Pick-a-Shelf discussion

This month’s clues are courtesy of Amy who finished first in Round 2 of Readers Pursuit
I'm a sports nut, especially tennis, so I've been trying to work that into clues.

Your Clues:
1. tennis terms in the title, subtitle or author's name: tennis, net, lob, serve, volley, rally, ace, fifteen, thirty, forty, love, advantage. Embedded words count, for example LOBster, AnNETte, rACE, etc.
2. Books with a sports theme (any sport). Can be fiction or non-fiction
3. Any type of sporting equipment on the cover

Please note which clue your book fits.

Clue #1:

ACE
William Makepeace Thackeray

The Adjacent
The Crack in Space
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty #1)
Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Heinlein Juveniles #12)
The King’s Peace (Tir Tanagiri #1)
Palace of Desire (The Cairo Trilogy #2)
Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy #1)
Shadrach in the Furnace
The Space Between Us
The Space Merchants (The Space Merchants #1)
A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel #1)
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (The Unreal and the Real #2)

ADVANTAGE
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life
The Disadvantages of Being Educated & Other Essays

FIFTEEN
Every Fifteen Minutes
Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum #15)
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

FORTY
Forty Acres
The Forty Rules of Love
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About

LOB
A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poems
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Lobby
Lobby Hero

LOVE
Diana Love
Linda Lovelace
Maud Hart Lovelace

40 Love
Can't Buy Me Love (Crooked Creek Ranch #1)
Cry, the Beloved Country
Deadly Love (Francesca Cahill #1)
Enduring Love
The Five Deaths of Roxanne Love (Beyond #1)
For Love of Country
For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy #3)
For the Love of Pete
An Inquiry Into Love and Death
Love and Longing in Bombay
Love, Lies and Spies
Love Me to Death (Lucy Kincaid #1)
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy(Harold Fry #2)
Love You to Death
The Man Who Loved Children
The Memory of Love
Retreat from Love
A Secret Love (Cynster #5)
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
The Well-Beloved

NET
Robert Jackson Bennett
Tegan Bennett Daylight
Sonya Hartnett
Gwyneth Jones
Mary Robinette Kowal
Daniel Nettle
Kenneth Steven

Grasp a Nettle
The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1)
Nettles
The Nettle Spinner
Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food
Some Prefer Nettles

SERVE
Best Served Cold (First Law World #4)
Breakfast Served Anytime


TENNIS
Phillip Tennison

The Tennis Partner
Tennison

THIRTY
Thirty Girls
A Woman of Thirty

VOLLEY
Rue Volley

Year of The Phenoms: A Volleyball Journey
Thinking Volleyball
The Volleyball Coaching Bible - Volume II (The Volleyball Coaching Bible, #2)

Clue #2:

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Closer: My Story
Fight Club
Triathlon 2.0: Data-Driven Performance Training
When the Game Was Ours

Chinooks Hockey Team series -6 books
Fast Track series -8 books
Myron Bolitar series -11 books

Clue #3:

1 - Bea
8 - Amy
13 - Tien
27 - Coralie
38 - Lauren
41 - Karin

Clue #1:
The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War - net

This could fit clue 2 or 3, so I'll take Clue 2 sports theme, nonfiction

Clue #1
American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett benNET
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet plaNET
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight benNET
The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett hartNETt
Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf by Sonya Hartnett hartNETt
Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones LOVE gwyNETh
Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal robiNETte
Glen Lyon by Kenneth Steven kenNETh
The Crack in Space spACE
Have Spacesuit Will Travel spACEsuit
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands spACE
The Grace of Kings graACE
Palace of Desire palACE
Palace Walk palACE
The Space Between Us spACE
The Space Merchants spACE
The AdjacentadjACEnt
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray makepeACE
The King's Peace peACE
Love and Longing in Bombay LOVE
Retreat from Love LOVE
The Memory of Love LOVE
Enduring Love LOVE
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories LOVE
An Inquiry Into Love and Death LOVE
The Man Who Loved Children LOVE

Clue #1:
For Love of Country -LOVE

Clue #2:
Myron Bolitar series -a mystery series but Myron is a sports agent so revolves around the sporting world

Clue #1
Lob:
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer
Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan
The Lobby by Jase Rosenburg
A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World: Poems by Adam Clay

Forty
You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About by Dave Barry
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
Forty Acres by Dwayne Alexander Smith

Fifteen
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline

Net
Some Prefer Nettles by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Nettles by Ronnie Lee Johnson
Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are by Daniel Nettle
Grasp a Nettle by Betty Neels
Risotto with Nettles: A Memoir with Food by Anna Del Conte
The Nettle Spinner by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Tennis
Tennison by Lynda La Plante
A Smaller Country by Phillip Tennison


