Lynn's List (December 25, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• A Log Cabin Christmas Collection: 9 Historical Romances During American Pioneer Christmases by Wanda E. Brunstetter and others
• When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed by Howard Markel
• Aging Behind Prison Walls: Studies in Trauma and Resilience by Tina Maschi
• The Poison Garden by A. J. Banner
• When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson
• The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living by Mari Ruti
• Letters From Home by Kristina Mcmorris
• Kill For Me by M. William Phelps
• Pretty as a Picture: A Novel by Elizabeth Little
• Who Rescued Who by Victoria Schade
• Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
• Bag Man, by Rachel Maddow
• Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America by Karine Jean-Pierre
• The Henna Artist: A Novel by Alka Joshi
• The Girl from Back Then: A Revenge Thriller by Edward Hendriks
• She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
• Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
• Typhoid Mary by Judith Walzer Leavitt
• In All Its Fury: The Story of the January 12th 1888 Blizzard by W. H. O'Gara
• Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization by Joe Scarborough
• Radical Friend: Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds by Nancy A. Hewitt
• The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America by Aram Goudsouzian
• The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman, and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own by Emily Herring Wilson
• Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor by Larry Dane Brimner
• An Island Christmas: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
• The Birthday Weekend: A totally unputdownable psychological thriller by Lesley Sanderson
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Lynn's List (December 18, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen [young adult fiction]
• Civil Rights in America: A History (Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties) by Christopher W. Schmidt
• Murder on Mars by Hugh Walters
• Girl Under Water: An absolutely unputdownable and gripping crime thriller by L.T. Vargus
• My Time in the Sun by Naleighna Kai
• Food Insecurity: A Matter of Justice, Sovereignty, and Survival (Critical Food Studies) by Tamar Mayer
• No Trespassing by Brinda S. Narayan
• Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical (Gender and American Culture) by Sherie M. Randolph
• Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women (Civil War America) by Steven M. Stowe
• The Trouble with Minna: A Case of Slavery and Emancipation in the Antebellum North by Hendrik Hartog
• Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal by Tisa Wenger
• Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy by William Sweet
• To Kill or Be Killed: A True Crime Memoir From Prison by Joni Ankerson
• King Charles: The Man, the Monarch, and the Future of Britain by Robert Jobson
• Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal by Eric Rauchway
• Miracle Creek: A Novel by Angie Kim
• Keeping The Faith: Reflections on Politics and Christianity in the Era of Trump and Beyond by Jonathan P. Walton and Sy Hoekstra
• The Karla Trilogy Digital Collection Featuring George Smiley: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People by John Le Carré
• The Midnight Before Christmas: A Holiday Thriller by William Bernhardt
• Double Jeopardy: A Novel of Suspense by William Bernhardt
• What's Wrong With Being Single? by Maryam Jorjani
• The Unknown Constellations: A Novel by Harvey Swados
• The Puller Monk Novels: Quantico Rules and Sleeper (The Puller Monk Novels #1) by Gene Riehl
• The Man Who Heard Too Much by Richard Forrest
• The Killing Edge by Richard Forrest
• Foxcatcher by William H. Hallahan
• The Trade by William H. Hallahan

Lynn's List (December 11, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Out of My Mind: (Not Quite a Memoir) by Alan Arkin
• Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker
• This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home by Lauren Sandler
• Twenty-one Days: A Daniel Pitt Novel (Daniel Pitt #1) by Anne Perry
• Thurgood Marshall: Freedom's Defender by Juan Williams
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Always and Forever: A Novel by Cynthia Freeman
• The Killer's Girl: A completely nail-biting crime thriller by Helen Phifer
• Folly by Susan Minot
• A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town by Barry Siegel
• The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
• Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Siddharth Kara
• Narrative Change: How Changing the Story Can Transform Society, Business, and Ourselves by Hans Hansen
• The Great Evil: Christianity, the Bible, and the Native American Genocide by Chris Mato Nunpa
• The Return: The New Novel For 2020 From The Author Of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
• Last Stop Auschwitz: My Story of Survival from within the Camp by Eliazar de Wind
• Aunt Ivy's Cottage: A totally gripping and emotional page turner by Kristin Harper
• Hello, Sunshine: A Novel by Laura Dave
• Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search For My Father's Killer by Ken H Fortenberry
• Cobble Hill: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar
• False Memory: A Novel by Dean Koontz
• Polar Wives: The Remarkable Women behind the World's Most Daring Explorers by Jon Bowermaster and Kari Herbert
• Rowboat in a Hurricane: My Amazing Journey Across a Changing Atlantic Ocean by Julie Angus
• The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude by Andrew Nikiforuk
• Barle's Story: One Polar Bear's Amazing Recovery from Life as a Circus Act by Gay Bradshaw Else Poulsen
• Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by Richard Littlemore and James Hoggan
• Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House by Rachel Maddow and Michael Yarvitz
• Winsome Conviction: Disagreeing Without Dividing the Church by Tim Muehlhoff
• Take It Back: A Novel by Kia Abdullah
• Crosshairs: A Novel by Catherine Hernandez
• The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrich
• Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement by Leila J. Rupp
• You and Me and Us: A Novel by Alison Hammer
• The Shape of Family: A Novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• Cog by Greg van Eekhout
• The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today by David E. Pozen
• Take Me Apart: A Novel by Sara Sligar
• The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President--and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn
• Daylight (Atlee Pine #3) by David Baldacci
• Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine Series #1) by David Baldacci
• A Minute to Midnight (An Atlee Pine Thriller #2) by David Baldacci
• Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization by Joe Scarborough
• The Arrow Keeper's Song by Kerry Newcomb
• Primitive People: A Novel by Francine Prose
• The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center by Charles R. Morris
• American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
• The Confession of Joe Cullen: A Novel by Howard Fast
• The Lesley Glaister Collection Volume One: Limestone and Clay, Digging to Australia, and Honour Thy Father by Lesley Glaister
• Police Blotter by Robert L. Fish
• The Lord of Sugar Hill by Jerome Charyn
• The Little Parachute by J. R Janes
• Carnovsky's Retreat: A Novel by Larry Duberstein
• No Man's Land by Reginald Hill
• Death Takes the Low Road by Reginald Hill
• You Can't Catch Me by Lawrence Lariar
• SCOTUS 2020: Major Decisions and Developments of the U.S. Supreme Court by Morgan Marietta
• The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson
• Physician of the American Revolution: Jonathan Potts by Richard L. Blanco
• Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell by Trina Davies
• The American Revolution by M. J. Heale
• The American Civil War: A Concise History Of The American Civil War (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions Of The American Civil War Ser.) by Peter J. Parish

Lynn's List (December 4, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams
• Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
• First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks
• Eleanor by David Michaelis
• Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult by Robert Lacey
• Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder
• Live Not By Lies: A Manual For Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
• Blizzard! The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• The Bitterwine Oath by Hannah West
• The Blade Between: A Novel by Sam J. Miller
• The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts
• The Cousins by Karen M. McManus
• The Lies You Told by Harriet Tyce
• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
• Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito
• The Arctic Fury: A Novel by Greer Macallister
• Admission by Julie Buxbaum
• The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
• Finding a Way Home: Mildred and Richard Loving and the Fight for Marriage Equality by Larry Dane Brimner
• The Tinderbox: A gripping, emotional page-turner by Laura Elliot
• The Perfect Father: the gripping new suspense from the author of Unfollow Me by Charlotte Duckworth
• Everyone Knows How Much I Love You: A Novel by Kyle McCarthy
• Liberty and Equality: The American Conversation by S. Adam Seagrave
• The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
• News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles
• Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith
• Charlie Chaplin: A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America (Routledge Historical Biographies) by Richard Carr
• Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
• Hidden in Plain Sight: A Detective William Warwick Novel (William Warwick Novels #2) by Jeffrey Archer
• Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History by Joe Pappalardo
• The Touch: A Novel by Colleen Mccullough
• Eighteen Acres: A Novel by Nicolle Wallace
• Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win: A Novel by Jo Piazza
• Them: A Novel by Nathan Mccall
• Santa In Montana (Calder Saga #11) by Janet Dailey
• Escape from Alcatraz: The Mystery of the Three Men Who Escaped from the Rock by Eric Braun
• Perfect Distraction by Allison Ashley
• Treason and Betrayal: The Rise and Fall of Individual #1 by Kenneth Foard McCallion
• The Dog I Loved: A Novel by Susan Wilson
• Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
• A Cat's Tale: A Journey Through Feline History by Dr. Paul Koudounaris
• The Book of Two Ways: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• Watching from the Dark: A Novel by Gytha Lodge
• She Lies in Wait: A Novel by Gytha Lodge
• House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman
• An American Journey by Kamala Harris
• My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel by Robin Oliveira
• The Paragon Hotel: A Novel by Lyndsay Faye

