Read These Next & TBR Goodreads List

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Audio
All Systems Red (#1 Murderbot Diaries)- Martha Wells (Chirp) 2017 SciFi Mystery (3:17)
The Beantown Girls - Healey (Aud) 2019 1944 Boston (11:13)
Blue Labyrinth (#14 Pendergast) - Preston & Child  (Aud) 2014 "wickedly clever plot" (14:11)
Brain on Fire - Susannah Cahalan (Chirp) 2012 a month of madness 24 yo female (7:22)
Bury the Dead in Driftwood (#5 Garrison Gage) - Carter (Aud) 2019 about halfway finished (5:51 left)
Changeling: A Novel of Sorcery and Society - Harper (Aud) 2018 14 yo sch of magical instruction (8:21)
A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers (Chirp) 2016 form AI no a person (11:29)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (#1) Maas (Aud) 2015 immortal faeries/19 yo (16:17)
The Curiosity - Stephen P. Kiernan (Chirp) 2013 man awakens after being frozen in the Arctic for 100 years (15:38)
A Desperate Fortune - Kearsley (Aud) 2015 codebreaker/Paris/2 women 300 yrs apart  (15:42)
The Diviners - Libba Bray (Chirp) 2012 1926 NYC YA...fant? (18:14)
The Dovekeepers - Alice Hoffman (Chirp) 2011 701 CD Ancient Israel/Jews  (19:01)
The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee (Chirp) 2019 YA HistFict (10:22)
An Easy Death (#1 Gunnie Rose) - Harris (Aud) 2018 1930s southwest fantasy crime! (9:48)
Euphoria - Lily King (Chirp) 2014 1930s anthropologists (6:53)
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury (Aud)
The Familiars - Stacey Halls (Chirp) 2019 1612 witchcraft England (9:44)
The Fifth to Die (#2 Det. Sam Porter)- Barker (Aud) 2018 (15:07)
The Fire Queen (#2 Hundredth Queen) Emily R. King (Aud & Kindle) 2017 (9:14)
The Forgotten Ones - Holmes (Aud) 2018 dying grndfthr & unburying family secrets (10:42)
The Girl Beneath the Sea (#1) - Mayne (Aud & Kindle) 2020 female underwater investigator ((9:16)
The Glovemaker - Weisgarber (Aud) 2019  1889 Utah Territory (8:49)
The Graveyard Book - Gaiman (Aud) 2008 (8:24)
An Heir to Thorns and Steel (#1) - M. A. Hogarth (Chirp) 2015 university student is informed he belongs in folklore... (12:54)
I'll Give You the Sun - Nelson (Aud) 2014  YA Male twins (12:57)
Insignificant Event in the Life of a Cactus - Dusti Bowling (Chirp) 2017 Mid Grade boy & girl (5:27)
Keep Her Safe: A Novel - Tucker (Aud) 2018 contemp Austin mystery (14:31)
A Keeper: A Novel - Norton (Aud) 2019 40-yr old letters/Ireland (7:45)
Letters to the Lost - Grey (Aud) 2015 1942 London & present (16:56)
The Life We Bury (#1 Joe Talbert) - Allen Eskens (Chirp) 2014  college student uncovers past of Vietnam vet (8:23)
Little Comfort (#1 Hester Thursby)  - Edwin Hill (Chirp & Kindle) 2018 Harvard librarian investigator (10:34)
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah 2018 (11:43)
The Many-Colored Land (#1) - Julia May (Chirp) 1981 SciFi Fant (16:00)
Mean Streak - Brown (Aud) 2014 contemp suspence love & deceipt (11;51)
The Mermaids Singing - McDermid (Aud) 1995 (14:12)
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Wolff (Aud) (7:05)
The Murmur of Bees (Aud & Kindle) 2015 trans from Span/Mexican fiction
Mustard Seed - Ibrahim (Aud) 2017  1868 Ohio (9:17)
News of the World - Jiles (Aud)
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (Chirp) (8:17)
On Turpentine Lane: A Novel - Lipman (AudEsc) 2017 contemp romcom (9:10)
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow - Hawker (Aud & Kindle) 2019 1876 Wyoming (19:02)
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez (Aud) 1964 (14:04)
One Plus One: A Novel - Moyes (Aud & Kindle) 2014  (12:15)
Outlander (#1) - Gabaldon (Aud) 2006 (32:38)
Paper Wife - Ibrahim (Aud & Kindle) 2018 1923 southern China to California (9:47)
Personal (#19 Jack Reacher - Child (Aud) 2014 (12:55)
Restart - Korman (Aud) 2017 Bully with memory loss (6:51)
The Round House - Erdich (Aud & Kindle)) 2012 1988 ND reservation (12:39)
Sabbath - Nick Mamatas (Chirp) 2019 11th century warrior dropped into contem NYC (8:29)
Saving Faith - Baldacci (Aud) 1999 a relentless chase of a female, Faith  (!2:46)
Shadow Prey (#2 Lucas Davenport) - Sandford (Aud) 1990 (12:08)
The Sixth Wicked Child (#3 Det. Sam Porter) - Barker (Aud) 2019 Read #2 first (14:29)
Stillborn Armadillo (#1 John Lee Quarrels) - Nick Russell (Chirp) 2016 contemp myst set in FL  (8:18)
Strip - Perry (Aud) 2010  contemp mystery started but not finished (11:22)
Thin Air (#1 Jessica Shaw) - Gray (Aud & Kindle) 2019 LA Murder Mystery (8:44)
A Wanted Man (#17 Jack Reacher) -Child (Aud) 2012 started... (14:12)
White River Burning (#6 Dave Gurney) - Verdon (Aud) (14:12 started, try again)
Winter (#4 Lunar Chronicles) - Meyer (Aud) 2015 (23:30)

