Kathi's bookshelf: read en-US Mon, 05 May 2025 11:23:36 -0700 60 Kathi's bookshelf: read 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Wuthering Heights 32929156 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edition of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before; of the intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past.]]> 359 Emily Brontë 0141439556 Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 4.04 1847 Wuthering Heights
author: Emily Brontë
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1847
rating: 0
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Listened with Michael Ian Black on his podcast Obscure.
]]> Frankenstein 18490 This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780141439471

'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.

Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.]]> 288 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Kathi 3 audiobook, podcast 3.77 1818 Frankenstein
author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1818
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/05/05
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:
Listened with Michael Ian Black on his podcast Obscure.
]]> Jude the Obscure 50798 310 Thomas Hardy 0486452433 Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 3.82 1895 Jude the Obscure
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1895
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/05/05
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review:
Listened with Michael Ian Black on his podcast Obscure.
]]> Emma 6969 The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here.

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.]]> 474 Jane Austen 0141439580 Kathi 4 4.05 1815 Emma
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1815
rating: 4
read at: 2010/02/25
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: craftlit, currently-reading, audiobook, currently-listening, purchased
review:
Reading again for my Jane Austen at 250 challenge.
]]> Mansfield Park 8303608 15 Jane Austen Kathi 3
I like her better now and can appreciate her story. But she had no character arc. She started perfect and ended perfect. The people around her changed. Some learned to do better and some self destructed but none were left unaffected by her example.

Read as part of my Jane Austen at 250 challenge. I listened to the audiobook on Librivox, downloaded the free Kindle version and purchased the Penguin Classics paperback.]]> 3.63 1814 Mansfield Park
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1814
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/21
date added: 2025/04/21
shelves: ebook, kindle, audiobook, librivox, purchased
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I was about halfway through the novel when I realized I was tuning out because I did not like Fanny Price. She was too meek and too pious. Edmund was also not an exciting lead character. And since the two of them were surrounded by pompous, entitled and sometimes rude family members I wondered where on earth they learned morals and manners? So I took a step back and searched for reviews with a positive take on the characters and the story and found a new appreciation. Fanny and Edmund are naturally quiet, introspective, perceptive. Not flashy or expressive. They are both keenly aware of their place in life and have each made peace with the limitations of their situations. Fanny's position at Mansfield Park is so precarious. She makes so many little sacrifices every day but if she didn't she could get thrown out on a whim. And yet, she does have morals and character and she finds her backbone when pressed to do something she feels is not right.

I like her better now and can appreciate her story. But she had no character arc. She started perfect and ended perfect. The people around her changed. Some learned to do better and some self destructed but none were left unaffected by her example.

Read as part of my Jane Austen at 250 challenge. I listened to the audiobook on Librivox, downloaded the free Kindle version and purchased the Penguin Classics paperback.
]]> Cranford 182381
Cranford depicts the lives and preoccupations of the inhabitants of a small village - their petty snobberies, appetite for gossip, and loyal support for each other in times of need This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty, But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster, imagined burglaries, tragic accidents, and the reapparance of long-lost relatives. to Lady Glenmire, who shocks everyone by marrying the doctor. When men do appear, such as 'modern' Captain Brown or Matty's suitor from the past, they bring disruption and excitement to the everyday life of Cranford.

In her introduction, Patricia Ingham places the novel in its literary and historical context, and discusses the theme of female friendship and Gaskell's narrative technique. This edition also contains an account of Gaskell's childhood in Knutsford, on which Cranford is based, appendices on fashion and domestic duties supplemented by illustrations, a chronology of Gaskell's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and explanatory notes.]]> 257 Elizabeth Gaskell 0141439882 Kathi 0 3.85 1853 Cranford
author: Elizabeth Gaskell
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1853
rating: 0
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]]> Letters from Father Christmas 123279502 208 J.R.R. Tolkien 0063340534 Kathi 0 to-read 4.48 1976 Letters from Father Christmas
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.48
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> DICKENS AT CHRISTMAS 220445125 A selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful hardback edition

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and these pages certainly hold all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuffing, miracles, magic, charity, and goodwill. This elegant collection gathers together not only Dickens' Christmas Books but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals All the Year Round and Household Words, and the hilarious festive episodes from The Pickwick Papers. A must-have for Christmas, this book is as necessary to seasonal festivities as holly, mistletoe, and silver bells.]]> 154 Charles Dickens Kathi 0 to-read 0.0 2012 DICKENS AT CHRISTMAS
author: Charles Dickens
name: Kathi
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mysterious Affair at Styles]]> 204716745
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is Agatha Christie’s first detective novel (a cozy mystery―no violence or gore), and where she introduces her fictional detective Hercule Poirot. The story, set in England during World War I, is a true who-done-it full of mysterious characters and teasing clues. Monson’s retelling of the original book captures the plot and distills it in a way that is fun for children, gently ushering them into the literary world of Christie’s mysteries. Along with the story, there are activities, games, and puzzles throughout to help with children’s engagement, and might just foster a few budding detectives.

There is also a glossary of terms and French words.]]> 32 Marci Kay Monson 1423667565 Kathi 0 to-read 4.27 The Mysterious Affair at Styles
author: Marci Kay Monson
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.27
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]]> <![CDATA[Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: Classic 18th century Historical fiction mark twain joan of arc novel.]]> 62912375 To Arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Judged by the standards of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier one lose much of their luster; judged by the standards of to-day, there is probably no illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose character could meet the test at all points. But the character of Joan of Arc is unique. It can be measured by the standards of all times without misgiving or apprehension as to the result. Judged by any of them, judged by all of them, it is still flawless, it is still ideally perfect; it still occupies the loftiest place possible to human attainment, a loftier one than has been reached by any other mere mortal.
When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. The contrast between her and her century is the contrast between day and night.

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.]]> 219 Mark Twain Kathi 2 audiobook, craftlit 2.00 2013 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc: Classic 18th century Historical fiction mark twain joan of arc novel.
author: Mark Twain
name: Kathi
average rating: 2.00
book published: 2013
rating: 2
read at: 2022/10/09
date added: 2025/04/13
shelves: audiobook, craftlit
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]]> <![CDATA[Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School #1)]]> 53419956 158 Louis Sachar Kathi 0 purchased We both enjoyed reading it.]]> 4.03 1978 Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School #1)
author: Louis Sachar
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1978
rating: 0
read at: 2025/04/05
date added: 2025/04/05
shelves: purchased
review:
l bought this book for my grandson because he liked the movie Holes. This book is fun and playful.
We both enjoyed reading it.
]]> <![CDATA[Death Comes for the Archbishop]]> 545951 297 Willa Cather 0679728899 Kathi 0 to-read 3.93 1927 Death Comes for the Archbishop
author: Willa Cather
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.93
book published: 1927
rating: 0
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]]> The Odyssey 210864316 560 Homer 022660442X Kathi 0 to-read 4.32 -800 The Odyssey
author: Homer
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.32
book published: -800
rating: 0
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]]> The Bug Bandits 216052804 When a science-loving girl and her friends overhear a plot to rob her father’s insectarium, they embark on a mission to stop the burglary of the museum’s rarest insects. Inspired by true events.

Without a mom and with her dad busy running the museum, Liberty Jacobs was practically raised by the tarantulas, leopard geckos, and rare butterflies of the Walnut Street Insectarium. She loves being the resident “Bug Girl,� but unless Liberty and her dad can snag a big investor, they’ll lose the museum, their home, and the funding Liberty needs to launch her dream a butterfly release program called Life & Liberty.

