This is an old one (1998) but I just read and liked it.<br><div><strong>Janet Evanovich</strong>, bestselling author of <em>One for the Money</em>, <em>Two for the Dough</em>, and <em>Three to Get Deadly</em>, scores big with <em>Four to Score</em>, her most thrilling Stephanie Plum adventure yet. Working for her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, Stephanie is hot on the trail of revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki, whose crimes include bail jumping, theft, and extortion. Someone is terrifying Maxine's friends, and those who have seen her are turning up dead. Also on the hunt for Maxine is Joyce Barnhardt, Stephanie's archenemy and rival bounty hunter. Stephanie's attitude never wavers - even when aided by Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet - and even when Stephanie makes an enemy whose deadly tactics escalate from threatening messages to firebombs. All of this pales in comparison, though, with an even greater
danger Stephanie faces, when, homeless and broke, she and her hamster Rex move in with vice cop Joe Morelli.</div> <div><strong>RATED PG35</strong> for licentious wit and libidinous cohabitation.</div> <div>Best Selling Author Janet Evanovich is the recipient of the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Memorial, Last Laugh and Silver Dagger awards, Left Coast Crime's Lefty award and is a two time winner of The Independent Booksellers Association's Dilys award. She Lives in New Hampshire, where she is at work on her next Stephanie Plum adventure.</div>I am currently reading 'O' is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton. I like most of her books.<br><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font style="font-weight: bold;" size="3"> The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units at auction. The weekend before, he'd bought a stack of cardboard boxes. In one, there was a collection of childhood memorabilia with Kinsey's
name all over it. For thirty bucks, he was offering Kinsey the lot.</font> <div>Though she's never been one for personal possessions, curiosity is a powerful force. She agrees to meet the guy, then hands over a twenty (she may be curious, but she's also cheap and she loves a bargain).</div> <div>What she finds among the items is an old undelivered letter to her that will force her to reexamine her beliefs about the breakup of her first marriage . . . about the honor of her first husband . . . and about an old unsolved murder.</div> <div>It will put her life in the gravest peril.</div> <div><i>"O" Is for Outlaw</i>: Kinsey's fifteenth excursion into the dark side of human nature.</div> <div>Through fourteen books, readers have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past: a morsel here, a dollop there. We know about the aunt who raised her, the
second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one has remained a blip on the screen. Until now. <i>"O" is for Outlaw</i>: a revealing excursion into Kinsey's past.</div></font><br><div><br></div><br><b><i>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><title>Message</title> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName">
<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in;
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other)<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The restroom walls at John’s Alley – I really can’t see where they come up with this material .<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Seeya round town, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<br> <br> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Tom Hansen</st1:PersonName><br> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place><br> <br> “I’ll just speak for our church, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. If I found out that a member of our church or a church officer was lying to non-believers in the community, as a way to get by or protect themself or protect his reputation, yes, he’d be disciplined.”<br> <br> - Doug Wilson (January 31, 2007)</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Dan Carscallen<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 04, 2008 6:32 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'vision2020'<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] book recommendations</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">I'll play here too, Vizzz peeps. Here's a few I added to my library over the last year.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div>
<div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">Freakonomics -- Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. </span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">An "outside the box" look at economics. It might make you mad or make you go "hmmm", but it's interesting nonetheless.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies -- Jared
Diamond.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">The author calls it "A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years". Talks about why Eurasion civilizations, for the most part, have survived while others have not, due to gaps in technology and resources rather than any intellectual, moral, or genetic superiority. Fascinating.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">Essentials of Firefighting -- International Fire Service Training Association.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div>
</div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">I think I spent more time with this book this fall than any other. I realize it was only one class, but it reminded me that work life is a lot different than school life. It also reminded me that I really don't like being a student, even though I like to learn new things.</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="maroon" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: maroon;">DC</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> </div> =======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>
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