                                  Mystery & Mystery Series
                    Blue Labyrinth
                    Bury the Dead in Driftwood
                    An Easy Death
                    The Fifth to Die, The Sixth Wicked Child
                    The Girl Beneath the Sea
                     Keep Her Safe
                    The Life We Bury
                     Little Comfort
                     Personal
                     Saving Faith
                     Shadow Prey
                     Stillborn Armidillo
                     Strip
                     Thin Air
                     A Wanted Man
                     White River Burning
Kindle
The 19th Wife - Ebershoff (Kindle)
All the Beautiful Lies (Kindle) Swanson (Kindle)
All the Bright Places - Niven (Kindle) YA
All the Dead Lie Down (#3 Molly Cates) Mary Willis Walker (Kindle)
Artifacts of Death (#1 Manny Rivera) - Curtin (Kindle) No Audio Available
The Astonishing Color of After Emily X. R. Pan (Kindle)
Back Track (Mike Bowditch) - Doiron (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Be Frank with Me - Johnson (Kindle)
A Beautiful Work in Progress - Mirna Vale??? (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
Bone Music - Christopher Rice (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
The Book of Speculation - Swyler (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
The Boy From Reactor 4 - Orest Stelmach (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
The Braque Connection (#3 Genevieve Lenard) - Ryan (Kindle)  No Audio Available
A Brilliant Death - Yocum (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
Broken Skies (#1) Theresa Kay (Kindle)  udio Available for $2.99
The Butterfly Garden - Dot Hutchison (Kindle)
Camelback Falls - Talton (Kindle)
Cave of Bones - Anne Hillerman (Kindle)
The City of Veils (#1 Princess Vigilante) Usher (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Conjure (#1 Hoodo Apprentice) - Lea Nolan (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Cool in Tucson - Gunn (Kindle)  No Audio Available
A Corner of White - Moriarty (Kindle) YA  Audio Available for $7.49
Cut to the Bone (#8 Body Farm) Jefferson Bass (Kindle)
Daemon - Daniel Suarez (Kindle)
The Dante Connection (#2 Genevieve Lenard) (Kindle)  No Audio Available
A Darkness More Than Night - (#2 Terry McCabe) Michael Connelly (Kindle)
Dead End in Norvelt - Jack Gantos (Kindle) MidGr  Audio Available for $7.49
The Debt Collector (#1 Jack Winchester) - Jon Mills (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
A Diamond in My Pocket - Lorena Angell (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
Don't Turn Around (#1 Persefone) Gagnon (Kindle) YA Thriller/Computer hacking
An Ember in the Ashes - Sabaa Tahir (Kindle)
Everything Everything - Yoon (Kindle)  YA
Fallout (#18 V. I. Warshawski) - Sara Paretsky (Kindle)
Finding Colin Firth - Mia March (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Five Quarters of the Orange - Harris (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49   (3:00)
The Gauguin Connection (#1 Genevieve Lenard) - Ryan (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Grandma Gatewood's Walk - Montgomery (Kindle)
Hades - Candace Fox (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
Hangman - Fay Kellerman (Kindle)
Hard Country (#1 Kerney family) - McGarrity (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.95
Harm None - Will North (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Helsinki White - James Thompson (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Here in the Real World - Pennypacker (Kindle)
The Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning - Helgason (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
Hokee Wolf - Clark Viehweg (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
Homefire - Kamila Shamsie (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
The Hunt for the Dingo - P J Nash (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Huntress Moon - Alexandra Sokoloff (Kindle)  No Audio Available
In-laws and Outlaws - Kate Fulford (Kindle)
Innocent Blood (#6 John Jordan) Lister (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
The Invisible Library (#1 Cogman) (Kindle) Mid Gr/YA?  Audio Available for $7.49
The Killer Inside (#1 Jessica Daniel) Wilkinson (Kindle)  No Audio Available
The King Tides (#1) Swain (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
Last Light - Lyons (Kindle)  Audio Availa Audio Available for $1.99 ble for $1.99
The Last Woman Standing - Adams (Kindle) Hist Fict Female Tombstone  Audio Available for $1.99
Letters from Skye - Brockmole (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
LIFEL1K3 (Kindle)
Livia Lone (#1) - Barry Eisler (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
The Marsh King's Daughter - (Kindle)  Audio Available for 8.49
The Middle of Somewhere - Yoerg (Kindle) 30-something female hiker  No Audio Available
Midnight Rambler (#1 Jack Carpenter) - James Swain (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
Midnight Winters (#2 in a Trilogy) - Dani Hart (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Moloka'i - Brennert (Kindle)  Audio Available for $7.49
The Moonlit Garden - Bomann (Kindle)  Audio Available for $1.99
Murder in the Woods - Ickes (Kindle)  No Audio Available
Murder Under the Bridge (#1 Palestine Myst) Raphael (Kindle)  No Audio Available
The Muse - Jessie Burton (Kindle)
Need to Know - Karen Cleveland (Kindle)  Audio Available for 8.49
Neverwhere - Gaiman (Kindle)
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah (Kindle)
No Turning BAck - Nancy Bush (Kindle)
The Notations of Cooper Cameron - Jane O'Reilly (Kindle)
One Step Too Far - Seskis (Kindle) Suspense Thriller
Onyx & Ivory - Mindee ??  (Kindle)
Past Crimes (#11 Shaw) Glen Erik Hamilton (Kindle)
Pistol Poets - Gischler (Kindle) Funny Suspense Thriller
The Red Garden - Alice Hoffman (Kindle)
The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness (Kindle)
The Reverend Finds His Calling - Winskye (Kindle)
Rhyme Schemer - Holt (Kindle)
The Ritual Bath - Faye Kellerman (Kindle)
A Road Unknown - Barbara Cameron (Kindle)
Roam - Armstrong (Kindle)
The Running Dream - Wendelin Van Draanen (Kindle)
Sadie - Summers (Kindle)
The Searcher (#1 Solomon Creed) Toyne (Kindle)
The Secret Hour (#1 Midnighters) Scott Westerfeld (Kindle)
The Secret Wife - Gill Paul (Kindle)
Secrets of Worry Dolls (Kindle)
Self-Help - Lorrie Moore (Kindle) short stories
A Shade of Blood (#2 A Shade of Vampire) Bella Forrest (Kindle) have read #1
A Shot to Die For (#4 Ellie Foreman) Hellmann (Kindle)
Silent City (#1 Claire Codella) - Carrie Smith (Kindle)
Sisters of the Vast Black (Kindle)
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing - Mir Jacob (Kindle)
The Steerswoman (#1) Kirstein (Kindle)
The Storyteller's Secret (have read 36%) (Kindle)
A String of Beads (#8 Jane Whitefield) Thomas Perry (Kindle)
Sundown on Top of the World (#4 Hunter Rayne Highway Myst) - Donald (Kindle)
Tell No One - Coben (Kindle)
Tenth of December - George Saunders (Kindle)
That Darkness (#1 Gardiner & Renner) - Lisa Black (Kindle)
These Shallow Graves - Jennifer Donnelly (Kindle) YA
Thornyhold - Mary Stewart (Kindle)
Tin God (#1) Stacy Green (Kindle)
The Truth of All Things - (#1 Archie Lean) - Shields HistFict/Maine (Kindle)
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley (Kindle)
Unbroken Threads - Jennifer Klep??? (Kindle)
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce (Kindle)
An Unsafe Pair of Hands - Dolley (Kindle) Brit Myst
We Are All Made of Molecules - Nielsen (Kindle) MidGrade
The Wednesday Sisters - Clayton (Kindle)
The Weight of Ink - RAchel Kadish (Kindle)
Wife 22 - Melanie Gideon (Kindle)
Winterkill (#3 Joe Pickett) C. J. Box (Kindle)
The Woman Left Behind - Linda Howard (Kindle)
Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg (Kindle)
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks  (Kindle)
Yellow Star - Roy (Kindle)
You Go First - Kelly (Kindle)

