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Maitland-Lewis, Stephen

• Botticelli’s Bastard – A novel tak­ing place in Europe with a strange premise combining ele­ments of magic, fan­tasy, his­tor­i­cal fic­tion and art history.

Mamatas, Nick

• Quotes Every Man Should Know edited – A lit­tle book which, when read in con­text, can be help­ful and funny when needed.

Manrique, Jaime

• Cervantes Street– A historical-fiction novel about Miguel de Cer­vantes Saavedra’s jour­ney to write Don Quixote. The book is pep­pered with lit­er­ary ref­er­ences to Cer­vantes’ works as well as works of the time.

Mann, Leslie

• And Some Fell on Stony Ground: A Day in the Life of an RAF Bomber Pilot – A fic­tional nar­ra­tive of a World War II air­man. Mr. Mann was a tail gun­ner in a British bomber who was shot down and spent the war in rel­a­tive safety as a POW in Germany.

Masterson, Louis

• Morgan Kane: Without Mercy– The first book in this Western series which introduces the reader to Morgan Kane, Texas Ranger, an old world cowboy with the ethics and morality of a new world superhero.

Martin, George R.R.

• A Game of Thrones – a fantasy novel which is the base to the successful TV show.

• A  Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) – The second novel in this fantasy series.

McIntyre, Vonda

• The Crystal Star (Star Wars Guest Review) – The events revolve around an intrigu­ing area of space in which a white dwarf star is orbit­ing a black hole and slowly being drawn in by the immense spa­tial forces at work.

McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez

• Princesses Behav­ing Badly: Real Sto­ries from His­tory With­out the Fairy-Tale End­ings – A series of non-fiction mini –biogra­phies of famous and infa­mous women of roy­alty.

MacNeal, Susan Elia

• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in the early days of World War II about an American woman, a brilliant mathematician, of British origin in London working at 10 Downing Street.

• Princess Elizabeth’s Spy – The sec­ond book in the author’s fic­tional series about Mag­gie Hope, this time Maggie is tasked with keeping an eye on the young Princess Elizabeth during World War II.

Magee, Doug

• Darkness All Around – A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in a small town, the book also cap­tures the neu­ro­sis feel of small town pol­i­tics.

Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri

• Scandalous Women – A non-fictionbook ded­i­cated to… scan­dalous women. Each woman is fea­tured in a short bio­graph­i­cal chap­ter.

Makine, Andreï

• Dreams of My Russian Summers – An award winning fic­tional, semi-autobiographical book exploring the narrator’s grandmother’s life as well as the narrator’s life and how her sto­ries influ­enced him.

Malcolm, M. L.

• Heart of Lies -A fic­tional tale of a fam­ily, inspired by the author’s hus­band, which takes place after World War I until the early days of World War II.

• Heart of Deception – the fic­tional sequel to “Hear of Lies” pick­ing up with the same cast of char­ac­ters after World War II.

Marcus,Greil

• Mystery Train (Guest Review) – The essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism.

Margolick, David

• Elizabeth and Hazel– A non fic­tion book about Eliz­a­beth Eck­ford and Hazel Bryan were cap­tured for pros­per­ity in a pho­to­graph by Will Counts.

Margolin, Josh

• The Jersey Sting (with Ted Sherman)- The true story of the events lead­ing up to the arrest of 44 peo­ple in New Jer­sey including cor­rupt local politi­cians, Rab­bis, money laun­der­ers and, strangest of all, a black mar­ket kid­ney dealer.

de Marigny, Gerard

• Thoughts on: The Watchman of Ephraim– A fic­tional book tak­ing place a decade after 9/11 when a multi-billionaire whose wife died in the Twin Towers opens a private security firm.

Márquez, Gabriel Garcia

• One Hundred Years of Solitude (Guest Review) -The novel fol­lows the his­tory of Jose Arca­dio Buen­dia, his wife Ursula, and their prog­eny over the course of about a hun­dred years in Macondo, Colum­bia.

Martel, Yann

• Beatrice and Virgil: A novel – A a fictional book, a follow up to the author’s wildly successful “Like of Pi”, a strange story which is suppose to be an allegory for the holocaust.

Maxwell, Robin

• Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan – A reimag­in­g of the famous Bur­roughs novel. This book tells the famous story from the view point of Jane Porter, Tarzan’s love interest.

McCann, Colum

• Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann – A series of short stories which get intertwined.

McClure, Sandy

• The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption (with Bob Ingle)- A non-fiction book which examines New Jersey‘s love / hate relationship with the corrupt political class.

McCullough, David

• 1776 – A non-fiction book about this remark­able year, the book has become a must on the list of every Amer­i­can his­tory buff since it came out.

• John Adams – The award winning biography, and basis for the HBO series, of the US’ second president.

McDonough, Yona Zeldis

• The Cats in the Doll Shop – A fic­tional children’s book aimed at the younger crowd. This book is a sequel to The Doll Shop Downstairs.

McMurtry, Larry

• Rhino Ranch– A fictional book set in Texas following famil­iar char­ac­ters from pre­vi­ous McMurtry Books.

McNabb, Andy

• Bravo Two Zero– A best­seller describ­ing a patrol by the Eng­lish Spe­cial Air Ser­vices (SAS) in Iraq dur­ing the Gulf War.

McNish, Cliff

• Breath: A Ghost Story (Guest Review) — A fic­tional book taking place after twelve-year-old Jack’s father dies sud­denly, his mother Sarah moves them to an old farm­house in the coun­try. It’s an isolated,crumbling old place, and it has a his­tory. But Jack has a special gift.

Medad, Yisrael (editor)

• Peace in the Making (with Harry Hurwitz)- The com­plete cor­re­spon­dence between the Israeli prime min­is­ter Men­achem Begin and the Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Anwar Sadat dur­ing the his­toric peace mak­ing efforts.

Mekhen­net, Souad

• The Eter­nal Nazi: From Mau­thausen to Cairo, the Relent­less Pur­suit of SS Doc­tor Arib­ert Heim (with Nicholas Kul­ish) – A non-fiction book detail­ing the tri­als and tribu­la­tions of Nazi hunters fol­low­ing an elu­sive crim­i­nal.

