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What They Did There: Profiles from the Battle of Gettysburg
by Steve Hedgpeth
Genres: Civil War, History, Military Fiction, Nonfiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.97

This book first drew breath as a blog begun in the winter of 2013 during the run-up to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in early July of that same year. The blog was to be my first sustained piece of writing since 2008, when I’d left the newspaper business after 25 years as a features writer and editor. If the venue had changed, my approach did not. During my career, I’d specialized in short profiles of celebrities, mostly from the field of television. I was never much for longer pieces of writing, preferring punchy vignettes that I’d hoped nonetheless were both informative and entertaining. I brought this stylistic template to profiling people who had been involved in the Battle of Gettysburg, my interest in which dates back to my childhood in the ‘60s. The 1960s, that is. My intent was to write 150 profiles to dovetail with the 150th anniversary. I didn’t really know if I could find that many people of interest to write about, but as it turned out I found more than I’d expected, especially considering that I had little interest in profiling those who had been profiled silly since the last shot was fired in the battle. So, no Robert E. Lee or George Meade or Winfield Scott Hancock or George Armstrong Custer and so on. As an example, take Gen. Gouveneur Warren, who has a striking monument on the field owing to his repute as “the Savior of Little Round Top.” I didn’t think yet another profile of Warren was needed, so I opted to write about one of his aides, a young engineering officer named Washington Roebling, who long after the battle smoke had cleared from his eyes became the principal engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge. What you’ll find here are roughly 175 profiles, not just of combatants blue and gray, but of civilians, doctors, nurses, artists, photographers, Samaritans; saints, sinners and the moral terrain in-between; men, women, children.
David's Gift
by H.G. Keller
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.57

Barry and Susan Nelson's firstborn, David, is one of those very rare children who gets bored after having mastered quantum mechanics by his ninth birthday. Raising him in the Christian faith, they soon find that he is asking piercing theological questions concerning evolution vs Creation, and that they need expert help in providing him with answers. In the same way they sought out college professors to tutor him in advanced mathematics and physics, they turn to their church's pastor, who is both a medical doctor and a Doctor of Philosophy. Rev. Johnson's incredibly detailed discussions with David examine every facet of the debate. David's Gift is a fictional tale of an absolutely non-fiction issue, addressed comprehensively by an author who clearly has a deep understanding of what he refers to as Evolutionized Creation. There is, Keller contends in the Introduction, no reason to abandon your Creationist beliefs, especially not when the science so clearly supports the reality of a Creator.A story of new faith, lost faith renewed and the staggering complexity and ineradicable beauty of a perfect Creation. HG Keller was born in a small Nebraska town where he spent the first 38 years as a Medical Technologist, an engineer and sales assistant. He moved to Virginia to work as a sales representative and after 22 years retired and moved to Colorado to live closer to his children and grandchildren. Throughout his life he has studied evolutionary science and biology. He has wrestled with the idea of a creator and the theory of neo-Darwinism. He has been waiting for someone to come along and resolve the mystery of human creation. David's Gift is an effort to put forth ideas on how it all could have happened. Contact Mr. Keller at Davidsgift771@gmail.com with your thoughts about this book and find out about his next literary project.
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by robert-m-sapolsky
Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Memoir, Animals, Africa, Biology, Anthropology
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.37

In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,” writes Robert Sapolsky in this witty and riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming-of-age in remote Africa. An exhilarating account of Sapolsky’s twenty-one-year study of a troop of rambunctious baboons in Kenya, A Primate’s Memoir interweaves serious scientific observations with wry commentary about the challenges and pleasures of living in the wilds of the Serengeti — for man and beast alike. Over two decades, Sapolsky survives culinary atrocities, gunpoint encounters, and a surreal kidnapping, while witnessing the encroachment of the tourist mentality on the farthest vestiges of unspoiled Africa. As he conducts unprecedented physiological research on wild primates, he becomes evermore enamored of his subjects — unique and compelling characters in their own right — and he returns to them summer after summer, until tragedy finally prevents him.By turns hilarious and poignant, A Primate’s Memoir is a magnum opus from one of our foremost science writers.
A Valley Experience (Inspirational Life Experiences, #1)
by Pam Funke
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.16

