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FIC VERG (also LARGE PRINT, eBook, CDBOOK, eAudiobook) “Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese, 2009, 667 pages
Don’t let the number of pages put you off–this book goes down easy. Members of the Contemporary Books Group said they would’ve been happy if it’d gone on for another 200 pages, the… Read More…
A Game For Swallows by Zeina Abirached
Zenia lives in Beirut, a city split in half by civil war. One half of the city is Muslim, the other Christian. Unfortunately Zenia’s family is split up between the two sides; her grandmother on one side, her parents on the other. On one day when her parents vi… Read More…
MYS SIGE “Murder in Mykonos: An Inspector Kaldis Novel” by Jeffrey Siger, 2009, 279 pages
“Politically incorrect detective Andreas Kaldis, promoted out of Athens to serve as police chief for Mykonos, is certain his homicide days are over. Murders don’t happen in tourist heaven. At least tha… Read More…
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
First, the aliens arrived and hit the Earth with a massive electromagnetic pulse. It destroyed our ability to use any sort of advanced technology. The second wave was massive earthquakes that wiped out all the coastal cities. Then came the plague; the third wave. Very … Read More…
577.44 MA “Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie” by John Madson, 1995, 326 pages
The cover of this book with its pure blue sky set off by the whitest of cumulus clouds, with a seas of yellow wildflowers set off by rich green foliage reminded me of the last time I visited the Neil… Read More…
What will be the 5th wave? Book review coming soon…