HISTORICAL FICTION to try
All the Ways We Say Goodbye (Williams/Willig/White) 1/14/20 1914/1942/1964
The Beantown Girls (Healey) 2019 WWII on AUDIBLE
Before We Were Yours (Wingate) 2017
The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) 4/7/2020 1875 Louisiana On HOLD
Cartier's Hope (Rose) 1/28/20 1910 NYC Available through RBD /TPPL
The Chef's Secret (King) 2019 1577 Italy 
The Clockmaker's Daughter (Morton) 2018 1862 England
Clover Blue (Edwards) 2019 1970 California RDB TPPL Download
Daisy Jones & the Six (R) 2019 1970s LA
The Devil's Missal (Dobson) 2019 Occult, horror, contemp & 1300s
Disharmony of Silence (Rosen) 2020 1915/2010 mystery? Kindle Unlimited
The Dutch House (Patchett) 2019
The Familiars (Hollis) 2017 1612  On CHIRP
The Fifth Petal (Barry) 2017
A Gentleman in Moscow (Towles) 2019
The Glovemaker (Weisgarber) 2019 1885 Utah
The Indigo Girl (Boyd) 2017 1739 SC
The Jane Austen Society (Jenner) 3/26/2020 1946 Eng post-WWII
Letters to the Lost (Grey) 2015 on AUDIBLE
The Murmur of Bees (Segovia) 2019 1918 Mexican Revolution on AUDIBLE
The Night Watchman (Erdrich) 3/3/2020 1953 ND  reserved at TPPL
Once Upon a River (Setterfeld) 2018 England
One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow (Hawker) 2019 1870 Wyoming on AUDIBLE
Paper Wife (Ibrahim) 1923 China on AUDIBLE
Salt to the Sea (Sepetys) 2016
The Shadow Land (Kostova) 2017
Skeletons at the Feast (Bohjalian) 2008 1945 Germany
The Stars Are Fire (Shreve) 2017 1947 Maine
The Stolen Marriage (Chamberlain) 2017 1944 NC  On HOLD
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Morris) 2018
The Weight of Ink (Kadish) 2017
Where the Lost Wander (Harmon) 4/28/2020 1853 Oregon Trail

2020 Books Looking forward to.....
All the Ways We Say Goodbye (Williams/Willig/White) 1/14/2020
Alone in the Wild (#5 Rockton/Casey Duncan) 2/4/20 On RES CCLS
Bad Deed, No (Chavez) 2/18/2020
Beginning at the End, A  (Chen) 1/14/2020
Blaze, The  (Dundas) 1/21/2020
The Book of Lost Friends (Wingate) 4/7/2020
Cartier's Hope (Rose) 1/28/2020
Death in the Family (Wegert) 2/18/2020
Disharmony of Silence - Linda Rosen
Glass Hotel (Mandel) 3/24/2020 AUDIBLE
Hand on the Wall, the (#3 Truly Devious) (Johnson) out 1/21/20 On Hold CCLS
The Jane Austen Society (Jenner) 3/26/2020
The Night Watchman (Erdrich) 3/3/2020 1953 ND  
One Last Lie (#11 Mike Bowditch) (Paul Doiron) out 6/30/2020
Scavenge the Stars (#1) (Tara Sim) 1/7/2020 YA
Stars We Steal, The  (Donne) YA SciFi 2/4/2020
Tweet Cute (Emma Lord) YA out 1/21/20  On Hold CCLS
When She Was Good (#2 Cyrus Haven) Michael Robotham out 7/28/2020
Where the Lost Wander (Harmon) 4/28/2020
Yes No Maybe So (Albertalli & Saeed)  2/4/2020 On Hold Pima

2019 Books Looking forward to.....
10 Blind Dates (Ashley Elston) YA 4.02 2019
99 Percent Mine (Thorne) 3.51  2019
 A Woman is No Man (Rum) Conserv. Arab women in America 4.32 out 3/19 On Reserve PIMA
All of Me (Baron) MidGr overwt boy 4.88 out 6/11/19
Bloodleaf (#1 Bloodleaf) (Smith) YA Fant 3.89 out 3/19 CCLS eBk
Bloody Genius (#12 Virgil Flowers) (Sandford) out 10/8/19
Body in Question, The  (Ciment) 3.84 out June 2019 ON RESERVE
Body Keeper, The (#3 Jude Fontaine) (Frasier) 4.35 out 6/4/19
Bride Test, The  (#2 Kiss Quotient) "cute/smutty rom"  4.20 out 5/7/19 ON RESERVE
Bookish Life of Nina Hill (Abbi Waxman) Reserved at BOS
Bridge Home. The (Venkatraman MidGr CRF/India 4.47 out 2/19
Bury the Dead in Driftwood (#6 Garrison Gage) (Scott Wm. Carter) 4.41 2019
Clover Blue (Eldonna Edwards) 4.33
Collision (#3 Phobos) (Dixen) 4.02  2019 in US
Daisy Jones and the Six (Taylor Jenkins)  Reserved at BOS
Dark Pattern (Mayne) #4 Theo Cray Oct. 2019
Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, The (Howe) 3.85 June 2019
Dear Lily (Drew Davies) 3.79  2019  Own-K
Downstairs Girl, The (Stacey Lee) YA 4.02 2019   CHIRP
Ellie and the Harpmaker (Hazel Prior) 4.05  Aug 2019 OWN K
Ellie Dwyer's Great Escape (Winger) 4.30  2019  Have on Kindle
Eventown (Haydu) MidGr Dystopia  4.03 out 2/19 read 4/19
Evvie Drake Starts Over (Holmes) (Maine) 4.05   2019  eBk & eAud ON RESERVE
Familiars, The (Halls) 3.90 May 2019
Flatshare, The (O'Leary) funny, light romance 4.22   April 2019 On Reserve PIMA
Glovemaker, The (Weisgarber) 3.81 Feb. 2019
Good Girl's Guide to Murder, A (Holly Jackson) 2019
Grace Year, The (Kim Liggiett)  4.19 2019  ON HOLD at BOS
Hope and Other Punchlines (Buxbaum) YA  4.33 out 5/7/19V
House of Salt and Sorrows (Craig) 4.17  out 8/6/19
How to Disappear (Roat) 4.32   2019
Huntress, The (Kate Quinn) 4.29  CCLS-both
Immortal Born (Lysay Sands) Reserved at BOS
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Shapiro)  4.07  out 1/19  CCLS-both
Islanders, The (Meg Mitchell Moore) 3.96 - 2019 Aud-CCLS
Lager Queen of Minnesota, The (J. Ryan Stradal) 4.11 2019 CCLS eBk
Last, The  (Jameson) Dyst thriller/apocolypse  3.69 out  4/19
Line Between, The (Tosca) 425 1/2019  Chirp
Lost Man, The (Harper) Australian standalone 4.26 out 2/19  CCLS-both
Lovely War (Berry) 4.31  March 2019 YA
Lying Next to Me (Olsen) 4.25  CCLS-MP3 only
Maybe a Mermaid (Cameron) MidGr 4.03 out 3/19 
Murder Once Removed (#1 Ancestry Detective) (Perkins) 3.80   2019
 (Jackson) 
Nine Elms  (#1 Kate Marshall) Robert Bryndza 4.33 2019 Have on KINDLE
On the Come Up (Thomas) YA 4.36 out 2/19 Aud WL @TPPL  CCLS-both
Other Words for Home (Warga) 4.57 YA-Syria coming 5/28/19
Pay Attention Carter Jones (Schmidt) Mid Gr 4.11 out  2/19
 (Reay) 4.09 CRF 
Recursion (Crouch) AdSciFiMyst (NYC cop)  4.36 out 6/11/2019
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, The (Gemeinhart)  4.55 out 1/19
River of Salt (Warner) Australia/ex-hitman 4.00 out 4/1/19
Run Away (Coben) Standalone 2019
Serious Moonlight (Bennett) YA CRF/Rom 3.97 out 4/19 CCLS-eBk
Shamed (Burkholder #11) (Castillo)  out 7/16/19
Sixth Wicked Child (#3 4MK Thriller) (Barker)  4.66 Out 8/29/2019
Starless Sea, The (Morganstern) 4.38  11/2019 CCLS-eBk
Stay Hidden (#9 Mike Bowditch) Paul Doiron Have on Audible
Thornyhold (Stewart) 3.78 pub 1988 (have Kindle) Aud out in 11/2019
Toll, The (#3 Arc of Scythe) Neal Shusterman 4.39 2019 cag AUDIBLE
Unhoneymooners, The (Christina Lauren) 4.06  5/2019 
Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters, The (Jaswal) 4.04 out 4/19
Unmarriageable (Kamal) Pride & Prej in Pakistan 3.83 out 1/19
Watcher in the Woods (Rockton #4) (Armstrong) 4.18 out 2/19 CCLS-both 
We Hunt the Flame (#1) (Faizal) 3.89  2019  Aud-CCLS 
Weight of Our Sky, The (Alkaf) YA 4.30 out 2/19
Well Met (Jen deLuca)  Reserved at BOS
Whispers, The (Howard)  3.97  Jan. 2019
Winterwood (Shea Ernshaw) YA 4.04 out 11/5/19
With the Fire on High (Acevedo) Reserved at BOS
Zenobia July (Bunker) 4.10  May 2019  CCLS-Aud

