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2005 - January (4), 2004 - August (4), 2004 - November (3), 2005 - April (3), 2005 - August (3), 2004 - October (3), 2006 August. Recommended by Marty from library. (2), 2004 - September (2), 2005 - July (2), 2005 - March (2), Hadley Richardson (1), to pay back debts they owe the sister. (medical (1), 2010/09 - Second book in trilogy. Better than the first. Anxious to read the third one. (1), 2010/07 - Read on Kindle - Interesting 1901 account of a woman who answers an ad a Wisconsin millionare lists in the Chicago Newspaper. A devious scheme transpires between the new wife & the man's wayward son. A little too much sex to suit me but interest (1), 2010/07 - Read on Kindle - 1939 depression era in Colorado mining town. Friendship forms between 83 yr. oldtimer & new 17 yr. old bride. Their lives parallel oneanother. Endearing story that brings two women together. (1), 2010/09 - Read on Kindle. Memoir of a summer two college girls from Iowa spent in NYC in 1944. Delightful encounter of life at the end of WW II (1), the people they met (1), living on a small income. Highly recommend this book. (1), 2010/08 - Read on Kindle. WW II novel. (1), 2010/08 - Read on Kindle. A Memoir. (1), 2010/10 - Lititz Library. Eleven year old girl & her mother are brought here from China by the mother's sister. They must work in a garment factory owned by the sister's husband (1), air fare from China (1), 2010/07 - Read on Kindle - A violin is accepted by a bail bonds man for bail in lieu of money. Violin is owned by gypsys & valued at $80 (1), 2011/01 - Read on Kindle. Another Grisham legal novel takes place in Missouri & Texas. Wrong man accused of murder & is executed before the minister who knows the real killer has time to get his confession to the Governor. Questions capital punishment & t (1), Najin Han (1), about a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in occupied Korea. 20th century (1), ispired by the life of the author's mother (1), 2011/03 - Read on Kindle. Debut novel (1), 2011/03 - Read on Kindle. Difficult to get into. About 25% of the way through the story line picked up. Conjoined twins born to a nun & fathered by the surgeon at the Mission Hospital in Ethiopia are surgically separated by their father Dr. Stone. Stone i (1), 2011/02 - Read on Kindle. All 50 state have enforced the "Safe Haven" policy. Hopefully this will prevent abortions & killings of newborn babies. (1), 2011/02 - Read on Kindle. What a powerful story of struggles with the feelings of the heart. And to think the author was only 23 years old. She was very insightful for her age. (1), 2011/01 - Read on Kindle. Just a fun & funny book to read between the heavy stuff. (1), from Africa to England & the story of how one of the girls survives & manages to make her way to England in steerage to seek out the English tourists. (1), apartment in abandon building owned by sister). Living & working conditions are horendous. Story of survival in which the girl manages to get an education because of her high intelligence (1), 2010/12 - Read in Kindle. Horrific African beach scene. Terrorist apporach tourist who are trying to protect two young girls from them. The magic of what happens is how it unfolds (1), how her family handles it. Youngest daughter saw signs a year before she was diagnosed. Husband was in denial. Excellent. Makes you more aware of others around who who may have signs of dimentia. Would highly recommend this book to everyone. (1), 2011/01 - Read on Kindle. Alzheimer's patient in early stages. Professor of psychology. How she copes (1), etc. Half way through it all started to come together. Good read. Too bad the author has died. Stieg had a unique way of writing. I would have liked to read more of his works. (1), 2010/12 - Read in Kindle. Last book in the trilogy. Started out a little slow & hard to keep track of all the names & groups of people - whose side they were on (1), 2011/01 - Read on Kindle. True account of young girl from Yemen who was married off when she was 9 to a man 3 times her age. She was able to escape from her mother's home & get to a Judge who put her in contact with a female lawyer who handled women's rig (1), 2010/11 - Lititz Library. Another delightful #1 Ladies Detective Agency book taking place in Botswana & a case solved in the Ocavonga Delta at Eagle Island Camp. (1), 2010/10 - Lititz Library. Recommended by Sue Landis. Excellent book. Castration of abby