Showing posts with label TBR List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TBR List. Show all posts

Monday, January 1, 2018

TBR

On My Litsy & Goodreads Lists:

Memoirs:
Being Jazz - Jazz Jennings, 2016
Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood, 2016
Educated - TAra Westover, 2018
Heart Berries - Terese Mailhot, 2018
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren, 2016
This is Just My Face, Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe,2017
Where am I Know?  True Stories of a Girl and Accidental Fame - Mara Wilson,2016

Short Stories:
The Hidden Light of Objects - Mai Al-Nakib (Middle Eastern) 2014

YA:
Define Normal - Julie Anne Peters
Emergency Contact - Mary H. K. Choi, 2018
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi,  (fantasy/dystopia? AFrica) 2018
Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson, 2017, Canadian. Nat Am

Graphic Novels:
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (darkly funny memoir)
Stitches - David Small 2011 (top ten memoir)

Adult Fiction/Mystery/Thriller/HistFict/CRF/Fantasy:
City of the Lost - Kelley Armstrong, 2016
Chilbury Ladies' Choir - Jennifer Ryan, 2017 - WWII Hist Fict
IQ - Joe Ide, 2016, LA "Sherlock Holmes"
Forgotten Ones - Steena Holmes, 2018 - Investigating broken childhood memories
The Humans - Matt Haig, 2014 - Funny, extraterrestrial inhabits a professor's body
Wicked Deep - Shea Ernshaw, 2018 (witches, cursed town, fantasy)
A Grave Talent (#1 Martinelli, outsde SF) Laurie R. King, 2014
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - balli Kaur Jaswal, 2017
Origin - Dan Brown, 2017
The Cactus - Sarah Haywood, 2018 COMING 5/1/18 DO IT!!!
The Shadow Land - Elizabeth Kostova, 2017

2017 Middle Grade Novels:
Auma's Long Run-Odhiambo
Beyond the Bright Sea - Wolk
A Boy Called Bat - Arnold
Bronze and Sunflower - Cao/Wang
The Ethan I Was Before - Standish
Feliz Yz - Bunker
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever - ed. Betsy Bird
Last Day on Mars - Emerson
Orphan Island - Snyder
Patina - Reynolds
Posted - Anderson
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth - Boyce
Stef Soto, Taco Queen - Torres
York: The Shadow of Cipher - Ruby

Previous Middle Grade Novels:
The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me - Sara Nickerson
Colin Fischer - Ashley Edward Miller
Stella by Starlight - Sharon Draper
The War that Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Absolutely Truly - Heather Vogel Frederick
All the Answers - Kate Messner
Ms. Bixby's Last Day - John David Anderson
Gertie's Leap to Greatness - Kate Beasley
Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles - Shari Green
Paper Wishes - Lois Sepahban
Hour of the Bees - Lindsay Eager
Blue Birds - Caroline Starr Rose
A Tangle of Knots - Lisa Graff
Paper Boy - Vince Vawter
The Hidden Summer - Gin Phillips
The Boy on the Porch - Sharon Creech
Hokey Pokey - Jerry Spinelli
Sure Signs of Crazy - Karen Harrington
Navigating Early - Clare Vanderpool
The Secret Tree - Natalie Standiford
The Boy on the Wooden Box - Leon Leyson
The Paper Cowboy - Kristin Levine
Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan
March: Book 1 - John Lewis
House Arrest AND Rhyme Schemer by K. A. Holt

2017 Children's Holiday Books:  
The Pomegranate Witch (Halloween) - Doyen/Wheeler
Red and Lulu (Christmas) - Tavares
The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat - Bietz/Kanzler
This is Not a Valentine - Higgins/Cummins
A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World - Furman/Gal

2017 Children's Poetry 
Animal Ark - Alexander
Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics - Engle/Lopez
Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs/Murray/Sweet
Family Poems for Every Day of the Week - Alarcon/Gonzalez
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing - Singer/Valiant
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming - Harris/Smith
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem - Lewis/Wright
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout, Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: McKissack/Pinkney
My Daddy Rules the World - Smith
A New School Year - Derby/Song
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Grimes - purchased 4/18
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets - Alexander, Colderley, Wentworth/Holmes - own
Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals - Davies/Horacek - currently reading 4/18

2017 Non-Fiction Picture Books:
Apex Predators - Steve Jenkins
Balderdash: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books -Markel/Carpenter
Before She Was Harriet - Cline-Ransome/Ransome
Carolina's Comets: A True Story = McCully
Danza! Amalia Hernandez and El Ballet Folklorico de Mexico - Tonatiuh
Frido Kahlo and Her Animalitos - Brown/Parra
Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes - Cline-Ransome/Ransome
The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon - Poletti & Yee/Chapman
Gorilla Gardener:  How to Help Nature Take Over the World - John & Jana
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code - Walmark/Wu
Grand Canyon - Chin
Her Right Foot - Eggers/Harris
How the Cookie Crumbled: The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie - Ford
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars - Fishman/Greenberg
If You Were the Moon - Purdie/Kim
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing - Haring/Neubecker
Malala: Activist for Girls' Education - Frier/Fronty
Martina & Chrissie - Bildner/Helquist
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Harvey/Phumiruk
The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention f the Piano - Rusch/Priceman
My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis - Meisel
Noah Webster's Fighting Words (Maurer/Catasanu
Our Gift-Filled Earth - Eun Hee Na/ Ha Jin Jung
Over and Under the Pond - Messner/Neal
Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World - Drummond
Penguin Day: A Family Story - Bishop
Robins: How They Grow Up - Christelow
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality - Winter/Innerst
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library - Weatherford/Velasquez
Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice - Susanna Reich/Gustavson
This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids From Around the World - Lamothe
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity - Suzuki/Weisntein
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist - Levinson/Newton

Previous Non-Fiction Picture Books
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix - Gary Golio
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library - Barb Rosenstock
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women - Kathleen Krull
Just Behave, Pablo Picasso - Jonah Winter
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Woman Changed a City Forever - Joseph H. Hopkins
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse - Patricia MacLachlan
Papa is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost - Natalie S. Bober
For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson - Peggy Thomas
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane - C. M. Millen

