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AudioBooks on on CD

King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.  Hammer suspects an old man recently released from prison is coordinating the suspiciously frequent deaths of several cops.  Read by Stacy Keach.  Keach does a great job reading these Mike Hammer novels. 
I bought three Hammer used paperback novels when I was on vacation last week.









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Summer People by Elin Hilderbrand.  Family with newly dead patriarch goes to annual three month summer vacation in Nantucket.  Three months!?  I wish.

The Plover by Brian Doyle.  Something about a guy who decides to live at sea.  What's a "plover"?

Beekeeper's Ball by Susan Wiggs.  Some romance novel set in Northern California with cooking.

Talk by Michael Smerconish.  Right wing talk radio host has power to way a key Florida demographic and win-or-lose the Presidential election.

Mambo in Chinatown by Jean Kwok.  Young lady takes receptionist job at ballroom dance school.

Watermelon Days and Firefly Nights by Annette Smith.  Short stories that are supposed to be "heartwarming" and "charming" with "quirky and loveable characters."

Dog Gone, Back Soon by Nick Trout.  Veterinarian takes over his dead father's small town practice in Vermont with it's "eccentric residents."

Destiny's Embrace by Beverly Jenkins.  The cover is awful with weird photoshopping.

The Cursed by Heather Graham.  Woman can see ghosts.  Dead guy asks for help.  FBI paranormal investigators investigate things.

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter.   1974 Atalanta, cops are on the hunt for a killer and rookie Officer Kate Murphy wants to prove herself.

The Crider Has Landed

Bill Crider

Half In Love With Artful Death by Bill Crider.  Sheriff Dan Rhodes battles murder and the antics of local nitwits.  Excellent stuff.

Lesser Lights

Top Secret by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.  Shoot'em up.

Love Letters by Debbie Macomber.  Love'em up.

Friendswood by Rene Steinke.  Texas'em up.

Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof.  Family drama'em up.

The Lost Island by Preston and Child. Treasure'em up.

NonFiction

Dogtripping: 25 rescues, 11 volunteers, and 3 RVs on our canine cross-country adventure by David Rosenfelt.  Woof'em up.  

Monday is Media Day (Plus Two)

Compact Discs Are Primarily Used As A Delivery Method of Sound Recordings

The Voyager by Jenny Lewis.  Californian sings songs about colorful clothes.




DVD

Divergent starring [teenagers and adults pretending to be teenagers].  Something about aliens.  Vampires?  Post apocalyptic sceanrios?  I don't know.  Watch the trailer.




Israel: royal tour with Benjamin Netanyahu and Peter Greenberg.  Travel tour.




Super Skyscrapers by Frontline. The design and construction of four different buildings.



Audiobooks on CD

Torn Away by Jennifer Brown.  7 hours on 6 CDs.  Woman survives tornado and lives with relatives she barely knows.

The Collector by Jeffery Deaver.  13 hours on 12 CDs.  Murder.

The Fever by Megan Abbott.  9.5 hours on 8 CDs.  More greatness from Abbott.  I need to check and see if the book is here... Nope, it is out.

Godzilla Hotels Companion by Duane Swierczynski

NonFiction

Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia by Vin . T Sparano.  I ran across some photos of the park system in the Province of Quebec.  This is more hunting and fishing than camping.  Page 137 says, "Verify that the correct powder bushing and shot bar are installed in the press."

Weeknight Fresh and Fast: simple, healthy meals for every night of the week by Kristine Kidd.  People like cookbooks.  Page 173 says, "being organized does not mean being rigid."

Godzilla: history's greatest monster by Duane Swierczynski.  Godzilla breathes fire and steps on things. Comic book novel.  Swierczynski has written some good novels.

Unusual Hotels of the World by Steve Dobson.  Page 183 says, "All the lakeside apartments are staggered so that they have an unobstructed view of the lake - from just about everywhere in the room - even the bath!"

The Western Front Companion: the complete guide to how armies fought for four devastating years, 1914-1918 by Mark Adkin.  This is very cool.