Lynn's List (November 27, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Playing Dead: A Memoir of Terror and Survival by Monique Faison Ross
• Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel by Peter Swanson
• Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West (Jeffersonian America) by John Craig Hammond
• Trust Me: An absolutely gripping and unputdownable psychological thriller by Sheryl Browne
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
• A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
• A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
• Behind the Red Door: A Novel by Megan Collins
• The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg: Innovation, Money, And Politics by Eleanor Randolph
• A Murder in My Hometown by Rebecca Morris
• You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan: A Shocking True Story of Internet Stalking by Brian Whitney
• Burned: Pyromania, Murder, and a Daughter's Nightmare by Frank C. Girardot Jr. and Lori Orr Kovach
• The President's Dossier by James A. Scott
• Diver's Paradise (A Roscoe Conklin Mystery #1) by Davin Goodwin
• The Girl Who Wasn't There by Vincent Zandri
• The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
• Girl from Munich by Tania Blanchard
• Suitcase of Dreams by Tania Blanchard
• Letters from Berlin by Tania Blanchard
• How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth by Jelmer Mommers
• The Secrets We Kept: A novel by Lara Prescott
• Midwives: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Chris Bohjalian
• Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home by Ann Armbrecht
• The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir by Allen Jones and Mark D. Naison
• Let them Eat Tweets: How The Right Rules In An Age Of Extreme Inequality by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
• The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
• Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
• First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks
• War Dogs: Tales of Canine Heroism, History, and Love by Thomas E. Ricks and Rebecca Frankel
• We Alone: How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It by David Western
• A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William G. Thomas III
• Companions in the Darkness: Seven Saints Who Struggled with Depression and Doubt by Diana Gruver
• Stepping Up: How Taking Responsibility Changes Everything by John B. Izzo , Ph.D.
• In Search of a Name: A Novel by Marjolijn van Heemstra
• Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by Sharyl Attkisson
• Tomorrow Will Be Better: A Novel by Betty Smith
• Kill Switch (A Claire Waters Thriller #1) by Neal Baer
• The Nightingale by Morgana Gallaway
• One Week In December by Holly Chamberlin
• Cause of Fear by Robert Ross
• Michael Benson's True Crime Bundle: Watch Mommy Die, A Killer's Touch & A Knife In The Heart by Michael Benson
• Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation by Jake Anderson
• The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby Lecrae Moore
• Stalemate: A Novel by Icchokas Meras
• Burning Up: The Smoke Jumpers (The Smoke Jumpers) by Anne Marsh
• On Democracy: Second Edition (Veritas Paperbacks) by Robert A. Dahl
• The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams by David S. Brown
• Night in Tehran by Philip Kaplan
• Ready Player One: A Novel (Bride Series) by Ernest Cline
• Ready Player Two: A Novel by Ernest Cline
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words (In Their Own Words) by Helena Hunt
• Greenwich: A Novel by Howard Fast
• Shock Wave by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• The Trespassers by Laura Z. Hobson
• Powerless by Tim Washburn
• What's Left Behind by Lorrie Thomson
• The Turning Over: A Novel by William Mccauley

Lynn's List (November 20, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Incident at Badamaya: A Novel by Dorothy Gilman
• Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert
• Her Last Flight: A Novel by Beatriz Williams
• The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy by Laura Morelli
• Never Have I Ever: A Novel by Joshilyn Jackson
• Deadly Cry: An absolutely gripping crime thriller packed with suspense by Angela Marsons
• The Desert Behind Me by Shannon Baker
• It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens
• Indicted: A Thriller by Tom Saric
• Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream by Blair Imani
• The Coldest Winter Ever: A Novel (Ann Rule's Crime Files Series) by Sister Souljah
• Run Run Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman by Dan Simon Jack Hoffman
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald
• Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
• Women of Steel: The Feisty Factory Sisters Who Helped Win the War by Michelle Rawlins
• The Spring Girls: A Modern-Day Retelling of Little Women by Anna Todd
• Bound for the Promised Land: Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson
• The Collected Novels Volume One: Her Victory, The Widower’s Son, and Travels in Nihilon by Alan Sillitoe
• Avalon: A Novel (Coronet Bks.) by Anya Seton
• The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men by Eric Lichtblau
• Meteors in August: A Novel by Melanie Rae Thon
• Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon
• Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope by Kwame Alexander
• The Novels of H. G. Wells Volume One: The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells
• The Novels of H. G. Wells Volume Two: The War in the Air, The Sleeper Awakes, and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
• The Essential Jane Austen Volume Two: Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Thomas Hardy Collection Volume One: Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, and The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• The Thomas Hardy Collection Volume Two: The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
• The Essential Nathaniel Hawthorne: Mosses from an Old Manse, Twice-Told Tales, The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, and The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees In The Wartime Soviet Union by Eliyana R. Adler
• Capitalism and Freedom (None Ser.) by Milton Friedman
• Nights When Nothing Happened: A Novel by Simon Han
• All That Glitters: A Novel by Danielle Steel
• Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West by Cassandra Tate
• The Children of Red Peak by Craig DiLouie
• American Dove: US Foreign Policy and the Failure of Force by Zachary Shirkey
• The Orchard: A Novel by David Hopen
• This Is Not a Ghost Story by Andrea Portes
• Do Not Disturb: A Novel by Claire Douglas
• All Lara's Wars by Wojciech Jagielski
• V2: A novel of World War II by Robert Harris
• Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court by Matthew Clair
• The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest by Ed Caesar
• The Last Sailor: A Novel by Sarah Anne Johnson
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama
• Authoritarian Nightmare by John W. Dean and Bob Altemeyer
• The Searcher: A Novel by Tana French
• Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Mary Ziegler
• A Picture of Love (The Amish Inn Novels #1) by Beth Wiseman
• 7 Days of Simplicity: A Season Of Living Lightly by Jen Hatmaker
• Backlash: Libel, Impeachment, and Populism in the Reign of Queen Anne by Rachel Carnell
• Make Me Like Jesus: The Courage to Pray Dangerously by Michael Phillips
• The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick and Henry Finder
• Playing Dead: A Memoir of Terror and Survival by Monique Faison Ross

Lynn's List (November 13, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – The Inside Story of a Family in Tumult by Robert Lacey
• Invisible Girl: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
• Friends and Strangers: A novel by J. Courtney Sullivan
• The Engineer's Wife: A Novel by Tracey Enerson Wood
• A Code To Keep by Ernest C. Brace
• Why This New Race: Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity by Denise Buell
• Where the Dark Streets Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
• The Beloved Son: A Novel by Jay Quinn
• Dangerous Legacy by George Harmon Coxe
• The Proud and the Free: A Novel by Howard Fast
• Someday, Somewhere by Mary K Mccomas
• The Outcasts: A Novel by Stephen Becker
• Shadow Dancers: A Novel by Herbert Lieberman
• Red Love by Shaun Whiteside and Leo Maxim
• Roam by C. H. Armstrong
• The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H. W. Brands
• Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan
• Code Name Hélène: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon
• Love between Enemies: Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II by Raffael Scheck
• Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer
• Kid in the Kitchen: 100 Recipes and Tips for Young Home Cooks: A Cookbook by Melissa Clark
• The Archer by Paulo Coelho
• This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges
• The Care of Strangers by Ellen Michaelson
• American Messiah: The Surprisingly Simple Religious Views of Thomas Jefferson by M. Andrew Holowchak
• Those Who Prey by Jennifer Moffett
• Cobble Hill: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar
• Written in the Stars: A Novel by Alexandria Bellefleur
• The Kingdom: A novel by Jo Nesbo
• The Amish Midwife's Hope (Hearts of Lancaster County #1) by Barbara Cameron
• You Will Never Know: A Novel by S. A. Prentiss
• The Butchers' Blessing by Ruth Gilligan
• Strongmen: Mussolini To The Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
• The Forgotten Sister by Nicola Cornick
• The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity by Micah Goodman
• Francis Bacon by Perez Zagorin
• The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution (The University Center for Human Values Series #48) by Michael W. McConnell
• Against the Death Penalty: Writings from the First Abolitionists—Giuseppe Pelli and Cesare Beccaria by Giuseppie Pelli
• OK, Boomer: Using a Landline, Going to the Post Office, and Other Outdated Things You Don't Need Anymore by Tiller Press
• The Lady Brewer of London: A Novel by Karen Brooks
• Glimmer As You Can: A Novel by Danielle Martin
• After the Fact?: The Truth about Fake News by Marcus Gilroy-Ware
• Empty Out the Negative: Make Room for More Joy, Greater Confidence, and New Levels of Influence by Joel Osteen
• The Drowned Woman: An absolutely unputdownable mystery and suspense thriller by CJ Lyons
• We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
• God’s Law and Order: The Politics Of Punishment In Evangelical America by Aaron Griffith
• We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace by Denise Kiernan
• Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
• One Life by Emma Brockes and Megan Rapinoe
• These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel (The Starbound Trilogy #1) by Amie Kaufman
• 101 Things To Do With Peanut Butter by Pamela Bennett
• 101 Things To Do With A Bundt Pan by Jenny Hartin
• Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
• Plantation Children by Kim Pierce
• A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T. Arnold
• From a Paris Balcony: Beautiful, unputdownable and emotional historical fiction by Ella Carey
• Silenced Girls: An absolutely addictive mystery thriller by Roger Stelljes
• Martha Stewart's Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines by Martha Stewart
• No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II by Dan Kurzman
• The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment by Ilan Wurman
• The Paper Mill Girl: An emotionally gripping family saga of triumph in adversity by Glenda Young
• Shadow of a Doubt by Michelle Davies
• Betrayed: the most gripping and gritty gangland crime thriller you'll read this year by Roberta Kray
• The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices by Casper ter Kuile
• Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War I (History of Terror) by David Charlwood
• The Secret Serial Killer: The True Story of Kieran Kelly by Robert Mulhern
• The Man Who Discovered Antarctica: Edward Bransfield Explained: The First Man to Find and Chart the Antarctic Mainland by Sheila Bransfield

