2018 Nothing But Reading Challenges

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Monthly Challenges
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Miscellaneous Challenges
50 States
Circus & Carnival
Going Green
Ice Cream Challenge
He Said, She Said; He Wrote, She Wrote Reading Challenge
Life Gives You Lemons
New 2U Authors
Underwater Adventure
WORD HUNT: Astronomy Challenge
WORD HUNT: Harry Potter
WORD HUNT: New York New York
WORD HUNT: Over the Hill
WORD HUNT: Reread Rewind

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50 States

Make yours @ BigHugeLabs.com

READ: 50/50

✔Alabama ~ Going Too Far - Jennifer Echols 7/27
✔Alaska ~ Midnight Burning - Karissa Laurel 10/21
✔Arizona ~ A Dangerous Reality - Layla Wolfe 1/4
✔Arkansas ~ Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments - Denise Grover Swank 6/11
✔California ~ Night's Honor - Thea Harrison 1/2
✔Colorado ~ Mister Hockey - Lia Riley 2/15
✔Connecticut ~ Book, Line and Sinker - Jenn McKinlay 12/21
✔Delaware ~ Cure for the Common Breakup - Beth Kendrick 10/24
✔Florida ~ Something About Witches - Joey W. Hill 8/26
✔Georgia ~ Magic Triumphs - Ilona Andrews 10/4
✔Hawaii ~ Murder on the Aloha Express - Sally J. Smith 1/11
✔Idaho ~ Nemesis - Brendan Reichs 12/17
✔Illinois ~ Black Market - Sheryl Steines 9/4
✔Indiana ~ Shady Cross - James Hankins 7/16
✔Iowa ~ A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin 10/25
✔Kansas ~ Gluten for Punishment - Nancy Parra 12/18
✔Kentucky ~ My Bluegrass Baby - Molly Harper 11/23
✔Louisiana ~ Lucifer - Ava Martell 1/8
✔Maine ~ Unloved - Katy Regnery 9/3
✔Maryland ~ No One Left to Tell - Karen Rose 10/20
✔Massachusetts ~ A Ghoul's Guide to Love and Murder - Victoria Laurie 3/14
✔Michigan ~ Bird Box - Josh Malerman 4/10
✔Minnesota ~ Cinnamon Roll Murder - Joanne Fluke 3/2
✔Mississippi ~ Violet Fire - Brenda Joyce 10/3
✔Missouri ~ Dead Between the Lines - Denise Swanson 9/6
✔Montana ~ At Wolf Ranch - Jennifer Ryan 1/6
✔Nebraska ~ Before He Kills - Blake Pierce 9/11
✔Nevada ~ Curse the Dawn - Karen Chance 12/9
✔New Hampshire ~ Exclusively Yours - Shannon Stacey 5/17
✔New Jersey ~ Bowled Over - Kasey Michaels 1/8
✔New Mexico ~ The Trouble with Twelfth Grave - Darynda Jones 3/20
✔New York ~ City of Endless Night - Douglas Preston 5/6
✔North Carolina ~ Hold Back the Dark - Kay Hooper 5/9
✔North Dakota ~ The Beet Fields - Gary Paulsen 12/6
✔Ohio ~ Just a Hint - Clint - Lori Foster 1/27
✔Oklahoma ~ Hope Ignites - Jaci Burton 10/6
✔Oregon ~ Sea Glass Winter - JoAnn Ross 5/3
✔Pennsylvania ~ The Hike - Drew Magary 1/16
✔Rhode Island ~ The Drowning Girl - Caitlín R. Kiernan 6/9
✔South Carolina ~ The House on Tradd Street - Karen White 12/31
✔South Dakota ~ A Wild Fright in Deadwood - Ann Charles 3/12
✔Tennessee ~ Truth or Beard - Penny Reid 6/29
✔Texas ~ Queen of Shadows - Dianne Sylvan 7/24
✔Utah ~ Total Surrender - Rebecca Zanetti 8/1
✔Vermont ~ Laced with Magic - Barbara Bretton 3/20
✔Virginia ~ Charming - Elliott James 1/10
✔Washington ~ Demon Mistress - Yasmine Galenorn 3/16
✔West Virginia ~ In the Event of My Death - Carlene Thompson 12/23
✔Wisconsin ~ Dead Angler - Victoria Houston 4/12
✔Wyoming ~ 24690 - A.A. Dark 2/1

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New 2U Authors Challenge
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2018

New Authors: 150

[January]
1. A Dangerous Reality - Layla Wolfe 1/4 ★★★
2. Lucifer - Ava Martell 1/8 ★★★★
3. Charming - Elliott James 1/10 ★★★
4. Murder on the Aloha Express - Sally J. Smith 1/11 ★★★★
5. The Goblin King - Shona Husk 1/11 ★★★★
6. In the Shadow of the Gods - Rachel Dunne 1/13 ★★
7. Where Monsters Dwell - Jørgen Brekke 1/15 ★★★
8. The Hike - Drew Magary 1/16 ★
9. The Chimera - S.H. Magillian 1/18 ★★
10. The White Mary - Kira Salak 1/18 ★★
11. On Turpentine Lane - Elinor Lipman 1/20 ★★
12. Silent Child - Sarah Denzil 1/25 ★★★★
13. The Knowing - Larriane Wills 1/26 ★★
14. Violca's Dragon - Leilani Love 1/27 ★★★★

[February]
1. Airwoman - Zara Quentin 2/1 ★★★★
2. 24690 - A.A. Dark 2/1 ★★★
3. A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab 2/9 ★★★★
4. Three Bags Full - Leonie Swann 2/10 ★★
5. What Hides Within - Jason Parent 2/12 ★★★★
6. Mister Hockey - Lia Riley 2/15 ★★★★
7. Wolves - C. Gockel 2/17 ★★
8. Deadly Wipeout - Beth Prentice 2/19 ★★★
9. Blood on Silk - Marie Treanor 2/22 ★★★
10. A Book That Ends With Me - H.C. Turk 2/23 ★
11. Something in the House - D.L. Lewis 2/23 ★★
12. The Sun Is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon 2/23 ★★★
13. The Gracekeepers - Kristy Logan 2/24 ★★★
14. A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans 2/26 ★★
15. Ox-Tales: Earth - Mark Ellingham 2/27 ★★★

[March]
1. The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black - E.B. Hudspeth 3/3 ★★★
2. Relocating MIA - Rebecca Lerwill 3/4 ★★★★
3. Love Without Blood - Raz Steel 3/10 ★
4. Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi 3/15 ★★★★
5. The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchison 3/22 ★★★★
6. Split - Swati Avasthi 3/24 ★★★
7. Penguins and Mortal Peril - Ruby Loren 3/24 ★★★★
8. Whom the Gods Love - M.M. Perry 3/26 ★★★★
9. Passenger - Alexandra Bracken 3/29 ★★★★
10. Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore - Matthew J. Sullivan 3/31 ★★★

[April]
1. Best Day Ever - Kaira Rouda 4/3 ★★
2. The Dragonward - Michael Meyerhofer 4/4 ★★★★
3. Foundling - D.M. Cornish 4/5 ★★★
4. Slippery Souls - Rachael H. Dixon 4/7 ★★★
5. Too Many Curses - A. Lee Martinez 4/9 ★★★
6. The Perfect Roommate - Minka Kent 4/9 ★★★★
7. Bird Box - Josh Malerman 4/10 ★★★★
8. Dead Angler - Victoria Houston 4/12 ★★★
9. Blood on the Tracks - Barbara Nickless 4/21 ★★★★
10. Millennium Crash - James Litherland 4/23 ★★★
11. The Landing - Colin Taber 4/24 ★★★★
12. Cruelty - Ellen Croshain 4/26 ★★★★
13. Death of a Chocoholic - Lee Hollis 4/27 ★★★

[May]
1. Blood, Smoke and Mirrors - Robyn Bachar 5/5 ★★★
2. The Copenhagen Affair - Amulya Malladi 5/5 ★★
3. Ancient Spirits - Alice Duncan 5/14 ★★
4. The Mountain Between Us - Charles Martin 5/14 ★★★
5. The Best of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord 5/15 ★★
6. Exclusively Yours - Shannon Stacey 5/17 ★★★★
7. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness 5/20 ★★★★
8. An Occupied Grave - A.G. Barnett 5/22 ★★★
9. Holding - Graham Norton 5/26 ★★★
10. The Traitor's Bride - Alix Nichols 5/26 ★★★★
11. Bearly Departed - Meg Macy 5/28 ★★★★
12. The Girl With Red Hair - Michael J. Sanford 5/29 ★★★
13. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline 5/29 ★★★★★
14. An Indomitable Beast - Alan Rabinowitz 5/31 ★★★

[June]
1. The Sorcerer's Prize - Rose Andrews 6/2 ★★★
2. The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman 6/6 ★★★★
3. Finnikin of the Rock - Melina Marchetta 6/7 ★★★
4. The Drowning Girl - Caitlín R. Kiernan 6/9 ★★
5. Kin - Kealan Patrick Burke 6/10 ★★★★★
6. Agatha H and the Airship City - Phil & Kaja Foglio 6/13 ★★★★
7. Pale Horses - Jassy Mackenzie 6/15 ★★★★
8. The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory 6/17 ★★★
9. I Let You Go - Clare Mackintosh 6/18 ★★★
10. Balanced on the Blade's Edge - Lindsay Buroker 6/24 ★★★★
11. Invincible Summer - Alice Adams 6/29 ★★
12. The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman 6/30 ★★★★★

[July]
1. Little Tiny Teeth - Aaron Elkins 7/1 ★★★
2. Sister - Rosamund Lupton 7/2★★
3. Abducting Abby - S.E. Smith 7/2 ★★★★
4. Sora's Quest - T.L. Shreffler 7/4 ★★★★
5. The Earl of Brass - Kara Jorgensen 7/10
6. Last Gasp - Karen Chester 7/15 ★★★★
7. Shady Cross - James Hankins 7/16 ★★★★
8. Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend 7/16 ★★★★
9. Wedding Night - Gary Devon 7/17 ★★
10. Out of Mind - Catherine Sampson 7/17 ★★★
11. Flying by the Seat of My Knickers - Eliza Watson 7/18 ★★★★
12. Whispers in the Dark - LeTeisha Newton 7/19 ★★

[August]
1. A Promise of Fire - Amanda Bouchet 8/3 ★★★★★
2. Dark Tournament - Elisa S. Amore 8/8 ★★★
3. Skinny Dipping with Murder - Auralee Wallace 8/10 ★★★
4. Bleeding Heart - Martha Powers 8/14 ★★★
5. The Otter of Death - Betty Webb 8/15 ★★★
6. The Breakdown - B.A. Paris 8/18 ★★★
7. Lucky in Love - Kasie West 8/22 ★★
8. Bone Deep - Bonnie Dee 8/24 ★★★★★
9. Shadow's Return - S.C. Wynne 8/25 ★★★

[September]
1. The Queen of the Tearling - Erika Johansen 9/2
2. Unloved - Katy Regnery 9/3
3. Black Market - Sheryl Steines 9/4
4. Before He Kills - Blake Pierce 9/11
5. O' Artful Death - Sarah Stewart Taylor 9/18
6. Popped Off - Jeffrey Allen 9/21
7. Divergent - Veronica Roth 9/22
8. Fortune's Pawn - Rachel Bach 9/24
9. The Best of Us - Sarah Pekkanen 9/27

[October]
1. Heart of the Season - Julianna Douglas 10/5 ★★★
2. Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8 ★★★★
3. The Enchanted Mirror - Marianne Willman 10/9 ★
4. Under Oath - Margaret McLean 10/12 ★★★
5. Suicide Forest - Jeremy Bates 10/13 ★★
6. The Bad Luck Witch - Heather Hamilton 10/17 ★★★★
7. Death of a Neighborhood Witch - Laura Levine 10/19 ★★★
8. Midnight Burning - Karissa Laurel 10/21 ★★★★
9. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson 10/27 ★★

[November]
1. The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons 11/2 ★★★
2. Somewhere in the Shallow Sea - Dennis Macaraeg 11/8 ★★
3. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler 11/9 ★★★
4. Stone Spring - Stephen Baxter 11/12 ★★
5. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda - Becky Albertalli 11/17 ★★★
6. Water and Fire - Demelza Carlton 11/19 ★★★★★
7. The Running Dream - Wendelin Van Draanen 11/22 ★★★★★
8. The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen 11/27 ★★★★
9. Conspiracy of Ravens - Chrystal Vaughan 11/27 ★★
10. Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse 11/28 ★★
11. The Marsh King's Daughter - Karen Dionne 11/29 ★★★
12. Fools Rush In - Janice Thompson 11/30 ★★
13. Circus of Horrors - Carole Gill 11/30 ★★

[December]
1. Lending a Paw - Laurie Cass 12/3 ★★★
2. The Beet Fields - Gary Paulsen 12/6 ★★★
3. Mr. Timothy - Louis Bayard 12/13 ★★
4. Sick B*stards - Matt Shaw 12/15 ★★
5. Fish in a Tree - Lynda Mullaly Hunt 12/16 ★★★★★
6. Nemesis - Brendan Reichs 12/17 ★★★
7. Gluten for Punishment - Nancy Parra 12/18 ★★★
8. Foul Play at the Fair - Shelley Freydont 12/24 ★★★★
9. Child of Mine - V.J. Chambers 12/25 ★★★★
10. Grift Sense - James Swain 12/27 ★★
11. Sour Apples - Sheila Connolly 12/29 ★★★
12. My Last Continent - Midge Raymond 12/29 ★★

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January: New Year's Extravaganza

READ: 8/8

✔️- Read one or more books that have been on your TBR (To Be Read) list for a long time.
1. The First Prophet - Kay Hooper (added 2012) 1/31
2. Where Monsters Dwell - Jørgen Brekke (added 2013) 1/15


