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The Shadow Girls

Mankell, Henning
A Swedish poet is unwillingly coerced into hearing the stories of three illegal immigrants. While the stories are quite tragic, there is some humor in his tribulations.

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2/2013

Mystery! A treasury for younger readers

Manley, Seon, ed.
A number of stories and poems of mystery and wierdness (fairies?) by classic authors like Poe, F. Scott Fitgerald, Thurber and Holmes, for example. I kinda skipped the poetry... Favorite story was The Murder Of George Washington, by Richard M Gordon.

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5/2007

Holy terror

Marcinko, Richard
Co-authored by Jim DeFelice. Demo Dick saves the Pope from gettin blown up. I like how many of the people he encounters say his first book was the best. With index.

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8/2006

Rogue Warrier-Option Delta

Marcinko, Richard
The Rogue Warrier afield and afoot in Europe.

QUOTE:

No printable quotes!!

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6/1999

Rogue Warrier-The Real Team

Marcinko, Richard
Introduces the real operators from the Rogue Warrier series..

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6/1999

Rogue Warrior : Seize The Day

Marcinko, Richard
With Jim Defelice, Marcinko tells the tale of impersonating Fidel Castro to gather information on a big plot. Moves right along, a pretty good read.

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12/2009

Rogue Warrior: Dictator's Ransom

Marcinko, Richard
I'm PRETTY sure this one is fictional. Dickie goes to North Korea to have dinner with Kim Jong Il. Of course Richard has other motives. Like locating nuclear weapons. The dictator orders Dick to find his son. Stuff happens.

It was funny how this book tied in with the book I just finished, Richard Belzor's I Am Not A Cop!, what with the Russian phrases, references to the mafiya, and the Spetsnaz.

I would like to have see more about Cho Lim, the North Korean soldier/agent/spy who loved animals.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Chinese cup garden (pg. 98) -- It's a garden. A Chinese garden. Nothing really definitive on the web about them.
"Nazdarovya" yelled the team's jumpmaster... (pg. 179) -- He yells "To your health" when they jump?

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7/2009

Violence Of Action

Marcinko, Richard
Some renagade American sojers steal a suitcase nuke and plan to use it, in all places, Portland Oregon, since apparantly it is a den of immorality. Hilarity ensues...

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3/2003

Rogue Warrier-Echo Platoon

Marcinko, Richard and John Weisman
Dicky goes to the Caucasus area to rescue hostages on yet another oil rig, among other things.

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8/2000

Rogue Warrier-Task Force Blue

Marcinko, Richard and John Weisman
Dicky finds out who is swiping U.S. Army weapons and selling them to street gangs. This is the book with the incredible dread destroyer of telephone eqipment, the encrypted message- sending fax machine (page 276)!!

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8/2000

Seal Force Alpha

Marcinko, Richard and John Weisman
The Rogue Warrier is kicking butt on Chinese spys! Not as good as the first three? books. Maybe the formula is getting tiresome.

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10/1998

Tomorrow, When The War Began

Marsden, John
Teens in Australia come back from camping trip to find everyone has been captured by invading army. Interesting, not overly "actioney", much Aussie lingo and references, of course. Reviewed at www.lostbook.net

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2/2001

To The End

Marshall, William
Another freak'n wierd Yellowthread Street series mystery. Hong Kong is in a state of turmoil as China prepares to reclaim it.

QUOTE:

"The odor of virtuous conduct lasts a thousand generations..."

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7/1999

The Necropolis Railway

Martin, Andrew
Jim Stringer is finally on the path to his dream job as a railroad engineer, but something is going on at his new job on a railroad that hauls bodies to the cemetery...murder!

Words I Had To Look Up:

trickling the Jeyes into the khazis (pg. 29) -- Jeyes Fluid turns out to be a brand of disinfectant.
The joxies on the next seat (pg. 91) -- Apparently prostitutes, but I can't find any verification.
a bit of a beano here (pg. 94) -- A noisy festive celebration .

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11/2011

The Meanest Doll In The World

Martin, Ann M. and others
Nicely illustrated story of the Doll family who meets an awful princess doll named Mimi who may bring destruction to them all!

