Janet Nichols Lynch





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Janet Nichols Lynch

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October 03, 1952 in Sacramento, The United States

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Jane Smiley, Jane Austen, Lorrie Moore, Anne Tyler

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Janet Nichols Lynch’s upcoming book is RACING CALIFORNIA, a YA novel of the Amgen Tour of California. She is the author of the novels ADDICTED TO HER, MESSED UP, CHEST PAINS, and PEACE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD.

In RACING CALIFORNIA, Evan Boroughs is shocked when his idol Tour de France winner Dash Shipley asks him to join his team for the Amgen Tour of California. He accepts the offer and wins sudden fame as the youngest rider in the event. Racing 800 grueling miles, at top speed, in bitter weather over some of the toughest terrain in California, Evan experiences spectacular triumphs and bitter disappointments. He is further challenged by an aggressive media, allegations that Dash is using performance-enhancing drugs, and pressure from his f...more


Average rating: 3.74 · 228 ratings · 74 reviews · 12 distinct works
Messed Up
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2009
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Addicted to Her
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010
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Chest Pains
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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Racing California
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Peace Is a Four-Letter Word
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CHEST PAINS excerpt (Literature & Fiction)
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The Road to Oz
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
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This is a charming light-weight memoir from a deep novelist which depicts his love of running. Besides running, Murakami ruminates about writing, aging, the disciplined life, and acceptance. I enjoyed it thoroughly, however, if he truly believes cycl...more
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux
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I am an avid Theroux fan so it was so no surprise that I was thrilled by this book. In it, Theroux takes pretty much the same treck he did in his 1978 The Great Railway Bazaar, my introduction to the author thirty years ago. Theroux constantly makes...more
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The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
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"This book took me a long time to read. It’s deep, dense, and thought-provoking. I found myself often setting the book down and thinking: now how do I...more "
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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
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My least favorite thus far in the Oz series. Dorothy falls in a crack in the earth during an earthquake and encounters veggie and wooden people which is somewhat interesting. Then she and the wizard make a cursory detour to Oz where there is a not-ve...more
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Ozma Of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Ozma Of Oz (Oz, #3)
by L. Frank Baum
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Dorothy actually goes to Ev. I love the princess with the thirty heads and the wheelers.
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Patty Hearst Her Story by Patricia Campbell Hearst
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The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
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“During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.”
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John Updike
“Standing amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in unseen about to land, is not his son Nelson and daughter-in-law Pru and their two children but something more ominous and intimately his: his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. ”
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“excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do”
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