Join us for the 2012 Adult Summer Reading Program from June 26—August 17!
Submit a book review for any book/eBook/audiobook you read. One title per entry. It must be something you have not previously read.
When you visit the library, pick up a book review from the Adult Summer Reading Table and fill it out.
Need some book ideas? Read some of the book reviews below from library patrons!
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1. Title: Soon I Will Be Invincible
Author: Austin Grossman
Rate: Excellent
Summary: Chapter narration alternates between Doctor Impossible (evil mad scientist) and Fatale (a novice cyborg superheroine). It follows their origins up to present day when Dr. Impossible attempts world domination.
Enjoy? Yes, great fun delving into the mind of a super genius gone bad.
Suggest? Yes.
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2. Title: Resolution
Author: Robert B. Parker
Rate: Excellent
Summary: This is a sequel to Appaloosa. It is a western following Everret Hitch & Virgil Cole, two ex-lawmen who get caught between a greedy mine owner and local ranchers.
Enjoy? Yes, good old fashioned western. The good guys are good and the bad guys are bad-no grey areas.
Suggest? Yes
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3. Title: Maximum Ride School’s Out Forever
Author: James Patterson
Rate:
Summary: Bird children continue adventures
Enjoy? Yes, fast action, can’t put it down
Suggest? Yes
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4. Title: Maximum Ride Angel
Author: James Patterson
Rate:
Summary: Genetically engineered children escape.
Enjoy? Yes, great adventures and fun
Suggest? Yes
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5. Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Author: E.L. James
Rate: Excellent
Summary: Anastasia Steele meets Christian Grey, a powerful and controlling CEO. As they become closer, she learns about his past and he has more secrets than she could have ever imagined.
Enjoy? Yes! This book was like nothing I’ve ever read before, I couldn’t put it down.
Suggest? Yes!
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6. Title: Gypped
Author: Carol Higgins Clark
Rate:
Summary: PI Regan Reilly meets her old friend Zelda and helps her figure out who is trying to make her sick. As usual there are many plot twists to keep the story fun!
Enjoy? Yes it’s a great summer read!
Suggest? Yes.
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7. Title: Lean Mean Thirteen
Author: Janet Evanovich
Rate: Excellent
Summary: I have not read any newer one-this is when I make time to read-Stephanie Plum gets into lots of trouble-Also she has 2 sexy men guarding her. Her side kick is so funny.
Enjoy? Yes
Suggest? Of course.
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8. Title: Chicken Soup for Every Mom’s Soul
Author: Various
Rate: Excellent
Summary: So many different stories. At 50 years old I know I have the best Mom in the world. I have boy/girl twins 26 years old, a 24 year old daughter-who gave me this book. I have also acquired an 8 year old step son. All my kids love me but I stop and take a hard look at myself and try not to wear too many shoes.
Enjoy? Yes.
Suggest? Yes.
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9. Title: Saving the World & Other Extreme Sports
Author: James Patterson
Rate: Excellent
Summary: More adventures of the Genetic Bird kids.
Enjoy? Yes lots of action, holds your interest.
Suggest? Yes.
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10. Title: Final Warning
Author: James Patterson
Rate: Excellent
Summary: Max & co. in Antarctica
Enjoy? Yes lots of action.
Suggest? Yes.
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11. Title: The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower 1
Author: Stephen King
Rate: Great
Summary: Roland Deschain, The Gunslinger, pursues the man in black to get answers to his quest for the dark tower. All of the people he meets on the way end up dead.
Enjoy? Yes
Suggest? Yes, but only if you are willing to read all 7 books. I know I will!
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12. Title: Jericho’s Fall
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Rate: Okay
Summary: A past director of the CIA lays dying in Colorado. His former mistress goes to visit him in his dying days, only to learn she must run from her life as well.
Enjoy? No, it jumps around a lot and was not so thrilling.
Suggest? No/Maybe
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13. Title: The Door to December
Author: Dean Koontz
Rate: Great
Summary: It starts with a father kidnapping his own daughter, but he performs cruel physical and mental experiences on her. But what he opens in the little girl proves to be more than he wanted.
Enjoy? Yes Koontz brings myriad elements together seamlessly to tell a gripping thriller.
Suggest? Yes
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14. Title: Keeping Secrets
Author: Linda Byler
Rate: Excellent
Summary: A young Amish woman and her family’s struggles, joys through life.
Enjoy? Yes, these books are very well written by an Amish author! If you like to read about good, kind people this is your kind of book.
