Similar to the other books in The Life Inspired series, Saint Francis of Assisi is a short readable introductory biographical sketch of the saint from birth to death. The book also merges into each chapter applicability of St. Francis’ values of penance, service,…
Richard Breitman’s account of U.S. Foreign Service Senior Consul Raymond Geist’s heroic efforts at warning FDR and other high U.S. officials of the evil of Hitler’s grandiose plans to conquer and dominate the world and Geist’s efforts from the mid to late 1930’s through the…
Taylor’s account of the train wreck of the Fitzgerald marriage of two clearly incompatible people was hard to read, not because of Taylor’s writing but due to the extensive disastrous consequences visited on others. Scott and Zelda consumed and destroyed so many lives. Notwithstanding other…
Judith “Jack” Chen is a pirate biologist-engineer that reverse engineers patented drugs for delivery into the hands of those who need the drugs but cannot afford them. Eliasz and Paladin, a bot are investigators sent out by a governmental agency, the International Property Coalition (IPC)…
Creepy and forbidding, that is what Hud and Bek faces during a run for their lives. It you want a short story, try Andrew C. Jaxon’s The Dark Unseen. At 78 pages, it is a short gripping young adult read that is a blend of horror…
WWII, the Nazi’s, the Resistance, and Vichy France come alive in Aaron Rockett’s Fake Papers: Survival Lessons from Grandma’s Escape. When I first started reading Fake Papers, I thought that it was a series of short accounts. It is not. Rockett alternates between eras, the…
If you like WWII fiction set in the German-occupied areas or Holocaust concentration camp-Resistance fiction, Solahütte is one to read. It came out before Heather Morris’ debut release The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Both books are similiar though Morris’ book is a cross between true crime…
What would you do if a loved one came down with Ebola? Do you remember when if you went to a doctor’s office they asked if you had traveled outside the U.S. within a certain time period and where? That is what Richard Preston’s forthcoming…
Forthcoming release – September 3, 2019 Reading Ann Cleeves’ latest novel, The Long Call, the first in the series Two Rivers, brought me back to Shetland Islands. I watched the series on Netflix and absolutely loved it though it did take me a bit to…