The investor meeting is a week away, but there’s a big Liberty has reason to suspect there’s going to be a "buglary" of the museum’s rarest animals. But the police don’t believe her, and with Dad out of town for an insect convention, it’s up to Liberty and her friends (and her vast knowledge of bug defense mechanisms) to thwart the thieves and save the museum.]]> 224 Jenni L. Walsh 0310167922 Kathi 0 to-read 4.39 The Bug Bandits
author: Jenni L. Walsh
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.39
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 42179807 Jane Austen Kathi 5 As entertaining as ever. 5.00 1813 Pride and Prejudice
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1813
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/26
date added: 2025/03/26
shelves: audiobook, craftlit, podcast, librivox
review:
As entertaining as ever.
]]> <![CDATA[David Balfour (David Balfour, #2)]]> 94968
For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman.]]> 356 Robert Louis Stevenson 0684197367 Kathi 0 3.68 1893 David Balfour (David Balfour, #2)
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.68
book published: 1893
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/14
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]]> Sense and Sensibility 13424051 Unfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances.

Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet radiance and open nature charm the roguish John Willoughby, is soon deeply in love. Elinor, whose disposition is more cautious and considered, who carefully conceals her emotions, is suffering the loss of Edward Ferrars whom she has left behind.

Despite their very different personalities, both sisters experience great sorrows in their affairs of the heart: Marianne demonstrably wretched and Elinor allowing no one to see her private heartache. It is, however, the qualities common to them both - discernment, constancy and integrity in the face of the fecklessness of others - that allow them entry into a new life of peace and contentment.
]]> Jane Austen Kathi 5 3.91 1811 Sense and Sensibility
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1811
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/14
date added: 2025/03/14
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]]> The Maltese Falcon 29999 213 Dashiell Hammett Kathi 2 audiobook, podcast 3.89 1930 The Maltese Falcon
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1930
rating: 2
read at: 2025/03/14
date added: 2025/03/14
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:
Not a fan of Dashiell Hammett based on this book. The characters are fully drawn. I just don't like any of them.
]]> An American Tragedy 331319
Based on an actual criminal case, 'An American Tragedy' was the inspiration for the film 'A Place in the Sun', which won six Academy Awards and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.]]> 859 Theodore Dreiser 0451527704 Kathi 0 3.96 1925 An American Tragedy
author: Theodore Dreiser
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1925
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/02/24
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]]> The Black Arrow 296264 From the beloved author of Treasure Island

Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure fiction, The Black Arrow is a swashbuckling portrait of a young man's journey to discover the heroism within himself. Young Dick Shelton, caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, finds his loyalties torn between the guardian who will ultimately betray him and the leader of a secret fellowship, The Black Arrow. As Shelton is drawn deeper into this conspiracy, he must distinguish friend from foe and confront war, shipwreck, revenge, murder, and forbidden love, as England's crown threatens to topple around him.

]]> 242 Robert Louis Stevenson 0543896609 Kathi 4 audiobook, librivox 3.83 1883 The Black Arrow
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.83
book published: 1883
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/26
shelves: audiobook, librivox
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]]> Wool - Holston (Wool, #1) 12287209
Or you'll get what you wish for.]]> 56 Hugh Howey Kathi 0 to-read 4.14 2012 Wool - Holston (Wool, #1)
author: Hugh Howey
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Charles Dickens: The Christmas Books]]> 55928749
The Christmas Books:
- A Christmas Carol
- The Chimes
- The Cricket on the Hearth
- The Battle of Life
- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

The Christmas Stories:
- A Christmas Tree
- What Christmas is as we Grow Older
- The Poor Relation's Story
- The Child's Story
- The Schoolboy's Story
- Nobody's Story
- The Seven Poor Travellers
- The Holly-Tree
- Wreck of the Golden Mary
- The Perils of Certain English Prisoners
- Going into Society
- A Message From the Sea
- Tom Tiddler's Ground
- Somebody's Luggage
- Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
- Doctor Marigold
- Mugby Junction
- No Thoroughfare]]> 852 Charles Dickens 9895621345 Kathi 3 audiobook, librivox 4.06 Charles Dickens: The Christmas Books
author: Charles Dickens
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.06
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2025/01/07
date added: 2025/01/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)]]> 35384793
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.

Shadow and Bone is the first installment in Leigh Bardugo's Grisha Trilogy.]]> 358 Leigh Bardugo 1250027438 Kathi 0 to-read 3.91 2012 Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/03
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]]> <![CDATA[A Wallflower Christmas (Wallflowers, #4.5)]]> 8528602 A scandalous love under the mistletoe.

It’s Christmas time in London and Rafe Bowman has arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie Blandford, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. His chiseled good looks and imposing physique are sure to impress the lady-in-waiting, and if it weren’t for his shocking American ways and wild reputation, her hand would already be guaranteed.

Before the courtship can begin, Rafe realizes he must learn the rules of London society. But when four former Wallfowers try their hand at matchmaking, no one knows what will happen. And winning a bride turns out to be more complicated than Rafe Bowman anticipated, especially for a man accustomed to getting anything he wants. However, Christmas works in the most unexpected ways, changing a cynic to a romantic and inspiring passion in the most timid of hearts.]]> 205 Lisa Kleypas 0312360738 Kathi 3 3.96 2008 A Wallflower Christmas (Wallflowers, #4.5)
author: Lisa Kleypas
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2010/12/03
date added: 2024/12/12
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A slim story, in many ways. Rafe and Hannah deserved a longer, more detailed tale. I guess I'm only dissatisfied because Lisa Kleypas is such a great writer.
]]> Hell Bent (Ninth House, #2) 211003762 Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.

Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex� Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.

Forbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies� most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls.

Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters.]]> 557 Leigh Bardugo 1250378060 Kathi 0 to-read 4.15 2023 Hell Bent (Ninth House, #2)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Blood of Elves: Booktrack Edition]]> 199776297 Andrzej Sapkowski’s New York Times bestselling Witcher series has inspired the hit Netflix show and multiple blockbuster video games, and has transported millions of fans around the globe to an epic, unforgettable world of magic and adventure. Now, for the first time, enjoy the full series in stunning new hardcover editions, featuring cover art by 8 different award-winning artists!

For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But that peace has now come to an end.

Geralt of Rivia, the hunter known as the Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. The one who has the power to change the world for good—or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is pursued for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt’s responsibility to protect them all. And the Witcher never accepts defeat.

Join Geralt of Rivia; his beloved ward and the child of prophecy, Ciri; and his ally and love, the powerful sorceress Yennefer as they battle monsters, demons, and prejudices alike in Blood of Elves, the first novel of The Witcher Saga.


Witcher story collections
The Last Wish
Sword of Destiny

Witcher novels
Blood of Elves
The Time of Contempt
Baptism of Fire
The Tower of Swallows
Lady of the Lake
Season of Storms (stand alone)

Hussite Trilogy
The Tower of Fools
Warriors of God
Light Perpetual

Translated from original Polish by Danusia Stok]]> Andrzej Sapkowski Kathi 0 3.50 1994 Blood of Elves: Booktrack Edition
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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Purchased from Google Books 09/22/24 $14.95 (points)
]]> <![CDATA[Carmilla - MP3 CD Audiobook in CD jacket]]> 141440073 0 J. Sheridan Le Fanu Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 0.0 1872 Carmilla - MP3 CD Audiobook in CD jacket
author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
name: Kathi
average rating: 0.0
book published: 1872
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/04
date added: 2024/12/04
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:
BJ Harrison narrates Carmilla as part of his The Classic Tales Podcast.
]]> Holiday Hideaway 219754771 From New York Times bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews comes a charming holiday romance about a newly single thirtysomething whose unauthorized vacation rental turns into a hilarious game of hide-and-seek when the new owner unexpectedly shows up.

Tilly Farriday isn’t feeling very jolly this season. Recently divorced and broke, she’s squatting in one of her rental agency’s properties until her new home is ready. The sprinkles on top of the burnt Christmas cookie that is her life? The new owner shows up early, forcing Tilly to hide in the attic to save her job…and what remains of her dignity.

George Holloway is here to sell his granduncle’s house—and to reconsider whether he and his fiancée are right for each other. Amid home repairs, George notices strange noises and missing food, but as much as he gets his rental agent on the phone, Tilly dodges every invitation to meet. He’s sure that someone’s here with him, and it’s certainly not the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, or Future.