choir boy to save his singing voice. Struggles with social acceptance. Love affair with daughter of prominent family. (1), & get them out of their poverty. (1), 000. Everyone seems to want the fiddle & a con game begins with people getting killed over the violin. (1), romance (1), 2010/06 - Read on Kindle - Spans several decades from Italy to America. American Italians deal with black Italian-american mafia demanding payment for protection of their stores. Interesting to read the history of that era. (1), Ukraine. Clever way it was written. Usually don't read romances but this was different than most gushy ones. (1), 2010/04 - Lititz Library - Life on Cannery Row in 1945 (1), 2010/04 - Lititz Library (1), printing. (1), Westminster Abbey & secrets of Cut-Throat Lane. Maggie Butterfield & Jeb Kellaway are drawn into William Blake's spell of poetry (1), mustard factories (1), 2010/03 - Library book. 1792 Georgian London: circus spectaces (1), 2010/03 - Library book recommended by Sue. Romance takes place in Odessa (1), Mack & his boy where only the fittest survie. (1), 2010/02 - Loaded on Kindle. Exellent fiction based on facts of Japanese citizens in Seattle being relocated during WWII (1), SC - 1967 to 1988 at the beginning of segregation. Story revolves around 17 yr. old (1), 2010/01 -Loaded on Kindle. Takes place in Charleston (1), tornados. Depression era & dust bowl times. (1), 2010/02 - Loaded on Kindle. Excellent true-life novel told in words of Jeannette Walls grandmother; growing up on ranches in NM & TX. They broke horses for carriaes in the 1800's. Struggles with floods (1), 2010/01 - Loaded on Kindle. 700 pages. An historical novel about the seach for Count Dracula's tomb. This book was hard to keep reading for any length of time. But the historical sgnficance was worth keeping at it. (1), Califonia. Stories of Doc (1), 2010/04 - Lititz Library - Niagara Falls 1912 - Hydro Electric Plants. Touching love story of the falls & the young couple who shared that love. (1), 2010/06 - Read on Kindle - present day in Sweden. Mystery & Intrigue. Graphic & raw in parts of the story. First in the trilogy. Will read something lighter before beginning the next book. (1), intriguing novel with realistic characters & an unexpected ending. Enjoyable fairytales told within the story. Takes place in England (1), several miles from Paris. She convinces the farmer & his wife to take her to Paris & her former apartment so she can release her brother from the cupboard. What follows is harrowing. (1), longs to choose her own destiny. Guided by her Christian upbringing & encouraged by her mother (1), box car trains & off to concentration camps. Sarah excapes one of the camps & finds her way to a farm outside Orleans (1), 2010/06 - Read on Kindle - 1942 Paris France. Holicost victims of the Val de Hiv roundup. 12 year old Sarah & her parents are routed out of the home by the French police on orders of the German Nazis. Sarah locks her 4 year old brother Michel in a hidden (1), 2010/06 - Read on Kindle. Mississippi Delta right after WWII. Negro hero comes home to same prejidices he left before the war. White soldier comes back at the same time but unable to handle the horrors of war. They befriend each other with their haunting (1), Australia & back to England. Really enjoyed reading this novel. (1), 2010/06 - Read on Kindle. Spans 100 years. Old fashioned (1), 2010/04 - Lititz Library - Biography by Harry Bernstein. Jewish & Christian families living on either side of the street that were brought together by a love story. (1), lives in the kitchen house & is raised by the Negro slaves. As time passes she cannot understand why she can't be part of the Negro family. Instead she spends more time in the big house with the captain & his wife. Things take a turn for the worse when th (1), 2010/05 - Read on Kindle. Late 1700;s - 1810 - Virginia tobacco plantation. Plantation owner aquires an indentured servent from Ireland after her parents die on board ship. She is payment for their passage. Lavinia (1), 2010/05 - Read on Kindle. Autistic boy with Asperger's has a highly intelectual forensic mind at solving crimes. He becomes involved with the death of his tutor after setting up the crime scene to look like someone else did it. Excellent view on autism & (1), she rescues a book that is being burned. (1), 2010/05 - Read on Kindle. Nazi occupied Germany. A young girl & her foster family hide a Jew in their basement. He teaches the girl