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FROM: Karen Moyer <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 4/2/01, 7:25 PM

I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?

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Karen Moyer
Outreach Librarian
Rochester Hills Public Library
[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us

FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@fortworthlibrary.org>
REC'D: 4/2/01, 7:57 PM

Jan Burke Bones
Flight
Dan Simmons Darwin's Blade
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack novels

FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 7:14 AM

Any of the Richard Sharpe novels by Bernard Cornwell. And, if you've still
got some in the shop, the Conan yarns by Robert E. Howard. The ones L.
Sprague de Camp completed from Howard's drafts are OK, too.

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Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
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-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Moyer [[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 8:14 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Action/Thrillers/Adventure fiction


I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?

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**
Karen Moyer
Outreach Librarian
Rochester Hills Public Library
[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us

FROM: Cathy Reid <[removed]@ccpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 7:55 AM

Vertical Run, by Joseph Garber was nonstop action/thrills. One of my
all-time favorite action novels!

Cathy Reid
Clark County Public Library
Springfield, OH

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 8:16 AM

Stephen Hunter
Lee Child
Patrick Robinson


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us 04/02/01 07:14PM >>>
I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?

******************************************************************************
Karen Moyer
Outreach Librarian
Rochester Hills Public Library
[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 8:37 AM

Tom Clancy: Hunt for Red October (only)
Greg Rucka: Atticus Kodiak books (my library catalog is down and I can't get
you the specific titles)
Nelson DeMille
Michael Crichton
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Moyer [[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 7:14 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Action/Thrillers/Adventure fiction


I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?

****************************************************************************
**
Karen Moyer
Outreach Librarian
Rochester Hills Public Library
[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us

FROM: "Corky Lee" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 10:11 AM

Good action thrillers could include:
Wilbur Smith
Bonnie McDougall
James Grippando
James Patterson (especially his newer title)
Stephen Frey (Wall St. series)
Stephen White (set in Boulder Co)
F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack books
Michael Crichton

Corky Lee
Readers' Services
Des Plaines Public Library
1501 Ellinwood St.
Des Plaines, IL 60016
847-376-2811
[removed]@desplaines.lib.us.il

FROM: Suzanne Pontius <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 10:54 AM

Most of the Dick Francis books, as well as Pobert B.
Parker's Spenser novels, would fit this category.
Suzanne Pontius

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FROM: Susan Sanders <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 10:54 AM

I liked
The Pirate's Daughter by Robert Girardi
and The Beach by Alex Garland


At 08:14 PM 04/02/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
>Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
>on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
>genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?
>
>***************************************************************************
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>Karen Moyer
>Outreach Librarian
>Rochester Hills Public Library
[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us
>
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/3/01, 11:27 AM

And a few other suggestions:

Robin Cook
Tess Gerritson
Eileen Dreyer
Bailey & Knebel's political thrillers, such as Seven Days in May
Robert J. Serling The President's Plane Is Missing

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/3/01, 11:38 AM

Also the airplane thillers such as:

Arthur Hailey Airport
Nevil Shute No Highway
Ernest K. Gann The High and the Mighty (I can still hear the whistling from
the movie score)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 11:49 AM

Be sure to include John Gilstrap (NATHAN'S RUN is nonstop action) and Thomas Block. Block's MAYDAY was reissued with co-author Demille and so may be cataloged under his name.

Robin Beerbower
Outreach Services
Salem (OR) Public Library
PO Box 14810, Salem, OR 97309
[removed]@open.org
503-588-6089

>>> Karen Moyer <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us> 04/02 5:14 PM >>>
I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?