As Tilly and George circle each other, they both wonder where their lives are headed and if, maybe, meeting each other is just the Christmas miracle they need.]]> 72 Mary Kay Andrews 1662527004 Kathi 0 3.62 2024 Holiday Hideaway
author: Mary Kay Andrews
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2024/12/03
date added: 2024/12/03
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]]> All You Zombies 13030110 13 Robert A. Heinlein Kathi 5 ebook 4.07 1959 All You Zombies
author: Robert A. Heinlein
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1959
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/11/18
shelves: ebook
review:
Ahead of it's time. Time travel story that is convoluted but not sloppy. Some wit and some proto-feminist leanings. Adapted into a move called Predestination starring Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook. Loved it
]]> Lady Audley's Secret 588747 Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, sharing the honour only with Wilkie Collins. Addictive, cunningly plotted and certainly sensational, Lady Audley's Secret draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe mid-Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture. What is the mystery surrounding the charming heroine? Lady Audley's secret is investigated by Robert Audley, aristocrat turned detective, in a novel that has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain.]]> 455 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 0192835203 Kathi 3 audiobook, google, purchased 3.78 1862 Lady Audley's Secret
author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1862
rating: 3
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Well written and engaging but I did not like the way it ended. George Tallboys has no right to a happy ending. Lucy paid too high a price for her sins. Maybe. Still not sure about her
]]> <![CDATA[Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)]]> 41161349
Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' pain.

Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith...and a startling vision of human destiny.

This highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from award-winning author Octavia E. Butler “pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale� (John Green, New York Times)—now with a new foreword by N. K. Jemisin.]]> 329 Octavia E. Butler 1538732181 Kathi 0 to-read 4.17 1993 Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
author: Octavia E. Butler
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/14
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]]> Psychology 25869250 Short story. Katherine Mansfield Kathi 3 audiobook, podcast 3.28 Psychology
author: Katherine Mansfield
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.28
book published:
rating: 3
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Listened to BJ Harrison on his Classic Tales Podcast
]]> <![CDATA[Journey to the Center of the Earth]]> 17252679 Jules Verne Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 3.19 1864 Journey to the Center of the Earth
author: Jules Verne
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.19
book published: 1864
rating: 0
read at: 2024/11/04
date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: audiobook, podcast
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]]> <![CDATA[Emma (Arcturus Paperback Classics)]]> 6801546 here.

Jane Austen wrote some of the most remarkable romantic novels in English, and Emma is said to be written at the height of her powers. Like all her novels (Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility), the narrative is simple, straightforward and the story develops through seemingly commonplace conversations and events. Emma is twenty one year old daughter to rich Mr Woodhouse, "full of trivial communications and harmless gossip." The story captures how Emma comes to terms with her own errors of judgement, and how she discovers her liking and love for one of the chief characters of the novel.]]> 412 Jane Austen 1848373120 Kathi 5 craftlit, podcast, purchased 3.95 1815 Emma (Arcturus Paperback Classics)
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1815
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/04
date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: craftlit, podcast, purchased
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]]> <![CDATA[Remember When: Clarissa's Story (Ravenswood, #4)]]> 211025422 Discover the beauty of second chances at love and life in this heartfelt new novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.

The Dowager Countess of Stratton, Clarissa Ware, née Greenfield, has just presented her younger daughter to the ton, and the rest of her life belongs only to herself. She returns to Ravenswood, intending to spend the summer alone there. But the summer has other plans for her.

Born a gentleman, Matthew Taylor has chosen to spend his life as the village carpenter. Growing up, he and Clarissa were close—dangerously so, considering his family’s modest fortune. As a young man, he never would have been a suitable match for the daughter of the wealthy Greenfields. Clarissa married Caleb Ware, the Earl of Stratton, so Matthew married another, though he was widowed soon after.

Now everything is different—Clarissa has already lived the life expected of her by society. And Matthew is as attractive and intriguing as he was when they were young. As their summer friendship deepens into romance, they stand together on the precipice of change—essentially the same man and woman they remember being back then, but with renewed passion and the potential to take their lives in an entirely new direction.]]> 368 Mary Balogh 0593638417 Kathi 0 to-read 3.74 2025 Remember When: Clarissa's Story (Ravenswood, #4)
author: Mary Balogh
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/02
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]]> <![CDATA[Always Remember (Ravenswood, #3)]]> 213815424
Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society—even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking—and dancing.

When Ben Ellis comes across Lady Jennifer as she struggles to walk with the aid of primitive crutches, he instantly understands her yearning. He is a fixer. It is often said of him that he never saw a practical problem he did not have to solve. He wants to help her discover independence and motion—driving a carriage, swimming, even walking a different way. But he must be careful. He is the bastard son of the late Earl of Stratton. Though he was raised with the earl’s family, he knows he does not really belong in the world of the ton.

Jennifer is shocked—and intrigued—by Ben’s ideas, and both families are alarmed by the growing friendship and perhaps more that they sense developing between the two. A duke’s sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way.]]> 400 Mary Balogh 0593638409 Kathi 0 to-read 3.93 2024 Always Remember (Ravenswood, #3)
author: Mary Balogh
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/11/01
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]]> The Doctor's Wife 80606 The Doctor's Wife was first published in 1864, Mary Elizabeth Braddon was well known for her scandalous bestseller, Lady Audley's Secret. Adultery, death, and the spectacle of female recrimination and suffering are the elements that combine to make The Doctor's Wife a classic women's 'sensation' novel. Yet it is also Braddon's most self-consciously literary work and her rewriting of Madame Bovary. Like Emma Bovary, Braddon's heroine, Isabel Gilbert, is trapped in a marriage to a man incapable of understanding her imaginative life. But Braddon's novel differs vastly from Flaubert's in the nature and consequences of Isabel's 'affair'.]]> 464 Mary Elizabeth Braddon 0192833014 Kathi 4 audiobook, librivox 3.78 1864 The Doctor's Wife
author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1864
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/21
date added: 2024/10/21
shelves: audiobook, librivox
review:
There were times throughout the novel that I liked the main characters and times when I lost all patience with them. ME Braddon always treated each one with care and empathy. Isabel has become a dear friend.
]]> My Christmas Wish 7278305
Tara Walsh has come a long way from paying her dues in a smoky New Orleans club. Her albums sell millions, her tours sell out and she has a hit DVD. Her name is known around the world. Now she s back home for a holiday charity concert and to say a proper goodbye to the past. A past named Duncan Rousse.

Five years ago, Duncan pushed Tara away for one reason: to force her to reach for the stars. She deserves the life she s earned, even though it left him with a broken heart that s never healed. Having her back in his arms only makes the pain worse, yet the last thing he can do is beg her to stay.

One wild, passion-filled night in the sexy Cajun s bed has Tara s body singing with pleasure. But can they both get what they want this Christmas?"]]> 58 Ember Case 1605048399 Kathi 2 ebook, kindle 3.01 2009 My Christmas Wish
author: Ember Case
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.01
book published: 2009
rating: 2
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date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: ebook, kindle
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]]> <![CDATA[Moonstone (Unbidden Magic, #1)]]> 20653900 238 Marilee Brothers 1935661280 Kathi 3 kobo, ebook 3.34 2008 Moonstone (Unbidden Magic, #1)
author: Marilee Brothers
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2012/01/10
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: kobo, ebook
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Behind a Mask: or, A Woman’s Power]]> 31280693 221 A.M. Barnard 1633849880 Kathi 0 to-read 4.00 1866 Behind a Mask: or, A Woman’s Power
author: A.M. Barnard
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1866
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/27
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]]> A Shiver at Twilight 21681706

Only the appearance of JD Dover helps her fight off the ghosts that lurk in every corner. Sexy, capable and undaunted, JD is more than happy to be Carly's knight in shining armor. Despite the creaking walls and eerie footsteps, despite the inexplicable ghostly happenings, Carly and JD can’t fight the attraction that consumes them and the passion that burns in their blood.


Their coming together feels fated, but is it destiny or something more sinister that has drawn them to this haunted house? As they explore the attraction flaring between them, they fight to stay alive—but neither can guess the identity of the enemy they face or the lengths to which that enemy will go to cover up its sins.