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

What's on My Kindle - An Annotated List

2020
Goldberg - Lost Hills (4.26 - 7500)

2019
Armstrong - Roam (homelesss 17yo and her family)
Womack - The Time Collector: A Novel (aud costs 7.49)

2018
Arnett - Onxy and Ivory YA Fant (512 pgs.) (add Audio for 12.99)
Badani - The Storyteller's Secret (Usa/India) 370 pgs. (4.46)
Cleveland, Karen - Need to Know (Female CIA Analyst) 306 pgs.
Fullford - Inlaws and Outlaws (296 pgs.)
Hill, Edwin - Little Comfort (Hester Thursby #1) Harvard, 353 pgs. (add audio for 7.49)
Hillerman, Anne - Cave of Bones (#22 Leaphorn/Chee) 4.01 - 2776
Howard, Linda - The Woman Left Behind (DC paramilitary female computer RomThrill) 373 pgs.
Kelly, Erin Entrada - You Go First (Mid Sch) 284 pgs.
Klepper - Unbroken Threads (4.64/96)
Kristoff - LIFEL1K3 (#1 Lifelike) 4.07/5249
Nash - The Hunt for the Dingo AdMystery Australia
Pan, Emily X. R. The Astonishing Color of After
Regen - Vanishing Girls (#1 Jessie Quinn) Audio as well
Swain - The King Tides (#1 Lancastle & Daniels) AdMyst 318 pgs.
Swanson, Peter - All the Beautiful Lies AdMyst
Verdon, John - White River Burning AdMyst

2017
Bush, Nancy - No Turning Back (originally If You Believe by pseud. Nancy Kelly, 1990s)
Dionne - The Marsh King's Daughter (3.86 - 10,963)
Horowitz - Magpie Murders (4.0 - 10,472) (audio - 12.99)
Ickes - Murder in the Woods (no ratings!)
Kadish - Weight of Ink 592 pgs.
Lee - Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (4.16 - 43,722) YA
Miranda - The Perfect Stranger (3.72)
North, Will - Harm None (#1 Davies & West) Cornwall Archeology Mystery
Paretsky, Sara - Fallout (#18 V. I. Warshawski)
Shamsie - Home Fire: A Novel (4.09/22,845)
Thorpe, Helen - The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American 
           Classroom  (Denver refugee classroom)  NonFiction
Tinti - The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (392/11,913)
Valerio, Mima - A Beautiful Work in Progress - overwt. female runner, Adult Memoir

2016
Black, Lisa - That Darkness (Gardiner & Renner #1) 2016, 336 pgs.
     Myst - Cleveland Forensics    
Brown, Sandra - Mean Streak
Burton, Jessie - The Muse, 2016 (3.88) GREAT COVER!!
     1967 - art world - author of The Miniaturist
Hutchison, Dot - The Butterfly Garden, 2016 (4.07 with over 40,000 ratings)
     First in a series, the butterflies in this garden are kidnapped women.....
Impellizzeri, Amy - Secrets of Worry Dolls, Guatemala 4.4 rating on Goodreads!
Johnson, Julia Claiborne - Be Frank With Me, 2016 (3.89)
     Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning mansion and unwittingly becomes a full-time companion to
     Frank, the writer's eccentric nine-year old (w/the wit of Noel Coward and the wardrobe of a 30s
     movie star) who has very little in common with his fellow fourth graders
Kay, Theresa - Broken Skies (#1) (4.08 - 1184)
     YA (audio +2.99) 297 pgs.
Lyons, C. J. - Last Light (A Beacon Falls novel, can be read out-of-order)
     Lucy Guardino, a normal Pittsburgh soccer mom who chases the worst of the worst for the FBI.
     In this episode, a violent predator targets her family and she sacrifices her career to keep her
     family safe.
Paul, Gill - The Secret Wife, 2016, 416 pgs. (4.24 - 8144)
     HF - 1914 & 2016 Russia and America - Looks excellent
Sweeney, Cynthia D'Aprix - The Nest (3.44 - 104,388) Ad CRF
Viehweg, Clark - Hokee Wolf, GR 4.23 - 47 compared to Hillerman - 279 pgs. (no audio)
Yocum - A Brilliant Death (Edgar Fnlst - mother he never knew) 272 p. (4.38/909)

2015
Barrows, Annie - The Truth According to Us,  1938, WV, young Girl POV (3.76)  ALSO ONAUDIBLE
Bertman - Book Scavenger GR 4.16 MidGrades
Cogman, Genevieve - The Invisible Library (#1 in series) 2015 (3.74)
     Irene, a professional spy for the mysterious Library, is posted to an alternative London to retrieve
     a dangerous stolen book.
Donald, R. E. - Sundown on Top of the World (#4-okay to read out-of-order) (4.09 - 560) 2015 321
          pgs. Myst - Alaskan bush, cold case
Dyer, Madeline - Untamed (#1) YA
Fox, Candice - Hades (Archer & Bennet #1) 2015, 3.83
     Myst. Two cops - brother & sister - were raised by a master criminal.....
Gansworth - If I Ever Get Out of Here (Indian Reservation)
Hamilton, Glen Erik - Past Crimes (Van Sahw #1) 2015 (3.9)
     Van Shaw, raised to be a thief, joined the military and abandoned his past.  Now he's called back
      to Seattle and the criminal grandfather and crimes to solve.
Hannah, Kristin - The Nightingale: A Novel (454 - 341,242) 593 pgs. (audio +12.99)
Kaufman, Amie - Illuminae  YA (4.32 - 75,860)
Lister, Michael  - Innocent Blood (John Jordan #7) 2015 (3.86)
     This looks like a prequel to the previous in the series...back to the beginning with a "fascinating 
     and unique" detective.
Mills - The Debt Collector (#1) (4.08 - 1440) Mystery
Ness, Patrick - The Rest of Us Just Live Here, 2015 (3.77)
     CRF with some fantasy....hard to say.....looks good.....
Nielsen, Susin - We Are All Made of Molecules, 2015 (3.87)
     YA - Two teenagers find themselves living together when their parents marry.  Heartbreaking and
     laugh out loud.
Niven, Jennifer - All the Bright Places, 2015 (4.2)
     YA A girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die......
Raphael, Kate - Murder Under the Bridge, 2015 (3.66)
     Female Palestinian cop and gay Jewish-American peace worker in Israel solve a murder &
     looking into Israel's sex trafficking trade.
Seskis, Tina - One Step Too Far, 2015 (3.56)
     Why does a seemingly happy lawyer walk out of her life one morning to start over as someone
     looking into Israel's sex trafficking trade.
Slaughter, Karen - Blindsighted (#1 Grant Cty) 4.10 - 50,482 (rewrite of 2001)
Slaughter, Karen - Pretty Girls (standalone!)
Smith, Carrie - Silent City, 2015 (3.66)
     A female NYPD detective, newly in remission from cancer, returns to a tough homicide case
Swyler, Erika - The Book of Speculation (Magic & Family mystery) 350 pgs.
Tahir - An Ember In the Ashes (Ember #1) (4.32 - 109,750) YA Fantasy
Toyne, Simon - The Searcher (#1 Solomon Creed, Redemption, AZ)
Wilbanks, Scott - The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (1890s & contemp collide) 400 pgs.
Yoerg, Sonja - The Middle of Somewhere, 2015 (3.91)
     A troubled young widow goes on a 3-week hike deep into the wilderness on the John Muir Trail          trying to confront her shameful past.
Yoon, Nicola - Everything, Everything, 2015 (4.07)
     YA  A girl, allergic to the world and bound to her house, falls in love with the new boy next door.

