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Iced
Miles races toboggans in St. Moritz, but he used to be a jockey.
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9/2023
Pulse
Dr. Chris Reynolds, who works in the A&E, treats a man found at the racetrack who is unconscious.
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9/2023
Refusal
Sid Halley back to, unwillingly, investigate corruption on the track. Good story!
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6/2014
Triple Crown
Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Association, come to the U.S. to help out his counterpart in the U.S. version.
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I wondered how the hell I had come to the point where I was lying in the dark trying to ignore a drunken Mexican farting below me.Read:
9/2023
Just Ask Iris
Iris Diaz-Pinkowitz moves to a very multi-cultural apartment building. She is having puberty problems, dog problems, cat problems,parrot problems, and typing problems. Good story!
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6/2008
Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin
Small-print version too hard to read, need an large-print version with annotations!
Words I Had To Look Up:
working with them diligently like so many emmers (pg. 13) -- Emmer is a kind of wheat, can't find another meaning.
furze bush (pg. 61) -- A Gorse bush. Spiny, spiky, stickery!!
Philadelphia Experiments (pg. 175) -- Ben and his son William flew a kite in a storm.
grampus (pg. 247) -- A killer whale, probably.
fizgig (pg. 247) -- A fish gig, harpoon, or fish spear.
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So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. -- (pg. 41)
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...Temple of LEARNING: Every Peasant, who had wherewithal, was preparing to send one of his Children at least to this famous Place; and in this Case most of them consulted their own Purses instead of their Childrens Capacities: So that I observed, a great many, yea, the most part of those who were travelling thither, were little better than Dunces and Blockheads. Alas! Alas! -- (pg. 201)
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5/2009
Cold Mountain
Civil War tale of a woman on a mountain farm and the deserter admirier returning home. Quite good, but I wish the ending had been a little different, or maybe not.
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5/2003
Mrs. Mike
Co-author Nancy Freedman. Story of Kathy, a Boston girl who goes to Calgary for her health, and marries a RCMP sergeant. The authors said they wrote the novel based on talks with Katherine O'Fallon Flanigan, and some claim it isn't very truthful, but it IS a wonderful story.
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11/2013
Above The Law
Lawyer Luke Garrison becomes a special prosecuter to investigate a DEA drug bust gone sour. Also has Kate Blanchard, both from from other books. Does not seem to use the phrase "I feature", thank goodness!!
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6/2002
Against The Wind
Bikers get busted in Santa Fe for a murder they didn't do.
WORDS I HAD TO LOOK UP:
Placket (pg. 239) 1. A slit in a dress, blouse, or skirt to make the garment easy to put on or take off. 2. A pocket, especially in a women's skirt. Read:
4/2002
House Of Smoke
Santa Barbara P.I. Kate Blanchard investigates suspicious goings on involving a rich ranch owner and her family.
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4/2002
Key Witness
Lawyer Wyatt Matthews gets tired of defending corporate creeps, sabaticals to the public defender's office and defends a teen accused of serial murders. Pretty good.
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4/2002
The Disappearance
A teen girl disappears and is found murdered. Good story.
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4/2002
The Obstacle Course
A boy named Roy dreams of going to Annapolis. Good story. Not like his other books.
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5/2002
The Daytrader
Augustus McKnight quits his job to be a day trader, his wife gets murdered, and he finds out lots of stuff about her he didn't know.
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6/2002
The Vulture Fund
Mace Maclain finds political deceit and terrorism when he is assigned the job of finding investors for an investment fund.
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7/2002
How I Survived My Summer Vacation*
Jackie joins the swim team, kisses a girl, has bra practice with a chair, and finally writes something.
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6/2008
Dragon Rider
A silver dragon and a brownie set out to find the mythical Rim Of Heaven where dragons can live in peace. Nice story!
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5/2015
Inkheart
Meggie's father can bring characters to life from books. Mostly bad characters, it seems!
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1/2008
Reckless
A boy goes through a mirror to a sort of steam punk/fairy land world, I think to find his missing father. I keep reading the title as "Feckless", I am the LOLZ
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11/2010
20 books displayed
[Fadiman - Farmer] [Farmer - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flint] [Flint - Foster] [Foster - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Funke] [Funke - Fussell]