Erin Quinn books published by Books We Love include Echoes, Whispers and Web of Smoke]]> 73 Erin Quinn Kathi 0 to-read, kindle, ebook
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Free e-book from author]]> 3.59 2011 A Shiver at Twilight
author: Erin Quinn
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/27
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review:
Free e-book from author

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Free e-book from author
]]> <![CDATA[Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride]]> 6546168
Julian Trentham, Viscount Braybrook, urgently needs to hire a governess and companion, and Christy is conveniently available. Headstrong, with charmingly mismatched eyes and soft tawny hair, Christy is unlike any woman he has ever encountered. But there is something so deliciously endearing about her that Julian quickly forgets how scandalous it would be to give in to the mounting attraction for his penniless governess�.

]]> 288 Elizabeth Rolls 1426834608 Kathi 5 ebook 3.86 2008 Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride
author: Elizabeth Rolls
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2010/08/29
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: ebook
review:
After I read the first two chapters I realized that I've read this book before. I'd just not recorded that on Ĺ·±¦ÓéŔÖ. Couldn't put it down though so I read it through again. Just as good the second time.
]]> <![CDATA[A Duke of Her Own (Desperate Duchesses, #6)]]> 8126314
Leopold Dautry, the notorious Duke of Villiers, must wed quickly and nobly—and his choices, alas, are few. The Duke of Montague's daughter, Eleanor, is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent. Villiers betroths himself to her without further ado.

After all, no other woman really qualifies. Lisette, the outspoken daughter of the Duke of Gilner, cares nothing for clothing or decorum. She's engaged to another man, and doesn't give a fig for status or title. Half the ton believes Lisette mad—and Villiers is inclined to agree.

Torn between logic and passion, between intelligence and imagination, Villiers finds himself drawn to the very edge of impropriety. But it is not until he's in a duel to the death, fighting for the reputation of the woman he loves, that Villiers finally realizes that the greatest risk may not be in the dueling field . . .

But in the bedroom. And the heart.]]> 404 Eloisa James 0061976040 Kathi 5 ebook, kobo 4.29 2009 A Duke of Her Own (Desperate Duchesses, #6)
author: Eloisa James
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2009
rating: 5
read at: 2011/06/19
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: ebook, kobo
review:
Plot and storyline a tad melodramatic but Leopold and Eleanor were a pleasure to read about. I would like to be friends with them.
]]> A Little Light Magic 8341356 338 Joy Nash 1428506799 Kathi 3 ebook, kobo 3.71 2009 A Little Light Magic
author: Joy Nash
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2011/05/12
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: ebook, kobo
review:
A few forced plot lines but overall a satisfying read. Tori is delightfully new age but surprisingly level-headed. Nick is the down to earth dependable type but with a tender heart. Secondary characters were also interesting.
]]> The Unruly Chaperone 8746046 365 Elizabeth Rolls 1426844123 Kathi 0 to-read, ebook 3.94 2003 The Unruly Chaperone
author: Elizabeth Rolls
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/23
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]]> Divine Fire (Divine #1) 9627371 In 1816, Lord Byron stayed at the castle of Dr. Johann Dippel, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Baron von Frankenstein. Trapped there by a lightning storm, he was approached by the doctor and promised a cure for his epilepsy. That "cure" changed him forever.

And is he "mad, bad, and dangerous to know?"
In the 21st century, Brice Ashton wrote a book. Like all biographies of famous persons, hers on Lord Byron was sent to critics in advance. One Damien Ruthven responded. He contacted Brice from New York, suggesting her work contained two errors--and that only he could give her the truth. His words held hints of long-lost knowledge; were fraught with danger, deception...and desire. And his eyes, those windows to the soul, showed the experience of centuries. Damien promised to share his secrets. But first, Brice knew, she would have to share herself with him.]]> 250 Melanie Jackson 1428508716 Kathi 4 ebook 3.67 2004 Divine Fire (Divine #1)
author: Melanie Jackson
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2010/09/26
date added: 2024/09/23
shelves: ebook
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Sergeant's Lady (The Arringtons and Wright-Gordons, #2)]]> 8631671 400 Susanna Fraser 1426890508 Kathi 3 ebook, kobo The backdrop of the Peninsular War and the setting in Spain add color and a sense of real danger. The secondary characters, Dan and Juanna , Lucy and James and the rest are solid enough to give the story depth but not so detailed as to be distracting.

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For a first novel The Sergeant's Lady is quite rich in character and plot. Our hero, Will, is an 1800's version of a fourteenth century knight. He was raised to respect and honor women and feels obligated to step in when a woman is threatened. Which causes problems when the threatener is not only above him in rank but also married to the woman in question. Anna, for her part, can appreciate Will's chivalry but has learned the hard way to protect herself.
The backdrop of the Peninsular War and the setting in Spain add color and a sense of real danger. The secondary characters, Dan and Juanna , Lucy and James and the rest are solid enough to give the story depth but not so detailed as to be distracting.]]> 3.92 2010 The Sergeant's Lady (The Arringtons and Wright-Gordons, #2)
author: Susanna Fraser
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2010/10/22
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: ebook, kobo
review:
For a first novel The Sergeant's Lady is quite rich in character and plot. Our hero, Will, is an 1800's version of a fourteenth century knight. He was raised to respect and honor women and feels obligated to step in when a woman is threatened. Which causes problems when the threatener is not only above him in rank but also married to the woman in question. Anna, for her part, can appreciate Will's chivalry but has learned the hard way to protect herself.
The backdrop of the Peninsular War and the setting in Spain add color and a sense of real danger. The secondary characters, Dan and Juanna , Lucy and James and the rest are solid enough to give the story depth but not so detailed as to be distracting.

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For a first novel The Sergeant's Lady is quite rich in character and plot. Our hero, Will, is an 1800's version of a fourteenth century knight. He was raised to respect and honor women and feels obligated to step in when a woman is threatened. Which causes problems when the threatener is not only above him in rank but also married to the woman in question. Anna, for her part, can appreciate Will's chivalry but has learned the hard way to protect herself.
The backdrop of the Peninsular War and the setting in Spain add color and a sense of real danger. The secondary characters, Dan and Juanna , Lucy and James and the rest are solid enough to give the story depth but not so detailed as to be distracting.
]]> <![CDATA[Now a Bride (Mistress Trilogy, #2.5)]]> 11390588 The Secret Mistress, here are never-before-published scenes from More than a Mistress and No Man’s Mistress -- plus Mary Balogh’s new epilogue for the series.

JOCELYN AND JANE: Three new scenes—“The Proposal,� “The Wedding,� and “Return to Acton Park”—spark more fiery passion from charmingly arrogant Jocelyn and spirited Jane.

FERDINAND AND VIOLA: Two unpublished scenes—“The Wedding� and “Home to Pinewood Manor”—prove once again that this unlikely but perfect couple is made for each other.

THE REUNION: FIVE YEARS LATER:Enjoy a brand-new chapter that reunites readers with all three Dudley couples and their children and answers every fan’s biggest question: What happened after the last page was turned?

The enchanting prequel to the Mistress series! Readers got to know madcap Angeline and straitlaced Edward through the romantic adventures of the Dudley brothers. But Angeline and Edward have their own story of passion to tell in The Secret Mistress.]]> 60 Mary Balogh 0440423694 Kathi 0 to-read, ebook, kobo 3.60 2011 Now a Bride (Mistress Trilogy, #2.5)
author: Mary Balogh
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/17
shelves: to-read, ebook, kobo
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]]> <![CDATA[SEALed with a Kiss (SEALed #1)]]> 6575679
Jax Graham is a member of an elite military team, but when it comes to taking care of his four-year-old son after his ex-wife dies, he's completely clueless.

One person can help him, if he'll let her...

Family therapist Pickett Sessoms knows just how to help a rough, tough Navy SEAL deal with a scared and lonely little boy, but not if he insists on going it alone.