2014
Capri, Diane - Flight 12: A Jess Kimball Thriller, 2014  (3.96)
     Jess Kimball (compared to a female Jack Reacher), a Taboo Magazine writer, rushes to JFK to
     catch the fated Flight 12 to Rome
Doiron - Bear Trap (#4.5 Bowditch) GR 3.92
Fox, Candice - Hades (Archer & Bennett #1)
     Mystery - Adult - Twins raised by a master criminal become cops
Holt, K. A. - Rhyme Schemer, 2014 (3.96) 176 pgs. MidGrade (The tables are turned on a bully.)
Jacobs, Mira - Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing 3.99 (India/Amer Best Book yr.) 513 pgs.
Lloyd-Jones, Emily- Illusive 422 pgs. (3.71 - 2693) (audio +19.95) YA
Montgomery, Ben - Grandma Gatewood's Walk (4.11-7152)
Morrow, Bradford - The Forgers (3.13 - 1063) (audio + 7.49) 256 pgs.
North, Will - Harm None (Davies & West #1) 3.72 - 4.57
Perry, Thomas - A String of Beads, 2014 (4.15)
      Jane Whitefield #8

2013
Bass, Jefferson - Cut to the Bone (Body Farm #8) 2013, 368 pgs. (4.04 - 2431 pgs.)
     okay to read out- of-order, this was the prequel      Just read it!
Bowmann, Corina - The Moonlit Garden, 2013 (3.73)
     Young widow tries to discover the mystery of a mysterious antique violin's legacy.
Brockmole, Jessica - Letters from Skye, 2013 (3.89)
     A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars - I and II
Caton - The Liminaries (3.71 - 54,265)
Ethington, Rebecca - Eyes of Ember (#2 Imdalind) YA Fant, 285 pgs.
Gansworth - If I Ever Get Out of Here YA NatAm Great Ratings
Green, Stacy - Tin God (Delta Crossroad #1) female protag.
     Mystery - Mississippi
Konigsberg, Bill - Openly Straight (#1 in series) 2013 (3.96)  Also on AUDIBLE
       YA a young man who is openly gay in Boulder goes to boarding school in the northeast and
       decides to keep his sexuality under wraps so that he can live "normally."
March - Finding Colin Firth
Moriarty, Jacklyn -  A Corner of White  (#1 The Colours of Madelein), 2013 (3.8)
     YA The first in a rousing, funny, genre-busting trilogy.  Fantasy?  A tale of missing persons....
Ryan, Estelle - The Braque Connection (#3 Genevieve Lenard) 2013 (4.28)
Ryan, Estelle - The Dante Connection (#2 Genevieve Lenard) 2013 (4.12)
Ryan, Estelle -   The Gauguin Connection (#1 Genevieve Lenard) (4.02)
     Art theft.  Coded messages.  A high-level threat.  Despite her initial disbelief, Dr. Genevieve
     Lenard discovers that she is the key than connects.

2012
Erdrich, Louise - The Round House, 2012 (3.9)
     1988 N. Dakota - After a woman is attacked and reluctant to reveal what happened, her 13 year
     old son's life is irrevocably changed.
Gagnon, Michelle - Don't Turn Around, 2012 (3.86)
    YA thriller - female computer hacker smart, tough, action-packed, 1st of 3
Gideon, Melanie - Wife 22: A Novel (3.51 - 12,108) 497 pgs. (audio +8.99) CRF
Joyce, Rachel - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (antihero/600 mile walk across England)
McGarrity, Michael - Hard Country (Kerney Family #1) (4.09/1394) 608 pgs.
Nolan, Lea - Conjure: Hoodoo Apprentice (YA) 400 pgs.
Robarchek & Stickell - In the Territories of Lies, 2012 (3.4)
     Two women discover family ties when they meet through an online genealogy site.
Shields, Kieran - The Truth of All Things (Archie Lean #1, Portland, ME 1892) (3.47) 2012
     HF Myst - Three people come together to solve a killing that relates to the original Salem witch
     trials
Sokolof - Huntress Moon (FBI #1)
Thompson - Helsinki White (#3 Insp. Vaarga, Finland) (333 pgs.)

2011
Adams, Thelma - The Last Woman Standing, 2011 (3.52)   
          1880s - 18 yo SF girl marries Tombstone lawman
Curtin, Rich - Artifacts of Death (Manny Rivera #1) 4.0 - 224
Dolley, Chris - An Unsafe Pair of Hands, 2011, (3.71) 343 pgs.  Myst - England (CID) A woman's body is found in an old stone circle with another woman buried alive beneath her.
Hoffman, Alice - The Red Garden, 2011 (3.68)
     Smalltown America (Massachusetts) with three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty,
     and redemption of intertwined characters.
VanDraanen, Wendelin - The Running Dream (4.3 - 18,587) YA CRF
Wilkinson, Kerry - The Killer Inside (#1 Det. Jessica Daniel)
     Serial killer - Body (and then another) found inside a locked house.
Stelmach, Orest - The Boy from Reactor 4 (Nadia Tesla #1)  YA?  Adult?  MYSTERY sounds good

2010
Fortier, Anne, Juliet: A Novel (Mystery)
     Girl is bequeathed a key to a safety deposit box in Italy - back & forth in time?
Kellerman, Faye - Hangman (Decker & Lazarus #19)

2009
Coben Harlan - Tell No One (his first standalone) 396 pgs.
Suarez, Daniel - Daemon (Adult cyber suspense) 489 pgs.

2008
Clayton, Meg Waite - The Wednesday Sisters, 2008  (3.5)
     For 35 years, five women meet every Wednesday at the park in Palo Alto.
Ebershoff, David - The 19th Wife, 2008 (3.63)
     Flipping back and forth between 1875 and the story of Brigham Young's wife, Ann Eliza and
     current day when a young man who had been thrown out of the fundamentalist sect  reenters to
     discover the truth behind his father's death.
Flora, Kat - Angel of Knowlton Park (Joe Burgess #2), 2008 (3.95)
      Myst, Portland, ME - Young Timmy Watts is found brutally stabbed yet carefully preserved in a 
      local park.
Green, John; Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson - Let It Snow, 3 Holiday Stories YA
Helgason, Hallgrimur - The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning, 2008 (3.26) 
     Hitman Tomislav Bokse, fleeing from his life as a NY hitman, finds himself on a plane to
     Reykjavik disguised as an American televangelist.
McGarrity, Michael - Dead or Alive (#12 of 13 Kevin Kerney)
Westerfeld, Scott - The Secret Hours (Midnighters #1) 2008 (2.81)
     Same author as Uglies series, time freezes at midnight for a few select people in this town...
Winskye, Paula F. - The Reverend Finds His Calling  (#1 Tony Wagner) 2008 (4.0)
     Seminary student begins summer employment in Evergreen national Park wondering if he's cut
     out for the ministry when a serial killer strikes.

