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According to Jane, by Marilyn Brant

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Monday, October 5, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

Synopsis:

It begins one day in sophomore English class, just as Ellie Barnett's teacher is assigning Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". From nowhere comes a quiet 'tsk' of displeasure. The target: Sam Blaine, the cute bad boy who's teasing Ellie mercilessly, just as he has since kindergarten. Entirely unbidden, as Jane might say, the author's ghost has taken up residence in Ellie's mind, and seems determined to stay there. Jane's wise and witty advice guides Ellie through the hell of adolesc...

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Tempt Me at Twilight, Lisa Kleypas (Book 3, Hathaways)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Sunday, October 4, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

Synopsis:

He was everything she'd sworn to avoid ...
Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for normalcy. Then fate leads to a meeting with Harry Rutledge, an enigmatic hotel owner and inventor with wealth, power, and a dangerous hidden life. When their flirtation compromises her own reputation, Poppy shocks everyone by accepting his proposal - only to find that her new husband offers his passion, but not his trust.

And she was everything he needed ...
Harry was willing ...

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The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown (Book 3, Robert Langdon)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Thursday, September 24, 2009, In : Book Reviews 
Synopsis:

In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world’s most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths..all under the watchful eye of Brown’s most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling...
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The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson (Book 2, Millennium)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Monday, September 14, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

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Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and government.

But he has no idea just how explosive the story will be until, on the eve of publication, the two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Blomkvist: the fingerprints foun...

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Heat Seeker, Lora Leigh (Book 3, Elite Ops)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Monday, September 7, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

Synopsis:

A former Elite Ops captain with a dark past meets his match in a female ex-CIA agent who’s dead-set on revenge. And this time, the action — and the attraction — is more adrenaline-pumping than ever...

DARE TO DESIRE

John Vincent has always led a life of danger, and now he has every reason to want to remain as dead as the obituary in the Australian papers had proclaimed him to be. He’d left nothing behind in the life he had once led — except for one woman, and one night of unf...

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Blood Promise, Richelle Mead (Book 4, Vampire Academy)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Friday, September 4, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

Synopsis:

How far will Rose go to keep her promise?

The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them. . . including Dimitri.

He’d rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa — the one she has sworn to protect no matter what — and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to mak...

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The Defector, Daniel Silva (Book 9, Gabriel Allon)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Thursday, September 3, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

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In the #1 New York Times bestseller Moscow Rules, Gabriel Allon brought down the most dangerous man in the world. But he made one mistake. Leaving him alive...

Over the course of a brilliant career, Daniel Silva has established himself as the "gold standard" of thriller writers (Dallas Morning News), a "master writer of espionage and intrigue" (The Cincinnati Enquirer), and the creator of "some of the most exciting spy fiction since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James ...
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Bad Moon Rising, Sherrilyn Kenyon (Book 20, Dark-Hunter)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Sunday, August 30, 2009, In : Book Reviews 


Synopsis:

A stunning and suspenseful new landscape emerges in the thrilling Dark-Hunter world — a world where nothing will ever be the same again...

Fang Kattalakis isn't just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. And when war erupts among the lycanthropes, sides must be chosen. Enemies are forced into shaky alliances. And when the woman Fang loves is accused of betraying her people, her o...

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His She-Wolf Warrior, Marisa Chenery (Book 5, Wulf's Den)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Saturday, August 29, 2009, In : Book Reviews 


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Eli vowed he would never tie himself to one woman. But when he sees a lone werewolf female at Wulf's Den with six large male werewolves at her back, he finds himself instantly attracted to her.

Saskia and her brothers-in-arms have come to Wulf's Den in search of the foretold one, the one they have trained most of their long lives to protect. What she didn't expect was to have one of her visions while there. Or to see that she and the male mortal who looks at her with hunger in his ey...
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A Duke of Her Own, Eloisa James (Book 6, Desperate Duchess)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Friday, August 28, 2009, In : Book Reviews 

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A duke must choose wisely . . .


Leopold Dautry, the notorious Duke of Villiers, must wed quickly and nobly—and his choices, alas, are few. The Duke of Montague's daughter, Eleanor, is exquisitely beautiful and fiercely intelligent. Villiers betroths himself to her without further ado.


After all, no other woman really qualifies. Lisette, the outspoken daughter of the Duke of Gilner, cares nothing for clothing or decorum. She's engaged to another man, and doesn't give a fig for s...


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Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning (Book 4, Fever Series)

Posted by Ocean Book Haven on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, In : Book Reviews 


Synopsis:

MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and mos...
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