Not Your Ordinary Book Group

Not Your Ordinary Book Group

:: The Next Vote ::

Once again, place your votes and let us know which ones to keep on the final ballot!

The top four winners from each category will appear on the final paper ballot, to be voted on at April's meeting.


	1. The Good, The Bad, and The Undead By Kim Harrison (Urban Fantasy/Supernatural) This is the second book in Harrison’s Hallows series. Rachel has left the corrupt Inderland Runner Service and started her own service with vampire roommate, Ivy. Life is not go so smoothly for Rachel, even if she has a cute human boyfriend. Business for her new service is not as brisk as she would like and is forced to accept any job heading her way, including tracking down a team mascot. Rachel gets hired by the Federal Inderland Bureau to help track a serial killer that is targeting witches. She soon finds herself learning about her own past, and this knowledge could get her killed. ~Recommended by a book group member.			1. Dirty Job By Christopher Moore (Humorous/Comical) Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.
	2. Time Weaver By Shanna Abe (Supernatural Romance) Suggested by a NYOBG Member: Honor Carlisle, born into the drakon clan, learns she is a Time Weaver--a creature with the extraordinary ability to transport herself into the past or future--and must flee her home or be killed. On one of her Weaves into the future, she encounters the very man she should most avoid--Prince Alexandru of Zaharen--but is unable to resist			2. Covet By J.R. Ward (Paranormal Romance) Redemption isn't a word Jim Heron knows much about--his specialty is revenge, and to him, sin is all relative. But everything changes when he becomes a fallen angel and is charged with saving the souls of seven people from the seven deadly sins. And failure is not an option. Vin diPietro has surrendered himself to his business--until fate intervenes in the form of a tough-talking, Harley-riding, self-professed savior, and a woman who makes him question his destiny. With an ancient evil ready to claim him, Vin has to work with a fallen angel not only to win his beloved over...but to redeem his very soul. Chili Pepper Rating-
	3. Taken By Vikki Pettersson (Paranormal/Romance) This is the first in a new series, Celestial Blues, from Vikki Pettersson. This is a mix of mystery, paranormal, urban fantasy and romance all mixed into one. The Taken features a former p.i.-turned-fallen angel and a beautiful, tough Las Vegas reporter—the most unorthodox pair of avengers since Jeaniene Frost’s Cat and Bones—joining forces to confront a terror that threatens to wreak murderous havoc in both the mortal and the immortal worlds.			3.Rules of Prey by John Sanford (Thriller/Mystery) This is a first in a long series by John Sanford. We follow Lt. Lucas Davenport on his quest to find a serial killer who is hunting the streets of Minneapolis. This sadistic killer views the hunt and the kill like a game, and has met his match in game inventor Lucas Davenport. I started this series back when it first came out and really enjoyed it.
	4. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs (Urban Fantasy) Suggested by Jan and a NYOBG Member: If you like Kim Harrison's series then you will like Patricia Briggs. The setting is amongst vampires, faeries, and shapeshifters. The heroine is a coyote shifter, and in a relationship with the alpha in a wolf pack. Briggs does a great job creating complex relationships with her characters, and the personal growth of the heroine is well done. NYOBG Review			4. Still Alice By Lisa Genova (Literary Fiction) Suggested by a NYOBG Member: Feeling at the top of her game when she is suddenly diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease, Harvard psychologist Alice Howland struggles to find meaning and purpose in her life as her concept of self gradually slips away.
	5. A Rogue By Any Other Name By Sarah Maclean (Historical Romance) A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London's most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance-including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury. A broken engagement and years of disappointing courtships have left Penelope with little interest in a quiet, comfortable marriage, and a longing for something more. How lucky that her new husband has access to an unexplored world of pleasures. Bourne may be a prince of London's illicit underworld, but he vows to keep Penelope untouched by its wickedness-a challenge indeed as the lady discovers her own desires, and her willingness to wager anything for them...even her heart. Chili Pepper Rating-			5. Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts (Romance) Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret--finding in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future.
	6. Night Keepers by Jessica Anderson (Romance/ Supernatural) The reason that I selected this choice is that one of my favorite authors, J R Ward, had it as one of her favorite reads. This is book one in Anderson's "Final Prophecy" series. Mokols, demon creatures of the Mayan underworld have come to Earth to trigger the apocalypse. When a Mokols tries to bring forth a demon, something goes horrible wrong and a sky god tries to possess it's human sacrifice, Leah Ann Daniels. While the rite is unsuccessful it does give Leah special powers. Leah was saved by King Jaguar Striker and they must band together to defeat the demons and prevent more demons from coming to this world. Knowing J R Ward it's probably a bit on the spicy side.			6. Darkly Dreaming Dexter By Jeff Lindsay (Horror / Thriller) Suggested by Sue: You might have seen the Showtime series “Dexter” and this is the book that was made into season one. The show has done a fairly good job of adapting the novel which centers on Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter specialist for the Miami police department. Dexter seems to be a nobody, the kind of man that few people even notice as he passes them by, but he harbors a dark secret. He carries with him his Dark Passenger, an urge to kill that he can tame but never fully control.
	7.Etiquette & Espionage By Gail Carriger (Young Adult) Sophronia Temminnick at 14 is a great trial more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners -- and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Her poor mother, desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady, enrolls the lively tomboy in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage -- in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.			7. Halfway to the Grave By Jeaniene Frost (Paranormal/ Romance/Urban Fantasy) Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father--the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unholy partnership. In exchange for finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner--are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn't have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her newfound status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side . . . and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat
	8.Point of Departure By Laurie Breton (Suspense/Romance) Everyone assumes that successful Boston Realtor Kaye Winslow has it all. Until the day she goes out to show an expensive new listing and vanishes into thin air, leaving behind her credit cards, her BlackBerry and an unidentified male corpse. None of this makes sense--not to her husband, not to her business partner and not to the Boston P.D. But as the investigation ratchets up, homicide detectives Doug Policzki and Lorna Abrams discover the beautiful blond Realtor has an interesting dark side she's kept carefully hidden. Turns out a lot of people don't like Kaye, and many of them have a beef with her. But until the not-so-lovely Kaye Winslow is located, people close to her are just a little bit twitchy--because any one of them could be accused of murder.			8. Divergent by Veronica Roth (YA Fantasy) Suggested by a NYOBG member: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all



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