When Jax and his young son Tyler get trapped by a hurricane, Pickett takes them in against her better judgment. Jax figures Pickett's high maintenance, just like all the women he knows, and she figures he's not commitment material. But when an outing turns deadly, Pickett discovers what it means to be a SEAL, and Jax discovers that even a hero needs help sometimes...]]> 435 Mary-Margret Daughtridge 1402236034 Kathi 3 ebook, kobo 3.78 2008 SEALed with a Kiss (SEALed #1)
author: Mary-Margret Daughtridge
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2011/05/15
date added: 2024/09/12
shelves: ebook, kobo
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]]> <![CDATA[Winter Roses (Long, Tall Texans #32)]]> 8472127 Now, years later, Ivy is determined not to be treated like a little girl anymore. Although still an innocent, Ivy knows she has to fight her own battles, but for some reason Stuart is always fighting them for her, and keeping her from harm. And, safe in Stuart's arms, Ivy feels like a woman � a woman who belongs to him.

]]> 192 Diana Palmer 1426808283 Kathi 0 to-read, ebook, google 3.82 2007 Winter Roses (Long, Tall Texans #32)
author: Diana Palmer
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/11
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]]> The Future 208840580 The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?

Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?

Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.]]> 432 Naomi Alderman 1668025698 Kathi 0 to-read 3.82 2023 The Future
author: Naomi Alderman
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/08
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]]> Holly 65916335 Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.� � BILL HODGES

Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.

Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.

Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.]]> 480 Stephen King 1668014947 Kathi 0 to-read 4.00 2023 Holly
author: Stephen King
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/09/06
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]]> Around the World in 80 Days 67906
Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS gripped audiences upon its original publication and remains hugely popular to this day.


From the Cassette edition.]]> 8 Jules Verne 0307206424 Kathi 3 audiobook, podcast 3.78 1872 Around the World in 80 Days
author: Jules Verne
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.78
book published: 1872
rating: 3
read at: 2014/08/10
date added: 2024/08/31
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)]]> 28187 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.]]> 377 Rick Riordan 0786838655 Kathi 0 4.31 2005 The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2005
rating: 0
read at: 2024/08/25
date added: 2024/08/25
shelves: audible-com, audiobook, purchased
review:
Listening with Brody. Quite enjoyable. Looking forward to book 2.
]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose The Time War]]> 42996336 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: 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. That’s how war works. Right?

Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.]]> 5 Amal El-Mohtar 1508287058 Kathi 2 audiobook, google, purchased 3.62 2019 This Is How You Lose The Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2024/08/25
date added: 2024/08/25
shelves: audiobook, google, purchased
review:
More poetry than prose and I do prefer prose. Interesting premise but not my cup of tea.
]]> <![CDATA[Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Mystery]]> 54573584 179 Phoebe Atwood Taylor 1479451533 Kathi 0 ebook, kindle, to-read 4.38 1946 Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Mystery
author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1946
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/15
shelves: ebook, kindle, to-read
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]]> Tress of the Emerald Sea 60556121
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?]]> 13 Brandon Sanderson 1938570421 Kathi 5 4.21 2023 Tress of the Emerald Sea
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/11
date added: 2024/08/11
shelves: audible-com, audiobook, purchased
review:
Purchased 5/2/24 from Audible. The author relates in the postscript that he was inspired by The Princess Bride and Good Omens. Yes, to both! Tress is the kind of person who would make a good friend. She's intelligent, thoughtful, empathetic with a strong sense of justice. I loved hearing of her travels in search of her lost love and her growth from a simple window washer to master and commander.
]]> <![CDATA[Nikolas and Company Collection: A Creature Most Foul (Nikolas and Company #1-4)]]> 11978153 Kevin McGill Kathi 0 ebook, kindle, to-read 4.15 Nikolas and Company Collection: A Creature Most Foul (Nikolas and Company #1-4)
author: Kevin McGill
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.15
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Celtic Fire (Druids of Avalon, #1)]]> 8873466 317 Joy Nash 1428508066 Kathi 4 ebook 3.89 2005 Celtic Fire (Druids of Avalon, #1)
author: Joy Nash
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2010/10/05
date added: 2024/07/30
shelves: ebook
review:
Unapologetic use of magic, divination, ghosts and astral projection. A somewhat pat ending but still emotionally real.
]]> A Compromised Lady 6398052
As a woman she seemed half lost in shadow. But Richard Blakehurst couldn't miss the flash of connectionbetween them when his hand touched hers. It was as ifhe had awakened something deep inside her.

Seeing Richard again brought back the tauntingmemory of their dance at her come-out ball. She must tame her wayward thoughts, because Thea doubtedeven her considerable fortune could buy Richard's goodopinion of her if ever he learnt the truth....]]> 304 Elizabeth Rolls 1426805640 Kathi 4 ebook 3.87 2007 A Compromised Lady
author: Elizabeth Rolls
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2010/07/17
date added: 2024/07/22
shelves: ebook
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel]]> 6288449 157 Emmuska Orczy Kathi 0 to-read, ebook, kindle 4.18 1919 The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
author: Emmuska Orczy
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.18
book published: 1919
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/06/25
shelves: to-read, ebook, kindle
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)]]> 13506054
Percy Jackson's seventh-grade year has been surprisingly quiet. Not a single monster has set foot on his New York prep school campus. But when an innocent game of dodgeball among Percy and his classmates turns into a death match against an ugly gang of cannibal giants, things get …well, ugly. And the unexpected arrival of Percy's friend Annabeth brings more bad news: the magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a mysterious enemy, and unless a cure is found, the only safe haven for demigods will be destroyed. Percy and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their beloved camp. But first, Percy will discover a stunning new secret about his family—one that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor, or simply a cruel joke.

LENGTH
7 hours, 56 minutes]]> 8 Rick Riordan 0739329987 Kathi 0 3.90 2006 The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
author: Rick Riordan
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/12
shelves: to-read, audible-com, audiobook, purchased
review:
Purchased 06/11/2024 from Audible
]]> Northanger Abbey 8144727 Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.

The story's unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry's mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.

Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.]]> 182 Jane Austen Kathi 0 4.08 1817 Northanger Abbey
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1817
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/05
shelves: ebook, kindle, craftlit, audiobook, podcast
review:

]]> Persuasion 2156 249 Jane Austen 0192802631 Kathi 5 audiobook, podcast, craftlit
Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen, possibly due to the movie version with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. Anne Elliot is a wonderful character. Patient, good-natured, generous and warm-hearted. No wonder Captain Wentworth found it so hard to get over her even after she broke his heart 8 years ago. It was a pleasure to watch them find their way back to each other.]]> 4.15 1817 Persuasion
author: Jane Austen
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1817
rating: 5
read at: 2010/06/10
date added: 2024/06/05
shelves: audiobook, podcast, craftlit
review:
Listening to Persuasion on the CraftLit podcast.

Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen, possibly due to the movie version with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. Anne Elliot is a wonderful character. Patient, good-natured, generous and warm-hearted. No wonder Captain Wentworth found it so hard to get over her even after she broke his heart 8 years ago. It was a pleasure to watch them find their way back to each other.
]]> Pirates 54351237 Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama.
Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories, which were often first published in story magazines such as Pearson's Magazine or Hutchinson's Magazine, 20 of which were illustrated by Edmund Blampied. These "spook stories", as they were also called, were then reprinted in collections by his principal publisher, Walter Hutchinson.]]> 0 E.F. Benson Kathi 4 audiobook, podcast A beautifully told story of the pull of nostalgia and the full heart of a happy childhood. Left me in tears.
]]> 4.14 Pirates
author: E.F. Benson
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.14
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/05
date added: 2024/06/05
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:
Listened on PodCastle 841, May 28, 2024.
A beautifully told story of the pull of nostalgia and the full heart of a happy childhood. Left me in tears.