to read & she eventually begins to steal books from the mayors wife's home. Her first book was stolen from the cemetary whi (1), not sure how much was real or imagined by the victum of the rape who spent time in a mental hospital. (1), 2010/05 - Read on Kindle while in hospital. Fast read (1), the privileged daughter of a calligrapher (1), 2011/04 - Lititz Library 14 day book. Takes place in a bedroom community 100 miles north of NYC. Neighbors keep an eye one another's kids. Maggie is a psychologist & her husband is the lead detective. Their son (1), her father is determined to maintain tradition (1), 2012/02 - Read on Kindle. When both parents die on the same day (1), 2012/03 - Read on Kindle. Each chapter was a case Wittman solved of a work of art that was stolen either from a museum or a private collection. Read chapters of this great read to Dick as we traveled from CA. (1), 2012/03 - Lititz Library. Loved this book & the stories behind Madelein Albright's pins. Also included items from her jewel box that are on tour. (1), writes a true acount of her accident while riding her bike in Alaska & how she coped with the aftermath of her injuries. A semi-spiritual journey to recovery. (1), author of "If You Lived Here I Would Know Your Name" (1), 2012/02 - Read on Kindle. Heather Lende (1), the 3 siblings must come together to sort out their parent's belongings. They come across letters their father wrote to their mother every Wednesday as a promise he made on their wedding day. They learn so much more about their parents than they could eve (1), 2012/02 - read on Kindle. Wonderful story told in the dog's perspective. His master is a race car drive. Enzo watches & listens to everything humans say & do. One day he is sure he will be reincarnated as a human. The end of the book brings his dream true (1), 2012/04 - Lititz Library. Good quick read. Pickett is a forest ranger whose teritory is in Montana & Wyoming. Gets involved in solving crimes in the areas he is assigned to. (1), 2011/12 - Read on Kindle. Great stories by Grisham. A different style for him but very interesting. (1), 2012/01 - Lititz Library. As always (1), 2012/01 - Read on Kindle. Recommended by Josie. Fantasy about future in the U.S. after it is destroyed by atomic blasts. Interesting reading but not my style. May read the next two in the trilogy just to see where it takes the characters. (1), 2012/01 - Lititz Library. Great novel placed in 1893 in America & England. Customs of the two countries interesting. The American's mother wants Cora to go to London in the persuit of a husband with a title. She finds Ivo purley by accident. She marries t (1), 2010/12 - Read on Kindle. Garrett investigates 5 L.A. cops who have retired in Idaho & are dealing in drugs. (1), 2010/12 - Read on Kindle. Interesting new author to me. C.J. Box writes a good mystery based on the life of a forest ranger. Wind Farm rancher/owner is condemed by his fellow ranchers for having the wind turbines errected near neighboring ranchers. He is (1), 2012/03 - Read on Kindle. Quick read between historic novels & non-fiction. Entertaining. (1), 2012/04 - Lititz Library. Another entertaining mystery solved by Joe Pickett. (1), 2011/10 - Lititz Library. Another page turner by Petterson & Michael Ledwidge. Det. Bennett is called upon to track down serial killer known as "Teacher". (1), a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer in the historic novel that takes place in 1666. Convinced by a visionary young minister (1), 2012/07 - Lititz Library - Historical fiction spaning 4 generations of Kelly's/Keely's. Begins in 1845 in Ireland during the potatoe famin. Two widow sisters sail to Amerikay with 8 children between them on a slave ship. Their survival in America is amazi (1), 2012/06 - Lititz Library - Women's Murder Club. 1st in series by Patterson. Interesting group of four women who form their own investigating team to solve mysteries. (1), and the lure of dangerous and illicit love. (1), the disintegration of her community (1), Anna must confront the deaths of family (1), the villagers elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundaries. When villagers turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting (1), 2012/06 - Lititz Library. When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village (1), 2012/04 - Lititz Library. Retired L.A. cops retire in a secluded area of Montana & begin an drug smuggling operation. Good mystery. (1), killing & hard