Lynn's List (November 6, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump by David Rothkopf
• The Secrets of Love Story Bridge: A Novel by Phaedra Patrick
• The Ticket to Freedom: The NAACP and the Struggle for Black Political Integration (New Perspectives on the History of the South) by Manfred Berg
• Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard the USS Arizona by Walter R. Borneman
• Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day by Jay Shetty
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple
• 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall by DW Gibson
• The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy Of Human Rights (The Political Economy of Human Rights #1) by Noam Chomsky
• The Runner: The next heart-stopping thriller from bestselling author of the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series by Stephen Leather
• The House by the Lake: Gripping and emotional World War 2 fiction by Ella Carey
• Found: the most gripping, emotional thriller of 2019 (a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick) by Erin Kinsley
• One of Us Is Lying: A totally gripping psychological thriller with a brilliant twist by Shalini Boland
• The Man She Married: A gripping psychological thriller with a heart-pounding twist by Alison James
• Gone in Seconds: A gripping and addictive crime thriller by Ed James
• The Night Visitor: The gripping psychological suspense of the Summer by Lucy Atkins
• In My Mother's Name: A totally addictive and emotional psychological thriller by Laura Elliot
• The Wife Before Me: A twisty, gripping psychological thriller by Laura Elliot
• The Stepdaughter: An addictive suspense novel packed with twists and family secrets by Georgina Cross
• The Betrayal: A gripping novel of psychological suspense by Laura Elliot
• They Call Me the Cat Lady by Amy Miller
• Tell Me Lies: A completely addictive and unputdownable crime thriller by Ed James
• The Island Girls: A heartbreaking historical novel by Noelle Harrison
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Nothing Ventured (William Warwick Novels Ser. #1) by Jeffrey Archer
• Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
• Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
• Lieutenant Taylor Jackson Collection Volume 1: Field of Graves by J. T. Ellison
• Lieutenant Taylor Jackson Collection Volume 2: The Cold Room\The Immortals\So Close the Hand of Death\Where All the Dead Lie (A Taylor Jackson Novel #4) by J. T. Ellison
• Charles de Gaulle (Routledge Historical Biographies) by Andrew Knapp
• Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
• The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn by Alice L. George
• The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation by Dennis Mcauliffe Jr.
• Heirs of Yesterday by Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan
• The Hopeful Neighborhood: What Happens When Christians Pursue the Common Good by Don Everts
• The Supreme Court’s Role in Mass Incarceration by William T. Pizzi
• Don't Know Much About History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned by Kenneth C Davis
• The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection Volume One: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and Philosophers, and Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity by Miguel A. De La Torre
• Fabulous Female Firsts: Because of Them, We Can by Marlene Wagman-Geller
• The Battle of the Villa Fiorita: A Novel (Vmc Ser. #334) by Rumer Godden
• Between the Swastika and the Sickle: The Life, Disappearance, and Execution of Ernst Lohmeyer by James R. Edwards
• Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom by Kelley Nikondeha
• Silence Can Kill: Speaking Up to End Hunger and Make Our Economy Work for Everyone by Arthur Simon
• Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture by Farzana Gounder
• Pandemic, Ecology and Theology: Perspectives on COVID-19 (Routledge Focus on Religion) by Alexander J. B. Hampton
• I Can Never Forget: Men of the 100th/442nd by Thelma Chang, Franklin Odo and Daniel Inouye
• Bloody Bay: Grassroots Policing in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Darren A. Raspa
• The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel by Emmanuel Navon
• All Souls Day: The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion by Joseph M. Pereira and John L. Wilson
• A Season On The Reservation: My Sojourn With The White Mountain Apaches by Stephen Singular
• The Company Daughters: A heart-wrenching colonial love story by Samantha Rajaram

Lynn's List (October 30, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice by Michel Paradis
• Words You Should Know How to Spell: An A to Z Guide to Perfect Spelling by Jane Mallison
• Intervention: Intervention, Vicious Cycle, Downfall (An Intervention Novel #1) by Terri Blackstock
• After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings by Thomas P. Kapsidelis
• Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment by Noah Shusterman
• The Lifeguard by Richie Tankersley Cusick
• Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick
• No Man's Land by Reginald Hill
• The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies by Jason Fagone
• The Shadow King: A Novel by Maaza Mengiste
• Hitler: A Biography (Atalaya Ser. #Vol. 55) by Ian Kershaw
• The Admirer's Secret: A gripping psychological thriller (The Mental Madness Suspense Series) by Pamela Crane
• Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI by Josh Campbell
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
• If I Had Your Face: A Novel by Frances Cha
• The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell by Barry Levine
• Waiting for a Star to Fall: A Novel by Kerry Clare
• Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control by Sally Hubbard
• Witness by Louise Milligan
• A Solitude of Wolverines: A Novel of Suspense (Alex Carter Series #1) by Alice Henderson
• The Forgotten Daughter: The triumphant story of two women divided by their past, but united by friendship--inspired by true events by Joanna Goodman
• Inside Story: A novel by Martin Amis
• Rescue You (Dogwood County #1) by Elysia Whisler
• Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss
• Not Free America: What Your Government Doesn't Want You to Know by Mike Donovan
• My Sister's Husband: An absolutely gripping and suspenseful page-turner by Nicola Marsh
• The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter
• Ways of Social Change: Making Sense of Modern Times by Professor Garth M. Massey
• Ill Will: A Novel by Dan Chaon
• Tidewater Inn: A Hope Beach Novel (The Hope Beach Series #1) by Colleen Coble
• Rosemary Cottage: A Hope Beach Novel (The Hope Beach Series #2) by Colleen Coble
• Seagrass Pier: A Hope Beach Novel (The Hope Beach Series #3) by Colleen Coble
• The Socialite by J'Nell Ciesielski
• The Woman in the Green Dress by Tea Cooper
• Auschwitz Lullaby: A Novel by Mario Escobar
• The Grace Year: A Novel by Kim Liggett
• Crash by David Hagberg and Lawrence Light
• Thin Ice: A Mystery (Alaska Wild #1) by Paige Shelton
• The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel Older
White Fox by Sara Faring
• Symptoms of a Heartbreak by Sona Charaipotra
• The Wild Lands by Paul Greci
• The Furies: A Novel by Katie Lowe
• Last Girls by Demetra Brodsky
• The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• No Ordinary Dog: My Partner from the SEAL Teams to the Bin Laden Raid by Joe Layden
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
• Worry: A Novel by Jessica Westhead
• Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge And A Model For America's Future by Pete Buttigieg
• The Beekeeper's Daughter: A Novel by Santa Montefiore
• Kill and Tell: A Novel by Linda Howard
• The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War by Fred Kaplan
• You Remind Me of Me: A Novel by Dan Chaon
• Await Your Reply: A Novel by Dan Chaon
• The Light After the War: A Novel by Anita Abriel
• Say When: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
• On Shadow Beach by Barbara Freethy
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg
• The Pact: A gripping psychological thriller with heartstopping suspense by S. E. Lynes
• Can You See Her?: An absolutely compelling psychological thriller by S.E. Lynes
• Making it Home: A Novel by Alison DeLory
• What Kills Good Men: A Novel by David Hood
• In the Wake: A Novel by Nicola Davison
• The Reluctant Detective by Finley Martin
• Chowders and Soups: 50 Recipes for the Home Chef by Liz Feltham
• No Girls Allowed: Inspired By The True Story Of A Girl Who Fought For Her Right To Play by Natalie Corbett Sampson
• First Degree: From Med School to Murder: The Story Behind the Shocking Will Sandeson Trial by Kayla Hounsell
• Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe
• Last Lullaby by Alice Walsh
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Angela Y. Davis and Andrea Ritchie
• The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly
• American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic by Andrew Cuomo
• In the Company of My Sisters: My Story, My Truth by Karen Eubanks Jackson
• Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden
• When I Come Home Again: A beautiful and heartbreaking WWI novel, based on true events by Caroline Scott
• Now the Day is Over by Marion Husband
• Inside Out by Chris McGeorge
• Call of the Raven by Wilbur Smith with Corban Addison
• The Crisis of the Institutional Press by Stephen D. Reese
• The Devil and the Dark Water: A Novel by Stuart Turton
• 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
• The Flight Girls: A Novel Inspired By Real Female Pilots During World War Ii by Noelle Salazar
• Love's Blood: The Shocking True Story of a Teenager Who Would Do Anything for the Older Man She Loved—Even Kill Her Whole Family by Clark Howard
• Republican and Fascist Germany: Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich, 1918-1945 by John Hiden

