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Audiobooks
Books Read: 13/15
Level One:
1. Desert God - Wilbur Smith 2/4
2. The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson 2/10
3. The Burning Wire - Jeffrey Deaver 2/18
4. Echoes in Death - J.D. Robb 3/29
5. One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
Level Two:
1. Hotwire - Alex Kava 4/29
2. Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30
3. Fear the Dark - Kay Hooper 9/23
4. Wait for Dark - Kay Hooper 10/31
5. Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/3
Level Three:
1. The Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston 11/5
2. The Devil's Triangle - Catherine Coulter 12/9
3. Mind Game - Iris Johansen 12/11
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Sports
Books Read: 5/15
Level One:
1. Offside - Juliana Stone (hockey) 1/29
2. Rogue - Katy Evans (cage fighting) 2/2
3. Straight from the Heart - Tami Hoag (baseball) 8/5
4. Sliding Home - Kate Angell (baseball) 8/31
5. Body Check - Deirdre Martin (hockey) 11/20
Western
Books Read: 5/15
Level One:
1. The Last Good Man - Kathleen Eagle 2/17
2. One Lucky Cowboy - Carolyn Brown
3. Getting Lucky - Carolyn Brown 6/4
4. Cowboy Town - Kasey Millstead 8/25
5. The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25
Big Books
Books Read: 10/15
Level One:
1. The Edge of the World - Kevin Anderson [608 pages] 1/13
2. The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi (653 pages) 8/22
3. The Passage - Justin Cronin (766 pages) 8/8
4. Empire of Storms - Sarah J. Maas (693 pages) 9/27
5. Terrier - Tamora Pierce (584 pages) 12/23
Level Two:
1. The Quiet Game - Greg Iles (580 pages) 5/20
2. Dead Ice - Laurell K. Hamilton (566 pages) 2/21
3. The Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston (560 pages) 11/5
4. Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston (545 pages) 5/22
5. Kiss Me, I'm Irish - St Claire / Shalvis / Child (505 pages) 3/22
Literary Fiction
Books Read: 5/15
Level One:
1. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson 1/15
2. Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24
3. The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17
4. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17
5. The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29
The Incredible Challenge Factory Scavenger Hunt, Part XXIVDuration: October 1 - December 31, 2017
46/50 FOUND
Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/24. Blizzard - I'm in the middle of a white out blizzard, p365
6. Carrot - Highland steaks, carrots and peas, p267
34. Snoop - she hardly felt guilty for snooping, p298
The Wood Queen - Karen Mahoney 10/428. Riddle - I am not speaking in riddles, p106
30. Scream - she couldn't scream or even cough, p89
37. Suspicion - it was just a growing suspicion, p11
39. Unravel/Ravel - her life was slowly unraveling, p75
Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/51. Antique - it isn't as if anyone has priceless antiques stored out here, p250
9. Diaper - he even changed diapers, p191
15. Hunting season - they expected his body would turn up during hunting season, p228
20. Men Make Dinner - I started making supper before he could change his mind, Pete said, p191
40. Well - to draw water into the house from the well, p35
White Trash Zombie Unchained - Diana Rowland 10/729. Satellite - each boat had a satellite GPS, p62
35. Stomp - I stomped down the urge to ask, p13
Highland Avenger - Hannah Howell 10/98. Cottage - took them to the bonnie wee cottage, p44
Golden Age and Other Stories - Naomi Novik 10/923. Native - some larger breed native to the Americas, p46
Bite My Fire - Mary Hughes 10/145. Butter - slapped about an inch of butter on it, p96
18. Knitting - which I translated to size 4 knitting needles, p43
31. Skate - weave really tiny bikinis and skate around, p120
She'll Never Live - Hunter Morgan 10/1410. French Door - the were glass french doors, p126
27. Power outage - he had heard about the power outage, p143
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/1713. Geese - pigs and chickens, sheep and geese, p3
Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige 10/1936. Sunflower - the sunflowers shuddered, p285
The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/2522. Mine - with the closing of the silver mine, p84
25. Pilgrim - ministered to by one of the dead pilgrims, p19
The Persian Always Meows Twice - Eileen Watkins 10/2621. Meringue - he shed meringue-like fur inside the carrier, p106
Brother - Ania Ahlborn 10/2833. Skunk - the day he brought back a skunk, p117
Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/2814. Hibernate - my boobs were hibernating, p209
And I Darken - Kiersten White 10/3012. Frozen lake/pond/river - going out onto a frozen river, p29
Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/311. Frosty - because you're rich and frosty, p55
Strong, Sleek and Sinful - Lorie O'Clare 11/419. Late night snack - late night munchies, he mused, p110
Dolled Up to Die - Lorena McCourtney 11/67. Chili - smashed the remains of a chili dog in her face, p45
17. Icicle - the blonde shot eye icicles across the parking lot, p247
To Brie or Not To Brie - Avery Aames 11/2724. Nutmeg - the nutmeg blends perfectly, p30
Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/926. Plow - Jordan plowed along, p23
The NYC Werewolf: Tales, Book Two - Bert Murray 12/122. Apple pie - apple pie is a close second, p46
The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/1616. Ice storm - it's a frost compared to an ice storm, (71%)
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3. Bath salts
32. Ski lift
38. Topaz
Bonus Words:
✔️1. Contact lenses - Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16
(while brown contacts masked his eye color), p8
✔️2. Game 2 (or more) children play outside - The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30
(why don't we play a game? Hide and seek, says Bailey swining on the rope.), p217
✔️3. Hallucination - Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/2
(she'd gone straight to hallucination), p279
✔️4. March (not the month) - Midnight's Captive - Donna Grant 10/12
(fight the unending march of time), p272
✔️5. Pinball - Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9
(like random pinballsspeeding through one giant machine), p79
✔️6. Planet in our solar system - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(send her crawling back to Mars), p16
7. Pompoms
✔️8. Pupil - Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff 10/24
(the bishop looked at his former pupil), p155
✔️9. Rush hour - Kinked - Thea Harrison 11/13
(a good way to beat rush hour traffic), p43
✔️10. Song from the '80s - Midnight's Captive - Donna Grant 10/12
(pull out "Whitesnake's Greatest Hits" in seconds the rifts of "Still of the Night" filled the room), p13
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Action & Adventure
Books Read: 7/15
Level One:
1. The Cannibals - Iain Lawrence 1/5
2. Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly 2/4
3. The Chase - Clive Cussler 2/7
4. The Storm - Clive Cussler 2/15
5. In Cold Pursuit - Sarah Andrews 2/24
Level Two:
1. Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
2. Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
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