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message 1: by Ellen (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:04AM

Here's hoping for another great year!

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message 2: by Ellen (last edited Dec 02, 2020 04:54PM) (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:05AM

PBT Monthly Tag

January - (thriller) Descent - Tim Johnston
February - (survival) 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
March - (journalism) Parkland: Birth of a Movement - Dave Cullen
April - (science fiction) The Last Town - Blake Crouch
May - (comedy) - The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Ladies Who Used Comedy to Change the World - Sheila Moeschen
June - (suspense) - A Minute to Midnight - David Baldacci
July - (Southern) -Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys
August - (witches) - Nightbooks - J. A. White
September - (psychological) - Hidden Bodies - Caroline Kepnes
October - (animals) - Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies - Caitlin Doughty
November - (books to screen) - Matilda Roald Dahl
December - (international) - My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

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message 3: by Ellen (last edited Dec 30, 2020 05:13AM) (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:06AM

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message 4: by Ellen (last edited Nov 09, 2020 08:51AM) (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:08AM

Modern Mrs. Darcy

✔ A book published the decade you were born - Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
✔ A debut novel - The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir - Ruth Wariner
✔ A book recommended by a source you trust - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
✔ A book by a local author - News of the World - Paulette Jiles
✔ A book outside your (genre) comfort zone - Hamilton: The Revolution - Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
✔ A book in translation - Out of Sorts by Aurelie Valognes
✔ A book nominated for an award in 2020 - The River - Peter Heller
✔ A re-read - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
✔ A classic you didn't read in school - Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craigshead George
✔ Three books by the same author - Carrie,
Misery, 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King

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message 5: by Ellen (last edited Nov 09, 2020 09:21AM) (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:08AM

Schertz Public Library Book Nerd Challenge

✔ 1. western - Open Season - C. J. Box
✔ 2. book about music or music arts - Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
✔ 3. local author - News of the World - Paulette Jiles
✔ 4. cozy mystery - On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle
✔ 5. "Big" book - Hidden Bodies - Caroline Kepnes
✔ 6. short stories - If It Bleeds -Stephen King
✔ 7. novel set in wartime - The Only Woman in the Room - Marie Benedict
✔ 8. set in your favorite season - Holiday Grind - Coyle
✔ 9. non-fiction about science - Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
✔ 10. children's classic published before 1980 - Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craigshead George
✔ 11. genre new to you - Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport - Darrell Waltrip
✔ 12. ebook - Resting Witch Face - Rebecca Regnier
✔ 13. set in a city you have visited - The President Is Missing - James Patterson and Bill Clinton
✔ 14. features a dog or cat - The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale - Carmen Agra Deedy
✔ 15. book published in your birthday month - Beating About the Bush - M. C. Beaton
✔ 16. takes place on a boat Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
✔ 17. celebrates friendship - The Girls in the Picture - Melanie Benjamin
✔ 18. recommended by an author you love - Misery - Stephen King
✔19. recommended on a podcast - This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger
✔ 20. from a library display - Grand Ambition - Lisa Michaels
✔ 21. true crime - Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake - Frank Abagnale
✔ 22. your choice - Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
✔ 23. cover in your favorite color - Nate Expectations - Tim Federle
✔ 24. from the PBS Great American Read list - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
✔ 25. humor - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America - Bill Bryson
✔ 26. book about books - The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child - Donalyn Miller
✔ 27. ghost story or spooky read -'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
✔ 28. favorite animal - The Cat Manual - Michael Ray Taylor
✔ 29. book you haven't read by an author you love - Recursion - Blake Crouch
✔ 30. long time on TBR - Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew - Alex Kershaw
✔ 31.from 2019 Library reads - The Book Charmer - Karen Hawkins
✔ 32. incarceration - The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
✔ 33. time of day in title - A Minute to Midnight - David Baldacci
✔ 34. two word title - Vanilla Ride - Joe R. Landsdale
✔ 35. author with a pen name - Murder Most Frothy - Cleo Coyle
✔ 36. author's name larger than the title on cover - Carrie - Stephen King
✔ 37. next book in a series you've started -Boundary Waters - William Kent Krueger
✔ 38. face on the cover - One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia
✔ 39. problem facing society today - They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement - Michael Lowery
✔ 40. multiple authors - Signing Their Rights Away - Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese
✔ 41. book you've been avoiding - Demelza - Winston Graham
✔ 42. title with 'salty', 'sweet', 'bitter' or 'spicy' - Bittersweet - Susan Wittig Albert
✔ 43. alternative lifestyle -The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit - Michael Finkel
✔ 44. classic or retelling - Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book - Jennifer Donnelly
✔ 45. mental health - The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
✔ 46. LOL - This Will Only Hurt a Little - Busy Philipps
✔ 47. banned book - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
✔ 48. published in 2010 - Pray for Silence - Linda Castillo
✔ 49. inspirational story Stella by Starlight - Sharon M. Draper
✔ 50. audiobook - Sworn to Silence Linda Castillo
✔ 51. nonfiction and fiction about same topic - fiction - Only Child - Rhiannon Navin
✔ 52. nonfiction and fiction about same topic - nonfiction Parkland: Birth of a Movement - Dave Cullen

