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Hanging Woman Creek
The author has cranked out a zillion of these 150 page books, and they are great little stories. And no sex, very little cussing, if any, but a bit of violence. In this one, "Pronto" Pike gets beat up and left for dead by vigilantes and falls in love with an Irish girl. I wonder why the bad guy who was detailed to kill him did not do it, though?
Quote:
..."He told me he never knew how sick he was until he was snowed in one winter with a Home medical Advisor, and read it cover to cover. If it hadn't been for that book, he might have lived a long life in bad health without knowing it." -- (pg. 14)
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5/2009
Meet The Austins
An orphaned girl, Maggy, comes to stay with the Austin family. Very nice family story.
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9/2010
Wizard Of Karres
Sequel to the classic novel. Interesting, but not great.
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12/2004
Eight Keys
Elise starts off badly in sixth grade at middle school, but eventually things get better. An extremely charming story. Parts of it seemed very familiar, like I had read a galley edition, but I would have noted that before. Odd. So I enjoyed it very much. But I'd like to know what the deal is with Amanda. Maybe a sequel?
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10/2015
The Lowland
Two brother in India and what happened to them. Very very good, but very very slow. I was in tears at the end.
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1/2017
Almost Everything
Notes on hope, it says. Good book.
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1/2020
Traveling Mercies
This was a very wonderful book that I enjoyed very much. I wish I could hold her words in my heart, but I don't seem to work that way.
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11/2019
Bargain Bride
Ginny is now fifteen, which means the man she was wed to when she was ten years old is coming to take her to live with him on his farm. A tale of the settlement of the Oregon Territory.
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4/2012
The Potlach Family
Plum gets in touch with her roots as a Chinook Indian in Oregon. Whoops, I mispeled Potlatch in the title!
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4/2012
Skulduggery Pleasant
Teen girl in a boring Irish town meets a skeleton detective in this rather clever and humorous tale.
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5/2008
Edward Stratemeyer
Biography of the creator of the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and many other book series in the early 1900s.
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4/2013
Endurance
Story of Shackleton's incredible voyage to Antarctica. These guy were tough!!!
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9/2002
Dead Wake
All about the sinking of the Lusitania during WWI. Very interesting, as his books are, very readable, learned a few things, too.
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12/2015
The Devil In The White City
The Chicago World's Fair and a serial killer stories intertwine in this non-fiction book. Very interesting.
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11/2004
Thunderstruck
Very interesting story of Marconi and the first criminal, a murderer, apprehended with the use of radio, Dr. Crippen.
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3/2015
Pennyroyal Academy
A girl with no name joins up to be a Princess at the Academy. Lucky they are letting in the non-royal this year. I liked the story, also agreed the criticisms of it that I saw. That it was already planned to be a movie before it was published was disconcerting to me. I'll read the rest of the series, but I'll wait for the book faire and not pay full hardback price again.
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10/2014
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
I really enjoyed this last book of the three published so far. There was more humor than I expected, too.
Quote I:
"I'm think of moving you to the Constitutional Protection operations unit."
"Forgive me for mentioning this, but Constitutional Protection doesn't have an operations unit."
"Yes, it does," Edklinth said. "I established it this morning. At present it consists of you."
"I see," said Figuerola hesitantly. -- pg. 224
Quote II:
"This is serious, Erika. I think you ought to see a doctor." -- pg. 270
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1/2015
The Girl Who Played With Fire
I think this one, book two in the series, is even better than the first one. We find a out a bit more Lisbeth and her awful childhood.
Quote:
There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer, Salander thought. -- Pg. 33.
Unlike most other people who knew her, Palmgren was sure that Salander was a genuinely moral person. The problem was that her notion of morality did not always coincide with that of the justice system. -- Pg. 150.
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1/2015
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Pretty good story of a disgraced journalist hired to look into the disappearance of a teen girl some, what, forty years ago.
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1/2014
Beyond The Burning Time
Historical fiction in witch-hunting Salem.
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10/2000
20 books displayed
[L'Amour - Lasky] [latham - Leckie] [Leckie - Leonard] [Leonard - Lewis] [Lewis - Little] [Little - Lowry] [Lowry - Lynch] [Lynn - Lynn]