Books I've Read

The author's novelization of a young woman coming to Chicken, Alaska, to teach in 1927, as told to the author by Anne Hobbs Purdy.

Christopher, a teen who is rather a jerk, is sent off to be a cabin boy during the revolutionary war. Lots of action.

Expedition to find where spaceships are disappearing to when they hyper-space jump finds a Sargasso of space.

An artist talks to his father about the holocaust and makes a book about his father's experiences. Very good!

Continues the story of Art's father's experiences in the holocaust.

Stargirl moves to PA, but she meets a several interesting people, falls a little in love with a bad-boy named Perry, and builds a mini-Stonehenge. Let's have some donuts!

Touching and humorous tale of a new girl at high school who is quite a free spirit, alternately enchanting and alienating the other students. Very excellent.

Four stories involving a blue library. Very good.

Good story about a girl who joins her junior high wrestling team.

A ten year old boy doesn't want to be wringer, a boy who kills wounded pigeons at the town's annual pigeon killing festival.

Jason Wood runs a freelance information business. On an assignment for the police he discovers that a drug kingpin may be a vampire. That's just the beginning!! Good book!

A group of scientists, and engineer, and a space ship racer take a new intergalactic ship on its maiden voyage, and end up...where? Well, the Grand Central Arena, where they have to deal with hundreds or thousands of other alien races to win a place in society, and a chance to return to Earth. More or less. Good story, I thought.

When Rosemary's mother is killed she flees to the father she has never seen, Robin Hood, who lives in Sherwood Forest.

Very good book about William Mulholland and the building of the Los Angeles aqueduct.

Comedian Stanhope recounts growing up with an alcoholic mother. She was much more than that, though, and it's a great, if profanity-lace, story. I enjoyed it very much. I don't think I'd care to see his act, though.

Parker is on the lam in a small town, helps out a guy with a racetrack robbery.

Parker robs a floating casino.

Parker breaks out of jail.

Parker robs an evangelist.

Parker is trying to recover the money from the armored car heist.