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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

Rowanhood

Springer, Nancy
When Rosemary's mother is killed she flees to the father she has never seen, Robin Hood, who lives in Sherwood Forest.

Words I Had To Look Up:

gimmal ring (pg. 8) -- A finger ring consisting of a pair or series of interlocked rings.

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4/2009

Water To The Angels

Standiford, Les
Very good book about William Mulholland and the building of the Los Angeles aqueduct.

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2/2019

Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

Stanhope, Doug
Comedian Stanhope recounts growing up with an alcoholic mother. She was much more than that, though, and it's a great, if profanity-lace, story. I enjoyed it very much. I don't think I'd care to see his act, though.

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10/2020

Ask The Parrot

Stark, Richard
Parker is on the lam in a small town, helps out a guy with a racetrack robbery.

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6/2008

Backflash

Stark, Richard
Parker robs a floating casino.

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7/2005

Breakout

Stark, Richard
Parker breaks out of jail.

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7/2005

Comback

Stark, Richard
Parker robs an evangelist.

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7/2005
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[Abadzis - Adams] [Adams - Albert] [Alcott - Anderson] [Anderson - Arngrim] [Arnow - Auxier] [Aveyard - Baen Publishing Enterprises] [Baen Publishing Enterprises - Barker] [Barker - Barnard] [Barnard - Barr] [Barr - Bass] [Bauer - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beattie - Bingle] [Birdsall - Block] [Block - Block] [Block - Borchert] [Bosch - Bradbury] [Brandman - Brown] [Brown - Buffett] [Bujold - Bujold] [Bujold - Butler] [Buzzell - Card] [Card - Card] [Card - Chabon] [Chainani - Childress] [Childress - Clark] [Clark - Coben] [Coben - Coleman] [Coleman - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Connelly] [Connelly - Cook] [Cook - Corey] [Corey - Crais] [Crais - Crais] [Crais - Cronley] [Crumley - Cussler] [Cussler - Dashner] [Datlow - DiCamillo] [DiCamillo - Doctorow] [Doctorow - Dorsey] [Dorsey - Drake] [Drake - DuPrau] [Durham - Elliott] [Ellms - Evanovich] [Evanovich - Fairstein] [Fairstein - Ferris] [Ferris - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flint] [Flynn - Fournier] [Fournier - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Freedman] [Freedman - Gaiman] [Gaiman - Gash] [Gayle - Godwin] [Goffard - Grady] [Grady - Grann] [Grant - Greenleaf] [Greenleaf - Grimes] [Grimes - Grogan] [Gruwell - Haldeman] [Haldeman - Hall] [Hall - Hannigan] [Hannigan - Hayter] [Heat-Moon - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heller] [Heller - Herman] [Herman - Hess] [Hess - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hines] [Hines - Holm] [Holman - Hough] [Howe - Ibbotson] [Ibbotson - Jennings] [Jerome - Kaaberbøl] [Kaaberbøl - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Kerasote] [Key - King] [King-Smith - Knight] [Knight - Kraft] [Krakauer - Lampman] [Lampman - Lawhon] [Lawrence - Leckie] [Lederer - Leonard] [Leonard - Lewis] [Lewis - Lisle] [Little - Low] [Lowry - Lutz] [Lutz - MacPherson] [MacPherson - Marcinko] [Marcinko - Martini] [Martini - Mayor] [Mazer - McCammon] [McCammon - McCullers] [McCullers - Meier] [Meloy - Miller] [Miller - Moon] [Moon - Mortimer] [Mortimer - Mysterious Press] [Nance - Nimmo] [Nimmo - Norton] [Norton - O'Brian] [O'Brian - O'Faolain] [O'Nan - Owens] [Palacio - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Paulsen] [Paulsen - Pease] [Pease - Peyton] [Peyton - Pooley] [Pooley - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Pronzini] [Pronzini - Queenan] [Quinn - Rankin] [Raskin - Resnick] [Resnick - Riordan] [Riordan - Rollins] [Rollins - Rowling] [Rowling - Russo] [Rust - Sanders] [Sanders - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Schmidt] [Schmidt - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Seranella] [Setterfield - Shusterman] [Shusterman - Smith] [Smith - Soto] [Sparks - Stark] [Stark - Stephenson] [Stephenson - Stroke] [Stroke - Stroud] [Stroud - Tapply] [Tappy - Tomlinson] [Toole - Turtledove] [Twain - Van Draanen] [Van Draanen - Von Doviak] [Waldman - Weber] [Weber - Weir] [Weir - West] [Westerfeld - Westlake] [Westlake - Wiles] [Wiles - Wise] [Wister - Woodring] [Woodruff - Zahn] [Zahn - Zusak] 

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