Metz, Lafe

• The Locksmith – The memoir of Kurt Kann, a Ger­man born Amer­i­can solider dur­ing World War II.

Millar, Mark

• Superman: Red Son – a classic graphic novel asking what whould happen if the Man of Steel’s rocket

Millard, Can­dice

• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Dark­est Jour­ney – A non-fiction book telling of the extra­or­di­nary expe­di­tion led by Cân­dido Mar­i­ano da Silva Ron­don and his co-commander, ex-President Theodore Roo­sevelt, down the unex­plored trib­u­taries of the Ama­zon in 1914.

Miller, Angela

• Quest Holders (Guest Review) – A young woman finds out that life has more to offer her after the loss of her par­ents.

Miller, Charley

• Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson’s World (with Peter Miller) – A guide which tells the reader about the famous home of Thomas Jefferson, America’s 3^rd President

Miller, Frank

• All-Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder – A a fun, excit­ing, humor­ous and quick-paced book retelling the origins of Batman (using some graphic sex, violence and profanity).

• The Dark Knight Returns– A Ground breaking graphic novel written and drawn by Miller.

• Holy Terror – A graphic novel which has our heroes fight­ing Al-Qaeda. The book was writ­ten after 9/11 and it feels like it.

Miller, Peter

• Monticello: The Official Guide to Thomas Jefferson’s World (with Charley Miller) – A guide which tells the reader about the famous home of Thomas Jefferson, America’s 3^rd President

Miller, Ron

• The Art of Space: The His­tory of Space Art, from the Ear­li­est Visions to the Graph­ics of the Mod­ern Era – A book encom­pass­ing decades of space related art.

Mires, Charlene

• Capital of the World – A his­tory book doc­u­ment­ing the search for the UN’s home.

Mishal, Nissim

• The Mossad: Great Operations (with Michael Bar-Zohar) -A non-fiction book by Israeli jour­nal­ists recounting some of the great suc­cesses and fail­ures of the secret Israeli agency.

Mishani, D. A.

• The Missing File– A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in Holon, Israel. The book has been trans­lated from Hebrew and is one of the few police mys­ter­ies / pro­ce­dural writ­ten in Israel.

Mitchell, David

• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – In 18^th Century in feudal Japan Dutch merchants onlly allowed on a small island. Jacob allows honor and decorum triumph over corruption and wickedness.

Mitchell, Erika

• Take the Bai Road – a novel which continues the adventures of CIA case officer Bai Hsu, a Chinese-American spy – this time taking on the Mexicans cartels.

Mitchell, Stephen (editor)

• The Enlightened Heart (Guest Review) – Selec­tions from: the Upan­ishads, the Book of Psalms, the Tao Te Ching, the Bha­gavad Gita, the Odes of Solomon, Chi­nese nature poets, early Chris­t­ian the­olo­gians, Japan­ese haiku prac­ti­tion­ers, Sufi poet Rumi, Dante, Kabir, Shake­speare, and more.

Moeller, Christopher

• Justice League: A League of One – A graphic novel about the famed group of heroes, banded together for grand adventures.

Montefiore, Simon Sebag

• One Night in Winter – A a grip­ping, intel­li­gent novel about a bunch of upper class kids in Stalin’s Russia after World War II who were arrested for treason.

Moore, Alan

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 – A graphic novel which puts together a bunch of famous fic­tional char­ac­ters, writ­ten by dif­fer­ent authors, to a steam­punk adven­ture which spans lit­er­a­ture and imag­i­na­tion.

• The Killing Joke– A graphic novel telling the ori­gins of The Joker, Batman’s arch neme­sis. This graphic novel is con­sid­ered a “must read” for fans of the genre and the DC Universe.

Moorehead, Caroline

• Vil­lage of Secrets: Defy­ing the Nazis in Vichy France– A non-fiction book which tells the story of the small vil­lage and its sur­round­ing area which were respon­si­ble for sav­ing thou­sands of peo­ple dur­ing World War II who were on the Gestapo’s wanted list.

Moore, Don

• Flash Gor­don: The Tyrant of Mongo: The Com­plete Flash Gor­don Library 1937–1941 (with Alex Raymond)– This hard cover coffee table book col­lects 4 years of comic strip to bring an excit­ing story to a new audience.

Motion, Andrew

• Silver: Return to Treasure Island– a novel which continues the adventures of the son of Jim Hawkins, protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island.

Mott, Jason

• The Returned – The novel asks sev­eral very inter­est­ing ques­tions: what would you do if loved ones came back from the dead? Are they your loved ones or are they “copies”? How would the world react? What would the world do with all the over pop­u­la­tion?

Morris, Errol

• A Wilder­ness of Error : The Tri­als of Jef­frey Mac­Don­ald – A true-crime non-fiction book about the trial of Jef­frey Mac­Don­ald, for­mer Cap­tain in the Green Berets, a med­ical doc­tor, Prince­ton grad­u­ate, father and hus­band was con­victed of mur­der­ing his fam­ily in 1970.

Murakami, Haruki

• 1Q84 – a fic­tional novel which takes place between two worlds, orig­i­nally writ­ten in Japan­ese and became a best seller almost immediately.

• Norwegian Wood — A fictional 1987 novel set in 1960s Tokyo, Japan where a man reminisces about his college days, love lost and life.

Myers, Tamar

• The Witch Doctor’s Wife – A novel about Amanda Brown, a young missionary from South Carolina, travels to the Belgian Congo in 1958 in order to oversee a missionary guest house in the town of Belle Vue. Belle Vue is a diamond mining town in which the race by the Belgian occupiers to get as many riches as they can before the forces of independence takes over is a major concern..

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Nagel, Paul C.

• John Quincy Adams– A wonderful character study / biography of the misunderstood sixth president of the US.

Naggar, Jean

• Sip­ping from the Nile: My Exo­dus from Egypt– A w mem­oir of a bygone era, an ele­gantly writ­ten mem­oir of a close knit Egypt­ian Jew­ish fam­ily and the tur­moil they encounter dur­ing the tur­bu­lent 1950s.

