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Swindle

Korman, Gordon
A boy finds a rare baseball card and is ripped off by a dealer. By about $ 980,000!! Boy recruits friends to get card back. Chaos happens.

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2/2012

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"It says their sirens are one hundred and seventy-five decibels louder than revving jet engines." (pg. 106) -- Gosh, that is roughly the sound level of the Tunguska Meteor hit, and more than an atomic bomb explosion!

Zoobreak

Korman, Gordon
The gang rescues animals from a private zoo on a paddle-wheel boat. Then things go wrong...

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2/2012

Trial By Ice: A Photobiography Of Sir Ernest Shackleton

Kostyal, K. M.
Great pictures, very interesting.

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10/2000

The Calculating Stars

Kowal, Mary Robinette
Lady Astronaut Novel #1. Meteorite wipes out Washington D.C., climate change, better get some off-Earth colonies started! Set in the 50s. I really liked it a lot, read the darn thing in one 24-hour period!

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4/2019

The Fated Sky

Kowal, Mary Robinette
The Lady Astronaut Elma ends up going to Mars on the first expedition.

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4/2021

The Martian Contingency

Kowal, Mary Robinette
Lady Astronaut Universe, #4. I enjoyed this entry in the series!

Quote:

"Do you need a Valium?" -- Ah, the good old days!

Quote:

"I don't know what you need, but you are saving me from reading about sexing chickens."

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5/2025

The Relentless Moon

Kowal, Mary Robinette
Book 3 in the Lady Astronaut series. Very good, Nicole Wargin on Earth and the Moon is the main character in this one.

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4/2021

The Spare Man

Kowal, Mary Robinette
Newlyweds solve murders on a space liner traveling to Mars. Pretty good! Now I want a Westie dog!

Quote:

She had clothes. She had a cocktail. What she needed next was a plan.

Quote:

She sighed and sat down, because a walking biohazard was a social faux pas under the best of circumstances.

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12/2023

On The Wing

Kraft, Eric
Second book in the Wings trilogy, odd story of the boy Peter, and later the man Peter, making an odd trip in an odd America.

Words I Had To Look Up:


matutinal (pg. 72) -- pertaining to or occurring in the morning.
crepuscular (pg. 86) -- active mainly at dawn and dusk.
mobcap (pg. 173) -- large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women.
paucity (pb. 215) -- dearth: an insufficient quantity or number.
plenitude (pb. 215) -- plenty: a full supply.
pelisse (pg. 219) -- a sleeveless cape that is lined or trimmed with fur.

Quote:

...the area of which is defined by the equation S = π2 (R + r) (R - r) where R is the major radius of the torus and r is the minor radius of the torus, an equation that to this day makes me hot.

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11/2007

Into Thin Air

Krakauer, Jon
The author's account of the terrible events on his ascent of Mt Everest in 1996. Very Excellent!

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11/2007

A State of Disobedience

Kratman, Tom
In this 2003 book a Democratic President of the United States, Ms. Wilhelmina Rottemeyer (if you can believe it!), does a lot of bad stuff, but the brave governor of Texas stands up to her. I did not like this book, but I read the whole thing to give it a fair shake. I also read the Eric Flint essay THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT BAEN’S BAR for some background information on Tom Kratman. The essay was so long I honestly couldn't finish it, what with my cataracts, but it was VERY interesting about a great many things.

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9/2022

The Amazon Legion

Kratman, Tom
On a planet far far away, women are recruited for a special unit to defend their small country from belligerent neighbors. Gosh, wish the two appendixes had been listed in a table of contents so I could have USED them while reading!

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3/2012

Big Ear Two

Kraus, John
A biography of John Kraus in nice little chapters leading eventually to the development of the Big Ear radio astronomy facility, along with many other things he was involved with. I enjoyed reading it very much.

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2/2021

Thunder Bay

Krueger, William Kent
Cork helps and old Indian friend find the son he has only seen in dreams, and solves a mystery, too. Pretty good stuff. Read the Readers Digest Condensed version.