My rating: One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lynn's List (October 23, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate by Susan Estrich
• The Dynamics of Southern Politics: Causes and Consequences by Seth C McKee
• A Place to Belong: A Novel by Abbie Williams
• The Edge of Nowhere: A Tale Of Tragedy, Love, Murder And Survival by C. H. Armstrong
• The Edward Street Baby Farm: The Murder That Gripped A City by Stella Budrikis
• The Girl Who Wasn't There by Vincent Zandri
• Haste to Rise: A Remarkable Experience of Black Education during Jim Crow by David Pilgrim David Eisler Franklin Hughes
• Shadowlines by Stephen Kinnane
• Intermittent Fasting For Dummies by Janet Bond Brill
• The Politics of Murder: The Power and Ambition Behind "The Altar Boy Murder Case" by Margo Nash
• Gone for Good: A Novel (Wheeler Hardcover Ser.) by Harlan Coben
• The Robe: The Enduring Classic Of One Man's Quest For Faith And Truth by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Sole Survivor: A Novel by Dean Koontz
• Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
• The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America by Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers
• The Silence: A Novel by Don DeLillo
• How to Cook: Building Blocks and 100 Simple Recipes for a Lifetime of Meals: A Cookbook by Hugh Acheson
• A Storm over This Court: Law, Politics, and Supreme Court Decision Making in Brown v. Board of Education (Constitutionalism and Democracy) by Jeffrey D. Hockett
• Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency) by Ken Hughes
• The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920–1980 (Center Books) by Charles E. Connerly
• Schooling Jim Crow: The Fight for Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School and the Roots of Black Protest Politics (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) by Jay Winston Driskell Jr.
• Jamestown, the Truth Revealed by William M. Kelso
• The Case for Identity Politics: Polarization, Demographic Change, and Racial Appeals (Race, Ethnicity, and Politics) by Christopher T. Stout
• Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color by Channette Romero
• Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692 by Bejnamin C. Ray
• "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?": Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade by Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic
• The Fragile Earth: Writing from The New Yorker on Climate Change by David Remnick and Henry Finder
• The Amish Journey Novels: Hearts in Harmony, Listening to Love, A Beautiful Arrangement (Amish Journey) by Beth Wiseman
• Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets: 5 Questions to Help You Determine Your Next Move by Andy Stanley
• Stranded in America: The incredible story of hope, survival, and rise to greatness by Dr Etido Akpan
• The General's Daughter (Paul Brenner Ser.) by Nelson Demille
• The Museum of Desire: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware #35) by Jonathan Kellerman
• No More Secrets: An unputdownable and emotional page-turner by Jennifer Harvey
• The One: A Novel by John Marrs
• Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President's Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies by The Washington Post Fact Checker Staff
• "What Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America by Paul D. Escott
• Lighting the Way: Federal Courts, Civil Rights, and Public Policy (Constitutionalism and Democracy) by Douglas Rice
• Scalawag: A White Southerner's Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism by James H. Hershman Jr., Nancy Maclean, and Edward H. Peeples
• Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women's Writing by Sari Edelstein
• Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery by Elliot A. Rosen
• Solitude by Robert Kull
• Solitude by Philip Koch
• The Rooster Bar: A Novel by John Grisham
• Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel by S. A. Cosby
• The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
• Mother Father Deaf: Living Between Sound and Silence by Paul Preston
• News Division: When more became less: my experience in the 24-hour news world (News Memoir) by Tim Ortman
• Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod, The: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History (Disaster) by Theresa Mitchell Barbo and Captain W. Webster Uscg
• Murder on Long Island: A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Tragedy & Revenge (Murder And Mayhem Ser.) by Geoffrey K. Fleming Amy K. Folk
• Great Storms of the Chesapeake (Disaster Ser.) by David Healey
• The Return by Nicholas Sparks
• Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• The Searcher by Tana French
• Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
• Rules of Engagement by Brian Freemantle
• The Keeper by George C. Chesbro
• Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday by Richard Matheson
• Sharon Sala Thrillers: The Chosen, Missing, Sweet Baby, The Perfect Lie by Sharon Sala
• Karen Kingsbury True Crime Novels: Final Vows, Deadly Pretender, The Snake and the Spider, Missy's Murder by Karen Kingsbury
• The White Room by Martyn Waites
• Moonsong by Constance Bennett
• Blossom by Constance Bennett
• The First Casualty by Gregg Loomis
• Edward Abbey Bestsellers: Fire on the Mountain, The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey
• The Winter After This Summer by Stanley Ellin
• Blood Sports: A Novel by Eden Robinson
• William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey: The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return (1945-1988) (Twentieth Century Journey) by William L. Shirer
• Margaret Truman Thrillers: Murder in the Supreme Court, Murder on Embassy Row, Murder at the FBI (Capital Crimes) by Margaret Truman
• The Bobby-Soxer: A Novel by Hortense Calisher
• Theodore Dreiser Trilogy of Desire: The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic (The Trilogy of Desire) by Theodore Dreiser
• The Rackets: A Novel by Thomas Kelly
• The Last Story of Mina Lee: A Novel by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
• Stop at Nothing: A Novel by Michael Ledwidge

Lynn's List (October 16, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
• The House on Henry Street: The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement (Washington Mews Books #7) by Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
• Sketches from a Life by George F. Kennan
• A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance #3) by John Grisham
• Goodnight Beautiful: A Novel by Aimee Molloy
• Wicked Game: An Insider's Story on How Trump Won, Mueller Failed, and America Lost by Rick Gates
• The Girl from Widow Hills: A Novel by Megan Miranda
• Only Truth by Julie Cameron
• A Good Time to Be Born: How Science And Public Health Gave Children A Future by Perri Klass
• Mad at the World: A Life Of John Steinbeck by William Souder
• The Blind Light: A Novel by Stuart Evers
• Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders And The Battle For The United Mine Workers Of America by Mark A. Bradley
• Gone Before: A twisty and completely gripping psychological thriller by Sam Hepburn
• John F. Kennedy at Rest in Arlington (Images of Modern America) by Raymond Sinibaldi
• This is What Happened by Megan Hart
• Never Too Late by Brenda Jackson
• Peter Chrysologus (The Early Church Fathers) by David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
• Rights and Wrongs: Rethinking the Foundations of Criminal Justice (Critical Criminological Perspectives) by William C. Heffernan
• Human Migration in the Arctic: The Past, Present, and Future by Satu Uusiautti
• Quarantine by John Smolens
• Every Moment After by Joseph Moldover
• Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice by Veronica Chambers

