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7. Boomda ~ () ~
8. Stella? ~ () ~
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ELSI! Start us off!!!

Okay we're going to need some confirmations here....had a few ? in the sign up thread!

I'm here, & there :P

I'm here!

I want Lucie's reveal, please.

I'm in the right place now. :giggle:

Im here and if I dont answer right away I am just changing over the laundry :D

I'm here!!!

Ok Hang on, I will go get it :)

Me too if I dont answer right away Im stirring supper!

(mine has a different cover)

Eleven Hours by Paullina Simons

A compelling, heartrending tale of a woman in danger and the man who's desperate to find her, from the internationally bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE A heavily pregnant young woman is leaving the shopping mall to head home on a horribly hot day in Texas. Her normal life of shopping, husband, children, with the extra excitement of the imminent baby, stretches before her. And then she is bundled into a car and kidnapped by a desperate young man. What does he want? Where are they going? In scenes that alternate between the desperate husband, pursuing by car and helicopter with an alarmingly laid-back FBI man, who may or may not be as good as he thinks he is at rescuing hostages, and the more and more threatened wife, Eleven Hours is a tour de force of storytelling power.

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6. luckaye ~ () Eleven Hours
7. Boomda ~ () ~
8. Stella ~ () ~
9. cats ~ () ~

Chronic! go!!!

All right! it was meant to be.

Ok Lauren show me what ya got and I dont mean your muffins :giggle:

I sent Lauren an MSN message 'cause I don't see her here....

BRB going to stir the meat!

It might be story time :thinking: :blush:

Could be....

want to pick someone else? I'll take Lauren out in the next update until she turns up....

Im going to put some coffee on (decaf) :drool:

Ok Bree what ya hiding

The Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous/Nikki Gemmell



A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. She has discovered a forgotten Elizabethan manuscript that dares to speak of what women truly desire, and inspired by its revelations, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is: How long can she sustain a perilous double life?

This was a little more eroitca than I'm comfortably with but her desperation and crazy actions were interesting....

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6. luckaye ~ () Eleven Hours
7. Boomda ~ () ~
8. Stella ~ () ~
9. cats ~ () ~

Nursie! Will you steal or ask for a reveal?!!!

:wub:

I will STEAL THE BRIDE!

Oh, I enjoyed that book!

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6. luckaye ~ () Eleven Hours
7. Boomda ~ () ~
8. Stella ~ () ~
9. cats ~ () ~

Chronic! No more wedding, Will you steal or ask for a reveal?!!!

:peek:

nursie :whip: I tried to get that book in our book meetup swap on the weekend.

Ok Nursie reveal your book booty

Why don't you play with us?

ok, sure...if I'm allowed to?

Let me get it!

That was going to be my question right now. ;)

What about YOL??? I see you peeking in here!

Stupid Sex by Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras(mine has different cover)



A mother, answering her phone, hears her daughter shrieking and screaming. Terrified, she calls the police who arrive at the daughter's house, batter down the door--and find the daughter, nude, in her bedroom having sex with her boyfriend. Apparently her toe hit the automatic dial button for her mother's number on the bedroom phone.A man, swimming in a Florida pool, sees the pool intake pipe and gets a unique idea. Hours later, after police, firemen, and EMT personnel are called, the man is taken to an area hospital--along with ten feet of pipe attached to a very swollen part of his anatomy.A newly married couple in Turin set up a video camera in their bedroom to tape all of their honeymoon activities. But somehow certain crucial wires got crossed. While they were enjoying their honeymoon sex, so was everyone else in their apartment building: the couple had accidentally connected their camera to the building's cable television system.In the national bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said Ross and Kathryn Petras immortalized idiotic utterances by public figures and average citizens alike. The 176 Stupidest Things Ever Done chronicled fiascoes, senseless stunts, and utterly asinine activities from around the globe. Now, Stupid Sex takes on the subject that no one can resist. It's about people who get caught in the act . . . and about people who get caught in the trash disposal. Stupid Sex tells two hundred true stories of extremely dumb (and very funny) sex acts arranged under headings ranging from Airplane Sex to Zoo Bathroom Sex.

