School
is almost over! With graduation
parties and last minute school madness, Summer is about to open up and take
over with full effect. Will you be taking vacation time? Where will you go? To
the ocean? To visit family? To exotic locales?
Camping
and swimming are definite favorite pastimes for my family. We find any excuse
to get into the water or to just sneak away for the weekend an amazing relief
to the tedium of city life. Of course, many times we are camping in our own
back yard with a small fire and marshmallows galore! What is your favorite
summer activity?
Well,
this list is about books, and I delight in books. I adore books so much that
you can always find me lounging by the pool side dividing my attention betwixt
the pages of a good story and the exuberance of my children splashing away! It also
gives me the opportunity to take sneaky pictures for future familial blackmail.
*WINK!*
As
you may have noticed in our general newsletter, we have decided to combine both
lists for future publications. It is with great delight that we will provide a
more varied selection in one go, every month. This way we can just worry about
the one list instead of hunting down a secondary list of more devious delights.
*cough cough* (Read: List to follow)
Also,
we will be participating in the new Lending Library Shelf at Spokane 5th
Floor Lunch Room! Books will rotate monthly there, so if you don’t see
something horrifying, enlightening, or of sizzling delight, KEEP YOUR EYES
OPEN! There will be new books every 1st Tuesday! Donations are
welcomed on 1st and 3rd Tuesdays! Just shoot me an email
and I will be happy to collect anything you wish to see on the Lending Library
Shelf!
Happy Reading!
~Loretta~
Philosophy/Self
Helping Me Help Myself
By Beth Lisick
Grappling with her lifelong phobia of anything slick,
cheesy, or remotely claiming to provide self-empowerment, Beth Lisick wakes up
on New Year's Day 2006 with an unprecedented feeling. She is finally able to
admit to herself that she's grown tired of embracing the same old set of
nagging problems year after year. She has no savings account. Her house feels
unorganized and chaotic. She and her husband never hang out together. The last
time she exercised regularly was as a member of her high school track team
almost twenty years ago.
Instead of turning to advice from the abundant pool of local life coaches,
therapists, and healers readily available on her home turf of northern
California, Beth confronts her fears head-on. She consults the
multimillion-dollar-earning pros and national experts, not only reading their
bestselling books but also attending their seminars and classes. In Chicago,
she gets proactive with "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People." In Atlanta, she tries to get a handle on exactly why "women
are from Venus," and in a highly comedic bout on the high seas of the
Caribbean, she gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with
Richard Simmons.
Throughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry
sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of
the experts' ideas, ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting.
Beth doesn't think of herself as the typical self-help victim. But is she?
Mom & Me & Mom
By Maya Angelou
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been
chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the
legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her
relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the
daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her
larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early
life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old
Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their
grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed
with Angelou for years, but their reunion, a decade later, began a story that
has never before been told. In Mom & Me & Mom,
Angelou dramatizes her years reconciling with the mother she preferred to
simply call “Lady,” revealing the profound moments that shifted the balance of
love and respect between them.
Delving into one of her life’s most rich, rewarding, and fraught relationships,
Mom & Me & Mom explores the
healing and love that evolved between the two women over the course of their
lives, the love that fostered Maya Angelou’s rise from immeasurable depths to
reach impossible heights.
True Crime
Wrong Place Wrong Time
By David P.
Perlmutter
After a reckless night out and losing everything I had
worked so hard for, I leave memories of a London police cell behind me and head
for Marbella with its promise of adventure and fun. Little do I know that I’m
about to be thrust into the most terrifying time of my life. Wrong Place Wrong
Time is a gripping true-life story of an unimaginable nightmare and how my
ticket to a new life turns out to be a one way ticket to hell.
A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases
(Compilation #1)
By Ann Rule
Ann Rule's Crime Files books have delivered the very best
in true crime reading since A Rose for Her Grave,
first in the acclaimed series, made its debut. Distinguished by the former
Seattle policewoman's razor-sharp eye for telling detail and her penetrating
analysis of the criminal mind, this gripping collection of accounts drawn from
her personal files features the twisting case of Randy Roth, who married -- and
murdered -- for profit. In her trademark narrative style, Ann Rule weaves a
tale that is riveting, enraging, and heartbreaking all at once, and brilliantly
chronicles the fateful confluence of a killer and his female victims, as well
as the shattering investigation into Roth's heinous crimes.
YA Paranormal
Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky #1)
By Veronica Rossi
WORLDS KEPT THEM APART.
DESTINY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.
Aria has lived her whole life in the protected dome of Reverie. Her entire
world confined to its spaces, she's never thought to dream of what lies beyond
its doors. So when her mother goes missing, Aria knows her chances of surviving
in the outer wasteland long enough to find her are slim.
Then Aria meets an outsider named Perry. He's searching for someone too. He's
also wild - a savage - but might be her best hope at staying alive.
If they can survive, they are each other's best hope for finding answers.