✔️- Read an equal number of books from Old/Favorite authors and New/Never before read authors.
1. [OLD] ~ Hunt the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 1/4
2. [NEW] ~ Lucifer - Ava Martell 1/8
3. [OLD] ~ Bowled Over - Kasey Michaels 1/8
4. [NEW] ~ Charming - Elliott James 1/10
5. [OLD] ~ Seven Stones to Stand or Fall - Diana Gabaldon 1/14
6. [NEW] ~ The Goblin King - Shona Husk 1/11



CHALLENGE COMPLETE

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February: Let It Be Love

READ: 5/5

C: Wicked Abyss - Kresley Cole 2/8
A: Airwoman - Zara Quentin 2/1
N: Crush - Nicole Williams 2/3
D: Deadly Sting - Jennifer Estep 2/5
Y: Night Huntress - Yasmine Galenorn 2/20



CHALLENGE COMPLETE

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February Scavenger Hunt

READ: 118/50

Crush - Nicole Williams 2/3
Awe - look at his beautiful face with anything but awe, p24
Affection - taboo against public display of affection, p22
Attraction - the whole piece-of-shit attraction thing ends with you, p203
Beautiful - you're so beautiful, p10
Boyfriend - tell me about your boyfriend, p110
Desire - his voice low with desire, p5
Enamored - totally enamored as he watched our baby girl, p200
Fiance - given that Jude Ryder was my fiance, p5
Fiancee - that's a naked picture of my fiancee, p94
Fancy - assumes its his fancy moves, p68
Flirt - Anton was a flirt, p109
Gifts - the first of what would be many sweet gifts, p26
Jewelry - I'll be getting you jewelry every single day, p61
Joy - could dim my joy at this moment, p20
Karma - a swift kick in the ass from karma, p45
Kisses - given him a few dozen air kisses, p28
Love - this was our reality, our love story, p5
Marry - Jude pleading with me to marry him, p16
Quality - that was an honorable quality to have, p41
Smitten - that sounds like you're smitten, p115
Surprise - take her on a big surprise date, p7
Sweet - through my sweet new phone, p28
Us - I loved him, and me, and us, p11

Dead Level - Sarah Graves 2/4
Lace - a white lace curtain hung motionless, p241
Mostly - with their attention focused mostly on their list, p21
Perfume - a little bit of glue-scented perfume, p134
Plants - plants and animals a plenty, p43
Prize - she'd been the prize in the box of cracker jacks, p90
Unusual - unusual type of guy, p113

The Vampire King - Heather Killough-Walden 2/5
Beauty - and the young beauty was killed, p17
Commitment - called out for some like commitment, p32
Sweetheart - sorry about the dart sweetheart, p130

Deadly Sting - Jennifer Estep 2/5
Candy - a box of candy, p220
Gem - she studied the flashing gems, p21
Girlfriend - that title would go to your girlfriend, p140
Red - Red had the same stunned, horrific expression, p10
Romantic - how romantic, p220

Murder on the Rocks - Karen MacInerney 2/6
Chocolate - the best weapon in my arsenal - chocolate, p11
Doilies - doilies decorated all of the dainty tables, p124
Favor - all in favor of selling, p19
Flavor - they look good but they have no flavor, p36
Flowers - gave way too soft green grass and flowers, p38
Goodness - thank goodness it's you, p34
Kismet - it was kismet I'd guess you'd say, p150
Passion - I'm guessing it was a crime of passion, p129
Queen - the island queen - the mailboat, p26
Seduce - might not be able to seduce the board, p11
Tender - she had a tender side to her, p126
Woo - sit and watch as Katz wooed the board, p11
Youth - awe, youth, p36
Zest - I scraped the zest from an orange, p31

Wicked Abyss - Kresley Cole 2/8
Angel - angel lore was based on them, p29
Ardent - pursued her hand ardently, p58
Attachments - convinced of his growing attachment to her, p255
Celebrate - we'll celebrate your success with a wedding, p19
Fascination - his express turned to one of Fascination, p119
Friendship - neither wanted or needed Friendship, p151
Infatuation - what I feel for you is no mere infatuation, p59
Jewels - a thousand candles had reflected in her jewels, p9
Lifelong - that is a lifelong pledge, p50
Lilies - coaxed fawns to eat lilies from her hand, p105
Nighttime - the nighttime beauty of her magic kingdom, p11
Opulent - permeated the opulent throne room, p357
Ribbon - and returned the ribbon, p255
Unique - provided us a unique opportunity, p15

A Darker Shade of Magic - V.E. Schwab 2/9
Charm - he more than made up for it in charm, p53
Precious - the precious and the simple, p185
Token - it was no mere token, p151

What Hides Within - Jason Parent 2/12
Cordial - he seemed cordial, p248
Embrace - the heat of her embrace, p202
Nurture - before our mothers could nurture us, p319
Romance - you have no sense of romance, p193

Midnight's Promise - Donna Grant 2/13
Captivate - he'd been amazed and captivated, p10
Cozy - make this as nice and cozy as she wanted, p38
Notion - but it was as silly notion, p332
Quaint - she found them outside a quaint inn, p233

Mister Hockey - Lia Riley 2/15
Adorable - at the pure adorable idiocy of the situation, p97
Don Juan - don't get any fresh ideas Don Juan, p220

The Penguin Who Knew Too Much - Donna Andrews 2/15
Ardor - trilled and cooed with impressive ardor, p132

Heartwishes - Jude Deveraux 2/16
Courtship - I loved to hear of his courtship, p575
Swoon - name is mentioned, people nearly swoon, p70
Truelove - disappointed that you aren't wishing for truelove, p267

The Wild Child - Mary Jo Putney 2/17
Attractive - create Attractive floral arrangements, p31
Tenderness - she elicited tenderness and desire, p158

Wolves - C. Gockel 2/17
Warmth - feels a disappointingly faint amount of warmth, p36

The Wild Child - Mary Jo Putney 2/17
Gallant - she was so gallant, so rare, p160
Liaison - to prevent my ill-advised liaison, p211

The Shop on Blossom Street - Debbie Macomber 2/18
Adoration - staring at him in wide-eyed Adoration, p236
Date - her first date had been at a church, p61
Engagement - replace that with a diamond Engagement ring, p339
Heart - the pounding excitement in my heart, p16
Valentine - I had a valentine for you, p119

Paris Match - Stuart Woods 2/19
Excite - not to excite the interest of reporters, p135

Night Huntress - Yasmine Galenorn 2/20
Allegiance - allegiances could be formed, p117
Venus - venus leaned forward, p266

The Book of Swords - Anthology 2/21
Remembrance - the steps outside september of remembrance, p495

Blood on Silk - Marie Treanor 2/22
Eternal - I wouldn't give her what she sought - eternal life, p183
Tantalizing - tantalizing new blood, p110

Fish Stick Fridays - Rhys Ford 2/22
Cards - are report cards tomorrow, p74
Endearment - she'd slipped that Endearment in, p11
Enrapture - Enrapture by the book in his lap, p166
Honey - honey, right now is the time for practical, p141
Lover - his lover agreed, p149

A Book That Ends With Me - H.C. Turk 2/23
Darling - trying to hold his darling, p16

Midnight's Surrender - Donna Grant 2/23
Devotion - look at him with love and devotion, p23

Something in the House - D.L. Lewis 2/23
Maternal - aren't blinded by material instinct, p110

The Sun Is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon 2/23
Casanova - would-be Casanova shakes cute girls hand, p56
Hugs - he hugs me so tightly, p328
Nirvana - an album called Nevermind by the band Nirvana, p7
Verses - verse three had him down on his knees, p165

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman 2/24
Honor - put the roses in a place of honor, p8

Dead and Berried - Karen MacInerney 2/26
Beau - I was so jealous of Charlene's new beau, p123
Beloved - his beloved wife, p137

A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans 2/26
Restaurant - when a waiter in a restaurant would smile at her, p5

Ox-Tales: Earth - Mark Ellingham 2/27
Riddle - after tormenting himself with the riddle, p74
Sachets - no lavender sachets, p108

A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers 2/28
Amorous - chatting couples and amorous friends, p30
Endear - their behavior was cute, even endearing, p89

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

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April Challenge

READ: 15/16

✔️B: Bird Box - Josh Malerman 4/10
✔️A: Too Many Curses - A. Lee Martinez 4/9
✔️L: Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark - Donna Lea Simpson 4/12
✔️M: The Dragonward - Michael Meyerhofer 4/4
✔️Y: Y is for Yesterday - Sue Grafton 4/22

✔️I: I Know a Secret - Tess Gerritsen 4/2
✔️C: The Drowning - Camilla Läckberg 4/7
✔️E: Cruelty - Ellen Croshain 4/26

✔️C: The Landing - Colin Taber 4/24
✔️R: Slippery Souls - Rachael H. Dixon 4/7
✔️Y: Bone Magic - Yasmine Galenorn 4/28
✔️S: Strange the Dreamer - Laini Taylor 4/15
✔️T: Too Many Curses - A. Lee Martinez 4/9
A:
✔️L: The Red Hunter - Lisa Unger 4/12
✔️S: Blindfold Game - Dana Stabenow 4/21

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Spring Challenge
Duration: April 1 - May 31, 2018

READ: 20/20

✔️M: The Dragonward - Michael Meyerhofer 4/4
✔️A: Angels Of Darkness - Andrews/Singh/Shinn/Brooks 5/29
✔️R: Best Day Ever - Kaira Rouda 4/3
✔️V: Dead Angler - Victoria Houston 4/12
✔️E: Cruelty - Ellen Croshain 4/26
✔️L: Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark - Donna Lea Simpson 4/12

✔️O: Owlflight - Mercedes Lackey 5/18
✔️F: Blood of the Earth - Faith Hunter 4/19

✔️P: The Perfect Roommate - Minka Kent 4/9
✔️E: Exclusively Yours - Shannon Stacey 5/17
✔️R: Slippery Souls - Rachael H. Dixon 4/7
✔️U: The Red Hunter - Lisa Unger 4/12

✔️H: Death of a Chocoholic - Lee Hollis 4/27
✔️Y: Bone Magic - Yasmine Galenorn 4/28
✔️A: Ancient Spirits - Alice Duncan 5/14
✔️C: Moonlight Warrior - Janet Chapman 4/16
✔️I: I Know a Secret - Tess Gerritsen 4/2
✔️N: Blood on the Tracks - Barbara Nickless 4/21
✔️T: Too Many Curses - A. Lee Martinez 4/9
✔️H: Dead Angler - Victoria Houston 4/12

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

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November Challenge

READ: 16/14

Option 1- Spell out

✔ L: Muse of Nightmares - Laini Taylor 11/22
✔ E: Full Speed - Janet Evanovich/Charlotte Hughes 11/7
✔ S: Sweet Home - Tillie Cole 11/18
✔ T: Trust - Kylie Scott 11/27

✔ W: Wicked Nights With a Lover - Sophie Jordan 11/16
✔ E: The Pursuit - Janet Evanovich/Lee Goldberg 11/8

✔ F: Fools Rush In - Janice Thompson 11/30
O:
✔ R: Dead End Dating - Kimberly Raye 11/10
✔ G: Haunted Moon - Yasmine Galenorn 11/17
✔ E: The Evil Inside - Heather Graham 11/19
✔ T: Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse 11/28

Option 2- Read books that complete the following tasks:
Read a book tagged military
Read a book in which there is a war

✔ Read a book in which someone dies
Sprinkle with Murder - Jenn McKinlay 11/10

Read a book set in WWI

✔ Read a book set in WWII
The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons 11/2

Read a book set in Europe

✔ Read a book with the word "poppy" in the text
Stone Spring - Stephen Baxter 11/12
(like ugly brown poppies), p56

✔ Read a book with blood on the cover
The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler 11/9

Read a book in which a character goes away to war or comes back from war

✔ Read a book with the word "respect " in the text
Beautiful Sacrifice - Elizabeth Lowell 11/4
(had shown her more respect than her parents), p107

Read a book that is #11 in a series

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[Barbara ★]

He Said, She Said; He Wrote, She Wrote Reading Challenge
Duration: February 13, 2017 - February 12, 2018

READ: 45/25

✔1. 2066 - Peter Brandt 2/23
✔2. Cold Plague - Daniel Kalla 2/27
✔3. The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley 2/23
✔4. The Lazarus Machine - Paul Crilley 3/27
✔5. Raising the Past - Jeremy Robinson 2/28
✔6. Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston 3/23
✔7. Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30
✔8. One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
✔9. The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
✔10. 15th Affair - James Patterson 5/12



✔11. Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
✔12. Fruitcake - R.J. Kaiser 5/4
✔13. The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
✔14. Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23
✔15. Forgive Me - Daniel Palmer 11/13
✔16. Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9
✔17. The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29
✔18. Of Grave Concern - Max McCoy 12/4
✔19. Lost Gods - Brom 7/1
✔20. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18



✔21. Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
✔22. The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
✔23. The Secret of the Nagas - Amish Tripathi 4/17
✔24. No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9
✔25. A Case of Need - Michael Crichton 3/11
✔26. The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill 5/14
✔27. The 120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade 5/16
✔28. Lethal Investments - K.O. Dahl 5/26
✔29. Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
✔30. Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20



✔31. The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17
✔32. The Passage - Justin Cronin 8/8
✔33. The Girl with Ghost Eyes - M.H. Boroson 8/18
✔34. Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23
✔35. Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley 9/29
✔36. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor 10/17
✔37. Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff 10/24
✔38. The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25
✔39. Headstone - Ken Bruen 12/26
✔40. Charming - Elliott James 1/10


✔41. Where Monsters Dwell - Jørgen Brekke 1/15
✔42. The Hike - Drew Magary 1/16
✔43. The Memory of Blood - Christopher Fowler 1/30
✔44. What Hides Within - Jason Parent 2/12
✔45. Paris Match - Stuart Woods 2/19



CHALLENGE COMPLETE

[Barbara ★]

Underwater Adventure
Start Date: October 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018
Book Levels: Gone to blazes : 25+ books

READ: 109/113

✔️Option 1: Underwater Covers
►Read books with large amounts of water on the cover
1. Golden Age and Other Stories - Naomi Novik 10/9
2. Murder on the Aloha Express - Sally J. Smith 1/11
3. The White Mary - Kira Salak 1/18
4. Deadly Wipeout - Beth Prentice 2/19
5. A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans 2/26


Option 2: Underwater Themed Books
►Read books that have the main part of the setting on/in water or where the main character is facing unbelievable struggles.
1. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor (takes place at sea) 10/17
2. The Gracekeepers - Kristy Logan (takes place on an island) 2/24
3. Passenger - Alexandra Bracken (set at sea on a boat) 3/29


Option 3: Underwater Spell-it-Out

A: And I Darken - Kiersten White 10/30
B: Bite My Fire - Mary Hughes 10/14
Y: Dragon Wytch - Yasmine Galenorn 12/3
S: Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/3
M: The Wood Queen - Karen Mahoney 10/4
A: Brother - Ania Ahlborn 10/28
L: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25

B: Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28
E: Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/2
N: The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley 11/18
E: Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich 10/3
A: The Dragons Want Her - Angela Foxxe 11/9
T: Kinked - Thea Harrison 11/13
H: Highland Avenger - Hannah Howell 10/9

C: Casting Spells - Barbara Bretton 12/28
O: The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30
A: Death on Paradise Island - B.M. Allsopp 12/19
S: She'll Never Live - Hunter Morgan 10/14
T: A Tale of Two Vampires - Katie MacAlister 11/16

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continued....