Nagorski, Andrew

• The Nazi Hunters– a non-fiction book which tells of the people who took it upon themselves to bring former to Nazis to justice.

Napoli, Lisa

• Radio Shangri-La – A memoir starting in 2007. The author volunteered to go to Bhutan and help launch their first radio station.

Naslund, Sena Jeter

• Adam & Eve – A fic­tional book which tries to tackle the evo­lu­tion / cre­ation­ism debate through its char­ac­ters and via the sto­ry­line.

Nesbø, Jo

• The Bat– The first in the Harry Hole series. Oslo Crime Squad Inspec­tor Harry Hole is sent to Syd­ney, Aus­tralia to rep­re­sent Nor­way in an inves­ti­ga­tion of a Nor­we­gian national’s mur­der. Harry makes friends with the local police offi­cers and leaves his offi­cial role as an observer on the side­lines to take a more active role on the case.

• Nemesis– Inspec­tor Harry Hole wakes up from a drunken stu­por after vis­it­ing an old flame with a huge mem­ory gap. Harry comes to find out that his girl­friend is dead, but he is busy inves­ti­gat­ing a vio­lent bank rob­bery which turned into a homicide.

• The Devil’s Star – The third in the Harry Hole series. The book deals with a Norwegian serial killer and incorporates a sophisticated plot where all the pieces fit together at the end.

Nevo, Eshkol

• The Lost Solos -An Israeli novel cap­turing sev­eral aspects of Israeli soci­ety, the Russ­ian immi­grant, a sol­dier, politi­cian, reli­gious Jew, an Arab bird-lover and more.

Nyiszli, Dr. Miklós

• Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account – Memoir and cautionary tale of a Jewish doctor who became Men­gele’s per­sonal research pathologist. Non fiction and not for the faint or heart, but an excellent book.

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O’Hanlon, Michael

• The Wounded Giant – A non-fiction eBook in which the author lays out his ideas for mil­i­tary bud­get cuts.

Oksanen, Sofi

• Purge – Wonderful historical fiction about two women and they horrifying events in their lives which take Estonia, in general, and their rural village specifically through WWII, soviet rule and independence.

Omar, Manal M.

• Barefoot in Baghdad – A touching memoir of an American Muslim aid worker in Iraq.

Orczy, Emmuska

• The Scarlet Pimpernel – A fictional adventure taking place during the French Revolution where a group of Englishman rescues French nobles from Madame Guil­lo­tine.

Ostrow, Stephen L.

• How to Sue a Telemarketer– A humorous guide filled with instructions and advice on how to get your family time back.

Owen, Mark

• No Easy Day: The First­hand Account of the Mis­sion That Killed Osama Bin Laden– A non­fic­tion account from one of the man in the Navy SEALs unit who were tasked with raid­ing the com­pound in which it was thought that Usama Bin Laden is hiding.

Oz, Amos

• Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest – Award winning Israeli author Amos Oz writes a short novel which you can read to your kids

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Parnell, Sean

• Outlaw Platoon (with John Bruning) – A non-fiction book about Mr. Parnell’s expe­ri­ence as a pla­toon leader (nick­named Out­law Pla­toon) for the U.S. Army Air­borne Ranger in Afghanistan.

Patchett, Ann

• State of Wonder – A fictional fic­tional book tak­ing place, mostly, in Brazil’s Ama­zon region, Brazil when a pharmaceutical researcher from Minnesota goes looking for a missing colleague and her mentor.

Patterson, James

• Sundays at Tiffany’s (with Gabrielle Charbonnet) – A romance about a poor little rich girl has an imaginary friend as a young girl and later gets reunited with him.

Parkin, Gaile

• Baking Cakes in Kigali – A fic­tional story is about a woman named Angel Tun­garaza, who her­self is Tan­zan­ian but is liv­ing in an Inter­na­tional apart­ment com­plex in Rwanda and bakes cakes for a living.

Parssinen, Keija

• The Ruins of Us – A fic­tional book set in Saudi Ara­bia, a char­ac­ter study of mar­riage in the midst of a cul­ture clash.

Pasulka, Brigid

• A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True – a funny and touching novel about two generations of the same family in Poland. Juxtaposed between World War II and current day Poland.

Pearl, Matthew

• The Technologists – A fic­tional book about the early days of the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy (MIT) in the years after the Amer­i­can Civil War dur­ing a very frag­ile time in our history.

Pearlman, Ann

• The Christmas Cookie Club – A short fictional novel which takes place on one December evening. The event is the annual Christmas Cookie party where twelve women exchange cookies and donate some for charity.

Pearson, Ridley

• The Risk Agent – a fic­tional mystery/thriller tak­ing place in China. The book is the first of a new series.

Penman, Sharon Kay

• Lionheart – a his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about Richard I and the Third cru­sade. This is a well researched book which is fas­ci­nat­ing and exciting.

Perkins-Valdes, Dolen

• Wench – A fictional story which takes place examines the relationship between white masters and their concubines slaves. The story mostly takes place in the early 1850s at an Ohio vacation resort called Tawawa House

Perlman, Elliot

• The Street Sweeper – A fic­tional book which deals with the Amer­i­can strug­gle for civil rights and the Holo­caust.

Pickard, Nancy

• The Scent of Rain and Lightning – Can a community be responsible for wrongfully sending an innocent man to prison? This tale of murder in a small Kansas town touches the subject.

Pielmeier, John

• Hook’s Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself – a reimagining of the famous play Peter Pan, this time from the point of view of Captain Hook.

Pisani, Phil

• Maggie’s Wars – A novel about Mag­gie Hogan is a strong woman, an ace report who just wants to be treated fairly. She fights, and sleeps, her way through the bat­tle­fields, the Nurem­burg tri­als and the after­math of the World War II, includ­ing the cold war.

Platt, Michael Donald

• Rocamora – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in 17^th Cen­tury Spain based on the life of Vicente de Rocamora a poet, fighter and Domini­can priest who was thrust into the schem­ing court of King Philip IV. This book was the 2012 final­ist in the Inter­na­tional Book Awards for His­tor­i­cal Fiction.

• House of Rocamora – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book tak­ing place in Ams­ter­dam. This is a sequel to the well received Roca­maora: Man of Masks.

