Book 347 New York Ghost Towns by Susan Hutchison Tassin

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Susan Tassin provides a well written tour of abandoned towns located in NY state. She writes up a history for each town, how the town appears today and directions on how to locate each town. A worthwhile read that will provide inspiration to travel

Book 346 Werewolves of the Heartland by Bill Willingham

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Bigby finds himself prisoner of a Werewolf community founded by a fellow soldier he worked with during WWII.

Book 345 The face of deception by Iris Johansen

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This novel is the first in the Eve Duncan series. Eve Duncan becomes a workaholic after the murder of her daughter Bonnie. Eve is made an offer she can't refuse by a well known rich man John Logan. Eve accepts his offer only to become tangled in a deadly web of conspiracy.

Book 344 Songs of the humpback whale by Jodi Picoult

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Told out of sequence and from the point of view of different characters in the story, which is Picoult's typical style, this book charts the cross country journey of Jane and Rebecca, as well as Jane's husband Oliver who tracks his family across the country in attempt to get his wife and daughter back.

By the book's end many hearts were broken and I was a sad sad reader. It's definitely a story that will grab you and is worth reading if you can deal with broken hearts.

Book 343 Spooky Creepy Long Island by Scott Lefebvre

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I was hesitant to pick this book up after reading a similar book from these publishers that was just awful. This book was decent though. It's a nice little simple book providing a brief adequate background of haunted spots on Long Island. This book was definitely more concise than the incoherent nonsense I read by the paranormal adventurers. Bravo Mr. Lefebvre!

Book 342 Logan's run by William F. Nolan

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In a world where the answer to population control is to kill anyone over 21, there's a battle between runners and Sand men. Sand men kill anyone over 21 trying to run and continue to live life. Logan becomes a running sand man when he's on last day, he meets Jessica and the pair run in search of sanctuary.

Book 341 Perfectly Matched by Heather Webber

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In this latest novel from the Lucy Valentine series, Lucy is on the hunt for the beantown burner. While she's looking for him she also has to deal with a new group of psychics she's joined, and she also has to figure out why her newfound friend and brother's girlfriend Preston Bailey is so ill. 

Book 340 The dollhouse murders by Betty Ren Wright

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I read this book when I was a kid, I had some nostalgia so I had to re read it . Amy finds herself at her grand parent's old house to visit her Aunt Clare after an argument with her family over the care of her mentally handicapped sister LouAnn. Aunt Clare suggests that Amy stay with her for a few weeks, after discovering a dollhouse in the attic that's a replica of her grand parent's house Amy begs her parents to stay with Aunt Clare. Soon Amy discovers that the dolls inside the house are moving and she has a mystery to solve.

Book 339 Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline

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Grace Rossi is shocked about the murder of her former boss chief judge Armen Gregorian. Grace doesn't believe he committed suicide and suspects he's been murdered. Soon she begins to investigate his death to find out the truth behind it. As with all Scottoline novels you'll be turning the page wondering who did the deed and at the very end you'll be shocked because it will be the person you least suspect. 

Book 338 The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

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This is Jeanette Walls' first fiction work. Her non fiction works are The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses. Jean (nicknamed Bean) and Liz take off to find their uncle after their mom disappears for awhile and they find police outside their home in L.A. The two sisters adapt to small town life with their uncle but not without their fair share of bumps in the road.

Book 337 The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta

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I'm sad because this is the last piece of work by Tom Perrotta that I've plowed through, now I have to wait for another novel if he's got one in the works. He's a genius that writes a new novel once every few years instead of once every few months, making him a quality writer. This novel tells the story of Dave and Julie. They've been dating on and off for fifteen years. Dave is sort of living his dream of music as a career by playing in a wedding band. Dave spontaneously proposes to Julie and this novel follows the story of their wedding plans, along with a pre-wedding infidelity committed by Dave. Perrotta is obsessed with affairs.

Book 336 Inferno by Dan Brown

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I thought Dan Brown lost his touch when he wrote the Lost Symbol but he certainly found it again when he wrote Inferno. I was impressed with Langdon's adventures in this novel with his co-character Sierra Brooks. From the beginning to the end I was kept in suspense as Langdon interpreted art and poetry in order to uncover the location of a potentially deadly virus.

Book 335 Long Island's most haunted by Joseph Flammer and Diane Hill

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I picked up this book out of curiosity when I picked up a bunch of other Long Island travel guides. It turned out to be an utter piece of s*it! The co-authors are known for their title of the paranormal adventurers and I think both of authors are full of crap, and not just any crap, seriously retarded crap. This book details four locations, three of them being cemeteries. The text and writing jump all over the place from half ass accounts of legends given by the authors to supposed personal accounts of spirits that the authors dealt with. The authors also plug their website in every other sentence of the book.  A terrible book, do not read.

Book 334 Under the Tuscan Sun by Francis Mayes

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This book tells the story of Francis and her husband Ed's adventure as they restore an Italian house that they purchase. Her story makes me want to visit Italy and eat all the wonderful food they have causing me to balloon up to 200 pounds.

Book 333 Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich

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Stephanie is being stalked by a woman claiming to be Ranger's wife. When Carmen (the stalker) turns up dead and Ranger's daughter goes missing, Stephanie theorizes that's there is a dangerous Ranger clone on the loose and she's his next target!