2007 
French, Tana - In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) 2007, 429 pgs. (3.74 - 188,073)
Gunn, Elizabeth - Cool in Tucson  (Sarah Burke #1) (3.35)
     Ambitious Tucson police detective Sarah Burke, newly divorced, takes on two cases at the same
 time - one of her missing niece.
Swain, James - Midnight Rambler (Jack Carpenter #1) 2007 (3.82)
     Have read #2 and liked it a lot....Murder in south Florida, cop
Van Booy, Simon - The Secret Lives of People in Love, 2007 (4.03 - 1,648)
     Short stories

2006
Joss, Morag - Half Broken Things, 2006 (3.57)
     Three reluctant, damaged loners, gather together in a secluded country house and build a tentative       life for themselves.
Roy, Jennifer - Yellow Star, 2006 (4.19)
     Free verse, Holocaust, written for middle grades
Suarez - Daemon (Daemon #1) 4.17 - 34,407
Webb, Betty - Desert Run (#4 Lena Jones, Scottsdale) 2006 (3.93)
     Just read it - it's next in line!

2005
Berg, Elizabeth - The Year of Pleasures, 2005 (3.68)
     Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew
Hellmann, Libby Fischer - A Shot To Die For (Ellie Foreman #4) 2005 (3.79) 
     (NOTE: Book #1 is avail on Kindle, but I believe this can be read without it) Returning from a
     life for themselves.
Patchett, Ann - Bel Canto, 2005 (3.92)

2004
Brennert - Molokai, A Novel, 4.16 - 88,988 ratings
Gischler, Victor - The Pistol Poets, 2004 (3.79) 
     A thrill-a-minute suspense novel of crime and academia, with hilarious results.

2003
Box,  C. J. - Winterkill (Joe Pickett #3)j4.18-8989
Talton, Jon - Camelback Falls (#2 David Mapstone, Phoenix), 2003 (3.81)

2002
Brooks, Geraldine - A Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, 323 pgs.
Walker, Mary Willis - All the Dead Lie Down (#3 but read now Molly Cate, Austin crime reporter) 
     2002 (3.8)  New information on the death of her father 20 years previously has come Molly's way, 
     and she reopens the investigation - and the rush of old wounds - with a vengeance.
     
2001
Coben - Only the Lucky, 2001
Harris, Joanne - Five Quarters of the Orange, 2001 (3.82)
     Framboise Simon returns to the small village in France where her mother is held responsible for a
     terrible tragedy during WWII.

1998
Nesbo, Jo - Cockroaches:  The Second Inspector Harry Hole Mystery

1997
Gaiman, Neil - Neverwhere (4.18 - 327,956)
Nesbo, Jo, - The Bat (Harry Hole #1) 1997 (3.57)
     Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl,
     who was working in a bar.

1989
Kirstein, Rosemary - The Steerswoman, (#1 in series1989 (4.0)
       Fantasy?  Historical Fiction?  great ratings and sounds really interesting

1986
Kellerman - The Ritual Bath (Decker & Lazarus #1)

1985
Moore, Lorrie - Self-Help, 1985 (4.2)
     Nine SHORT STORIES

1937
Sharp, Margery - Under the Nutmeg Tree, 1937 (3.81)
     An almost homeless woman sets of to France to start her life anew.

SHORT STORIES
The Secret Lives of People in Love - Van Booy
Self Help - Moore

Mid Grades
Middle of Somewhere, The - Yoerg
One Step Too Far - Seskis
Rhyme Schemer - Holt CRF
Yellow Star - Roy HF
You Go FirstKelly, Erin Entrada - 284 pgs.

