by Adam Higginbotham, 2019, Simon & Schuster Excellent book although somewhat difficult to digest due to all the individual characters involved and their Russian names which make it hard to follow. I was not aware of the causes of the … Continue reading →
by Richard M. Watt, 1968, Barnes and Noble Books. Quite a few years ago my son showed me a box of books that he had been assigned to read when he was studying for his master’s degree in Eastern European … Continue reading →
by Ben Macintyre, Kindle Version, 2018, Broadway Books, Reprint edition This is the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB agent who began providing information to MI6. The story is intriguing, especially since I had never heard of this individual and … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, 2019, Viking This book is, indeed, short – only 62 pages. At the end of the book there is a note indicating that the book was written in seven days in April of 2019. Follett wrote the … Continue reading →
by Arun K. Singh, M.D., with John Hanc, 2019, Center Street, Hachette Book Group, New York This is the story of a person who started his life as a delinquent boy in India who immigrated to America and became one … Continue reading →
by Mark Twain, originally published by Mark Twain in 1869, Kindle Version,2011, Digireads.com Publishing This book was on the reading list for our upcoming trip to Israel, Jordan, and Egypt so I decided to read it. Most of the other … Continue reading →
by John Sanford, 2012, Audiobook narrated by Richard Ferrone, Penguin Audio This book caught my eye because it was about the murder of a family on Lake Minnetonka in Wayzata, Minnesota. Wayzata is where my two children graduated high school, … Continue reading →
By Bryan Stephenson, 2014, Speigel and Grau This is the story of a young man who founded a non-profit organization in Atlanta to fight for overturning prison sentences for individuals who were unfairly convicted or sentenced in the South. The … Continue reading →
By John U. Bacon, audiobook narrated by Johnny Heller, 2017, Harper Collins Publisher This is a detailed account of the disaster that occurred in 1917 when a ship, loaded with ammunition to be sent to Europe, blew up in Halifax … Continue reading →
by David Riech, 2018, Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House, New York This is a totally fascinating book about a subject I knew very little. This is not to say that I didn’t know anything about DNA; it’s … Continue reading →