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The Black House

Wilson's Weblog Posted on August 24, 2017 by LarryAugust 24, 2017

by Peter May, 2009, Quercus, New York, London

Occasionally I come across a book I really, really like and this is one of them.  I particularly liked the author’s descriptive writing.  His way of describing the surroundings is almost poetic and creates a compelling backdrop to whatever is going on in the novel.  I also liked his characters as they seemed to be real people.  Sometimes I would get frustrated with Fin, the main character, as he would not behave the way I wanted him to behave, but that’s what makes for an interesting individual.  The plot was well constructed, although the mystery that was at the heart of the story sometimes got a bit lost in the emotions and interactions of the characters.

The book takes place in the Outer Hebrides which are in the northwest of Scotland.  The author clearly has a strong connection and understanding of the people and the land.  I experienced an enjoyable reading of the book but I also took away an appreciation of this part of the world that I didn’t have prior to reading it.  It was well done.

I understand that this is the first book of a trilogy.  I can only hope that the other two books are as good as this one.

4 1/2 stars

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Call Me Madame Alice

Wilson's Weblog Posted on August 9, 2017 by LarryAugust 9, 2017

by K. W. Garlick, 2016, Stillwater River Publications, Chepachet, RI

I was given this book to read by a friend and it looked interesting as some of the story was set in Jamestown and Prudence Islands in Rhode Island.

Alas, the book, did not meet my expectations.  Even though the book was self published, it clamed to have an editor and co-editor at the end.  The book is rife with sentences that were missing verbs, the wrong tense, and poor punctuation.  Also, while the idea behind the book was interesting (linking a conspiracy associated with the loss of the Titanic to the aftermath of the 1938 hurricane in Rhode Island), the book failed in many other aspects.  The dialogue was extremely stilted and every character spoke exactly like all the other characters.  It was impossible to differentiate between the high-ranking naval officer who was head of the family and the housemaid/caregiver who grew up in Haiti.  The story seemed to drag in places as the characters repeated information over and over that was previously disclosed.

I generally don’t like to disparage writing efforts that are self-published as they probably shouldn’t be held to the same standard as books published by publishing houses, but I have read some fairly good books that are self-published and some pretty bad books published normally.  Even though this one is self-published and was lent to me by a friend, it is just too bad to give it a pass.1.5 stars

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Saving Sophie

Wilson's Weblog Posted on July 13, 2017 by LarryMarch 5, 2020

by Ronald H. Balson, 2015, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

This is a very interesting novel about a girl being abducted by her grandfather and the attempts to get her back from the West Bank in Israel.  The book is a fast read and is interesting.  The author weaves historical facts about Israel and the Palestinians into a suspenseful novel.

The ending is a bit of a letdown, but otherwise it is a decent novel.3 1/2 stars

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Honor’s Voice, The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln

Wilson's Weblog Posted on July 5, 2017 by LarryJuly 5, 2017

by Douglas L. Wilson, 1998, Alfred A. Knopf, New York

I had always eyed this book as it surely targeted a subject that I was interested in: the transformation of Abrahams Lincoln from a backwoods youth to the person who had possibly the greatest command of the English language ever.  While the book did answer some questions for me, unfortunately it bored me to death.

I think the major problem with the book is the author’s approach to the subject.  He took a forensic approach to each of the events in the period from 1831 to 1842 and tried to logically make a case for the most accurate accounting of each. The first chapter is about Lincoln’s fight with Jack Armstrong shortly after he arrived in New Salem.  The author goes through several different accounts of this event and tries to determine which is the most likely.  The chapter went on and on to the point where I had to skip about twenty-five pages because it was so redundant.  Also, it didn’t seem to make a lot of difference which accounting was the most accurate as the point was that a fight occurred where Lincoln was involved and, as a result, he earned some new found respect that he previously didn’t have.  ‘Nuff said!

After skipping much of that chapter, I went on to read the rest of the book.  It followed the same path but I eventually made it through to the end.