Adult Books Alphabetical by Title
A Closed and Common Orbit (Chambers) (#2 Wayfarers) SciFi  4.36  out in 2016
A Curious Beginning (#1 Veronica Speedwell) (Raybourn) 3.97  2015 K-3 CCLS-eBk
A Gentleman In Moscow (Towles) HF 1922 Humorous 4.363 2016  CCLS-both
A Merciful Secret (#3 Mercy Kilpatrick/Survivalist)  4.41 2018
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini) Afghanistan  4.36 out in 2007
All Systems Red (Wells) 4.15  2017  Chirp
All the Beautiful Lies (Swanson) ME? mystery Have on Kindle
Alone (#1 Det. D. D. Warren) (Lisa Gardner) 3.97 out in 2005  E-CCLS
Anachronist: A Time Travel Adventure (#1 InfinityEngines) (Hastie) SciFi/Chg the past to save the future  4.22 out in 2017
Artifacts of Death (Manny Rivera #1) (Curtin) SE UT myst - grt. rev.  4.28  2011 K-Unl-free
Bar Harbor Retirement Home for Famous Writers, The  3.68 out in 2018  K-2
Beneath the Depths (#2 Byron/Portland ME) (Coffin) 4.31 pub 2017
Bookshop on the Corner (Colgan) Bookmobile  3.85 out in 2016 Have on Chirp
Child Finder, The (#1 Naomi Cottle) (Denfeld) Female finds missing kids 3.99 2017 CCLS-Aud
Clockmaker's Daughter, The (Morton) Multivoices across time  3.76  out in 2018 eBk-CCLS
Closer Than You Know (Parks) StandaloneMyst  4.07 out in 2018
Conviction (#3 Rebekah Roberts (Dahl)  3.85 out 2017
Craven Manor (Coates) caretaker scary mansion  4.03  our 2017
Dante's Equation (Jensen) Codes/Toah/Bible/Myst grt rev.  3.70 2003
Dead to Me (#1 Det. Kate Matthews) (Edger) Myst/PolProc  4.05 out in 20178 K-3
Dead of Autumn (#1 Alexa Williams) (Knowlton) 4.18 out 2015
Dead of Summer (Knowlton) (#2 Alexa Williams) out in 2015
Dead Lemons (Bell) old hse & hist  4.25 out 2016
Debt of Tamar, The (Dweck) 16th Cent meets 21st Cent Turkey/Jews  3.76  2013
Desert Cut (#3 Lena Jones) (Webb) 3.86 out 2008  TPPL has Audio
Dream Queen (#6 Chloe Newcomb) (Thornton) Chloe prequel 3.00 2010 K-7
Elevation (Stephen King) a CastleRock story  3.70 out 2018  CCLS-both 
Fifth to Die, The ($MK #2) (Barker)  4.34 out in 2018  K-Unl-free
Force of Nature (#2 Falk) (Harper)  3.85 out in 2018 Have Audio and K
Forgotten Ones, The  (Holmes)  Fam Secrets 2 POV  4.02 out in 2018 K-Unl-free
Genealogy (Wood) Letters across generations  4.24 out 2018
Ghostwriter, The (Torre) 4.22 2017
Halfway Human (Gilman) AdSciFi Asexual  4.00  out in 1998 K-5
Hiding in the Past (#1 Forensic Genealogy) 3.88 2013
Home Fire (Shamsie) immig in US  4.08 iyt ub 2017  Have on Kindle
House at Ladywell, The (Slade) Recom by GeraniumCat  4.44  out 2017
Huntress Moon (#1) (Sokoloff) FBI fem detect hunts for fem serial killer 4.11 2012
Ice Cold Kill (#1 Daria Gibron (Haynes) ex-Israeli Secret Service, now US/Thriller  3.9  out in 2013
IQ84 (Murakami) dystopian/2 pov/LONG 3.91 out 2011
Jonny Appleseed (Whitehead) NatAm/cybersex worker  4.19  out in 2018
Keep Her Safe (Tucker) 4.08  2018 Have Audio
Last Runaway, The  (Chevalier) HF  3.80  2013  BOS-CD
Last Time I Lied, The (Sager) Myst from 15 yrs prior  4.08 out in 2018 CCLS-both
Leave No Trace (Mejia) psychol. thriller/reappearance of a boy 10 yrs later 3.59 2018 published CCLS-both
Leavers, The (Ko) 2 voices abanodoned Chinese boy & his mother  3.87 out in 2017
LIFEL1K3 (#1) (Kristoff) Post-apocal.Dyst  4.07 out in 2018
Livia Lone (#1 Eisler) (Kristoff) Post-apol. Dyst 4.14 2016 K-Unl-free
Lost Vintage, The (Hah) AdMyst thru the yrs to WWI  4.03  2018
Magpie Murders (Horowitz)  Myst within a Manuscript  3.93 out in 2015 eAud-CCLS  Have on Kindle
Marsh King's Daughter, The (Dionne) Contemp Thriller 3.87 out 2017 Have Kindle  CCLS-both
Mayan Star (Allan) Cont Myst 3.88 out 2018 read 5/19 
Name of the Devil, The (Mayne) #2 Jessica Blackwood (cop/ex-magician)  4.14  out in 2015
Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (#1) (Molly Harper)  3.91  2009
Nine Perfect Strangers (Moriarty) CRF/suspense  3.52  out in 2018  CCLS-both
Nowhere to Run (#1) (Bush) Colleagues shot/secret past 3.86 2012
Once Upon a River (Setterfeild) HF/great rev  4.03 out in 2018  CCLS-both 
Orphan X (Hurwitz) BlackOps Thriller 4.09 2016 CCLS-eBk
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Marquez) Highly Rec 4.06 2003  CCLS-Aud
Open Season (Howard) Myst/Librarian/Makeover  4.01  out in 2001 Have on Chirp
Overlook, The (#13 Bosch) Next one up!  3.93 2007  CCLS-Aud
Play Dead (#4 Kim Stone) (Marsons) 4.40 2016  K-5
Playing with Bones (#2 Joe Plantagenet) (Ellis) 3.79 2009
Rabid (#8.5 Mike Bowditch) 4.11  6/5/18
Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act (Steves)  4.03 2014  CCLS-eBk
Sadness is A White Bird (Zecher) teenagers-Israeli/Palestinian  4.01 2018
Snowblind (#1 Dark Iceland) Jonasson) AdMurdMyst No. Iceland 3.56 2015  CCLS-eAud
Sotah (Rogen) Jerusalem/Hasidic sisters  4.12  2001 Have Kindle
Sourdough (Sloan) CRF funny-Iris recom. 3.76 2017 CCLS-both
Starflight (#1 Starflight) (Landers) Sci/fem protag.  3.87 out in 2016
Stay Hidden (#9 Mike Bowditch)  3.87  out 2018
Story of Arthur Truluv, The (Elizabeth Berg) 'sweet"  4.16  out in 2017
Tattooist of Auschwitz, The (Morris) HF  4.28  out in 2018 CCLS-both 
Tell No One (Coben) Myst Thriller Standalone  4.11 out in 2009
Their Last Words (#1 DS Ray Paterson) (Parker)  London cop  4.19  out in 2018
There There (Orange) 12 people NatAm pow wow  4.02  out in 2018 CCLS-both 
Truth and Lies (Mitchell) #1 DI Amy Winter) Eng myst-serial killer biol. mom!  4.35 2018
Unquiet Dead, The  (#1 Getty & Khattak) (Khan) Ad Canadian Muslim Myst  3.84 out in 2014
Unsheltered (Kingsolver)  3.64 out 2018  CCLS-both
UNSUB (#1) (Gardiner) Murd Myst clude/20yrs 4.04 2017  CCLS-both
Vanishing Girls (#1 Josie Quint) (Lisa Regan)  4.24  2018  Own K & Aud
Wake the Devil (#2 STurgis & Kale) Loved #1 4.07 2016
Walking the Perfect Square (Moe Prager #1) (Coleman) ex-cop/1998NYC-9 bks in acclaimed series 3.81  2002
Weight of Ink, The (Kadish) HF/1660/Contemp  4.18 out in 2017 Have on Kindle
Witchborn (Bowling) Fun Hist/Fant/1577 England 3.39 out 2018

