In 1997 he put his "Spenser" books on hold to introduce a new protagonist, Jesse Stone in "Night Passage"
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Night Passage (Jesse Stone, #1) by Robert B. Parker  Reviews ...  He's left the LAPD in disgrace and found himself the new chief of police in Paradise, .... Robert B. Parker writes a tough guy main character whose biggest flaw is his ..... and Night Passage is a fantastic introduction to the Jesse Stone books/series. .... As with Spenser, he begins his Jesse Stone series with full disclosure of...
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Night Passage, by Robert B. Parker  In Night Passage, Parker sets the bar even higher, with the introduction of Jesse ... So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him ... For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a ... His Jesse Stone series promises to match if not excel the Spenser novels.
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3 - Author | Bookshare  Features the main characters first introduced in Appaloosa- now a major ... "The new series by the creator of the hugely successful Spenser books has a ... Don't miss the first five novels featuring Jesse Stone, police chief of Paradise ... Includes: Night Passage Trouble in Paradise Death in Paradise Stone Cold Sea Change.
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Night Passage (Jesse Stone Novels): Robert B. Parker - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. Fans often feel uneasy when the creator of a popular ... Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust; even he and the woman he's .... The book opens as Stone leaves California for his new job as chief of police in the picturesque town of Paradise, Massachusetts.
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Jesse Stone (character) - Wikipedia  Jesse Stone is the lead character in a series of detective novels written by Robert B. Parker. They were among his last works, and the first series in which the novelist used the third-person narrative. The series consists of nine books, starting with Night Passage (1997) and ... Parker, comparing Stone to Spenser, the protagonist of his first series and...
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The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White - Netdoor  (1938) The Sword in the Stone is the first and most familiar of T. H. White's tetrology ... to find a tutor for his "proper" son, Kay, and his adopted son, the Wart (Arthur). ... call this book a phantasy, it is inaccurate to describe it as a novel, it is foolish to call it, ... Merlin is a character, and amusing, like everyone in this story, except...
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Spenser - Thrilling Detective  He eventually left, and ended up in Boston as a private detective. ... Sammy, played by Sal Viscuso, was a con-man turned sleazy private eye (written by ... films based on his Jesse Stone novels, about a reformed alcoholic LAPD officer ... Certainly few authors have managed to match the opening salvo of his first four books.
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The Once and Future King: The Sword in the Stone - CliffsNotes  Book Summary The Once and Future King: The Sword in the Stone ... in the Stone, begins as the Wart, an innocent and wholesome boy living in twelfth-century ... in the future, it will be his "glorious doom" to "take up the burden" of his nobility.
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The Sword in the Stone (The Once and Future King, #1) by T.H. ...  The Sword in the Stone has 18331 ratings and 557 reviews. ... The book is about a boy named Wart who lives with Sir Ector and his son, Kay, in a castle. ..... nobility like his companion Kay, and the two of them grow up in and around castle life.
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"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning ...  Thus, I had so long suffer'd, in this quest,. Heard failure prophesied so oft, been writ. So many times among The Bandto wit,. The knights who to the Dark...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Wikipedia  Followed by, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first novel in the Harry Potter series and J. K. Rowling's debut novel, first published in 1997 by Bloomsbury. It was published in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Scholastic Corporation in 1998. ... The writing has been compared to that of Jane Austen, one of Rowling's...
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Chapters 13-14 - CliffsNotes  Finally, the Murdstones enter the house, and David's stepfather tells about the ... Exasperated, Mr. Murdstone states that if David does not return, "my doors are shut ... in Dickens' time and consisted of the wandering journey of a hero through a...
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Sons and Lovers Study Guide | GradeSaver  Though D. H. Lawrence's third published novel, Sons and Lovers (1913) is largely ... Filling out the cast of important characters was Jessie Chambers, a neighbor with ... an intense friendship, and who would become Miriam Leiver in the novel. His ... Nevertheless, Chambers was Lawrence's greatest literary supporter in his...
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CNN.com - Dracula fails to fly - April 18, 2002  Apr 18, 2002 ... He changed the title of the novel to the name of its main character, Dracula, only days before the publication in 1897. Since then, the novel has...
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Spenser (character) - Wikipedia  Spenserhis first name is never officially revealedis a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins. The other major character in the Spenser novels is his close friend Hawk.
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Before J.K. Rowling Was Robert Galbraith, Stephen King Was ...  Jul 15, 2013 ... Those were the years when King, a newly established young writer, published secretly under his pseudonym of choice, "Richard Bachman,"...
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Robert Crais: Excerpt - THE PROMISE  Rollins wasn't his real name, but the man and the woman probably weren't using their true names, either. ... Science takes time. ... Tell your man to finish up so we can get out of here. ... Charles steered her toward the front door like a shopping cart. ... attention, none of whom knew him, had met him or, hopefully, seen him.
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read The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter #2)(37) online free ...  The tapes include the final session, when Lecter killed Raspail. .... Clarice Starling's memory alters lines from T. S. Eliot's "Ash-Wednesday" to suit her. T.H....
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Perseus Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Chapter 1: Prologue, a ...  Aug 26, 2015 ... Harry Potter wasn't the only one who lived. ... Prophet, the newspaper of the wizarding world, had a front page article about The Boy Who Lived:.
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'Harry Potter' countdown: Michael Gambon sees 'no point' in reading ...  Jul 13, 2009 ... Since joining the Potter cast in the third movie, Harry Potter and the ... He's got to be a bit scary, Gambon said of his Dumbledore. ... The faithfully rendered moment will be more potent to fans of the books who know that Dumbledore is, .... Richard Harris was so much better, and it's an awful shame he died...
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The Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman ...  Jul 28, 2015 ... The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Alex ... Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he picked .... One of the many things I enjoy about anticipating something is .... He shifted his body to block Heap's progress, addressing him in a throaty, vulgar accent.