Big Book of Vegetarian Recipes by Rachel Rappaport.  Page 495 says, "For an Italian variation, add basil and Italian parsley."

Warman's Depression Glass, 6th Edition by Ellen T. Schroy.  I'm going to put this in the regular stacks.  I think it will be looked for there.

1914: voices from the battlefields by Matthew Richardson.  Content from letters, diaries, and memoirs.  Page 209 says, "6.20am precisely began the firing of our artillery."

Nixon Tapes edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter.  Of the 3,700 hours of tapes only a smattering were unheard.  Many our newly transcribed for this book.  I heard one of these guys on either C-SPAN or a radio show and this sounds very interesting.

Here are a bunch of DVDs

DVD

A Young Doctor's Notebook starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe.  "Insanely dark, and brilliantly hilarious four-part comedy noir."  Clip will not embed.


Grand Budapest Hotel starring [bunch of famous people].  Max Allan Collins liked this one, in April he wrote, "the best movie I've seen this year."  But, this is August so maybe he has a new favorite.



Joe starring Nicolas Cage and Tye Sheridan.  Kid ends up staying with an ex-con played by Cage.  A Cage movie without Crazy Cage-ness.



Bad Words starring Jason Bateman.  40-year-old finds loophole to enter spelling contest.  The guy is a jerk.



Cook's Country, Season Six.  People cook food.



Poisoner's Handbook: killer chemistry produced by American Experience. Based off the book by a WI author.



Heaven is For Real starring Greg Kinnear.  Also based off a book but the author is not from WI.

I was gone. I have returned.

Vacation

650' underground at the Strataca Salt Museum in Hutchinson, KS.

Llama at Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina, KS.

Caught that child on the left before he hid from the camera.

I let Boy #1 use the camera.

Toad on a turtle at Scout Camp outside Rice Lake, WI.















Compact Discs are the thin plastic discs used to store sound for replay using a fancy laser system

Mandatory Fun by Weird Al Yankovic.  Polka man plays parody.


 
Meteorites by Echo and the Bunnymen.  Quote-worthy Ian sings songs of cultish rock.




Counterfeit Blues by Corb Lund.  Canadian sings songs of Copenhagen.




Remedy by Old Crow Medicine Show.  Modern musicians sing songs of throw back country.





Fuego by Phish.  Modern hippies play music. You'll have to find your own music clip.


Hypnotic Eye by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.



Audiobooks on CD

Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan.  17 hours on 14 CDs.  Loving Frank was popular.  This has a woman leaving her husband, landing in France, and meeting Robert Louis Stevenson.

HRC: state secrets and the rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.  16 hours on 13 CDs.  "HRC portrays a seasoned operator who negotiates political and diplomatic worlds with equal savvy."

Sons of Wichita: how the Koch brothers became America's most powerful and private dynasty by Daniel Schulman.  12.5 hours on 10 CDs.  I did not go to Wichita this year.  I did not want to spend an hour or more driving down there.  My wife and I went to Salina instead.

Thankful: Return to Sugar Creek, Book Two by Shelley Shepard Gray.  6.75 hours on 6 CDs.  Amish romance.

In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty.  10 hours on 9 CDs.  1984 cop in Northern Ireland has to solve an "locked-room mystery" of a dead woman to get the dead woman's mother to tell him where a IRA bomber is hiding out.

Phantom Instinct by Meg Gardiner.  12.5 hours on 10 CDs.  A nightclub shootout ended in disastrous fire.  Two survivors are sure a surviving gunman is after the survivors.

NonFic: Sex, Sassoon, Bikes, Gischler Clowns

NonFic

The New Naked: the ultimate sex education for grown-ups by Harry Fisch, MD with Karen Moline. No pictures.  Page 243 says, "That's way above average, especially with seven kids"

Poisonous and Psychoactive Plants by Jim Meuninck.  Page 71 says, "This is a dangerous hallucinogen abused by unaware teenagers."

Working Class Foodie Cookbook: real food, for real people, real cheap by Rebecca Lando.  Page 1 says, "One morning, I stepped out of the apartment and saw that Union Square Park had become a tent city."