Disclaimer: Realistic fiction dealing with difficult topics that may not be suitable for readers under the age of 15.Meet Brianca Euley, a girl who goes through life searching for love. She searches in all the wrong places--in the clubs, with various men, everywhere except where true unconditional love waits for her. Will she ever learn that what is missing from her life is God? How far down this path of destruction will she go before she reaches out to God?
ஏழு தலைமுறைகள் [Ezhu Thalaimuraigal]
by Ethirajalu
Genres: Novels
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.52

Tamil Version of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...) by EthirajuluWhen he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.
Shadows of the Heart (The Unicorns #1)
by Lord' Williams
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.41

There are some affairs you simply cannot turn your back on-the connection cannot be severed-becoming shadows of the heart. William R. Green, and his wife Yvonne, teetered on the brink of divorce after 25 years of marriage, when William confronted Yvonne about her two-year affair with her former partner, N.Y.P.D. Lieutenant Robert Wells. Yvonne, cast out of her home, took refuge in the arms of Lieutenant Wells. During their vacation in the Bahamas, she began to have second thoughts after a visit with a local witch, and her nervous breakdown on a lonely stretch of beach. Encircled in William's arms, Joann spoke through the congestion in her chest and runny nose. "Why does it have to hurt to love you?" The pain shot straight to his heart, but the pain he felt did not surpass the heartache and problems he had caused in the lives of his previous lovers: Joann, Dana, and Andrea. Obsessed, his best friend Jake was determined to unravel the secrets, the lies, and murders in William's dark past. Step into the middle of William's world wind of love and destruction where all he wanted to do was to reconcile his marriage before he faced his own death. However, unbeknownst to William, Yvonne was returning with a decision to make-to kill her husband or go against the odds of starting a new beginning.
Color of My Soul
by Helen Stromberg
Average rating on Goodreads: 5.00

It's a far cry from the island off the Norwegian coast, where Helen Barth Stromberg lived an artist's life for five years, to the High Plains and canyons of the western U.S.A. The move was the result of the poet meeting the love of her life - Crow, a Cherokee Indian - and the poems and prose pieces gathered here are the passionate expressions of the love felt for a man and respect for his special a world of spirit and flesh, man and beast, dance and ritual, song and legend, light and dark. The link may lie in one of Helen's forebears, who was from the Sami people of Northern Norway, whom we call Lapps. To them, the reindeer and transhumance; to the Native Americans, the bison and the buffalo hunt so graphically described in "Predator". But even in the harsh images of "Nature", the author finds room for Tell me you do not feel it, tell me your heart does not pound like a buffalo stampede, whenever I am near . . .
Into The Land Of Shadows
by Kristy McCaffrey
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.52

Ethan Barstow has come to Arizona Territory to search for his younger brother, Charley. It’s been five years since a woman came between them and it’s high time they buried the hatchet. He soon learns that his brother has broken more than one heart in town, has mysteriously and abruptly disappeared, and that an indignant fiancée is hot on his trail.Kate Kinsella pursues Charley Barstow when he skips out of town without a second thought. Not only has he left Agnes McPherson alone and pregnant, but everyone still believes that he and Kate are engaged, a sham from the beginning. An ill-timed encounter with a group of ruffians has her suddenly in the company of Ethan Barstow, Charley’s brother and a man of questionable repute. As they move deeper into the shadows of the Arizona desert, family tensions and past tragedies threaten to destroy a relationship neither of them expects.
X Square
by Srinu Pandranki
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.20

The peace and sanity of Palo Alto, the university town of Santa Clara County, California, with its quiet tree-lined vistas and shady boulevards, is disturbed when three violent murders rock this otherwise low-crime city of mixed-culture and nativity. Angelina, a young Stanford Student is found dead in her apartment. Gayatri Prasad, an India- born immigrant and mother, has been pushed off her balcony, dead on impact with the pavement many stories below. Anne Martin, the beautiful tourist from France has been brutally raped and murdered in her relative’s bedroom. Are the murders related? Shreya Dutt, the tough young homicide detective of Indian Origin, teams up with Kevin Holmes - a formerly active Homicide Detective living an uneventful life as the overseer of Police Archives, with an unresolved past that still haunts the corners of his mind. The murders pull him out of his peaceful existence, back into the game. Together with the fiery Shreya Dutt, he strives to solve the mystery surrounding the crimes; a quest that takes them from the grand locales of Palo Alto to Chinatown and to the grimy streets of East Palo Alto, in search of the seemingly elusive. Fast-paced and emotionally charged, X Square is a novel about love, hate, deceit and the darkness of the fickle human mind.
As Snow Falls
by Elle Klass
Genres: Fiction
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.98

