This is the 3rd book in the Scot Harvath series by Brad Thor. This series I started with more recent books and enjoyed them and then found most of the beginning series of books so started over. The character Scot seems to have some growing up to do, little to cocky at this point for me. Still a good action read.
I am keeping this series at this point so will go into a keeper pile in my book room.
This is a short story book from the early 1990s. A lot of the stories have characters in Africa or about doctors or doctors in Africa. Some interesting stories but overall just okay as a collection.
I have posted it on PBS, it is the only copy in system but since older book and short stories don't know if it will ever move.
This is a sort of famous book about the Mormon church and more specifically the fundamentalist wing of the church--I guess not really part of the official Mormon church. The fundamentalist believe and practice polygamy which while illegal they still find ways around and live in basically enclosed towns of like minded believers. The author Jon Krakauer, talks about brothers that are part of this fundamentalist wing that say that they had a revelation to kill people that were against them and they kill one of their brother's wife and their baby daughter. They were also to kill a couple more people but that didn't happen. While telling that story he also works in research on the history of the Mormon church--an interesting and at times violent history. The end of the book the author has an appendix where he answers criticisms of his book by a Mormon historian.
There are 12 WL for this book. Not sure if I will loan it out or mail it off at this point though.
I have enjoyed a couple other books by this author, Peter Heller and this is another one that is a good read. A couple college age guys that are outdoorsy types, take a canoe trip in Canada along a river to the Hudson Bay--I think that was destination. On the way they can see a forest fire coming toward them. The also get involved with two other couples on the river. The first meet a guy that says he lost his wife--the two go back & find her but realize the guy likely tried to kill her and then tries to kill them. Then a couple of drunkards catch them and try to rape the girl. Only one of the guys make it back. I finished it a couple weeks ago so working off memory but overall was a good read.
There are 14 WL for this book so I will get it mailed off at some point.
This is a short story collection by Kevin Wilson. I hadn't read anything by him before but have ordered his first book. Some really good stories in here and some characters that you really enjoyed or at least made you think. I really enjoyed this book
There are 3 WL for this book in PBS so will get it mailed off at some point. Right now have a lot of credits and a lot of books that I could mail so no hurry right now.
A sort of spy action type book but was a confusing cast of characters. It also bounced back at points to different periods of time for some of the characters. A CIA spy falls in love in Beirut, Lebanon and they have a child together. A car bomb explodes killing the girlfriend and the spy and his baby daughter survive. He cannot keep her so gets her to the girlfriends parents on a desolate island in Sweden. Now jump forward 20 some years and things happen and like I said not really clear what & who is happening. I just thing could have been better. Also seems to take a lot of stuff from similar books of this type.
I have posted it on PBS, it is the only copy so will see if it moves at some point.
The writer moved as a young child with her family from the then disintegrating Yugoslavia to Australia and her life there. After they establish some residency in Australia they moved back to Yugoslavia for a period but war was continuing so they moved back again. She talks about family and her experiences in both places. An interesting read and perspective on what was going on at that time.
There was 1 WL for this book so I have posted it & will see if I can get it mailed off.
