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The social experiment conducted in The Wave by Todd Strasser (1981) is so poignant, I’m shocked I’d never heard of it! Frustrated by the mobs roaming the streets of Minnesota and Washington right now? This book will help you understand them a bit better. Continue reading
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Sometimes I just want to veg with a shallow action novel. It’s not my best quality, but it’s true. My go-to authors for such escapism include Clive Cussler (though after 60+ Cussler novels, I’ve grown tired of him), Michael Crichton … Continue reading
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Quiller Book #10 I love me some Cold War era spy thrillers, and this novel by Adam Hall fits the bill. The Chinese connection drew me in, but the action, mystery, and fantastic writing kept me reading. Before picking up … Continue reading
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George’s Marvellous Medicine (1981) is one of Roald Dahl’s darker children’s stories. Better titled: “,,,Or How I Learned to Murder My Grandma.” Continue reading
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Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough (1981) is a more family-centric biography of Tedd Roosevelt than Edmund Morris’s works. Continue reading
I happened upon this e-book accidentally, but boy did it come in handy for night-time readings while on the road! I’d never heard of Clyde Robert Bulla before, but this first taste of his historical-fiction for children makes him a … Continue reading
My parents had this book on their bookshelf for as long as I can remember, and yet I never had any interest in trying it out during my years at home. My reasons were two-fold: first, as a youngster, I … Continue reading
Book Six of the Dirk Pitt Adventures, Night Probe!, takes our hero on a desperate search for a single piece of paper which could change the political landscape of the entire North American continent. The so-called “North American Treaty,” purposefully … Continue reading
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A Walk Across America 2: Two wonderful people on the journey that captured a nation’s heart I first came across the writings of Peter Jenkins as a college student, restless and bent on broadening my horizons with my own future … Continue reading
The blurbs that pepper this 1981 book’s cover and front pages scream “Fact or Fiction?” as if the story that this novel portrays had any possibility of being real. Those blurbs initially drew me to the book, not to mention … Continue reading
