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