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Becoming (Obama)  4.64  out in 2018
Heart Berries (Mailhot) Memoir/NatAm  3.88 2018
Rules Do Not Apply, The (Levy) Memoir  3.74 out in 2018
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders (Boylan) Memoir 3.92 out in 2004  eBk-CCLS
Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland (Shah) Memoir 3.83  2004

MidGrades Bks by Title
A Boy Called Bat (#1 (Arnold)  4.04 2014  K-Unl-free
A Dash of Trouble (#1 Love Sugar Magic) Meriano) Mid Gr magic/DoD  4.04 2018
Ahimsa (Kelkar) MidGr 1942 India/Gandhi  4.17 2017
Amal Unbound  (Saeed) MidGr Pakistan 4.23 2018  CCLS-eAud
Benefits of Being An Octopus, The (Braden) MidGr grt. rev.  4.47 out in 2018 E-CCLS
Bob (Mass)  MidGr/Australia/Fant 4.08 out in 2018  CCLS-both
Book Scavenger (Chambliss) (#1 in series) MidGr  4.16 out in 2015 CCLS-both Have on Kindle
Boy on the Porch, The (Creech) boy found on porch 3.90  2013  K-6
Boy, the Boat, and the Beast, The (Clark) MidGr/Amnesi/survival  4.05  out in 2018
Escape from Aleppo (Senzai) MidGr fleeing Syria  4.04 2018
Just Like Jackie (Stoddard) MidGr VtMale/bullies  4.34 2018
Just Under the Clouds (Sarno) MidGr/Homeless  3.99 out in 2018
Length of a String, The (Weissman) MidGr Jew/search for birth parents  4.37 out in 2018
Louisiana's Way Home (DiCamillo) MidGr  4.33 out in 2018  Aud-CCLS
Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Medina) MidGr CRF NEWBERY  3.85 out 2018
Miscalculations of Lightning Girl (McAnulty) MidGr genius/homesch/begins Mid Sch  4.256  out in 2018  eAud-CCLS
Navigating Early (Vanderpool) MidGr 1945 ME boys  4.06 2013
Night Diary, The (Hiranandani)  4.20  2018
Otherwood (Hautman) 3.92  2018
Paperboy (Vawter) Tn Stutterer 1959 3.95  2013  CCLS-Aud K-8
Parker Inheritance, The (Johnson) MidGr FoundLetter  4.21 2018
Refugee (Gratz) 3 stories tied tog @end 4.52 2017 CCLS-bk
Restart (Korman) kid loses memory, must restart  4.22  2017  CCLS-Aud
Rhyme Schemer (Holt) MidGr 7thgr bully/novel in verse  3.98 2014
Secret Tree, The (Standiford) 3.98  2012  K-4
Shadow Cipher, The (#1 York) (Ruby) 2017
Sky at Our Feet, The (Hashimi) MidGr Afghan Immig 3.78  out in 2018
Small Spaces (Arden) MidGr/Fun & Spooky  4.03  out 2018  Aud-CCLS
Song for a Whale (Kelly) MidGr CRF Deaf/Trip to AK 4.29 out 2018
Storm Keeper's Island, The (#1 Storm Keepers) (Doyle) 4.24  2018
Sure Signs of Crazy (Harrington) MidGr coming of age 3.94 2013  CCLS-bk
Unforgettable Guinevere St. Claire, The (Makechenie) MidGr Mystery  4.11 out in 2018
Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth (O'Connor) MidGr/Viet era  4.28  out in 2018
Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (Glaser) 4.24  2017 CCLS-eBk

Where the Watermelons Grow (Baldwin) MidGr Mom's Mental Illness  4.20 out in 2018

YA Bks by Title
A Very Large Expanse of Sea (Mafi) YA/Muslim/5stars  4.30  out 2018
American Road Trip (Flores-Scott) YA CRF male protag.  3.90 out in 2018
An Ember in the Ashes (#1) (Tahir) YA Fant  4.31 2016 CCLS-both
Anatomical Shape of a Heart  (Bennett) 3.93  2015  have on Kindle
And She Was (Verdi) YA teenager discovers mom is trans  3.76 out in 2018
Ascension (Phobos #1) (Dixen) YA SpeedDating in space  4.05 out in 2015 have BOOK
Caraval (#1) (Garber) YA Fant/Magic  3.95 out in 2017
Changeling (Harper) YA Fant 4.11 out 2018
Collision (#3 Phobos) YA Fant Book only-have
Darius the Great is Not Okay  (Khorram) PersAmerican boy goes to Iran 4.31 2018  CCLS-both 
Down and Across (Almadi) YA Coming of Age  3.55  2018 CCLS-Aud
Dread Nation (#1 Dread Nation) YA CivilWarEra/Fantasy  4.16  out 2018  RESERVED at CCLS
Flight Season (Marquadt) YA CRF/Seattle  4.18  2018
Forbidden Wish, The (Khoury) YA genies/rom  4.08 out in 2016  E-CCLS
Hush, Hush (Fitzpatrick) YA Fran  3.99 out in 2009 Have on Chirp
If I Was Your Girl (Russo) YA Trans MtoF  4.00  out in 2016  eAud-CCLS
If You're Out There (Loutzenhiser)  3.85  2019
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Bowling) YA HS girl w/no arms  4.33 2017
Letters to the Lost (Kemmerer) YA Ltr writing bet two unknowns 4.36 2017  K-5
Love, Hate and Other Filters (Ahmed) YA Crf Ind-Am Muslim  3.84 out in 2018
Midnight at the Electric (Anderson) YA SciFi  3.93 2017  CCLS-eBk
Neverworld Wake (Pessl) YA mystery  3.79 out in 2018  CCLS-both 
Nyxia Unleashed (Reintgen) (#2 Nyxia Triad) YA 4.22 out in 2018
Our Dark Duet (#2 Monsters of Verity) (Schwab) YA Vampires? Dyst  CCLS-both
Out of the Easy (Sepetys) YA/1950 New Orleans Myst  4.05 out in 2013  Aud-CCLS
Reached (Matched #3) (Condie)  3.56  2012  Aud-CCLS
Return of the Continuums (#2) (Brody)  YA 4.13 2016
Scream All Night (Milman) YA dark & funny CRF  3.77  out in 2018
Starry Eyes (Bennett) YA/Stranded in wilderness  4.04 out in 2018
Thunderhead (#2 Arc of Scythe) (Shusterman)  4.52 out 2018 have AUDIBLE
Treatment, The (#2 The Program) (Young) reread #1?? 4.02 2014
What to Say Next (Buxbaum) YA/Unlikely friendship 4.09 out 2017
Your Destination is on the Left (Spieller) YA Road Trip  3.78 out 2018