It is the 20th century in California and the main character, a woman, has lived her life to the fullest. Nestled in her favorite spot during a snow storm she recalls the events of her life from her earliest memories of resisting birth and losing that futile battle to finding her true love and their beautiful family. There are monkey wrenches thrown in at every turn as she struggles to find her place; demonic teachers, cliquish students, her nightmare job, a love lost, and an earthquake that threatens her family. Life continues to dismay her until she can't take it anymore and sets off on a journey. She is a lost soul with no destination, a wandering heart until something happens, something so incredible she could have never imagined it! Through her harrowing and dark story she finds light, justice and true love. She is a humble and lovable character who is quite ordinarily extraordinary. Her story is anyone's story.
Und dein Lohn ist der Tod
by Erasmus Herold
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.90

Gütersloh im Winter 2013, Dienstagnacht. Überstürzt verlässt Victoria Lirot das Haus, lediglich bekleidet in Schlafanzug und Mantel. Es ist kühl, doch die junge Frau wählt den Motorroller und lässt das Auto stehen. Eine Stunde später ist sie tot, brutal ermordet. Wovor ist Frau Lirot geflüchtet oder was hatte sie vor? Am darauffolgenden Tag verunglückt ein Auto zwischen Gütersloh und Wiedenbrück. Die Kreispolizeibehörde ermittelt und Kommissarin Sarah Berger und ihr neuer Partner Ahmet Yilmaz übernehmen den Fall. Die Untersuchung des Unfallorts liefert den beiden Polizisten verblüffende Ergebnisse. Schnell wird klar, zwischen der Toten der vergangenen Nacht und diesem Unfall besteht ein Zusammenhang. Die Spuren führen zu einem jungen Start-up-Unternehmen, der Teuto Solarlicht. Undurchsichtig erscheint das Treiben ihrer Gesellschafter, folgenreich das, was sie tun. Als sich einer der Verdächtigen ins benachbarte Stromberg absetzt, konzentrieren die Ermittler ihre Suche auf das Burgdorf. Eine unberechenbare Jagd beginnt.
Morning Glory
by LaVyrle Spencer
Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Westerns, Fiction, Adult
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.27

"A superb book." (New York Daily News)On the eve of World War II, two people are brought together by fate and discover an unexpected passion.
Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives
by Isaiah Hankel
Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Personal Development, Psychology, Business, Leadership
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.88

Black Hole Focus is a handbook for intelligent people looking for step-by-step guidance in creating a focus so powerful it will transform lives.Through personal (and sometimes embarrassing) stories, Dr. Isaiah Hankel breaks down the primary driver behind the actions of successful people: focus.Divided into three parts, Black Hole Focus explains why you need a focus, how to create your focus, and what your newfound focus can do for you in the face of adversity.In Black Hole Focus, you’ll also discover…How to create powerful priorities that will keep you focused and eliminate even the worst distractions (like Facebook!).The 6 ways to get 10,000 hours of experience in less than a year (chances are, you’re already using 2-3 of them).What 3 skills you must learn for securing your future (skills that automation will never replace).
Three Heads
by Rob Einsle
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.00

Nick lived life with a yearning to spread delight. He sacrificed himself for others to have joy. He was always a hundred percent. He was always full speed ahead. He was always wearing a genuine smile. I hated to have to kill him.The following narrative is:1. the story of our friendship2. a whole bunch of misused em dashes and probably several other grammatical errors3. a chronicle of our devious adventure4. a novel full of clichés5. the reason for Nick's brutal disposal6. a whole slew of words I got out of a thesaurus–because that’s what beginner writers do7. a warningLet us start from the beginning...
Play Dirty
by Sandra       Brown
Genres: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Mystery, Suspense, Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.03

 #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is back with a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences.  After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving.  Foster Speakman, owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, and his wife, Laura, are a golden couple. Successful and wealthy, they lived a charmed life before fate cruelly intervened and denied them the one thing they wanted most -- a child. It's said that money can't buy everything. But it can buy a disgraced football player fresh out of prison and out of prospects.  The job Griff agrees to do for the Speakmans demands secrecy. But he soon finds himself once again in the spotlight of suspicion. An unsolved murder comes back to haunt him in the form of his nemesis, Stanley Rodarte, who has made Griff's destruction his life's mission. While safeguarding his new enterprise, Griff must also protect those around him, especially Laura Speakman, from Rodarte's ruthlessness. Griff stands to gain the highest payoff he could ever imagine, but cashing in on it will require him to forfeit his only chance for redemption...and love.  Griff is now playing a high-stakes game, and at the final whistle, one player will be dead.  Play Dirty is Sandra Brown's wildest ride yet, with hairpin turns of plot all along the way. The clock is ticking down on a fallen football star, who lost everything because of the way he played the game. Now his future -- his life -- hinges on one last play.
ZeroZeroZero
by Roberto Saviano
Genres: Nonfiction, Crime, True Crime, Politics, History, Italy, Italian Literature
Average rating on Goodreads: 3.73