Suggest? Oh yes!
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15. Title: A Tale of Three Kings
Author: Gene Edwards
Rate: Excellent
Summary: A Bible story of David and Saul and then David and Absalom. It’s a story of meekness, humility and how to handle when people come against you.
Enjoy? Yes, great read! (Fast read too). Will read more by this author.
Suggest? Yes, it has helped me already. I will not be able to forget this story.
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16. Title: Water for Elephants
Author: Sara Gruen
Rate: Excellent
Summary: Love story-back in the day traveling Circus. The owner had a beautiful wife-mostly he was unkind to the people, animals; all he wanted was to make money.
Enjoy? Yes, but the movie was better-I saw it before I read the book.
Suggest? Yes, if you did not see the movie first. I love to read but in this case I wished I had read the book before I rented the movie.
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17. Title: The Struggle
Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter
Rate: None given
Summary: Hannah doesn’t want to leave her mom in Pennsylvania. Her husband Timothy wants to join his brothers in Kentucky. He feels Hannah puts her mother before him.
Enjoy? Yes, shows love of family and a simpler way of life the Amish live.
Suggest? Yes.
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18. Title: Jericho’s Fall
Author: Stephen L. Carter
Rate: Okay
Summary: Espionage, spies, etc.
Enjoy? No, incongruent sequencing of events, lots of loose ends, never answered, flair of writing slow than way too fast.
Suggest? No.
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19. Title: How I Got This Way
Author: Regis Philbin
Rate: Good
Summary: People places and things he has done over his 80 years.
Enjoy? Yes, this was a fast read for me. I have been watching his show for 17 years or more. Not much was written that I did not hear about-I also read his other books!
Suggest? Yes, if you like Regis.
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20. Title: The Next Accident
Author: Lisa Gardner
Rate: Excellent
Summary: Someone seeking revenge on an FBI agent and his family.
Enjoy? Yes, hard to put down, great read, suspenseful, unexpected ending
Suggest? Yes.
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21. Title: When Christmas Comes
Author: Debbie Macomber
Rate: None given
Summary: Widowed Emily, a kindergarten teacher, looks forward to surprising her daughter in Boston. She trades homes with a Harvard professor who is surprised by Emily’s best friend Faith! Professor Charles is grumpy but ends up falling in love with Faith. Meanwhile in Boston, Emily is surprised by Charles’s brother Ray who spends the Holidaus with her showing her Boston, since Emily’s daughter Heather has run off with a biker!
Enjoy? Yes two great stories in one!
Suggest? Yes.
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22. Title: Johnny Angel
Author: Danielle Steel
Rate: None given
Summary: A young boy and girl (12th graders) who go to their senior prom get in an auto accident. Young man dies. His mom is visited by his spirit and gets through her grief.
Enjoy? Yes because we all deal with grief.
Suggest? Yes.
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23. Title: Angels Nest
Author: Emily March
Rate: None given
Summary: How we deal with life changes. It is a three book series and best of all, all the books are available at the library!
Enjoy? Yes, because MCLS has the whole set. It is real life situations.
Suggest? Yes.
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24. Title: 11-22-63
Author: Stephen King
Rate: Excellent
Summary: A teacher, Jake Epping, is asked to help Al from the diner by going back to 9/9/1958 through Al’s portal. His idea: to stay in the past until 1963 to stop the assassination of JFK!
Enjoy? Yes, it has great historical info as well as fantasy and entertainment.
Suggest? Yes.
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25. Title: Mystery
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Rate: Great
Summary: Alex Delaware helps Milo solve the identity of a mysterious murdered woman that Alex saw alive just hours ago.
Enjoy? Yes.
Suggest? Yes, especially if you like other Alex Delaware books.
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26. Title: Tribute
Author: Nora Roberts
Rate: Good!
Summary: A former child actress returns to the home of her grandmother (another famous singer/actress) to renovate the home and live there. A local does not want her there and creates problems.
Enjoy? Yes it is the perfect “beach” book…romance, mystery. You need to suspend reality but that’s the beauty of a beach book.
Suggest? Yes.
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27. Title: Force of Nature
Author: C.J. Box
Rate: Great
Summary: It is the latest in the Joe Pickett series. It takes place in Montana/Wyoming/Colorado area. The main characters are a Game Warden and a falconer. However, the Master Falconer is being stalked by former comrades in special services.