My rating: The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Lynn's List (October 9, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• My Sister's Keeper by Beverly Butler
• The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson
• The Least of These My Brothers: A Novel of the Ozarks by Harold Bell Wright
• Redeployment by Phil Klay
• The Aviator's Wife: A Novel by Melanie Benjamin
• Stealing Home: Stealing Home A Slice Of Heaven (A Sweet Magnolias Novel #1) by Sherryl Woods
• The Yield: A Novel by Tara June Winch
• The Empathy Problem: It's never too late to change your life by Gavin Extence
• 50 People Who Messed up the World by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman
• Midwinter by Fiona Melrose
• The Liverpool Girls: A Heartbreaking Family Saga With A Tragic Romance by Pam Howes
• Night Lessons in Little Jerusalem by Rick Held
• The Lies We Hide: An absolutely gripping and darkly compelling novel by S.E. Lynes
• The Bride: A twisty and completely gripping psychological thriller by Wendy Clarke
• Be The Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You by Gina Martin
• Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents by Patrick Garrett
• Her Darkest Hour: Beautiful and heartbreaking World War 2 historical fiction by Sharon Maas
• Flight of Passage: A True Story by Rinker Buck
• Judge and Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
• They Disappeared (Mira Ser.) by Rick Mofina
• The Lying House by Rick Mofina
• Outbreak in the Village: A Family Doctor's Lifetime Study of Whooping Cough (Springer Biographies) by Douglas Jenkinson
• Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage by Dianne M Stewart
• Every Now and Then: A Novel by Lesley Kagen
• The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad
• Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson by Linda Williams
• Once Again: A Novel by Catherine Wallace Hope
• Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland by Issac J. Bailey
• Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens by Desmond Meade
• What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
• A Hopeful Heart: Louisa May Alcott Before Little Women by Deborah Noyes
• Rebel: A Novel (Women Who Dare) by Beverly Jenkins
• The Exphoria Code: A Novel by Antony Johnston
• The Ultimate Guide to Frugal Living: Save Money, Plan Ahead, Pay Off Debt & Live Well by Daisy Luther
• The End of Democracy?: Russia and China on the Rise, America in Retreat by Douglas E. Schoen
• The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript by Daniel Greenberg, Mark L. Levine, and George McNamee
• Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalayas by Bruce Kirkby
• Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now by Evan Osnos
• The Jesus Paradigm by David Alan Black
• Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
• Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels by Tony Keddie
• The Psychology of Stupidity by Liesl Schillinger and Jean-Francois Marmion
• Barack Obama Speeches (Leather-bound Classics) by Barack Obama
• The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland by James H. Madison
• Cassius X: The Transformation of Muhammad Ali by Stuart Cosgrove
• Trust: America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg
• An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League #1) by Alyssa Cole
• A Hope Divided (Loyal League #2) by Alyssa Cole
• An Unconditional Freedom (The Loyal League #3) by Alyssa Cole
• Journey into the Whirlwind: The Critically Acclaimed Memoir of Stalin's Reign of Terror by Eugenia Ginzburg
• The Lost Children: An absolutely heartbreaking and gripping World War 2 historical novel by Shirley Dickson
• Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson
• Murder & Mayhem in East Tennessee (Murder & Mayhem) by Dewaine A. Speaks
• Missing Daughter by Rick Mofina
• Their Last Secret by Rick Mofina
• The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump by Eric A. Posner
• Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life) by Thomas Erikson
• Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (A Memoir) by Aarti Namdev Shahani
• Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality by Katherine S. Newman
• Shadows in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death #51) by J. D. Robb
• The Soul of Things: Memoir of a Youth Interrupted by Éva Fahidi
• That White Girl by JLove
• Black Girl,/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
• A Patch of Blue by Elizabeth Kata
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
• The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark
• How the Right Lost Its Mind by Charles J. Sykes
• Land of the Living by Nicci French
• The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman
• Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
• Buried Evidence by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
• Total Control (Paperback Bestsellers Ser.) by David Baldacci
• Another Day At The Front: Dispatches From The Race War (Art Of Mentoring Ser.) by Ishmael Reed
• Pandora's Keeper: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb by Brian Vandemark
• The Anniversary: A Novel by Amy Gutman
• Cold Pursuit by T. Jefferson Parker
• The Jester by James Patterson
• By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson Demille
• Plum Island (A John Corey Novel #1) by Nelson Demille
• Cathedral by Nelson Demille
• Mayday by Nelson Demille
• Epitaph: A Novel (Large Print Ser.) by James Siegel
• Her Final Prayer: A totally gripping and heart-stopping crime thriller by Kathryn Casey
• The Kentuckians (The Kentuckians Series #1) by Janice Holt Giles
• Winter Counts: A Novel by David Heska Weiden

Lynn's List (October 2, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Room by Emma Donoghue
• The Pull of the Stars: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
• The Next Widow: A gripping crime thriller with unputdownable suspense by CJ Lyons
• Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas by Gill Paul
• Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary by Timothy Snyder
• We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump by Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin
• The Eye: A Novel Of Suspense (The Oxman and Tobin Mysteries #1) by Bill Pronzini and John Lutz
• Privileged Lives (The Vince Cardozo Mysteries #1) by Edward Stewart
• A Death Divided: A Death Divided, A Dark Devotion, And Deceit by Clare Francis
• Eagle on the Street: The SEC and Wall Street during the Reagan Years by Steve Coll
• After the Madness: A Judge's Own Prison Memoir by Sol Wachtler
• Almost Innocent: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction Ser.) by Sheila Bosworth
• Room Beneath the Stairs by Jennifer Wilde
• The Center: People and Power in Political Washington by Stewart Alsop
• Deep Deception: The relentless investigation to bring George Gibney, Derry O’Rourke, Ger Doyle and other abusers to justice by Justine McCarthy
• The Perfect Family by Patricia Potter
• Final Answers by Greg Dinallo
• Cop Hater (87th Precinct #1) by Ed Mcbain
• The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter
• The Veil by Diane Noble
• Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life by Casey Gwinn
• As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments by Kay Arthur
• City of Women: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Historical Fiction Ser.) by David R. Gillham
• Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices by Jodi Picoult
• Twelve Years: An American Boyhood In East Germany by Joel Agee
• Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann
• This Girl Is on Fire: How to Live, Learn and Thrive in a Life You Love by Andrea McLean
• The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
• Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
• His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter
• Disclose by Joelle Charbonneau
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
• Breathless by Jennifer Niven
• Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Cox
• The Nesting by C. J. Cooke
• The Midnight Library: A Novel by Matt Haig
• Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
• Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime by Jennifer Taub
• As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change by Lee van der Voo
• Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads by Al Sharpton
• No Place Like Murder: True Crime in the Midwest by Janis Thornton
• A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why by Renata Salecl
• Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness by Houston Kraft
• The Talented Miss Farwell: A Novel by Emily Gray Tedrowe
• Standing Strong: A Woman's Guide to Overcoming Adversity and Living with Confidence by Alli Worthington
• The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham
• The Deep: A Novel by Nick Cutter
• Good Harbor: A Novel by Anita Diamant
• Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee by Hoda Kotb
• The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David Mccullough
• New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
• Reconstruction, Black Suffrage, and the Rebirth of American Democracy by K. Stephen Prince
• The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (The Nathan I Huggins Lectures) by Lani Guinier
• Feminist Philosophies of Life by Hasana Sharp
• From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-first Century by William A. Darity
• Houston, We've Had a Problem: The Story of the Apollo 13 Disaster (Tangled History) by Rebecca Rissman
• My Lies, Your Lies: A Novel by Susan Lewis
• Beyond Difference by Al Condeluci

My rating: A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1) by John Grisham

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My rating: Cop Hater (87th Precinct Mysteries Book 1) by Ed McBain

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Some Notable Nonfiction Titles for Your Reading Pleasure

Happy new book release Tuesday. Here are some new and/or recently released nonfiction titles for your reading pleasure. Happy reading!

• Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann
• Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
• His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter
• Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Cox
• Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
• Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime by Jennifer Taub
• As the World Burns: The New Generation of Activists and the Landmark Legal Fight Against Climate Change by Lee van der Voo
• Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads by Al Sharpton
• A Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why by Renata Salecl
• Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness by Houston Kraft
• Standing Strong: A Woman's Guide to Overcoming Adversity and Living with Confidence by Alli Worthington

My review: Atty at Law by Tim Lockette

Atty at Law by Tim Lockette
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My Book reviews

Thanks to all who read my book reviews and have given me such warm feedback and encouragement. I've decided to rate books and not write reviews for the time being. There are so many books I want to read. Perhaps, once my TBR list is shorter, I'll return to writing reviews.

