by Phillip Roth, 2004, Kindle Edition, Mariner Books This fictional book hinges on the 1940 presidential election when Charles Lindberg is elected president instead of FDR. Lindberg enters into an agreement with Hitler that the U.S. will not intervene in … Continue reading →
by Phillip Kerr, 2009, A Bernie Gunther mystery book 4, Kindle Edition, Penguin Publishing Group, G.P. Putnam’s Sons imprint This is the first book that I have read by Phillip Kerr, although it is the fourth book he wrote in … Continue reading →
by Kate Quinn, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Harper Audio This is an historical novel portraying Mila Pavlichenko, a Russian librarian who decided to become an expert marksman and was subsequently recruited to be a sharpshooter in the Russian … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, 2020, Audiobook narrated by Ken Lee, Penguin Audio This book is the prequel to Pillars of the Earth and is the story of Edgar the Builder and his early life before he became the builder of a … Continue reading →
by Kate Quinn, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Harper Audio We listened to this audiobook on our way from Rhode Island to Florida this year. It is an interesting story about three young women who were recruited during WWII … Continue reading →
by Isabelle Allende, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Random House Audio We listened to this book as we traveled north to our summer home this year. The novel spans decades and crosses continents following two young people as they … Continue reading →
by Marie Benedict, 2019, Sourcebooks Landmark This is a novel about Hedy Lamarr and how she came to invent a method to transmit directions to torpedoes in WWII. I enjoyed reading this because it was written in the first person. … Continue reading →
by Edward Rutherfurd, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Mark Bramhall, Random House Audio This book is a long one (30 CD’s of audiobook) that traces the history of New York from it’s founding until 2009 through one family and its descendants. … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, 2017, Audiobook narrated by John Lee, Penguin Audio This is an addition to Follett’s other historical novels, this one related primarily to the reign of Elizabeth I in England. The characters are typical of Follett’s writing. The … Continue reading →
by Graham Moore, 20167, Kindle Version, Random House LLC This is an interesting book as it depicts the war between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison over the future distribution of electricity. We all know that Westinghouse’s system won in the … Continue reading →