]]> Third Eye 183222153
Now, instead of being a legendary hero, Laurel's the resident pariah of the magic realm. And what’s worse, the dark wizard Tybus swooped in, took over the realm, and forced all supernatural creatures to live under his tyrannical rule. He’s even stripped away the magical powers of those who refused to join his wicked cause. Yeah, everyone hates her. Well, everyone except her two roomies—Sybil, the sassiest diva of a fairy, who could throw shade with the flick of a wing. And Frank, the vampire who rocks a bald spot and a serious paunch. They are the real MVPs, the ride-or-die buddies who have her back, no matter how many colossal fails she racks up.

And it’s all about to get even weirder. Along comes Kate, a Normie who somehow knows more about Laurel than Laurel knows about herself. Turns out, she's got some secrets up her sleeve that might just give Laurel a shot at redemption and a chance to rewrite her destiny.

Third Eye is a side-splitting adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Laurel and her ragtag team of misfits must embark on a wild journey to take down Tybus. It's a treacherous path, but they'll have to put their differences aside and work together. Get ready to laugh, gasp, and cheer as they stumble their way towards an epic showdown.]]> Felicia Day Kathi 4 4.12 2023 Third Eye
author: Felicia Day
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/30
date added: 2024/05/30
shelves: audiobook, audible-com, purchased
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague, #1)]]> 199611972 Knives Out meets Bridgerton in Fair Verona, as New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd kicks off a frothy, irreverent, witty new series with an irresistible premise—Romeo and Juliet’s daughter as a clever, rebellious, fiercely independent young woman in fair Verona—told from the delightfully engaging point of view of the captivating Rosie Montague herself�

"A sharp, determined heroine, a clever historical mystery, sparkling wit, a unique setting, family drama and a dash of romance.”� Amanda Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Lady Has a Past

Once upon a time a young couple met and fell in love. You probably know that story, and how it ended (hint: badly). Only here’s the thing: That’s not how it ended at all.

Romeo and Juliet are alive and well and the parents of seven kids. I’m the oldest, with the emphasis on â€old’—a certified spinster at twenty, and happy to stay that way. It’s not easy to keep your taste for romance with parents like mine. Picture it—constant monologues, passionate declarations, fighting, making up, making out . . . it’s exhausting.

Each time they’ve presented me with a betrothal, I’ve set out to find the groom-to-be a more suitable bride. After all, someone sensible needs to stay home and manage this household. But their latest match, Duke Stephano, isn’t so easy to palm off on anyone else. The debaucher has had three previous wives—all of whom met unfortunate ends. Conscience forbids me from consigning another woman to that fate. As it turns out, I don’t have to . . .

At our betrothal ball—where, quite by accident, I meet a beautiful young man who makes me wonder if perhaps there is something to love at first sight—I stumble upon Duke Stephano with a dagger in his chest. But who killed him? His late wives� families, his relatives, his mistress, his servants—half of Verona had motive. And when everyone around the Duke begins dying, disappearing, or descending into madness, I know I must uncover the killer . . . before death lies on me like an untimely frost.]]> 296 Christina Dodd 1496750160 Kathi 0 to-read 3.71 2024 A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague, #1)
author: Christina Dodd
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> Jane Eyre 13108225 19 Charlotte Brontë Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 4.01 1847 Jane Eyre
author: Charlotte Brontë
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1847
rating: 0
read at: 2013/07/12
date added: 2024/05/09
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Mitzy Moon Mysteries Books 1-3 (Mitzy Moon #1-3)]]> 63113027
No sooner does she set foot in the quirky village of Pin Cherry Harbor to claim her inheritance, than the handsome sheriff catches her standing over a corpse. Desperate to prove her innocence, she’s forced to accept help from her granny’s entitled cat and a spirit from beyond the grave.

Three full-length novels of sleuthing fun!

The Mitzy Moon Mysteries : Books 1-3 includes the first three books in the hilarious paranormal cozy mystery series, PLUS a never-before-released map of Pin Cherry.

Book 1 � Fries and Alibis: Paranormal Cozy Mystery
A gift that’s too good to be true. A murder she didn’t commit. A barista in a latte trouble�

Book 2 � Tattoos and Clues: Paranormal Cozy Mystery
A beachside stroll. A deadly discovery. Will this psychic sleuth swim or sink?

Book 3 � Wings and Broken Things: Paranormal Cozy Mystery
A crime with no eyewitness. A determined psychic sleuth. Will her search for clues take her where angels fear to tread?]]> Trixie Silvertale Kathi 0 currently-reading 4.57 Mitzy Moon Mysteries Books 1-3 (Mitzy Moon #1-3)
author: Trixie Silvertale
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.57
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/04/27
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Agatha Christie Collection]]> 124944797
The Agatha Christie Collection by Steppenwolf Press brings together the early works of one of the greatest mystery writers to ever live!

Featuring:

The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Secret Adversary
The Affair At The Victory Ball
The Adventure Of The Clapham Cook
The Cornish Mystery
The Adventure Of Johnnie Waverly
The Double Clue
The King Of Clubs
The Lemesurier Inheritance
The Lost Mine
The Plymouth Express
The Chocolate Box
The Veiled Lady
The Submarine Plans
The Market Basing Mystery
and
The Murder on the Links]]> 36 Agatha Christie Kathi 5 audiobook, google The Mysterious Affair at Styles]]> 5.00 The Agatha Christie Collection
author: Agatha Christie
name: Kathi
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/18
date added: 2024/04/18
shelves: audiobook, google
review:
Purchased from Google Play Books on November 9, 2023
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
]]> <![CDATA[Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)]]> 192888 288 Dorothy L. Sayers 0061043532 Kathi 3 audiobook, podcast 01/05/24
03/12/24
Moved along nicely but got a little muddled at the end. A bit too much story for one book. The ending was a little too pat. But I like Lord Peter Wimsey and I appreciate the complexity of the characters and the situations.]]> 3.98 1926 Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
author: Dorothy L. Sayers
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1926
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/12
date added: 2024/03/12
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:
Listening with The Classic Tales Podcast
01/05/24
03/12/24
Moved along nicely but got a little muddled at the end. A bit too much story for one book. The ending was a little too pat. But I like Lord Peter Wimsey and I appreciate the complexity of the characters and the situations.
]]> A Gentleman in Moscow 62329671 --back cover]]> 496 Amor Towles 0143110438 Kathi 0 to-read 4.25 2016 A Gentleman in Moscow
author: Amor Towles
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/03/07
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> The Revolt of Mother 11749737 32 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 0317563831 Kathi 4 audiobook, podcast 3.65 1891 The Revolt of Mother
author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1891
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/08
date added: 2024/02/19
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:
Listening on The Classic Tales Podcast.
]]> <![CDATA[The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club]]> 1106098 But how did the general die? Who was the mysterious Mr X who fled when he was wanted for questioning? And which of the general's heirs, both members of the Bellona Club, is lying?]]> 0 Dorothy L. Sayers 1572702214 Kathi 3 audiobook 3.94 1928 The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
author: Dorothy L. Sayers
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1928
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/02/14
shelves: audiobook
review:
YouTube has the complete story.
]]> <![CDATA[The Three Musketeers (The d'Artagnan Romances, #1)]]> 279770
The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas's historical novels and one of the most popular adventure stories ever written. Now in a bracing new translation, this swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of d'Artagnan, a brash young man from the countryside who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to become a musketeer and guard to King Louis XIII. Before long he finds treachery and court intrigue-and also three boon the daring swordsmen Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Together they strive heroically to defend the honor of their queen against the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milady.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 704 Alexandre Dumas 0143105000 Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast, craftlit
An epic classic adventure! ]]> 4.22 1844 The Three Musketeers (The d'Artagnan Romances, #1)
author: Alexandre Dumas
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1844
rating: 0
read at: 2024/02/12
date added: 2024/02/12
shelves: audiobook, podcast, craftlit
review:
Currently listening to this novel on the CraftLit podcast. Also following along with the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

An epic classic adventure!
]]> Genesis 379191

In Robert Alter's brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, eldest and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors. Alter's translation honors the meanings and literary strategies of the ancient Hebrew and conveys them in fluent English prose. It recovers a Genesis with the continuity of theme and motif of a wholly conceived and fully realized book. His insightful, fully informed commentary illuminates the book in all its dimensions.]]> 324 Robert Alter 039331670X Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 4.15 -800 Genesis
author: Robert Alter
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.15
book published: -800
rating: 0
read at: 2012/05/29
date added: 2024/02/02
shelves: audiobook, podcast
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)]]> 61840884

Beloved detective Hercule Poirot embarks on a journey to Egypt in one of Agatha Christie’s most famous mysteries.