 Clown Fatale by Victor Gischler.  "Its big-top chaos as four down-on-thei-luck, sexy clowns get caught up in the deadly world of organized crime!"

Healthy Cooker: second edition by Judith Finlayson.  Page 17 says, "Do not reheat food in the slow cooker."

Art and Architecture of Insects by David M. Phillips. Lots of great photos.  Page 62 says, "The sharp-pointed, pincer-like jaws of this larval neuropteran are designed to pierce the cuticle of small insects and mites and hold them firmly."

Roadside Road Bike Maintenance Manual by Guy Andrews.  Lots of color photos.  Page 52 says, "On Shimano and SRAM levers, you'll be able to see the white plastic cable-carrier."

Roadside Mountain Bike Maintenance Manual by Mike Davis and Guy Andrews.  Page 25 says, "They need to have grease on them and be evenly tightened."

Mastering Online Genealogy: 3rd edition by W. Daniel Quillen.  "Once there, go to the same hit."

Overcoming High Blood Pressure: the complete complementary health program by Dr. Sarah Brewer.  Page 72 says, "The same is true of yams."

Siegfried Sasson: soldier, poet, lover, friend: a life in one volume by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.  Page 157 says, "Just as he had been determined to win steeplechases before the War, he now wanted a medal to prove himself the equal of his contemporaries."

WIndows 8.1 Bible: the comprehensive tutorial resource by Wiley.  Page 861 says, "Homegroups are a feature introduced in Windows 7 and carried over to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 that simplify setting up a home network and sharing resrouces on the network."

The White House: its historic furnishings and first families by Betty C. Monkman.  Page 111 says, "Mary Todd Lincold selectred this "quite costly and exceedingly beautiful" rosewood table for a White House guest room in 1861."

Neat-O Book-O

Fiction

Remains of Innocence by J.A. Jance.  Joanna Brady mystery-o.

A Perfect Life by Danielle Steel.  Does Steel write these anymore?  I wonder if she can cranks'em out or if she hires ghost writers.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty.  Author of The Husband's Secret writes another novel.  Author of The Husband's Secret has a tiny author photo.  Author of The Husband's Secretlives in Australian with Australians.

West Fork by Tom McKay.  I have no idea what this is.  Marilyn must have selected it.  Let's take a look...Guy takes teaching job in rural town and town grows up.

Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette.  Reprint of a French crime novel.  Recommended by Bill Crider and Unshelved.

Fast Track by Julie Garwood.  Flyleaf says Garwood "lives near Kansas City."  Which side?  Kansas or Missouri? 


The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand.  Page 225 says, "This was the address Riley had given her, but it was nothing."

Greece and London WITH BIG LETTERS

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Kraken Project by Douglas Preston.  This alwasy reminds me of that rum that is sold under the Kraken name.  I don't drink rum but I'm reminded anyway.

Heart of Gold by Beverly Jenkins. 

Boy, Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi.

Apart At the Seams by Marie Bostwick.

Marriage Pact by Linda Lael Miller.

Two Sisters by Mary Hogan.

City of Jasmine by Deanna Raybourn.

Gemini by Carol Cassella.

Sniper's Honor Stephen Hunter.

Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson.

NonFiction

Top 10 London by Roger Williams.  Page 154 says, "With its 10 curved gates rising like shark fins from the river, this piece of engineering is an impressive sight."

Top 10 Athens by Carol Davenport and Jane Foster.  Page 44 says, "The continue to astonish and inspire."

Family Guide London:where to play, what to see, where to stay edited by Michelle Crane.  Page 203 says, "The brave porkers made a run for it, crossing a river and hiding out in some woods."

Lonely Planet Greek Islands edited by Korina Miller, et al.  Page 503 says,"See if you can spot the kofinidia (two small rock protrusions): the sex organs of Uranus that Cronos tossed into the sea foam."

Lonely Planet Austria edited by Anthony Haywood.  Page 410 says, "Hitler, Adolf 88, 170, 357-9, 369, 370."