D: Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5
R: Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16
E: The Wrong Hostage - Elizabeth Lowell 10/12
N: No Rest for the Dead - Andrew Gulli 11/20
C: The Devil's Triangle - Catherine Coulter 12/9
H: Highland Wolf Pact - Selena Kitt 10/31

E: Foul Play - Janet Evanovich 10/21
X:
E: The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths 12/7
C: Wife by Wednesday - Catherine Bybee 12/13
R: White Trash Zombie Unchained - Diana Rowland 10/7
A: Dead Dry - Sarah Andrews 12/13
B: Body Check - Deirdre Martin 11/20
L: Dolled Up to Die - Lorena McCourtney 11/6
E: Field of Graves - J.T. Ellison 11/17

F: Forgive Me - Daniel Palmer 11/13
A: Darkness Avenged - Alexandra Ivy 11/9
T: To Brie or Not To Brie - Avery Aames 11/27
H: How to Wash a Cat - Rebecca M. Hale 11/22
O: The Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston 11/5
M: Midnight's Captive - Donna Grant 10/12
L: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster - Scott Wilbanks 11/29
E: The Persian Always Meows Twice - Eileen Watkins 10/26
S: The Six-Gun Tarot - R.S. Belcher 10/25
S: The Four Sworn: Spring Equinox - Lenore Sagaskie 12/15

G: Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff 10/24
O: Strong, Sleek and Sinful - Lorie O'Clare 11/4

U: Ukulele Murder - Leslie Langtry 10/23
N: The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/16
D: Dreadmarrow Thief - Marjory Kaptanoglu 12/9
E: Death Echo - Elizabeth Lowell 11/25
R: The Dragon Caller - Pauline M. Ross 12/23

H: How to Seduce a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks 12/14
A: Her Own Devices - Shelly Adina 12/7
M: Mind Game - Iris Johansen 12/11
P: Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige 10/19
E: The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths 11/28
R: Stars of Fortune - Nora Roberts 12/31

I: In Stone's Clasp - Christie Golden 11/6
M: Midnight's Temptation - Donna Grant 11/30
M: Malevolent - Jana DeLeon 12/16
E: Widow’s Web - Jennifer Estep 11/30
R: Red 1-2-3 - John Katzenbach 12/9
S: Sick Fux - Tillie Cole 12/30
E: The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths 12/25
D: Duck the Halls - Donna Andrews 12/25

N: Silver Silence - Nalini Singh 12/13
O: Of Grave Concern - Max McCoy 12/4
S: Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9
E: Echoes of Ice - Boone Brux 11/26

D: Almost Like Being in Love - Christina Dodd 12/31
I: Immune - Shannon Mayer 12/30
V: Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5
E: Everlasting Enchantment - Kathryne Kennedy 12/18

O: Origin Phase - RTW Lipkin 12/17
V: The Vampire King - Heather Killough-Walden 2/5
E: Deadly Sting - Jennifer Estep 2/5
R: Mister Hockey - Lia Riley 2/15
F: Forever... - Jude Deveraux 11/19
L: Lady of Devices - Shelley Adina 11/23
O: Ox-Tales: Earth - Mark Ellingham 2/27
W: Wait for Dark - Kay Hooper 10/31

P: Pig Island - Mo Hayder 11/12
L: Something in the House - D.L. Lewis 2/23
U: Into the Fire - Amanda Usen 12/28
N: Not What You Seem - Lena Maye 12/21
G: Midnight's Promise - Donna Grant 2/13
E: Dragon Spawn - Eileen Wilks 2/27

Q:
U:
E: Heart of Venom - Jennifer Estep 3/8
L: Love Without Blood - Raz Steel 3/10
L: Laced with Magic - Barbara Bretton 3/20

S: Simply Irresistible - Rachel Gibson 3/22
W: Whom the Gods Love - M.M. Perry 3/26
A: Hide Your Heart - Tracey Alvarez 12/27
M: McKnight in Shining Armor - Tami Hoag 3/17
P: Terrier - Tamora Pierce 12/23

U:
N: Stardust - Neil Gaiman 3/22
D: Demon Mistress - Yasmine Galenorn 3/16
E: Dragon Blood - Eileen Wilks 3/18
R: Relocating MIA - Rebecca Lerwill 3/4
S: Split - Swati Avasthi 3/24
E: Etched in Bone - Anne Bishop 3/31
A: A Killing Frost - Hannah Alexander 12/27

[Barbara ★]

Ice Cream Challenge
Duration: July 1 - August 31, 2018
Level: Four Scoops: 26 + books

READ: 31/31

✔️Almond
A: Little Tiny Teeth - Aaron Elkins 7/1
L: Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage - Jennifer Ashley 7/1
M: Memory Zero - Keri Arthur 7/29
O: The Once and Future Duchess - Sophia Nash 7/6
N: No Good Duke Goes Unpunished - Sarah MacLean 7/9
D: The Darkest Warrior - Gena Showalter 7/7

✔️Black Cherry
B: Blade of Darkness - Dianne Duvall 7/14
L: Last Gasp - Karen Chester 7/15
A: Abducting Abby - S.E. Smith 7/2
C: Catering to Nobody - Diane Mott Davidson 7/4
K: Whiskey Sour - J.A. Konrath 7/25

C: Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon - Donna Andrews 7/13
H: The Heist - Janet Evanovich 7/5
E: The Earl of Brass - Kara Jorgensen 7/10
R: Sister - Rosamund Lupton 7/2
R: Rocket Roll - H.C. Turk 7/22
Y: Courting Darkness - Yasmine Galenorn 7/27

✔️Pecan
P: Poison Promise - Jennifer Estep 7/31
E: Every Heart a Doorway - Seanan McGuire 7/18
C: The Chase - Janet Evanovich 7/24
A: Asking For It - Kit Tunstall 7/9
N: Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend 7/16

✔️Rocky Road
R: The Real Deal - Lucy Monroe 7/20
O: Out of Mind - Catherine Sampson 7/17
C: Jinx - Meg Cabot 8/12
K: A Knight and White Satin - Jackie Ivie 8/17
Y: Shaded Vision - Yasmine Galenorn 8/11

R: Dark in Death - J.D. Robb 8/9
O: The Otter of Death - Betty Webb 8/15
A: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 7/27
D: Dark Tournament - Elisa S. Amore 8/8

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

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Circus & Carnival
Start Date: May 1, 2016

A
acrobat - Menagerie - Rachel Vincent 7/6
(five acrobats in red and black),p16
admission - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(that was a hell of an admission),p48
amusement park - Nightwalker - Allyson James 6/26
(most stomach-churning ride at an amusement park),p189
animals - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(would be sympathetic to animals),p4
applaud - Invision - Sherrilyn Kenyon 5/30
(probably applaud Julian),p219
attractions - Vampire Most Wanted - Lynsay Sands 6/27
(the lights from the various attractions),p14
audience - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(as if to an audience),p255


B
balancing act - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(you don't know the balancing act),p178
balloons - Butterfly Tattoo - Deidre Knight 5/28
(I glimpsed the tables with balloons),p279
band - White Trash Zombie Gone Wild - Diana Rowland 7/7
(couldn't deal with the shitty band),p95
banner - Born of Ashes - Caris Roane 5/11
(under the banner),p108
bear - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(Bear tried to get me to join),p18
bicycle - Pies and Prejudice - Ellery Adams 5/20
(when Ella Mae arrived on her bicycle),p52
big top - Menagerie - Rachel Vincent 7/6
(towering over everything was the big top),p37
booth - Vampire Most Wanted - Lynsay Sands 6/27
(shirt from one of the booths),p363
bow - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(Edward's bow was reverant),p303
bumper cars - Turn Coat - Jim Butcher 7/23
(it was as complicated to make a move as a bumper car),p278

C
cage - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(life beyond this cage),p116
calliope - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(clatter of calliope pipes),p11
candy - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(instead of candy),p6
cannon - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(as if she had been shot out of a cannon),p294
cape - Invision - Sherrilyn Kenyon 5/30
(he tossed his blood red cape over his shoulder),p105
carnival - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(at the carnival),p37
carousel - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(a quick rogering on the carousel),p82
cashier - Stalked - Allison Brennan 6/30
(long enough for the cashier to get antsy),p313
clown - Devil's Bridge - Linda Fairstein 5/26
(do I look like a clown),p120
corn dog - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(carnival music, corn dogs),p141
costume - The Target - David Baldacci 6/25
(I don't have the costume),p392
cotton candy - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(and cotton candy stands),p141
county fair - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(like a judge at a county fair),p76

D
dog - The Prince Who Loved Me - Karin Hawkins 6/25
(and a small dog bounded out),p7


E
elephant - Born of Ashes - Caris Roane 5/11
(all she lacked were a few elephants),p274
entertain - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(wasn't time to entertain any feelings of guilt),p108
entertainer - Dead Heat - Patricia Briggs 8/5
(or even an entertainer),p266
exhibition - Forged by Desire - Bec McMaster 7/2
(Prince consort's upcoming exhibition),p66

F
fair - White Night - Jim Butcher 5/4
(that's not fair),p124
fairground - Obsidian Flame - Caris Roane 6/9
(like going to the fairgrounds),p117
feat - Vampire Most Wanted - Lynsay Sands 6/27
(dubious about achieving that feat),p93
ferris wheel - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(rode the ferris wheel),p37
festival - Bet Me - Jennifer Crusie 5/14
(any time there was a festival),p64
festive - Stiletto - Daniel O'Malley 7/14
(caught up in the festive air),p298
fire breather - Menagerie - Rachel Vincent 7/6
(juggled lit torches and breathed fire into the air),p16
fire eater - Once Upon a Marigold - Jean Ferris 3/25
(the fire-eater and the trained bear),p201
fun - Death Row - William Bernhardt 5/29
(it would just be for fun),p100
fun house - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(like a funhouse kind of distortion),p386

G
games - Vampire Most Wanted - Lynsay Sands 6/27
(agents trying to lure townies to the games),p15
giant - White Night - Jim Butcher 5/4
(one enormous ugly giant),p37
grandstand - Quicksand - Iris Johansen 10/26
(what a wonderful grandstand),p206
gymnast - Unbound - Angela Knight 7/9
(anti-grav gymnastics at GU Olympics),p127

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H
hoop - Stalked - Allison Brennan 6/30
(the hoops I jumped through),p34
horse - Invision - Sherrilyn Kenyon 5/30
(left his sword and shielf on his horse),p216
house of mirrors - Invision - Sherrilyn Kenyon 5/30
(has full access and control of their hall of mirrors),p372
human cannonball -
(),p

J
juggler - The Target - David Baldacci 6/25
(jugglers, musicians and unicyclists),p340

K
knife thrower - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(the knife thrower, Marco),p40

L
leotard - Menagerie - Rachel Vincent 7/6
(wore a red sequined leotard),p14
lion - Shadow Rites - Faith Hunter 5/10
(my mountain lion form),p44
lion tamer - Silent Mercy - Linda Fairstein 9/24
(you a lion tamer?),p292
livestock - Menagerie - Rachel Vincent 7/6
(fed no more than the rest of the livestock),p26
log flume -
(),p


M
magic - Shadow Rites - Faith Hunter 5/10
(some traces of magic),p23
magician - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(end of a magician's trick),p122
maze - Vampire Most Wanted - Lynsay Sands 6/27
(the back lot was a maze of vehicles),p27
merry-go-round - Tyrant - T.M. Frazier 7/5
(lights, music, merry-go-round and all),p142
monkey - Born of Ashes - Caris Roane 5/11
(monkeys swinging from chandeliers),p274
music - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(enough beer and music for hugs),p14

N
net - How to Entice an Enchantress - Karen Hawkins 6/29
(footmen place the net poles),p153

P
parade - Death Row - William Bernhardt 5/29
(watching a parade of shapely female calves),p158
performer - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(complimenting performers),p90
petting zoo - Menagerie - Rachel Vincent 7/6
(heading towards the petting zoo),p19
popcorn - The First Sin - Cheyenne McCray 5/12
(popcorn, hotdogs and beer),p40
poster - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(with posters of singers),p127
prizes - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(one by one the prizes fell to their search),p183

