[bksvol-discuss] Books kicked back for self-validation.

  • From: "tom hawkins" <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:22:07 -0700

Hi Everyone, Gustavo kicked back a number of my submissions due to self 
validation. Each has had a very careful spell check including a copyright 
verification by a sighted person. So if you want an easy validation, enjoy, Tom
Date: 09-08-06 

Category:  Romance (Silhouette Books)

Pages:  253

Title:  Operation Homefront

 

Author:  Marilyn Pappano

 

Copyright:  1982 by Marilyn Pappano

 

Short Synopsis: A Silhouette Intimate Moments romance. 

 

ISBN:  0-373-07424-7

 

Long Synopsis:  FROM THE BACK COVER: Mission Impossible? At last Libby Harper 
had made a home for herself and her seven-year-=old son, Justin.  After years 
of moving around, they were finally going to stay in one place, except Justin 
didn't seem to be adjusting to his new life too well.  He was having trouble at 
school and alienating all his friends.  Except one.  But this newest buddy was 
no boy, he was a man!  A man with a handsome face, an engaging smile and the 
uniform of the United States Army.  A career soldier.  A man on the move, 
literally!  Sergeant Joe Mathison knew that only a fool would begin a romance 
that had no chance of succeeding, and he was no fool.  But he couldn't seem to 
stay away from Libby and Justin.  If only he could convince her that he was the 
perfect playmate for them both.

 

Notes:  Copyright has been verified by a sighted person.



Date:  09-13-06

Category:  Western

Pages:  276

Title:  Navarro

 

Author:  Peter Brandvold

 

Copyright:  The Estate of Ralph Compton, 2005

 

Short Synopsis: A western in the Ralph Compton style. 

 

ISBN:  0-451-21469-2

 

Long Synopsis:  FROM THE BACK COVER:  Hardened ex-gunslinger Taos Tommy Navarro 
turned away Karla Vannorsdell, a rancher's granddaughter, when she needed him 
most.  Now, angry and full of guilt, Navarro must track down Karla in the 
desert before the Apaches catch her, which won't be easy.  And all that's 
certain is that things are going to get very rough, and very bloody.  Nothing 
will make Karla return to her arrogant, meddling grandfather now that he's run 
off the vaquero she was going to marry.  To bring her lover back, Karla will 
endure the parched, blazing desert, the venomous diamondbacks, the ferocious 
Apaches and the buzzards circling overhead.  And she'll learn the cruelest 
lesson of all.  In a brutal land, love can mean killing the thing you cherish.  

 

Notes:  Copyright has been verified by a sighted person. This book is written 
in the western style and contains many words and names in Mexican.



Date:  09-08-06

Category:  Science Fiction Fantasy  / alternate history

Pages:  324

Title:  Grantville Gazette II

 

Author:  Eric Flint, editor

 

Copyright:  2006 by Eric Flint

 

Short Synopsis: The series begins with 1632 and this sequel continues the 
Grantville Gazette.  The book contains factual articles about  the 17th century 
forming the foundation for the series.   

 

ISBN:  1-4165-2051-1

 

Long Synopsis:  FROM THE BACK COVER: Return to Grantville, the American town 
lost in time.  A mysterious cosmic force, the "Ring of Fire", has hurled the 
town of Grantville from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe, 
and into the heart of the Thirty Years War.  With their seemingly, magical 
technology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time lost West 
Virginians have allied with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, to form the 
Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course of history, and 
making very powerful and dangerous enemies.

 

 

Notes:  Copyright verified by a sighted person. This book contains Latin and 
German vocabulary.



Date:  09-09-06

Category:  Western

Pages:  186

Title:  The Peacemakers

 

Author:  J. T. Edson

 

Copyright:  1969 by Transworld Publishers, Ltd.

 

Short Synopsis: A western saga. 

 

ISBN:  1-55773-348-1

 

Long Synopsis:  FROM THE BACK COVER: In 1873 the Colt factory at Hartford, 
Connecticut, produced a new revolver called, for want of a better name, the 
Model P.  Dusty Fog of the legendary Floating Outfit bought a matched brace of 
the new pistols just before heading into Mexico to rescue an old friend of the 
Ysabel Kid's.  By the time Dusty's job was done, the new Colts had a proper 
name, men called them the Peacemakers.

 

Notes:  Copyright has been verified by a sighted person  and is correctly given 
as a publisher. This book contains language of the "old West", much of it being 
Mexican.


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