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Flight Toward Home
Story of Peter attempting to cross the border to West Germany just after World War II. Not written in an especially exciting manner, it is based on a true story, and was a very popular radio drama in Europe. More of a documentical drama. A Withdrawn book.
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11/2008
The Name Of The Rose
A monk (I think) investigates goings-on at an abbey. I feel badly I was not able to give this book its just due. Took me two weeks to get through it as it was!
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4/2015
The Monuments Men
With Bret Witter. Nonfiction story of the military unit tasked with recovering and preserving works of art that had been stolen or damaged, or might be damaged by the allies, even. Good story! A movie was based more or less on the book.
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7/2016
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Wierd bio-stream of con. story.
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11/2001
Young Readers Science Fiction Stories
Thirteen SHORT stories for elementary age children. With illustrations!
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2/2026
Scones And Sensibility
Polly is quite obsessed with Anne Of Green Gables and Pride And Prejudice. She tries to manipulate everyone's love life, to great disaster.
Quote:
"You wanna cookie, Polly?" (pg. 297)
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1/2011
Dead Men's Hearts
Gideon and Julie travel to Egypt while he narrates a documentary.
Words I Had To Look Up:
affectation (pg. 46) -- The act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt.
we're not looking for 'Ozymandias' here (pg. 84) -- Poem by Shelley having to do with Egypt.
res gestae (pg. 90) -- Latin for "things done".
Quote:
...at a workman who was serenely pruning a leggy hibiscus trellised along an archway... (pg. 175) -- The world "Hibiscus" was crossed out and "boug." penciled in. I guess someone thought a bougainvillea would be more likely to be on a trellis than a hibiscus. And from my research, I agree. But exactly is a "leggy" hibiscus?
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2/2009
Good Blood
Gideon and Julie go to Italy to help out Phil on one of the On The Cheap travel excursions, and what do you know? Some bones turn up!
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4/2009
Icy Clutches
Once again Gideon is accompanying Julie on one of her professional excursions and BONES show up! This time it's in Alaska, and the bones are from thirty years ago. They are just now (mostly) coming out of the glacier where three scientists were lost in an avalanche.
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3/2008
Loot; a novel.
Art expert Ben Revere deals with the re-appearence of paintings stolen by the Nazis, the Hungarian and Russian Mafias, and rich Austrian food. Good story.
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1/2004
Skeleton Dance
Gideon and Julie head to France to look at some bones found in a cave. And I especially liked Goldstein's Law Of Interconnected Monkey Business.
Quote:
"You have the world's most absolutely gorgeous submaxillary triangle, did I ever tell you that?" (pg. 93)
Smoke Quote:
Joly emerged from the doorway of the Musée Thibault and avidly, gratefully lit up another Gitane, getting it out of the pack, into his mouth, and alight with what seemed one motion. (pg. 173)
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2/2009
Tiny Little Teeth
Gideon takes a boat cruise on the Amazon, along with John and Phil. I'm sure I do not want to visit there. I did not realize the river was flowed through Peru. I must consult a map...
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2/2009
Twenty Blue Devils
Gideon and John go to a coffee plantation in Tahiti to check out a death in John's family.
Words I Had To Look Up:
cockamamies (pg. 182) -- Comes from the word decalcomania, temporary "tattoos".
Biscuits Mckay (pg. 260) -- Maybe some kind of cookie, but no trace on the internet. Their motto is "C'est OK!"
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4/2009
Unnatural Selection
Julie is a Fellow of the Consortium of the Scillies, and as such travels to the Isles of Scilly to the biannual meeting. Naturally, Gideon goes along. And naturally, there are bones...
Words I Had To Look Up:
fusty (pg. 151) -- Impaired by age or dampness, i.e., moldy, or even saturated with dust and stale odors, i.e., musty.
Quote:
THE librarian at the reference desk, a disciplinarian of the old school, looked up sharply and with a pencil to her lips sternly motioned to silence the large American gentleman at the computer.
"Ah, no," he had murmured.
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3/2009
Where There's A Will
Gideon travels to Hawaii to assist yet another of John's extensive circle of friends and/or relatives. This time it's the cattle ranchers John used to work for.
Words I Had To Look Up:
cuneiform (pg. 93) -- I thought it was a form of ancient writing, but now I know there are some foot bones called that.
Quote:
But no, the used Grumman Cheetah had come without a GPS in 1986--...and Gus had flown it just fine for eighteen years without seeing the need for them... (pg. 6) -- Let us see, 1986 plus 18 years equals 2004. But this chapter takes place in 1994. The Cheetah was first built in 1976, maybe it's just a typo. But then, it says "used".
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4/2009
Nasty Breaks
Pro golfer Lee Ofsted travels to Block Island, RI, to held out her friend Peg at a seminar. Someone gets almost kidnapped, someone else gets murdered. Nice little story.
Quote:
SPOILER ALERT:
"So what? Just because somebody tried to kill me doesn't mean he can't help my golf game." (pg. 226)
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7/2009
Epilogue To A Christmas Murder
Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #11.
Addie has to help her friend who is accused of murdering her ex AND figure out how to straighten out her own life. During Christmas AND a big ol' wedding.
Quote:
On a tiny tag her name was scrawled in neat cursive letters. -- How can it be both scrawled and neat?Read:
4/2026
Murder By The Book
Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #1. Several people die and they end up being related. The deaths, that is. Well, and some of them are related.
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5/2026
Prologue To Murder
Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #2. Miss Newsy, a newspaper columnist, suggests Addie might be involved in the murder of the town's librarian.
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4/2026
The Pirates Own Book
A rather long (469 pages) and slow to read book about various pirates through history. It took me nearly three months to finish. I found it very hard to read, and very uninteresting, mostly. But, some parts WERE interesting. I spent a lot of time looking at maps of the Lynn Massachusetts area to see where the action of the chapter about the Lynn pirates took place.
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9/2015
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[Ecke - Ellms] [Elmer - Evanovich] [Evanovich - Extence]