R
ride - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(it wasn't like he could get off this ride),p216
ring - Shadow Rites - Faith Hunter 5/10
(the wood ring in her teeth),p153
ring toss - The Undead in My Bed - Katie MacAlister 9/18
(with funnel cakes and ring toss),p130
ringmaster - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(the devishly good-looking ringmaster),p8
roller coaster - Obsidian Flame - Caris Roane 6/9
(after a trip on the roller coaster),p117

S
seal - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(one of them still had a seal),p128
show -
(),p
side show - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(our main sideshow attraction),p65
somersault - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(and somersaulted backward),p25
spectator - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(drink from the odd spectator),p51
spinning plates - The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
(was back to our contortions and plate spinning),p67
star - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(become the star of the caravan),p26
state fair - Immoral - Brian Freeman 9/27
(a souvenir from the Minnesota State Fair),p27
stagehand - The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace - Bec McMaster 7/1
(we sent one of the stagehands to check),p10
stilts - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(like one of them stilt homes),p10
strong man - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(she'd caught out strongman unaware),p37
stuffed animals - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(big stuffed animal prizes),p142
swag - Unbound - Angela Knight 7/9
(swags of red silk draped from its supporting poles),p145
swing - Death Row - William Bernhardt 5/29
(pushing little Susie on the swings),p98
sword swallower - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(Veruca, the Abyssian sword swallower),p39


T
tent - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(from Nigel's tent across the lawn),p36
thrill ride - Virals - Kathy Reichs 8/30
(a nonstop thrill ride),p61
ticket - Bet Me - Jennifer Crusie 5/14
(that was the ticket),p2
tiger - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(tiniest hint of tiger scent),p115
tightrope - King - T.M. Frazier 6/21
(I would be a tightrope walker),p27
top hat - Forged by Desire - Bec McMaster 7/2
(men in suits and top hats),p16
train - The Target - David Baldacci 6/25
(jumped off a moving train),p27
trainer - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(what are you a trainer),p214
trampoline - Wicked Ever After - Delilah Dawson 6/28
(like a child on a trampoline),p105
trapeze - Soulless - T.M. Frazier 9/4
(become a flying trapeze artist),p65
trick - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(I don't do tricks),p235
troupe - The Curious Case Of The Clockwork Menace - Bec McMaster 7/1
(we've questioned the acting troupe),p39
trunk - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(the trunk was getting thinner),p61

U
unicycle - The Target - David Baldacci 6/25
(jugglers, musicians and unicyclists),p340

V
vanishing act - Blood Game - Iris Johansen 9/17
(it's time to do your vanishing act),p205

W
water park - Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
(she used to take me to the water park),p152
whip - White Night - Jim Butcher 5/4
(cracked like a whip),p258

[Barbara ★]

Going Green
Start Date: October 1, 2016

Bear Meets Girl - Shelly Laurenston 10/5
Green - a bright green ribbon, p101

14th Deadly Sin - James Patterson 10/7
Dark green - with dark green trim, p153
Light green - middle-class house that was light green, p153
Moss - Parisi's suit was moss green, p183

Captive Spirit - Anne Windsor 10/7
Avocado - spinach-avocado pepperoni sandwich, p64
Fatigues - wearing torn fatigues, p19
Leprechaun - a sneaky-ass leprechaun, p198
Spinach - spinach-avocado pepperoni sandwich, p64

A Dance With Dragons - George R.R. Martin 10/10
Apples - keep the bad apples from the good, p402
Ferns - overgrown with moss and ferns, p236
Frog - if your king eats frogs, p324
Jade - she lifted her jade fan, p368
Lizards - no more than tattooed lizards, p744
Mint - fragrant with crushed mint, p293
Mold - a miasma of mold and piss, p258
Pears - sacks of oranges, apples and pears, p282
Sea-foam - starlight and seafoam, p301
Seaweed - flowing fronds of seaweed, p243
Seeds - pomegranates - all those seeds, p268

The Sleeping Beauty - Mercedes Lackey 10/11
Forest - there was a fourth person in this forest clearing, p78
Grass - scrambled for purchase on the slippery grass, p76
Money - give both of them horses and money, p85

Fighting to Forget - J.D. Salisbury 10/12
Jealousy - jealousy rolls through me, p33
Lime - the lime in their cocktails, p53
Pea - pea-green plaid couch, p51

The Art of Duke Hunting - Sophia Nash 10/13
Sea - ship bucked in the wild sea, p25

Ghost Story - Jim Butcher 10/15
Emerald - her emerald green eyes, p472
Grasshopper - best shield I'd ever seen the grasshopper pull off, 236
Ivy - between dark honey and poison ivy, p64
Leaf - like a leaf being tugged, p312
Praying Mantis - a praying mantis smiling down, p473

Rocked by Love - Christine Warren 10/16
Ireland - tragic events in Dublin, Ireland, p306

Tall, Dark & Dead - Tate Hallaway 10/18
Cucumber - a platter full of honest-to-goddess cucumber sandwiches, p93
Sage - and a sage-green shirt, p174

Edge of Midnight - Charlene Weir 10/19
Vegetables - cheese, fruit and vegetables, p 101
Yarn - gathered up a skein of yarn, p33

Spell Bound - Kelley Armstrong 10/22
Beret - do I look like a Green Beret, p257
Eyes - the man with the empty green eyes, p50
Glasses - she had on her non-prescription glasses, p28
Rainbow - a flashing rainbow of colors, p289
Shade - a small patch in the shade, p220
Sneakers - ice water soaking my sneakers, p6
Spring - making sweat spring from every pore, p174
Wall - I tucked myself against the wall, p61
Watch - I checked my watch, p298

Sentenced to Death - Lorna Barrett 10/22
Artichoke - pasta with sausage and artichoke hearts, p117
Celery - took celery from the fridge, p295

Highland Master - Hannah Howell 10/23
Envy - it was not good to envy what others had, p33
Trees - idly studying the trees, p74

Stolen: A Letter to My Captor - Lucy Christopher 10/23
Bottles - bottles clinking as it moved, p198
Catepillar - your beautiful mouth was moving like a catepillar, p10
Shorts - the shorts were loose on my hips, p79
Snake - studies about snakes, p33

Spider's Bite - Jennifer Estep 10/25
Gem - an old-fashioned architectural gem, p37
Hue - a greenish hue tinged his pasty skin, p119

Quicksand - Iris Johansen 10/26
Alligators - snakes and alligators don't appeal to me, p227

[Barbara ★]

continued...

Beauty and the Werewolf - Mercedes Lackey 11/18
Verdant - a very verdant green, p75

Tutu Deadly - Natalie Roberts 12/12
Lettuce - lettuce, mayonaise, tomato and olives, p186

Alien in the Family - Gini Koch 12/14
Iguana - giant iguanas that looked pissed off, p155

The Witch Is Dead - Shirley Damsgaard 12/16
Rotten food - rotten food? Ethan's face wrinkled, p232

Normal - Graeme Cameron 12/18
Brussel sprouts - brussel sprouts and mashed potatoes, p108

The Apple Orchard - Susan Wiggs 12/19
Markers - amid old papers and dried-up markers, p345
Olive - Tess was drinking a dirty martini - salty with olive brine, p34
Pepper - something with fresh basil and roasted peppers, p342
Peter Pan - in that English adventure novel Peter Pan, p299
Shamrock - she paused to study the pale green shamrock, p63
Tissue Paper - set the egg back into the nest of tissue paper, p432

Web of Lies - Jennifer Estep 12/21
Christmas lights - green and brown Christmas lights, p360
Kiwi - with bites of my strawberry and kiwi fruit salad, p78

I Love This Bar - Carolyn Brown 12/23
Asparagus - included asparagus with hollandaise sauce, p319
Clothes - you need to wear more clothes, p80
Dye - wasn't for hair dye and good makeup, p2
Green beans - I don't know alfalfa from green beans, p236
Nature - I would have thought nature would take care of that, p342
Visible - the electricity between her and Jarod was almost visible, p91

Compulsion - Allison Brennan 12/24
Notice - maybe you didn't notice p104
Paint - only updated with a coat of pale yellow paint, p231
Plates - she brought out her everyday plates, p66
Observe - I can hold off if you'd like to observe, p235
Tile - a custom tile backsplash, p66

Bite Me - Shelly Laurenston 12/24
Cups - cups of coffee poured for them, p261

The Girl from Everywhere - Heidi Heilig 12/25
Cleats - and winding them tight around our cleats, p368
Parrots - I'd seen ships with cats and dogs and parrots, p165

The Current Between Us - Kindle Alexander 12/26
Pickles - I want a cheeseburger with no pickles, p79

Magic Binds - Ilona Andrews 12/28
Peridot - the stone if the real thing, peridot, p88

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 1/2
Algae - like algae growing on a pond, p55
Bird - the shrieks of the birds, p3
Grapes - sea grapes merge into sand, p95
Insects - insects raps and trill, p95
Zucchini - zucchini cheese puffs, p343

Stolen Songbird - Danielle Jensen 1/3
Frosting - frosting smeared lips, p117
Slime - what is that slime, p28

Birdman - Mo Hayder 1/7
Chrysalis - lay like a silver chrysalis on the desk, p129
Cypress - sweep of the lawn and shady cypresses, p87
Dress - sleeveless Thai silk dress in aquamarine, p128
Onion - in front of Flamsted's Onion Dome, p205
Plants - blew the dust off the plants, p230
Spectrum - this job was bottom of the spectrum, p143
Spinach - make some garam masala for the spinach, p158
Water - disappearing from view under the green water, p194

The Chocolate Pirate Plot - JoAnna Carl 1/7
Nile - on the banks of the Nile, p51
St. Patrick's Day - the guys who crashed the St. Patrick's Day parade, p151
Tennis Balls - eyes the size of tennis balls, p195

The Thrall's Tale - Judith Lindbergh 1/8
Fungus - a shred of fungus, p206
Turf - jostling clumps of turf, p124
Woods - some in woods and creeks, p164

The Curse of Tenth Grave - Darynda Jones 1/11
Pencils - I'll just sharpen pencils, p27

The Beekeeper's Ball - Susan Wiggs 1/12
Reeds - used to play amidst the reeds, p251
Tadpoles - bringing them home to watch the tadpoles hatch, p251

The Edge of the World - Kevin Anderson 1/13
Ornament - the bangles and ornaments would be sold, p4
Turquoise - the water turquoise, p223

Crow Lake - Mary Lawson 1/15
Bugs - first hand experience when it came to bugs, p242

Graced - Amanda Pillar 1/17
Boxes - there were boxes and lines, p310

Vicious - Kevin O'Brien 1/19
Evergreen trees - ducked behind an evergreen tree, p6
Hose - rinsed off our hands with the garden hose, p151

Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris 1/26
Watermelon - hush puppies and slaw and watermelon, p185

Offside - Juliana Stone 1/29
Broccoli - a generous helping of broccoli, p15

Lost - Alice Lichtenstein 2/4
Loden - she grabs Christopher's loden, p22

Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - Darynda Jones 2/6
Candy - perhaps I will use your heart as a candy dish, p291

Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 2/10
Cactus - not that cheap ass cactus juice, p50

The Storm - Clive Cussler 2/15
Solar Panels - the catamaran had two solar panels on the roof, p51

2066 - Peter Brandt 2/23
Varieties - lined with many varieties of fruits and vegetables, p67
Wind Power - solar power and wind power were in use today, p19

Dark Enchantment - Kathy Morgan 3/4
Green monster - the green-eyed monster lurking inside Arianna, p138
Grocer - by the green grocer to stock, p201

One Kick - Chelsea Cain 3/4
Chartreuse - wearing a shimmering gold satin blouse and chartreuse trousers, p248

St. Patrick's Day Murder - Leslie Meier 3/8
Kelly - her face matched her kelly green nails, p190

The Cat Who Said Cheese - Lillian Jackson Braun 4/5
Pistachio - stuffed with currants and pistachios, p239

Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
Crafts - it was an Arts & Crafts bungalow, p73

Haunted on Bourbon Street - Deanna Chase 4/26
Irish beer - yo know, the Irish pub beer, p38

Ultraviolet - R.J. Anderson 5/6
Jelly Beans - I chewed my way through a handful of jellybeans, p43

Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce 5/8
Quetzal - this Quetzal nerved my blood to shivering, p149

Changeling - Yasmine Galenorn 5/11
Geckos - I don't care whether you're a dragon or a gecko, p213

The Chocolate Mouse Trap - JoAnna Carl 6/24
Creme de menthe - coffee and bonbons - creme de menthe and Italian cherry, p89

Happy Hour at Casa Dracula - Marta Acosta 9/18
Iceberg lettuce - iceberg lettuce dressed up with lemon juice, p136

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Life Gives You Lemons
Duration: January 1 - December 31, 2018

Option 2: Life gives you Lemons Themed Books - books with yellow covers

READ: 11/11

✔1. The Curse of Tenth Grave - Darynda Jones 1/11
✔2. Vicious - Kevin O'Brien 1/19
✔3. The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson 2/10
✔4. Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7
✔5. Three Sisters - Susan Mallery 2/4
✔6. The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4
✔7. The Cat Who Said Cheese - Lillian Jackson Braun 4/5
✔8. Year of the Hyenas - Brad Geagley 9/29
✔9. Foul Play - Janet Evanovich 10/21
✔10. Burning The Map - Laura Caldwell 10/28
✔11. Sacred Cows - Karen E. Olson 5/23


Option 3: Life gives you Lemons Spell-it-Out
TERMS: 22/26
LETTERS: 212/216

✔1. Adventurous
A: Daughter of the Blood - Ann Bishop 1/22
D: Me, Myself and Why? - Mary Janice Davidson 1/1
V: Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
E: Some Like It Scot - Suzanne Enoch 1/8
N: Nautier and Wilder - Lora Leigh 1/23
T: The Thrall's Tale - Judith Lindbergh 1/8
U: Unchained - Caris Roane 3/22
R: Ravens - George Dawes Green 1/28
O: Off Kilter - Hannah Reed 1/1
U: Ultraviolet - R.J. Anderson 5/6
S: Stolen Songbird - Danielle Jensen 1/3

