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The Amah

Yep, Lawrence
Widow struggling to raise five children must deal with her prima-donna, as it were, teen daughter who is one of the step-sisters in the ballet Cinderella.

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"You'll be fine. Just try to stay clam." (pg. 18) -- Ancient Chinese saying? Or typo?

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1/2013

When The Circus Came To Town

Yep, Lawrence
Ursula get smallpox while living in Montana at the stagecoach stop her parents manage. She has to overcome her anxiety about her scars. Nice little book.

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4/2004

Armageddon Summer

Yolen, Jane
A boy and a girl are taken by their families to a religious survivalist camp on a mountain when it is prophesied that the end of the world is coming.

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5/2010

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Yu, Charles
The author has obviously spent a lot of energy constructing this story, but I don't have the energy to decipher it. Some parts I liked a lot (TAMMY, for one), but mostly I got lost in the text. I sure a lot of people will love this book, but it is not for me.

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"Holy Heinlein" I say. "What would I do without you?"

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4/2023

Cobra

Zahn, Timothy
Johnny joins the Army COBRA unit and fights aliens invaders. Good story!

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9/2022

Dragon and Slave

Zahn, Timothy
Jack becomes a slave to find out who betrayed the A'da.

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5/2010

Dragon And Soldier

Zahn, Timothy
Jack joins a mercenary group to get information about who betrayed the K'da,

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5/2010

Dragon And Thief

Zahn, Timothy
Teen jack Morgan is on the lam, meets up with an alien warrior. They team up to right some wrongs. Good stuff.

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5/2010

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3/2016

The green and the gray

Zahn, Timothy
Two groups of "aliens" are facing off in New York City when a Human couple get involved.

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6/2005

The Icarus Hunt

Zahn, Timothy
Jordan McKell is hired to pilot a strange starship to Earth.

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9/2012

Elsewhere

Zevin, Gabrielle
A somewhat pissed-off fifteen-almost-sixteen-year-old Liz wakes up on a very odd cruised ship with no memory of how she got there. A charming, funny, and sometimes sad story of an afterlife. Big weeps, for me, near the end.

Words I Had To Look Up:

Palimpsest (pg. 242)-- Writing material used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased. The text refers to the remains of a wine bottle label. From a Greek/Latin words meaning scraped again, so maybe the author means a more literal sense.

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How long does a dream have to last before it's just life? (pg. 23)

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12/2008

The Storied Life Of A. J. Fikry

Zevin, Gabrielle
Another book I love by Ms. Zevin! A book store owner who lives on an island finds a young child his bookstore.

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Pregnant, she is like a very pretty Gollum.

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The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

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Showing up is what counts, A.J.

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Two of his least favorite things (postmortem narrators and young-adult novels) in one book. -- Oh, that was funny!!

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A place ain't a place without a bookstore, Izzie.

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6/2024

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow

Zevin, Gabrielle
A story of friendship, love, death, and gaming. Here is a list of some of the words I had to look up, for your amusement:
Passel
Circumflexes
Vertiginously
Collogue
Bloviating
Chinoiseries
Ludic
Reductive
Torschlusspanik
Susurrus
Jejune
Echt

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"It takes a long time to drive to...the Bu." -- That's what the locals call Malibu? That is even worse than Cali!!

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George gestured a checkmark, and a waiter brought the bill. -- A checkmark?

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7/2024

MythBusters

Zimmerman, Keith
Subtitle: The Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All. Very interesting, but hard to read. Small type, odd sentence construction, some conflicting information. Worth the read.

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1/2006

The Book Thief

Zusak, Markus
Small girl is sent to live with foster parents during World War II in Germany. Narrated by Death.

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3/2010
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