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At Road's End (Pre-Aztec series, Prequel)
by Zoe Saadia
Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction, Romance, Historical Romance, Ancient
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.85

Tecpatl was born a warrior, one of the elite class of fighters, defending his great city, capturing vanquished foes to sacrifice for the honor of the gods.He never wished to follow the ancient road into the Southwestern desert; but he had no choice. When he rescues a girl from a ransacked village, he thinks nothing of it. He just wishes to make the traders sell their goods in a hurry, so he could return to his homeland. But the fate had planned differently, for the warrior and for the girl alike.
Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus
by Jonathan Culver
Genres: Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.45

Huey Lambert is miserable. Huey Lambert is tired of living the same horrible life as everyone. Huey Lambert is ready to stop. Armed with a nuclear device under his jacket, the now undeniable anti-hero takes charge of his life, but is it really even a life worth living? Read as Huey becomes a cultural phenomena, an enemy of the state, and so much more in this controversial dark comedy.
Virals (Virals, #1)
by Kathy Reichs
Genres: Young Adult, Mystery, Science Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Paranormal
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.94

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives forever.As the friends discover their heightened senses and animal-quick reflexes, they must combine their scientific curiosity with their newfound physical gifts to solve a cold-case murder that has suddenly become very hot if they can stay alive long enough to catch the killer's scent.Fortunately, they are now more than friends. They're a pack. They are Virals.
Nightwatching
by John Zunski
Genres: Horror
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.62

Do the dead forgive? The question haunts Sondra McAfee. After the death of their three year-old son, Sondra and husband Travis escape Seattle’s society for a fresh start in the mountains of Montana, only to learn what awaits is as horrific as their past.On the fringe of civilization, something sinister lurks within moonlit shadows, preying upon the anguish of tortured souls. Feel Sondra’s isolation in a mountain cabin, the torment of a schizophrenic shut-in, and the desperation of a broken hearted musician as they struggle to overcome personal demons. Together, can they defeat what feeds upon their souls? The answer lies within this tale of horror, betrayal, addiction, and lust.
Medea and Other Plays
by Euripides
Genres: Classics, Plays, Drama, Mythology, Fiction, Literature, Theatre
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.01

Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek societyThe four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without reference to the gods, Euripides made his characters speak in human terms and face the consequences of their actions. In Medea, a woman rejected by her lover takes hideous revenge by murdering the children they both love, and Hecabe depicts the former queen of Troy, driven mad by the prospect of her daughter’s sacrifice to Achilles. Electra portrays a young woman planning to avenge the brutal death of her father at the hands of her mother, while in Heracles the hero seeks vengeance against the evil king who has caused bloodshed in his family. Philip Vellacott’s lucid translation is accompanied by an introduction, which discusses the literary background of Classical Athens and examines the distinction between instinctive and civilized behaviour.
City of Vikings (The Viking Assassin, #2)
by Farah Cook
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Fiction, Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.27

Nora Hunt is the last of her kind from an aristocratic bloodline of Viking assassins. She is chosen by the Norse gods, to carry the map of nine Viking worlds, Yggdrasil, which is tattooed on her back. Nora was blessed by the gods with rare gifts and will become powerful when she finds the assassin weapons. With her unique gifts, she must serve and protect the Goth Empire – the oldest standing Viking monarchy, from its enemy – Verans. Her mission as assassin is to get to City of Vikings, where her father is in exile and discover the powerful Viking weapons before the enemy. The Goth Empire is in danger from Verans – who hold possession of the artifacts that call for Yggdrasil and are getting closer in finding the cryptic symbols that will open the gates to the nine worlds. The battle for Yggdrasil is about to begin. Who will rule the nine worlds of the Vikings? With a confined monarchy and weak senate trusting her to liberate them, and a heart devoted to her sworn enemy, which side will Nora chose? And will she discover the assassin weapons and win the perilous battle for the worlds of the Vikings?
Sometimes I Lie
by Alice Feeney
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Suspense, Psychological Thriller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.80