In CLOUD - Already read
Acevedo, Kristy - Consider (#1 Holo Series)
Addison, Katherine - The Goblin Emperor
Allan, Howard - Mayan Star (3)
Ames, Dan - A Hard Man to Forget: The Jack Reacher Files (Jack Reacher Files #1)
Anderson, John David - Posted 
Antani, Jay - The Leaving of Things, The
Armstrong - A Darkness Absolute (#2 Casey Duncan)
Bandani - Trail of Broken Wings
Barker, J. D. - The Fourth Monkey (#1 4MK)
Barr, Ellisa - Outage (Powerless Nation #1)
Battles, Brett -  Rewinder,  ALSO ON AUDIBLE
Bende, S. E. Perfekt Order
Bennett - The Anatomical Shape of a Heart, YA
Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Black, J. Carson - Cry Wolf (Laura Cardinal #4)
Black, J. Carson - Darkscope (standalone ghost/mystery-Bisbee)
Black, J. Carson - The Devil's Hour (Laura Cardinal Book 3)
Black, J. Carson - Flight 12 (Laura Cardinal SS)
Black, J. Carson - The Survivor's Club
Blackwell, Elizabeth - In the Shadow of Lakecrest
Blakely, Lauren - Part-Time Lover 
Blakemore, Megan Frazer - The Water Castle
Bracken, Alexandra - Passenger (Passenger #1)
Brant, Wendy - Zenn Diagram, 2017 YA
Brody, Jennifer - The Thirteenth Continuum
Bryndza, Robert - The Girl in the Ice (#1 DCI Erika Foster)
Bryndza, Robert - Nine Elms (#1 Kate marshall)
Bucchin, Hannah - Paintbrush
Burke, Alafair - Dead Connection (Ellie Hatcher #1), 2007 (3.73)
Buxbaum, Julie - Tell Me Three Things , 2016 YA
Cameron, Barbara - A Road Unknown, 2014 AmishFiction (3.5)
Cameron, Sharon - The Forgetting, 2016
Carter, Scott William - The Gray and Guilty Sea, ALSO ON AUDIBLE
Castillo, Linda - A Hidden Secret (Kate Burkholder SS - 6.5)
Castillo - In Dark Company (Burkholder Short Story#9.5) ) 69 pgs.
Castillo, Linda - Long Lost (Kate Burkholder SS - 4.5)
Castillo, Linda - Only the Lucky (#8.5 Kate Burkholder SS) 4
Chambers, Becky - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, 2015 SCI FI 5*
Clare, Cassandra - City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments #2)
Coffin, Bruce Robert - Among the Shadows (Det. Byron #1/Portland ME) 4.28
Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire (Hunger Games #2)
Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games (Hunger Games #1)
Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay (Hunger Games #3)
Connelly, Michael - A Darkness More than Night (Harry Bosch?)
Connor, Leslie - The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle,
Cornick, Nicola - The Phantom Tree, The (4) Time Travel
Crais, Robert - The Promise (Elvis, Joe & Scott, all three)
Crane, Rebekah - The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland (YA)
Crouch, Blake - Dark Matter (Ad SciFi) 5
Dahl, Julia - Run You Down (Rebekah Roberts @2)
Daniels, Robert - Once Shadows Fall (Sturgis & Kale #1)
Davies, Drew - Dear Lily  (2)
de Castrique, Mark - Blackman's Coffin (Sam Blackman #1)
Dolan-Leach, Caite - Dead Letters (3)
Doiron, Paul - Trespasser (Mike Bowditch, ME #2)
Doiron, Paul - Bear Trap (Mike Bowditch, ME #4.5)
Downs, Andrew - Mourning Gloria  (California FBI Agent Leah Hudson #1)
Dugoni, Robert - My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite #1)
Dyer, Madeline - Untamed (Untamed #1) (1)
Elliot, Kendra - A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick #1)
Elliot, Kendra - A Merciful Truth (#2 Mercy Kilpatrick)
Ellis, Seeking the Dead (Joe Plantagenet #1)
Ethington, Rebecca - Kiss of Fire (#1 Imdalind)
Fine, Sarah - Sanctum (Guards of the Shadowlands #1)
Flora, Kate - Playing God (Jod Burgess #1)
Forrest, Bella - A Shade of Vampire 2: A Shade of Blood
Forrest, Bella - A Shade of Vampire (#1)
Frasier, Anne - Stay Dead (Elise Sandberg #2) 2014 (4.11)
Gramt. Kimi Cunningham - Fallen Mountains, 2019 (3)
Green, John _ Turtles All the Way Down
Griffiths, Elly - The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2)
Guillory, Jasmine - The Wedding Date
Hamilton, Denise - Sugar Skull (Eve Diamond #2)  (Goodreads 3.56 - 226)  2004
Hand, Elizabeth - Generation Loss
Harper - Force of Nature (#2 Aaron Falk)
Hayman, James - The Chill of Night (McCabe & Savage)
Hayman, James - Darkness First (McCabe & Savage)
Hayman, James - A Fatal Obsession (#6 McCabe & Savage)
Hayman, James - The Girl in the Glass (McCabe & Hayman)
Hillerman, Anne - Spider Woman's Daughter
Hoang, Helen - The Kiss Quotient (5)
Holliday, Scott - Punishment, SciFiMystery (4)
Holt, K. A. - House Arrest Mid Grades CRF/Verse (5)
Holt, Kimberly Willis - Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel, MidGr CRF (5)
Honeyman, Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (5)
Hunter, Elizabeth - INK: A Love Story on 7th and Main (3.5)
Hyldahl, Andi - Allusion   FUN YA Mystery  v
Indridason, Arnaldur - Jar City (Inspector Erlendur #3), 2000 (3.8)
Jacobs, Mara - Against the Odds (Anna Dawson's Vegas #1)
Jacobs, Nora - The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, 2018 (3.5)
Kang, Lydia - Toxic YA SciFi 2018 (2)
Khan, Hena - Amina's Voice (2017 Mid Grades)
King, Emily R. - The Hundredth Queen (Hundredth Queen #1) 2017
Kline, Christina Baker - Orphan Train: A Novel
Kress, Adrienne - Outcast 2013
Kuzneski, Chris - The Plantation   Audible, too
Lauren, Christina - The Unhoneymooners
Leveen, Tom - Till the Sun Breaks Down (Deviant Aeon Bk 1)
Leverone, Allan - Flight 12 A Kristin Cunningham Thriller
Lightbourne - The Kurdish Bike
Lockhart, E. - We Were Liars
Luzzatto, Kfir - The Evelyn Project
Marrs, John - The One, The (5)
Marsons, Angela - Evil Games
Marsons, Angela - Lost Girls (#3 DI Kim Stone)
Marsons, Angela - Silent Scream
Mass, Wendy - Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall
Maynard, Frances - The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr
Mayne, Andrew - Angel Killer (#1 Jessica Blackwood)
Mayne, Andrew - Looking Glass Audible, too
Mayne, Andrew - The Naturalist (#1)
Michaels, Alicia - Bellamy and the Brute
Miranda, Megan - The Perfect Stranger (3.5)
Mitchell - Truth and Lies (Have audio as well)
Monir, Alexandra, Suspicion
Murphy, Emily Bain - The Disappearances
Nickless, Barbara - Blood on the Tracks  ALSO ON AUDIBLE
North, Julian - Age of Order
Oelke - Nice Try, Jane Sinner  YA (435 pgs.)
Pavone, Chris - The Expats
Pinard, Margaret - Dulci's Legacy YA (author is a Litsy friend)
Price, Sarah - Fields of Corn (Amish Fiction) 2007
Prior, Hazel - Ellie and the Harpmaker AdCRF/Autism 2019
Pulley, D. M. - The Buried Book, The  Also on Audible
Raasch, Sara - Snow Like Ashes
Ragen, Naomi - Sotah Hasidic Judaism in Jerusalem (4)
Reintgen, Scott - Nyxia (4.5)
Riggs, Carol - The Lying Planet
Robinson, Steve - In the Blood (Genealogical #1)
Rossi - Under the Never Sky
Salerni, Kianne K. - The Eighth Day
Sandford, John - Rules of Prey (#1)
Schulman - Theory of Bastards (4.11) 
Schwab, Victoria - This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1)
Shaver, Theresa - Scorched: A Dry Earth Story (2)
Shea, Brian Christopher - Murder Board (#1 Michael Kelly/Boston detective) (3)
Simmons, Kristen - Article 5  (Goodreads
Simsion, Graeme - The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1)
Smith, Andrew - Grasshopper Jungle
Sten, Viveca - Still Waters Also on Audible
Sternbergh, Adam - The Blinds
Stradling, Rita - Colorless NetGalley 2017
Taylor, Laini - Daughter of Smoke & Bone (#1)
Thomas, Angie - The Hate U Give
Thompson, James - Snow Angels (Insp. Vaara #1)
Trasi, Amita - The Color of Our Sky, (4)
Valentino, Amanda & Silsbee - The Amanda Project Book 1 and Book 2
Vanderah - Where the Forest Meets the Stars (have audio as well)
VanDraanen, Wendelin - Wild Bird
Vikar, Adam - When Dimple Met Rishi (2017 YA)
Wallace, Michael - Crow Hollow, 2015 (3.65)
Ward, E. D. - Night Hunter (#1 Harry Circus) (2)
Ware, Ruth - The Death of Mrs. Westaway (2)
Webb, Betty - Desert Shadows (Lena Jones #3)
Webb, Wendy - Tale of Halcyon Crane
Wendig, Chuck - Zeroes, 2015 (3)
White, Loreth Anne - The Drowned Girls (Angie Pallorino #1)
Wiggs, Susan - Family Tree
Winger, Diane - Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape (3)
Wood, Fiona - Six Impossible Things
Yancey, Rick - The 5th Wave
Younge-Ullman, Danielle - Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined (4)
Zentner, Jeff - Serpent King, The
Ziboi, Ibi - American Street


Thursday, January 22, 2015

2015 Edgar Nominees

BEST NOVEL
This Dark Road to Mercy - Wiley Cash
Wolf - Mo Hayder
Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
The Final Silence - Stuart Neville
Saints of the Shadow Bible - Ian Rankin
Coptown - Karin Slaughter

FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Dry Bones in the Valley - Tom Bouman
Invisible City - Julia Dahl
The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
Bad Country - C. B. McKenzie
Shovel Ready - Adam Sternbergh
Murder at the Brightwell - Ashley Weaver

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Secret History of Las Vegas - Chris Abani
Stay With Me - Alison Gaylin
The Barkeep - William Lashner
The Day She Died - Catriona McPherson
The Gone Dead Train - Lisa Turner
World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters

YOUNG ADULT
The Doubt Factory - Paolo Bacigalupi
Nearly Gone - Elle Cosimano
Fake ID - Lamar Giles
The Art of Secrets - James Klise
The Prince of Venice Beach - Blake Nelson

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Upcoming 2015 Titles

Young Adult:
     Niven (Jan 5) All the Bright Places
     Sedgwick (Jan 6) The Ghosts of Heaven
     Crowder (Jan 8) Audacity (verse)
     Hall (Jan 13) Conspiracy of Us
     Meyer (Jan. 27) Fairest
     Demetrios (Feb 3) I'll Meet You There
     Aveyard (Feb 10) Red Queen
     Arnold (Mar 3) Mosquitoland
     Oliver (Mar 10) Vanishing Girls
     Meyer (Nov 15) Winter

Adult:
     Bergman (Jan 6) Almost Famous Women (short stories)
     Graves (Jan 6) Winter at the Door (new gritty mystery, ME)
     Filipachi (Feb 2) Unfortunate Importance of Beauty
     Blackstock (Feb 3) Twisted Innocence
     Link (Feb 10) Get In Trouble: Stories
     Riordan (Feb 17) Fiercombe Manor ("fans of Kate Morton will love this")
     Rapp (Mar 3) Know Your Beholder
     Levy (Mar 3) The Unloved (and try previous novels including Swimming Home)
     Kearsley (Apr 7) A Desperate Fortune
     Castillo (July 14) After the Storm

Book Awards

This actually makes a great TBR list of kid's books!
(And this is Muddy Puddle's 1500th Blog!)

2015 Newbery Medal
Winner:  Last Stop on Market Street - Matt de la Pena
Honor:  Roller Girl - Victoria Jamieson
Honor - Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan

2015 Caldecott Award
Winner:  Finding Winnie:  The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear - by Lisa Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Honor:  Trombone Shorty - Andrews/Collier
Honor:  Waiting - Kevin Henkes
Honor:  Voice of Freedom:  Fannie Louflame - Weatherford/
Honor - Laswt Stop on Market Street - de la Pena/Christian Robinson

2015 Printz Award
Winner:  Bone Gap - Laura Ruby
Honor: Out of Darkness - Perez
Honor:  The Ghosts of Heaven; Sedgwick

2014 Newbery Award
Winner: The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
Honor:  El Deafo - Cece Bell
Honor: Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

2014 Caldecott Award
Winner: The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend (written & illustrated by Dan Santat)
Honor:  Nana in the City (written & illustrated by Lauren Castillo)
Honor:  The Noisy Paintbox: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art (illustrated by Mary Grandpre, written by Barb Rosenstock)
Honor: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett)
Honor:  Viva Frida (written & illustrated by Yuyi Morales)
Honor:  The Right Word: Roget & His Thesaurus (illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant)
Honor:  This One Summer (illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, written by Mariko Tamaki)

2014 Printz Award
Winner:  I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Honor:  And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
Honor:  The Carnival at Bray - Jessie Ann Foley
Honor:  Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
Honor:  This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki

2014 Cybil Finalists for Middle Grade Fiction
Abby Spencer Goes Bollywood - Varsha Bajaj
All Four Stars - Tara Dairman
Death by Toilet Paper - Donna Gephart
Ice Dogs - Terry Lynn Johnson
Nickel Bay Nick - Dean Pitchford
The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
The Meaning of Maggie - Megan Jean Sovern
Speculative Fiction for Elementary & Middle Grades
Boys of Blur - N. D. Wilson
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
Nuts to You - Lynne Rae Perkins
The Castle Behind Thorns - Merrie Haskell
The Jupiter Pirates - Hunt for the Hydra
The Luck Uglies - Paul Durham
The Swallow: A Ghost Story - Charis Cotter

2014 Cybil Finalists for YA Fiction
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
Girls Like Us - Gail Giles
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Pointe - Brandy Colbert
When I Was the Greatest - Jason Reynolds
Speculative Fiction for YA Fiction
Death Sworn - Leah Cypess
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
Noggin - John Corey Whaley
Salvage - Alexandra Duncan
The Living - Matt De la Pena
The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski
While We Run - Karen Healey

2014 Nerdy Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction

Absolutely Almost - Lisa Graff
Boys Blurr - N. D. Wilson
Circa Now - Amber McRee Turner
Courage for Beginners - Karen Harrington
Dash - Kirby Larson
Death by Toilet Paper - Donna Gephart
Five, Six, Seven, Nate - Tim Federle
The Fourteenth Goldfish - Jennifer Holm
The Great Greene Heist - Varian Johnson
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
Half a Chance - Cynthia Lord
How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes are Untied - Jess Keating
The Mark of the Dragonfly - Jaleigh Johnson
Nest - Esther Ehrlich
Nightingale's Nest - Nikki Loftin
Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin
Revolution - Deborah Wiles
A Snicker of Magic - Natalie Lloyd
The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing - Sheila Turnage
The Meaning of Maggie - Jean Sovern
The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
The Riverman - Aaron Starmer
The Secret Hum of a Daisy - Tracy Holzcer
The Witch's Boy - Kelly Barnhill
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere - Julie T. Lamana
West of the Moon - Margi Preus

2014 Nerdy Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
(a great list with great summaries of each title)

Noggin - John Corey Whaley
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
100 Sideways Miles - Andrew Smith
The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Secret Sky - A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan - Atia Abawi
I Kill the Mockingbird - Paul Acampora
Belzhar - Meg Wolitzer
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
The Summer of Letting Go - Gae Polisner
The Young Elites - Marie Lu
When I Was the Greatest - Jason Reynolds
Threatened - Eliot Shrefer
Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld
Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater
The Story of Owen - E. K. Johnston
Mortal Heart - Robin LaFevers
How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon
Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira
Plus One - Elizabeth Fama
To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han
Pointe - Brandy Colbert
Silver - Chris Wooding
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey

from ALA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults (mostly 2013 dates)

The Naturals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Freakboy - Kristin Elizabeth Clark
The Golden Day - Ursula Dubosarsky
Just One Day - Gayle Forman
The Tragedy Paper - Elizabeth Laban
Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
If You Find Me - Emily Murdock
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Language Inside - Holly Thompson
Navigating Early - Clare Vanderpool

YALSA Teens Top Ten 2014

1.  Splintered - A. G. Howard
2.  Monument 14 - Sky on Fire - Emmy Laybourne
3.  Earth Girl - Janet Edwards
4.  Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo
5.  The Eye of Minds - James Dashner


Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Next Reads

I thought it might be prudent to list the next books up in all the series that I've started and am still interested enough to continue, as well as some authors and titles that have been recommended to me.....