Book 332 The time keeper by Mitch Albom

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This was one cracked out book by Mitch Albom, but than again maybe all of his books are cracked out. In this short novel with the main idea of teaching the reader to cherish their time, father time is released on earth and must save two people a business man on the brink of death and a young teenager who's ready to commit suicide. The story has a happy ending but is pretty damn cracked out.

Book 331 Sutton by J.R. Moehringer

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This book is told in the fictional, biographical style through the eyes of Willie Sutton, a recently released famous bank robber. It's up to the reader to decide which is fact and which is fiction from the way Sutton tells the story. A good book with a confusing ending IMO. This is also the Long Island Reads pick for 2013.

Book 330 The Sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway

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After oogling over Hemingway's house during a recent trip to Key West I'm on a mission to read all of his works. This novel follows the story of Lady Brett Ashley and Jack Barnes in Paris after World War I. Brett and Jack travel from Paris to Spain with a group of friends. I feel like Brett and Jack are in love with each other even though they never get together but that's just my interpretation.

Book 329 Shadows still remain by Peter de Jonge

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A woman detective investigates the death of a seemingly innocent NYU student. What she finds out as she completes the investigation is shocking and extremely disturbing.

Book 328 Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events: The bad beginning

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I read this a long time ago, and re read it again on my android tablet. I'm hoping to eventually get through the series. In this first book of the series the Baudelaire children find themselves orphaned. They are sent to live with Count Olaf who's only goal is not to care for the children but to inherit their fortune. Although this book is dark it's still a good read, the Baudelaire's are charming and fascinating my favorite is Sunny but maybe that's just because I love babies.

Book 327 Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich

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Stephanie's ex husband goes missing after Stephanie bugs his office for Ranger. Soon Stephanie's life is in danger again and at the same time she's being accused of being a possible suspect in Dickie's disappearance. 

Book 326 Joe College by Tom Perrotta

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Danny is a junior at Yale, on scholarship, who works his father's lunch truck the roach coach over spring break. Danny's friends and family back home end up intermingling with his college life in a surprising way. Memorable characters include Cindy, Matt and Max. The most memorable event is an ongoing lunch truck battle with an Italian mafia family that try to get their hands in the lunch truck business. Definitely a great work by Perrotta.

Book 325 Jack of Fables the great escape

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This is the debut of a new fabletown series spin off with Jack Horner as the star! Jack is thrown out of Hollywood and taken prisoner on a farm where his story is threatened to be erased. Can he manage an escape with other fables taken hostage on this farm?

Book 324 Election by Tom Perrotta

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Infidelity, a high school election, affairs with students, shocking actions all happening inside of a seemingly sleepy suburban town. This is definitely one of your classic Tom Perrotta novels this man's work is genius and as the case with every single one of his novels I just kept flipping the pages until I was finished with this fine piece of work. 

Book 323 Easy by Tammara Webber

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This book tells the budding romance of college students Jacqueline & Lucas. I absolutely loved it, it was as addicting as twilight and fifty shades as far as romance goes. Twilight & fifty shades could be considered creepy love stories, Easy could too, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for those in the shadows almost stalkerish male characters I think it's hot because it has slight phantom undertones. 

Book 322 Everywhere that Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline

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The debut novel in the Rosato and Associates novel features lawyer Mary DiNunzio. Mary is convinced she's being followed and she's not sure by who. Accidents have happened to people near and dear to Mary. The ending will shock you because the person following Mary is the person you'd least expect.

Book 321 Don't go by Lisa Scottoline

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While serving as a doctor in Afghanistan, Mike Scanlon learns about the death of his wife. Mike is convinced her death wasn't due to a drunk accident despite the evidence that points to it. Leaving his baby daughter in the care of his wife's sister, and traveling back and forth from the U.S. to Afghanistan Mike tries to uncover the mystery of his wife's death while at the same time trying to become involved in his baby daughter's life.

Book 320 The color of Magic by Terry Pratchett

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Since getting my hands on Maskerade, which is loosely based on Phantom of the Opera, when I was in middle school I've wanted to familiarize myself with the whole discworld series by Pratchett. With my trusty librarian tools I found out the order of the series so I started with the first one color of magic.

In the first of this series Twoflower a tourist meets up with a Wizard Ricewind. The pair end up on a few bizarre adventures while touring.

Book 319 Cat's letters to Santa

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Read this book sometime in May or June, YES! I know it would have been better suited to read in December. In this amusing children's read various cat's write letters to Santa Claus about what they'd like for Christmas.

Book 317 Bad haircut by Tom Perotta

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So the order of this blog is slightly messed up since I seemed to skip over book 317 and went right to 318. This work by one of my favorite authors is about Buddy, a high school student in the 1970s. Told through short stories the reader is able to follow Buddy's childhood and teenage years.

Book 318 Carrie by Stephen King

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Tackled another Stephen King. Mostly everyone knows the horror story of Carrie if they've seen the 1970s movie with Sissy Spacek or a remake production. Carrie is a social outcast in High School with telekinetic powers. Things turn deadly for Carrie, her fellow students and the town she lives in after Carrie becomes a victim of a nasty prank during a spring dance. This is the third novel I've read of King's where a whole town pretty much becomes decimated by some force. I just find it fascinating that this a recurring theme in the novels I've picked so far to read.