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February 13, 2009

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Three Weeks to Say Goodbye C.J.Box

This was a new author for me. I was pleasantly surprised. Sometimes you just have to think outside the "BOX"! It’s an absorbing story involving an adoptive parent’s worst nightmare. Jack McGuane, an employee of Denver’s convention and visitor’s bureau, and his wife suddenly discover that Garrett Morland, the birth father of their nine-month-old daughter, Angelina, didn’t sign away his parental rights. Garrett and his powerful father, a sitting federal judge, give the McGuanes three weeks to return Angelina. In this bleak scenario, Box builds perfect characterizations especially that of McGuane, who grew up with uneducated but hard-working parents on a series of Montana ranches. His wife will do anything to save their daughter. She agrees to do many things unknown to her moral character to save Angelina. The story follows numerous interesting and nasty twists and turns to the climax of good versus evil. The author reveals that whatever the cost, such truth exists, and or...

Nameless: A Tale of Beauty and Madness by Lili St. Crow

When Camille was six years old, she was discovered alone in the snow by Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven—the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven. Papa Vultusino adopted the mute, scarred child, naming her after his dead wife and raising her in luxury on Haven Hill alongside his own son, Nico. Now Cami is turning sixteen. She’s no longer mute, though she keeps her faded scars hidden under her school uniform, and though she opens up only to her two best friends, Ruby and Ellie, and to Nico, who has become more than a brother to her. But even though Cami is a pampered Vultusino heiress, she knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. And it’s not until she meets the mysterious Tor, who reveals scars of his own, that Cami begins to uncover the secrets of her birth... to find out where she comes from and why her past is threatening her now. I brought this book with me...

The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy by, Rick Riordan Zeus has punished his son Apollo—god of the sun, music, archery, poetry, and more—by casting him down to earth in the form of a gawky, acne-covered sixteen-year-old mortal named Lester. The only way Apollo can reclaim his rightful place on Mount Olympus is by restoring several Oracles that have gone dark. What is affecting the Oracles, and how can Apollo do anything about them without his powers? After experiencing a series of dangerous—and frankly, humiliating—trials at Camp Half-Blood, Apollo must now leave the relative safety of the demigod training ground and embark on a hair-raising journey across North America. Fortunately, what he lacks in godly graces he's gaining in new friendships—with heroes who will be very familiar to fans of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus series. Come along for what promises to be a harrowing, hilarious, and haiku-filled ride. . . . All of Rick Rior...

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