Ahern, Cecelia - One Hundred Names; Love, Rosie

Armstrong, Lori - Merciless (#3 Mercy Gunderson) (2013)  TPPL doesn't own it, but I've requested they find it for me- they did...and lots of other people wanted to read it, too, there was a WL. No new ones in sight.

Black, J. Carson - Laura Cardinal/Tucson #3 The Devil's Hour  #4 Cry Wolf  #5 Flight 12

Bolton, S. J. - she writes a series, but I have two standalones, Awakening and Sacrifice

Brennan, Allison Love Me to Death (#1 Lucy Kincaid) own

Browning, Sinclair - I've read the first two, but so long ago I can't remember them.  Think I'll start over: (#1 The Last Song Dogs, #2 The Sporting Club, #3 Rode Hard, Put Away Dead, #4 Crack Shot, #5 Traggedy Ann)

Cain, Chelsea Let Me Go (#6 Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell) TPPL has audio  #6 was written in 2013 - watch for #7! She has begun a new series in 2014 - about a 21-year-old named Kick Lanagan.  It's called One Kick.

Castillo, Linda - waiting for #6 (Kate Burkholder Ohio Amich country police chief) The Dead Will Tell, coming out 7/8/14! Ingested $6 FAST...now waiting for #7 bummer.

Clare, Cassandra - City of Glass (Mortal Instruments #3)

Cleeves, Ann - Raven Black (#1 Jimmy Perez, Shetland Island) 5 books in series so far

Coben, Harlan Fade Away (#3 Myron Bolitar) Back Spin (#4) One False Move (5)

Cole, David Dragonfly Bones (#5 Laura Winslow, Arizona) Shadow Play (#6)

Condie, Ally - Reached (#3 Matched series)

Connelly, Michael - Lost Light (#9) The Narrows (#10 Harry Bosch) The Closers (#11)-have audio

Crais, Robert - (any except Indigo Slam, L.A. Requium, The Watchman,The Forgotten Man, Chasing Darkness, Taken).... reading out-of-order.   The Two Minute Rule and Suspect are both stand-alones and look great

Cramer, Rebecca - The View from Frog Mountain (#2 Linda Bluenight - Tucson Tohono O'Odham) didn't really like the first but am willing to try another

Doiron, Paul - Trespasser (Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch #2) Bad Little Falls (#3) Massacre Pond (#4)

Dunning, John - Booked to Die (#1 Denver Homocide Det. Cliff Janeway) The Bookman's Wake (#2) The Bookman's Promise (#3)

Evanovich, Janet - next up is #16 Stephanie Plum - Sizzling Sixteen

Fine, Sarah - Book 2 of the "Guards of the Shadowlands" series, not yet out (#1 was Sanctum)

Fowler, Earlene  - I've read the first one twice -ready to read Irish Chain (#2 Benni Harper) Kansas Troubles (#3) Goose in the Pond (#4)

Frost, Mark - Alliance (Paladin Prophecy #2) started it, was boring, don't bother to go on....

Galbraith, Robert (JK Rowling) - The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) will be published in June, 2014

Gardner, Lisa -Alone (#1) - a new-for-me series by Gardner about D. D. Warren (Mass state trooper?)

Grabenstein, Chris - Tilt A Whirl (John Ceepak #1)

Grafton, Sue - U is for Undertow (Kinsey Milhone) have audio  V is for Vengeance  W is for Wasted after that...

Greenlaw, Linda Fisherman's Bend (#2 Jane Bunker, Maine)

Hamilton, Denise - Sugar Skull (LA Investigative Reporter Eve Diamond #2)

Hand, Elizabeth Generation Loss - which takes place in Downeast Maine (Cass Neary #1 - I've read #2 Available Dark) or Standalone Waking the Moon sounds really good....

Hayman, James (McCabe & Savage; Portland, ME) #3 Darkness First

Jackson, Joshilyn - NOT a series, but I eat up her books - and still have three left that I haven't read! I MUST listen to them - she reads them herself and she's terrific! The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (2008) Backseat Saints (2010) and Someone Else's Love Story (2013)

Jacobson, Alan - The 7th Victim (Karen Vail #1) Crush (#2) Velocity (#3)

Hilton, Matt - Dead Men's Dust (#1 ex-military op & CIA Agent Joe Hunter) Judgement and Wrath (#2) Slash and Burn (#3)

Jance, J. A. - Yuck

Kate, Lauren - Fallen (#1 Fallen series) I'm not going to bother to continue with this series.

Kaufman, Thomas - Steal the Show (#2 Willis Gidney)

Kellerman, Faye -

Krueger, William Kent - Boundary Waters (#2 Cork O'Connor) Purgatory Ridge (#3) Blood Hollow (#4)

Laybourne, Emmy - Sky on Fire (#2 Monument 14) Savage Drift (#3 - due out later in 2014)

Lippman, Laura - I've read 8 & 10 Tess Monaghan- try Girl in the Green Raincoat (#11)  or any previous titles....

McGarrity, Michael - Hermit's Peak (#4 Kevin Kearney, NM) The Judas Judge (#5) Under the Color of Law (#6)

Miller, Susan Cummins - Detachment Fault (#2 Tucson-based Frankie McFarlane) Quarry (#3) Hoodoo (#4)

Morrell, David - Scavenger (which is #2 after Creepers, don't think there are any more) and a 1st-in-3 The Brotherhood of the Rose (#1)

O'Connell, Carol The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (#2 Kathleen Mallory, NYPC) Killing Critics (#3) Stone Angel (#4)

O'Shaughenessy, Perri - have read 1 and #10, so I imagine any order would be okay (there are 13 so far) Invasion of Privacy (#2 Nina Reilly Lake Tahoe lawyer) Obstruction of Justice (#3) Breach of Promise (#4)

Oliver, Lauren Requiem (#3 Delirium) ALSO Annabel (#0.5) Hanna (#1.5) Raven (#2.5) and Alex (#3.5)

Parks, Brad - Eyes of the Innocent (#2 Newark investigative reporter Carter Ross) OWN, The Girl Next Door (#3) The Good Cop (#4) The Player (#5)

Pearson, Ridley Killer Summer (#3 Walt Fleming, Sun Valley, ID sheriff) In Harm's Way (#4) HAVE NOT YET READ #1

Pelecanos, George - The Double (#2 Spero Lucas)

Picoult, Jodi - Plain Truth

Riordan, Rick - The Widower's Two-Step (#2 Tres Navarre, San Antonio) The Last King of Texas (#3) The Devil Went Down to Austin (#4)

Roth, Veronica - Allegiant (#3 Divergent)  Read the beginning - blech, tired of them, plus I think the protagonist dies at the end, who needs it?

