3.94 1842
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1842
rating: 3
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]]> 54804 Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians but also the deadly whims of soldiers. On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life.]]> 464 Larry McMurtry 0684857545 Tracey 4 4.00 1995
author: Larry McMurtry
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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Gus's lines are not as full of wit and laugh out loud moments as Lonesome Dove
]]> 50039 320 Pamela Des Barres 1556525893 Tracey 0 to-read 3.71 1987
author: Pamela Des Barres
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1987
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]]> 256008 Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.

Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.]]> 960 Larry McMurtry 067168390X Tracey 5 favorites 4.53 1985
author: Larry McMurtry
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1985
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/03/16
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omg i LOVE this book, they are family!
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They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.

Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?

They're going to need to ask it a lot.]]> 152 Becky Chambers Tracey 5 What a beautiful story ❤️ 4.40 2022
author: Becky Chambers
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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What a beautiful story ❤️
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