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6. luckaye ~ () Eleven Hours
7. Boomda ~ () ~
8. Stella ~ () ~
9. cats ~ () ~
10. DPA ~ () ~

My turn!

I want to see Cat's reveal!

catsalive's reveal:

Both of these are TBR but they're only babies so it won't take long.

Keyes/Atwood 2-fer.



Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's by Marian Keyes (Pocket Penguins 70's)

This is a collecton of eight entertaining chick-lit/travel essays written by Marian Keyes. "Marian Keyes spearheaded a new wave of contemporary women's fiction, providing wickedly funny tales of twenty- and thirty-somethings living and loving on the edge. No stranger to the road less commonly travelled herself, Marian has also written two collections of tales and observations from her own life. Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's is a small but perfectly formed selections of these."




The Labrador Fiasco by Margaret Atwood (A Bloomsbury Quid)

The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the "Bloomsbury Classics".
Book Description
The Labrador Fiasco, is inextricably linked with another book The Lure of the Labrador Wild (Dillon Wallace, 1905). This is a story within a story and it is a nice fit. Atwood writes of a father who has suffered a stroke and is being read to by his wife. His favourite book is The Lure of the Labrador Wild, the tragic expedition of two American adventurers who made an ill-planned attempt to traverse Labrador by canoe. Not heeding the advice of the local guide Leonidas Hubbard, the leader of the expedition, soon found himself in trouble, on the wrong route and a harsh winter bearing down on them. The father was an accomplished outdoorsman when he was younger and he is quick to respond to the many errors made by the young American adventurer that caused his tragic end. These two books are lovingly interconnected. Atwoods precise and subtle creation of these scenes between the couple are extremely moving. The final effect is that each story fully enha nces the impact of the other.

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6. luckaye ~ () Eleven Hours
7. Boomda ~ () ~
8. Stella ~ () ~
9. cats ~ () Keyes/Atwood 2-fer
10. DPA ~ () ~

Luckaye! You're up! Will you steal or reveal?!?!

I'd like Elsi to reveal please :)

The Runaway Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini



Chiaverini's fourth offering in her Elm Creek Quilts series weaves a modern-day family mystery around a pre-Civil War tale of bravery, deception and the Underground Railroad. Sylvia Bergstrom Compson, proprietress of Elm Creek Quilts and a quilter's retreat, is the sole heir and last descendant of Anneke and Hans Bergstrom, German immigrants who settled in Creek's Crossing, Pa., after Hans won Elm Creek Farm in a horse race. Or is Sylvia the only one left? After a speaking engagement at a quilter's guild in South Carolina, a woman named Margaret Alden shows Sylvia a family heirloom quilt with a map of Elm Creek Manor recreated in the stitches. Do Margaret and Sylvia share a distant relative (heretofore unknown to Sylvia) who moved to South Carolina? Or did a slave of one of Margaret's ancestors make it? This thought disturbs Sylvia deeply. She believes her forebears were staunch abolitionists who were active in the Underground Railroad, aiding escaping slaves in their journeys to Canada and freedom by using quilts as maps pointing the route to safe houses. A journal written by Hans's sister Gerda and discovered in an attic trunk reveals the family secrets and the story of Joanna, a pregnant runaway who is sheltered from slave catchers by the Bergstroms and who almost becomes their undoing. Readers unfamiliar with the series may be confused trying to keep the peripheral contemporary characters straight, but the story of Anneke, Hans and Gerda Bergstrom is compelling enough to warrant sticking with Sylvia as she ferrets out the true history of Elm Creek Farm. Chiaverini manages to impart a healthy dollop of history in a folksy style, while raising moral questions in a suspenseful narrative.


.... and if you've read this one and would prefer to have a more recent book in the series, you may choose The Master Quilter or The Sugar Camp Quilt or another book from my Availables.