July 20, 2016 1 New Book For Your TBR Amor Towles’s Adult Historical Fiction A Gentleman in Moscow Expected publication: September 2016. “A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant…
I read thrillers because they are exciting, fast paced, involve the CIA, DIA, and other intelligence agencies, and are set in locales that while less than exotic are places that likely I will never visit, at least intentionally, barring my plane being re-routed. Philip…
WWII has fueled many books. Some would say that the WWII has consumed them by fire and in a way it did. For some the consummation was not total; for those lucky souls, they were able to move on, not forget about the war, Hitler,…
R.D. Grupa has written a thriller that ought to be read in one or two sittings to do the novel justice. I say this because of the number of plots and characters, two topics which will likely be unfamiliar to most readers—oil pipelines and…
I found this book during a Friends of the Library Sale. Until now, I had never heard of Myra Roper, a British born Australian educator, and and an expert in China. More information can be found here. China-The Surprising Country is a memoir of her…
Arguments about concentrating power and wealth in the rich, running unions out of existence, the existence of plans to ruin the unions by business, crushing unions advanced in American Labor Unions in their continuing saga against repealing laws requiring non-union employees to pay union dues…
A few blog posts back I reviewed When America First Met China by Eric Jay Dolin. It is the account of how trade relations between China and U.S. began. Sail boats and clipper ships and later steam ships plied the oceans in search of…
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