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37 lines
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# Title: Secret Vengeance
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## Author: F Paul Wilson
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**Started Reading**: 2022-05-24
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**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-30
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories)
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From Goodreads:
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> Everyone loves senior Carson Toliver, the captain and quarterback of the football team, heartthrob of South Burlington County Regional High—especially the girls. Even Jack's best friend Weezy has a crush on him. And unlike most of the popular kids at school, he's not stuck up. Jack even sees him defending a piney kid who is being bullied in the hall. Which is why Jack is so surprised when Weezy tells him that Carson took her on a date and attacked her.
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## My Take
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This was a pretty good introduction to the character I've come to know as Repairman Jack in the short stories I've read. There was a bit more sci-fi/fantasy in this trilogy than I would have expected, but they were enjoyable nonetheless. I am planning on reading at least "The Tomb" (book 1 in the [Repairman Jack Series](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=repairman+jack&qid=C0ZsSoFoua)), since I've enjoyed everything I've read so far.
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I decided to start reading more and to start using Libby to do so, when I stumbled upon this prequel trilogy to the Repairman Jack stories I've read in some of my anthology books. I read [[Reading List - Secret Histories]] in a few days. I read [[Reading List - Secret Circles]] in a little over a week and decided to finish off the trilogy when I found that the library does not have this title and may not ever get it.
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> Dan Lasco 3 minutes ago
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> That's a metered access (MA) title, and the library has run out of licenses.
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> Some libraries allow MA titles without licenses to remain in the collection and accumulate holds, so they can gauge interest.
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Have I mentioned how cool it is to work at the place that supports the app and knows all the answers?
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I guess I'll have to resort to my old ways to find this one.
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UPDATE: about an hour later, Meghan from Public Library Development contacted me and asked me about the book. She then introduced me to OverDrive's Digital Library (not the Corporate library I already knew about) and offered to upload the trilogy to that service. I set up an account using my work credentials and within a couple hours I was able to checkout the book in Libby! Again, it's good to work in a place that manages the thing you like.
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