work on the plains. (1), hobos join the tide. Serial Killer comes along & believes he has holy calling to water the newly plucked earth with blood. Charlie Krueger follows the harvest & is the only person who has seen the face of the killer. Romance (1), steam engineers (1), bringing in wheat harvest. Custom hreshers (1), women & machines move across the land (1), 2012/06 - Lititz Library. Historical novel takes place summer of 1919 on high prairie. Men (1), Patterson does not fail to write a page turner. Enjoyed. (1), 2011/10 - Read on Kindle. Lives of four women who left home & family behind to mary their wartime sweethearts. Takes place in London. (1), especially as the Japanese steadily gain control. (1), daughter if the island's Calvinist minister. She is a brilliant young woman who aches for the education her father wastes on her dull brother. Caleb (1), 28 year old Midwestern spinster (1), 2011/05 - Read on Kindle. Ernest Hemingway's first wife (1), 2011/03 - Read on Kindle. An 18 year old boy with autism is accused of a murder he did not commit. Great insight into the mind of an autistic person and the intelligence they possess. (1), 2011/04 - Read on Kindle. Good fun to read novel about a lawyer whose office in run out of his Lincoln Town Car driven by his ex-convict driver. Sunmmer reading. (1), 2011/05 - Read on Kindle. Based on the life of Clara Driscoll who worked for L.C. Tiffany in his glass/mosaic works in 1893 preparing the stained glass windows for his exhibit in the Chicago World Fair. She had 32 'girls' working under her & had to fight (1), has a genius for letters & her father soon realizes this & prepares hom for study at Harvard. Interesting twist to how the English tried to Christianize the native Americans. (1), befriends Bethia Mayfield (1), we see all of twenties Paris & larger-than-life artists who gather in the cafes. And we see (1), a native Wampanoag (1), 2011/05 - Read on Kindle. 1640 Martha's Vineyard. Caleb (1), 2010/01 - Loaded on Kindle. Excellent depiction of 1960's in Jackson (1), 2011/04 - Read on Kindle. Absolutely amazing true story of survival on the open seas & in POW camps in Japan. A must read for everyone. (1), Charlene. The story parallels thedisappearance of another local girl that shook the communithy years ago when Maggie was a teenager. A page turner (1), & his friends become involved in the disappearance of Rick's girlfriends (1), marries 21 year old unpublished Hemingway. She runs off to Paris with him. Through Hadley's eyes & plain-speaking voice (1), through her love for him (1), 2011/08 - Read on Kindle. True account of serial killings that began in 1968 in Italy. Still being solved today. (1), keep her relationship from her family & remain safe. She becomes willing to risk her personal happiness for the life of a stranger. (1), 2011/08 - Read on Kindle. (1), gives her sanction in his home & eventually marries her. He is a drug dealer off the keys that she eventually discovers. She runs away from him & fakes her death by accident. Ends up in New York under an assumed name & fake identification. Eventually beco (1), 2011/09 - Read on Kindle. Another nailbiter by Patterson. College student gets into trouble in Key West & is abandonded by her college friends while on break from college. Police officer comes to her aid (1), 2011/09 - Read on Kindle. True account of american Ambasador Dodd in Berlin. He could see what Hitler & the SS were doing to the people & how Hitler was trying to take control of Germany & surrounding countries. Roosevelt & American politicians & news med (1), Joy goes back to China to find her biological father who is a famous painter. (1), 2011/08 - Read on Kindle. Sequal to Shanghi Girls. 1955 (1), 2011/07 - Lititz Library - 14 day book. W.W. II draws closer to Guernsey Island. Vivienne de la Mare makes sacrifices for herself & daughters & mother-in-law whom she cares for while her husband is away fighting. She falls in love with a German soldier wh (1), the young writer becoming the Hemingway of legend. (1), Pinkerton & his wife. Author takes liberty in continuing the story where the opera leaves off. Interesting take on what happens to a child of mixed marriage when taken out of his native country. I enjoyed reading his experiences and lessons on becoming a (1), 2011/07 - Lititz Library - 14 day book. Journey of the child that was taken from Butterfly by her 'husband' (1), the boy Ethen. Now I really know that a dog has a purpose in