✔2. Big Bird
B: Birdman - Mo Hayder 1/7
I: I Think I Love You - Stephanie Bond 1/14
G: Midnight's Master - Donna Grant 1/28

B: The Beekeeper's Ball - Susan Wiggs 1/12
I: The Immortals of Meluha - Amish Tripathi 1/15
R: The Memorist - M.J. Rose 1/29
D: Darkness Dawns - Dianne Duvall 1/25

✔3. Canary
C: The Chocolate Pirate Plot - JoAnna Carl 1/7
A: A Walk Across the Sun - Corban Addison 1/9
N: Blue Monday - Nicci French 1/26
A: The Bird Eater - Ania Ahlborn 2/13
R: Rogue - Katy Evans 2/2
Y: Sword of the Rightful King - Jane Yolen 1/17

✔4. Dazzling
D: Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris 1/26
A: Die Like an Eagle - Donna Andrews 5/21
Z: The Never List - Koethi Zan 3/9
Z: Blind Faith - Rebecca Zanetti 10/16
L: The Lost Key - Catherine Coulter 1/23
I: In the Company of Vampires - Katie MacAlister 3/5
N: Nothing Gold Can Stay - Dana Stabenow 3/11
G: Fish Perfume - Sammie Grace 3/6

✔5. Exquisite
E: The Edge of the World - Kevin Anderson 1/13
X: Fire Dancer - Ann Maxwell 8/24
Q: The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd - Paula Quinn 3/16
U: Into the Fire - Amanda Usen 12/28
I: The Cannibals - Iain Lawrence 1/5
S: Seduced by the Storm - Sydney Croft 5/9
I: Immortal - Traci L. Slatton 2/2
T: Storm's Heart - Thea Harrison 1/30
E: The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths 4/6

✔6. Fortunate
F: The Final Cut - Catherine Coulter 1/5
O: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood 1/2
R: Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly 2/4
T: Tick Tock - James Patterson 2/5
U:The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3
N: Night Reigns - Dianne Duvall 2/11
A: Lost - Alice Lichtenstein 2/4
T: Tuesday's Child - Dale Mayer 2/18
E: Venom - Jennifer Estep 1/21

✔7. Glowing
G: Graced - Amanda Pillar 1/17
L: Crow Lake - Mary Lawson 1/15
O: On the Growl - Celia Kyle 1/18
W: White Lion's Lady - Tina St. John 2/22
I: In Cold Pursuit - Sarah Andrews 2/24
N: Clash - Nicole Williams 2/25
G: The Accidental Alchemist - Gigi Pandian 3/28

✔8. Harmonious
H: Dead Ice - Laurell K. Hamilton 2/21
A: The Lady in Question - Victoria Alexander 2/25
R: Raising the Past - Jeremy Robinson 2/28
M: Finding Perfect - Susan Mallery 3/2
O: Omens - Kelley Armstrong 1/28
N: Aunt Dimity, Vampire Hunter - Nancy Atherton 3/26
I: Beyond the Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 3/25
O: Offside - Juliana Stone 1/29
U: Ukulele Murder - Leslie Langtry 10/23
S: Stuck In Shangri-La - Kasey Michaels 4/18

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✔9. Invincible
I: One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews 4/1
N: Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon - Nancy Atherton 4/22
V: The Covert Wolf - Bonnie Vanak 2/9
I: The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
N: Night Unbound - Dianne Duvall 5/20
C: The Hawk and His Boy - Christopher Bunn 1/31
I: The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
B: Buried in a Bog - Sheila Connolly 3/12
L: The Legacy - Linda Lael Miller 3/27
E: Eleventh Grave in Moonlight - Darynda Jones 2/6

✔10. Judicious
J: Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay 4/7
U: The Red Hunter - Lisa Unger 4/12
D: Dark Enchantment - Kathy Morgan 3/4
I: The Immortals - J.T. Ellison 6/19
C: Coming Home - Mariah Stewart 4/17
I: Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
O: One Kick - Chelsea Cain 3/4
U: Unlucky - Jana DeLeon 7/12
S: Starting Now - Debbie Macomber 6/12

✔11. Keen
K: Kiss Me, I'm Irish - Roxanne St Claire / Jill Shalvis / Maureen Child 3/22
E: Eaten - Susan Crockford 3/7
E: Echoes in Death - J.D. Robb 3/29
N: Never Look Back - Linda Lael Miller 5/30

✔12. Lemon
L: The Lazarus Machine - Paul Crilley 3/27
E: 14 - J.T. Ellison 3/30
M: Some Like It Wild - Teresa Medeiros 3/13
O: On the Accidental Wings of Dragons - Julie Wetzel 2/11
N: Archangel's Heart - Nalini Singh 6/17

✔13. Magnificent
M: You and I, Me and You - Mary Janice Davidson 4/13
A: Dark Embers - Tessa Adams 3/24
G: Dragon of the Island - Mary Gillgannon 4/1
N: No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9
I: A Catered St. Patrick's Day - Isis Crawford 7/14
F: Fair Game - Jasmine Haynes 1/21
I: Bound By Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 8/11
C: The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
E: The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley 2/23
N: Concrete Savior - Yvonne Navarro 7/7
T: Time Thief - Katie MacAlister 2/24

✔14. Noble
N: Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20
O: On Her Father's Grave - Kendra Elliott 2/27
B: Wrayth - Pip Ballantine 3/21
L: Living on the Edge - Shannon Butcher 4/20
E: The Last Good Man - Kathleen Eagle 2/17

✔15. Outstanding
O: Once a Cavalier - Linda O. Johnston 3/16
U: Unloved - Katy Regnery 9/3
T: 2066 - Peter Brandt 2/23
S: The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley 5/11
T: When a Scot Ties the Knot - Tessa Dare 4/12
A: The Man Who Spoke Snakish - Andrus Kivirähk 7/17
N: Night Shift - N. Singh/I. Andrews/L. Shearin/M. Vane 8/12
D: Desert God - Wilbur Smith 2/4
I: In Stone's Clasp - Christie Golden 11/6
N: Golden Age and Other Stories - Naomi Novik 10/9
G: The Girl with the Golden Gun - Ann Major 4/11

✔16. Prompt
P: Phantom Shadows - Dianne Duvall 3/19
R: Chains of Darkness - Caris Roane 2/27
O: On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle 3/20
M: The Striker - Monica McCarty 4/15
P: Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston 3/23
T: Serpent's Kiss - Thea Harrison 4/22

✔17. Qualified
Q: Spirit Woman - Zara Quentin 8/27
U: Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8
A: Blood of the Dark Moon - Adrianne Brennan 8/13
L: Lethal Investments - K.O. Dahl 5/26
I: Darkness Avenged - Alexandra Ivy 11/9
F: Fever Dream - Douglas Preston 4/27
I: Intensity - Sherrilyn Kenyon 12/9
E: The Scribe - Elizabeth Hunter 4/19
D: Dearly Depotted - Kate Collins 4/3

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✔18. Remarkable
R: One Dog Night - David Rosenfelt 4/21
E: A Room Full of Bones - Elly Griffiths 5/4
M: Murder Under a Mystic Moon - Yasmine Galenorn 4/12
A: Hotwire - Alex Kava 4/29
R: Bad Nights - Rebecca York 2/23
K: Cold Plague - Daniel Kalla 2/27
A: Acts of Violets - Kate Collins 6/11
B: Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
L: The Luckiest Lady in London - Sherry Thomas 4/23
E: Tangled Threads - Jennifer Estep 4/20

✔19. Splendiferous
S: The Storm - Clive Cussler 2/15
P: Harbinger - Pip Ballantine 4/25
L: Don't Look Now - Linda Lael Miller 4/2
E: Full Scoop -Janet Evanovich 5/6
N: No Rest for the Dead - Andrew Gulli 11/20
D: The Burning Wire - Jeffrey Deaver 2/18
I: Immune - Shannon Mayer 12/30
F: Fruitcake - R.J. Kaiser 5/4
E: Barely a Lady - Eileen Dreyer 5/13
R: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - Katarina Bivald 3/17
O: Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
U: Five - Ursula Poznanski 10/8
S: So Sure Of Death - Dana Stabenow 2/16

✔20. Transcend
T: The Secret of the Nagas - Amish Tripathi 4/17
R: Red Velvet Cupcake Murder - Joanne Fluke 5/9
A: Allegiance - Susanna Sandlin 3/17
N: Silver Silence - Nalini Singh 12/13
S: Swimming with the Dead - Kathy Brandt 3/18
C: The Chase - Clive Cussler 2/7
E: An English Bride In Scotland - Lynsay Sands 6/19
N: The Naked Duke - Sally MacKenzie 12/16
D: Darkness Rises - Dianne Duvall 4/20

✔21. Unfetter
U: Under Oath - Margaret McLean 10/12
N: The Perfect Liar - Brenda Novak 7/23
F: Flora Segunda - Ysabeau S. Wilce 5/8
E: The Empire's Ghost - Isabelle Steiger 7/22
T: Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
T: Two Graves - Douglas Preston 6/24
E: Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
R: Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4

✔22. Versatile
V: The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter 6/18
E: Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
R: A Rose from the Dead - Kate Collins 5/17
S: Sword of the Raven - Diana Duncan 2/12
A: All That Bleeds - Kimberly Frost 6/15
T: Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma 6/24
I: I Know a Secret - Tess Gerritsen 4/2
L: The Wild Irish Sea - Loucinda McGary 5/29
E: A Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths 8/6

✔23. Worthwhile
W: Blackbirds - Chuck Wendig 2/10
O: Once Upon a Marigold - Jean Ferris 3/25
R: Betrayed - Rebecca York 3/23
T: Lord's Fall - Thea Harrison 7/4
H: When Maidens Mourn - C.S. Harris 3/14
W: The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill 5/14
H: Hot Pursuit - Kathryn Jensen 3/9
I: Island of Glass - Nora Roberts 3/23
L: Midnight Rainbow - Linda Howard 5/13
E: So Close the Hand of Death - J.T. Ellison 8/29

✔24. Xanthophyll
X: Paradox - Catherine Coulter 8/22
A: Melting into You - Tracey Alvarez 6/30
N: Not What You Seem - Lena Maye 12/21
T: The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi 8/22
H: Haunted on Bourbon Street - Deanna Chase 4/26
O: Silenced - Kristina Ohlsson 3/30
P: The Preacher - Camilla Läckberg 5/31
H: Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
Y: A Harvest of Bones - Yasmine Galenorn 2/8
L: The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson 3/4
L: St. Patrick's Day Murder - Leslie Meier 3/8

✔25. Yippee
Y: Yours, Mine, and Ours - Mary Janice Davidson 2/19
I: In the Shadow of the Gods - Rachel Dunne 1/13
P: Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston 5/22
P: 15th Affair - James Patterson 5/12
E: Where All the Dead Lie - J.T. Ellison 10/2
E: The Wrong Hostage - Elizabeth Lowell 10/12

✔ 26. Zest
Z: The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 8/18
E: The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths 10/30
S: Better To Rest - Dana Stabenow 4/15
T: Hidden Embers - Tessa Adams 8/8

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

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Astronomy Challenge
Start Date: April 1, 2016

109/100 FOUND

Part 1

A
Alpha Centauri - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(you guys must be flying to Alpha Centauri by now),p108
aperature -
apogee - The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
(the last twitching apogee of a monstrous ejaculation),p228
asteroid - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(can stop an asteroid that size),p5
astronaut - Alien Tango - Gini Koch 9/4
(along with the astronauts),p110
astronomer - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(comets were spotted all the time by amateur astronomers),p12
astronomy - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(obsessed with astronomy),p276

B
big bang theory - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(watched reruns of the Big Bang Theory),p232
binary star - Rainshadow Road - Lisa Kleypas 11/20
(a binary star can have a distant orbit),p317
black body -
black hole - The Hotter You Burn - Gena Showalter 4/3
(even with the chaotic black holes), p216

C
celestial - League of Dragons - Naomi Novik 6/20
(his own celestial companion),p145
cluster - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(the first cluster of warheads),p313
comet - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(blazing like a comet across the night sky),p53
conjunction -
constellation - Night Marchers - Rebecca Gober 4/25
(points a few of the constellations out), p93
corona - Dragon Wytch - Yasmine Galenorn 12/3
(and more rarely, a golden corona),p146
cosmology -
cosmos - One Fell Sweep - Ilona Andrews 4/1
(the depth of the infinite Cosmos reflected in him),p231
crater - Nightwalker - Allyson James 6/26
(tossed into the volcano that's now Sunset Crater),p205
crescent moon - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 4/7
(it was a crescent moon yesterday), p105

D
dark matter -
day - A Case of Need - Michael Crichton 3/11
(what day is this?),p386
declination -
deep space - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(looked like a deep-space mining suit),p205
density - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(it's interior was solid explosive material, kedrium the density),p
docking - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(passed through the crowded docking hangar),p30
dust - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(blowing a plume of dust high into the air),p47
dwarf planet -
dwarf star - Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
(it's hotter than a dwarf star),p303

E
Earth - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(she only tolerated off the face of the Earth),p130
earthbound - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(then the collie would be Earthbound),p272
eccentricity - The Luckiest Lady in London - Sherry Thomas 4/23
(focus from directrix or eccentricity),p260
eclipse - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(there was no eclipse),p234
elliptical orbit - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(the moons elliptical orbit),p31
equinox -
escape velocity - Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12
(once they were clear of escape velocity),p319
event horizon - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(they could safely get to the event horizon),p148

