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There's A Girl In My Hammerlock

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

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1/2001

Wringer

Spinelli, Jerry
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.

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1/2001

Digital Knight

Spoor, Ryk
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!

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11/2022

Grand Central Arena

Spoor, Ryk
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.

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11/2022

Rowanhood

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

Words I Had To Look Up:

gimmal ring (pg. 8) -- A finger ring consisting of a pair or series of interlocked rings.

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4/2009

Water To The Angels

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

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2/2019

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

Stanhope, Doug
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.

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10/2020

Ask The Parrot

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

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6/2008

Backflash

Stark, Richard
Parker robs a floating casino.

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7/2005

Breakout

Stark, Richard
Parker breaks out of jail.

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7/2005

Comback

Stark, Richard
Parker robs an evangelist.

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7/2005

Dirty Money

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

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1/2013

Firebreak

Stark, Richard
Parker robs a mansion/lodge in Montana.

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7/2005

Flashfire

Stark, Richard
Parker heads to Florida to recover his share of a job that was "borrowed" by a trio of former partners that are going to pull off a jewel heist there.

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1/2013

Nobody runs forever

Stark, Richard
Stark is a pseud. of Donald Westlake. Parker, a heister, executes a bank job, but it's going bad.

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7/2005

The Man With The Getaway Face

Stark, Richard
Parker has just had plastic surgery. Joins in an armored car heist.

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1/2013

A Wizard And A Warlord

Stasheff, Christopher
Gar and Alea stop off to check out a planet that doesn't seem to have a government, oppressive or otherwise. One weep, plus an ending I didn't see coming.

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11/2017

Liar & Spy

Stead, Rebecca
Georges meets a couple of kids in the apartment building they live in that suspect a neighbor may be up to no good. Stead know how to up the ante, I missed all the clues.

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6/2014

When You Reach Me

Stead, Rebecca
Sixth grade Miranda gets mysterious notes. One of the best books I have read lately, of its kind. I was so much in tears at the end I nearly choked.

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5/2014

Coyote

Steel, Allen
Disgruntled astronauts steal intersteller spaceship and head to the possibly Earthlike planet named Coyote. Well, they wuz going there anyway, it is that they replaced the original colonists with other disgruntled citizens. I thought it was pretty good, but the reviews on Amazon.com say the science is erroneous. There are a couple sequels. We shall see...

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2/2007
20 books displayed
[Saberhage - Sanders] [Sanders - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Scieszka] [Scithers - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Sheinkin] [Sheinkin - Silverberg] [Silverberg - Smith] [Smith - Spinelli] [Spinelli - Steel] [Steinbeck - Stowell] [Stracher - Stross] [Stross - Sweeney] 

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