The Blackened Canteen by Jerry Yellin
This is a poignant fictionalized story of a true event that occurred during World War II. The true story goes like this: on a bombing mission just before the end of the war on June 20, 1945 over the...
View ArticleVenus in Furs by Jospeh Von Sacher-Masoch
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch was born in what is now Belarus in 1836. A member of the Austrian ruling class he trained as a lawyer but really saw himself as a man of letters. He devoted himself to...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
taken from the Kate Morton website A brief synopsis A lost child... On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress...
View ArticleCloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
A novel which was recently in the running for various literary prizes, no wait come back! Cloud Atlas is divided into sections with different narrators in various periods of history and the future...
View ArticleRaiders from the North by Alex Rutherford
Another addition to the growing body of fiction fictionalizing the lives of various warlike historical figures. Like all those books the plotting in this book is constrained by the fact that the...
View ArticleThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate...
It could also be titled "or the first police detective in the British police force". The story tells of a crime committed in the 19th century, 1860, in a large country house occupied by the family of...
View ArticleThe Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne
Shane Claiborne is a founding partner in a religious community in Philadelphia called The Simple Way. In The Irresistible Revolution the author describes his personal journey from Eastern Tennessee...
View ArticleA BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS
by Shannon Hale This is a story I won't forget - a book to have when I need it. It is written as entries into a "thought book" by a peasant of a different world and culture, so I guess a fantasy,...
View ArticleThe Bodysurfers by Robert Drewe
A collection of short stories following the Lang family through three generations. Set in Australia the book mostly features David Lang ( who narrates the first story) and his brother Max there sister...
View ArticleHomer and Langley By E.L. Doctorow
I just finished this piece of historical fiction about the Collyer brothers of New York. Until reading this book I didn't know much about these men but the author has done such a quality job...
View ArticleStruck By Living
Julie chooses to live. This is her choice. It was not always her choice.Her life story gives us a time line of when her depression surfaced and her journey to survival. She starts when she was a...
View ArticleGet Out Of The Way
Get Out Of The Way -- Daniel DingesIn 1967, Tom Daniels is having a serious conversation with himself. The United States is involved in a war which he does not believe in. He also realizes that he...
View ArticleThe Confessions of Catherine de Medici: A Novel
... the teenage Florentine heiress sent to France to marry a prince she does not love; the determined wife enduring years in the shadow of her husband’s icy mistress; the powerful regent fighting for...
View ArticleThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeAimee BenderI can give you no reason why I read this complete book. I'm still wondering what the heck it meant to the author. Brilliantly written in my opinion,...
View ArticleIf You Go Into The Woods by David Gaughran
(The first couple of published shor-stories from a promising young Irish author )You know that feeling of (somehow pleasant) unease? A cold shiver down your spine? Skin inexplicably covered in goose...
View Article"Death of a Kingfisher" by M.C. Beaton
This book is just. . .bizarre; it's like one author began writing it, died before it was finished, and a totally different author took over. It starts out as a typical, traditional "cozy" murder...
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