[bookshare-discuss] New Books (11) for 09-06

  • From: John Immarino <johni2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:03:32 -0700



=====FICTION, 6


BORDERLINES, BY ARCHER MAYOR
A back-to-nature cult has almost taken over the town where Joe Gunther was raised. Returning for a visit Joe becomes involved in a sudden outbreak of violence, when five die in a house fire and a man is stabbed to death.
Excellent Quality, 257 Pages
Copyright 1990
Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/109856/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0399135537/

BUFFALO FOR THE BROKEN HEART: RESTORING LIFE TO A BLACK HILLS RANCH, BY DAN O'BRIEN For twenty years, Dan O'Brien battled drought, overgrazed pastures, and falling cattle prices as he struggled to maintain his cattle ranch, The Broken Heart, nestled at the foot of South Dakota's Black Hills.
Excellent Quality, 256 Pages
Copyright 2001
Nonfiction,  Westerns,  Biographies and Memoirs,  Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/100207/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375503250/

DAUGHTER OF TROY: A NOVEL OF HISTORY, VALOR AND LOVE, BY SARAH FRANKLIN
In the tradition of Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Firebrand, Sarah B. Franklin gives the Trojan War a human face. "Daughter of Troy" is a retelling of that mythic struggle, as seen through the eyes of Briseis, princess and seer.
Excellent Quality, 418 Pages
Copyright 1998
History,  Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/109618/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0380793539/

THE HOUSE OF THE STAG, BY KAGE BAKER
With ties to Anvil of the World, this novel relates the adventures of a foundling, an unsuspecting half demon, who is exiled by his gentle valley people for fighting back against their conquerors.
Excellent Quality, 351 Pages
Copyright 2008
Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/92934/

THE LADY IN BLUE, BY JAVIER SIERRA
An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue.
Excellent Quality, 337 Pages
Copyright 2007
Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/98932/

THE SHERIFF AND THE PANHANDLE MURDERS (CHARLES MATTHEWS, BOOK 1), BY D. R. MEREDITH When a big-town sheriff hits the small time, his peaceful expectations are shot out from under him. . . .
Excellent Quality, 184 Pages
Copyright 1984
Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/65151/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345369513/



=====NONFICTION, 3


LOST BOY, BY MAIA SZALAVITZ AND  BRENT W. JEFFS
Starred Review. In this moving debut memoir, the nephew of a Mormon sect leader chronicles life in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and what came after.
Excellent Quality, 252 Pages
Copyright 2009
Nonfiction,  Biographies and Memoirs,  Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/103366/

THE GILDED DINOSAUR: THE FOSSIL WAR BETWEEN E. D. COPE AND O. C. MARSH AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN SCIENCE, BY MARK JAFFE It was an age of counterfeit giants, avaricious robber barons, corrupt politicians, intrepid pioneers, fierce Indian chiefs, and DINOSAURS!
Publisher Quality, 432 Pages
Copyright 2000
History,  Nonfiction,  Science,  Animals
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/53202/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0517707608/

THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES (A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, VOLUME IV), BY WINSTON CHURCHILL How the English-speaking peoples developed from 1815 to the early twentieth century.
Excellent Quality, 402 Pages
Copyright 1958
History,  Military,  Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/76021/



=====TEENS & CHILDREN, 2


CROWN DUEL (THE CROWN AND COURT DUET, BOOK 1), BY SHERWOOD SMITH
When they promise their dying father to resist the king, teenage Meliara and her brother are not aware of the personal sacrifice they will need to make or the danger they will bring to the kingdom.
Excellent Quality, 226 Pages
Copyright 1997
Teens,  Literature and Fiction,  Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/102636/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0152016082/

FEUD: THE LADY GRACE MYSTERIES, BOOK 6, BY PATRICIA FINNEY AND GRACE CAVENDISH Poisoned!The excitement of a famous painter's residence at Court is interrupted when paint containing arsenic goes missing--and one of the maids is mysteriously taken ill. Is someone stealing the precious paint to poison a lady?Dip into a world of art and intrigue in the private daybooke of Lady Grace, Queen Elizabeth's favorite Maid of Honor.
Excellent Quality, 185 Pages
Copyright 2006
History,  Teens,  Literature and Fiction,  Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112450/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385903421/

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