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4/2004

Pelikan

Martin, David Lozell
Wierd crime goings-on in New Orleans. Graphic, sometimes funny. Clown paranoia.

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2/2005

A Game Of Thrones

Martin, George R. R.
Everyone has seen the television series. Except me. But, I've read the first book!

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6/2013

Hunter's Run

Martin, George R. R.
Co-authored by Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham. Prospector on planet of Sao Paolo meets alien. Whole lot of cussing, in English and Spanish. Interesting how one's sympathies change during the story.

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1/2009

Rogues

Martin, George R. R., ed.
Twenty-one stories about rogues. Various genres, including crime and fantasy. I especially liked the one involving the band instruments.

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2/2017

A Desolation Called Peace

Martine, Arkady
This the second book took me a long time, maybe a hundred pages, to come up to speed as to what was going on. I'm looking forward to the third book, but I'm not sure I'll remember much of what happened in this one, then!

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6/2021
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[Abadzis - Akers, pseud.] [Akers, pseud. - Anaya] [Anderson - Armstrong] [Arngrim - Aveyard] [Avi - Baen Publishing Enterprises] [Baen Publishing Enterprises - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Benford] [Bennett - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Bonner] [Borchert - Brashares] [Breathed - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Bujold] [Bunting - Card] [Card - Card] [Card - Chabon] [Chainani - Choldenko] [Choldenko - Clarke] [Clarke - Cody] [Cody - Colfer] [Colfer - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Constantine] [Constantine - Corey] [Corey - Craig] [Craig - Crais] [Crais - Crombie] [Cronley - Cussler] [Cussler - Dashner] [Dashner - DiCamillo] [DiCamillo - Doctorow] [Doig - Drake] [Drake - DuPrau] [Durham - Emerson] [Emerson - Evanovich] [Evans - Farley] [Farmer - Fitzgerald] [Fitzhugh - Fletcher] [Flinn - Foster] [Foster - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Funke] [Fussell - Gardner] [Gardner - Gilman] [Gladwell - Gores] [Gormley - Granger] [Grann - Greenleaf] [Greenleaf - Grimes] [Grimes - Grisham] [Grogan - Haldeman] [Haldeman - Hall] [Hallett - Harper] [Harris - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Henry] [Henry - Hershon] [Herzog - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hillerman] [Hillerman - Hoeg] [Holling - Horvath] [Hosseini. - Ibbotson] [Irving - Jocelyn] [Johansen - Kadohata] [Kaminsky - Kandel] [Karr - Kienzle] [Kienzle - Kingsolver] [Kingsolver - Koontz] [Korman - Kushner] [L'Amour - Lasky] [latham - Leckie] [Leckie - Leonard] [Leonard - Lewis] [Lewis - London] [Long - Luna] [Luna - Maclean] [Macleish - Mankell] [Mankell - Martine] [Martine - Massey] [Matas - McCaffrey] [McCall Smith - McCrumb] [McCrumb - Meloy] [Meluch - Modesitt Jr.] [Modesitt, Jr. - Moon] [Moon - Mosley] [Moss - Napoli] [Neville - Niven] [Northcutt - O'Brian] [O'Brian - O'Brien] [O'Brien - Osman] [Osman - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Patterson] [Patterson - Paulsen] [Pavesi - Perez-Reverte] [Perez-Reverte - Piper] [Piper - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Pullman] [Pynchon - Reeve] [Reeves - Ringo] [Ringo - Rodman] [Rohmer - Rowling] [Rubens - Ryan] [Ryan - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Schmidt] [Schmitz - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Shaffer] [Shames - Shute] [Sijie - Smith] [Smith - Spector] [Spencer - Stark] [Stark - Stephenson] [Stephenson - Stross] [Stross - Swee] [Sweeney - Telsep] [Tepper - Turtledove] [Turtledove - Valente] [Van Allsburg - Vanderpool] [Varley - Watkins] [Watson - Weeks] [Weir - Werlin] [West - Westlake] [Westlake - Wiles] [Wiles - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Wouk] [Wrede - Zusak] 

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