by Stephen Kinzer, 2014, St. Martin’s Griffin This book traces the lives and careers of John Foster Dulles and his brother, Allen. It is interesting in that the author contrasts the personalities of each of them and shows how they reacted … Continue reading →
by Ann-Marie MacDonald, 1996, Touchstone Books, New York This book had great potential as it was set in a remote town in Nova Scotia at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is an area about which I have no … Continue reading →
by Richard Stoneman, Fifth Edition, 2009, Interlink Books, Northampton, MA We bought this book before we took our trip to Greece and Turkey last year, thinking that I would read the book prior to going to Turkey. I never had … Continue reading →
by Bill Bryson, 2014, Anchor Paperbacks This book is a collection of things that happened in 1927. It starts with a murder trial in the early part of the year, then describes some of the incidents leading up to Lindberg’s … Continue reading →
by Elin Hilderbrand, Audiobook 2009, Read by Katie Hale, Hatchett Audio We got this book from the Narragansett Library and listened to it on the way down from Rhode Island to Florida this year. We ordinarily drive two cars but … Continue reading →
by Ian McEwen, Audiobook version released 2012, Narrated by Juliet Stevenson, Random House Audiobooks This was an okay book to listen to, about a young lady whose boyfriend gets her a job with MI-6, the British Secret Service. It is … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, 2010, Dutton, published by the Penguin Group, New York This book was a disappointment. Follett has attempted to create a great historical trilogy and this is the first book in this effort. The book is written in … Continue reading →
by Lisa See, Audiobook, 2011, Read by Janet Song, Random House Audiobooks This novel was fairly pleasant to listen to, but the plot and characters were pretty light weight.  The book is about a young girl of Chinese descent who, through … Continue reading →
by William Landay, 2012, Delacorte Press, a division of Random House, New York This is a story about an Assistant DA who is caught up in a bad situation when his son is accused of a murder of a classmate. … Continue reading →
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Translated by Lucia Graves, 2004, The Penguin Press, New York This is a well-crafted mystery about a boy who comes across a mysterious book in a “book cemetery.’” The plot thickens from that point on as … Continue reading →