Pollack, John

• The Pun Also Rises – A non-fiction book, in which the author tells history of puns.

Pressfield, Steven

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Bat­tle of Ther­mopyla – The Per­sian army, two mil­lion men strong, is march­ing onto Greece. The Greeks have deployed a small army, 4,000 — 7,000 men against the Per­sians and chose to make their stand at the geo­graph­i­cally advan­ta­geous Ther­mopy­lae. Lead­ing the Greeks are 300 Spar­tans who hope to delay the army enough for Greece to get together a defense plan.

• Killing Rommel – A historical fiction novel which takes place in the early 1940’s when the Dessert Fox’s troops were intent on capturing the Mid East oil fields in order to support Germany’s war machine in its attempt of world conquest.

• The Lion’s Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War – An excel­lent book which will give the reader much needed back­ground and sto­ries about the Six Days War. A well writ­ten book, a good read about a con­flict and the Israeli plight.

• The Profession – A fic­tional book about the project future of Amer­ica seeing through the eyes of a mercenary soldier.

Preus, Margi

• Shadow on the Mountain – A well researched, historical fiction YA novel taking place in Norway during World War II.

Prioleau, Betsy

• Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them– A non-fiction book which tries to ana­lyze what makes a ladies’ man. The book makes an inter­est­ing read and I only wish I would have read it when I was sin­gle and still look­ing for a mate for life.

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Quick, Matthew

• The Good Luck of Right Now– . The premise of the novel is that a men­tally hand­i­capped man finds a let­ter his departed mom kept from Richard Gere, the famous actor and activist, and decides to spill his heart out in let­ters to the celebrity.

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Rabinovich, Itamar

• Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman – a biography of the famous Israeli politician. Mr. Rabinovich is a political operative who worked with Mr. Rabin.

Radcliffe, Robert

• Airborne – a historical fiction book about an English air-borne medic who became a POW in WWII.

Rakha, Naseem

• The Crying Tree – A deeply mov­ing, well plot­ted book has many themes: for­give­ness, redemp­tion, belief, jus­tice and the role of orga­nized reli­gion are among some of them.

Rankin, Nicholas

• A Genius for Deception: How Cun­ning Helped the British Win Two World Wars – A non-fiction book which tack­les the his­tory of cam­ou­flage, lies, bluffs and tricks which helped the British win World War I and World War II.

Rashke, Richard

• Escape from Sobibor – A non-fiction book which details the biggest escape from a Nazi con­cen­tra­tion camp in Poland dur­ing World War II.

Raymond, Alex

• Flash Gor­don: The Tyrant of Mongo: The Com­plete Flash Gor­don Library 1937–1941 (with Don Moore)– This hard cover coffee table book col­lects 4 years of comic strip to bring an excit­ing story to a new audience.

Reed, Ralph

• The Confirmation – A fictional story set in the late 70’s in rural Mississippi. Many profound themes of friendship, bonding, racism, cruelty and community shunning are at the forefront of this well written novel.

Remple, William C.

• At the Devil’s Table– A non-fiction nar­ra­tive of the Cali drug car­tel in the 1990’s told through the eyes of a high level informer.

Rideout, Tanis

• Above All Things– A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion account of George Mallory’s 1924 attempt to climb Mt. Ever­est.

Riding, Alan

• And The Show Went On – A non-fiction book which investigates the glimmering nightlife in an Nazi occupied Paris.

Riggs, Ransom

• • Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children– A a fic­tional YA book set in two time­lines pep­pered with vin­tage pho­tographs which help it achieve a chill­ing effect.

Hollow City – Athe sequel to the popular YA novel, Miss Peregrine children escape the island which was attacked by the evil “wights” under the guise of a military operation

Riley, Lucinda

• The Lavender Garden– A young French aris­to­crat inher­its her child­hood château as well as debts. An art dealer finds him­self with Emi­lie help­ing her sell some of the trea­sures she inher­ited and the two fall in love. Dur­ing their time, they dis­cover that the home has its secrets, includ­ing a con­nec­tion to the French under­ground dur­ing World War IIs and an Eng­lish under­cover agent.

Roberts, Andrew

• Napoleon: A Life– An inter­est­ing and thought pro­vok­ing biog­ra­phy of this unique man. Mr. Roberts has got­ten a hold of more than 33,000 pri­vate let­ters which were recently released and, as any fresh mate­r­ial does, caused his­to­ri­ans to ana­lyze and reflect upon the subject.

Roberts, Madoc

• Snow: The Dou­ble Life of a World War II Spy (with Nigel West) – A non-fiction about a dou­ble agent for Eng­land and Ger­many during World War II.

Rodriguez, Diogenes

• Don Quixote for a New Millennium – The the old story of Don Quixote with a new trans­la­tion which tries to cap­ture the spirit of the book including sections of the history, linguistics and the phi­los­o­phy of Don Quixote.

Rogers, Jane

• The Testament of Jessie Lamb – An an award win­ning science-fiction book tak­ing place in the near future where a virus is wiping out pregnant women. An idealistic 16 year old girl wants to volunteer to have a baby.

Rohmer, Sax

• The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu – The 1913 novel which first intro­duced the famous vil­lain is actually a collection of short stories.

Rose, Dilys

• Unspeakable – The story of Thomas Aikenhead, the last person to be executed for blasphemy in 17th Scotland.

Rose, M.J.

• The Rein­car­na­tion­ist Series

  • The Reincarnationist – A fic­tional story involv­ing past lives and reli­gious myth. It is the first of a series,

  • The Memorist – The second in the series dealing with a magic flute which helps people remember past lives.

  • The Hypnotist – The third installment in the series, this time from the point of view of an FBI agent.

  • The Book of Lost Fragrances – A fictional book, fourth in the Reincarnationist series, this time perfume from Cleopatra’s factory can cause people to relive past lives.

  • Seduction by M.J. Rose -The fifth book in the Rein­car­na­tion­ist series, this one involving French author Victor Hugo and takes place mostly on the Isle of Jersey .

• In Session– A unique short book which con­tains three short sto­ries, Ms. Rose uses three fic­tional char­ac­ters of other authors who visit her cre­ation – a sex therapist.