Erotica For Women Is None of Your Business

Singing Combined With Music And Made Digital

World Peace Is None of Your Business by Morrissey.  Singers sings songs of vegans and Istanbul with guitars.



Fiction

Can't Get Enough: erotica for women edited by Tenille Brown.  The cover has no capitalization. Page 61 says, "It's those damned cobbles."

NonFiction

America's Most Wanted Recipes At the Grill by Ron Douglas.  Page 307 says, "1/2 cup red wine vinegar."

10-Minute Makeup: 50 step-by-step looks from fresh and natural catwalk chic by Boris Entrup.  Page 79 says,"Carefully apply lipstick using a small, rounded lipstick brush."

Love Your Leftovers by Nick Evans.  Page 155 says, "People are always taking cheap shots at it and laughing behind it's back."

Stylish Kids' Parties: recipe and decorations for 12 festive occasions by Kelly Lyden.  Page 97 says, "Golfers get thirsty!"

Outdoor Wood Projects: 24 projects you can build in a weekend by Steve Cory.  Page 176 says, "Treated lumber is used here, because it will stay rot-free the longest."

Digital Photo Editing With Picasa For Seniors by Studio Visual Steps. Page 153 says, "The collage will be created."

Modern Quilt Perspectives by Thomas Knauer.  Page 84 says, "Bind using your preferred method."

100 Organic Skin Care Recipes by Jessica Ress.  Page 11 says, "Probably."

Me and My Sewing Adventure: an intermediate guide by Kate Haxell.  Page 127 says, "Molly Small was the lovely model."

War Conspiracy Mistakes

Fiction

Supreme Justice by Max Allan Collins.  A disgraced Secret Service agent is hired by a task force investigating the murder of a Supreme Court Justice.  What seemed a botched robbery is revealed as a planned murder.

Landline by Raibow Rowell.  Marriage drama with wife time traveling.  Or something.  The fly leaf is unclear.

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Power Play by Catherine Coulter. 

NonFiction

Windows 8.1: tips, tricks, and shortcuts by Stuart Yarnold.  Page 157 says, "Let's say you like to dabble in stocks and shares."

Mistakes I Made At Work: 25 influential women reflect on what they got out of getting it wrong edited by Jessica Bacal.  I read the piece by Lisa Lutz.  Lutz spoke sat on a panel at Murder and Mayhem in Muskego. Lutz was entertaining, I thought she did well.  Her piece is on her panic and stress at her first big speaking engagement as an author.
Page 91 says, "It could also cover twelve months of student loan payments."

The Things They Cannot Say: stories soldiers won't tell you about what they've seen, done or failed to do in war by Kevin Sites.  Page
 200 says, "At night, believing he was in Iraq, he would sometimes roughly shake his wife and tell her it was her time for guard duty."

The Rest, Fiction M-Z and NonFic

Fiction

California by Edan Lepucki. Post-apocalyptic couple are pregnant and join a community for the help a community should bring.

Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai.  Hundred year house?  Let me tell you about 110 year houses.  Filed stone foundation, old windows, old wiring, poor to little insulation in the walls, weird outlets in the baseboards, old plaster, cramped layout, small kitchen.

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You by Courtney Maum.  American painter tries to woo his wife after the wife learns of his mistress.

The Quick by Lauren Owen.  I like the title.  Sister goes looking for her brother in 1893 London and finds a supernatural, and dangerous, side of the city.

Eden in Winter by Richard North Patterson.  Not to be confused with Richard Price.  Or James Patterson. Or T. Jefferson Parker.

The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman.  Something about a woman who was kidnapped as a child and raised by mysterious group.

The Heist by Daniel Silva.  The movie with the same title was good.



Cut and Thrust by Stuart Woods.  Sounds like a Bernard Cornwell novel.

NonFiction

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman.  Anthropologist Goffman lived in in a disadvantaged Philadelphia neighborhood for six years.  Many residents were "caught up in a web of warrants and surveillance" by police and Goffman studied how the neighborhood residents lived and worked.

Perfect Theory: a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira. 

Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo by Jack Cheevers.  No surprise that the crew were tortured.

After A Long Delay: New Fiction, A-J

Fiction

Inside Man by Jeff Abbott.  Thriller by a guy who is not related to Megan Abbott.  But, if we were to argue, we could say everyone is related, couldn't we? Abbott and Abbott would be related.  I would be related to both Abbotts.  Is this familial relationship close enough that I would try to crash at their NYC or Austin pads and ask to borrow fifty bucks to go drink beer?  No, probably not.

Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews.  Andrews lives in Atlanta.  I was listening to the car radio this morning and Wisconsin Public Radio was talking to Jeff Shaara about the Civil War.  He said people in Atlanta still don't like to talk about General Sherman.  Sore losers.

Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands by Chris Bohjalian.  Orphaned teen girl lives on her own in Vermont when her dead engineer father seen as responsible for a nuclear meltdown.

Shots Fired by C.J. Box.  Cover image is a road sign peppered with bullet holes. I was in the Kettle Moraine State Forest- Southern Unit a couple weeks to go walking with my kids.  After our walk I drive over to see where the public shooting range is.  Along they way I saw a road sign that some dope shot up.  Really?  You're one mile from a range and shoot a road sign?

High Druid's Blade Terry Brooks.  Swords.  Cloaks.  Wizards.  Etc.

Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke.  Something about drama in post-World War II Texas and the oil business.

The Dead Will Tell by Linda Castillo.  Police Chief investigates murder disguised as suicide in house where Amish family was killed 35 years previous.

Power Play by Catherine Coulter.  The usual, I suppose.  I've never read a Coulter novel but she has a loyal following and sells a lot of books.  I think her author photo is the same.  I wonder if the photo budget included a hair and make-up person.  I wouldn't know the difference about the make-up but her hair looks sharp.

The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. Her books do well here.  Something about witches and time travel.

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey. Then look for her.

Sight Unseen by Iris and Joy Johansen.  Not to be confused with David Johansen.

Nothing New, Here is a song.

Musical Interlude

From a group that I think disbanded, Ex-Lovers.




The dudes starting at 2:34 have to be trained dancers because they are sharp on that routine.

I Never Told You QuickBooks, Len Price

Fiction

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.  A family starts to fall apart after a daughter dies.  Ng attended the University of Michigan.  Bleah. 

NonFiction

Setting Up and Running QuickBooks 2014 by Thomas E. Barich and Philip B. Goodman CPA. Page 348 says, "Proceed through the wizard one step at a time until you've configured all the necessary items."

Musical Interlude

There is no Len Price in the Len Price 3.

More Items

DVD

Freedom Riders.  Produced by The American Experience.  1961 freedom ride brought federal attention to desegregation efforts.

Slavery by Another Name.  After slavery was outlawed people were legally forced into unpaid labor as part of imprisonment.

The Abolitionists.  "What began as a pacifist movement fueld by persuasion and prayer became a fiery and furious struggle that forever changed the nation."

The Loving Story.  Tale of the landmark 1967 court decision legalizing interracial marriage.

Fiction

Night Searchers by Marcia Muller.

Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear.

The City by Dean Koontz.

One Plus One by Jojo Moyes.

For All Time by Jude Deveraux.

Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.

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For All Time by Jude Deveraux.

The City by Dean Koontz.

Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock.

First-Degree Minecraft Arsonist

Fiction

Nine Lives to Die by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.  Another cat mystery.  The author phot is a picture of a cat.  Not this photo.

Invisible by James Patterson Literary Industries and David Ellis.  I'm pretty sure I read an Ellis novel before.  Let me check...nope.  The dude won an Edgar Award though, that's a big deal.  Patterson has a new author photo, I cannot see his watch in this one.

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter. I've never read a slaughter book.  I think this is her 17th novel.  Unless she did some ghost writing.  Oh, I remember her author photo.  He photographer did that thing where the face is in focus and everything else is in soft focus.  That's a neat effect.

