[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Mystery January 2008

  • From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:15:46 -0800 (PST)

Skinny Dip is already in the collection with an excellent rating:
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=27707

Along with Strong Poison, also excellent:
http://www.bookshare.org/web/SingleTitle.html?submittitleid=29661

Carrie

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Meg Cabot
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Pub Date: 
12/1/2007
ISBN: 9780060525132
ISBN-10: 0060525134
Mystery. Ex-teen pop 
star, current college student, and occasional amateur sleuth Heather Wells is 
paying for school (her mom stole her teenage earnings)
by working as the 
assistant director at Fischer Hall (aka "death dorm") at a New York City 
university. Her studies are interrupted when she finds the dead
body of her 
less-than-popular boss. Suspects are plentiful--and include Heather--so, of 
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Publisher: HarperPaperbacks
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for. It is fine to start with this book, first published
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