Saturday, December 27, 2008

Lady Taylor 2009

Clair Poulsen
1. I'll Find You
2. Relentless
3. Lost and Found
4. Conflict of Interest
5. Runaway
6. Cover-Up
7. Mirror Image
8. Blind Side
9. Evidence

Christian Fiction
1. Diamonds Are Forever - Dennis L. Mangrum
2. Final Act- C. Paul Andersen
3. Voice in the Night - C. Paul Andersen
4. The Light Above - Jean Holbrook Mathews
5. One Last Chance - Jerry Borrowman
6. Dead Wrong - Clair Poulson
7. Mummy's the Word - Kerry Blair
8. Topaz and Treachery - Lynn Gardner
9. Miracles for Michael - JoAnn Arnold

Christmas
1. The Red Suit Diaries Volume 1 - Ed Butchart
2. The Red Suit Diaries Volume 2 - Ed Butchart
3. The Christmas Quest - Richard Siddoway
4. Secret Santa - Anne Osborn Poelman
5. The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans
6. Home for Christmas - Anita Stansfield
7. The Christmas Wish - Richard M. Siddoway
8. Evergreen Miracles - Larry R. & Lisa Gleave Laycock
9. A Return to Christmas - Chris Heimerdinger

Weather Words
1. The Sound of Rain - Anita Stansfield
2. A Distant Thunder - Anita Stansfield
3. Winds of Hope - Anita Stansfield
4. Shelter From the Storm - Anita Stansfield
5. The Silence of Snow - Anita Stansfield
6. The Raging Sea - Sonia O'Brien
7. Little Snowflakes - Robyn Pearl Izquierdo
8. A Light in the Storm - Chris Heimerdinger
9. Counting Stars - Michele Paige Holmes

Takes place in another country
1. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink, takes place in Germany
2. A Train to Potevka - Mike Ramsdell, takes place in Russia
3. Assegai - Wilber Smith - takes place in South Africa
4. My Brother's Voice - Stephen Nasser- takes place in Auschwitz and Hungary
5. Playing for Time - Fania Fenelon - Womens orchestra in Auschwitz-Birkenau
6. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Capt. Ted Lawson - Japan and China
7. A Quiet Courage - Elizabeth R. Skoglund - Hungary, WWll
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
9. Victoria's Daughters - Jerrold M. Packard

Historical-Fact or Fiction
1. We Refused to Die (Bataan Death March) - Gene S. Jacobsen
2. The Killer Angels (Battle at Gettysburg) - Michael Shaara,
3. Assegai (WW1) - Wilber Smith
4. Statehood (Utah) - Marilyn Brown
5. 9-11 Terror in America - David M. Bresnahan
6. Seven Years in Hanoi (Vietnam War) - Capt. Larry Chesley
7. Upon the Mountain - (WWl) - Gale Sears
8. The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor - A.N. Wilson
9. Witness to War A Biography of Marguerite Higgins - Antoinette May

Womens Names
1. Roxey's Choice - Virginia Havens
2. Victoria's Daughters - Jerrold M. Packard
3. Laura - Larry Watson
4. Searching for Selene - Lael Littke
5. I Just Got a Letter from Allyson Pringle - Anya Bateman
6. Zoe's Gift - Leslie Beaton Hedley
7. A Love Like Lilly - Kay Lynn Mangum
8. Jennie - Susan Evans McCloud
9. Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay

Read to or by Nathan
1. The King's Highway - Howard Fullmer
2. Noisy Nora
3. The Case of the Mat's Meow - Crosby Bonsall
4. Ottie and the Star - Laura Jean Allen
5. Frog and Toad Together - Arnold Lobel
6. Dolphin - Robert A Morris
7. Frog and Toad all Year - Arnold Lobel
8. City Sounds - Jean Marzollo
9. Handa's Surprise - Eileen Browne

AARP Recommended/Others bookshelves
1. The Alchemist - Donna Boyd
2. The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
3. Sander's Starfish - Tara C. Allred
4. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood - Ann Brashares
5. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
6. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
7. Sarah's Key - Tatiana De Rosnay
8. Jesse's Highway- -Barbara Miller
9. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg


