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The Allure of Immortality, An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet

Wilson's Weblog Posted on June 16, 2016 by LarryJune 16, 2016

by Lyn Millner, 2015, University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL

This book is a history of the Koreshan movement and its settlement in Estero, Florida.  The movement was founded by a very charismatic individual, Cyrus Teed, who taught that followers who believed in him and his beliefs would somehow achieve immortality.

An added interest in the book for me is the close proximity of the Koreshan State Park to our current residence in Florida.

Ms. Milner, who is a professor at nearby Florida Gulf Coast University, treats her subject with respect and she has done an incredible amount of research on her subject.  Her writing is good, and my only negative comment is that sometimes the amount of detail she provides can get somewhat tedious.

I particularly liked how she brought the subject up to date at the end of the book with a detailed account of the current situation, both for the state park as well as the College of Life Foundation, which manages the left-over assets of the Koreshans.  I also liked her afterword in which she described some of her own thoughts and emotions as she researched and wrote the book.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in cults and how they come into being as well as anyone who has an interest in Southwest Florida history.4 stars

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North River: A Novel

Wilson's Weblog Posted on June 10, 2016 by LarryJune 16, 2016

by Pete Hamill, 2007, Kindle edition by the Hachette Book Group

This is a story of  a doctor who grew up in a tough area of Manhattan and then enlisted in the army.  He was in the trenches in France in WWI and then returned to his old neighborhood to resume his practice.  In the very first pages of the book, his daughter dumps her child on his doorstep and takes off for Spain.

The story focuses on how he deals with having to bring up a child in this environment while trying to carry on with his own life.

While the book does provide some insights regarding how it was in this New York neighborhood during the Great Depression, it seems to focus a lot more on the relationship the doctor develops with his grandson and another individual who comes into his life.  The book sometimes seems to lack some energy and the ending is less that I had hoped for.  I enjoyed reading it, but it fell short of being a really memorable book.3 stars

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The Lake House: A Novel

Wilson's Weblog Posted on June 4, 2016 by LarryJune 16, 2016

by Kate Morton, 2015, Kindle Edition, Atria Books, Reprint Edition, sold by Simon and Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.

This book is a mystery about a cold case disappearance of a young boy in Cornwall, England. A woman detective, who is temporarily suspended from her job for alleged misconduct, visits her grandfather who has recently moved to Cornwall after the death of his wife.  While there she becomes interested in what happened when the young boy disappeared.

The book is well-written but didn’t seem to offer much in the way of suspense as the disappearance occurred many years in the past.  Much of the narrative delves into the motives and thoughts of persons who had been dead for many years.  Additionally, the final resolution of the mystery depends, as many mysteries seem to do, on a somewhat hard to believe coincidence.3 stars

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The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 25, 2016 by LarryJune 13, 2016

by Clifford Stoll, originally published in 1989, Kindle edition by Doubleday, 2012

Clifford Stoll was an IT employee at Berkeley Labs in the 1980’s when he noticed a discrepancy of only 75 cents between the computer logs that tracked usage of the mainframe computers and the billing records.  Through his investigation, he discovered that a hacker was accessing the computers at Berkeley and subsequently at other supposedly secure computer sites in the U.S.

Because Stoll kept a log of all of his actions, he was able to write a detailed account of how he tracked down the perpetrator.

The book is a little dated as it references some systems that are no longer in use and, because of the detail the author provides, it sometimes drags a bit.  Nevertheless, the book is a very interesting story about how he tracked down the hacker and it also provides some helpful insight as to how to protect computers from such assaults, even in today’s world. 3 stars

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The Galton Case

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 20, 2016 by LarryJune 13, 2016

by Ross McDonald, originally published in 1959, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard; Reprint edition (November 26, 1996)

This is another crime story featuring the detective, Lew Archer.  Unlike many of the detective shows on TV these days, Lew Archer has a dark side that comes out sometimes, typical of the Noir fiction genre.  The characters in the book aren’t very likable and there are some passages of violence where the author doesn’t hold back.

This novel has an interesting plot, but the resolution of the mystery depends on a pretty far-fetched coincidence which is also typical of many mystery stories.  Even though it’s a bit dated, it is enjoyable to read and, if one is into crime stories, this book is certainly one that suffices.3 stars

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Intervention

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 17, 2016 by LarryMay 17, 2016

by Robin Cook, 2009, audiobook read by George Guidall, Recorded Books, Frederick, MD

This is possibly one of the worst books I have ever experienced.  My wife and I listened to it on our trip from Florida to Rhode Island and we were both very happy when it ended.

First of all, the author went on a rant about alternative medicine in the early stages of the book.  I am in agreement with a lot of what he said, but he just kept hammering it over and over again.  It got to the point where I wanted to fast forward as it got to the point where it was extremely tedious.

In the second part of the book, the main character (a medical examiner) just dropped his crusade against alternative medicine and suddenly turned to another project, seemingly to take his mind off his situation at home, a baby with a lethal brain tumor.  He then gets involved with a plot to extricate the Virgin Mary’s ossuary from under St. Peter’s tomb.  The implication of this extrication is that, if it turns out that they validate that it does contain Mary’s bones, it will invalidate the doctrine of papal infallibility and the Catholic Church will be totally discredited. The author again pounds the religious argument over and over, making it just as tedious and pedantic as the alternative medicine tirade.

