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Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone
In 1903 England, Petronella's uncle starts eating bugs, and she becomes embroiled in the kidnapping of Dame Carruthers and Generalissimo Reyes-Cardoza of Panama.
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1/2010
Anastasia Again!
Anastasia Krupnik moves from her cherished Cambridge to the 'burbs.
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8/2008
Anastasia At This Address
She corresponds with a "Singles" advertiser, goes to a wedding and buys a sloop. Brings tear of laughter to my eyes!
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10/2000
Anastasia Has The Answers
Her aunt in California passes away, and she has trouble climbing the rope in gym class. Charming story.
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8/2000
Anastasia's Chosen Career
She goes to modeling class and investigates becoming a book store owner. Wonderful stories.
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8/2000
Gathering Blue
Crippled Kira is lucky she has a valuable skill, else she would have been tossed on the trash heap, as it were, when her mother dies. Good story of a cruel world.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Cott (pg.2) -- Short for cottage, a dwelling.
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5/2008
Messenger
Village is changing, Forest is turning bad, Matty goes to fetch Kira. Moving, but seems incomplete.
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5/2008
The Giver
Jonas is nearly Twelve, and he is going to find out assigned vocation. I like how the story builds, but I was disappointed by the ending.
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5/2008
The Silent Boy
An old woman tell about the events of a year when she was a young girl and the tragedy that ensued. Very good story. I like it when a charactor is a reader and the books she likes are mentioned, I become interested in reading those books too.
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6/2003
The Willoughbys
A parody of all those too-sweet orphan books. A splendidly useful glossary of words such as odious, obsequious, glutinous, and lugubrious is included, along with summaries of novels about "pitious but appealing orphans."
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"They are dolts indeed," Nanny said. She stared at the postcard and murmured, "I myself am Presbyterian."Read:
5/2008
Lengend
Book one in the Legend series. As I got nearer and nearer to the end I realized, yes, this was gonna be a series. Well, I liked it anyway.
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6/2014
The battle of the red hot pepper weenies
Yes, and other warped and creepy tales! Very nice, my favorite, of course, is Book Banning.
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11/2009
Hideout
Alice Vega #3. Alice is hired to find a football player who disappeared some thirty years ago. Once again I must say I admire the relationship of Cap and his daughter Nell.
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"Still," said Ameyo, shrugging a muscular shoulder, "that's a touch creepy."...
"I'm somewhat creepy," said Vega, not at all trying to be cute.
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10/2023
The Janes
Alice Vega #2, I believe. Alice calls Cap to partner up on an investigation into two unidentified bodies in the Salton Sea area of California. OK story, I'm reading #1 now.
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Don't look at the saw on the table, Cap told himself.Quote:
And there they were: twenty-four-inch, steel-jawed bolt cutters. -- Steel-jawed, that's the best kind!Read:
10/2023
Two Girls Down
I can never remember all the amazing things I was going to mention... This is Alice Vega #1. She comes out from California all the way to Pennsylvania, I think, to find two missing/kidnapped young girls. Pretty good story, some very disturbing images, some very funny lines.
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Machs nixQuote:
"Ah hell, Lyssie, looks like I peed," he said, shifting around. -- We are all getting older.Quote:
"Hey--" started McKie.
"Don't speak unless you're spoken to, please. You're a moron, and it grates on me," said the Fed, getting angrier.
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"You remind me of my late wife," he said thoughtfully. -- Funniest line in the book!Read:
10/2023
Robert B. Parker's Fallout
Jesse Stone #21. Baseball, murder, and chocolate. What more could you want in a story?
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7/2026
Robert B. Parker's Fool's Paradise
Jesse Stone #19. A man is found dead at the lake. A man that Chief Stone saw at his AA meeting.
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7/2026
Service: A Navy SEAL At War
Lots of action in Iraq, mostly.
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12/2014
Curse Of The Spellmans
Second book in the series. Lots of footnotes! Izzy investigates a suspiciously-acting new neighbor, among other things.
Words I Had To Look Up:
I defenestrated myself (pg. 250) -- The act of throwing someone or something out of a window. Still.
My sister's hyperbolic response...(pg. 332) -- Seems not the curve, but using hyperbole, that is, overstatement.
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7/2011
Revenge Of The Spellmans
Book three finds Isabel in court-ordered therapy, someone is blackmailing her, her parked car keeps moving around, and Rai is accused of cheating on the PSAT.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Erased de Kooning Drawing (pg. 284) -- Those wacky artist types!
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7/2011
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