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Friday, December 26, 2008

Sonja 2009


1)"Hummingbird" by LaVyrle Spencer
2)"Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
3)"Shadowland" (The Mediator Series book one) by Meg Cabot
4) "Reunion" (The Mediator Series book three) by Meg Cabot
5) "Haunted" (The Mediator Series book five ) by Meg Cabot
6) "Twilight" (The Mediator Series book six) by Meg Cabot
7) "Twisted" by Laurie Halse Anderson
8) "Eventide" by Kent Haruf
9) "Catalyst" by Laurie Halse Anderson


1) "Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
2) "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" by Beverly Cleary
3) "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis
4) "Ramona and her Mother " by Beverly Cleary
5) "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
6) "The Princess Bride" by S. Morgenstern
7) "Jacob Havc I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
8) "Misty of Chincoteague" by Marguerite Henry
9) "Hello, Mrs Piggle Wiggle" by Betty MacDonald


1) "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
2) "The Great Gatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald
3) "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
4) "1984" by George Orwell
5) "Lord of the Flies" by William Goulding
6) "Inferno" by Dante
7) "Beowulf" by ??
8) "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
9) "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau


1) "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch (recommended by Ashlee - THANK YOU!)
2) "The Scent of Oranges" by Joan Zawatzky (recommended by Linda)
3) "Ninth Key" (the Mediator series book 2) by Meg Cabot (recommended by Robin)
4) "Darkest Hour" (the Mediator series book 4) by Meg Cabot (recommended by Robin)
5) "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean (recommended by Newberry)
6) "Odd Man Out" by Sarah Ellis (recommended by Robin)
7) "Skulduggery Pleasant" by Derek Landy (recommended by Robin)
8) "Emma-Jean Lazurus Fell Out of a Tree" by Lauren Tarshis (recommended by Robin)
9) "Summer of Pearls" by Mike Blakely (recommended by Linda)

1) "Hank the Cowdog: The Original Adventures"by John R. Erickson and Gerald L. Holmes (read with Nathan)
2) "The Rangers Apprentice - The Ruins of Gorlan" by John Flanagan (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
3) "The Rangers Apprentice - The Burning Bridge (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
4) "The Rangers Apprentice - The Icebound Land (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
5) "The Rangers Apprentice - The Battle for Skandia (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
6) "Eragon" by Christopher DePaolini (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
7) "Eldest" by Christopher DePaolini (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
8) "Brisingr" by Christopher DePaolini (read with Emily and Elizabeth)
9) "The Rangers Apprentice- Sorceror of the North by John Flanagan (read with E1 and E2)


1) "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
2) "I capture the castle" by Dodie Smith
3) "The Men I Didn't Marry" by Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnurnberger
4) "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer
5) "New Moon" by Stephanie Meyer
6) "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink ( also recommended by Roxey)
7) "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary Schmidt
8) "Elephant Run" by Roland Smith
9) "Granny Torelli makes Soup" by Sharon Creech


Stories of princesses, knights, dragons, etc
1)"Loyalty's Web" by Joyce DiPastena (read if you want to be bored to tears)
2)"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett
3)"World without End" by Ken Follett
4)"The Tales of Beetle the Bard" by JK Rowling
5) "Avalon High" by Meg Cabot
6) "The Hero and the Crown" by Robin McKinlay
7) "Dealing with Dragons" by Patricia C Wrede
8) "Searching for Dragons" by Patricia C Wrede
9) "Calling on Dragons" by Patricia C Wrede


1) "The Spellman Files - a novel" by Lisa Lutz
2) "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
3) "The girls of Riyadh" by Rajaa Alsanea
4) "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" by David Werbolewski
5) "Wicked- The Life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West" by Gregory Maguire
6) "Mr Poppers Penguins" by Richard and Florence Atwater
7) "The Curse of the Spellman's " by Lisa Lutz
8) "The Revenge of the Spellman's" by Lisa Lutz
9) "I, Coriander" by Sally Gardener