Rosen, Leonard

• The Tenth Witness – A fic­tional book in which Engi­neer Henri Poin­caré works hard to try and bring up the a sunk frigate with mil­lions worth of gold in its belly. Henri gets to know Liesel Kraus who is a direc­tor at Kraus Steel and is still haunted by a vio­lent Nazi his­tory and cor­rupt­ing wealth.

Roslund, Andres

• Three Seconds (with Borge Hellström) – Winner of the prestigious Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year in 2009. This crime fiction novel focuses on the prison drug trade, Swedish prisons and justice system.

Rosnay, Tatiana de

• Sarah’s Key – The novel revolves around the French roundup of Jews dur­ing WWII. A lit­tle girl, named Sarah, which escaped death and the search for her lit­tle brother whom she locked in a cup­board before the French police took their fam­ily away.

Roth, Philip

• The Plot Against America – An alter­na­tive his­tory novel which asks an ques­tion: what if Amer­ica had elected a fas­cist gov­ern­ment before World War II?

Rubenfeld, Jed

• The Death Instinct – A fictional thriller set in the 1920’s centering around the historical Wall St. bombing of 1916.

Ross, Alex (with Mark Waid)

• Kingdom Come – Collection of the a four issue comic book mini-series pub­lished in 1996. The absolute edi­tion comes with qual­ity print­ing, hard­cover, slip­case and addi­tional mate­r­ial.

Rostan, Susan

• Digging: Lifting the Memorable from Within the Unthinkable – I found the story of bat­tling the bureau­cracy very fas­ci­nat­ing and am glad she included it, giv­ing the book another dimen­sion along­side the fas­ci­nat­ing fam­ily history.

Rubin, Emily

• Stalina A fictional story of a Russian immigrant to the United States.

Rydell, Andres

• The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (translated by Henning Koch) – a non-fiction book which tells of the efforts of the Nazis to ransack European libraries, bookshops and private collections.

Rylant, Cynthia

• Some Good News (A kid’s review)– The Cobble Street Cousins decided to start their own newspaper.

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Sandell, Lauie

• The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir – This wonderful memoir told in an inspiring graphic novel format is both funny and touching.

Sarna, Jonathan, D.

• When General Grant Expelled the Jews – A non-fiction book about Grant’s infa­mous “Gen­eral Order No. 11”. Yes, this a non-fiction book – who would have thought?

Sattin, Samuel

• League of Sombodies – Fearghas Mur­doch Sikoph­sky wants to raise the world’s first legit­i­mate super­hero – the can­di­date: his son Lenard. How­ever, before becom­ing a hero Lenard must pass sev­eral tests from an ancient book which teaches men how to be men. In the process Lenard falls in love with the men­tally unsta­ble Laura Moskowitz.

Saylor, Steven

• Roma – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book which attempts to tell 1,000 years of his­tory in 600 pages.

• The Seven Wonders: A Novel of the Ancient World – A collection of short stories starring the youthful, wise cracking Gordianus.

Scaffardi, Steven

• The Drought – A funny novel which fol­lows an unfor­tu­nate man try­ing to get laid. The book is being mar­keted as a genre called “lad lit” which, to me, seems appropriate.

Schanzer, Jonathan

• State of Fail­ure: Yasser Arafat, Mah­moud Abbas, and the Unmak­ing of the Pales­tin­ian State – A non-fiction book which exam­ines if the Pales­tin­ian peo­ple have cre­ated the infra­struc­ture for an inde­pen­dent state.

Schiff, Stacy

• Cleopatra: A Life – The Pulitzer winning biography of the famous Egyptian Queen. This is a well researched and dense book –it is not easy to read.

Schwartz, Ghita

• Displaced Persons – A fic­tional novel which fol­lows a group of holo­caust sur­vivors from their lib­er­a­tion to the twi­light of their life.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

• Total Recall: My Unbe­liev­ably True Life Story – An auto­bi­og­ra­phy of the famous actor, politi­cian and cham­pion body builder, great for fans but far from a “tell all” insightful book.

Schwarzkopf, General H. Noram

• It Doesn’t Take a Hero – A grip­ping book about the career of one of America’s most celebrated generals.

Schuman, Sandor

• Adirondack Mendel’s Aufruf: Welcome to Chelm’s Pond – A fic­tional book, tak­ing place in upstate New York which reprises some of the old Jew­ish tales of the fools of Chelm.

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott – A fictional adventure story about a knight who came back from the crusades to an England struggling with modernization and a new king.

Sears, Michael

• Black Fridays – The novel follows Jason Stafford who has spent the past two years in jail after being caught run­ning a Wall Street scam. Now the unem­ploy­able trader is try­ing to put his life back together and get his Autistic son back.

Seesequasis, Paul

• Tobacco Wars – A fictional book which tra­verses two dimen­sions. One dimen­sion is the faux his­tory of Poc­a­hon­tas in rela­tion to the famous crop, the sec­ond dimen­sion is told through Indian fairytales.

Selznick, Brian

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Part folk tale, part fan­tasy, part his­tory book with mag­nif­i­cent draw­ings and pho­tographs of old films this book defies cat­e­go­riza­tion. Add a boy, a girl, automa­ton, toys, a key, clocks, train sta­tion and a one eyed man and what you get is a fan­tas­tic fable which is sim­ple yet com­plex and some­what bizarre.

• Wonderstruck – an award winning fictional book which merges words and pictures to build a coherent, simple story.

Sem-Sandberg, Steve

• The Emperor of Lies – an award win­ning his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about life in the Jewish ghetto at Łódź, Poland during the Nazi occupation.

Shaara, Jeff

• World War II Series – Europe:

  • The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II – The first book in a historical series about World War II, this one starts at the African campaign and ends before the invasion into France.

  • The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II -The book starts off where its pre­de­ces­sor left off Jan­u­ary 1944, five months before D-Day, the story pro­gresses through the inva­sion end­ing in Octo­ber 1944.

  • No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II -The third book in the trilogy. The book begins after the Nor­mandy inva­sion. The allied gen­er­als are con­fi­dent that the war will be over in a few weeks, but Hitler is not so sure.

