Tuesday's Teaser - Capitol Game by Brian Haig

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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The Capitol Game

by Brian Haig

Chapter 3

Cauldron never involves itself in unfriendly takeovers, for one thing.

(This company has created) a polymer coating. Paint if onto a combat vehicle, any vehicle really, and it pretends it's thirty inches of armor.

Tuesday's Teaser

Tuesday's Teaser

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!! You wouldn't want to give too much away!

Include the book title and author so that other Tuesday's Teaser participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like the teaser.

Impact

by Douglas Preston

"The mine in Cambodia wasn't an impact crater. No? Then what was it. It was an exit hole."

Tuesday Teaser on Thursday

Tuesday's Teaser

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Grab your current read

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BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!! You wouldn't want to give too much away!

Include the book title and author so that other Tuesday's Teaser participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like the teaser.

Last Man Standing

by David Baldacci

Web attended six funerals over three days. By the fourth one, he couldn't muster a single tear. He walked into the church or the funeral home and listened to people he mostly didn't know talk about fallen men he knew better than he understood himself in some ways.

Tuesday's Teaser - Killer View

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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Killer View

by Ridley Pearson

Page 90

But he was riding [a snowmobile] fast, and often blind, into the path of a sniper who wasn't shy about shooting cops. He began slowing down at every curve and wishing the snowmobile didn't whine like a chain saw, announcing his approach.

Tuesday's Teaser

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!! You wouldn't want to give too much away!

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Pirate Latitudes

by Michael Crichton

Chapter 16

"The privateers had been formed up in two ragged lines, their hands bound."

"You are all heretics and brigands and you will swing at end of a rope in good time. Until that day a man can either live comfortably or not."

Tuesday's Teaser

Wow, has it been a week already? How did that happen? :)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!! You wouldn't want to give too much away!

Include the book title and author so that other Tuesday's Teaser participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like the teaser.

The Queen's Gambit

by Diana A. S. Stuckart

page 1

"Crimson flowered against the alabaster brocade, the vivid hue spreading and dulling to claret along its petal-like edges."

page 75

"Even with my chemise serving as shirt beneath it, and the plain brown jerkin tied over it, the borrowed tunic clung to my female curves in a manner that made my sex evident."

Ok, so I don't quite follow the rules. Instead of 2 teaser sentences from my current page, I try to find 2 sentences that are great teasers for the book. :)

Tuesday's Teaser

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!! You wouldn't want to give too much away!

Include the book title and author so that other Tuesday's Teaser participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like the teaser.

The Girl With Braided Hair

by Margaret Coel

page 63

"I don't want her forgotten. She could be any of us, any Indian woman beaten up, shot, left in the wilderness."

Tuesday's Teaser

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Jerusalem

by Cecelia Holland

Page 14-15

If what the Templars said were true, and the Saracens were coming out of Egypt, the Kingdom of Jerusalem lay naked before them: she knew all the Christian armies were far away to the north, near Homs and Aleppo. She had to get to Ascalon, to do whatever she could.

Tuesday's Teaser

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We were on vacation - Yellowstone National Park - so I bought a book set in Wyoming. This is a new author, but I liked the first book, so I bought the next three in the series. This is from book 4.

Trophy Hunt

by CJ Box

4th in the Joe Pickett mysteries

The animal [a moose] had been mutilated. Its genitals and musk glands had been cut out, and its rectum was cored. Half of its face had been removed leaving a grinning skull and long, yellowed teeth.

Although water had always been considered the single most precious commodity in the state, the effect of huge releases of underground water on the surface due to CBM [coal bed methane] wells was still unknown.

Tuesday's Teaser

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

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BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS!! You wouldn't want to give too much away!

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Once again, I am actually reading a book!

Shroud for the Archbishop

by Peter Tremayne

2nd in the Sister Fidelma mysteries

Brother Eadulf had been her companion on the long and tedious journey from the Kingdom of Northumbria. ... They had become friends during the council at Hilda's monastery at Streoneshalh, by the coastal town of Witebia where, together, they had solved the dark mystery of the murder of the Abbess Étian of Kildare.

Tuesday's Teaser

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

For once, I am reading an actual book!

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Four Queens

The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

by Nancy Goldstone

page xiii

The architects of this diplomatic coup were neither ambassadors nor statesmen.

It was managed entirely by one family - a family of four sisters who had risen from near obscurity to become the most celebrated and powerful women of their time.

Tuesday's Teaser

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Once again, I am listening to an audiobook as I am cleaning (or surfing the web instead of cleaning!).

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Free Fall by Kyle Mills

"He just told me that the information in it could hurt some powerful people."

"These people probably think Tristian told you what was in the file; you, and I, are a loose end to them now."

Tuesday's Teaser

I listen to almost as many audiobooks as I read books, so sometimes these will not have page numbers.

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Death Masks by Jim Butcher, 5th book in the Dresden Files series.

Page 2

"Yeah, I said spell. See, I really am a wizard. I do magic. I've run into vampires and demons and a lot of things in between, and I've got the scars to show for it."

Page 22

"Someone stole the freaking Shroud of Turin?" I demanded.

Tuesday's Teaser on Thursday

Ok, so it's Thursday instead of Tuesday, but here's my teaser:

I listen to almost as many audiobooks as I read books, so some of these will not have page numbers!

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Rough Justice by Jack Higgins

This time the two pages aren't on the same page, but give a better teaser.

Page 85

"He's confirmed that he wants us to help him defect in Paris."

Page 296

"...earning [my sister] Tania's freedom."

Tuesday's Teaser

I listen to almost as many audiobooks as I read books, so some of these will not have page numbers!

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White Night by Jim Butcher - the 9th of the Dresden Files.

Page 169

I lifted my face and the blasting rod to the sky, opened my throat and in a stentorian bellow shouted, "Fuego!" Fire exploded from the tip of the blasting rod, a column of white-hot flame as thick as my hips.

Tuesday's Teaser

I listen to almost as many audiobooks as I read books, so some of these will not have page numbers!

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About 4:45 into CD 4

Ferguson and Harry wore flak jackets and each had an AK to hand. There was a chart open on the table showing the general approach to Drumore.

Tuesday's Teaser

I listen to almost as many audiobooks as I read books, so some of these will not have page numbers!

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U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

They claimed they were digging for buried treasure, but he noticed a bundle on the ground nearby. A few weeks ago, he came across a reference to the Fitzhugh kidnapping, and the penny dropped.