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message 6: by Ellen (last edited Nov 02, 2020 11:23AM) (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:10AM

2020 Poll Ballot

1. Colorado (Rocky Mountains) Descent - Tim Johnston
Freefall - Jessica Barry
Open Season - C. J. Box
Noel Street - Richard Paul Evans
Girl Underwater - Claire Kells
2. Texas (space) Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. Kansas (weather) Iron Lake Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepetys
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley - Kim Cross
4. Michigan (Great Lakes ) Iron Lake - William Kent Krueger
Purgatory Ridge - William Kent Krueger
Virgil Wander - Leif Enger
Blood Hollow - William Kent Krueger
Mercy Falls - William Kent Krueger
Copper River - William Kent Krueger
The Lager Queen of Minnesota - J. Ryan Stradal
This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger
Thunder Bay - William Kent Krueger
Red Knife - William Kent Krueger
5. Kentucky (horses) Riding Lessons - Sara Gruen
6. Florida (Disney) The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms - Christopher Finch
Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book - Jennifer Donnelly
Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Disney After Dark The Kingdom Keepers #1 - Ridley Pearson
A Whole New World - Liz Braswell
7. North Dakota (paleontology) - Dragon Teeth - Michael Crichton
8. California (Hollywood) - Finding Dorothy - Elizabeth Letts
The Only Woman in the Room - Marie Benedict
The Girls in the Picture - Melanie Benjamin
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life - William Roy
The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
Hidden Bodies - Caroline Kepnes
This Will Only Hurt a Little - Busy Philipps
I Lost My Girlish Laughter - Jane Allen
9. Illinois (comedy) - Out of Sorts - Aurelie Valognes
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America - Bill Bryson
The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women: 50 Ladies Who Used Comedy to Change the World - Sheila Moeschen
The Golden Tresses of the Dead - Alan Bradley
Twisted Twenty-Six - Janet Evanovich
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies - Caitlin Doughty
10. Georgia (antebellum) A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 - Patricia C. McKissack
The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom
The Last Runaway - Tracy Chevalier
11. New York (Broadway) - Hamilton: The Revolution - Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim DeFede
Carrie - Stephen King
Dear Evan Hansen - Val Emmich
Better Nate Than Ever - Tim Federle
Five, Six, Seven, Nate! - Tim Federle
Nate Expectations - Tim Federle
The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical - Saundra Mitchell
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel
Matilda - Roald Dahl
12. New Hampshire (hiking) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park - Conor Knighton
13. Ohio (industry) The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute - Zac Bissonnette
Recursion - Blake Crouch
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
14. Hawaii (volcanoes) - Dangerous Minds - Janet EvanovichThe Library Book
15. Minnesota (vikings) - How to Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell
The 13th Warrior - Michael Crichton
16. New Mexico (extraterrestrials) - Armada - Ernest Cline
17. Delaware (business) - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
18. Alabama (civil rights) - One Crazy SummerRita Williams-Garcia
They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement - Wesley Lowery
On the Come Up - Angie Thomas
19. Vermont (libraries) - The Library Book - Susan Orlean
The Book Charmer - Karen Hawkins
20. Maine (Stephen King) - 'Salem's Lot
Misery
If It Bleeds - Stephen King
21. Mississippi (blues) - Stella by Starlight - Sharon M. Draper
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground - Rita Williams-Garcia
22. Idaho (nature) - The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit - Michael Finkel
The Hearts of Men - Nickolas Butler
23. Connecticut (constitution) - Signing Their Rights Away - Denise Kiernan
Legacy - James Michener
Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance - Bill McKibben
The Woman's Hour: Our Fight for the Right to Vote - Elaine Weiss
24. Alaska (Inuit)- Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craigshead George
25. South Carolina (pirates) - Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier
26. Indiana (auto racing) - Sundays Will Never Be the Same: Racing, Tragedy, and Redemption--My Life in America's Fastest Sport - Darrell Waltrip
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best - Neal Bascomb