  • A Chain of Thunder (Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #2) – A historical novel in the American Civil War series on the siege of Vicksburg

• The Final Storm: A Novel of World War II – A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion novel which focuses on America’s war in the Pacific and the Battle of Okinawa.

Shaara, Michael

• The Killer Angels – A Pulitzer Prize win­ning his­tor­i­cal fic­tion mas­ter­piece taking place over three days dur­ing the Bat­tle of Gettysburg.

Shaffer, Marjorie

• Pepper: A History of the World’s Most Influential Spice – A non-fiction book trac­ing his­tory through the trade of black pep­per.

Shaines, Robert A.

• Command Influence -A first hand account of the trial of Lt. George C. Schreiber by his military defense attorney, who is the author.

Shankman, Helen Maryles

• The Color of Light -A novel which explores art, the Holo­caust, human­ity and, of course, vam­pires. The vam­pire in the story runs an art school and is con­stantly in con­flict with his past life as well as the acts he is forced, by his nature, to do while try­ing to hold on to his humanity.

Shapira, Haim

• What Really Matters – This non-fiction book which asks many philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions and some­times even answers them.

Shapiro, Dani

• Devotion -A memoir about the authors mid-life crisis and search for spirituality. The book provided a fascinating read into the mind of a woman that, it seemed to me, couldn’t find inner calm if it slapped her in the face.

Sheehan, James

• The Lawyer’s Lawyer– Jack Tobin, one of the best lawyers in the United States, takes it upon him­self to rep­re­sent a ser­ial killer that he believes to be inno­cent.

• The Alligator Man by James Sheehan – The novel follows Kevin, a lawyer who is trying to recon­nect with his past and helps a fam­ily friend, Billy, who is charged with mur­der of a cor­po­rate tycoon who destroyed the lives of thou­sands of peo­ple.

Sherman, Ted

• The Jersey Sting (with Josh Margolin) – The true story of the events lead­ing up to the arrest of 44 peo­ple in New Jer­sey including cor­rupt local politi­cians, Rab­bis, money laun­der­ers and, strangest of all, a black mar­ket kid­ney dealer.

Shimon, Samuel (Editor)

• Beirut 39: New Writing from the Arab World – a collection of short stories & poems from young Arab writers.

Shiri-Horowitz, Revital

• Daughters of Iraq – the fictional story of three women. Two sisters who immigrated from Iraq to Israel and a daughter who is first generation Israeli.

Shoham, Liad

• Lineup – The Amer­i­can debut of the Israeli author. A quiet Tel-Aviv street is rocked by a bru­tal rape which leaves the police baf­fled since no eye­wit­nesses, clues or sus­pects exist.

• Asylum City – The novel’s pro­tag­o­nist, police inspec­tor Anat Nach­mias, is a for­mi­da­ble char­ac­ter. Even though she’s small in stature and rank, Anat is smart, capa­ble and able to nav­i­gate to ultra-macho cul­ture of Israeli police.

Shoneyin, Lola

• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives – The novel examines the complex relationships between the wives, their children and a new wife who is brought into the house.

Shriver, Lionel

• Big Brother – A chracter driven novel, as well as social commentary, about a woman who helps her obese brother lose weight while trying to keep her family together.

• The New Republic– A a novel about the nature of jour­nal­ism where journalists manipulate the news to gain headlines.

• so much for that – A fictional book which with the frustration and the unfairness of dealing with the US healthcare industry.

Shuster, Joe

• Super­man: Sunday Classics 1939–1943 by (with Jerry Siegel) – A col­lec­tion of the comic strips which were pub­lished in papers across the coun­try between the four years men­tioned.

Sicha, Choire

• Very Recent His­tory: An Entirely Fac­tual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City by – A his­tory book about 2009 writ­ten from a future per­spec­tive about young gay man in a big city after the Wall Street crush.

Sidransky, A.J.

• Forgiving Maximo Rothman– A fas­ci­nat­ing and enter­tain­ing read which mixes World War II Jew­ish refugees in the Domini­can Repub­lic.

Siegel, Jerry

• Super­man: Sunday Classics 1939–1943 (with Joe Shuster) – A col­lec­tion of the comic strips which were pub­lished in papers across the coun­try between the four years men­tioned.

Silva, Daniel

• The Unlikely Spy – A fictional fast paced page turner, set mostly in days preceding the Normandy invasion in WWII.

• Gabriel Allon series

  • The Kill Artist– The first book in the series about Israeli reluctant secret agent Gabriel Allon. A supermodel spy and a tortured hero – who can ask for anything more?

  • The English Assassin – Taking on the Swiss banking cartel and their involvement with the Nazis. The second installment of the series about the reluctant Israeli agent Gabriel Allon.

  • The Confessor– the third install­ment in the fic­tional adven­tures of the reluc­tant Israeli agent Gabriel Allon.

  • A Death in Vienna – Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to investigate a murder but discovers a personal connection to the story.

  • Prince of Fire -The fifth book in the Gabriel Allon series. Unlike the pre­vi­ous books, this one takes place mostly in Israel as oppose to Europe.

  • The Mes­senger -The Sixth book in the Gabriel Allon series which takes our hero across the globe foiling al Qaeda plans to destroy the Vatican.

  • The Secret Servant -The seventh book in the Gabriel Allon series. The Israeli spy is on his way to Amsterdam to look through the archives of an Israeli asset that has been murdered. A routine assignment perhaps, but Allon soon discovers that the Islamic underground plots to commits acts of terror in England.

  • Moscow Rules -The eighth book in the Gabriel Allon series. Allon and his new wife, Chiara, are on their hon­ey­moon in Umbria, Italy. But Gabriel never stops work­ing and is restor­ing a paint­ing for the Vat­i­can. A Russ­ian news­pa­per reporter con­tacts the Israeli embassy in Rome request­ing a meet­ing with Allon who reluc­tantly agrees.

• Michael Osborne series

  • The Mark of the Assassin – A fast paced fictional mystery about CIA agent Michael Osbourne. The story takes place mainly in the United States & England and involves several contemporary themes.