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5/2008

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4/2011

The Dragon Republic

Kuang, R. F.
The Poppy War book 2. Rin fights in the big war for the Republic, against the Empress.

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6/2021

The Poppy War

Kuang, R. F.
First volume in a series. Pretty long fantasy taking place in a China-like country. Not painful to read so I shall continue with the second volume post-haste.

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6/2021

My Sherlock Holmes

Kurland, Michael ed.
Thirteen Holmes stories by various authors, mostly none I've heard of. Very good.

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12/2004

Crashing Through

Kurson, Robert
A biography of Mike May, who, blinded at age three, had his sight partially restored in the 90s. An extremely interesting story! Ham radio, bicycling, laser record players, good-looking women, it's all there!

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6/2013

When Bad Things Happen To Good People

Kushner, Harold S.
Explains that God does not micromanage.

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4/2013

Hanging Woman Creek

L'Amour, Louis
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?

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..."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
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[Abadzis - Addison] [Addison - Alexander] [Alexander - Anderson] [Anderson - Asimov] [Asimov - Bacigalupi] [Backman - Baldree] [Baldree - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Belzer] [Bender - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Bodett] [Bohjalian - Bova] [Bova - Brink] [Briody - Bryson] [Buchanan - Bujold] [Bujold - Bythell] [Cain - Card] [Card - Carey] [Carlson editor - Chambers] [Chambers - Choldenko] [Choldenko - Clarke] [Clarke - Cody] [Cody - Colfer] [Colfer - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Constantine] [Constantine - Corbett] [Corcoran - Cornwell] [Cornwell - Crais] [Crais - Crichton] [Crichton - Curry] [Curry - Cussler] [Cussler - Davis] [Davis - Dilloway] [Dionne - Dorsey] [Dorsey - Dowell] [Dowell - Duncan] [Duncan - Elkins] [Elkins - Evanovich] [Evanovich - Fairstein] [Fairstein - Ferris] [Ferris - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flint] [Flint - Foster] [Fournier - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Freedman] [Freedman - Gaiman] [Gaiman - Gash] [Gash - Goffard] [Going - Grady] [Grafton - Grant] [Grant - Greenleaf] [Greenleaf - Grimes] [Grimes - Gruwell] [Gutman - Haldeman] [Haldeman - Hall] [Hallett - Hannigan] [Hard - Heat-Moon] [Heat-Moon - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heller] [Hemingway - Herrera] [Herriot - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hobb] [Hobb - Holt] [Hoose - Hudgens] [Hudson - Jackson] [Jackson - Johnson] [Johnson - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Keating] [Keene - Kienzle] [Kienzle - Kinney] [Kirby - Korman] [Korman - L'Amour] [L'Engle - latham] [Laughlin - Leckie] [Leckie - Leonard] [Leonard - Lewis] [Lewis - Little] [Little - Lowry] [Lowry - Lutz] [Lynch - Magary] [Magary - Marcinko] [Marcinko - Masiel] [Mass - McBain] [McBain - McCormack] [McCrumb - McDevitt] [McDevitt - Meluch] [Meyer - Moffett] [Monninger - Moon] [Moon - Moss] [Moulton - Neville] [Neville - North] [Northcutt - Nunn] [O'Brian - O'Brian] [O'Brian - Oppel] [Oppenheim - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pease] [Peck - Peyton] [Pfeffer - Pooley] [Pooley - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Quinn] [Quinn - Raskin] [Raskin - Resnick] [Reynolds - Riordan] [Roach - Roosevelt] [Rose - Russell] [Russell - Sachar] [Sachar - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Schmitz] [Schonborg - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Shames] [Shames - Shute] [Sijie - Smith] [Smith - Spector] [Spencer - Stark] [Stark - Stephenson] [Stephenson - Stroke] [Stroke - Strunk] [Sturgeon - Taylor] [Taylor - Townsend] [Tracy - Updale] [Urban - Van Name] [van Vogt - Walsh] [Walsh - Weber] [Weber - Wells] [Wells - Westerman] [Westerman - Westlake] [Westlake - Willis] [Willis - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Yates] [Yates - Zusak] 

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