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The Canceled Chezch
Evan Tanner goes to Chezchoslovakia to rescue an old Nazi.
Read:
10/2001
The girl with the long green heart.
Con men swindle a guy with a fake Canadian land deal. May have read before. Sorta sounds familiar. Did I already read this?
Read:
12/2005
Story Time
Ghosts at the Whitaker Magnet School/library. Didn't move me. Except for the quote below.
QUOTE:
"[Library] Forgiveness Days are about leaving the past behind and moving on to the future". Page 417.Read:
4/2004
Tangerine
Paul's family moves to Florida, where the citrus trees have been cut down for housing developments. Awful stuff is eventually revealed about his jerk older brother. Very good story, I had a good sense of time and place.
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4/2009
Memory Prisoner
Maddie is a teen that hasn't left her house since she was a little girl, for a reason that she cannot name, but WE suspect it has something to do with the sinister town library, don't we? And just WHO could the mysterious prisoner in the library basement be, eh?
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6/2007
By The Time You Read This
John Cardinal's wife jumps off a building. Lisa investigates a child porn case. And Doctor Bell? Well, he's not helping much.
No Such Creature
Owen and his uncle (who adopted him after his parents died) rob wealthy Republicans at dinner parties for a living. but uncle Max is starting to lose his mental faculties, and Owen wants to go to acting school.
A violent and profane book, with a bit of humor. I enjoyed it.
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6/2009Quote:
...home had turned into a house made of knives; there was nowhere he could move that did not hurt. (pg. 255) -- Now, there's a phase after my own heart.
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6/2009
Fallout
A sequel to The Compound, which I have not read. Yet. How to sum up? Teen boy restored, with most of his family, to civilization after living underground for years (see previous book), has a lot to deal with.
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10/2014
The Gardener
Guy meets girl. Girl is a plant or a nudibranch or autotroph or something. More plant, I guess. But not green. Bad Scientist tries to get girl back to The Laboratory. Good/Bad Scientist turns out to be boy's missing father. Good Scientist takes plant girl to a Safe Place.
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4/2013
The Raft
Teen girl flying to Midway Island ends up on a raft floating in the Pacific. Nicely written tale of survival.
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10/2014
The Big Garage On Clear Street
Tales about the town at the end of the road, in Alaska. 299 p.
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10/2001
The Sandcastle Girls
A writer discovers family history that she didn't know about, so she writes a book about the Armenian Genocide. Pretty good story.
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2/2018
The Best Of Enemies
The Patriotic Day ceremonies in Concord go awry, while Charlotte tries to deal with her family. Good story, with a map!
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10/2011
The Voyage Begun
Paul Vickers is the new boy in a small town, son of the head of a government scientific outpost on Cape Cod. The story takes place in the near future after ecological changes and pollution have killed off the fishing and tourism industry in the area. Good story. I wish the author had used more real place names in the story so I could visualize where the action takes place.
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10/2011
Burma Rifles
A novel of Merrill's Marauders. A Nisei joins the army during World War II, is sent to Burma. Small amateur radio mention, his radio is smashed by "patriotic Americans" after Pearl Harbor.
Words I Had To Look Up:
L-4 plane (pg. 112) -- A light military aircraft based on the Piper J-3 "Cub".
they'll have the trails ambuscaded (pg. 123) -- To have ambushes set.
AN-PRC-1 radio (pg. 205) -- PRC-1/RT-30; Suitcase portable, HF, CW transmitter receiver. Built into a common suitcase, the PRC-1 was originally intended for use by the OSS in WW-II. It was however rejected as too heavy. Regardless, it saw extensive service with them and other Intelligence and Guerrilla forces. Ops 2-12mc in two continuously tunable bands, AM or CW (rec). Two bands with Xtal control, CW only (trans). RF power output is 30 watts. Size 18 x 13.25 x 17.25" 32lbs,OD color.From CONDENSED PRC RADIO DATA; by Dennis Starks.
Nambu (pg. 209) -- Sounds like the author is talking about a machine gun, of which Kijirō Nambu designed several. The only weapon I find bearing his name is a pistol.
Quote:
"Let's get some sleep," Jerry said.
Matsumoto rubbed his rifle-stock. "You know, my mother lives in Japan," he said gloomily.
"Be glad she's not a soldier," Jerry tried to joke.
"No, I guess she's all right. She lives a long way from Tokyo--just a little city. I guess she's a lot safer than I am."
"Where does she live?" Jerry asked.
"Hiroshima," Matsumoto said.-- (pg. 218)
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4/2009
Cool Cat
Drugs and gangs snag the plans of four guys plans for making some bucks during the summer in L.A.
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12/2010
The Ghost Front
Juvenile novel about the Battle of the Bulge, as experienced by twin American soldiers during the first days of their time on the front. Pretty good, seems pretty realistic, for a juvenile. Pub. in 1968. A map! A Discarded Book.
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5/2007
War Beneath The Sea
Keith joins the submarine service during World War II. Realistic, pretty good stuff. Author lived in La Jolla.
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5/2008
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone
First published in 1912, this may be a later edition, maybe 1929. An e-book from Project Gutenberg. A group of boys go to Yuma to start a search for a valuable mineral. Not a bad story. I wonder that they are going down river to search. Wouldn't that be into Mexico?
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6/2022
Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, And Gangstas In The Public Library
An assistant librarian recounts his experiences at a branch of the Bay City Public Library. I've read this book before, don't know why it is not logged. Lots of cussing. Favorite chapter was about Michael and Rebekah. Last paragraph of their chapter, I'm in tears.
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7/2010
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[Babbit - Baker] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Bennett] [Benrey - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Borchert] [Bosch - Breathed] [Brenaman - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Bunting] [Burdett - Bythell]