  • The Marching Season– The fictional sequel to “The Mark of the Assassin”. The phrase “Marching Season” comes from the parades held in Northern Ireland every year.

Silver, Elizabeth, L.

• The Execution of Noa P. Singleton – A novel about our cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment sys­tem tak­ing place mostly in Philadel­phia. This is Ms. Silver’s, a lawyer who worked on death penalty cases, debut novel.

Singer, Jame

• Booth’s Sister – Historical fiction based on Asia Booth’s diary.

Singer, Judy Reene

• An Inconvenient Elephant: A Novel– A charming, quick read novel which tells of Neelie, coming home from Africa and still manages to save an elephant.

Skloot, Rebecca

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – The HeLa cells have been used by sci­en­tists for decades to ben­e­fit mankind, how­ever the fam­ily got no mon­e­tary com­pen­sa­tion. The cells them­selves have been taken from Hen­ri­etta Lacks with­out per­mis­sion or con­sent, as was the norm.

Skopp, Douglas R.

• Shadows Walking -A historical fiction novel following a Nazi doctor from WWI to after WWII. A tough to read novel, but well researched and hard to put down.

Smith, Betty

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn– Historical fiction classic pub­lished in 1943 describing life life in turn-of-the-century Brook­lyn

Smith, Dwayne Alexander

• Forty Acres– A fictional book which is thought pro­vok­ing with an inter­est­ing premise. A African-American man dis­cov­ers that his new friends are part of a com­mu­nity which enslaves white peo­ple, descen­dents of slave own­ers, who are being pun­ished for the sins of their ancestors.

Smith, James Robert

• The Flock – a fiction fantasy thriller set in a Florida. The title of the novel comes from a group of prehistoric giant carnivorous birds known as Phorusrhacids.

Smith, RJ

• The One: The Life and Music of James Brown – A biog­ra­phy of the God­fa­ther of Soul from his childhood in Augusta, GA to his death.

Smith, Tom Rob

• Child 44 – An MGB officer tracks down a serial killer in Stalinist Russia.

• The Secret Speech -In this followup to “Child 44” we continue to follow the tortured life of MGB agent turned homicide detective Leo Demidov.

Sobel, Dava

• A More Perfect Heaven– Part fiction, part non-fiction about Nico­laus Coper­ni­cus and his student German math­e­mati­cian Georg Joachim Rheti­cus.

Soli, Tatjana

• The Lotus Eaters -A fictional book about female combat photographers during the Vietnam War.

Spencer, Charles

• Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Exe­cute Charles I – A non-fiction story of trea­son and revenge taken to its most extreme.

St. Jean, Alan

• The Legend of OinkADoodleMoo (Children’s Book Review) – If I knew what a hit this book would have been in my house I would have gladly bought it.

Stackpole, Michael

• X-wing: Rogue Squadron (Star Wars Guest Review) -First book in the X-wing series. Rebel hero Wedge Antilles has been given the task of rebuild­ing the leg­endary Rogue Squadron — a team of pilots charged with using their X-wings in the most dif­fi­cult assign­ments that the Rebel Alliance has to face.

Stern, Roger

• The Death and Life of Superman – A novel which takes the saga of “The Death of Super­man”, “Funeral for a Friend”, “Reign of the Super­men”, and “The Return of Super­man”, which appeared in comic book form in the mid 80’s, and turns it to light reading.

Stern, Steve

• The Frozen Rabbi – a fic­tional book about an 18th Cen­tury rabbi brought back to life in the 20th Cen­tury. The book serves as a won­der­ful com­men­tary on today’s society.

Stewart, James B.

• Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America – A a non­fic­tion book about the com­fort of our soci­ety with lying. The book exam­ines this phe­nom­e­non through the cases of Martha Stew­art, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Barry Bonds and Bernard Mad­off.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde– The 1886 Goth classic dealing with split personality.

• Treasure Island – The 1883 fictional adventurous and classic pirate story. I read it once as a naïve child, this time as a naïve adult.

Stockett, Kathryn

• The Help – Stories of black domestic servants working in white households of Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s.

Stockinger, Zsolt T.

• Frag­ments from Iraq: Diary of a Navy Trauma Sur­geon– A non-fiction book which recounts the daily life of a trauma sur­geon on the front lines in diary for­mat.

Stoker, Bram

• Dracula– The classic that started it all, written in 1897 yet still relevant and chilling.

Strange, John Stephen

• Catch the Gold Ring (Guest Review) – A novel which tells the story of a for­mer French Resis­tance fighter named Henri and his search for his brother’s betrayer seven years after the lib­er­a­tion of Paris.

Suberman, Stella

• The Jew Store – A quick, enjoy­able mem­oir about her family’s adven­ture in Con­cor­dia, TN close to the Nashville area. Ms. Suberman’s father, Aaron Bron­son, a born sales­man, immi­grated from Russ­ian to Amer­ica, mar­ried a nice New York Jew­ish girl and went south to open his own store.

Suhl, Yuri

• Uncle Misha’s Partisans – A fic­tional book fol­low­ing the adven­tures of a Ukrain­ian boy dur­ing World War II The boy’s family was murdered and he joined a group of partisans.

Sullivan, Mar­garet M.

• Jane Austen Cover to Cover: 200 Years of Clas­sic Book Cov­ers – A coffee table book compiling cov­ers of books writ­ten by Jane Austen since their first publication.

Sun Tzu

• The Art of War -Then ancient Chi­nese mil­i­tary trea­tise, a clas­sic within the sci­ence of mil­i­tary stud­ies is only attrib­uted to the high rank­ing gen­eral and was believed to have been com­plies dur­ing the last spring and autumn of the War­ring States period(either 476 BC or 453 BC).

• The Art of War from SmarterComics: How to be Successful in Any Competition (illustrated by Shane Chester) – a graphic novel of the famous book.

• Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) – one of the world’s most influential books on strategy.

Swanson, Peter

• The Girl with a Clock for a Heart – A novel which tells of a mys­tery that spans sev­eral decades, mostly told in flashbacks.

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Tanner, Adam

• Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Data – a non-fiction book talking about how companies use big medical data.