life. Or many purposes. (1), 2011/07 - Read on Kindle. A charming book told by a dog who lives three lives. The last life brings him full circle to his first life with his master (1), 2011/07 - Lititz Library 7-day book. Another charming Isabel Dalhousie novel. Isabel has a unique way of solving other's problems. I get bogged down in her phyiosophy at times. (1), book traces the journey of one young man from Radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism. (1), 2011/02 - Read on Kindle. Highly charged Updike novel tackles one of America's most burning issues - the threat of Islamist terror from within. Set in contemporary New Jersey (1), Mississippi & treatment of black maids by white elite. An eyeopener. Highly recommend. Great for a first time author. (1), 2009/11 - Library loan. Great Christmas book. Ten year old boy relates experiences in Cathlic school leading up to school pageant. Funny! (1), Charlie Victor who is brutally murdered outside Jackson's office. Jackson discovers he is Charlie's heir to his frag box. But others are interested in getting their hands on the box. Heart wreching story of affects war had on some of the VN vets. I really (1), 2006 June. From Curves book shelf. (1), 2006 February. Love story of a woman from Utah living in Italy (1), 2006 March. Florence palazzo. Fifteen year old daughter of wealthy cloth merchant encounters young painter brought in to decorate family chapel. Medici politics (1), 2006 March. Coterie book club selection. Three generation family spend summers together in New England until tradgedy strikes (1), 2006 March. 1960's Mississippi novel of a hard-luck mother (1), 2006 May. Borrowed from Chris. Loved this book. (1), 2006 June. 19th century China. Two young women find solace with each other (1), 2006 July. McCall Smith is one of my favorite authors. (1), 2007 June 2. Enjoyable change after Janet Evanovich (1), 2006 August. Ten years after leaving South Africa (1), 2006 August. Recommended by Doris Stoner (1), 2006 - September. Recommended by Chris Savicky. (1), 2006 September From library booksale. Read in Spain. Passed on to Mandy. (1), 2006 October From library book sale. Read in Spain. Passed on to Mandy. (1), 2007 February. Recommended by a library patron. 7 day loan. (1), swept off her feet by handsome Italian. Tragedy (1), 2007 May 17. Fun to read. Colorful language and situations. (1), Eva returns to witness changes after apartide. (1), 2007 November. Depression era circus. Good characters. would recommend to anyone. Marty Habecker from library really enjoyed it. Great circus history. Lititz Library (1), 2007 - December. Recommended by Vicki Burton. Kingsolver also wrote The Poisonwood Bible & Pigs in Heaven. (1), 2007 - December. A gift from Charlotte Kocher. Great little book for bringing Christmas spirit into everyone's heart. Takes place in Charleston (1), 2006 - February. Lives of residents of 44 Scotland St. Edinburgh Scotland. (1), 2007 - August. Author of Poisonwood Bible. Interesting twist to a single mother (1), 2007 - December. Excelent story of two women and 30 years of Afghan history (1), 2007 November. Another great philosophical book on morals with a great story involving Isabel Dalhousie. Good light reading. Lititz Library (1), 2007 March - Borrowed from Russ at the library. Great read since we are going to Alaska in August. Hope we get to visit Haines (1), 2007 May 25. Another back-to-back Stephanie Plum dective story. Time for a change. (1), 2007 November - Fascinating account of the Romanovs last days. Surprise ending. (1), 2007 October. Excellent. Will research more information on Chicogo World Fair. (1), 2007 September - 1942 spy mystery in Africa. Romel's German spy in Cairo. Very good (1), 2007 August. So glad I was introduced to this classic by Coterie Book Club. Saw it in the Lititz Library & meant to read it eventually. It was wonderful. (1), 2007 August - Delightful story about an Italian man who dies. Watches from heaven as his families lives unfold. (1), 2007 August - Good mystery. Did not know until the end who the murderer was. Reminds me a little of a sofisticated Stephanie Plum (1), developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. (1), 2004 - December (1), an investigator. Takes place in the western U.S. from Omaha to San Francisco. (1), hellfire preaching (1), draughts (1), her country of birth (1), Henri (1), Rick (1), pubs (1), violence pursue. (1), Monterey (1), age 7 (1), Alaska (1), intimate (1), tragic (1), touching (1), funny (1), Indiana (1), exciting story (1), cooks (1), 2005 - November (1), 2006 December (1), 2005 - May (1), 2005 - February (1), 2005 - October (1), SC. (1), bawdy songs (1), 2006 July (1), 2006 February. (1), disturbing (1), Pa (1), bondswoman. (1), on the other hand (1), 2006 August (1), Korea (1), 2006 June (1), CIA (1), 2006 - January. Car trip from N.Y to Virginia turns tragic leaving 12 year old girl & younger brother fatherless & with badly injured mother. Virginia town in 1940 still fighting Civil War. Live with great-grandmother while mother recoveres with help of h (1), 2005 - December. Coterie book club. (1), is homeless Viet Nam vet (1), 2009/05 - Library book. Michael was climbing the ladder at a giant D.C. law firm. A violent encounter with a homeless man stopped him cold. He gave up the pracice after fnding a dirty secret thefrm was hiding. Michael stole files from an assciates office (1), 2009/09 - One Book One Community - Lititz Library. Inspired by a true story. The global journey of the Sarajevo Haggadah (1), 2009/06 - Lititz Library. Recommended by Jan Sams. Slow read but interesting novel based in 1920's London. Early 20th century Nancy Drew on an adult level. Good history of medical personel during WW I (1), France & England. (1), 2009/06 - Another entriging read by Grisham. Difficult to follow in some places but it all came together in the end. Nice travelog of Bologna Italy. Purchased this book at library in Ridgway (1), 2008/01 - Library. (1), a street lawyer. A thief. Great suspense story & plight of the homeless in D.C. (1), 2009/05 - Costco purchase. Great love story. Light reading. A fantasy - imaginary friend - unexpected love - great twist at the end. (1), 2009/08 - borrowed from Marion W. Another great novel by Landvik. Set in 1954 Minneapolis. Also wrote Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons. (1), FBI & police work. A real page turner. (1), 2009/05 - Library book. Alex Cross chases a terrorist across continents to African underworld. Cross losses family & friends in this bazaar tail of terrorism (1), violence. Consided to be a classic. Author (1), coniving (1), Chris. Three races interplay with deceit (1), Helen Angus who becomes bregnant by her half Boer boyfriend (1), the Jewish book of seder (1), 2009/09 - Recommended by Marty. Quick read. Light hearted story of an elderly couple trying to sell their NY apt. while their daschound is in the animal hospital having back surgery & a terrorist is on the loose in the city. (1), S.A. in 1900 - Boer war. Sugar plantation owner deals with Zulus (1), sustined by his Muslim religion. A must read (1), Herman Jackson's client (1), compelling. Bail bondsman (1), 2009/12 - New 7-day loan from Lititz. Sad (1), art (1), down to earth speaker. Story of the shootings at Amish school house shootings. A story of forgiveness. Excellet. Sending it on to Sandi for Christmas gift. (1), 2009/11 - Jonas Beiler gave a review of this book at Mount Joy Library. Compasionate (1), inspiring. Hurricane Katrina buried w Orleans. Abdulrahman let his family leave while he stayed to look afte & secure his propertes & businss. He edeaveed to help & save people & animals only to arrested as a louter & terrorist. His self-control during hi (1), 2009/09 - Recommended by Marty. Exellent story of music healing a war torn city. Read it on my Kindle. The cellist makes a choice to play for 22 days at the corner store where 22 people were killed by a morter while standing in line for bread. He risks hi (1), 2009/10 - recommended by Shirley G. Riveting (1), 2009/10 - Lititz Library. Mary Woodin water color paints & journals her way through a year in her country garden in England. Beautiful water colors & quotes from other gardeners. (1), strikes up a friendship & tries to get him into rehab. Amazing story of how music can touch our lives. (1), in an LA street tunnel playing a two stringed violin. Lopez writes a column about Ayers (1), a homeless man (1), 2009/10 - Recommended by Marty. Nathaniel Ayers has attended Juliard in NYC but has a mental breakdown. 