Thirty
Thirty Girls by Susan Minot
A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac

Serve
Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs

Volley
Blood and Light by Rue Volley
Year of The Phenoms: A Volleyball Journey by Henry Gonzalez
Thinking Volleyball by Mike Herbert
The Volleyball Coaching Bible - Volume II by American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA)

Advantage
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Disadvantages of Being Educated & Other Essays by Albert Jay Nock

Love
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Ordeal by Linda Lovelace
40 Love by Madeleine Wickham

Clue #1: Tennis Terms

Deadly Love
A Secret Love
The Five Deaths of Roxanne Love
An Inquiry Into Love and Death
For the Love of Mike
Can't Buy Me Love
Love Me to Death
For the Love of Pete
Love You to Death
Last Chance to Run by Dianna Love

Clue #2: Sports Theme

Hockey
Simply Irresistible
See Jane Score
The Trouble With Valentine's Day
True Love and Other Disasters
Any Man of Mine
Nothing But Trouble

Motor Racing
Hard and Fast
Flat-Out Sexy
The Chase
Hot Finish
Slow Ride
Jacked Up
Full Throttle
Final Lap

Clue #3: Sporting Equipment

Clue #1: The Tennis Partner, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Love), A Trace of Smoke (ACE in Trace)

Clue #2: When the Game Was Ours, Fight Club

Clue #3:

Clue #1
Shadrach in the Furnace furnACE

PAS updated through #9.

ETA: Now through #10.

Tien, Lauren (post #11, clue #3) left out book #6 of that series, I think, because the sporting equipment is a car and helmet. I think those are appropriate pieces of equipment for racing. What do you think?

PAS updated through #13.

Bea wrote: "Tien, Lauren (post #11, clue #3) left out book #6 of that series, I think, because the sporting equipment is a car and helmet. I think those are appropriate pieces of equipment for racing. What do ..."

yep, I'd also count 6.5, 8.5, & 10.5

Tien wrote: "Bea wrote: "Tien, Lauren (post #11, clue #3) left out book #6 of that series, I think, because the sporting equipment is a car and helmet. I think those are appropriate pieces of equipment for raci..."

Got them. This thread is caught up now.

Bea wrote: "Tien, Lauren (post #11, clue #3) left out book #6 of that series, I think, because the sporting equipment is a car and helmet. I think those are appropriate pieces of equipment for racing. What do ..."

Thanks Bea and Tien. Yes, I left it out because I wasn't sure the car worked for sporting equipment on the cover.

Clue # 3



For the bicycle on the cover.

PAS updated.

Clue #1: Love, Lies and Spies by Cindy Anstey

PAS updated.

Clue #3 for the bicycle on the cover

PAS updated through #24.

Clue #2 sports theme

The Closer: My Story by Mariano Rivera

PAS updated.

# 2. Books with a sports theme (any sport). Can be fiction or non-fiction

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

#3. Any type of sporting equipment on the cover

(soccer ball)

PAS updated through #29.

Bea, I don't see the last book I entered here in clue 3 after you did your last update, but then I realized that Tien has to add that since it's her post. Is that correct?

Karin wrote: "Bea, I don't see the last book I entered here in clue 3 after you did your last update, but then I realized that Tien has to add that since it's her post. Is that correct?"

Yes, Tien updates this thread and gives points. Susan and I update the PAS profile with books from this game.

Bea wrote: "Karin wrote: "Bea, I don't see the last book I entered here in clue 3 after you did your last update, but then I realized that Tien has to add that since it's her post. Is that correct?"

Yes, Tien..."
Okay. I'm not quite sure what the PAS is, but I'm certainly looking forward to reading another novel by Fredrik Backman.

Karin wrote: "Bea wrote: "Karin wrote: "Bea, I don't see the last book I entered here in clue 3 after you did your last update, but then I realized that Tien has to add that since it's her post. Is that correct?..."

PAS is the Pick-a-shelf profile on GR...much like my profile or yours.

Bea wrote: "Karin wrote: "Bea wrote: "Karin wrote: "Bea, I don't see the last book I entered here in clue 3 after you did your last update, but then I realized that Tien has to add that since it's her post. Is..."

Okay, so simple, but I never once thought of PAS as pick a shelf, silly me!

Clue # 3 (since skateboarding has competitions I figure it's a real sport)

Karin wrote: "Clue # 3 (since skateboarding has competitions I figure it's a real sport)

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Yes, I think Tony Hawk has elevated skateboarding to a sport.

Bea wrote: "Karin wrote: "Clue # 3 (since skateboarding has competitions I figure it's a real sport)

[bookcover:A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned|7558692..."

Excellent.

PAS updated.