My rating : 4 stars Blurb In this captivating debut, Christi Phillips blends fact and fiction, suspense and sensuality into a vibrant, richly imagined novel in which a modern historian uncovers a courtesan's secret role in a shocking conspiracy of seventeenth-century Venice.  Claire Donovan alw…

My rating 1 stars Blurb Everything’s going right for Sandra Berlin. She is living in Manhattan, climbing the editorial ladder at ultra-chic fashion magazine Jolie! , and she’s just become engaged to Bucky Ross, her high-school sweetheart. Bucky’s her knight in shining WASP armor, a successful ad ex…

My rating : 4 stars Blurb Mary Higgins Clark, America's most beloved writer of suspense, has crafted a very special story about a child's courage in the face of danger, and the power of love.... When Catherine Dornan's husband, Tom, is diagnosed with leukemia, she and their two young so…

My rating 4 stars Blurb He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awake to a living nightmare. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers to name him "The Sur…

My rating 4 stars Blurb Although their ally, Dr. John Dee, has been declared utlaga, Machiavelli and Billy the Kid will follow the plans the Elders have laid before them: they will loose the monsters of Alcatraz on the city of San Francisco, thereby triggering the end of the humani race. Danu Talis…

My rating 5 stars Blurb HAZEL STANDS AT A CROSSROADS. She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. Or they could continue their quest to find the House of Hades, where they might be a…

My rating 5 stars Blurb Someone suggests that people should be careful when it comes to giving names to thier children, here Hercule Poirot realeses the resemblence of his name to this of Hercules. Then a thought comes to his head: There should be, once again, THE LABOURS OF HERCULES.. in a modern …

Original Language: English Publisher: Signet Country: USA Publication Date: January 2007 ISBN : 9780451220134 Page Count: 286 My rating :4 stars Blurb Monk is horrified when he learns there's going to be a blue flu in San Francisco-until Capt. Stottlemeyer explains that it just means the police…

My rating : 3 stars Blurb After months of searching, not to mention leading a pride of escaped circus lions through Europe and all the way back to Africa, Catspeaker Charlie Ashanti has finally been reunited with his parents—and a long-lost relative with a huge secret to reveal. But their family re…

Original Language: English Publisher: The Dial Press Country: UK Publication Date: April 23, 2013 ISBN : 0812993845 Page Count: 464 Rating : 3 stars "Youth is still where you left it, and that’s where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life’s journey, you’ll already have taken w…

Genres:  Psychology, Psychological novel My rating 4 stars Blurb In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair wit…

My rating : 3 stars Blurb A girl. A dream job. A city full of possibilities... Imogene is obsessed with fashion. Combine that with her talent for trouble (aka maxing out her "emergencies only" AmEx) and suddenly she's not going to chere Paris with her best friend for the summer. No, s…

My rating 4 stars Blurb San Francisco: After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And after everything they've seen and learned in the past week, they're both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered th…

My rating 3 stars Blurb  Who is Savannah Taylor really?  On the most special day of Savannah's life, her wedding day, the cops bust in and wrongfully arrest her at the altar for money laundering and tax evasion. Instead of a ring, Savannah leaves the church in handcuffs. She's soon released…

My rating 3 stars Blurb  When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds out that his chief patron, Princess Casilia, is facing an increasingly serious threat, he goes unhesitatingly to her aid. Neither realises that his instinctive support is the first step towards a frightening battle invo…

My rating 3 stars Blurb Princess for president! Student body president, that is. It's all the fault of Princess Mia's power-mad best friend and campaign manager, Lilly, who nominates her in the first place. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, even if Grandmère think…