My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me:1. I’m in a coma.2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore.3. Sometimes I lie.
Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
Little Guide to Unhip
by K.J. Rigby
Genres: Humor
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Have you ever worried about not being quite hip enough? Or maybe you are one of those who flaunts your unhipness with abandon. Either way, Little Guide to Unhip is for you. Although it charts my own personal unhip top 50 with the likes of Gilbert O’Sullivan, Morris Dancing, Vicar of Dibley, Shopping Trolleys and Brollies, I picked those characters, characteristics, attributes or material objects with a universally unhip feeling to them. Each is given an unhip rating up to five for you to keep a count of your own and includes personal anecdotes. There is also a 'bubbling under' list for a further those unhips things not quite making the top 50. This book carries a some readers may seriously dent their coolness if caught reading this material!
Reflection of Secrets (Valentine/Petrilo #2)
by Reyna Hawk
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.38

Janie had high hopes of getting her life on the right path and freedom from the Petrilo Crime Family, but more tragedies and startling revelations send her plans right out the window. Janie's past trouble and sadness lurk back from the shadows. The beautiful life Janie has come to love takes a turn leading her right back to where she started in the clutches of the Petrilos. Will Janie survive another go around with the organized crime family?
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
Genres: Philosophy, History, Sociology, Nonfiction, Psychology, France, Academic
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.23

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.Barely two hundred and fifty years ago a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by the most influential philosopher since Sartre compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West. For as he examines innovations that range from the abolition of torture to the institution of forced labor and the appearance of the modern penitentiary, Michel Foucault suggests that punishment has shifted its focus from the prisoner's body to the soul — and that our very concern with rehabilitation encourages and refines criminal activity.Lucidly reasoned and deftly marshaling a vast body of research, Discipline and Punish is a genuinely revolutionary book, whose implications extend beyond the prison to the minute power relations of our society.
Blubber
by Judy Blume
Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Middle Grade, Realistic Fiction, Classics, Banned Books
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.79

Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween.But Robby grabs the note, and before Linda stops talking it has gone halfway around the room.That's where it all starts. There's something about Linda that makes a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they can go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expects the fun to end where it does.A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year
The Wide Game (Harmony, Indiana, #1)
by Michael  West
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, Fantasy, Fiction, Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

On the advice of his wife, Paul Rice is making plans to attend his 10th year high school reunion. Returning to his boyhood home of Harmony, Indiana, he finds that he is still haunted by memories of that timeamemories of Deidra, his first love, and memories of the Wide Game. It was ten years ago that Paul and his friends watched their day of fun become a race for their lives, a fight for their very souls. Now, as he meets the survivors of that day once more, Paul makes a chilling discovery: the incomprehensible forces that toyed with them have yet to finish playing their own game.
Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective
by Alexei Maxim Russell
Genres: Mystery, Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.24

Trueman Bradley is a genius detective with a difference, he has Asperger's Syndrome (AS).Trueman leaves his hometown of Heartville, Illinois, and arrives in New York City, hoping to fulfil his dream of becoming a private detective, like his comic book heroes. He is soon told that a guy with AS could not possibly succeed as a detective. Undeterred, Trueman uses his exceptional mathematical skills to invent a crime-fighting equation, and with the help of his new friends and some amazing inventions, sets out to test his skills against the criminal world of New York. He is determined to show the police, his friends, and himself, that a guy with AS can become as good a detective as anyone else, maybe, even, one of the best.Trueman Bradley - Aspie Detective is a fantasy adventure that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in Asperger's Syndrome.
Hidden Mickey 2: It All Started... (Hidden Mickey, #2)
by Nancy Temple Rodrigue
Genres: Mystery
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.33

