2006: #67 – The Grim Grotto (Lemony Snicket)

Title: The Grim Grotto Series: Series of Unfortunate Events #11 Author: Lemony Snicket Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Egmont Books (UK) Release Date: September 1, 2012 Pages: 352 Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of

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2006: #66 – Plain Truth (Jodi Picoult)

Title: Plain Truth Author: Jodi Picoult Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: August 7, 2007 Pages: 405 The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the

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2006: #65 – Danse Macabre (Laurell K. Hamilton)

Title: Danse Macabre Series: Anita Blake #13 Author: Laurell K. Hamilton Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Jove Publications Release Date: 2007 Pages: 560 “It was the middle of November. I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about men, sex, werewolves, vampires, and that thing that most unmarried but sexually active women fear most . . .”

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2006: #64 – Narcissus in Chains (Laurell K. Hamilton)

Title: Narcissus in Chains Series: Anita Blake #10 Author: Laurell K. Hamilton Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Release Date: 2001 Pages: 424 With the highly acclaimed Obsidian Butterfly, Laurell K. Hamilton’s vampire hunter, Anita Blake, came into her own. She survived a supernatural onslaught unlike any she had ever faced before – and she did it without the two men in her life.

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