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45 books read

Well off my average but certainly a good year for reading. About half and half fiction and non-fiction. The nonfiction mostly being travel related adventures. Starting the new year with a book by a woman who is my age. Her and her hubby paddled in...

Three books in the queue

Im reading three different books at this time- 1) The Boys in the Back Row by Mike Juno The story revolves around the lives of two school buddies, Matt and Eric, who are planning on going to a school band competition. Their absolute favorite comic...

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Rising Son by Giles Dawnay

Just going to go ahead and plug this book even before I have finished reading it. I met the author while on one of my most memorable vacations , living semi-primitively on a small Fijian island. Giles was part of the small staff. He is now doctor in...

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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly...

This book, by Giles Minton, who also has a podcast, entitled Unknown History, tells a story of a top-secret organization founded in London who purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through acts of sabotage. Churchill...

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Emergency Sex ( and other desperate measures)

By Cain , Postlewait, and Thomson. The true stories of three interconnected people who served humanity in the war torn parts of the world in the 1980s through the 90s. Written in 2005 it looks back at the horrible events that took place in places...

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A Death in Vienna

This is the first of a six book series by Frank Tallis, a practicing clinical psychologist. If you have seen the show, "Vienna Blood", on PBS recently, that's what drew me to it. The scene is early 20th Century Vienna and the two main...

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Getting into ebooks

Now that ebooks are well established, I find that my local library has some titles that are only available as ebooks. So, I check out the ebook, and then I find that I either must read it on my browser or download it. Of course I download it. Then I...

River of Fire

I'm in the middle of Sister Helen Prejean's River of Fire. She's the nun who was at the center of the movie Dead Man Walking. The book is the story of her coming of age as a young nun. Well done and mildly funny in places.

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Secret Service

Just completed this book, Secret Service by Tom Bradby. The dust jacket poses the question, "What if you knew your next national leader really was a Russian spy?" That's the dilemma that faces Kate Henderson and her team of MI-6...

Book Recommendations

I'm currently reading "The Templar Mission" by Zena Halpern who just recently passed away at the age of 88. She was featured quite a bit on HISTORY's "The Curse of Oak Island". I'm 10 percent into the book and so far...