Because of the split between the focus on alternative medicine in the first part of the book and on the religious aspect in the second part, the author attempts to tie it all together with a supposed miracle in the last chapter.  It’s a nice try, but it just doesn’t seem to cut it.

Compounding the issues above are some of the characters which are, quite frankly, repugnant.  There are the archaeologist and his geneticist wife who argue with each other like five year olds.  Their back and forth digs are ridiculous.  The archbishop of New York, who is complicit in the plot, is so rigid in his views that I couldn’t empathize with him at all.

Finally, the end of the book didn’t seem to bring it together.  The best thing about it was that it was over.  The reader, George Guidall, did his usual good job.  The reason I have rated this book at 1 1/2 stars versus only 1 star is because of the reader.  He saved us from having to read it ourselves.1 1/2 stars

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A Death in Vienna

Wilson's Weblog Posted on May 17, 2016 by LarryMay 17, 2016

by Daniel Silva, 2004, audiobook read by John Lee, Books on Tape

This is a pretty good book about tracking down a Nazi war criminal in Vienna who has a connection to a right-wing politician who is running for the office of the Austrian Prime Minister.  The plot is believable for the most part and keeps moving throughout the book.  The characters are well done.  The reader did a good job as well.3 stars

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Boom!, Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflection on the ’60’s and Today

Wilson's Weblog Posted on April 28, 2016 by LarryJune 15, 2018

by Tom Brokaw, 2007, Random House, Inc., New York

I first encountered this book at a lecture given by Tom Brokaw at Brown University probably back in 2008.  His latest book, Boom! was the topic of the lecture.  During the first half of the lecture Brokaw reviewed the events of 1968 one by one.  I was then in my junior year at Brown so Brokaw’s retelling of the events was as if I was reliving them.  I couldn’t believe how the impact of this part of the lecture was so raw and emotional for me.

Brokaw then, in the second half of the lecture, related how the events of the sixties were impacting the political and cultural world of 2008.  At the end of the lecture I had the opportunity to buy the book and, as Brokaw signed the book, I told him about our graduation experience at Brown when we turned our backs on our commencement speaker, Henry Kissinger.  Tom Brokaw said he hadn’t been aware of that incident.

After the lecture, which I attended with my son, Peter, and his future wife, Erika, we went to dinner.  When I asked them what they thought of the lecture, they said the first part (the revisiting of the events of 1968) didn’t have much interest for them.  The second half they found somewhat interesting, however.  It was then that I realized how much difference a generation can make in how the events of history are perceived.

I took the book home, and I didn’t pick it up again until this year.  Because it was written almost nine years ago, it is somewhat dated.  Barack Obama was just starting to pick up momentum in his first campaign for the presidency.  Hillary Clinton was still the frontrunner.  Brokaw decries the hard divisions that existed between the right and left, but was expressing some hope that we could come together and begin solving some of the pressing problems of our country and the world.  After eight years of one of the most divisive presidencies ever, I wonder how he would view our situation today.

The book provides some interesting vignettes of some of the major players in the sixties and their current thoughts and perspectives on those times and the issues and how they evolved.  Because of my interest in that era, I thought that most of them were quite interesting to me.  I doubt, however, that my son or daughter-in-law would find them quite as interesting.  Brokaw also provides much of his own experiences in meeting those individuals back then and his thoughts and perspectives.

Where the book fails, I think, is that the author didn’t do a very good job of tying things together at the end.  In the final chapter, where he had a chance to really delve into the issues and provide his final thoughts, he continues to focus on some additional individuals.  By the time I got to this point, I was ready for him to wrap it up rather than bring more people into the spotlight.  I was a little disappointed that he left it hanging as much as he did.

It was an interesting read for me and brought back many memories.  In addition, it provided some information about some of the individuals who were front and center during those times.  I would, however, have liked the author to bring it together a bit more at the end.  It would be nice if Tom Brokaw would be willing to author a short afterword to bring us up to date on where the world has moved since he wrote the book.3 1/2 stars

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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War that Changed American History

Wilson's Weblog Posted on April 16, 2016 by LarryApril 16, 2016

by Brian Kilmead and Don Yaeger, 2015, Random House, New York

This is a quick book to read and it is done pretty well.  The authors keep it moving so the reader never gets bogged down.  It tells the story of the first Barbary Pirate War and the actions that took place.  The book also makes reference to the second Barbary Pirate War that was conducted later by President Madison.

The book was of interest to me as I didn’t know much about what transpired during this war.  The authors also did a good job of capturing the importance of this war to the United States.3 stars

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All the Light We Cannot See

Wilson's Weblog Posted on April 14, 2016 by LarryApril 16, 2016

by Anthony Doerr, 2014. Scribner, New York

This book, about a young blind girl and a German boy genius whose paths cross in WWII, starts a bit slow and seems a little disjointed in the beginning, but it really comes together in the end.

The author utilizes very short chapters that alternate back and forth between the blind girl and the German boy.  I found that it took a little getting used to, but this technique really adds to the overall book. 4 stars

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    • A Blaze of Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Shiloh
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    • 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,
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    • 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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    • 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
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