1)"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
2)"The City of Ember" by Jeanne Duprau
3) "The Diamond of Darkhold" by Jeanne DuPrau
4) "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment" by James Patterson
5) "Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever" by James Patterson
6) "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports" by James Patterson
7) "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
8) "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood
9) "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Ashlee 2009



1. "Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
2. "A Day No Pigs Would Die" by Robert Newton Peck
3. "The Looking Glass Wars" by Frank Beddor
4. "The Golem's Eye" by Jonathan Stroud
5. "How to Ditch Your Fairy" by Justine Larbalestier
6. "Ghostgirl" by Tonya Hurley
7. "Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox" by Eoin Colfer
8. "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie" by Alan Bradley
9. "Gone" by Michael Grant





1."How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff
2. "Jellicoe Road" by Melina Marchetta
3. "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary Schmidt
4. "Airborn" by Kenneth Oppel
5. "The Garden of Eve" by K.L. Going
6. "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
7. "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
8. "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol 2: The Kingdom of the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
9. "American Born Chinese" by Gene Lee Yang




1. "The Root Cellar" by Janet Lunn
2. "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before" by David Yoo
3. "Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go" by Dale E. Basye
4. "The Summoning" by Kelley Armstrong
5. "A is for Alibi" by Sue Grafton
6. "The Undomestic Goddess" by Sophie Kinsella
7. "Nobody's Princess" by Esther Friesner
8. "Wolves of Willoughby Chase" by Joan Aiken
9. "City of the Sun" by David Levien




1. "The River" by Gary Paulsen
2. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis
3. "The Silver Chair" by C.S. Lewis
4. "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
5. "The Magician's Nephew" by C.S. Lewis
6. "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
7. "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J. K. Rowling
8. "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
9. "Love Among the Walnuts" by Jean Ferris




1. "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
2. "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery
3. "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
4. "1984" by George Orwell
5. "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
6. "The Last Battle" by C.S. Lewis
7. "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Patterson
8. "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll




1. "The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands" by Laura Schlessinger
2. "Massacre at Mountain Meadows" by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, & Glen M. Leonard
3. "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran
4. "Brother, I'm Dying" by Edwidge Danticat
5. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch
6. "The Zookeeper's Wife" by Diane Ackerman
7. "Called out of Darkness" by Anne Rice
8. "My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor
9. "The Woman Who Can't Forget" by Jill Price



1. "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor
2. "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
3. "Holes" by Louis Sachar
4. "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
5. "Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
6. "Summer of the Swans" by Betsy Byars
7. "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
8. "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
9. "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman



1. "War Child: A Child Soldier's Story" by Emmanuel Jal
2. "Everyone is Beautiful" by Katherine Center
3. "Lucky Breaks" by Susan Patron
4. "The Witch's Guide to Cooking with Children" by Keith McGowan
5. "Radiant Darkness" by Emily Whitman
6. "Schemers: A Nameless Detective Novel" by Bill Pronzini
7. "Going Bovine" by Libba Bray
8. "Scat" by Carl Hiaasen
9. "That Old Cape Magic" by Richard Russon



1. "Size 12 Is Not Fat" by Meg Cabot
2. "The Eleventh Man" by Ivan Doig
3. "One More Day" by Mitch Abom
4. "Thirteen At Dinner" by Agatha Christie
5. "A Thousand Never Evers" by Shana Burg
6. "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
7. "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup
8. "My One Hundred Adventures" by Polly Horvath
9. "One in a Million" by Kimberla Lawson Roby


1. "Big Boned" by Meg Cabot
2. "Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets" by P.G. Wodehouse
3. "Pack Up the Moon" by Mary Anne Kelly
4. "The Palace of Laughter" by Jon Berkeley
5. "The Dark Hills Divide" by Patrick Carman
6. "Diary of a Fairy Godmother" by Esme Raji Codell
7. "Every Soul a Star" by Wendy Mass
8. "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
9. "11 Birthdays" by Wendy Mass
10. "Silent to the Bone" by e.l. konigsburg
11. "Confessions of an Unbalanced Woman" by Emily Watts
12. "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison