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Some Birds Don't Fly

Paulsen, Gary
Humerous tales about the author's experiences as a missle technician in the Sixties. Paulsen's first book. for the third time!

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8/2001

The Island

Paulsen, Gary
A boy moves to a country town and finds an island. Very zen.

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11/2000

The Quilt

Paulsen, Gary
During WWII a boy goes to stay with his grandmother in Minnesota. A wonderful little book.

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3/2008

The Rifle

Paulsen, Gary
History of a rifle, from Revolutionary times to the present. A detailed recounting of its building (very interesting). I got the impression the author doesn't care for NRA rhetoric.

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12/2012

The Scheronoff Discoveries

Paulsen, Gary
A short but charming story of the narrator and his friend, science-whiz Harold, and their romantic, economic, and social escapades.

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3/2008

The Eighth Detective

Pavesi, Alex
An editor of mystery books visits an author on a small (hot) island to see about publishing a book of mysteries he wrote many years before. Lots of surprises, nothing is as it seems. Ultimately a bit disappointing, though.

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4/2022

Red Thread Sisters

Peacock, Carol Antoinette
Wen is adopted by a family in the United States, and she promises her best friend, her "sister", that she will help her get adopted too. Very heart-warming story.

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11/2013

An Instance Of The Fingerpost

Pears, Iain
A very long book, over 700 pages. Takes place in the 1600's. A mystery. Took two weeks to read.

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2/2002

Giotta's Hand

Pears, Iain
An art history mystery. The amazon.com reviews sound very little like the books I read.

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12/2001

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9/2012

The Librarian At Play

Pearson, Edmund Lester
"A collection of light-hearted book-related stories and essays originally published in 1910 and 1911 in trade magazines." -- Goodreads

Most of these I liked very much, but not the literary zoo ones.

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7/2022

The Adoration Of Jenna Fox

Pearson, Mary E.
Teen girl wakes up from coma, finds out she isn't all she thinks she is.

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12/2012

The Academy

Pearson, Ridley
Steven "Steel" Trapp in invited to attend his FBI father's alma mater prep school where he finds mysterious goings-on going on.

Weirdness:

...a group of car batteries had collected, all but one dead. (pg. 46) -- A pile of dead car batteries in their living space, plus one recharged by a solar cell? Hydrogen gas, anyone?
For a moment there was no sound in the room, except for a vague humming from the battery. (pg. 52) -- I don't like the sound of that!
The girls wore stretch-fabric bike shorts...(pg. 139) Were they PADDED bike shorts? Sorry, pet peeve,
He reach the rebar ladder leading up into the chapel... (pg. 184) -- I thought in was STEPS back on page 169.
Mrs. D. could then buy them two of same make and model [radio], allowing them to listen in on everything said between the staff. (pg. 212) -- As long as they are set to the same frequency, which could be one of AT LEAST dozens. Not that hard to figure out with a scanner and frequency counter, but then one wouldn't need the same brand and model now, would one? Or just use a scanner!
"Do you have any clue what we're supposed to be doing in Boston?", he asked. (pg. 289) -- Boston? BOSTON? First I've heard of it!.

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12/2010

The Tattooed Man

Pease, Howard
Todd Moran goes to sea to rescue his brother. Good story, written in 1926, some unfortunate racial slurs.

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5/2005

Night Boat

Pease, Howard
Seven stories in the Tod Moran Mystery series. Tod is third mate on the steamer Araby. Good stories, for what they are. The last story, Black Out, takes place in San Francisco during a blackout in WWII. I thought it interesting that prejudice and discrimination against Americans of Japanese and Italian heritage is mentioned, since this was copyright 1942.

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5/2007

A Long Way From Chicago

Peck, Richard
Each summer Mary Alice and her brother visit their grandmother in Ohio. Charming, a weep at the end, for me.

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1/2012

A season of gifts

Peck, Richard
Bob moves into the house next to Mrs. Dowdel. Good Christmas story.

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12/2009

A Year Down Under

Peck, Richard
A city girl spends a year with her country grandmother. A most excellent book.

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4/2005

Fair Weather

Peck, Richard
Three children and their irascible grandfather travel to Chicago for the 1893 exposition. Good and funny! Some nifty pictures of the White City.

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11/2009

The Teachers funeral

Peck, Richard
Russell plans to run away to South Dakota to harvest wheat, but his father and sister Tansy have other plans. A very enjoyable story of life in rural Indiana in 1904.

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3/2007

A Marriage Made At Woodstock

Pelletier, Cathie
Hippie wife Chandra leaves accountant husband Frederick.

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3/2001
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