HIDDEN MICKEY 2: It All Started...Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.6 - Flesch Reading Ease 78.3 Volume 2 in the HIDDEN MICKEY series, for age 10 to Adult.MISSING A CLUE LANCE STUMBLES ON A MYSTERIOUS GEMSTONEWhat was in the instructions Walt gave him just before he died? Is there more to the Hidden Mickey quest? A mysterious Red Diamond comes from the depths of the Jungle.WHAT IS THE POWER BEHIND IT?Lance Brentwood, the spoiled bad-boy of Hidden Mickey, finds himself in an unfamiliar position—alone and at the receiving end of a gun.ONE CRYPTIC CLUE INVOLVES A MAN'S ENTIRE DESTINYWhen Lance learns the legacy Walt set in place is more far-reaching than he had ever imagined. Can he earn the trust of the Blond-Haired Man’s daughter, or does this feisty beauty have plans of her own? Intrigue heats up when Lance has to team up with her as the two embark on an even wilder quest to unravel Walt Disney’s final clue to ultimately find the very treasure that helped Walt build the greatest entertainment company in the world.THEIR ADVERSARY STOPS AT NOTHING TO GAIN THAT POWERDaniel Crain was content to sit on the sidelines and live the easy life. Now with a chance to up the stakes, he stops at nothing to step into the position of power he feels he deserves. The only thing standing in his way is Lance.THEY ARE IN A LIFE-OR-DEATH RACE TO UNCOVER THE MYSTERYWho will win the battle for Walt’s legacy—the one man determined to preserve it or the other man determined to destroy it? In what seems to be a no-way-out situation, Lance discovers there is far more to the Legacy of the great showman, Walt Disney, and is thrust into a life-or-death race to uncover what the Master Storyteller wants someone to find. Most readers after reading this book in the Hidden Mickey series can't wait to read the next novel... HIDDEN MICKEY 3 Wolf: The Legend of Tom Sawyer's Island
Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
by Heather  Marsh
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Philosophy
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.45

The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. If there was ever a need for political representation or a paternalistic and opaque authority, it has been removed by technology. Every political system we have tried has proven incapable of protecting human rights and dignity. Every political system we have tried has devolved into oligarchy. To effect the change we require immediately, to give individuals control and responsibility, to bring regional systems under regional governance, allow global collaboration and protect the heritage of future generations, we need a new political model.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
by Lori Gottlieb
Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Memoir, Self Help, Mental Health, Audiobook, Biography
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.38

From a psychotherapist, and national advice columnist comes a thought-provoking new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world -- where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she). One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
Revelations (Bloodlines, #3)
by Lindsay Anne Kendal
Genres: Vampires, Young Adult, Horror, Paranormal, Angels, Fantasy, Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.05

In this final instalment of the Bloodlines trilogy, Keira and her friends face their toughest battles yet. Not only with the ones they believe have set out to destroy them, but also with themselves and each other.A shock revelation throws the group into confusion, torn between what each of them think is right and wrong. Keira now has to make a hard choice – does she stay with the people she loves, and fight with them – Or does she leave them, join forces with the person they originally thought was heartless, cold and brutal, but in fact, is doing something she actually agrees with. Something that could benefit and comfort almost every person who has ever lived.Revelations will take you to a place you never could have imagined existed. Heart-wrenching passion, death-defying friendship, treachery and pain, mixed with extreme battles, powerful magic and self-belief, make for an unbelievable climax that will stay with you until the end of time.
Shangri-La Trailer Park
by John Zunski
Genres: Fiction, Humor
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.77

If an Indian falls in the woods, can you hear him scream? Dora Shear did, and her life was about to get interesting. After Maistoinna Standing Bear tackles a tree, Dog Shear Dora - as she’s known in the trailer park - is left to pick up the pieces. Only she’s up to no good.  Uncover the secrets of a Jewish love triangle, why the IGA checkout lady trashes a car, why a trip over the coffee table is better than Novocain, and more importantly, what’s the difference between a Canadian Passport and a Kentucky Waterfall. Hop on board with Maistoinna for a crazy forty-eight hour ride through the world’s most dysfunctional trailer park.WARNING! Don't read if you are: A) Easily offended B) Politically correct C) Like everything nice, or D) Believe in the Easter Bunny!
Acclamation (Acclamation, #1)
by Vee Hoffman
Genres: M M Romance, Romance, LGBT, Contemporary, Fiction, M M Contemporary, Contemporary Romance
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.15

Writing the first-person account of Michael Cassidy, who becomes a Catholic school teacher in the aftermath of the tragic death of his boyfriend, Hoffman balances beautifully lyrical prose with a sensual exploration of people and places. Ashebrook, its warm community and the house inherited from his aunt provide a comfortable haven for Michael, but it's the friendship with neighbouring Butler family and their son Dominic that proves most rewarding. Teacher, friend, soon confidant, Michael understands Dominic's secrets more than anyone in his sheltered Catholic community, but what else can he allow himself to hope for when love offers him a second chance?
Selling Scarlett (Love Inc., #1)
by Ella James
Genres: Romance, New Adult, Erotica, Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, BDSM, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.72