My review: Close to Home by Barbara Hall

Close to Home by Barbara Hall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Lynn's List (September 25, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud by Tom Mueller
• Theme Music: A Novel by T. Marie Vandelly
• Sandcastles: A Novel by Luanne Rice
• A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
• The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
• Into the Sun: A Novel by Deni Ellis Béchard
• The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It by Shawn Lawrence Otto
• The Better Liar: A Novel by Tanen Jones
• Charisma by Orania Papazoglou
• Medicine Walk: A Novel by Richard Wagamese
• Indian Horse: A Novel by Richard Wagamese
• American Boy: A Novel by Larry Watson
• Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by Doug Moe and D. L. Hughley
• Verify by Joelle Charbonneau
• The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story by Joy-Ann Reid
• We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy by James Dale and Elijah Cummings
• Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm: The Shocking 1900 Case that Gripped Boston's North Shore (True Crime) by Alison C. Simcox
• The Dearly Beloved: A Novel by Cara Wall
• Thomas Paine: Social and Political Thought by Gregory Claeys
• The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality by Dennis L. Gilbert
• Living Secrets by M. K. Stoddart
• What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner
• Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines by George Zarkadakis
• Atty at Law by Tim Lockette
• Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World by H. R. McMaster
• Avoid the Day: A New Nonfiction in Two Movements by Jay Kirk
• Black and White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene Bull Connor by Larry Dane Brimner
• Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Malm
• Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
• Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning by Geraldine Schwarz
• She Gets That from Me by Robin Wells
• The Book of Two Ways: A Novel by Jodi Picoult
• Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
• Unconscionable Crimes: How Norms Explain and Constrain Mass Atrocities by Paul C. Morrow
• The Politics of Care by Boston Review
• Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory by David A. Robertson
• Make Them Cry: A Novel by Smith Henderson
• Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court by Ilya Shapiro
• The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour
• To Tell You the Truth: A Novel by Gilly Macmillan
• Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds by Sunny Hostin
• A Place to Belong: A Novel by Abbie Williams
• The Vanishing American Dream: A Frank Look at the Economic Realities Facing Middle- and Lower-Income Americans by Gene Ludwig
• The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution by Gavin Weightman
• The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War by Luke A. Nichter
• Daughters of the Wild: A Novel by Natalka Burian
• The Thunder and Lightning Series (The Thunder and Lightning Series) by John Varley
• Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
• October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election by Devlin Barrett
• Breathe Again: Choosing to Believe There’s More When Life Has Left You Broken by Stacy Henagan
• Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck
• Perfect: A Novel by Rachel Joyce
• 1774: The Long Year of Revolution by Mary Beth Norton
• The Herd: A Novel by Andrea Bartz
• Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail by Jonathan Chait
• The Absence of Mercy: A Novel by John Burley
• The Color of Air: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Impossible First: From Fire to Ice—Crossing Antarctica Alone by Colin O'Brady
• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
• The Weight of Silence: A Novel of Suspense (Mira Ser.) by Heather Gudenkauf
• Female Terrorism in America: Past and Current Perspectives (Contemporary Terrorism Studies) by Jonathan Matusitz

Remembering United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

United State Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, today, at her home in Washington, D.C. I have admired her for many years, so thought I would share a few books about her life and legacy.

• Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
• Sisters in Law... by Linda R. Hirshman
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart
• Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law by Jeffrey Rosen
• Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own Words by Helena Hunt
• Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Life and Work by Victoria Ortiz
• The Unstoppable Ruth Bader Ginsburg: American Icon by Antonia Felix
• The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Scott Dodson
• Raising the Bar: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ACLU Women's Rights Project by Amy Leigh Campbell and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lynn's List (September 18, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Box Hill: A Story Of Low Self-esteem by Adam Mars-Jones
• Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound (The Skinjacker Trilogy) by Neal Shusterman
• The Seven Sisters: Book One (The Seven Sisters #1) by Lucinda Riley
• Long Way Home by Cameron Douglas
• Homeland: A Novel by Fernando Aramburu
• Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools by Diane Ravitch
• Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
• Agatha Christie by Laura Thompson
• Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World by Cole Brown
• Climate in Crisis: Who's Causing It, Who's Fighting It, and How We Can Reverse It Before It's Too Late by Dick Russell Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Rage by Bob Woodward
• The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future by Chris Whipple
• The Disordered Mind by George Graham
• The American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How We Recover. by Writers of The Atlantic
• Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation, With a New Afterword (Politics, Culture And Society Ser.) by Eboo Patel
• The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral
• Chance of a Lifetime (Providence Falls #1) by Jude Deveraux
• The Orphan of Cemetery Hill: A Novel by Hester Fox
• As the Twig Is Bent: A Memoir by Wallace Byron Grange
• Independence: A Novel by Evan Balkan
• The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and Justice by Joanne E. Belknap
• Dead Doubles: The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War's Most Notorious Spy Rings by Trevor Barnes
• Grown by Tiffany D Jackson
• You Are Never Alone: Trust in the Miracle of God's Presence and Power by Max Lucado
• Heaven Sent Rain: A Novel by Lauraine Snelling
• He Loves Me!: Learning To Live In The Father's Affection by Wayne Jacobsen
• The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair
• Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair by Anthony Arthur
• The Collected Works Volume One: Rates of Exchange, The History Man, and Stepping Westward by Malcolm Bradbury
• Key Witness (The Security Experts #1) by Christy Barritt
• Photography and September 11th: Spectacle, Memory, Trauma by Jennifer Good
• Mischief: Four Suspense Novels Of The 1950s - Mischief; The Blunderer; Beast In View; Fool's Gold by Charlotte Armstrong
• Get Home Free: A Novel by John Clellon Holmes
• The Lovers and Liars Trilogy: Lovers and Liars, Danger Zones, and Sextet (The Lovers and Liars Trilogy #1) by Sally Beauman
• The Fallen: A Novel by Dale Bailey
• The Black and White of It: Stories by Ann Allen Shockley
• Our Father: A Novel by Marilyn French
• Escape the Night by Mignon G. Eberhart
• The Detroit Novels: Edsel, Stress, and Motown (The Detroit Novels #1) by Loren D. Estleman
• Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology by Robin Morgan
• The Resurrection by John Gardner
• Sold into Marriage: One Girl's Living Nightmare by Sean Boyne
• When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann
• William Styron: Lie Down in Darkness, Set This House on Fire, The Confessions of Nat Turner, and Sophie's Choice by William Styron
• The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life by Nancy Tomes
• The First Jesuits by John W. O'Malley
• Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class by Christopher Newfield
• We the People: Social Protests Movements and the Shaping of American Democracy by Bryan Warde
• Stillwater Trilogy by Brenda Novak
• It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

Lynn's List (September 11, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington by Martha Saxton
• Cilka's Journey: A Novel by Heather Morris
• The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
• When No One Is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa Cole
• Feminist Frontiers by Verta Taylor
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
• Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games by Lopez Lomong
• The Man Who Carried Cash: Saul Holiff, Johnny Cash, and the Making of an American Icon by Julie Chadwick
• Here Come the Girls by Milly Johnson
• The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor by Arthur Kleinman
• Window on the Bay: A Novel by Debbie Macomber
• Private Life by Jane Smiley
• Some Luck: A novel (The Last Hundred Years Trilogy: A Family Saga #1) by Jane Smiley
• The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald
• Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald
• Anxious People: A Novel by Fredrik Backman
• Those Who Cherish by Jamie Craig
• From Here to You (Crash and Burn #1) by Jamie McGuire
• Columbine: How The Press Got It Wrong And The Police Let It Happen by Dave Cullen
• One by One by Ruth Ware
• Trumps Wall: The Battle on Immigration by Donald F. Kettl
• Demagoguery and Democracy by Patricia Roberts-Miller
• Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity (MIT Press First Reads) by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey Shaw
• Monogamy: A Novel by Sue Miller
• Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen
• The Watcher: A Novel (A Kateri Fisher Novel #1) by Jennifer Pashley
• Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement by Jonathan M. Berman
• A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
• Lily Rose: A Novel by Deborah Robinson
• Meme by Aaron Starmer
• Marlene: A Novel by Philippe Djian
• Once Two Sisters: A Novel by Sarah Warburton
• With a Vengeance: Medical Thriller by Eileen Dreyer
• City of the Dead: Medical Thriller by Eileen Dreyer
• Head Games: Medical Thriller by Eileen Dreyer
• Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy by Reid Forgrave
• These Vengeful Hearts by Katherine Laurin
• How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation by E. D. Hirsch Jr.
• The Forger's Daughter: A Novel by Bradford Morrow
• Life after Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society by Firmin DeBrabander
• Scholarship and Freedom by Geoffrey Galt Harpham
• Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump by Peter Strzok
• Universality and Identity Politics by Todd McGowan
• Learning to Live Well Together: Case Studies in Interfaith Diversity by Tom Wilson
• Secret Naval Investigator: The Battle Against Hitler's Secret Underwater Weapons by F. Ashe Lincoln
• North and South: North And South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Aden Vanner Novels: Sleep No More, Sorted, and Close Quarters (The Aden Vanner Novels #1) by Jeff Gulvin
• Israel Journal: June, 1967 by Yaël Dayan
• Got It Bad by Mary Kay Mccomas
• Nina Todd Has Gone: A Novel by Lesley Glaister
• The Box Garden: A Novel by Carol Shields
• Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?: The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938–1944 by Haskel Lookstein
• In the Name of a Killer (The Cowley and Danilov Thrillers #1) by Brian Freemantle
• The Four Johns by Ellery Queen
• Beware the Young Stranger by Ellery Queen
• Blood Crimes: The Pennsylvania Skinhead Murders by Fred Rosen
• The Coal War: A Novel by Upton Sinclair
• Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die: A Novel (First Rediscovered Modern Masterpieces Edition Ser.) by Daniel Stern
• Judith: A Novel by Lawrence Durrell
• Dragonfire: A Novel by Andrew Kaplan
• Goodnight from London: A Novel by Jennifer Robson
• Nemesis by Rory Clements
• Collected Memoirs: Ahead of Time, Haven, and Inside of Time by Ruth Gruber
• Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic by David Frum
• Friends Forever by Danielle Steel
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi
• The Exiles: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline
• Grounded (May Hollow Trilogy Ser. #Vol. 1) by Angela Correll
• Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal by Melissa Korn
• The Spy: A novel (Vintage International Series) by Paulo Coelho
• Destroyed by Jayne Sterne
• Folly: The gorgeous family saga by bestselling author and national treasure Alan Titchmarsh by Alan Titchmarsh
• Time Out of Mind by Jane Lapotaire
• Olivia: The Biography of Olivia Newton-John (Virago Modern Classics Ser.) by Tim Ewbank
• Canal Dreams by Iain Banks
• Belonging by Sameem Ali
• My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under The Taliban - A Young Woman's Story by Latifa

