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Every living thing
I may have read this before, or seen it on television. Charming little stories about a vet in Yorkshire.
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8/2005
Tales from the bike shop
A collection of Maynards magazine column, many concerning the mythical bike shop run by a guy named Bob. Most of stories hit the mark, some falter, maybe I did not "get" them because I am not a racer. I highly recommend it to any "bicycle fancier".
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2/2007
States Of Mind
Brad and his wife, Amy, travel the U.S. in a motor home searching for the meaning of Faith, Hope, Inspiration, etc., in towns of the same name. Took me a while to get into it, but it was pretty good.
Quote:
As we stopped at Big Spy Mountain Overlook, elevation thirty-two hundred feet, a group of exhausted bikers peddled to stop near us. Today was the end of their nine-day journey. They had started in the Great Smoky Mountains.
"That's where we came from," Amy offered. "only we came on four wheels."
"Oh," responded a breathless biker. "That seems like an easy way. Don't know why I didn't think of it." He rode off, leaving us to ponder the fine line between humor and sarcasm.Read:
2/2008
A Conventional Corpse
Bookstore owner Claire Malloy reluctantly hosts a convention of Mystery authors and their fans. Pretty humorous.
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10/2000
Busy Bodies
A kooky artist gets involved in murder. Claire's daughter and her friend dress up like gorillas...or was it bears?
WORD FOR THE DAY:
HegiographyRead:
10/2000
Closely Akin To Murder
Claire Malloy gets a phone call from a dead person. More or less. Adventures in Mexico!
QUOTE:
Most of the deck chairs were occupied by inert, sunburned bodies clad in everything from terrycloth robes to string bikinis. A heartening number of them were reading fat paperback books.Read:
10/2000
Dear Miss Demeanor
Claire Malloy subs at her daughter's high school, in the Journalism dept.
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The bell rang once again, and shortly thereafter the room swelled with Photo B, a.k.a. the newspaper photographers. We exchanged the necessary courtesies and they managed to talk among themselves until the class was over. Ho hum. Teaching wasn't all that hard.Read:
10/2000
Maggody And The Moonbeams
Arly is talked in accompanying a group of teens to church camp. A group of women with shaven heads live on the property. One turns up dead. Back in Maggody, the Marjorie the pig is lonely.
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9/2007
Martians In Maggody
Crop circles and UFOs stir up the population.
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8/2002
murder@maggody.com
Chief Arly Hanks has to deal with teen trolleps, Internet porn, a biker wierdo and her mother.
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10/2000
O Little Town Of Magoddy
Arly Hanks deal with the results of a home town hero singer returning to give a concert.
Quote and Vocabulary Word Of The Day:
Onomatopoeically speaking, the sound was more like that of a balky outboard motor than the traditional storybook simplification of easily pronounceable phonemes, but it had been one helluva night in Maggody and nobody was in the mood to be picky.Read:
1/2001
Out On A Limb
Claire Malloy ends up with a baby on her doorstep.
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... "What's more, I have nothing to wear tomorrow. I have a pink sundress, but it's strapless." ... I assured her it would blend in well with customary dress at funerals in Farberville, in that I didn't care.Read:
1/2003
Roll Over And Play Dead
Someone dognaps Miss Parchester's beagles that Claire Malloy is dogsitting.
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10/2000
The Maggody Militia
Chief Arly has problems with right-wingers and burglars.
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1/2001
Aleutian Sparrow
Told in unrhymed verse, it's about the removal of the Aleuts from the Alaskan Panhandle islands during World War II.
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12/2009
Bad Monkey
A police detective demoted to restaurant inspector investigates an arm caught by a sports fisherman.
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8/2013
Basket Case
Rock music guy gets killed by wife. Guy loses eye after getting whacked by a frozen lizard.
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..."none of whom matches my description of the coppery-haired felatee."--page 121. BONUS QUOTE:
He wore a peerless wool suite but otherwise he looked terrible drawn and sleepless, with scotal bags under his anxious green eyes. --page 308.Read:
2/2003
Double Whammy
Bass fishing intrigue in Florida.
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He tried to remember the polite things to say when a beautiful stranger struck up a conversation about oral sex. None of the obvious replies seemed appropriate for a funeral.Read:
4/2000
Flush
Noah helps his dad expose a polluting casino boat in Florida.
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6/2006
Hoot
Teen tries to stop destruction of owl habitat by nasty pancake restaurant corporation.
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9/2005
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