Paranormal Romance
Marked (Eternal Guardians #1)
By Elisabeth
Naughton
THERON—Dark haired, duty bound and
deceptively deadly. He’s the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of
guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of the Underworld.
From the moment he walked into the
club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn’t exist in
real life—silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and a predatory
manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He was looking for something.
Her.
She was the one. She had the mark.
Casey had to die so his kind could live, and it was Theron’s duty to bring her
in. But even as a 200-year-old descendent of Hercules, he wasn’t strong enough
to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to tear himself away from the heat
of her body.
As war with the Underworld nears,
someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
Tempting the Beast (Breeds #1)
By Lora Leigh
Callan Lyons is a genetic experiment. One of six fighting
for freedom and the survival of their Pride. Merinus Tyler is the reporter who
will tempt him, draw him, until the fury of the "mating frenzy" locks
them into a battle of sexual heat there is no escape from.
Deception, blood, and the evil Genetics Council are hot on their trail. Callan
will use his strength to try and save them both...and do all in his power to
keep his woman in the process.
Romance Eros
Music of the Heart (Runaway Train #1)
By Katie Ashley
For Abby Renard, the plan was supposed to be simple—join
her brothers’ band on the last leg of their summer tour and decide if she’s
finally ready for the limelight by becoming its fourth member. Of course, she
never imagined stumbling onto the wrong tour bus at Rock Nation would
accidentally land her in the bed of Jake Slater, the notorious womanizing lead
singer of Runaway Train. When he mistakes her for one of his groupie’s, Abby
quickly lets him know she sure as hell isn't in his bed on purpose.
Jake Slater never imagined the angel who fell into his bed would resist his
charms by promptly kneeing him in the balls. Of course, the fact she seems like
a prissy choir girl makes her anything but his type. So he is more than
surprised when after betting Abby she wouldn’t last a week on their tour bus,
she is more than willing to prove him wrong. But as Jake’s personal life begins
to implode around him, he finds an unlikely ally in Abby. He’s never met a
woman he can talk to, joke with, or most importantly make music with.
As the week starts comes to a close, neither Abby nor Jake is ready to let go.
Can a sweetheart Country songstress and a bad boy of Rock N Roll actually have
a future together?
Undeniable (Undeniable #1)
By Madeline
Sheehan
Eva Fox is the princess of the Silver Demons Motorcycle
Club. Growing up with bikers in the club lifestyle is all that she knows. When
she’s a young girl, Eva meets the reason for her existence. Deuce West is the
sexy, biker bad-ass of the Hell’s Horsemen Motorcycle Club. Like Eva, he was
born and raised in the club—but that’s where the similarities end. Their first
meeting is innocent, but as Eva matures into a woman, their chance reunions
evolve into a fit of lust and love. Fate continues to bring them together time
and time again, but their twisted journey is filled with pain, betrayal, and
bloodshed that could tear them apart. Eva sees in Deuce what he cannot see in
himself—a man worthy of love—and Eva spends her lifetime proving to him that
her undeniable love is the one thing he can’t live without.
Undercover (Federation Chronicles #1)
By Lauren Dane
A sexy debut exploring an
erotic future universe of passion, danger, and deceit…
On the battleground or in the bedroom, one woman and two men fight for
dominance in a bold, new, and excitingly different direction in erotica…
As a lieutenant of the Federation military, Sera Ayers is accustomed to giving
orders, not taking them. Now she must obey the one man she can't stand-and
can't stop thinking about.
With the enemy Imperialists gaining ground, a covert team is assembled by Ash
Walker. Ten years before, Sera had lovingly submitted to Ash's dominance in the
bedroom. But when he was forced into a political marriage, she refused to play
mistress. His marriage now over, Ash wants Sera on his team - and back in his
bed.
The third team member, Brandt Pela, has an elegance to match Ash's savage
sexuality. And when their undercover plan requires Sera to pose as Brandt's
lover, it ignites a passion among the three of them more dangerous than their
mission.
Manga / Graphic Novel
Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness
By Mike Johnson,
David Messina
The countdown to the motion picture event of 2013 begins
here, in this blockbuster 4-issue prequel mini-series that sets the stage for the
upcoming Star Trek film! Like the best-selling Star Trek: Countdown in 2009,
this all-new series leads directly into the next movie, with a story by Star
Trek writer/producer Roberto Orci and Mike Johnson (Star Trek) ongoing series),
and drawn by the original Star Trek: Countdown artist, David Messina! Star
Trek: Countdown To Darkness is the can't-miss lead-in to the new adventures of
the Enterprise crew!
Saga, Vol. #1 (Saga Compendium #1-6)
By Brian K.
Vaughan, Fiona Staples
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending
galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life
into a dangerous old universe.
From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Ex
Machina) and critically acclaimed artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North
40), Saga is the sweeping tale of one
young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. Fantasy and science
fiction are wed like never before in this sexy, subversive drama for adults.
~ READ! It feeds the mind! ~