My review: Friends Forever by Danielle Steel

Friends Forever by Danielle Steel

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Five youngsters meet on their first day of kindergarten. Each is curious about the world around them, and each brings a special something into the world of the others. They become friends forever. This story is about their journey of friendship, love and loss.

Most Danielle Steel books grab my heart from the first few pages. This one was not like that, but, suddenly, it had me, and I just had to keep reading until the end. This is a great story, but you'll want to have your box of tissues handy. As I've come to expect from a Danielle Steel book, the characters seem so real, I forget I'm reading fiction.

Lynn's List (September 4, 2020)

Each week I post a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Plum Island (A John Corey Novel #1) by Nelson Demille
• Total Control (Paperback Bestsellers Ser.) by David Baldacci
• Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley
• Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age by David A. Clary
• Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean
• The Anniversary: A Novel by Amy Gutman
• The Innocent Girls: A completely gripping mystery and suspense thriller by B.R. Spangler
• The Roots of Fake News: Objecting to Objective Journalism by Brian Winston and Matthew Winston
• The Reflecting Pool (The Marko Zorn Series) by Otho Eskin
• The President's Dossier by James A. Scott
• Sky Ranch: Living on a Remote Ranch in Idaho by Bobbi Phelps
• Challenging Extremist Views on Social Media: Developing a Counter-Messaging Response by Jan-Jaap van Eerten
• When Faith Fails: The Aftermath of Sexual Abuse by Beth Withers Banning
• Tyranny of Greed: Trump, Corruption, and the Revolution to Come by Timothy K. Kuhner
• Children of the Uprising Collection: Collection: Books 1 - 3 (Children of the Uprising) by Megan Lynch
• The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy by Chris Murphy
• The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott
• Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President by Michael S. Schmidt
• I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir by Chasten Buttigieg
• The Residence: A Novel by Andrew Pyper
• Where We Are by Alison McGhee
• The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell
• Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
• The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick
• Sadie: A Novel by Courtney Summers
• The Dry: A Novel by Jane Harper
• Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo
• Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People by Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky
• We Germans: A Novel by Alexander Starritt
• Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope
• White Lies: Nine Ways to Expose and Resist the Racial Systems That Divide Us by Daniel Hill
• An Inconvenient Woman: A Novel by Stéphanie Buelens
• Ruthie Fear: A Novel by Maxim Loskutoff
• A Call to Act: Developing a Poverty-Busting Lifestyle by Martin Charlesworth and Natalie Williams
• Upholding Justice: Social, Psychological and Legal Perspectives by Sibnath Deb, G. Subhalakshmi, and Kaustuv Chakraborti
• Everglades Escape by Kathleen Tailer
• Forgotten Secrets by Karen Kirst
• Fidelis: A Memoir by Teresa Fazio
• Too Strong to Be Broken: The Life of Edward J. Driving Hawk (American Indian Lives) by Edward J. Driving Hawk
• The Mysteries of Haditha: A Memoir by M. C. Armstrong
• After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times) by Willie James Jennings
• From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture (New Black Studies Series #137) by Koritha Mitchell
• The Rescuer: One Firefighter’s Story of Courage, Darkness, and the Relentless Love That Saved Him by Jason Sautel
• Mildred D. Taylor: The Logan Family Saga Complete Collection by Mildred D. Taylor
• Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
• Sanctuary by Abby Sher and Paola Mendoza
• Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know by Cass R. Sunstein
• Sugar and Spice: A Selection From Learning To Love (Debbie Macomber Classics) by Debbie Macomber
• The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes: A Novel by Elissa R Sloan
• Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies by Carl Hoffman
• Resist: A Story of D-Day by Alan Gratz
• The Bridge by Bill Konigsberg
• Feather Crowns: A Novel by Bobbie Ann Mason
• One True Patriot: A Novel by Sean Parnell
• Shattering Silence: Women, Nationalism, and Political Subjectivity in Northern Ireland by Begoña Aretxaga
• We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
• Hot Cheese: Over 50 Gooey, Oozy, Melty Recipes by Chronicle Books
• Amazing Grace: An Amish Singing Story by Amy Clipston
• Great Is Thy Faithfulness: An Amish Singing Story by Amy Clipston
• Beethoven, A Life by Jan Caeyers
• One Step Behind by Lauren North
• Fifty Words for Rain: A Novel by Asha Lemmie
• The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season (A Year of Quotes) by Henry David Thoreau
• Retaliation by Yasmin Shiraz
• Accused: A Retaliation Novel #2 by Yasmin Shiraz
• Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois
• Long Island’s Vanished Heiress: The Unsolved Alice Parsons Kidnapping (True Crime) by Steven C. Drielak
• Navajo Nation Peacemaking: Living Traditional Justice by Marianne O. Nielsen
• Murder at the Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up! by Bob Marmion
• The Last Trial by Scott Turow
• Activist: Portraits of Courage by KK Ottesen
• Grilled Cheese: 50 Recipes to Make You Melt by Sheri Giblin and Marlena Spieler
• The Great Grilled Cheese Book: Grown-Up Recipes for a Childhood Classic by Eric Greenspan
• Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match: 70 Recipes to Pair and Share by Ivy Manning
• Close to Home: A Novel by Barbara Hall
• Surprising Myself: A Novel by Christopher Bram
• See No Evil by B. A. Shapiro
• The Glass Village by Ellery Queen
• Violent Spring (The Ivan Monk Mysteries #1) by Gary Phillips
• Refuge: A Novel (Isis Cassettes) by Gillian White
• Rogue Justice (Rogue Ser.) by Geoffrey Household
• Hold Tight: A Novel by Christopher Bram
• The Kennedy Trilogy Complete Edition: The Kennedy Imperative, The Kennedy Momentum, and The Kennedy Revelation by Leon Berger
• The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism by Robin Morgan
• Friendly Fire by C. D. Bryan
• The Patricia Potter Romance Collection Volume One: Cold Target, Twisted Shadows, and Behind the Shadows by Patricia Potter
• Privileged Conversation by Ed Mcbain
• The Deadly Streets by Harlan Ellison
• Veil of Darkness: A Novel by Gillian White
• Night of the Ice Storm by David Stout
• Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women by Nina Burleigh
• This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
• Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts by Santiago Zabala
• The Midwife Murders by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo
• The Bormann Testament (Paul Chavasse Ser. #1) by Jack Higgins
• The Tandoor Murder-The Crime That Shook The Nation And Brought A Government To Its Knees by Maxwell Pereira
• Protect the Children by Edward Dackstone
• The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - A Love Story by Ree Drummond
• Secret Daughter: A Novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
• My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Russell
• When We Were Brave: A completely gripping and emotional WW2 historical novel by Suzanne Kelman
• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
• My One True North: The Top Five Sunday Times Bestseller - Discover The Magic Of Milly by Milly Johnson
• Lying in Wait: A Novel by Liz Nugent
• A Winter's Love: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle
• Beyond the Pale: A Novel by Elana Dykewomon
• Sleep, My Child, Forever: The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own Children (Onyx True Crime Ser. #Vol. 335) by John Coston
• An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey by Cecelia Holland
• The Blue Edge of Midnight (The Max Freeman Mysteries #1) by Jonathon King
• Relentless: Relentless, Renegade, And Notorious by Patricia Potter
• Sick of the System: Why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary by John Clarke and others
• Resilience Is Futile: The Life and Death and Life of Julie Lalonde by Julie S. Lalonde
• Wyoming Winter: Sugar Pine Trail A Snow Country Christmas Wyoming Winter Christmastime Cowboy Moonlight Over Manhattan A Chesapeake Shores Christmas (Mills And Boon M&b Ser. #7) by Diana Palmer
• Imprisoned with ISIS: Faith in the Face of Evil by Petr Jasek
• Missing Persons (Buddy Steel Mysteries #1) by Michael Brandman
• The House On Malcolm Street: A Novel by Leisha Kelly
• Billy Graham: His Life and Influence by David Aikman