Enjoy? Yes. Although I’ve visited most of the area, the life is so extremely different from mine that I find all the taken for granted small elements of life fascinating. This one has the added adventure of the Life/Death Quest for Nate.
Suggest? Yes.
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28. Title: Seal Team Six
Author: Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin.
Rate: Excellent
Summary: It is about the Navy Seals and the outcasts due to not following orders.
Enjoy? It is excellent and it is a book that I didn’t want to put down.
Suggest? Yes.
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29. Title: Max
Author: James Patterson
Rate: None given
Summary: The Bird kids in Hawaii, no vacation.
Enjoy? Yes-action.
Suggest? Yes.
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30. Title: Where Angels Go
Author: Debbie Macomber
Rate: None given
Summary: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy are 3 angels assigned to “help” those who have made a prayer request on Earth. This Christmas, Mercy is assigned to an elderly man who is dying, and helps bring him comfort as he is worried about what will happen to his wife after he dies. Goodness is sent to help a woman fall in love after being divorced for years. Shirley is sent to help a little boy at his only Christmas wish-a dog!
Enjoy? Yes another great entertaining book with these 3 mischievous angels!
Suggest? Yes
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31. Title: Primal Scream
Author: Michael Slade
Rate: Great
Summary: The book keeps you guessing, I thought the book was hard to put down; then again I was not as good at Headhunter.
Enjoy? Yes-good ending.
Suggest? Maybe.
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32. Title: Deception
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Rate: Great
Summary: Alex Delaware and his friend Milo Sturgis solve the mystery of a murdered woman that teaches at a prestigious prep schoo..
Enjoy? Yes, good mystery.
Suggest? Yes.
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33. Title: The Wednesday Letters
Author: Jason F. Wright
Rate: Great
Summary: With the death of their parents, three siblings come home to bury their parents and mourn. They find that their father has written their mother a letter every Wednesday of their 40 year marriage.
Enjoy? Yes. Despite sharing a home for decades, children know so little about their parent’s lives. The letters give them insight.
Suggest? Yes!
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34. Title: The Big Cat Nap
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Rate: Great
Summary: Murder mystery set in Virginia-latest in a series with a set cast of characters, both human and animal. Familiar characters are joined by new ones for each book. A cat named Mrs. Murphy is a key observer and problem solver in each story. She provides a view of human interactions that is always interesting.
Enjoy? Yes. Well described settings and interesting characters added to topical political and social observations make for a fast and informative read where you are both entertained and informed about important issues.
Suggest? Yes.
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35. Title: Finding Her Way Home
Author: Linda Goodnight
Rate: None given
Summary: A woman that was a police officer. She was abused by a rapist. How she moves away to work through her terror and finds love.
Enjoy? Yes, it shows how we can overcome things.
Suggest? Yes.
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36. Title: The Orphan Master’s Son
Author: Adam Johnson
Rate: Excellent!
Summary: This is a spellbinding story of a young man in North Korea. Pak Jun Dao is the son of a man who runs a work camp for orphans. He becomes a soldier, a professional kidnapper, and whatever role he is assigned by the government. It is a fascinating look at how this dictatorship controls the lives of its people. The hero is a character that captures your heart and makes you hope that he will survive.
Enjoy? Yes central character is captivating; a look inside North Korea is unusual and so interesting.
Suggest? Yes.
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37. Title: Death of a Kingfisher
Author: M.C. Beaton
Rate: Excellent!
Summary: Scottish police Constable Hamish is trying to solve a series of vandalism and accidents in “The Fairy Glen”, which is a local tourist attraction. His judgment is slightly off due to an attraction to the beautiful and flirtatious developer of the property.
Enjoy? Yes I love this author. The characters are eccentric and interesting.
Suggest? Yes.
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38. Title: Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Rate: Excellent!
Summary: The famed Clovis Anderson arrives for a visit. Mma Potokwane, the head of the orphan school is losing her job and the best apprentice at her husband’s garage is in trouble with the law. Grace Makutsi and her new husband are building their dream house with a questionable contractor. Mma Ramotse has several ethical dilemmas to resolve.
Enjoy? I love the author; the characters are rich, ethics from simpler times
Suggest? Yes.
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39. Title: Home from the Sea
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Rate: None given
Summary: A young girl in Wales who is brought to understand she has magic she can use. She finds out about her family background, which is NOT what she expects, she makes new friends who help her come to terms with her new understanding of what she can do in her life.
Enjoy? Good story, good characters, carries on series began by author with other stories.
Suggest? YES
Published on July 12, 2012.
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