F
falling star -
flare -
flyby -
free fall - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(they were in free fall),p102
full moon - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 4/7
(always likes the full moon), p105

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Part II


G
galaxy - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(there are countless planets in this galaxy),p267
gamma ray - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(gamma-ray burst?),p251
gas giant - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(steering your collie toward a gas giant),p31
geostationary -
geosynchronous -
gibbous moon - Desert God - Wilbur Smith 2/4
(it was close to midnight and the waxing gibbous moon),p50
globular cluster -
gravitation - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(there was a slight gravitational discrepancy),p15
gravity - The Wild Ways - Tanya Huff 4/7
(began to slide, gravity taking over), p289

H
half moon - Frostbitten - Kelley Armstrong 7/8
(glittered under a half moon),p2
heliocentric -
helium - The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
(pumped full of helium),p106
Hubble telescope - Hot Pursuit - Kathryn Jensen 3/9
(like the Hubble telescope snafu),p48
hydrogen - The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
(with the moon men and hydrogram),p34
hyperbolic orbit -
hypernova -

I
ice giant -
inclination - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(that inclination of toward acting out in anger),p145
inertia - The Wild Ways - Tanya Huff 4/7
(inertia, Charlie dodged), p231
inferior planets -
inner planets -
interstellar - Unbound - Angela Knight 7/9
(size of an interstellar frigate),p77
interstellar dust -
ionosphere - Hot Pursuit - Kathryn Jensen 3/9
(way out there in the ionosphere),p111

J
Jupiter - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(but Jupiter provided a softer landing than Earth),p101

K
Kepler's laws -
kiloparsec -
Kuiper belt - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(a prison asteroid out in the Kuiper Belt),p323

L
lens - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(light gathering lens),p327
light-year - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(the cages are light years apart),p74
local arm -
local group -
lunar - The Ridge - Michael Koryta 8/8
(astronomy club planning event for lunar eclipse),p50

M
magnitude -
mare -
Mars - Born of Ashes - Caris Roane 5/11
(Holst's The Planets. I believe this is Mars),p225
mass -
Mercury - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(Eris, Pluto and Mercury), p27
meteor - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(that meteor that hit in Russia),p52
meteorite - Rogue Wave - Boyd Morrison 3/4
(talking about a meteorite impact at this point is premature),p112
meteoroid -
Milky Way - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(go up and watch the Milky Way),p256
minor planet -
moon - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(though the largest moon),p31

N
nadir -
NASA - The Future Falls - Tanya Huff 5/19
(taken a taxi directly to NASA headquarters),p2
nebula - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(the Horsehead Nebula),p211
Neptune - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus),p27
neutron star -
new moon -
north star - Dreamwalker - Allyson James 7/9
(the bears, large and small, the North Star),p163
nova - Bound by Flame - Anne Windsor 8/10
(like a star going nova),p54

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Part III


O
observatory - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(the Vatican has an observatory),p268
occultation -
opposition - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(there was only so much opposition any faction could muster),p14
orbit - The Wild Ways - Tanya Huff 4/7
(nuking you from orbit), p116
orbital eccentricity -
orbital inclination -
outer planets - White Night - Jim Butcher 5/4
(from the outer planets),p129

P
parallax -
parsec - Origin Phase - RTW Lipkin 12/17
(my emotional state for at least 30 persecs),p58
partial eclipse -
penumbra - Butterfly Tattoo - Deidre Knight 5/28
(a penumbra of light circling), p56
perigee - Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi 3/15
(at its perigee, as they put it),p306
perturbation -
phase - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(in their dormant phase),p203
plane of the ecliptic -
planet - The Hotter You Burn - Gena Showalter 4/3
(one of the richest men on the planet), p178
planetary nebula -
planetoid -
Pluto - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(how cold does it get on Pluto),p234
pole star -
precession -
probe - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(when a probe found Toremi ships),p94
pulsar -

Q
quarter moon -
quasar -

R
radiant - The Hotter You Burn - Gena Showalter 4/3
(anyone's idea of radiant), p180
radiation - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(wide-spectrum radiation),p242
red dwarf - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(a red dwarf lay in the distance),p84
red giant star - Laced with Magic - Barbara Bretton 3/20
(until the sun moves from red giant to white dwarf),p271
revolve -
rings - Unbound - Angela Knight 7/9
(Dyami can plot rings around),p164
rocket - Night Marchers - Rebecca Gober 4/25
(shooting up like a rocket), p253

S
satellite - White Night - Jim Butcher 5/4
(an old Soveit satellite),p315
Saturn - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(no, it's Saturn, see the rings),p309
scientific notation -
scintillation -
shooting star - Bethany's Heart - C.L. Scholey 12/18
(shooting stars raced across the hemisphere),p119
solar - Vampire Most Wanted - Lynsay Sands 6/27
(solar Abaddon explained),p319
singularity -
sky - Fired Up - Jayne Ann Krentz 4/13
(the sky was leaden), p24
solar - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(to obtain a solar charger),p40
solar system - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(transform into solar systems),p215
solar wind -
solstice - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(picking presents for winter solstice),p227
space - Immortal - J.R. Ward 6/2
(flying through the air or space),p118
space exploration -
space station - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(on the international space station),p317
spectroscope -
spectrum - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(every channel in his spectrum),p343
star - The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins 5/24
(the stars are out),p235
starlight - Allegiance of Honor - Nalini Singh 7/3
(her eyes had lost their starlight),p86
sun - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(even though the sun was nowhere in sight),p147
sunspot -
superior planets -
supernova - Alien Tango - Gini Koch 9/4
(made my worry go supernova),p55
synodic -
syzygy -

T
telemetry -
telescope - Silenced - Allison Brennan 4/15
(lens for space telescopes), p53
terminator -
terrestrial - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(life on a similarly sized terrestrial moon),p155
total eclipse -
totality -
transit -
translunar -
twinkling - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers 11/25
(his eyes twinkling),p169

U
umbra -
universe - Got Your Number - Stephanie Bond 4/5
(the universe was in balance), p203
Uranus - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(Oberon, a moon of Uranus),p27

V
vacuum - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(he screamed silently in the vacuum of space),p60
Van Allen belt -
variable star -
Venus - Last to Die - Tess Gerritsen 6/24
(Mercury, Venus and Earth),p215
vernal equinox - Natural Evil - Thea Harrison 8/17
(the vernal equinox was in a few days),p13
visual magnitude -

W
waning - The Curse of the Wendigo - Rick Yancey 9/5
(in those waning days),p15
wavelength -
waxing - Desert God - Wilbur Smith 2/4
(with a waxing moon to light our way),p305
weightlessness -
white dwarf - The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
(hopscotching white dwarfs),p16
white giant -
wormhole - The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman 4/7
(translucent silver black wormhole), p124

X
x-rays - All Wound Up - Jaci Burton 7/10
(your x-rays are clear),p32

y
yellow dwarf -

Z
zenith - Time Salvager - Wesley Chu 7/15
(this time period was considered the zenith),p90
zodiac - Death Angel - Linda Fairstein 7/26
(you know, the zodiac),p43

[Barbara ★]

WORD HUNT: Harry Potter
Start Date: May 1, 2018

129/121+ FOUND


Sea Glass Winter - JoAnn Ross 5/3
Accusation chair - carrying a wooden chair, p20
Advertising blackboard - blocking their view of the blackboard, p57
Fancy hippogriff calendar - the most perfect day on the calendar, p204
Fang's bowl - putting his bowl and spoon in the dishwasher, p22
Glasses - behind the lenses of black-framed glasses, p50
Harry Potter's notebook - you should have been given a lab notebook, p57
Hogwarts Express ticket - he's our golden ticket, p19
Hogwarts lockers - benches and lockers had been painted, p71
Ostrich feather - resembled ostrich feather plume pens, p156
Oven - toss some crab cakes in an oven, p63
Pickup - the pickup games, p13
Plumbing - indoor plumbing considered luxuries, p18
Veil - and attached illusion veil, p00
Velvet - black bowtie, black velvet slacks, p228

Midnight's Kiss - Thea Harrison 5/4
Challenge Star - he might have been the star quarterback, p18
Harry Potter's blanket - a folded green wool army blanket, p30
Manacles - had thick manacles chained to the wall, p30
Talon - his fingernailed had lengthened into talons, p113

The Girls of Mischief Bay - Susan Mallery 5/5
Computer - attention already back on her computer, p7
Enchanted ring - diamond engagement ring, p15
Penelope Clearwater's mirror - she turned to stare at the mirror, p20

Blood, Smoke and Mirrors - Robyn Bachar 5/5
Albus Potter's love potion - love potions were the most popular recipes, p79
Amulet - pulling out nearly every amulet, p21
Dementor dummy - missed stabbing the practice dummy, p125
Electric fire - a much louder electric sizzle scorching the air, p51
Enchanted razor - or a razor somewhere, p168
Farting gnomes - a forlorn garden gnome, p211
Jacuzzi - a marble jacuzzi tub took up one corner, p167
Large Unidentified Spellbook - find a bunch of spellbooks lying around, p14
Playing cards - he brought a deck of playing cards, p86
Rotating tower - being imprisoned in the head Dracula's tower, p168
Stone Basin - heaved the bucket up out of the basin, p12
Tarot cards - and two tarot cards are tucked in the band, p21

The Copenhagen Affair - Amulya Malladi 5/5
Drill - maybe I can drill some fashion sense in her, p120
Dursley family toilet - a lot of time and many down the toilet, p92
Football (ball) - to basketball and then to football, p53
Head Boy badge - is a badge of honor, p161
Vacuum cleaner - which side of the vacuum cleaner was up, p59

The Cajun Doctor - Sandra Hill 5/7
Brain - what we need is a brain transplant, p111
Charmed Tent - a tent had been erected, p607
Flipendo Button - knew which buttons to push, p182
Floating golden lantern - saw only a dim lantern, p294
Harry Potter's birthday cake from Hagrid (1991) - instead of the traditional birthday cake, p226
Lawn mower - does hummer make lawn mowers, p184
Snowball - snowball is smaller, like me, p486
Telephone - wouldn't touch that observation with a telephone pole, p191
Water balloons - explode like a mardi gras water balloon, p208
Wheelchair - getting into a wheelchair, p523

Cold Reign - Faith Hunter 5/8
Bimetal alchemical thread - I took a spool of pink thread, p155
Coal - probably coal fire, p50
House-elf armour - getting a mouthful of armor, p140
Magical megaphone - a lot of shouting through a megaphone, p161
Parchment - drafted the letter on parchment, p114
Sorting ceremony stool - he was sitting on a three-legged stool, p280

Discount Armageddon - Seanan McGuire 5/10
Cribbages Wizarding Crackers - cheese and soda crackers, p66
Handkerchief - a backless silver handkerchief top, p5

Blueberry Muffin Murder - Joanne Fluke 5/11
Binoculars - had climbed to the top with binoculars, p143
Chattering Teeth - her teeth were chattering, p10
Escalator - we just take the escalator, p281
Wool Glove - pulled out a pair of wool gloves, p213

Rattling the Heat in Deadwood - Ann Charles 5/14
Brass scales - to watch for shifts in the scale, p265
Cuckoo clock - cuckoo clocks covering the walls, p52
Ectoplasm - ability to interact with the ectoplasmic crowd, p16
Magnifying glass - add a hat, pipe and magnifying glass, p259

The Mountain Between Us - Charles Martin 5/14
Mummy - wrapped her up like a mummy, p49

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Blackberry Pie Murder - Joanne Fluke 5/17
Roller - her emotional roller coaster was climbing, p110

Exclusively Yours - Shannon Stacey 5/17
Homework planner - playing wedding planner in his mind, p227

Owlflight - Mercedes Lackey 5/18
Bauble - greed for pretty baubles, p116
Biting kettle - someone put the kettle on the hook, p17
Cup -held out a cup of water, p277
Dragon harness - like a dog in harness, p6
Frolicsome Feline plates - take a day of work to make pots and plates, p4
Everlasting candle - burned out ends of candles, p10
Magic lantern - a lantern with a mage light in it, p136
Self-Knitting Needles - such as needles and pins, p4
Tinsel - with so much flash and tinsel, p184

Better Homes and Hauntings - Molly Harper 5/19
Action figure - did you know they made Krull action figures, p57
Candle - armed only with a flickering candle, p13
Class list - that's one more pro for the list, p7
Fang brush - a travel set of monogrammed silver brushes, p200
Filius Flitwick's desk - saved a few documents from an old desk, p83
Lily L. Potter's fairy wings - women in cellophane fairy wings, p210
Shark Fang - rows and rows of razor-sharp sharks teeth, p215
Stained glass window - a stained glass window depicting a golden-
haired woman, p118
Video recorder - snagging a small digital recorder, p196
Wireless - frowning over the wireless keyboard, p131

Due or Die - Jenn McKinlay 5/21
Bicycle - until the bicycle path was clear, p27
Crochet hook - Violet's crochet hook was swooping away, p1

Heart of Evil - Heather Graham 5/21
Electric guitar - he'd played his guitar, p11

Sacred Cows - Karen E. Olson 5/23
Caretaker's filing cabinet - several file cabinets lined the wall, p184

A Clockwork Fairytale - Helen Scott Taylor 5/24
Chalk - from the tailor's chalk, p47
Grandfather clock - the grandfather clock chimed the hour, p54

Harvest Hunting - Yasmine Galenorn 5/25
Crystal goblet - Chase played with his goblet, p3
Finch's invention - the best invention since sliced bread, p70
Petunia Dursley's kitchen scissors - get your scissors, p21

Holding - Graham Norton 5/26
Gringotts rubbish bin - some sort of rubbish compactor, p173
Hogwarts tea towel - holding a tea towel, p17
Mobile phone - stared at his useless mobile phone, p15