30 years later Steve Lopez discovers him (1), Indians & daughter (1), 2009/02 - South of Durban (1), Charlie. Isabel becomes involved in what seems to be an art scheme (1), 2008/05. An Isabel Dalhousie Novel. Isabel & Jamie share raising their son (1), 2008/01 - Loan from Chris S. Mysteries of hope & sorrow the the life of a small town minister who lost his wife to cancer. (1), 2008/07 - Coterie Book Club. Sherman's march through the Southern States during civil war & the affect it had on the lives of civilians & soldiers. Touching story of negroes & whites as they were thrown together. (1), 2008/07- Recommended by Marty Habecker. Mortenson's dedication to building these schools was a struggle he never gave up. What courage & hardship he endured. (1), 2008/03 I would read this again. Will re-read (1), 2008/03. Another cliff-hanger by Follett. Never get tired of reading his novels. Lititz Public Library. (1), 2006/08. Recommended by Russ from library book club. (1), 2008/05. Lititz Public Library 7-day loan. Page turner. The "Butcher Bandit" in 1906 is chased by Bell (1), 2008/02. Another great story by Chiaverini. She pulls it all together just like making a quilt. Got book at the Lititz Library sale. (1), 2008/04 Great for first time author. Weird story line but very interesting. Borrowed from Shirley Gitomer (1), a page turner. Liked the way the author ended each chapter (1), 2000 - June - Excellent historical fiction. Account of women in Biblical times & their treatment by their tribes. The tent is where they became of age & learned the about what was expected of them as women. (1), 2002 - March - recommended by Doris Stoner. Great novel about golfers on a mystery golf trip. (1), the amateur detective solves the mysteries. (1), painting of a deceased artist sold at auction; her job as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics is threatened so she purchases the magazine. As always (1), 2008/01 Recommended by Deanne Greenawald. Interesting but drug on. (1), 2008/02- Second book (1), 2009/01 - James Bond type action. International espionage. Defense contractor tries to create a 'cold war' between China & Russia by starting a lie on the internet using "perception management". Exciting to read. (1), 2008/10 - From MT Library book club list. Difficult getting into reading this because of the dialect (1), 2008/11 - Lititz Library & book club selection. Another page turner. Small NH town shattered by violent shooting in the high school. Shooter was harrassed in school from kdg. on. (1), 2008/11 - recommended by Jane at the library. Bought this paper-back in Waterloo to read on the trip home from flood clean-up. Light reading. Easy to put down & pick up any time (beach book). Interesting twist of characters who get together on Friday even (1), etc. Very interesting view from the eyes of a 15 year old boy who kept a journal of family affairs. (1), ignoring funeral graces & mourning (1), Georgia. Social rules were ignored by the principal man of the town - fratrenizing with coloreds (1), slang & colloquialism. Once I got past that it was a great book to read. Took place in 1906 Cold Sassy Tree (1), 2008/10 - 7 day loan from Lititz. Read jacket & decided it looked very interesting. So glad my hunch was right. Took place in 1945 after the German occupation of the Channel Islands. Cleverly written in letter to & from the people of Guernsey who belong t (1), 2008/08 - Library book recommended by a patron. Also a PBS mini-series. 700 page epic (1), 2008/10 - 7 day loan from library. 15 year old Lutie & her 11 year old brother run away from Spearfish (1), I could relate to some of her families problems. What a life to live but a choice that was made by the parents. (1), 2008/10 - Book on several reading lists. What a memoir. Amazing that this family survived & the children became so educated & with excellent careers. After experiencing the homeless in South Bend (1), SD to Las Vegas in search of their father. Faced with choices & making wrong decisions they experience heartbreak. But are befriended by a homeless former circus performer who helps them find a place where they belong. (1), 2008/08 - recommended by Sue at the library. Excellent read about modern day Russia & one man's quest for employment in London to support his family in Russia. (1), wanting you to get on with the story to see what will happen. 1900 London - female doctor - members of parliament - Home Rule for Ireland - notorious gangster - noble family. Lots of characters but author made it easy to follow. (1), 2008/04. Murder & injustice in a small town. Borrowed from Russ at the library. Difficult to get into at first. Picked up after Ron went to prison. Court scenes & testimonies were boring. (1), some not surviving. Lots of hardships both in Ireland & America. (1)
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