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Death Gets A Time-Out
Juliet Applebaum, P.I., former lawyer, investigates the murder of a woman by her son, for her movie star friend. Read 10/2004
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10/2004
Nursery Crimes
New Mom/Lawyer/P.I.? Juliet Applebaum decides having babies isn't enough, she wants to find out who kill the principal of the preschool that rejected Juliets child.
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7/2001
Son of a grifter
The authors story of how his mother and brother ended up murdering a woman in New York City. Very interesting, and thanks to Google Earth I could see the foundation of the house mom burnt down in Las Vegas!
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11/2006
Puerto Vallarta Squeeze : (The Run for El Norte)
This guy wrote Bridges Of Madison County. Read Sometime In
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Check out these reviewtoids from Amazon.comPURE TRASH:
"Tremendously poignant portrayal of man-woman relationship" "Pretentiously written, but interesting.... " I agree!!! Especially the TRASH one!!!Read:
10/1998
Cold Tracks
Forest Service law enforement officer Frank Carver and his assistant Ginnie Trask work together to solve a murder in Oregon.
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8/2001
From Lance To Landis
An account of drug use in cycling during the Lance era, with a bit of Landis at the end. Fairly depressing.
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1/2008
The Green Book
Pattie and her family leave a dying Earth for an uncertain life on a strange planet. Only 69 pages, but a nice story. Although I believe the seasons are caused by the axial tilt of a planet, not so much the orbit.
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9/2007
The Crowfield Curse
William lives at an abbey that took him in after a fire killed his family. He saves a creature from a trap, and discovers there is a whole world of fay creatures living around him. Of course, there comes a great evil that he has to overcome. Does one suppose a sequel is in the works? Good story, very descriptive. I could envision the environs clearly.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Couvre-feu (pg. 9) A utensil for extinguishing the fire in a fireplace when the curfew bell rings. Curfew is derived from curfew bell.
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3/2011
Justin And The Best Biscuits In The World
Justin goes to visit his grandfather's ranch. A very nice story.
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12/1999
Echoes In The Darkness
True story of murder of schoolteacher and her chiildren in Pennsylvania. Very poignant final paragraphs. Read again
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11/2002
Finnegan's Week
Police story takes place in San Diego. Stolen shoes, toxic waste, very excellent story.
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12/2000
Hollywood Station
Entertaining tales of police officers and the characters they deal with. Favorite character was Olive. Glad to see that she got out from under and did ok.
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2/2012
Seal Team Six: Memoirs Of An Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
Interesting story, but it is very choppy. Sometimes I was confused by what was happening. Being rather prejudiced about chiropractic, I was interested to see how and why he became a chiropractor.
A very comprehensive glossary is included!
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12/2011
So Far From The Bamboo Grove
A Japanese girl and her family, living in Korea, escape back to Japan at the end of World War II.
I read this because it had been challenged on historical accuracy. I say, it's the recollections of an eight-year-old girl, novelized. More violence than I expected.
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4/2011
This Side Of Home
An African-American high school girl in Portland (Oregon) deals with various complications and changes in her life. Interesting story, made slightly more so because I am vaguely familiar with some of the locales mentioned. My overall impression of the books was, "smooth story", what ever that means!
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1/2016
Linnet
Linnet is quite the teen in 16th century London. Kidnapped by a master criminal, she helps foil a plot to overthrow the queen. Is there a sequel?
Words I Had To Look Up:
kynchin morts. A kinchin is a young child. Kinchin morts are young girls-- orphans, beggers. Kinchin coves are young boys.
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10/2009
Blindsight
Spaceship goes to some place to investigate source of messages to some place else where probably some probes came from that scared everyone on Earth. I got the impression Humans were all gonna die, at the end. Maybe I'm wrong.
Words I Had To Look Up:
sieverts (pg. 205) -- An SI unit for the dosage of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rems
crypsis (pg. 225) -- n ecology, crypsis is the ability of an organism to avoid observation or detection by other organisms.
diel cycle (pg. 280) -- Involving a 24-hour period that usually includes a day and the adjoining night
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"Well, according to game theory, you should never tell anyone when your birthday is."
"I don't follow"
"It's a lose-lose proposition. There's no winning strategy."
"What do you mean strategy? It's a birthday."
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5/2013
A Beautiful Friendship
Star Kingdom #1. Stephanie discovers the People, makes friends with one of them. Great friends!
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6/2023
A Call To Duty
With Timothy Zahn, Thomas Pope. Honorverse: Manticore Ascendant #1. Travis Uriah Long joins the Royal Manticoran Navy. Pretty good, may be more Zahn than Weber.
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7/2023
A New Clan
Star Kingdom #4. I must admit I read the last chapter too quickly and too late at night (or rather, too early in the morning) so I really don't get the "New Clan" part. So I shall have to read that chapter again. I did like the adventuresome story, though.
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7/2023
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[Waldman - Weber] [Weber - Wells] [Wells - Westerfeld] [Westerman - Westlake] [Westlake - Williams-Garcia] [Willis - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Wroblewski]