Metro Girl - Janet Evanovich
Motor Mouth - Janet Evanovich
27. Utah (Mormon) - The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir - Ruth Wariner
28. Massachusetts (witches) -Resting Witch Face - Rebecca Regnier
The House with a Clock in Its Walls - John Bellairs
Nightbooks - J. A. White
29. Pennsylvania (Amish) - Sworn to Silence - Linda Castillo
Pray for Silence - Linda Castillo
Breaking Silence - Linda Castillo
Gone Missing - Linda Castillo
Her Last Breath - Linda Castillo
The Dead Will Tell - Linda Castillo
After the Storm - Linda Castillo
Among the Wicked - Linda Castillo
Down a Dark Road - Linda Castillo
A Gathering of Secrets - Linda Castillo
Shamed - Linda Castillo
Outsider - Linda Castillo
The Witch Tree Symbol - Carolyn Keene
Kate Burkholder Novellas: Long Lost / A Hidden Secret / Seeds of Deception - Linda Castillo
30. Arkansas (education) - The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child - Donalyn Miller
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
Keeping Lucy - T. Greenwood
Little Family - Ishmael Beah
31. Arizona (Grand Canyon) - Grand Ambition - Lisa Michaels
Long Road to Mercy - David Baldacci
A Minute to Midnight - David Baldacci
The Grand Canyon - Robert Wallace
32. New Jersey (mafia) - Vanilla Ride - Joe R. Landsdale
Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Shines My Shoes - Gennifer Choldenko
33. Iowa (politics) - Parkland: Birth of a Movement - Dave Cullen
Only Child - Rhiannon Navin
34. Tennessee (country music) - Boundary Waters - William Kent Krueger
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
Chicken Soup for the Country Soul - Jack Canfield
35. Washington (coffee) - On What Grounds - Cleo Coyle
Latte Trouble - Cleo Coyle
Murder Most Frothy - Cleo Coyle
Decaffeinated Corpse - Cleo Coyle
French Pressed - Cleo Coyle
Holiday Grind - Cleo Coyle
Roast Mortem - Cleo Coyle
Murder by Mocha - Cleo Coyle
36. Oregon (ecology) - Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
37. North Carolina (Appalachia) - Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains - Cassie Chambers
F*ckface: and Other Stories - Leah Hampton
38. Louisiana (southern gothic) - The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Out of the Easy - Ruta Sepetys
39. Nevada (gambling) - Reality Check - Peter Abrahams
40. Missouri (pioneers) - At the Edge of the Orchard - Tracy Chevalier
Westering Women - Sandra Dallas
Hattie Big Sky - Kirby Larson
41. Virginia (FBI) - The Last Town - Blake Crouch
Darkest Fear - Harlan Coben
No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
Fair Warning - Michael Connelly
42, Maryland (Navy) - Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew - Alex Kershaw
43. West Virginia (mining) - Saving Lucas Biggs - Marisa de los Santos
Demelza - Winston Graham
44. Rhode Island - sailing - Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea - Tami Oldham Ashcraft
45. South Dakota - frontier - One Came Home - Amy Timberlake
News of the World - Paulette Jiles
46. Montana - wildlife - The Unexpected Truth About Animals: A Menagerie of the Misunderstood - Lucy Cooke
47. Wisconsin - cheese - The Cheshire Cheese Cat: A Dickens of a Tale - Carmen Agra Deedy
48. District of Columbia - presidents - The President Is Missing - James Patterson and Bill Clinton
49. Wyoming - western - Free Fire - C. J. Box
The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson
Death Without Company - Craig Johnson
50. Oklahoma - Great Depression - Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse
51. Nebraska - farming - Plainsong -Kent Haruf

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message 7: by Ellen (last edited Dec 15, 2020 05:27AM) (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:10AM

2020 Decades Bingo

B 1975 - 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King
G 2009 - Reality Check - Peter Abrahams
I 1989 - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America - Bill Bryson
G 2003 - No Second Chance - Harlan Coben
I 1986 - Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
I 1980 - Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake - Frank Abagnale
B 1973 - The House with a Clock in Its Walls = John Bellairs
O 2016 - The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
G 2004 - Just One Look - Harlan Coben
I 1985 - The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler
B 1970 - Passenger to Frankfurt - Agatha Christie
O 2017 - Swimming Lessons - Claire Fuller

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message 8: by David (new)

Dec 21, 2019 08:11AM

David Putnam (davidputnam) | 282 comments

Ellen wrote: "Here's hoping for another great year!"

Hear hear

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