What a Cool Idea! Books

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Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

The third detective novel featuring Harriet Vane and Sayers' recurring character Lord Peter Wimsey. Harriet returns to her Oxford college to help with a particularly nasty problem and encounters issues of eugenics, the life of the mind vs. the life of the heart, and she realizes that she must deal with her feelings for Peter because, as she comes to learn, he will never do it for her.

Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich

Diesel is back and things get weird for Stephanie as she tracks down the bad guys because Diesel is an Unmentionable and he complicates her already difficult personal life. The bad guys want to control the weather to control the world and this is saying something considering it's Jersey!

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

Memoir and written form of her one-woman show, Fisher tells stories based on what she remembers of her life after having ECT to treat severe depression. Since much of her life is common knowledge her side of the story is full of laughs and wit and vintage cynicism, just as you'd expect.

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

A ripped from the headlines look at school shooting, bullying, teenage cliques, how parenting and community does or doesn't affect a group of kids. Both a poignant and difficult read.

Dark of Night by Suzanne Brockmann

Nash is dead until they can make it safe for him to be alive. Sophia and Dave have fallen in love and Dave has been abducted to try flush Nash out of hiding. Is Decker over his guilt/ love/ relationship with Sophia? Who at the Agency is trying to kill Nash and will they succeed before Dave is found?

Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts

Book Three in the Irish Trilogy.  Carrick the Fairy Prince hopes that Darcy and Trevor will be the third to fall in love and break the spell so that he will finally be joined with his true love Lady Gwen, who haunts Faerie Hill Cottage. 

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

The story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, from her beginnings to her end. Learn about her early family life, her siblings, her love of Animals, her desperate attempt to bring about justice and her desire for forgiveness. A treatise on politics, evil and Fate.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Bella meets Edward when she's the new kid in school. She doesn't fit in and neither does Edward but they are drawn to one another another. Once she falls in love with him and she learns his secret Bella is in a kind of danger that she could never have imagined.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Pi is stuck on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, and a tiger in this novel that 'will make you believe in God'.  Martel uses the convention of the memoir to bring the readers along on the tale of Pi's life including the harrowing shipwreck journey with a tiger.