The tranquility of a luxury cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, and beautiful. A girl who had everything . . . until she lost her life.

Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: “I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.� Yet under the searing heat of the Egyptian sun, nothing is ever quite what it seems.

A sweeping mystery of love, jealousy, and betrayal, Death on the Nile is one of Christie’s most legendary and timeless works.

]]> 320 Agatha Christie Kathi 0 to-read 4.33 1937 Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1937
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/02/02
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3)]]> 75405681
From Library Journal:

This novel, written in 1927, is considered the best and most successful of the early mysteries. It met with no small outrage when it appeared, as it uses a plot device many readers thought "unfair." There is a full complement of characters populating the cozy English village of King's Abbot: Major Blunt, Colonel Carter, Miss Gannett, the butler, the housekeeper, the narrator, Dr. Sheppard, and his know-it-all sister (the precursor of Miss Marple, according to Christie), and, of course, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. There are clues with a capital C to mislead us, and the listener gets so involved with these red herrings (or not) that the very simple truth eludes the puzzler. Venerable reader Robin Bailey keeps the light, almost comic tone alive, although his voices are not particularly differentiated, and often he rushes the reading of dialog. A classic of the genre and essential for any fiction collection. Harriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NY

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Review

“A classic—the book has worthily earned its fame.� (Irish Independent (Ireland) )

“One of the landmarks of detective literature.� (H. R. F. Keating, Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books )

“Agatha Christie had a mind like a mousetrap and taught me, in novels like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the pleasure of literary surprise.� (William Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage Historical AdventuresWilliam Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage Historical AdventuresWilliam Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage )]]> Agatha Christie Kathi 5 audible-com, audiobook 4.00 1926 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #3)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1926
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/07
date added: 2024/01/07
shelves: audible-com, audiobook
review:

]]> The Pram 195945795
Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.

Joe Hill’s The Pram is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.]]> 58 Joe Hill 1662516894 Kathi 0 currently-reading 3.74 2023 The Pram
author: Joe Hill
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/01/03
shelves: currently-reading
review:

]]> <![CDATA[One Piece, Vol. 1: Romance Dawn]]> 19007070 As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years, later, Luffy sets off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...

]]> 210 Eiichiro Oda 142154525X Kathi 0 to-read 4.52 1997 One Piece, Vol. 1: Romance Dawn
author: Eiichiro Oda
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.52
book published: 1997
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[A Coup of Tea (Tea Princess Chronicles, #1)]]> 60765016
In hiding and exiled from power, Miyara finds her place running a tea shop in a struggling community that sits on the edge of a magical disaster zone. But there's more brewing under the surface of this city—hidden magic, and hidden machinations—that threaten all the people who've helped her make her own way.

Miyara may not be a princess anymore, but with a teapot in hand she'll risk her newfound freedom to discover a more meaningful kind of power.]]> 402 Casey Blair Kathi 0 to-read 4.44 2017 A Coup of Tea (Tea Princess Chronicles, #1)
author: Casey Blair
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> A Dreamer's Tales 31356438 4 Lord Dunsany Kathi 0 audiobook, librivox, to-read 3.50 1910 A Dreamer's Tales
author: Lord Dunsany
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1910
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/18
shelves: audiobook, librivox, to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady]]> 1431663 Edith Holden 0030595746 Kathi 0 to-read 4.56 1977 The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
author: Edith Holden
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.56
book published: 1977
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/18
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)]]> 26228034 410 N.K. Jemisin Kathi 0 google, ebook, to-read 4.27 2016 The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
author: N.K. Jemisin
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/18
shelves: google, ebook, to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Doctor Sleep (Unabridged Audiobook)]]> 49498437
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky 12-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep."

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.]]> Stephen King Kathi 5 audiobook, google, purchased 4.13 2013 Doctor Sleep (Unabridged Audiobook)
author: Stephen King
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/03
date added: 2023/12/03
shelves: audiobook, google, purchased
review:
It's been awhile since I read a Stephen King book and now I'm wondering why. He still has the gift. Pulled me right back in to the Overlook with well drawn characters and a terrifying scenario. Excellent storytelling. Will Patton is the perfect voice for this. And can't wait to watch the movie so I can complain how it's good, but not as good as the book.
]]> <![CDATA[Always Remember: Ben's Story (Ravenswood, #3)]]> 134116829
Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society—even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and children, and of walking—and dancing.

When Ben Ellis comes across Lady Jennifer as she struggles to walk with the aid of primitive crutches, he instantly understands her yearning. He is a fixer. It is often said of him that he never saw a practical problem he did not have to solve. He wants to help her discover independence and motion—driving a carriage, swimming, even walking a different way. But he must be careful. He is the bastard son of the late Earl of Stratton. Though he was raised with the earl’s family, he knows he does not really belong in the world of the ton.

Jennifer is shocked—and intrigued—by Ben’s ideas, and both families are alarmed by the growing friendship and perhaps more that they sense developing between the two. A duke’s sister certainly cannot marry the bastard son of an earl. Except sometimes, love can find a way.]]> 368 Mary Balogh 0593638387 Kathi 0 to-read 3.97 2024 Always Remember: Ben's Story (Ravenswood, #3)
author: Mary Balogh
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/11/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)]]> 165023284
For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships for defence and trade.
Now, the Spires hover on the brink of open war.

Everyone knows it's coming. The guns of the great airship fleets that control the skies between the last bastions of humanity will soon speak in anger, and Spire Albion stands alone against the overwhelming might of Spire Aurora's Armada and its new secret weapon--one capable of destroying the populations of entire Spires.

A trading summit at Spire Olympia provides an opportunity for the Spirearch, Lord Albion, to secure alliances that will shape the outcomes of the war, and to that end he dispatches privateer Captain Francis Madison Grimm and the crew of the AMS Predator to bolster the Spirearch's diplomatic agents.

It will take daring, skill, and no small amount of showmanship to convince the world to stand with Spire Albion--assuming that it is not already too late.]]> 656 Jim Butcher 0698138031 Kathi 0 to-read 4.59 2023 The Olympian Affair (The Cinder Spires, #2)
author: Jim Butcher
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.59
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/10/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> <![CDATA[An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs, #5)]]> 1468706
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something is amiss. Mysterious fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggests a darker criminal element at work. As Maisie discovers, the villagers are bitterly prejudiced against outsiders who flock to Kent at harvest time—even more troubling, they seem possessed by the legacy of a wartime Zeppelin raid. Maisie grows increasingly suspicious of a peculiar secrecy that shrouds the village, and ultimately she must draw on all her finely honed skills of detection to solve one of her most intriguing cases.]]> 288 Jacqueline Winspear 0719569516 Kathi 0 to-read, possibles 4.08 2008 An Incomplete Revenge (Maisie Dobbs, #5)
author: Jacqueline Winspear
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/10/19
shelves: to-read, possibles
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)]]> 91661 384 Laurie R. King 0553381520 Kathi 0 to-read, possibles 4.06 1994 The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)
author: Laurie R. King
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1994
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/10/19
shelves: to-read, possibles
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)]]> 23719378 A novel based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs.

Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men, Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family � and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared.  ]]> 408 Amy Stewart 0544409914 Kathi 0 to-read, possibles 3.76 2015 Girl Waits with Gun (Kopp Sisters, #1)
author: Amy Stewart
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at the Porte de Versailles (Aimee Leduc Investigations #20)]]> 58960569 Cara Black's riveting 20th installment in her New York Times bestselling Parisian detective series entangles private investigator Aimée Leduc in a dangerous web of international spycraft, postcolonial Franco-African politics, and terrorist threats in Paris's 15th arrondissement.