Bearly Departed - Meg Macy 5/28
Bewitched tea set - tea sets, tables and chairs, p2
Bewitched teapot - a teapot between them, p4
Peacock feather - if any mark showed on the peacock blue feathers, p26

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline 5/29
Automatic ticket machine - there hadn't been any golden tickets inside the wrapper, p236
Gryffindor Knight - after the knight of Athurian legend, p28
Stereo - stood by the ancient stereo, p38
Telephone booth - a vintage 1980's phone booth, p101

Angels Of Darkness - Andrews/Singh/Shinn/Brooks 5/29
Hermione Granger's pencil case - family pried at the pencil case, p161
Peacock quill - I saw a few bent quills, p298

The Sorcerer's Prize - Rose Andrews 6/2
Sloshing Cauldron - Matthias stirred the cauldron, p23

The Wicked - Thea Harrison 6/3
Shrunken head - who was in possession of a shrunken head, p18

The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman 6/6
Phoenix Fire Lighters - about the ressurection of the phoenix, p223

Kin - Kealan Patrick Burke 6/10
Scarecrow - a scarecrow with a golden halo, p7

Agatha H and the Airship City - Phil & Kaja Foglio 6/13
Parachute - it was a da Vinci parachute, p2

Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb 6/16
Puppet theatre - tales told and puppet shows presented, p274

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory 6/17
Pensieve - gazing into the dark brown liquid like it was Dumbledore's pensieve, p276

Claws of the Cat - Susan Spann 6/22
Fire tongs - he picked up the tongs, p80
Great Hall floating candles - the house of the floating plums, p126

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Gossamer Wing - Delphine Dryden 6/23
Enchanted balloons - scarcely larger than a weather balloon, p39

The Darkest Promise - Gena Showalter 6/25
Toy soldiers - do you know how many toy soldiers will fit, p84

Truth or Beard - Penny Reid 6/29
Toaster - take apart your toaster, p14

The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman 6/30
Gramophone - on the wind-up gramophone, p64
Self-Knitting Needles - ball of wool with knitting needles stuck through it, p31

Catering to Nobody - Diane Mott Davidson 7/4
Valentine's Day Card - by Valentine's Day, p105

The Chase - Janet Evanovich 7/24
Balaclava - when Duff saw their balaclava-covered faces, p143
Invisibility cloak - wearing Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility, p123

Dark Bites - Sherrilyn Kenyon 8/5
Chinese Fortune Sticks - out of his broken fortune cookie, p429
Second Task Clock - on the transformers clock, p429
Vernon Dursley's old socks - to show her his socks, p446

Dark Tournament - Elisa S. Amore 8/8
Phial - and pulled out a long vial, (loc 318)

Skinny Dipping with Murder - Auralee Wallace 8/10
Kettle - I filled my mother's old kettle, p187

[Barbara ★]

WORD HUNT: Super Bowl Season

FOUND: 51/75

A
✔️attempt - went in at the last second to attempt a field goal, p7
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️audible - breathed an audible sigh of relief, p237
Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5
automatic first down

B
✔️block - hunkered down like total pros all ready to block for me, p258
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️bomb - bomb proof too, p256
Dragonsworn - Sherrilyn Kenyon 9/9

C
✔️carry - as fast as her square white heels would carry her, p4
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
center (or centre)
✔️chain - that she wore on a chain, p19
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️Chicago - you're a hotshot lawyer in Chicago, p3
Ho-Ho-Homicide - Kaitlyn Dunnett 10/5
✔️contain - send some of his men to contain it, p284
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️coverage - just led to more flattering coverage, p170
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️counter - and stared across the counter, p1
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11

D
✔️defense - someone who works defense behind the line of scrimmage, p64
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️down - to play one final, perfect down, p13
The Hike - Drew Magary 1/16
✔️draft - something stupid like the Vikings draft pick, p79
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️drive - wanted the drive to be over, p22
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11

E
✔️East - the best spas in the east, p24
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️extra point - missed the extra point, p65
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

F
✔️field goal - to attempt a field goal, p7
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️flat - Smut's football was a little flat, p23
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️football - try out for the football team, p6
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️fumble - whenever he fumbles or messes up, p9
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

G
✔️game - didn't know what game he was playing, p191
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️Goal - my goal was the center of the block, p10
Eternal Hunger - Cameron Dean 8/3
✔️goal line - I spun and took off for the goal line, p252
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️Green Bay - Brian follows Green Bay, p79
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️guard - I could completely relax my guard, p24
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11

H
✔️handoff - the first baton handoff, p127
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️hike - something about our hike was bothering me, p88
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️holding - holding the metal lid out in front of me, p111
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️huddle - Red Bend defense came out of our huddle, p251
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

I
✔️inside - kill them for setting foot inside my restaurant, p6
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️interception - interception against your archrival, p254
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️interference - not calling me on interference, p257
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

K
✔️kicker - except that the Red Bend kicker suffered enough, p65
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

L
✔️line of scrimmage - behind the line of scrimmage, p64
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️linebacker - and Bill being a linebacker, p48
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

M
✔️motion - the sudden bucking motion, p210
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11

N
✔️New York - I write for some newspaper up in New York, p163
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️North - and driven north this morning, p231
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11

O
✔️offense - dominate offense and all, p210
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

[Barbara ★]

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P
✔️pocket - pulled his car keys out of his pocket, p339
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️point - might have a valid point, p81
By a Thread - Jennifer Estep 9/11
✔️possession - get possession for Red Bend, p65
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

Q
✔️Quarter - a quarter mile from the driveway, p216
Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
✔️quarterback - stuck up, spoiled Hawley quarterback could be, p9
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

R
✔️radio - like a radio that had turned off mid-song, p8
Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
✔️running back - a line backer drawing a bead on a running back, p418
Evil Harvest - Anthony Izzo 9/23

S
✔️sprint - he started his next sprint, p64
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
✔️starter - if he wanted to be a starter, p13
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

continued...

T
Team
✔️Televised (or television) - turned off the television, p334
The End Game - Catherine Coulter 9/14
✔️touchdown - that long run downfield for the touchdown, p255
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20
Training Camp

W
wide
✔️wide receiver - named after a University of Notre Dame wide receiver, p101
Dairy Queen - Catherine Murdock 9/20

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

[Barbara ★]

Reread Rewind
Start Date: July 1, 2017

Scavenger Hunt Levels: Flip-flop : 121 + words

47/121 FOUND

Gingerbread Cookie Murder - Joann Fluke 7/6
Lull - took advantage of the lull in the action, p251

Fireproof - Alex Kava 7/6
Bit - her eyes a bit glassy, p91

No Man's Land - David Baldacci 7/9
Abeyance - they could hold the prosecution in abeyance, p34

Darkling - Yasmine Galenorn 7/11
Clock - I pointed towards the clock, p18
Clone - turning into a clone of me, p65
Mimic - someone trying to mimic my voice, p77
Mirror - five minutes in front of the mirror, p102
Spell - every time she gets it in her head to cast a spell, p13
Staccato - like staccato bullet play, p35

Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 7/17
Breath - I lay there catching my breath, p118
Renovate - if you're going to renovate an old house, p73

The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King 7/18
Allotment - put my hives in an allotment, p22
Carbon - which included a faint carbon copy, p28
Continue - and gestured that I should continue, p85
Examine - pausing to examine it, p24
Extent - to a large extent, p285
Facet - adds an interesting facet to our foe, p280
Generation - an entire generation of men subjected to it, p48
Imitate - I could probably imitate the jargon, p105
Juncture - put my finger on precisely the juncture, p244

Our Husband - Stephanie Bond 7/19
Eternity - provide fodder for the gossip mill for eternity, p33
Fake - cubic zirconia, it's fake, p36
Mock - then he gave her a mock salute, p13

The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker - Leanna Renee Hieber 7/20
Chant - a powerful torrent of an otherworldly chant, p53
Chorus - a Greek chorus, p59
Echo - her words cast a marvelous echo, p12
Quarter - it's been quite a quarter, p91
Reign - won free reign over the whole mortal realm, p11
Space - this sacred space

Midnight's Warrior - Donna Grant 7/20
Din - the sound of something over the din of the snowstorm, p125

The Perfect Liar - Brenda Novak 7/23
Sequester - Ava wasn't too thrilled about being sequestered in a booth with this man, p182
Travesty - to stop this travesty of justice, p66

Devoured by Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 7/24
Ditto - yeah well...ditto, p196
Quail - have you ever watched a quail, p3

Ash and Quill - Rachel Caine 7/26
Model - remove the model of the device, p152

Judas Kiss - J.T. Ellison 7/28
Zenith - shifting slightly in its evening zenith, p79

Heir to the Sky - Amanda Sun 7/29
Annal - they place a red and gilded annal in his hands, p21

White Fire - Douglas Preston 7/29
Delineate - the tunnels were clearly delineated, p290
Engrave - embossed and engraved, p156
Phony - a fake, grasping, deceitful phony, p58
State - what a state to face the cameras, p196
Stint - including the stint in the jail, p293

No Strings Attached - Kate Angell 7/31
Life span - life span? he asked the seller, p181

Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
Pirate - dressing up like a pirate, p184
Year - despite his sixty-something years, p184

Lick - Kylie Scott 8/10
Capsize - I'd have to save you if we capsized, p75

Hounding the Pavement - Judi McCoy 8/15
Belabor - not to belabor the point, p79

[Barbara ★]

Over the Hill
Start Date: April 1, 2017

Option 7: Scavenger Hunt Freestyle
Scavenger Hunt Levels: Veteran : 121 + words

Dearly Depotted - Kate Collins 4/3
Exhausted - I was too exhausted to enjoy it, p84
Gray - she pushed her little gray head between two people, p67
Gray-haired - that covered her neatly layered gray hair, p38
Persistent - but he's a persistent man, p88
Pinched - wrinkled her nose as she pinched the firm flesh of his cheek, p96
Priceless - isn't he priceless?, p66
Prime - to make him their prime suspect, p71
Senior - known to send senior citizens into dead faints, p15

The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4
Zenith - to violet and blue at the zenith, p192

The Cat Who Said Cheese - Lillian Jackson Braun 4/5
Octogenarian - his octogenarian wife, p127

Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay 4/7
Antique - upchucked its contents all over the antique furniture, p129
Vintage - the tables were vintage formica on chrome, p24

Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
Broken-in - wore a think broken-in leather jacket, p25
Zombie - I saw a zombie standing at the register, p1

The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths 4/6
Aged - under cover of darkness several aged tankers, p210
Ancient - ancient artifacts, dusty museums, p30
Old fashioned - I can do all the old-fashioned stuff, p98
Veteran - older than her and veterans of disaster scenes, p61

Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
Archaic - his archaic manners meant he fit right in, p177

Born of Vengeance - Sherrilyn Kenyon 4/12/17
Unkempt - in spite of his unkempt condition, p226

The Scribe - Elizabeth Hunter 4/19
Authentic - I did promise to show you an authentic side of the city, p212

Stuck In Shangri-La - Kasey Michaels 4/18
Geriatric - geriatric see by candlelight, p136

The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
Antediluvian - some antediluvian cartographer who drew these prosaic sea serpents, p8

Fruitcake - R.J. Kaiser 5/4
Sophisticated - he's efficiency and sophisticated image, p267

Night Unbound - Dianne Duvall 5/20
Long-lived - or how long-lived you are, p123
Obsolete - like I said...you're obsolete, p369
Stubborn - sweetheart, the baby is being stubborn, p297

Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston 5/22
Accomplished - the more accomplished he became, p172
Accustomed - as accustomed to grappling with sick cows and horses, p54
Battered - a battered remnant of a floating dock, p292
Beat-up - a beat-up Chevy Impala was idling at the curb, p125
Competent - a reliable and competent witness, p43
Creaky - Pendergast climbed up on the creaky porch, p254
Crumbling - its fabric slowly crumbling into ruin, p58
Deep-seated - Felder felt a deep-seated need, p207
Deft - which he unlocked with a deft turn of his wrist, p54
Experienced - he experienced a huge feeling of relief, p70
Habitual - all too clearly a man of habitual restraint, p98
Incapacitated - most of them killed or incapacitated, p328
Inexhaustible - NY Public Library's seemingly inexhaustible holdings, p210
Innate - she obviously had plenty of innate cunning, p80
Jaundiced - Chief Inspector Balfour's jaundiced eye, p40
Perpetual - deeply scored frown lines betraying perpetual dismay, p41
Primitive - far too primitive for Pendergast, p97
Quavering - he heard a quavering irritated voice, p80
Ramshackle - heading back down the ramshackle street, p60
Rickety - she pulled a rickety old table over to the wall, p336
Scholarly - elegance and wealth with scholarly research, p206
Settled - the finger settled unto the button, p187
Tottering - stood a dozen tottering stacks of paper, p340
Withered - one of the mans hands was withered, p186
Wrinkled - stared at the sallow, wrinkled skin, p82

Midnight's Lover - Donna Grant 5/22
Primeval - despite the primeval god inside him, p17

Dirty Magic - Jaye Wells 5/23
Gnarled - she dug a gnarled arthritic hand into the large pocket, p30

The Preacher - Camilla Läckberg 5/31
Crippled - he didn't look crippled, p173
Old - sitting alone in an old folks home, p371

The Wild Irish Sea - Loucinda McGary 5/29
Bedraggled - looking wet, bedraggled and exhausted, p74

Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7
Byzantine - some byzantine thing of filigreed gold, p225

Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 7/17
Classical - the needlework pattern is classical, p198
Dilapidated - the old dilapidated palace, p154
Effete - Jemmy and Inky weren't effete house cats, p99
Ratty - with their ratty t-shirts, p158

The Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie R. King 7/18
Professional - careful instruction by a professional, p33
Sapient - I don't know how sapient you find most homines, p10

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New York New York
Start Date: March 23, 2017

Option 8: Scavenger Hunt Want-it-All
Scavenger Hunt Levels: The Big Apple : 121 + words