Elizabeth DeVille doesn't belong at a party like this—one where the gowns cost more than her Camry and cigars run higher than her grad school utility bills. Dragged out of seclusion by her best friend Suri, Elizabeth is merely playing dress-up, rubbing elbows with a crowd that banished her troubled family years ago.Hunter West is tired. Tired of parties, tired of pretending, and tired of trying to right a wrong that haunts him every day. Bourbon heir and professional poker player by day, by night Hunter is gambling with his life in a high-stakes game of crime and blackmail. When Elizabeth stumbles into Hunter's den of vices, she's a light in the darkness, a flame in the void. And, just like everything he touches, Hunter mars her in a record time. To rectify the damage done, Elizabeth needs money she doesn't have, and she's come up with a foolproof way to get it.Follow Elizabeth—code-named Scarlett—to the lush Nevada brothel where she'll auction her virginity and risk the only thing that's not for sale: her heart. The highest bidder is a familiar face, with wicked hands and the devil's mouth. And a secret so dark that it could cost her life.***RECOMMENDED FOR READERS 17+ DUE TO SEXUALITY AND MATURE LANGUAGE.***
After Forever Ends
by Melodie Ramone
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Fantasy, Chick Lit, Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.04

Orphaned by her mother and brushed off by her dad, fifteen year old Silvia Cotton had lived a lonely life. That is until 1985 when her father moved the family from the Highlands of Scotland to the Midlands of Wales. It is there she was enrolled in Bennington, a private boarding school, met the charming and rebellious Dickinson twins, Oliver and Alexander, and her regrettable life was changed forever. Locked into a fierce friendship with Alexander and lost to a whirlwind romance with Oliver, Silvia found herself torn away from everything she thought she knew. Married too soon, she moved with Oliver to a rustic cabin deep in a Welsh wood and embarked upon a life she'd never planned for, surviving on hope she never knew existed and faith she never knew she had. She made her way through university and onto a career, only to surrender her ambition to raising her children and living a life that was strikingly "normal". But what is normal? Certainly not what ensued in the wood.True love, faeries, friendship, loves lost and gained. Old magic, fate, doubt, strength and courage, Silvia's story could belong to anyone, but it is her own. Simple yet extraordinary, told in retrospect with wit and candor, Silvia recalls a life of joy and sorrow, laughter and tears. As she unravels the tangled web of her days, she reveals the secrets that exist in an ancient wood, how hearts given freely can become the stuff of magic, and how true happiness was never any further than her own back garden.
The Vanishing Girl (The Vanishing Girl, #1)
by Laura Thalassa
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Young Adult, Dystopia
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.87

Every night after Ember Pierce falls asleep, she disappears. She can teleport anywhere in the world—London, Paris, her crush’s bedroom—wherever her dreams lead her. Ten minutes is all she gets, and once time’s up, she returns to her bed. It's a secret she’s successfully kept for the last five years. But now someone knows. A week after her eighteenth birthday, when frustratingly handsome Caden Hawthorne captures her, delivers her to the government, and then disappears before her eyes, Ember realizes two things: One, she is not alone. And two, people like her—teleporters—are being used as weapons. Dragged off to a remote facility where others like her live, Ember’s forced to pair up with her former captor, Caden, to learn how to survive inside until she can escape. Only Caden’s making escape seem less and less appealing.But even as Ember falls for the boy who got her into this mess, she knows that she is running out of time. Because the government has plans for those like her, and those plans might just cost Ember her life.
The First Phone Call from Heaven
by Mitch Albom
Genres: Fiction, Inspirational, Contemporary, Mystery, Adult Fiction, Adult, Christian
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.77

The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief--and a page-turner that will touch your soul--Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected.Readers of The Five People You Meet in Heaven will recognize the warmth and emotion so redolent of Albom's writing, and those who haven't yet enjoyed the power of his storytelling, will thrill at the discovery of one of the best-loved writers of our time.