43. Internment by Samira Ahmed

listened on Audible
read by Soneela Nankani
Unabridged audio (11:17)
2019 Hachette Audio/Little Brown Books for Young Readers
387 pgs.
YA CRF (I cannot call it anything else!)
Finished Sat. May 11, 2019
Goodreads rating:  4.05 - 2128 ratings
My rating: 2
Setting: Contemporary California

First line/s:  "I strain to listen for boots on the pavement.  Stomping.  Marching."

My comments:  Well, I'm going to go against the general flow of raving reviews for this book.  I had many problems with it and I'm not exactly sure how to put my finger on all of them, but I'll try.  However, I do want to say that the premise of this book is spectacular, and very, very timely. 
          I think the author tried, but her writing style and character development didn't work.  And there were so many things included that were hard to believe and so many things not included that needed to be.  (A few possible small spoilers follow.)  Layla's insta-relationship with Jake?  Smuggling her boyfriend in and out of a prison camp - more than once?  NO adults other than an 80-year-old woman with any gumption to say or do anything?  Spending copious time with a prison guard, including in a female prisoner's bedroom, amid cameras and drones and constant surveillance without ever being spotted?  Unfortunately I could go on and on and I haven't even touched on the character development!  Layla's (or the author's) long, drawn out thinking about situations actually work to slow down any action that takes place.  Too much tell, not nearly enough show.  Again, a great premise for a book, but its execution didn't work at all for me. Big sigh.

Goodreads synopsis:  Rebellions are built on hope. 
          Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
          With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp's Director and his guards.
          Heart-racing and emotional, Internment challenges readers to fight complicit silence that exists in our society today. 

42 Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu

read the book!
2019 Katherine Tegen Books
328 pgs.
Finished May 6, 2019
Goodreads rating:  4.03 - 456 ratings
My rating:  3
Setting: contemporary/dystopian Eventown, USA

First line/s:  "Jenny Horowitz likes horses and the color pink and asking questions about things I don't want to talk about."

My comments:  It's hard to separate my thinking about this book as an adult versus my thinking about it as a kid would.  I pretty much knew what was going on and what was going to happen, but most probably it would be hazier for a nine, ten, or eleven year old.  Like The Giver, this book gives the reader a chance to ponder upon the questions: What would it be like to live in a perfect world?  It was an OK so-so book for me as an adult, but would probably be quite a bit more than that for me as my 10-year-old self.

Goodreads synopsis:  The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it’s impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee’s mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything.
Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to try. Everyone takes the scenic way to school or work—past rows of rosebushes and unexpected waterfalls. On blueberry-picking field trips, every berry is perfectly ripe.
          Sure, there are a few odd rules, and the houses all look exactly alike, but it’s easy enough to explain—until Elodee realizes that there are only three ice cream flavors in Eventown. Ever. And they play only one song in music class.
          Everything may be “even” in Eventown, but is there a price to pay for perfection—and pretending?

Poetry Picture Book - No More Poems! by Rhett Miller

Illustrated by Dan Santat

2019, Megan Tingley Books, Little, Brown & Company

HC $17.99  Bosler Juvenile section

48 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  3.17 - 123 ratings

My rating:  4  

My comments:  There's been some controversy about one of the poems in this collection, "Brotherly Love."  I've got to admit that I think it's a riot, but I love it as an adult.  I do think it's not quite the poem to be included in a book of poetry for kids from 7 to 10, and I'm really surprised that the editor didn't think about all the parents (and teachers) that might potentially be up in arms about a poem that tells some pretty descriptive ways to kill your sibling....smothering with a pillow, dousing with gasoline, drowning by dunking three times...
     All the poems are really funny.  He borrows freely from Shel Silverstein, at least two of his poems are direct knock-offs - which I enjoy a lot.  We all have mentor texts from which we write."The Bathtub's Too Small" is a longer retelling of Silverstein's "Crowded Tub" and "My Homework" is definitely a reworking of Silverstein's "Sick."  Great fun.
     Of the 23 poems, only a couple have a rhythm that doesn't quite work for me.  All in all, they're funny, well-written, clever, and just plain fun!

In Defense of Rhet Miller's No More Poems!  Excellent thoughts...

My Secret Karate

There’s a type of karate I specialize in

I invented it all on my own

No one has witnessed my secret karate

It’s meant to be practiced alone

I stand on my left foot and raise my right leg

Using muscles in abs, thighs and tush

And with just the toe of my special blue sneaker

I make the toilet flush

I toggle the lever or mash down the button

Or lean on the handle just so

That way my fingertip never gets yucky

Thanks to the skills of my toe

Courtesy’s something my mom always taught me

Starting when I was a kid

So using the toe of my special blue sneaker

I lower the seat and the lid

My secret karate is practiced in private

In public bathroom stalls

I don’t mean to brag but my balance is awesome

I never touch the walls

I don’t have a name for my potty karate

I might call it Tae Kwon Doo

Or maybe I’ll say I’m a third degree black belt

In the top secret art of Kung Poo

Goodreads:   Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rhett Miller teams up with Caldecott Medalist and bestselling artist Dan Santat in a riotous collection of irreverent poems for modern families. 
          In the tradition of Shel Silverstein, these poems bring a fresh new twist to the classic dilemmas of childhood as well as a perceptive eye to the foibles of modern family life. Full of clever wordplay and bright visual gags--and toilet humor to spare--these twenty-three rhyming poems make for an ideal read-aloud experience. 
          Taking on the subjects of a bullying baseball coach and annoying little brothers with equally sly humor, renowned lyricist Rhett Miller's clever verses will have the whole family cackling.

41. Maneuver by Chelle Bliss

(Men of Ink: Southside #1)
listened on Audible
read by Erin Mallon and Lance Greenfield
Unabridged audio (5:29)
2018 self published?
Audio only
Adult Romance
Finished 4/30/19
Goodreads rating:  4.13 - 3054 ratings
My rating:  1/Crappy

My comments:  What a ridiculously silly piece of sexy fluff.  There is so much better out there!  Probably the un-believable story I have ever read.  The female reader was abominable, the ending to all of her words were long and drawn out tna just horrible to listen to.  Horrible.

