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Book: On the Banks of Plum Creek
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Date: 8/11
Pages: 358
Book: A False Dawn
Author: Tom Lowe
Date: 8/11
Pages: 340
Book: Appleby On Ararat
Author: Michael Innes
Date: 8/12
Pages: 190
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Book: Murder Carries a Torch
Author: Anne George
Date: 8/5
Pages: 288
Book: Texas Ranger
Author: James Patterson
Date: 8/6
Pages: 368
Book: Spy School Secret Service
Author: Stuart Gibbs
Date: 8/6
Pages: 352
Book: Disco For The Departed
Author: Colin Cotterill
Date: 8/8
Pages: 256
Book: A Ghostly Grave
Author: Tonya Kappes
Date: 8/8
Pages: 288
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Book: Confessions of a Murder Suspect
Author: James Patterson
Date: 8/3
Pages: 372
Book: The Golden Tower
Author: Holly Black
Date: 8/3
Pages: 256
Book: The Hawthorne Legacy
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Date: 8/4
Pages: 368
Book: Step on a Crack
Author: James Patterson
Date: 8/4
Pages: 383
Book: Grave Passage
Author: William Doonan
Date: 8/4
Pages: 288
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Book: The Garden of Small Beginnings
Author: Abbi Waxman
Date: 7/30
Pages: 368
Book: The War God's Own
Author: David Weber
Date: 7/30
Pages: 374
Mini:
#2 in War God series
On TBR since 2015
Book: Bones in the Begonias
Author: Dale Mayer
Date: 7/31
Pages: 216
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#2 in Lovely Lethal Gardens series
On TBR since 2020
Book: The Deeds of the Disturber
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Date: 8/2
Pages: 389
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#5 in Amelia Peabody series
Book: Thirty-Three Teeth
Author: Colin Cotterill
Date: 8/2
Pages: 256
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#2 in Dr. Siri Paiboun series
On TBR since 2019
Book: The Mystery of the Blue Train
Author: Agatha Christie
Date: 8/3
Pages: 317
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#5 in Hercule Poirot series
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Book: The Constant Gardener
Author: John le Carré
Date: 7/22
Pages: 496
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On TBR since September 2020
Book: The Library at the Edge of the World
Author: Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Date: 7/24
Pages: 339
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#1 in series Finfarran
Book: The Dollhouse Murders
Author: Betty Ren Wright
Date: 7/25
Pages: 149
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Food in text: Page 43 - Amy wound long strands of spaghetti around her fork.
Book: Sad Cypress
Author: Agatha Christie
Date: 7/26
Pages: 336
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Drink in text: Page 12 - "You could do with a cup of tea before you go on,..."
Book: The Last Garden in England
Author: Julia Kelly
Date: 7/27
Pages: 368
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Instrument in text - Page 231 - And standing in the corner, just where she'd left it, was her harp.
Book: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Author: Agatha Christie
Date: 7/29
Pages: 174
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#1 in series Hercule Poirot
Read by Meghna
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Book: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C.S. Lewis
Date: 7/21
Pages: 221
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Series Chronicles of Narnia #6
Food in text: p 192 - He plucked the apple and put it in his pocket.
Book: Even Yuppies Die
Author: Marian Babson
Date: 7/21
Pages: 264
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Series Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair Mystery #4
Only TBR since July 2016
Food in text: p 73 - Evangeline helped herself to another chunk of garlic bread...
Book: Due or Die
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Date: 7/22
Pages: 283
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Series Library Lover's Mystery #2
Food in text: p 4 - ...she had baked apple cinnamon muffins, brought a large block of Brie with wheat crackers and made both coffee and tea.
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Book: Nine Princes in Amber
Author: Roger Zelazny
Date: 7/16
Pages: 175
Book: The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
Author: F.C. Yee
Date: 7/17
Pages: 313
Book: A Clerical Error
Author: J. New
Date: 7/18
Pages: 206
Book: The Overlord Protocol
Author: Mark Walden
Date: 7/18
Pages: 384
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Been on TBR since February 2020
Book: The Greek Coffin Mystery
Author: Ellery Queen
Date: 7/19
Pages: 288
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#4 in Ellery Queen series
A book that I finished on June 22 works for the baker task.Six Feet Below Zero by Ena Jones
One of the MCs (whose name is Baker) loves to bake.
Page 67 - He's always liked to bake with our mom and Great-Granny...
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Book: Starseers
Author: Lindsay Buroker
Date: 7/13
Pages: 227
T222 - Spaceship on cover
T230 - MC Alisa has a daughter
Tougher Tasks:
34 - Several space ships are destroyed during battles
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Book: The Salamander Spell
Author: E.D. Baker
Date: 7/11
Pages: 256
Tougher Tasks:
6 - Page 194 - "You'll have to take your spear and stab him."
7 - Pippa is a snake.
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Book: Death of a Mad Hatter
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Date: 7/11
Pages: 281
Tougher Tasks:
14 - Geoffrey is poisoned.
32 - Detective Inspector Finchley
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Book: Guaranteed to Bleed
Author: Julie Mulhern
Date: 7/10
Pages: 296
Tougher Tasks:
1 - Funeral for Bobby takes place
32 - Police detective Anarchy Jones is a character.
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Book: An Ice Cold Grave
Author: Charlaine Harris
Date: 7/9
Pages: 280
Tougher Tasks:
32 - Sheriff Rockwell is a character.
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Book: The Rise of the Wyrm Lord
Author: Wayne Thomas Batson
Date: 7/7
Pages: 369
Tougher Tasks:
6 - Page 306 - Aelic crashed Fury down on the spear,...
8 - Page 78 - Antoinette held her sword up...
30 - Page 368 - ...Nock, and he led a great team of archers.
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Book: Devil's Food Cake Murder
Author: Joanne Fluke
Date: 7/6
Pages: 322
Tougher Tasks:
32 - Mike is in law enforcement
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Book: Heartless
Author: Marissa Meyer
Date: 7/3
Pages: 453
Warship Challenge:
Round One Defense - Retelling
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Book: Aunty Lee's Delights
Author: Ovidia Yu
Date: 7/5
Pages: 264
Tougher Tasks:
32 - Senior Staff Sergeant Salim with Singapore police
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Book: Duck the Halls
Author: Donna Andrews
Date: 7/5
Pages: 320
Tougher Tasks:
7 - A snake is stolen from the zoo and put in a church as a prank.
27 - Lots of ducks in the story
32 - Henry Burke is the police chief.
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Book: Deadmen Walking
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Date: 7/2
Pages: 304
Tougher Tasks:
3 - Set mostly aboard ship
6 - p 61: The merman stabbed it with a long spear...
8 - Lots of fighting with swords - p 31: Will growled before he drew his sword...
14 - p 100: ...next to the green mermaid figurehead.