The Arsonist by Sue Miller. A guy I know on the local volunteer fire department never joined the fire department until after he stopped working for the Sheriff's Department.  He used to investigate arson crimes and since arsonists may, and sometimes are, be firefighters he wanted to avoid that entanglement.

First-Degree Murder by Christine DeSmet.  Doesn't DeSmet teach at UW-Madison.  Let me check...yep, she does screenwriting and fiction and her author photo is a small black and white one.

NonFiction

Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Jeez, she stepped in it when saying her family was broke after Pres. Clinton left office.

Learn to Program with Minecraft Plugins: create flying Creepers and Flaming Cows in JAVA by Andy Hunt.  Page 97 says, "List listOfStrings = new ArrayList();"

Pseudonym Slings Silkworm

Fiction

Silkworm by Robert Galbraith.  English private eye Cormoran Strike hired to look for missing novelist. Novelist is killed and Strike has to stop the killer.

Dyeing in the Hole

DVD

True Detective starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.


Ace In the Hole starring Kirk Douglas.  "One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker...a no-holds-barred expose of the American media's appetite for sensation that has gotten only  more relevant with time."


Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume 1: your dye kitchen and equipment; dyeing basics.

Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume 2: how to dye with acid dyes; spots and textures, pots and casseroles.

Dyeing with Gene Shepherd: volume3: dyeing without dye; marrying and marbleizing colors.

Audiobooks on CD

White Fire by Preston and Child. 11CDs at 13 hours.

Robert B. Parker's Bull River by Robert Knott.  6CDs at 7.5 hours.

Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett.  10 CDs at 12.5 hours.

Killer by Jonathan Kellerman.  9 CDs at 11 hours.

The Chase by Lee  Goldberg and Janet Evanovich.  8 CDs at 9 hours.

Blossom Street Brides by Debbie Macomber.  9 CDs at 11 hours.

Seventeen with KoKo Kieran

Fiction

Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea. SciFi with guns.  Former mercenary runs a island holiday resort and a former colleague sends assassins after her.  No author photo.

Red Room by Ridley Pearson.  Espionage in Constantinople, Turkey with private security guy.  Wait.  Istanbul, I meant Istanbul. Small black and white photo of author.

Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry.  Some stuff about President Lincoln, modern day Utah and some secret.  Color author photo across the whole back cover with Berry leaning on a pillar.

Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon.  Part of her Outlander series in 1778 during the Revolutionary War.  Color photo on back with Gabaldon in the snow.

One and Only by Emily Giffin.  Didn't Giffin just have another book come out? Nope, last one was 2012.  Why is her name so familiar.  Oh, well.  Her author photo covers the back and I like her photographer's work.  The photo has nice color and her face is in focus but her hands and shoulders seem to be just slightly out of focus drawing your eye to her face.

The Dog Year by Ann Garvin.   Tightly wound surgeon has to go into twelve step program.  Garvin teaches at UW-Whitewater and has a black and white author photo.  But, who cares about the author photo when there is a dog nose on the cover.  Woof!

One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern.  Woman researches a list of names left behind by her dead friend.  Ahern has a fancy author photo but it's a real tiny one.

Goodnight June by Sarah Jio. Fictionalization of the writing of Goonight, Moon.

Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson.  Social worker in Montana helps out feral kid with crazy, survivalist dad.  Author has Henderson in a pocket T looking unhappy.

What is Visible by Kimberly Elkins.Girl in 19th Century loses four sense to Scarlet Fever and becomes famous.  Elkins has a small color photo like Ahern does.

Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Shaara.  More Civil War.  This novel has some nice, heavy paper.  Shaara lives in Gettysburg.  Brett, the Library Director for Waupun Public Library, went with his re-enactor group to Gettysburg last year.

Hot Fudge Frame-Up by Christine DeSmet.  Cozy mystery set in Door County.  We conversed with DeSmet about her teaching a writing workshop here but she was unavailable.

The Long Mars by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.  Some sort of SciFi with Yellowstone erupting.

The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett.  Boy Charlie not a girl Charlie.



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Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler.

Resistant by Michael Palmer.

Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King.