Goodreads synopsis:  This isn’t how fairy tales typically begin, but it’s where mine starts…
     No money, no phone, and abandoned on the streets of Chicago.
     With my baby in my arms, I wander into a bar in a shady neighborhood and ask to use their phone.
     When my father turns us away and completely disowns me, the bar owner, and total hottie, offers us a place to stay…no strings attached.
     I’m leery at first.    

     Hot alpha guy.

     Down on her luck single mother.
     I mean, who wouldn’t be wary?
     Lucio Gallo isn’t like most men, though. He’s fiercely protective, loyal, and did I mention he’s covered in nothing but muscle?
     Above all else, he’s everything I need but never knew I wanted.

39. The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Listened on Audible
read by Andrew Wincott, Esther Wane, Sarah Feathers, Anjana Vason
Unabridged audio (10:32)
2019 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
352 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 4/28/19
Goodreads rating: 4.06 - 2669 ratings
My rating:  3.5
Setting: Contemporary England

First line/s: "If you'll permit me, said the Stranger, I'd like to tell you a story."

My comments:  I've read other Eli Griffiths books and greatly enjoyed them...and I enjoyed this one too, just not quite as much.  There were three major voices in the story, and three different voices narrated it, which was nice.  It kept skipping quickly between those voices and would probably have been a little more confusing without the change of speaker.  A fourth voice was that of a deep, old-fashioned British male voice reading the short story, "The Stranger," divided into four or five short parts, which were inserted here and there throughout the book.  Plot points overlapped, they didn't flow - each speaker didn't pick up and continue in the same place that the previous speaker stopped.  This was disconcerting at times.  And I had deep uncertainties about Claire which were difficult to let go - how many mothers would happily let their 15-year-old daughter date a 21-year-old man, no matter how much of a sweetheart he was?  Having this sort of cloud hanging over the head of one of the protagonists was hard to shake.  And even though everything was wrapped up by the end, it seemed as if something was missing.  Hmmmm.  Oh well.  It was in interesting mystery.....

Goodreads synopsis:  From the author of the beloved Ruth Galloway series, a modern gothic mystery for fans of Magpie Murders and The Lake House.
          Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger,” left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favourite literature. 
          To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her closest confidant, her diary, the only outlet she has for her darkest suspicions and fears about the case. Then one day she notices something odd. Writing that isn't hers, left on the page of an old diary: "Hallo, Clare. You don’t know me." 
          Clare becomes more certain than ever: “The Stranger” has come to terrifying life. But can the ending be rewritten in time?

A Parcel of Poems: An Anthology of Poems Volume II

A Second Anthology of Classroom Favorites
Limited Edition, 4 copies, 2011
self-published
31 poems
Ocotillo Publishing, Tucson AZ

Asch, Frank:  Sunflakes
Baylor, Byrd:  Coyote
Bryan, Ashley:  Song
Curie, Robert:  The Home Place
Dotlich, Rebecca Kai:  Classroom Globe
Farjeon, Eleanor:  A Dragonfly
Field, Rachel:  If Once You Have Slept on an Island
Fletcher, Ralph:  Poetry
Florian, Douglas:  Don't!
Frost, Robert:  The Road Not Taken
Hahn, Mary Lee:  Reading is Breathing
Hindley, Judy:  Green
Hughes, Langston: Dreams
Klein, A. M.:  Orders
Lansky, Bruce: Lost
Livingston, Myra Cohn:  The Night
Mansfield, Katherine: Butterfly Laughter
Nye, Naomi Shihab:  The Traveling Onion
Ozer, Kemal (Turkey): At the Beach
Paul, Ann Whitford: California Missions
Prelutsky, Jack:  Alligators are Unfriendly
Rossetti, Christina:  Who Has Seen the Wind?
Schertle, Alice:  Lizard
Schroc, Priscilla:  Grandmother's Parlor
Shields, Carol Diggory:  The First Americans
Singer, Marilyn:  Desert
Spinelli, Eileen:  When Grandma Comes
Teasdale, Sara:  May Night
The Only Cin: Overload
Thompson, Dorothy Brown:  Maps
Sarah, a fourth grader in PA:  One Class

A Packet of Poems: An Anthology of Poems Volume I

An Anthology of Classroom Favorites
Limited edition, 4 copies, 2005
self-published
29 poems
Ocotillo Publishing, Tucson AZ
Editor (C. Graves), D. Garaventa, F. Howley,

Dickinson, Emily: If I can stop one heart from breaking
Farjeon, Eleanor:  There Isn't Time
Field, Rachel:  Some People
Fisher, Lillian M:  My Desert Home
Frost, Robert:  Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Ghinga, Charles:  Pigs
Giovanni, Nikki:  knoxville, tennessee
Greenfield, Eloise:  Things
Hopkins, Lee Bennett:  The Museum Door
Hubbell, Patricia: On My Island
Hughes, Langston: April Rain Song
Katz, Bobbi: Poems
Kuskin, Karla:  Rules
Lamm, C. Drew:  Watercolor Maine
Lear, Edward:  There Was an Old Man with a Beard
Lee, Dennis:  Muddy Puddle
Lesser, Carolyn: A Walk in the Woods
Livingston, Myra Cohn:  Why?
Merriam, Eve:  How to Eat a Poem
Mora, Pat: This Big Sky
Prelustky, Jack:  Homework!  Oh Homework!
Prelustky, Jack:  My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled
Richards, Laura E.:  Eletelephony
Sandburg, Carl:  Fog
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 18
Siebert, Diane: from Mojave
Silverstein, Shel:  Eighteen Flavors
Williams, William Carlos:  This is Just to Say
Zolotow, Charlotte:  People

40. Desert Run by Betty Webb

#4 Lena Jones, Scottsdale, AZ Investigator
read on my iPhone
2006, Poisoned Pen Press
346 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 4/25/19
Goodreads rating:  3.90 - 332 ratings
My rating: 3.5
Setting:  Contemporary Scottsdale, AZ

First line/s:  "It was a good day to film but a bad day to die."

My comments:  It took me awhile to get into this story, but it grew on me as more and more information about the characters unfolded.  In 1944, 28 German POWs escaped from the American prison camp called Camp Papago in Scottsdale, AZ.  This is the story of the murder of one of those prisoners 60 years later, and the domino effect that had Lena Jones hot on the trail.  It also includes a bit of romance for herself, albeit with a great deal of untrusting on her part, and the loss and near-loss of two friends essential in her life.  Decent storytelling.

Goodreads synopsis:  Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations, Jimmy Siswan, is leaving for an upscale wife and a job at Sun Microsystems. Her old Captain at the Scottsdale PD is off home to Brooklyn. She's doing security for Warren Quinn, director of a documentary being shot at Papago Park about the German POW camp and the ""great escape"" of Christmas Eve, 1944, when some prisoners tunneled out and fled. And one surviving escapee, Kapitan zur Zee Erik Ernst, a man in his nineties confined to a wheelchair after a boating accident, has just been murdered. Worse, his Ethiopian care giver begs Lena to clear him.
          Lena, experienced in probing the past for answers to the central mystery of her own life--who is she?--learns that Ernst and two other POWs hid out in the rugged Superstitions. Nearby, on Christmas night, a whole farm family, the Bollingers, was slaughtered. A jury didn't convict the only survivor, the teenage son. What might Chess Bollinger know about Ernst--and vice versa? And how much can Lena trust Quinn, either as a client, a witness, or a lover?