Roy, Lori - Bent Road

Sandford, John - Shock Wave (#5 Virgil Flowers) (Already read #6, skipped #5) Storm Front (#7)
Deadline (#8)

Satterthwaite, Walter - A Flower in the Desert (#3 Joshua Croft, wisecracking Santa Fe PI) The Hanged Man (#4) Accustomed to the Dark (#5)

Sefton, Maggie - Needled to Death (#2 A Knitting Mystery) don't usually like cozy mysteries, but....try another - there are 11 - then A Deadly Yarn (#3)

Slaughter, Karin - Unseen (#7 Will Trent) I read the previous book, #6-Criminal and loved it.  Guess I should go back and try the ones before it, too.... couldn't get into it, so have gone back to my original thinking to bypass this author.

Spencer-Fleming, Julia - In the Bleak Midwinter (#1 of 7 Rev. Clare Ferguson and Russ VanAlstyne) A Fountain Filled with Blood (#2) Out of the Deep I Cry (#3)  tried - didn't like - too much religion

Spinella, Art - Drago #1 (Oregon coast Nick Drago)

Swain, James The Night Monster (#3) Jack Carpenter, south Florida) The Program (#4)

Talton, Jon Camelback Falls (#2 David Mapstone, Phoenix ex-cop) Dry Heat (#3) Arizona Dreams (#4)

Thompson, James - Kari Vaara, Finnish (Lapland) Police Chief  #2 Lucifer's Tears  #3 Helsinki White  #4 Helsinki Blood  #5  Helsinki Dead 

Thornton, Betsy - Dream Queen (prequel to the others, which I've read)

Thurlo, David & Aimee Blood Retribution (#2 Lee Nez, Vampire Navajo cop) Pale Death (#3) Surrogate Evil (#4)

Verdon, John - Peter Pan Must Die (#4 Dave Gurney) coming in July, 2014!!

Webb, Betty - Desert Shadows (#3 Lena Jones, Phoenix) Desert Run (#4) Desert Cut (#5) Desert Lost (#6) Desert Wind (#7)
                         

Sunday, November 17, 2013

2014 Newbery Hopefuls - and Other 2013 Titles for Kids

I've got a whole stack of books here that I want to read.  I've been checking out reviews and hitting some of the Mock Newbery lists.  The Tucson Library system has almost all that I was looking for, so I've taken them from the library, planning to read some of them myself and try to entice some of my students to try some out. (Hmmmm....notice all the blue or bluish-tinged covers - and DARK covers, too.....)

The Boy on the Porch
Sharon Creech
Sept. 2013, Harper Collins
a very compact 160 pages
Goodreads rating: 3.84 (404 ratings)
Amazon says ages 8-12/Grades 3-7
SLJ says grades 4-6




Paperboy
Vince Vawter
May 2013, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
224 pages - set up weirdly/interestingly with double space between paragraphs
Goodreads rating: 3.97 (516 ratings)
Amazon says ages 10 and up/Grades 5 and up
SLJ says grades 6-9; Booklist says grades 6-8


Road Trip
Gary Paulsen & Jim Paulsen
January 2013, Wendy Lamb Books
114 pgs. - a slender book
Goodreads rating: 3.66 (286 ratings)
Amazon says ages 10 up/Grades 5 up
SLJ says grades 5-7; Booklist says grades 3-7




The Hidden Summer
Gin Phillips
June 2013, Dial
198 pages
Goodreads rating:  3.66 (61 ratings)
Amazon says ages 10 up/Grades 6 up
SLJ says grades 5-7; Booklist says grades 5-8




Hokey Pokey
Jerry Spinelli
January 2013, Knopf Books for Young Readers
286 pages, small-sized book
Goodreads rating:  3.30 (723 ratings)
Amazon says ages 10 up/Grades 5 up
SLJ says grades 5-7; Booklist says grades 7 - 12??




Sure Signs of Crazy
Karen Harrington
August 2013, Little Brown Books for Young Readers
280 pages, another smallish-sized book
Goodreads rating:  4.00 (221 ratings)
Amazon says ages 9 up/Grades 4 up
SLJ says grades 6-9; Booklist says grades 5-8




The Year of Billy Miller
Kevin Henkes
September 2013, Greenwillow Books
Goodreads rating:  3.92 (342 ratings)
229 pages with larger, well-spaced-out font
Amazon says ages 8-12/grades 3-7
SLJ says grades 1-3; Booklist says grades 3-7




Navigating Early
Clare Vanderpool (Newbery-winning author of Moon Over Manifest)
January 2013, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Goodreads rating:  4.11 (1781 ratings)
306 pages
Amazon says ages 10 up/Grades 5 up
SLJ says grades 5-8; Booklist says grades 5-8, too...



Hold Fast
Blue Balliett
March 2013, Scholastic
288 pages (not yet in-hand, so have to check font, etc)
Goodreads rating:  3.78 (1152 reviews)
Amazon says ages 8-12/Grades 3-7
SLJ says grades 6-9; Booklist says grades 4-7




Doll Bones
Holly Black
May 2013, Margaret K. McIlderry Books
244 pages (not sure of size or font)
Goodreads rating:  3.78 (3725 reviews)
Amazon says ages 10-14 /Grades 5-9
SLJ says grades 4-7; Booklist says grades 5-8

The Water Castle
Megan Frazer Blakemore
January 2013, Walker Childrens
304 pages (not sure of size or font)
TAKES PLACE IN MAINE!!
Goodreads rating: 3.88  (416 reviews)
Amazon says ages 10-14/Grades 4-8
SLJ says grades 4-7; Booklist says grades 5-7

The Center of Everything
Linda Urban
March 2013, HMH Books for Young Readers
208 pages (not sure of size or font)
Goodreads rating:  3.78 (631 reviews)
Amazon says ages 9-12/Grades 4-7
SLJ says grades 4-6 ; Booklist says grades 4-6




Counting by 7s
Holly Goldberg Sloan
August 2013, Dell
384 pages (not sure of size or font)
Goodreads rating: 4.36   (1132 reviews)
Amazon says ages 10 up/Grades 5 up
SLJ says grades 7-10;  Booklist says grades 7-10




Far Far Away
Tom McNeal
June 2013, Knopf Books for Young Readers
384 pages (not sure of size or font)
Goodreads rating: 3.93  (912 reviews)
Amazon says ages 12 up/Grades 7 up
SLJ says grades 6 up ; Booklist says grades 7-10




Dead City (Dead City #1: Blue Moon)
James Ponti
October 2012 Simon & Schuster
328 pages
Goodreads rating:   4.19 (157 reviews)
Amazon says ages 9-13/Grades 4-8
SLJ and Booklist not included in Amazon review