Lynn's List (August 28, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1) by Ben Aaronovitch
• Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It by Erin Brockovich
• The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir by Roman Dial
• The Ian Rutledge Starter by Charles Todd
• Against the Loveless World: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa
• Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter
• The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood by Wendy Holden
• Love Has a Name: Learning to Love the Different, the Difficult, and Everyone Else by Adam Weber
• We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump--A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution by Gerald F. Seib
• Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
• Authoritarian Nightmare by John W. Dean and Bob Altemeyer
• Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs by Ralph De La Rosa
• The Assignment by Liza Wiemer
• A Cloud of Outrageous Blue by Vesper Stamper
• His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
• The Chicago Trunk Murder: Law and Justice at the Turn of the Century by Elizabeth Dale
• The Green Hornet Street Car Disaster by Craig Cleve
• Season of Water and Ice (Switchgrass Books) by Donald Lystra
• October Crisis, 1970: An Insider’s View by William Tetley
• The Survivor: An Anatomy Of Life In The Death Camps by Terrence Des Pres
• Blackbird Summer (Blackbird #1) by Em Shotwell
• Children of the Uprising Collection: Collection: Books 1 - 3 (Children of the Uprising) by Megan Lynch
• One of Ours by Willa Cather
• Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen
• The Ivory Cane by Janet Dailey
• Forbidden Love Collection (The Forbidden Love Novels) by Negeen Papehn
• The Nature of the Game by James Grady
• The Indestructible Jews: The Indestructible Jews, The Jews In America, And Appointment In Jerusalem by Max I. Dimont
• The Last of the Wine: A Novel (Virago Modern Classics Ser. #679) by Mary Renault
• Meanings of Violence: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Göran Aijmer and Jon Abbink
• The Anthropology of Friendship by Sandra Bell
• Muslim Women's Choices: Religious Belief and Social Reality (Cross-cultural Perspectives On Women Ser.) by Camillia Fawzi El-Solh and Judy Mabro
• Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
• Love in Catalina Cove (Catalina Cove #1) by Brenda Jackson
• The Wives: A Novel (Hq Fiction Ebook Ser.) by Tarryn Fisher
• Woman 99: A Novel by Greer Macallister
• The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau

My review: A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman

A View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne Kelman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



Josef is a college mathematics professor living a comfortable life in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of WWII. He tries not to think about what is happening around him until one of his students, Michael, appears at his house, clearly in danger, because he is Jewish. Josef makes a decision to hide Michael in his attic.

Though this book is historical fiction, it captures the mood of the times, and, along with other characters in the story, lets the reader see and experience the emotion and terror, and what many did to survive. The potential for betrayal is lurking everywhere, and Josef has to navigate the turmoil in order to keep Michael safe. Josef is also a captive. His heart is closed to love until Michael shows him, through their friendship, what love is. This book, I'm sure, will become a favorite of mine.

My review: The Woods by Harlan Coben

The Woods by Harlan Coben

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



To say Harlan Coben is a master at his profession is a major understatement. I've read a few of his books, and I keep coming back to them because there are ew suspense or thriller writers who can weave plots as interesting, intense and dramatic. But he does all of this so well with THE Woods.

Paul Copeland, a prosecutor, just wants to understand and know what happened to his sister in the woods twenty years ago. The question is, is he prepared for the truth? And, this is a truth that takes a lot of unexpected twists and switchbacks in the telling.

Lynn's List (August 21, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• The Monsters We Make: A Novel by Kali White
• Quilts of Lancaster County Bundle, A Time to Love, A Time to Heal & A Time for Peace - eBook [ePub] by Barbara Cameron
• Stitches in Time Bundle, Her Restless Heart, Hearts Journey & Heart in Hand - eBook [ePub] by Barbara Cameron
• Seeds of Hope (Harvest of Hope #1) by Barbara Cameron
• Buried Secrets (Harvest of Hope #2) by Barbara Cameron
• Remembering Occupied Warsaw: Polish Narratives of World War II by Erica L. Tucker
• The Small Room: A Novel by May Sarton
• A Durable Fire: Poems by May Sarton
• Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby
• I Owe You: A totally unputdownable gripping psychological thriller by Rona Halsall
• Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse by Eric Alterman
• It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens
• Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future by Shaun King
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
• Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: Ten Years After the Great Crash by Douglas W. Arner; Emilios Avgouleas; Danny Busch; and Steven L. Schwarcz
• The Absolute Violation: Why Torture Must Be Prohibited by Richard S. Matthews
• Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Connell by Donald Harman Akenson
• Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen by Sheila Johnson Kindred
• The Woods: A Suspense Thriller by Harlan Coben
• The Big Book Of Serial Killers by Jack Rosewood
• The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth by Wade Hudson
• Somewhere in the Dark: A Novel by R. J. Jacobs
• Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City by Wes Moore and Erica L. Green
• The Road Beyond Ruin by Gemma Liviero
• Charles Family's War: A Gripping Story of Twin Brothers During World War II by Alan Fewster
• Can You Keep A Secret? by J. M. Doe
• Time Bomb by Joelle Charbonneau
• Three Perfect Liars: A Novel by Heidi Perks
• Grown Ups: A Novel by Emma Jane Unsworth
• The New American: A Novel by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
• Don't Ask Me Where I'm From by Jennifer De Leon
• The Company We Keep: A Novel by Frances Itani
• Little Deadly Secrets: A Novel by Pamela Crane
• Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas by Gill Paul
• Loathe at First Sight: A Novel by Suzanne Park
• Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) by William N. Eskridge Jr.
• The Second Mother: A Novel by Jenny Milchman
• All Eyes on Her by L.E. Flynn
• The All-American Rotisserie Chicken Dinner: Quick & Easy Recipes to Dress Up Your Store-Bought Bird by Hope Comerford
• What Black and White America Must Do Now: A Prescription to Move Beyond Race by Armstrong Williams
• Undercover Epicenter Nurse: How Fraud, Negligence, and Greed Led to Unnecessary Deaths at Elmhurst Hospital by Erin Marie Olszewski
• The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock
• Berlin Wild: A Novel of World War II by Elly Welt
• Love in Unlikely Places: An Amish Romance by Linda Byler
• The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager
• Breathe the Sky by Michelle Hazen
• Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
• The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein
• Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
• The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South by Chip Jones
• Little Disasters: A Novel by Sarah Vaughan
• The Wright Sister: A Novel by Patty Dann
• Rabbit Foot Bill: A Novel by Helen Humphreys
• What Goes Up by Christine Heppermann
• Play like a Feminist. (Playful Thinking) by Shira Chess
• Betty: A novel by Tiffany McDaniel
• Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought by Brenna Bhandar and Rafeef Ziadah
• Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia by Chris Hamby
• The Search Party by Simon Lelic
• When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
• The Second Wife: A Novel by Rebecca Fleet
• The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World by Marco Tedesco
• American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) by Arie Perliger
• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, And The Origins Of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
• Dancing with Deception: Love, Lust & Deceit in Occupied Paris by Catherine McCullagh
• The Dakota Series Trilogy: Three Spirited Novels (Dakota Series) by Linda Byler
• Hadamar: The House of Shudders by Jason K. Foster
• The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts
• The Lies That Bind: A Novel by Emily Giffin
• Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
• Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye
• This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up Take Action and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
• Hidden Lake: An absolutely gripping crime fiction novel by Ruhi Choudhary
• Royal: A Novel by Danielle Steel
• Operation Underworld by Paddy Kelly
• Silence by Josie Henley-Einion