Several Book Excerpts

Author's Note: See if you can guess them all! I know many of you will get the second one.

Part I:

She nodded. "Well, there's some sort of camp at the university there this summer, and they actually let girls play. One of ours is going to be there in July.
Zachary stopped. "One of yours? Who?"
"Samantha Golton. The forward. Know her? She's almost as fast as you."
Zee's eyes popped open. "Samantha?"
"I see you do know her," Nicki grinned. "Shall I put in a good word for you?"
"Yes. No... I don't know!" Zee grabbed her shoulder. "What should I do?"
"Sam's cool. Why don't I, you know, lay the groundwork?"
"No! No! don't!"
"Okay, okay. Why not?"
"Because... Because..." Zee stopped. Why not, indeed? Because either Samantha wouldn't be interested and then he'd have to curl up in a corner and die, or else she might be interested and then she'd try to talk to him and he might not be ready and then he'd embarrass himself and would have to curl up in a corner and die. Either way the consequences would be dire. Dire!

Part 2:

I'd never really been afraid of heights per se, but being able to see all the details with such clarity made the prospect less appealing. The angles of the rocks. below were sharper than I would have imagined them.

Part Three:

Leaf had been worried that some neighbors might ask who she was when they got outside, but she had nothing to fear. Though there were faces at various windows, no one came outside. They were probably all wondering if Sylvie was a victim of the new bioweapon.
They would not be reassured by the sight of the second paramedic handing Leaf a pair of goggles and then liberally spraying her all over with something that looked bright blue when it came out but was colorless when dry. It did have a faint odor, though, of wet newspaper. Fortunately it didn't leave any residue Leaf could feel.
After the spraying, the paramedic went to the front and got behind the wheel. Leaf climbed in the back, where Ron was bringing on-line a device that swung out above the stretcher and had half a dozen hanging tubes, leads, and sensors.
Leaf shut the door behind her, and the ambulance took off, the siren coming on once more. As they rounded the corner, she bent over and undid the straps around Sylvie's arms, just as the paramedic on the other side was unscrewing the lid of a tube of conductive gel.
"What are you-"
"Don't move!" hissed Sylvie, rearing up and pressing the auto-injector hard against Ron's thigh, where the needle would easily strike through his protective suit. "This is a two-hundred-fifty-milligram dose of Rapyrox. Tell your partner not to radio or hit an alarm either."
The paramedic froze, then slowly turned his head to the front. Leaf didn't know what Rapyrox was, but Ron certainly did and he was afraid of it.