At the end of the day, I discovered that Lincoln in his early years was prone to making personal attacks on his opponents via anonymous articles submitted to the local newspapers (Twitter wasn’t invented at that time).  This behavior was fairly despicable, even for those times.  It eventually caused Lincoln to be challenged to a duel.  I also learned that he had a penchant for reading Shakespeare and Byron’s poetry.  I think this might have been a key to his mastery of the English language in his later years.

I think the book could have been a lot more enjoyable to read if the author had dispensed with a lot of the detail and focused more on his conclusions.  This would have made the book a lot shorter, but he also could have expanded the time period he examined beyond 1842 as I don’t believe the entire “transformation” had been completed by that time.  There were a lot more events that influenced Lincoln after 1842 including his term in Congress, his family life, etc., that made him the man who was elected in 1860.  2 stars

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Look Again

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 27, 2017 by LarryMay 27, 2017

by Lisa Scottoline, 2009, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York

This is a story about a woman who adopts a young child and then finds out that the mother who gave up the child wasn’t the real biological mother, but that the child was kidnapped.

The book is easy to read and moves along  The plot is pretty well constructed, although it is a bit thin toward the end.  Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading it.3 stars

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In the Unlikely Event

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 18, 2017 by LarryMay 18, 2017

by Judy Blume, audiobook narrated by Kathleen McInerney, 2015, Random House Audio

This is a novel based on three plane crashes that occurred in the city of Elizabeth, NJ, in the early 1950’s within the time span of a few weeks.  All three resulted in the fatalities of all the passengers and crew and the last two also resulted in casualties on the ground.  The third crash resulted in the closure of the Newark airport for a period of time and the rerouting of the approaches and departures away from the residential areas in Elizabeth.  Judy Blume grew up in Elizabeth during that time and, therefore, recalls the crashes from her childhood and the effects they had on her.

The author weaves a story about the some of the families that were affected by these crashes and the emotional toll that it extracted on those who witnessed the events.  The book, however, is more of a fictional chronical of the characters than an actual historical novel.

It was a good story to listen to as we travelled from Florida to Rhode Island but it seemed somewhat slow at times.  The characters were portrayed well and it kept us engaged.3 stars

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Alexander Hamilton

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 18, 2017 by LarryMay 18, 2017

by Ron Chernow, 2005, Penguin Books

This is a fantastic book that is chock-full of information about Alexander Hamilton, but, more importantly, his imprint on the structure of our federal government.  It also provides a lot of insight regarding the divisions that we currently have in how individuals view our federal government.

The book delves into the particular talents of Hamilton and how he used them to structure the government in his role as Secretary of Treasurer during Washington’s presidency.  His influence went well beyond his own cabinet post as many of the other agencies had a very limited bureaucracy.  Hamilton had the unwavering support of Washington for most of his endeavors.  Thomas Jefferson, as Secretary of State, on the other hand, was viewed by Washington with a high level of distrust.

Chernow’s depiction of our founding fathers is unvarnished.  He not only extolls the many talents of Hamilton, but also fully describes his shortcomings.  His depictions of some of the other founding fathers, such as Jefferson and John Adams, is highly critical.  For example, I never knew that Jefferson was such a snake when he held his post as Secretary of State.  His actions would probably be grounds for charges of treason in today’s political environment.  Likewise, Adams is portrayed as someone with personal flaws that sometimes made him appear as a raving lunatic.  He probably had a thinner skin than even our current president!

.One other insight that I gained from this book was that, although the United States was formed as a federal republic under the Constitution, the “United” part of our country’s name was and continues to be somewhat tenuous.  The federal government is supposedly the glue that holds our country together, but it is now often viewed as the oppressive institution that keeps us from doing whatever we would like to be doing.  One wonders if the Civil War, which supposedly was able to preserve the Union, did, in fact, settle it for all time as we seem to be at least as divided now as we were during the first few years of our new nation.

While the book is a wealth of information about that period in the history of our country, it was sometimes pretty tedious to read and, in some places, seemed repetitive.  It’s over seven hundred pages of fairly small print and it took me almost three months to wade through it. (It sometimes put me to sleep after only a paragraph or two perhaps due to my chronic lack of sleep rather than the subject matter).  Despite my efforts to slog through it, I would highly recommend that anyone who has an interest in how the federal government was formed read this book4 stars

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Anatomy of a Soldier

Wilson's Weblog Posted on April 13, 2017 by LarryApril 13, 2017

by Harry Parker, 2016, Alfred A. Knopf, New York

This is a novel about a soldier fighting in an unknown country who steps on an IED.  He almost dies as a result, but somehow survives and loses both of his legs.

There are multiple story lines in the book: the story of the soldier himself, the insurgents they were fighting, a family in the country that sided with the government and the foreign soldiers who came to fight the insurgents, and the children who were on each side.  The circumstances surrounding each of these groups is very interesting.

The book is unusual for a couple of reasons.  First is the use of inanimate objects, such as bullets, a helmet, a bicycle, a cot, etc., to tell the story.  Usually a story is told in either the first or third person.  In this case, it’s told from the standpoint of multiple third objects.  This took a bit of getting used to on my part and I think it actually detracted a bit from the book.  Since each chapter was told by a different “thing”, it took a bit to determine what the “thing” actually was.  I think the story could have been told just as well, or better, by either the person involved or a third person.  In the end, however, the story came together and it wasn’t as much of a detraction as it was when I first started reading.

The second reason this book was a bit different was that it wasn’t told chronologically.  The story started actually with the soldier being blown up and then backtracked and went forward from there.  This could be somewhat disconcerting, but I found that it actually made the story more interesting as the author could describe the same event from several different viewpoints.

I didn’t like the book at all in the beginning as it seemed to have too much detail and jargon about the patrols that the soldiers were involved in and it was hard to follow because of the inanimate object storytelling.  After finishing the book, however, I felt it was a lot better than I thought it was going to be.  The story about a soldier injured in this way and everything that lead up to it and the impact of the injury is compelling.  When most of us are going about our daily lives we don’t have to think about what is going on in a war zone and how it impacts those who are grievously injured.  This book vividly brings it all to mind.2 1/2 stars

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Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel

Wilson's Weblog Posted on March 28, 2017 by LarryMarch 28, 2017

by Nancy Horan, audiobook CD, read by Kristin Potter, 2014, Random House Audio

This book is a novel based on the life of Robert Lewis Stevenson and his American wife, Fanny.

The primary attraction of the book is it’s subject matter as Stevenson and his wife were very interesting characters.  The author does a pretty good job of capturing the essence of each of them and the reader can take away a lot of information about Stevenson and how he became the writer that he was.

The book, however, seemed to be way too long and the back and forth between Stevenson and Fanny became somewhat boring.  The author’s attempt to portray these individuals in the form of a novel didn’t seem entirely appropriate.  I have read many biographies that seemed to convey their subjects’ character and personality as well without having to create the fictitious dialogue that this format requires.

The writing in this novel is fairly good, although the story line seemed drawn out at times.  I can’t say that I enjoyed it as much as I might have had the story been a bit more brief.3 stars

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The Summer Before The War

Wilson's Weblog Posted on January 29, 2017 by LarryJune 15, 2018

by Helen Simonson, 2016, Random House, New York

This novel centers on the experiences of a young woman who is trying to make her way in life just before WWI breaks out.

The story has some interesting moments but the characters are pretty standard fare; the good guy, the heroine, the jackass lord, the young schoolboy who is interested in his school subjects but is afraid to show it because of fear of being ridiculed by his classmates, etc.  The story also didn’t move along very well in places so it became a bit tedious.  In spite of all of the above, the writing is fairly good and it’s not a really bad read; just not great. 2 1/2 stars

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    • The Submission
    • The Summer of the Red Wolf
    • The Tenderness of Wolves
    • The Testaments
    • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel
    • The Towers of Trebizond
    • The Warden
    • The Wright Brothers
    • What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life
    • When Breath Becomes Air
    • Where the Crawdads Sing
    • Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
    • Wishin' and Hopin'
    • Zero Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 
  • 3.5 stars (1) [ - ]
    • Death of a Cad (Hamish MacBeth Mysteries Book 2)
  • 4.0 Stars (76) [ - ]
    • A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
    • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
    • A Long Time Dead (A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery)
    • A Separate Peace
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • A Trick of the Light
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • All the Light We Cannot See
    • An Officer and a Spy
    • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960's
    • Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
    • Babbitt
    • Bear Town
    • Britt-Marie Was Here
    • Bury Your Dead
    • Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Cry, The Beloved Country
    • Cutting for Stone
    • Demons of Unrest
    • Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
    • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • Dreams from My Father
    • Echo Park
    • Educated: a Memoir
    • Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
    • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath 
    • Heart of Darkness,
    • Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Excape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
    • I Will Bear Witness, 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years
    • In the Garden of Beasts, Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
    • James
    • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela  
    • Mayflower
    • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • Mila 18
    • No Country for Old Men
    • One Hell of a Gamble, The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Origins of a Catastrophe
    • Private Svoboda, Hope is the Last to Die
    • River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
    • Salt Sugar Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked Us
    • Sea of Glory
    • So Close to Home
    • South of Broad
    • Squeeze Me
    • State of Denial, Bush at War, Part III
    • Still Life
    • Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
    • The 1st Ladie's Detective Agency
    • The Allure of Immortality, An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
    • The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine
    • The Book Thief
    • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
    • The First Salute
    • The Flight of the Falcon
    • The Gift of Rain
    • The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    • The Giver
    • The Great Gatsby
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • The Invisible Bridge
    • The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
    • The Maidens
    • The Nix: a novel
    • The Plot Against America
    • The Sellout, How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
    • The Silent Patient
    • The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • The Word is Murder (Book 1 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 20th Century
    • Trust
    • Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    • Washington Square
    • Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
  • 4.5 Stars (23) [ - ]
    • A Land Remembered, A Novel
    • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    • A World Lit Only by Fire, The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
    • Birds Without Wings
    • Body and Soul
    • Hellhound on His Trail, The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    • Lessons in Chemistry
    • Moscow, 1812, Napolean's Fatal March
    • Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
    • Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
    • Sarah's Key
    • The Black House
    • The Boys in the Boat
    • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    • The Coldest Winter
    • The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
    • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society
    • The Help
    • The Kings Depart, The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution
    • The Lion Women of Tehran
    • The Night Tiger
    • The Path Between the Seas, The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
  • 5.0 Stars (8) [ - ]
    • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    • Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • Middlesex
    • Morale
    • Night
    • Relative Danger: A Mystery
    • The Lessons of History
    • Water for Elephants

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    • A Beautiful Mystery
    • A Better Man
    • A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
    • A Column of Fire
    • A Death in Vienna
    • A Fatal Grace
    • A Line to Kill (Book 3 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • A Question of Belief (Commissario Brunetti Book 19)
    • A Rule Against Murder
    • A Sleeping Life
    • A Tale of Two Cities
    • A Trick of the Light
    • A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel
    • A World of Curiosities
    • After Annie
    • All the Devils are Here
    • American Dirt: A Novel
    • American Gospel, God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
    • An Innocent Man, Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • An Irish Country Girl
    • An Irish Country Village
    • Anatomy of Greed, The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
    • Arctic Chill
    • Britt-Marie Was Here
    • Bury Your Dead
    • Caleb's Crossing
    • Camino Island: A Novel
    • Catch Me: Detective D. D. Warren, Book 6
    • City on Fire
    • Clapton: The Autobiograpy
    • Close to Death (Book 5 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • Commonwealth
    • Crime and Punishment
    • Dear Edward: A Novel
    • Demon Copperhead
    • Dreams of Joy: A Novel
    • Dressed for Death (Commissario Brunetti Book 3)
    • Earthly Remains (Commissario Brunetti Book 26)
    • Evening Class
    • Everglades: Doc Ford Series, Book 10
    • Everyman
    • Executive Privilege
    • Force of Nature
    • Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation
    • Freedom
    • Girls of Riyadh
    • Gold: A Novel
    • Gone Tomorrow
    • Grand Finale
    • Great Expectations
    • Heart of Darkness,
    • Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
    • Hornet Flight
    • Hot Mahogany
    • Hour Game
    • How the Light Gets In
    • In the Unlikely Event
    • Intervention
    • James
    • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    • Leonardo da Vinci
    • Life After Life
    • Machines Like Me: A Novel
    • Mad Honey
    • Me Before You
    • Murder at a Vineyard Mansion
    • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel
    • New York: The Novel
    • Noah's Compass
    • Northanger Abbey
    • Ocean State
    • Orphan Train: A Novel
    • Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
    • Outliers, The Story of Success
    • Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel
    • Persuasion
    • Protect and Defend
    • Pursuit of Honor
    • Room: A Novel
    • Saturday
    • Shark River
    • Skink, No Surrender
    • Squeeze Me
    • State of Wonder: A Novel
    • Still Life
    • Stolen Prey
    • Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1)
    • Sweet Tooth
    • Teacher Man
    • Tears in the Darkness
    • Ten Thousand Islands
    • The 1st Ladie's Detective Agency
    • The Armor of Light
    • The Blacklist, by Sarah Paretsky (A V.I. Warshowsky Mystery, Book 11)
    • The Blacklist, by Sarah Paretsky (A V.I. Warshowsky Mystery, Book 11)
    • The Blue Notebook
    • The Brass Verdict
    • The Bridesmaid
    • The Castaways: A Novel
    • The Cat Who Went Up The Creek
    • The Cat's Table
    • The Chemist
    • The Colorado Kid
    • The Cruelest Month
    • The Daughters of Mars: A Novel
    • The Devil is Waiting
    • The Diamond Eye
    • The Dry
    • The Dubliners
    • The Edge of Eternity
    • The Enemy
    • The English Girl
    • The Evening and the Morning
    • The Flight of the Falcon
    • The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
    • The Great Alone
    • The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
    • The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
    • The Husband's Secret
    • The Janson Directive
    • The Language of Flowers
    • The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
    • The Lincoln Lawyer
    • The Lion
    • The Long Petal of the Sea
    • The Long Petal of the Sea
    • The Long Way Home
    • The Lost Symbol
    • The Lowland
    • The Madness of Crowds
    • The Man Who Invented Florida
    • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    • The Nature of the Beast
    • The Nickel Boys: A Novel
    • The Night Tiger
    • The Nightingale
    • The Piano Teacher
    • The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
    • The Private Patient
    • The Richest Woman in America: Hettie Green in the Gilded Age
    • The Rider of the Ruby Hills
    • The Rose Code
    • The Searcher
    • The Secret Scripture
    • The Secret Servant
    • The Silent Patient
    • The Survivors
    • The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel
    • The Twist of the Knife (Book 4 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The Undoing Project
    • The Walking Wind
    • The Warden
    • The Witch Elm: A Novel
    • The Word is Murder (Book 1 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • There's Something about St. Tropez
    • Thirteen Moons
    • Tishomingo Blues
    • Under the Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel
    • Us Against You: A Novel
    • Warlight: A Novel
    • Washington Square
    • Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2
    • Wishin' and Hopin'
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    • 'E' is for Evidence
    • 11/22/63
    • Fishing for Fun, and to Wash your Soul
    • A Brutal Telling
    • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
    • A Great Reckoning
    • A Green Journey
    • A Land Remembered, A Novel
    • A Long Time Dead (A D.I. Duncan McAdam Mystery)
    • A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti Book 7)
    • A Rope and a Prayer, A Kidnapping from Two Sides
    • A Secret Kept
    • A Separate Peace
    • A Spy Among Friends, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
    • A Thousand Splendid Suns
    • A Toxic Inconvenience, Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae on Florida's Coast
    • A Traveller's History of Turkey
    • A World Lit Only by Fire, The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance, Portrait of an Age
    • Alexander Hamilton
    • Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair (Jewish Lives)
    • All Creatures Great and Small
    • All the Light We Cannot See
    • Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negly Farson, Foreign Correspondent
    • American Lion, Andrew Jackson in the White House
    • An American Marriage: A Novel
    • An Officer and a Spy
    • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960's
    • Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965
    • Anatomy of a Soldier
    • Anxious People
    • April 1865
    • Armies of the Night
    • Atonement
    • Babbitt
    • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    • Bear Town
    • Beatles, Books, Bombs, and Beyond
    • Becoming
    • Being Mortal : Medicine and What Matters in the End
    • Belize Survivor, Darker Side of Paradise
    • Billy Summers
    • Birds Without Wings
    • Body and Soul
    • Boom!, Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflection on the '60's and Today
    • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    • Call Me Madame Alice
    • Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman
    • Citizens of London
    • Cleopatra: A Life
    • Code Name Verity
    • Con/Artist
    • Cooper's Creek: Tragedy and Adventure in the Australian Outback
    • Crazy Horse, A Lakota Life
    • Cry, The Beloved Country
    • Cutting for Stone
    • Death at La Fenice
    • Death of a Cad (Hamish MacBeth Mysteries Book 2)
    • Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries Book 1)
    • Deep Blue
    • Defending Jacob: a novel
    • Demons of Unrest
    • Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Advisor to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
    • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
    • Dewey, The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched the World
    • Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
    • Dr. Finlay's Casebook Omnibus
    • Dreams from My Father
    • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
    • Eat, Pray, Love
    • Echo Park
    • Educated: a Memoir
    • Endgame, 1945, The Missing Final Chapter of World War II
    • Executive Office: A Look at the U.S. Presidents Through the Lens of Leadership
    • Fall of Giants
    • Fall on Your Knees
    • Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
    • Fear: Trump in the White House
    • Finding Darwin's God, A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
    • Flashman
    • Floreana, A Woman's Pilgimage to the Galapagos
    • Fly Boys, A True Story of Courage
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls
    • Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath 
    • From the Low and Quiet Sea
    • From This Day Forward
    • George F. Kennan: An American Life
    • Gila Country Legend: The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse
    • Glass Houses
    • Gone Girl, A Novel
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    • Handbook of Great Aircraft of WWII
    • Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip
    • Hellhound on His Trail, The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin
    • Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Excape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
    • Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis
    • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
    • Honor Bound, Terror on the F Train
    • Honor's Voice, The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln
    • Horse
    • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
    • I Am Pilgrim
    • I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
    • I Will Bear Witness, 1933-1941, A Diary of the Nazi Years
    • Imagined Communities
    • Imagined Communities
    • In Harm's Way
    • In Morocco
    • In the Garden of Beasts, Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
    • Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
    • Into the Woods
    • Iron Lake
    • Isola
    • J.D. Salinger: A Life
    • JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
    • Justine
    • Killer Smile
    • Killers of the Flower Moon, The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    • Killing Lincoln
    • Killing Patton
    • Kingdom of the Blind
    • Kingsblood Royal
    • Last Sermon for a Sinner
    • Last Train to Paradise
    • Lessons in Chemistry
    • Liar's Poker
    • Lightning Strike
    • Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela  
    • Look Again
    • Looking for Alaska
    • Mayflower
    • Middlesex
    • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • Mila 18
    • Morale
    • Moscow, 1812, Napolean's Fatal March
    • Mudbound
    • My Italian Bulldozer
    • Mysteries of the Middle Ages, The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe
    • Night
    • Night Over Water
    • No Country for Old Men
    • North River: A Novel
    • Norwegian by Night
    • Notre-Dame, A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
    • Nuclear War: A Scenario
    • One Hell of a Gamble, The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • One Second After
    • One Summer: America, 1927
    • One Thousand White Women
    • Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
    • Origins of a Catastrophe
    • Out of Africa, Shadows on the Grass
    • Out of Order
    • Parish Priest, Father Michael McGivney and American Catholocism
    • Pillars of the Earth
    • Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the tale
    • Potshot
    • Prey
    • Prince of Tides
    • Private Svoboda, Hope is the Last to Die
    • Rasputin's Daughter
    • Reconciliation, Islam, Democracy, and the West
    • Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
    • Red Sparrow: A Novel
    • Reinventing American Health Care
    • Relative Danger: A Mystery
    • River of Doubt, Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
