en-US Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:07:52 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 11559200 A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different—and vastly more dangerous—journey.]]> 584 Deborah Harkness 0670023485 Ashley 4 2012-summer-reading-challenge 4.04 2012
author: Deborah Harkness
name: Ashley
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/19
date added: 2024/11/21
shelves: 2012-summer-reading-challenge
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]]> 12873 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked from glamorous Monte Carlo to the ominous and brooding Manderley, the new Mrs de Winter finds Max a changed man. And the memory of his dead wife Rebecca is forever kept alive by the forbidding housekeeper, Mrs Danvers...

Not since Jane Eyre has a heroine faced such difficulty with the Other Woman. An international bestseller that has never gone out of print, Rebecca is the haunting story of a young girl consumed by love and the struggle to find her identity.]]> 428 Daphne du Maurier 1844080382 Ashley 0 4.19 1938
author: Daphne du Maurier
name: Ashley
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1938
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/09/30
shelves: to-read, 2012-summer-reading-challenge, bbc-book-list-challenge, book-club
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]]> 9182478 One hour to rewrite the past…

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may also change her past.

Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should've happened?]]> 390 Myra McEntire 1606841440 Ashley 3 2012-summer-reading-challenge 3.80 2011
author: Myra McEntire
name: Ashley
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2012/08/10
date added: 2012/08/11
shelves: 2012-summer-reading-challenge
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]]> 30264 Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9780060572969. Another edition can be found here

All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party... and to feed.

Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining - and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized.

A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead... or undead.]]> 416 Kim Harrison Ashley 3 2012-summer-reading-challenge <br /> <br /> 4.05 2004
author: Kim Harrison
name: Ashley
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2004
rating: 3
read at: 2012/07/05
date added: 2012/07/12
shelves: 2012-summer-reading-challenge
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Synopsis from Huffington Post: Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields ― Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn’t exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case nonetheless: It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away.]]> 217 Gene Stratton-Porter 1576469115 Ashley 4 2012-summer-reading-challenge 4.16 1909
author: Gene Stratton-Porter
name: Ashley
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1909
rating: 4
read at: 2012/06/20
date added: 2012/06/20
shelves: 2012-summer-reading-challenge
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The sky is dark with wings… . Like sand in an hourglass, time is running out for Luce and Daniel. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the angels fell to earth. Dark forces are after them, and Daniel doesn’t know if he can do this—live only to lose Luce again and again. Yet together they will face an epic battle that will end with lifeless bodies… and angel dust. Great sacrifices are made. Hearts are destroyed. And suddenly Luce knows what must happen. For she was meant to be with someone other than Daniel. The curse they’ve borne has always and only been about her—and the love she cast aside. The choice she makes now will be the only one that truly matters. In the fight for Luce, who will win? The astonishing conclusion to the Fallen series. Heaven can’t wait any longer.]]> 466 Lauren Kate Ashley 3 4.00 2012
author: Lauren Kate
name: Ashley
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2012/06/15
date added: 2012/06/15
shelves: young-adult, 2012-summer-reading-challenge
review:

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