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On Hummingbird Wings

Snelling, Lauraine
A woman returns to her hometown to take care of her ailing mother, and must reassess her life choices and decide what is important. A nice story, but there is way too much mention of coffeemakers! As the genre is Christian women's fiction (romantic), there is no cussing, just a bit of good-night kissing. I read the Advance Uncorrected Proof edition.

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3/2011

The Bad Beginning

Snicket, Lemony
The unfortunate Baudelaire siblings meet the awful Count Olaf. Very nice story!

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7/2002

The Reptile Room

Snicket, Lemony
The orphans go to live with their uncle, the snake scientist. He dies. How unfortunate!

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8/2002

Blind Man's Bluff

Sontag, Sherry and Christopher Drew with Annette Lawrence Drew
"The untold story of American submarine espionage". Excellent book with amazing stories. 100 pages of appendices!

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12/2000

Help Wanted

Soto, Gary
Twelve short stories. Nicely written, but they are the kind of story with no conclusion. My favorite was "Raider Nation". Glossary at end, which I discovered AFTER I finished the book. Thanks, publisher!

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12/2012

Living Up The Street

Soto, Gary
Another weeded copy because no one has checked it out it quite a few years, we got more copies, man, and the paper is turning brown. Time to go away, oh paperback. I enjoyed reading the stories. This is my third Gary Soto read.

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2/2014

Summer On Wheels

Soto, Gary
Mando and Hector decide to ride bicycles from East L.A. to Santa Monica. Seven page glossary at the end.

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Hector explained that they could bike five or ten miles each day, sleep over at a relative's house, look around like tourists, and bike some more when their welcome wore out. In five or six days they would be in Santa Monica on a beach crashing with a roll of white-tipped waves. -- (pg. 5) And I thought I was slow! : )

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5/2009

The Choice

Sparks, Nicholas
With some foreboding, we are told how the romance between Travis and Gabby develops from anger over a pregnant dog to a motorcycle ride. Not a lot further along we jump to the present, where SOMETHING AWFUL has happened. When we FINALLY find out what that is, not a lot further along SOMETHING WONDERFUL happens!

Not terribly complicated plots, if I can figure out what is coming, but I guess that isn't the charm of these romantic love stories.

Words I Had To Look Up:

1983 Honda Shadow (pg. 129) -- He RESTORED this? A faux Harley? Any bike is a good bike, I guess, but I thought it was a rather boring choice. I guess the author needed something with a low enough seat for a chick to learn to ride. a new Leapster (pg. 220) -- A hand-held educational game console.

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9/2010

Tisha

Specht, Robert
The author's novelization of a young woman coming to Chicken, Alaska, to teach in 1927, as told to the author by Anne Hobbs Purdy.

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9/2013

Salt Water Guns

Spector, Robert M.
Christopher, a teen who is rather a jerk, is sent off to be a cabin boy during the revolutionary war. Lots of action.

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12/2012

Endless Blue

Spencer, Wen
Expedition to find where spaceships are disappearing to when they hyper-space jump finds a Sargasso of space.

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7/2012

Maus: A survivor's tale

Spiegelman, Art
An artist talks to his father about the holocaust and makes a book about his father's experiences. Very good!

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8/2019

Maus: A survivor's tale, II

Spiegelman, Art
Continues the story of Art's father's experiences in the holocaust.

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8/2019

Love, Stargirl

Spinelli, Jerry
Stargirl moves to PA, but she meets a several interesting people, falls a little in love with a bad-boy named Perry, and builds a mini-Stonehenge. Let's have some donuts!

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12/2010

Stargirl

Spinelli, Jerry
Touching and humorous tale of a new girl at high school who is quite a free spirit, alternately enchanting and alienating the other students. Very excellent.

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11/2010

The Library Card

Spinelli, Jerry
Four stories involving a blue library. Very good.

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1/2001

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
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[Abadzis - Adams] [Adams - Albert] [Alcott - Anderson] [Anderson - Arngrim] [Arnow - Auxier] [Aveyard - Baen Publishing Enterprises] [Baen Publishing Enterprises - Barker] [Barnard - Barnard] [Barnard - Barr] [Barr - Bauer] [Baum - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beattie] [Beattie, editor - Birdsall] [Birney - Block] [Block - Block] [Bloor - Bosch] [Bosch - Brashares] [Breathed - Brucker] [Bruère - Bujold] [Bujold - Bujold] [Bujold - Cain] [Cain - Card] [Card - Carlson editor] [Carr - 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] [Dilloway - Dorsey] [Dorsey - Dowd] [Dowell - Duble] [Duncan - Elkins] [Elkins - Evanovich] [Evanovich - Fairstein] [Fairstein - Ferber] [Ferris - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flint] [Flint - Foster] [Foster - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Franklin] [Frazier - Gailey] [Gaiman - Gash] [Gash - Gleason] [Gleason - Gores] [Gores - Granger] [Granger - Greenleaf] [Greenleaf - Grimes] [Grimes - Grisham] [Grisham - Haddix] [Haig - Hall] [Hall - Hammett] [Hannah - Hautman] [Hautman - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heller] [Heller - Henry] [Henry - Hess] [Hess - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hillerman] [Hilton - Hochschild] [Hoeg - Horowitz] [Horton - Hyland] [Hyman - Jemisin] [Jemisin - Jones] [Jones - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Kelly] [Kelly - King] [King - Kline] [Klise - Kowal] [Kowal - Lahiri] [Lamott - Lawhon] [Lawrence - Leckie] [Lederer - Leonard] [Leonard - Lewis] [Lewis - Lisle] [Little - Low] [Lowry - Lutz] [Lutz - Macy] [Magary - Marcinko] [Marcinko - Marusek] [Marusek - McAlister] [McBain - McCarthy] [McCaughrean - McCullough] [McDevitt - Meluch] [Meluch - Modesitt Jr.] [Modesitt Jr. - Moon] [Moon - Moskowitz] [Mosley - Nance] [Nance - Nimmo] [Nimmo - Norton] [Nourse - O'Brian] [O'Brian - O'Nan] [O'Rourke - Palmer] [Palmer - Paretsky] [Pargin - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Patterson] [Patterson - Pavesi] [Peacock - Perez-Reverte] [Perkins - Piper] [Piper - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Pullman] [Pullman - Quinn] [Quinn - Reeve] [Reeve - Riggs] [Ringo - Robinson] [Robinson - Rothfuss] [Rothfuss - Russell] [Russell - Sampson] [Sampson - Sawyer] [Scalzi - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Scott] [Scott - Sebold] [Sedgwick - Sherlock] [Shetterly - Sixth] [Skloot - Snell] [Snelling - Spoor] [Springer - Steinhauer] [Steinhauer - Strahan] [Strahan - Stross] [Stross - Tapply] [Tapply - Thompson] [Thorp - Turtledove] [Turtledove - Van Allsburg] [Van Draanen - Varley] [Varley - Wasdin] [Watkins - Weber] [Weber - Wells] [Wells - Westlake] [Westlake - Wheeler] [Whelan - Willis] [Willis - Wolfe] [Wolff - Yu] [Zahn - Zusak] 

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