Category: NON FICTION

June 18, 2010

No Man’s River, by Farley Mowat **** (of 4)

Fifty years after the events that brought him from the horrors of WW II to a small hut on the edge of Hudson’s Bay near...

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June 18, 2010

he Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass ** (of 4)

OK, he really cares about wolves and he can write about nature like nobody’s business, but this book is like late McPhee cycling between great...

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June 18, 2010

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin **** (of 4)

There’s a good reason this book made many top ten lists for 2007. It’s a very easy read full of insider information about the Supreme...

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June 18, 2010

Nickled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich **** (of 4)

I wasn’t expecting to learn much, especially after the book’s introduction. A Ph.D., upper-class (relatively speaking), journalist and author agrees to foresake her ordinary life...

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June 18, 2010

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick *** (of 4)

I listened to half the book on CD, read another quarter, and didn’t have time to finish Philbrick’s account of the interaction between the Pilgrims...

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June 18, 2010

The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece ** (of 4)

Harr is a wonderful writer and does his best to create a mystery story around the search for and ultimate discovery of a Caravaggio painting...

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June 18, 2010

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright **** (of 4)

You know at the beginning the story will end with planes flying into the World Trade Center, but Wright’s recounting makes the book a suspenseful...

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June 18, 2010

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson **** (of 4)

Bryson recounts his Iowa childhood of the 1950s writing scenes so effectively that I could see every lincoln log (he peed on), smell the pages...

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June 18, 2010

Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction by Martin Gilbert *** (of 4)

A fluky book by on the of the world’s greatest Holocaust historians. Gilbert gathers dozens of newly uncovered personal histories of November 10, 1938 when...

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June 18, 2010