"Guarda la cocaina, vedrai polvere. Guarda attraverso la cocaina, vedrai il mondo"La coca la sta usando chi è seduto accanto a te ora in treno e l’ha presa per svegliarsi stamattina o l’autista al volante dell’autobus che ti porta a casa, perché vuole fare gli straordinari senza sentire i crampi alla cervicale. Fa uso di coca chi ti è più vicino. Se non è tuo padre o tua madre, se non è tuo fratello, allora è tuo figlio. Se non è tuo figlio, è il tuo capoufficio. Se non è il tuo capo, è la sua amante, a cui la regala lui al posto degli orecchini e meglio dei diamanti. Chi la usa è lì con te. È il poliziotto che sta per fermarti, il chirurgo che si sta svegliando ora per operare tua zia, l’avvocato da cui vai per divorziare. Il giudice che si pronuncerà sulla tua causa civile e non ritiene questo un vizio, ma solo un aiuto a godersi la vita. La cassiera che ti sta dando il biglietto della lotteria. Se non è lei, è il parroco da cui stai andando per la cresima, l’assessore che ha appena deliberato le nuove isole pedonali, il parcheggiatore che ormai sente l’allegria solo quando tira. Il ricercatore che sta seduto ora a destra del professore, il vigile urbano che suda moltissimo anche se è inverno, il lavavetri con gli occhi scavati. Tuo cognato che non è mai allegro o il ragazzo di tua figlia che invece lo è sempre. Il costruttore della casa in cui vivi, lo scrittore che leggi prima di dormire, la giornalista che ascolterai al telegiornale. Ma se, pensandoci bene, ritieni che nessuna di queste persone possa tirare cocaina, o sei incapace di vedere o stai mentendo. Oppure, semplicemente, la persona che ne fa uso sei tu.
Not Dead in the Heart of Dixie
by R.M. Kralik
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.11

Welcome to Kapper Hill Compound, home to a family of average, everyday people trying to survive in a Post Apocalyptic World destroyed by strange disease, ruthless dictators, and foreign invasion. Join this non-stop roller coaster ride of pain, suffering, love, and laughter. This lengthy work of art is action packed, with twists and turns around every corner. You will live the story with them, learn valuable lessons from them, and cry out for more.
Infinity
by Ellen Louise Curtis
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.21

The story of four very special people and the man that brought them together, Infinity is an adventure book like no other. Enter a world where life is what you make of it, luck is subjective, and sometimes YOU are the only thing keeping you from going under.
Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies
by Howard Good
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.45

How far should a reporter go for a story? What's the role of the press at the scene of an emergency, or a murder? Why has journalism suddenly become so susceptible to plagiarism? Here's a book that poses these and other urgent questions―and offers candid answers. At a time when professionals and the public alike worry that journalism has lost its way, Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies is available to provide much-needed, accessible guidance.Its twelve chapters, written by some of the nation's leading journalism scholars, explore issues that should concern anyone who aspires to a career in journalism, who works in the field, or who relies on news for daily information. Best of all, as the title suggests the contributors conduct their dynamic and engaging investigations at the movies, where sportswriters, war correspondents, investigative reporters, crime reporters, spin doctors, TV anchors, and harried city editors tackle these pressing issues. Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies isn't your typical textbook. Using popular movies from Wag the Dog to Good Night, and Good Luck to illustrate the kind of ethical dilemmas journalists encounter on the job, this student-friendly book is sure to spark interest and stimulate thinking.
Random Acts of Kindness by Animals
by Stephanie Laland
Genres: Animals, Nonfiction, Inspirational
Average rating on Goodreads: 4.30

Filled with fascinating facts and grounded in scientific evidence, Peaceful Kingdom manages to put the reader in touch with that special communion with the animal kingdom that enhances the lives of so many people. The stories range from the sweetly heartwarming to the often surprising and make a uniquely memorable and inspiring gift to animal lovers around the world.