     A complex, stunning case based on real Arizona history, journalist Betty Webb, author of Desert Noir, Desert Wives, and Desert Run, spins an evocative, haunting story.

PICTURE BOOK - The Book With No Pictures by B. J. Novak

Illustrated by NO ONE!  There are not pictures, duh!

2014 Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Group

HC $17.99

44 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  4.35 - 18,099 ratings

My rating:  5

Endpapers:  Silly words in light gray on white

Illustrations:  None!

1^st line/s:  "This is a book with no pictures.  It might seem like no fun to have someone read you a book with no pictures.  It probably seems boring and serious.  Except..."

My comments: This books BEGS, BEGS, BEGS to be read aloud!  What a fun, funny book.  Three cheers!

Goodreads:   A book with no pictures? 
     What could be fun about that?
     After all, if a book has no pictures, there's nothing to look at but the words on the page.
     Words that might make you say silly sounds... In ridiculous voices...
     Hey, what kind of book is this, anyway?
     At once disarmingly simple and ingeniously imaginative, The Book With No Pictures inspires laughter every time it is opened, creating a warm and joyous experience to share--and introducing young children to the powerful idea that the written word can be an unending source of mischief and delight. 

Later-in-April 2019 Postcards Received

1963.  Sunny California

Hello from Sunny California!  I work for the post office here and Postcrossing is like job security :)

Best wishes, Elizabeth

1962.  Mason City, Iowa

Greetings from Mason City, Iowas, in the iddle of the corn belt.  Mason City is the birthplace of Meredith Willson, the composter of "The Music Man" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."  Needless to say the community is nuts about music.  I refer to Diet Coke as "My Preciousssss!"  Best wishes from the Priaire, Gary

1959.  Germany

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

Young Lady Reading

Hello Chris, I hope you'll like this card.  I like reading on my sofa, too.  Only I wear much more comfortable clothes!  Best wishes, Sabine

1958.  Bremen, Germany

1957.  Greetings from the UNITED KINGDOM

Greetings from England, Chris!  I'm Adam, I'm 24 and i'm currently studying for master's in Latin American Studies  On the 24th I'll go to Brazil to do some research.  Happy (early/belated) Birthday!

1951.  Chatham, Kent, ENGLAND

Pillar to Post (1980-new-style box)

Reproduced from a stamp designed by Silk Pearce, engraved by Czeslaw Slania and issued by Royal Mail on 8 October 2002

Hi, I am a retired high school teacher.  I volunteer once a week to help children with their reading.  That gives me time to indulge my love of travelling.  Julian (who has sent and received over 10,000 postcards through Postcrossing!)

1950.  St Petersburg, RUSSIA

Postcrossing Meet-Up

 23.03.19

1949.  Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw, POLAND

Stary Cemntarz Zydowski Muzeum Sztuki Cmentarnej

Odzial Muzeum Miejskiego Wroclawia

I am sending you a postcard depicting The Old Jewish Cemetery in Wroclaw, old medieval city in southwestern Poland.  I lie and work in Warsaw.  Best, Marek

38. The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Listened to audio - borrowed from CCLS
read by Imogen Church
Unabridged audio (8:58) borrowed from CCLS
2018 St. Martin's Press
304 pgs.
Adult CRF
Finished 4/11/2019
Goodreads rating: 4.06 - 8976 ratings
My rating:4.5
Setting: contemporary York, England

First line/s: "A book is the match in the smoking second between strike and flame."

My comments:  This story was told by hopping back and forth between 1999, 2013, and 2016.  Intricate characters were developed as the protagonist, Loveday Cardew told her story.  Abusive relationships, mental illness, foster care, grief and despair, forgiveness and love of all sorts are the main themes of the fascinating story  Another winner.  The only not-so-great part was that the reader's voice sounded much older than that of a 25-year-old.  Quite disconcerting, although she read it beautifully.

Goodreads synopsis:  The Lost for Words Bookshop is a compelling, irresistible, and heart-rending novel, perfect for fans of The Storied Life of AJ Fikryand The Little Paris Bookshop.
          Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look carefully, you might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show you. Into her hiding place - the bookstore where she works - come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries. Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive her own heartbreaking secrets?

Picture Book: A Castle on Viola Street by DyAnne DiSalvo

Illustrated by the author

2001 Harper Collins

Looks like it may be out-of-print

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating:  4.07 - 56 ratings

My rating:  5

Endpapers:  White

1^st line/s:   "In the old days, before I ws ten, we rented an apartment on Emerald Street.  It was a small place to live in for one whole family, but somehow we made the room."

My comments:  To find such a lovely picture book about Habitat for Humanity-type building and receiving is a real treat and a wonderful treasure!  Great story AND illustrations that depict a wonderful family of five.

Goodreads: Andy is so used to his family's small, run-down apartment that he has never imagined living anywhere else--especially not in a new house with a garden and a porch. Such houses seem like castles to him.
          But when he hears about an organization that turns abandoned houses into homes, he discovers that his castle isn't in the clouds--it's on Viola Street. And with some hard work and community caring, it could be his very own.
          DyAnne DiSalvo combines new faces with familiar ones from earlier stories in this warm, vibrant tale about the good things that come when a whole family pitches in to make a better life for themselves.

Books that Talk about Artists

Haring, Keith
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing (Haring/Neubecker) 2017 (5)
     A wonderful biography for kids about Keith Haring that includes lots and lots of his original work, and is beautifully illustrated by Neubecker.  A favorite.
The Stories of the Mona Lisa (Barsony) 2012 (4)
          Barsony shows how he thinks other famous artists would have painted the Mona Lisa, including Keith Haring.

Picasso, Pablo
13 Artists Children Should Know (Wenzel) 2009 (5)
          A wonderful model for further research and writing...each of the thirteen artist pages include famous painting/s, kid-friendly information and anecdotes about the artist, tips, and further reading suggestions.  There's also a "try this' for each artist!
Emily's Blue Period (Daly/Brown) 2014 (5)
           A picture book about divorce...a young girl follows the example of Pablo Picasso and creates a collage of her "home."
Math at the Art Museum (Group Majoongmul) 2015 (4)
          Many famous artists are portrayed in this art book, which include works of art and perspective about the art and the artist. 

Picture Book: Emily's Blue Period by Cathleen Daly

Illustrated by Lisa Brown

2014.  A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press

HC $17.99

56 pgs. (5 tiny short chapters, still reads as a picture book)

Goodreads rating:  405 - 1204 ratings

My rating:  5

Endpapers:  pale slate

Illustrations:  Lots of white, very much like

1^st line/s:  "Emily wants to be an artist."

My comments: An excellent picture book for kids who live in a divorced-family situation as well as a nice introduction to the artwork of Pablo Picasso.  Written in five teeny, tiny short chapters and although there are 56 pages, it still reads as a picture book in one easy sitting. Lots of discussion and art projects (including collage-making) can be created after reading this....

Goodreads: Emily wants to be an artist. She likes painting and loves the way artists like Pablo Picasso mixed things up.Emily's life is a little mixed up right now. Her dad doesn't live at home anymore, and it feels like everything around her is changing.
          “When Picasso was sad for a while,” says Emily, “he only painted in blue. And now I am in my blue period.”
          It might last quite some time.