******************************************************************************
Karen Moyer
Outreach Librarian
Rochester Hills Public Library
[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us

FROM: Deborah Roy <[removed]@skyenet.net>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 11:49 AM

Here are a few thrillers I've thought of:

Iris Johansen (her later books, earlier are straight romance, FYI)
Tami Hoag (writes excellent crime novels, earlier books are also romance, plotting
and tension in all her books are excellent)
David Baldacci
William Diehl
John Saul
Jeffrey Deaver (especially The Bone Collector *shudder*)
Caleb Carr

Deborah Roy
Huntington City-Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana


[removed]@aol.com wrote:

> And a few other suggestions:
>
> Robin Cook
> Tess Gerritson
> Eileen Dreyer
> Bailey & Knebel's political thrillers, such as Seven Days in May
> Robert J. Serling The President's Plane Is Missing
>
> Binnie Syril Braunstein
> romance novelist/former librarian
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 4/3/01, 12:53 PM

Linda Howard (Now You See Her, etc.)

Kay Hooper's "Shadows" series

Tami Hoag

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 1:03 PM

I find that William Marshall's "Yellowthread Street" series of Hong Kong-
based detective stories usually start off fast and bloody and keep building
until the last couple chapters are a crescendo of over-the-top action
(with the prose style getting slightly hysterical to match it). Same is
true for that matter of his other two short-lived serieses (one set in the
Philippines and one in late 19th century New York City).

http://www.overbooked.org/marshall.html

I'd also recommend the "Parker" books by "Richard Stark" (Donald Westlake)

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/5171/main.html#The Parker Novels:


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 3:50 PM

>From: Karen Moyer <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Action/Thrillers/Adventure fiction
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
>Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
>on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
>genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?
>

The original Indiana Jones pastiche-novels, by diverse hands.

Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.

The Westerns of Luke Short, Peter Dawson, Lou Cameron, and Clarence E.
Mulford.

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FROM: Kathleen Stipek <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 4:21 PM

The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker is an oldie but a goodie. It
has Texans, longhorns, two varieties of Cossack, Tartars, and a well-placed
stampede.

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Kathleen Stipek, Adult Services/Interlibrary Loans, Alachua County
Library District (FMG), 401 E. University AV, Gainesville FL 32601
[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us)
352-334-3938 (v) 352-334-3948 (f)

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-----Original Message-----
From: christine jeffords [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 4:30 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Action/Thrillers/Adventure fiction

>From: Karen Moyer <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Action/Thrillers/Adventure fiction
>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
>Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure fiction with an emphasis
>on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
>genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?
>

The original Indiana Jones pastiche-novels, by diverse hands.

Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler.

The Westerns of Luke Short, Peter Dawson, Lou Cameron, and Clarence E.
Mulford.

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FROM: Melissa Norton <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 7:41 PM

I will second VERTICAL RUN, and add INTENSITY by Dean
Koontz, JURASSIC PARK and most Michael Crichton
titles.
Stuart Woods, James Patterson and Sidney Sheldon are
all masters of lightning pacing and intricate
plotting.
You might want to consider Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita
Blake novels, definitely NOT for the faint of heart.
Melissa

--- Karen Moyer <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us> wrote:
> I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled
> "Fasten Your
> Seatbelt" to include action/thrillers/adventure
> fiction with an emphasis
> on fast action, high adventure, heart-stopping
> thrills and covering any
> genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance.
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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> Karen Moyer
> Outreach Librarian
> Rochester Hills Public Library
> [removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us
>
>
>
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> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
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FROM: "Thirza Krohn" <[removed]@timberland.lib.wa.us>
REC'D: 4/3/01, 9:27 PM

I really enjoyed Death Benefits by Thomas Perry! I even woke up in the
night and spent a couple of hours finishing it. It's about insurance
fraud, but with a unique twist, I thought.

After Death Benefits, I read the Jane Whitefield books, where she helps
people who need to disappear.

Thirza

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----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Moyer <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
Date: Monday, April 2, 2001 5:14 pm
Subject: Action/Thrillers/Adventure fiction

> I am working on a summer reading bibliography titled "Fasten Your
> Seatbelt" to include action/thrilleron fast action, high
> adventure, heart-stopping thrills and covering any
> genre from westerns to crime fiction to romance. Any suggestions?
>
>
************************************************************************
******
> Karen Moyer
> Outreach Librarian
> Rochester Hills Public Library
> [removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

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