November, 2001: in the wake of 9/11, Paris is living in a state of heightened fear, with constant bomb alerts and ethnic tension high. For Aimée Leduc, November is bittersweet: the anniversary of her father's death and her daughter's third birthday fall on the same day. A gathering for family and friends is disrupted when a bomb goes off at the police laboratory—and Boris Viard, the partner of Aimée's friend Michou, is found unconscious at the scene of the crime, his fingerprints on the bomb fragments.

Aimée doesn't believe Boris set the bomb. In an effort to prove him not guilty, she battles the police and his own lab colleagues, collecting conflicting eyewitness reports. When a member of the French secret service drafts Aimée to help investigate possible links to an Iranian Revolutionary guard and fugitive radicals who bombed Interpol in the 1980s, Aimée uncovers ties to a cold case of her father's. As Aimée scours the streets of Teheran-sur-Seine trying to learn the truth, she has to ask herself if she should succumb to pressure from Chloe's biological father and move them out to his farm in Brittany. But could Aimée Leduc ever leave Paris?]]> 360 Cara Black 1641290439 Kathi 0 to-read 3.63 2022 Murder at the Porte de Versailles (Aimee Leduc Investigations #20)
author: Cara Black
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.63
book published: 2022
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)]]> 61068991
India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor.

Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women’s hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire—but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harm’s way. Later, Perveen learns that Sunanda, who’s still ailing from her burns, has been arrested on trumped-up charges made by a man who doesn’t seem to exist.

Perveen cannot stand by while Sunanda languishes in jail with no hope of justice. She takes Sunanda as a client, even inviting her to live at the Mistry home in Bombay’s Dadar Parsi colony. But the joint family household is already full of tension. Perveen’s father worries about their law firm taking so much personal responsibility for a client, and her brother and sister-in-law are struggling to cope with their new baby. Perveen herself is going through personal turmoil as she navigates a taboo relationship with a handsome former civil service officer.

When the hospital’s chief donor dies suddenly, Miriam Penkar, a Jewish-Indian obstetrician, and Sunanda become suspects. Perveen’s original case spirals into a complex investigation taking her into the Gujarati strongholds of Kalbadevi and Ghatkopar, and up the coast to Juhu Beach, where a decadent nawab lives with his Australian trophy wife. Then a second fire erupts, and Perveen realizes how much is at stake. Has someone powerful framed Sunanda to cover up another crime? Will Perveen be able to prove Sunanda’s innocence without endangering her own family?]]> 432 Sujata Massey 1641293292 Kathi 0 to-read, possibles 3.89 2023 The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
author: Sujata Massey
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2023
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]]> The Secret Garden - Annotated 177024584
Theadora will be your friendly, expert guide who supports you through your reading of The Secret Garden. Her aim is to make this piece of classic literature more accessible with the whole experience designed to encourage slower and more meaningful reflection.

Theadora helps you to immerse yourself in the story. She will share literary critiques, historical context, detailed author insights, real-life photos, as well as discussion questions designed to encourage you to reflect on the themes and events as you progress through the book.

There are also handy chapter recaps and character descriptions, meaning you'll always know what's going on.


About the

Living in colonial India, Mary Lennox is younger than ten when she is left orphaned by a cholera epidemic. A detached and sullen child even before the loss of her parents, she is sent to live in her uncle’s mansion on the Yorkshire moors. There she meets a robin, a gardener and two young boys, discovers a secret garden, and finds her way towards connection and healing.


To get your guided audiobook you'll need to download the Audrey app (mobile only): . Further instructions are provided in the first pages of the e-book.]]> 205 Frances Hodgson Burnett Kathi 0 to-read 4.29 1911 The Secret Garden - Annotated
author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1911
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]]> <![CDATA[A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family and The Murdered Cousin]]> 1712681 J. Sheridan Le Fanu 1435335244 Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 2.92 2009 A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family and The Murdered Cousin
author: J. Sheridan Le Fanu
name: Kathi
average rating: 2.92
book published: 2009
rating: 0
read at: 2011/04/11
date added: 2023/10/05
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Heard on The Classic Tales podcast
]]> <![CDATA[Long Past Dues (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #2)]]> 78093232
Against all odds, Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby has become an Auditor, enforcing laws about magic for Boston’s Department of Unorthodox Affairs. But Grimsby soon realizes the daily grind of his job is far removed from the glamour he imagined. Overlooked for every exciting case, Grimsby tires of being told to handle mundane magical troubles, and appropriates a case file intended for a friend.

Alongside Leslie Mayflower, the temporarily unretired Huntsman, Grimsby aims to crack the case and discover the origin of a strange, unfinished ritual—one that seems to imitate the handiwork of a foe Mayflower put down twenty years ago.

Together, they’ll have to deal with escaped werewolves, a cursed artifact, and a perilous journey to the mysterious subterranean city below Boston, all to uncover the shocking truth. At any cost, Grimsby must stop this ritual from finally being completed. Yet the cost may be paid not by himself but by his friends. . . .]]> 384 James J. Butcher 0593440447 Kathi 0 to-read 4.25 2023 Long Past Dues (The Unorthodox Chronicles, #2)
author: James J. Butcher
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> Mary Barton 15955888
Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes are dramatized through personal struggles. John Barton has to reconcile his personal conscience with his socialist duty, risking his life and liberty in the process. His daughter Mary is caught between two lovers, from opposing classes - worker and manufacturer. And at the heart of the narrative lies a murder which implicates them all.

Mary Barton was published in 1848, at a time of great social ferment in Europe, and it reflects its revolutionary moment through an English lens. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her first novel about the world in which she lived - Manchester at the height of the industrial revolution. As the wife of a Unitarian minister she was solidly middle-class; but she also had close contact with the working classes around her, sympathised with them, and represented their extreme distresses in her fiction. She is radical in taking on their dialect, imagining the realities of their lives, and placing a working woman at the centre of her fiction. If to our eyes her vision remains limited, it was an honest vision, for which she was much criticised in her own time, by her own class.]]> 448 Elizabeth Gaskell Kathi 0 to-read, purchased 3.49 1848 Mary Barton
author: Elizabeth Gaskell
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1848
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]]> Barbara of the House of Grebe 32327257 Thomas Hardy Kathi 3 audiobook, podcast 3.73 1890 Barbara of the House of Grebe
author: Thomas Hardy
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.73
book published: 1890
rating: 3
read at: 2023/09/21
date added: 2023/09/21
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Twisted little character study of a man who has come to question his life choices.
]]> <![CDATA[Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #2)]]> 30362573 13 Andrzej Sapkowski 1478962208 Kathi 5 audiobook, google
I purchased this collection of short stories to tide me over until the TV series released more episodes. I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing. It's no wonder this collection inspired other forms of storytelling. Geralt deserves a better life than he's been given and I keep hoping his story will turn out well.]]> 3.94 1992 Sword of Destiny (The Witcher #2)
author: Andrzej Sapkowski
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.94
book published: 1992
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/03
date added: 2023/09/03
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Purchased audiobook July 15, 2023 from Google Books.

I purchased this collection of short stories to tide me over until the TV series released more episodes. I have been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing. It's no wonder this collection inspired other forms of storytelling. Geralt deserves a better life than he's been given and I keep hoping his story will turn out well.
]]> The Triumph Of Night 1916 11497545 39 Edith Wharton Kathi 0 audiobook, podcast 3.32 1914 The Triumph Of Night 1916
author: Edith Wharton
name: Kathi
average rating: 3.32
book published: 1914
rating: 0
read at: 2023/08/25
date added: 2023/08/25
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Listening on the Classic Tales podcast.
]]> Year of Wonders 4965
Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition.

As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love.

As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders."

Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. ]]> 304 Geraldine Brooks 0142001430 Kathi 0 possibles, to-read 4.00 2001 Year of Wonders
author: Geraldine Brooks
name: Kathi
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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