186/121 FOUND

Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston 3/23
Avenue of the Americas - giant glass office towers line Avenue of the Americas in the lower fifties, p64
Borough - New York City Housing Authority Borough of Manhattan, p173
Bronx - arrowing northward into the Bronx, p107
Canal Street - you can get them down on Canal Street, p173
Museum of Modern Art - leaves swirled through the sculpture garden of the MOMA, p165
Rikers Island - the vast prison complex of Riker's Island, p364


Dearly Depotted - Kate Collins 4/3
Comedians - I hadn't heard you'd turned into a stand-up comedian, p109
Deli - after a stop at the deli, p21
Magazine - flipping through a magazine, p18
Model - behind the five foot nine model-perfect beauties, p30

The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey 4/4
Ballet - now she's engaged in a ballet, p37
Billion - there must have been billions of them, p152
Designer - the vehicles designers anticipated a range of situations, p263
Statue - then she freezes like a statue, p62
Theater - she was in a theater, p300
Zenith - to violet and blue at the zenith, p192
Zig Zag - it's zigzag course dictated by the trunks it passes, p370

The Cat Who Said Cheese - Lillian Jackson Braun 4/5
Actor - were you ever an actor, p30
Dumbo - it's only Dumbo, p241
Foodie - there are lots of foodies out there, p16
Megalopolis - great place to live and work without turning it into a megalopolis, p15
NY Harbor - when one has seen fireworks over New York Harbor, p145
Presidential - there was even a presidential suite, p2
Zest - lettuce with lemon zest dressing, p239

Books Can Be Deceiving - Jenn McKinlay 4/7
Acre - almost ten acres, p69

Dead Sexy - Tate Hallaway 4/8
Pastrami - warm air inside smelled of pastrami, p30
Rye - smelled of pastrami and rye bread, p30

The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths 4/6
Comedy - there will be an element of comedy headgear, p92

Once Upon Stilettos - Shanna Swendson 4/9
Battery Park - the stock exchange and Battery Park too, p200
Bloomingdales - I led her a few blocks over to Bloomingdales, p177
Broadway - a lot of broadway theaters are actually on side streets, p160
Brooklyn - cars entering the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, p118
Central Park - we could go to Central Park, p157
Dumplings - not the kind of dumplings we make back home, p190
Empire State - a good day to go to the Empire State building, p146
Fifth Avenue - to window shop on Fifth Avenue, p177
Greenich Village - stopped on a narrow street somewhere in Greenich Village, p276
Ground Zero - we made a side trip by the Ground Zero site, p201
Macys - once the Macy's parade was under way, p168
Madison Avenue - on Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue, p177
Manhattan - make it out of Manhattan before midnight, p119
Nolita - interesting little store a couple of blocks over on Nolita, p293
Plaza Hotel - my folks were charmed by the Plaza Hotel, p165
Queens - that part of Queens wasn't the most scenic, p140
Rockettes - with precision to rival the Rockettes, p191
SoHo - happy hour at one of those beautiful-people bars in SoHo, p269
Subway - I used to hate riding the subway, p71
The Island - when they couldn't get off The Island, p349
The L.I.E. - we were on the Long Island Expressway, p120
The Village - then dinner in The Village, p269
Tiffany's - made me take her picture in front of Tiffany's, p177
Times Square - I want to see Times Square, p156
Tourism - they were geared up for a day of tourism, p157
Tourist - we do't want to look like tourists, p158
Wall Street - we can show you Wall Street, p200

The North Water - Ian McGuire 4/10
Dehli - in Delhi this is?, p11
Seamen - a small party of dedicated seamen, p30

The Conquest - Yxta Maya Murray 4/22
Studio 54 - goings-on in the basement of Studio 54, p47

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Fever Dream - Douglas Preston 4/27
B.Q.E. - the rolls hummed along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, p44
Bronx Zoo - lions were to be looked at from the safety of the Bronx Zoo, p57
Brooklyn Bridge - south of the Brooklyn Bridge, p44
Coney Island - a string of Russian mafia killings out on Coney Island, p147
Cooperstown - 18 Agassiz Drive, Cooperstown, NY, p110
Egg Cream - she could have an egg cream while she waited, p122
New York Police Department - Captain Hayward of the New York City Police Department, p278

Ultraviolet - R.J. Anderson 5/6
Aurora - I'd seen the Aurora Borealis once, p283

The Woman Who Wouldn't Die - Colin Cotterill 5/14
Buffalo - she was a buffalo teetering on half-centimetre points, p101
Ferry - you can take the two-tier ferry, p18
Socialite - Madame Peung was one such socialist socialite, p151

15th Affair - James Patterson 5/12
Chinatown - cultivated a stable of CIs in and around Chinatown, p209

Shadow's Seduction - Kresley Cole 5/18
Skyscraper - never seen a car or a skyscraper, p56

The Quiet Game - Greg Iles 5/20
Mayor - and he wants to be mayor of Natchez, p22

Night Unbound - Dianne Duvall 5/20
France - wanted to spend some time in France. p22
Punishment - little did they know their punishment wasn't necessary, p7

Die Like an Eagle - Donna Andrews 5/21
Agricultural - a regional agricultural festival, p130
Hot dogs - freshly grilled hotdogs, p22
Yankees - the Caerphilly Yankees at the majors level, p5

Cold Vengeance - Douglas Preston 5/22
Author - the book was Mein Kempf and the author was Adolph Hitler, p337
Hudson River - on the dark surface of the Hudson River, p292
Library - branch of the New York Public Library, p206
New York Times - inside there was an article from that morning's New York Times, p91
World Trade Center - just past the fast-rising One World Trade Center, p297

Dirty Magic - Jaye Wells 5/23
Bagels - and a box of bagels for the team, p120
Lake Erie - Lake Erie was a sheet of diamonds, p176
Yiddish - since when do you speak Yiddish, p357

The Ronin's Mistress - Laura Joh Rowland 5/27
Ancestral - to the Tokugawa ancestral worship shrine, p289
Largest - for the largest trial in history, p307
Liberty - the court dispensing liberty, p117
Pickles - who dropped a jar of pickles, p124
Politician - from a ruthless politician to a tragic figure, p300
Vendor - a vendor lifted the lids on pots of dumplings, p113

One Lucky Cowboy - Carolyn Brown 5/28
Bartender - Kristy asked the bartender, p90
Cafe - there were two cafes, p148
Pizza - that sold bread, pizza, milk and gas, p148
Taxi - now she has to rely on buses and taxis, p51

The Preacher - Camilla Läckberg 5/31
Director - he's a director in some company in Stockholm, p14

Never Look Back - Linda Lael Miller 5/30
Saks - she shops at Neiman Marcus and Saks now, p196

The Wild Irish Sea - Loucinda McGary 5/29
Corned Beef - a corned beef sandwich on the bar, p48

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The Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella 6/3
Eggs Benedict - I'll have your famous eggs benedict, p74
Pub - a story I'm listening to in the pub, p49
Straphanger - I try, and fail, to picture him straphanging, p200
Underground - the leaves of something growing underground, p137
Waitress - in my green-and-white waitress gear, p284

Getting Lucky - Carolyn Brown 6/4
Cheesecake - and every kind of cheesecake under the sun, p240
Irish - got to be Irish or Scottish blood, p38

The Order of Odd-Fish - James Kennedy 6/5
Actress - she had been a famous actress, p6
Chef - the coronation of the imperial chef, p90
Downtown - where are we going? downtown, p124
Premiere - he could both premiere his musical and crush the Belgian Prankster, p278
Waiter - Sefino had changed into a smart waiters uniform, p79

Snipped in the Bud - Kate Collins 6/5
Downstate - I was still downstate at Indian University at the time, p3
Lady Liberty - set Lady Liberty's torch on fire, p86

Lucky Bastard - Deborah Coonts 6/7
Alps - the skiing is not like the Alps, p333

Havoc - Jack DuBrul 6/8
Buffalo Wings - I'll buy them some buffalo wings before they go, p184
Genoa - as a colony of the Italians city-state Genoa, p271
Hydroelectric power - for a massive hydroelectric power plant, p193
Niagara Falls - he could no longer hear the roar of Niagara Falls, p193
United Nations - currently stationed at the United Nations, p238

Less than a Treason - Dana Stabenow 6/8
Dutch - some guy named Andy from Dutch, p6
Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) - that is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commision, p245

Death Takes Priority - Jean Flowers 6/10
Albany - at a large Albany law firm, p152

Down the Rabbit Hole - J.D. Robb 6/10
New York Times Crossword - by the New York Times crossword demanded a three-letter word, p219
South - did one of your sessions go south, p196
Yonkers - born in Yonkers, p69

Acts of Violets - Kate Collins 6/11
Cannoli - there's nothing my cannoli can't fix, p305

Spectacle - Rachel Vincent 6/14
Phoenix - Ember, the phoenix, was easily my favorite, p28

Shadows Strike - Dianne Duvall 6/17
Harlem - Ethan had been stationed in Harlem, p279
Struggling - to make you think he was struggling, p82

The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter 6/18
Villages - what of his two villages, p32

The Immortals - J.T. Ellison 6/19
Producer - place it in the hands of a producer, p120

Nevernight - Jay Kristoff 6/20
Playwright - the playwrights seldom mention it, p1

Two Graves - Douglas Preston 6/24
Germans - Germans arrived and a small settlement sprang up, p328
Gracie Mansion - the yellow bulk of a large federal-style building, Gracie Mansion, p69
Newark - two hours as D'Agosta drove away from Newark, p14
Rose - he rose and looked through a barred window, p352
Zip - several more shots zip past in the water, p341

The Chocolate Mouse Trap - JoAnna Carl 6/24
George Washington - does Jason still wear his hair in a queue like George Washington, p10

Silent Auction - Jane Cleland 6/25
Xenophobic - you're xenophobic, you know that, right, p69

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Bad Monkey - Carl Hiaasen 6/30
Syracuse - for the Republican Women's Club of Greater Syracuse, p270

Prime Cut - Diane Mott Davidson 7/4
Ithaca - waiting tables at a coffee shop in Ithaca, p69

Gingerbread Cookie Murder - Joann Fluke 7/6
Publisher - Ted, who was publisher, editor and chief reporter, p270

Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion 7/14
Pretzels - and overpriced pretzel booths, p201

Fatal Fixer-Upper - Jennie Bentley 7/17
West - little condo in the West Village, p6

Devoured by Darkness - Alexandra Ivy 7/24
Mohawk - leaving the top to form a mohawk, p4
Waldorf Astoria - hardly the Waldorf Astoria but it would keep off the drizzling rain, p34

White Fire - Douglas Preston 7/29
Park - passed a little park full of snow-covered boulders, p41

Spider’s Revenge - Jennifer Estep 8/3
Investment banking - being an investment banker, p85

A Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths 8/6
Ancestral - tired of ancestral portraits, p104
Oxford - I did my first degree at Oxford, p258

Cancans, Croissants, and Caskets - Mary McHugh 8/7
Yankee Stadium - baseball games at Yankee Stadium, p8

Hounding the Pavement - Judi McCoy 8/15
Big Apple - somewhere in the big apple, p115
Columbia University - usually after he goes to university. Columbia?, p13
Entreprenuer - one of Manhattan's bravest entreprenuers, p76
Jewish - learned how to manipulate from your Jewish mother, p103
Madison Square Garden - she took Best in Breed at MSG, p218

The Girl with Ghost Eyes - M.H. Boroson 8/18
Immigration - someone had bribed the immigration officials, p53

The Oath of the Vayuputras - Amish Tripathi 8/22
City - just outside the main city, p37
Colony - night had fallen on the Panchavati guest colony, p37
History - you will change the course of history, p38
Public - renouncing public life is very common, p38

Secrets in Death - J.D. Robb 11/3
Center - before dragging her ass to the media center, p161
Knicks - wearing a salt-and-pepper beard and Knicks sweater, p205
Music - today's music, hard-edged rock, p95
Poughkeepsie - used sporting equipment in a mall in Poughkeepsie, p329
Vehicle - an armored vehicle, p303

The Obsidian Chamber - Douglas Preston 11/5
Food Cart - from a nearby food cart, p166
National - use all available resources - national and international, p243

Body Check - Deirdre Martin 11/20
NoHo - some private club in NoHo, p39

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Vampires Dead Ahead - Cheyenne McCray 12/5
Ellis Island - she was the proctor over Ellis Island, p83

Her Own Devices - Shelly Adina 12/7
Chelsea - taken a house in chelsea, p41

The Devil's Triangle - Catherine Coulter 12/9
Italians - not a soul from the Italians side was around to help, p124
Naples - a small airport outside of Naples, p175

The NYC Werewolf: Tales, Book One - Bert Murray 12/12
Hamptons - make a trip to the Hamptons too, p258
Lincoln Center - at night go to the ballet or opera at Lincoln Center, p243

The NYC Werewolf: Tales, Book Two - Bert Murray 12/12
Lox - James bit into a lox and cream cheese bagel, p9

How to Seduce a Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks 12/14
Adirondack Mountains - located in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains of New York, p237

At Wolf Ranch - Jennifer Ryan 1/6
Fashion Week - the news showed you at Fashion Week in New York, p139

Discount Armageddon - Seanan McGuire 5/10
Meat Packing District - the meat packing district, which is nicer than it sounds, p239

The Girl With Red Hair - Michael J. Sanford 5/29
Capital - capital of the Fae Wyld, p106
Farming - was an expansive farming village, p47

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline 5/29
Grand Central Station - this town had turned into Grand Central Station, p101

Shadow's End - Thea Harrison 5/31
Flatiron Building - the Elven residence was in the fashionable Flatiron district, p176
Govenors Island - Governors Island, again it's closed at night, p214

The Heist - Janet Evanovich 7/5
Guggenheim Museum - while the Kibbe wasn't the Guggenheim, p15