Judy Moody Declares Independence
Children's Literature Judy Moody certainly feels her oats in this book. She and her family go on vacation to Boston and experience the excitement of learning about our history. While there she meets another girl her age from London, and is invited by the family to go and stay with them at their hotel for […]
Wicked Game
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Penny Weymouth. Kristin Ramsdell – Library JournalRebecca Ryan Sutcliff hasn't had a vision in years when one brings her to her knees in a shopping mall. She sees Jessie Brentwood, a classmate who disappeared 20 years ago, and fears a connection when a skeleton is unearthed in the […]
206 Bones
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: Reichs isn't above a bit of melodrama, and her heroine is metaphorically tied to the tracks at one awkward juncture?until the forensic procedures take center stage, as they always do in this cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series.
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Washington Post – Dennis Drabelle: The Girl Who Played with Fire confirms the impression left by Dragon Tattoo. Here is a writer with two skills useful in entertaining readers royally: creating characters who are complex, believable and appealing even when they act against their own best interest; and parceling out information in a consistently […]
Dead As a Doornail
Publishers Weekly: Harris's rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery (after 2004's Dead to the World) pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. If trying to discover who's behind the shootings isn't enough, the telepathic cocktail waitress from Bon Temps, La., has to cope with a few […]
All Together Dead
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Harris mixes humorous Southern-fried fantasy with biting satirical commentary in her seventh novel to feature Sookie Stackhouse, the bubbly telepathic barmaid from Bon Temps, La. (after 2006's Definitely Dead). Sookie attends an all-important central U.S. vamp summit on the shores of Lake Michigan as a "human geiger counter" for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire […]
Storm Cycle
Publishers Weekly: At the start of this fast-paced romantic thriller, the second from the bestselling mother and son Johansen team (Silent Thunder), Rachel Kirby, a computer whiz in Houston, Tex., is working hard to spur medical research on Krabbe's disease, a rare nervous-system disorder afflicting her sister, Allie. After Rachel narrowly survives a sniper's bullet, […]
The Devil's Punchbowl
Library Journal: Penn Cage (Quiet Game, Turning Angel), a former prosecuting attorney-turned-novelist, is now mayor of Natchez, MS, his hometown. But all is not well, for the promises he made as a candidate seem all but impossible to achieve as a working mayor. When one of his childhood friends is murdered a day after contacting […]
The Magicians : a Novel
Jenne Bergstrom – Library Journal: Most of us secretly believed as children that we were somehow destined for greatness. Someday there would be a letter delivered by owl or a magical wardrobe, and it would turn out we were the long-lost ruler of a land in eternal winter! Time magazine book critic Grossman (The Codex) […]
The Angel's Game
The New York Times – Terrence Rafferty: In The Angel?s Game, as in his previous novel, The Shadow of the Wind, he spins a fantastically elaborate plot from a slender, whimsical idea. Here it?s the notion that a writer might, on a bad day, succumb to a sense of futility about the value of his […]