    • Robert E. Lee: A Life
    • Salt Sugar Fat, How the Food Giants Hooked Us
    • Santa Fe Dead
    • Sarah's Key
    • Saving Sophie
    • Sea of Glory
    • Shantaram
    • Shutter Island
    • Slow Horses
    • Small Island, A Novel
    • So Close to Home
    • Something in the Water
    • South of Broad
    • Southern Exposure, A Solo Sea Kayaking Journey Around New Zealand's South Island
    • State of Denial, Bush at War, Part III
    • Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
    • Suite Française
    • Supreme Commander: MacArthur’s Triumph in Japan
    • Team of Rivals
    • Term Limits
    • The Allure of Immortality, An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
    • The American Story, Conversations with Master Historians
    • The Anomaly
    • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
    • The Association of Small Bombs, a Novel
    • The Big Short, Inside the Doomsday Machine
    • The Black House
    • The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
    • The Book Thief
    • The Boys in the Boat
    • The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War
    • The Cat who Went to Paris
    • The Catcher in the Rye
    • The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
    • The Chessmen: The Lewis Trilogy
    • The Children Act
    • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
    • The Coldest Winter
    • The Colossus of Maroussi
    • The Convivial Codfish
    • The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • The Darwin Conspiracy
    • The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination
    • The Dentist (Detective Sergeant George Cross Mystery, Book 1)
    • The Devil's Daughter
    • The Ferguson Affair
    • The First Salute
    • The Forgiven
    • The Galton Case
    • The Gift of Rain
    • The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    • The Giver
    • The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    • The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse: A Novel of Love and War
    • The Great Gatsby
    • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society
    • The Hangman
    • The Help
    • The Hour I First Believed
    • The House on Biscayne Bay
    • The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
    • The Innocents
    • The Innocents Abroad or the New Pilgrims' Progress
    • The Invisible Bridge
    • The Kings Depart, The Tragedy of Germany: Versailles and the German Revolution
    • The Lacuna
    • The Lake House: A Novel
    • The Last Days of Night: A Novel
    • The Last Hurrah: A Novel
    • The Lessons of History
    • The Lewis Man: The Lewis Trilogy
    • The Lion Women of Tehran
    • The Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
    • The Madonnas of Leningrad
    • The Maidens
    • The Maltese Falcon
    • The March: A Novel
    • The Marriage Plot
    • The Midnight Library: A Novel
    • The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
    • The Next Accident
    • The Nix: a novel
    • The One from the Other
    • The Only Woman in the Room: A Novel
    • The Paris Library
    • The Path Between the Seas, The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
    • The Plot Against America
    • The Prague Cemetery
    • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
    • The Presidents' War
    • The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
    • The Reavers
    • The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan - A History of the End of the Cold War
    • The Reluctant Tuscan, How I Discovered My Inner Italian
    • The Rising Tide, a Novel of World War II
    • The Screwtape Letters, How a Senior Devil Instructs a Junior Devil in the Art of Temptation
    • The Sea
    • The Sellout, How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
    • The Sentence is Death (Book 2 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
    • The Sentinel
    • The Shadow Man
    • The Shadow of the Wind
    • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
    • The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
    • The Stranger in My Genes, a memoir
    • The Summer Before The War
    • The Summer Before the War: a Novel
    • The Summer of the Red Wolf
    • The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • The Target
    • The Tenderness of Wolves
    • The Testaments
    • The Towers of Trebizond
    • The Tragedy of Patton, A Soldier's Date with Destiny: Could World War II's Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
    • The Underground Railroad: A Novel
    • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • The World is Flat, A Brief History of the 20th Century
    • The Wright Brothers
    • The Year of the Locust
    • Thief River Falls
    • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War that Changed American History
    • Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
    • To Capture What We Cannot Keep
    • To the To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration
    • Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
    • Transfer of Power
    • Trust
    • Turning Angel: A Novel
    • Two Dollar Bill
    • Unbroken, A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    • Under a Wing, A Memoir
    • War and Peace
    • Water for Elephants
    • What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life
    • When Breath Becomes Air
    • Where the Crawdads Sing
    • Where the Sea Breaks Its Back
    • Whiteout
    • Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
    • Wild Bill Donovan, The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
    • Wild Blue, The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24's over Germany
    • Wildfire
    • With Wings Like Eagles, A History of the Battle of Britain
    • Wolves Eat Dogs, An Arkady Renko Novel
    • World Without End
    • Your Heart, My Hands
    • Zero Fall: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 

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