Taubman, Bess

• My Pearl Har­bor Scrap­book 1941 (with Ernest Arroyo) – A non-fiction book which has the look and feel of a post WWII scrap­book and tells the story of the attack on Pearl Har­bor and its aftermath.

Templin, Stephen

• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Élite Navy Sniper (with Howard E. Wasdin) – A mem­oir of Mr. Was­din time as a Navy SEAL which walks the reader through Wasdin’s child­hood, Navy SEAL train­ing and sev­eral mis­sions.

Terlouw, Jan

• Winter in Wartime – A fic­tional book set in World War II. The book is a Dutch clas­sic orig­i­nally called Oor­logswin­ter

Teulé, Jean

• The Hurlyburly’s Husband– A his­tor­i­cal fic­tion book about the Mar­quis de Mon­tes­pan and his new wife, Athé­naïs who becomes the pre­ferred mis­tress of King Louis XIV. The novel was spent many weeks top­ping the French charts and was trans­lated by Ali­son Ander­son.

Thomas, William E.

• Pega­sus Falling : Cypress Branches tril­ogy (Vol­ume 1) by William E. Thomas – A semi-autobiographical novel of the author who served as a British para­trooper in World War II. The book centers around a British Captain who was a POW in a concentration camp and upon liberation served in Palestine.

Thrall, Chris

• Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent into Drug Psy­chosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heart­land – A memoir of a drug addict in Hong Kong’s red light district of Wan Chai.

Tobin, Greg

• The Good Pope: John XXIII & Vat­i­can II, The Mak­ing of a Saint and the Remak­ing of the Church – A biog­ra­phy of Angelo Giuseppe Ron­calli, Pope John XXIII, who is cred­ited with help­ing mod­ern­ized the Catholic Church even though he only served as Pope from 1958 to 1963.

Tolinski, Brad

• Light & Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page – Com­pi­la­tion of inter­views the author did with the famed and pri­vate gui­tarist with insights into his career and interests.

Tolstoy, Leo

• Anna Karenina – The classic novel about unhappy families with a tragic end and many political points and a scathing crit­i­cism of Russian upper class society and aristocracy.

• The Krautzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy – aA novella writ­ten in 1889. Pozd­ny­shev over­hears a con­ver­sa­tion on a train about love and mar­riage when he is reminded of his past mis­deeds.

• War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy – Taking place during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the owrk revolves around three families. The work is regarded as one of the most impor­tant works of world lit­er­a­ture .

Tomsky, Jacob

• Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality – The author tells about his experiences working in various luxury hotels, including tips and secrets on getting better service.

Townley, Alvin

• Fly Navy – A non-fiction book about the real world adven­tures of peo­ple in the US Navy

Tugend,Alina

• Better by Mistake – a non-fiction book which tries to explain how deal­ing with mis­takes can ben­e­fit you and your work.

Tusa, Chris

• Dirty Little Angels – A short novel taking place in New Orleans through the eyes of a poor teenage girl.

Twain, Mark

• Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1 – Mark Twain insisted that his autobiography would be released 100 years after his death as not to embarrass / insult any living person and/or their children. True to his word, Mr. Twain manages to insult a few people.

Tye, Larry

• Super­man: The High-Flying His­tory of America’s Most Endur­ing Hero – The story of the his­tory behind the world’s most beloved and endur­ing hero.

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Upson, Nicola

• Fear in the Sunlight – A mys­tery novel tak­ing place in 1936, part of a series starring real-life author Josephine Tey, this one involving Alfred Hitchcock.

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Vansant, Wayne

• Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day– The graphic novel con­nects to the reader more than a mere his­tory book. The excel­lent art draws atten­tion to his­tor­i­cal details in vivid details and colors.

Vaughn, S.W.

• Broken Angel– A fic­tional book tak­ing about a brother trying to “buy back” his sister by making money in NYC’s under­ground street fight­ing scenes. This is the first book in a the House Phoenix series but can be read as a standalone.

Venturini, Fred

• The Heart Does Not Grow Back – A novel about a mod­ern day man with a mod­ern day super­power, the ability to grow back his organs.

Verghese, Abraham

• Cutting for Stone – A fictional story of two identical twin doctors born in Ethiopia.

Vermes, Timur

• Look Who’s Back -Adolf Hitler wakes up, in uniform, in the middle of Berlin – the year is 2011. Failing to find his bunker, or get proper respect from strangely dressed “Hitler Youth” members, Hitler shacks up with in a newspaper kiosk. Hitler discovers a weak society, one full of “Turks”, disrespectful youths, and … led by a woman.

Verne, Jules

• 20,000 Under the Sea – The classic science fiction story follows the adventures of Professor Aronnax on Captain Nemo’s Nautilus.

Vlautin, Willy

• The Free – The three pro­tag­o­nists rep­re­sent in the novel are what most peo­ple in Amer­ica go through today. Free­dom no longer means free­dom from tyran­ni­cal gov­ern­ments, but free­dom from debt and every­day strug­gles against Amer­i­can oli­garchs whether they are banks or insur­ance companies.

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Waid, Mark

• Kingdom Come (with Alex Ross) – Collection of the a four issue comic book mini-series pub­lished in 1996. The absolute edi­tion comes with qual­ity print­ing, hard­cover, slip­case and addi­tional mate­r­ial.

Wallis, Michael

• Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride – a biography and an American West legend.  Mr. Wallis is a best-selling author and an award winning reporter.

Wasdin, Howard E.

• SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Élite Navy Sniper(with Stephen Templin) -A mem­oir of Mr. Was­din time as a Navy SEAL which walks the reader through Wasdin’s child­hood, Navy SEAL train­ing and sev­eral mis­sions.

Webb, Jim

• Born Fighting (Guest Review) – A look at this cul­ture from the days of the Roman emperor Hadrian when they were Celts in Scot­land, through Ulster and all the way across the Atlantic into rural Amer­ica.

Wecker, Helene

• The Golem and the Jinni – A novel tak­ing place in New York, 1899 weaving two myth­i­cal crea­ture from two dif­fer­ent cul­tures to cre­ate a dif­fer­ent kind of story altogether.

Weldon, Glen

• Superman: The Unauthorized Biography – A non-fiction book chron­i­cling the fic­tional his­tory of the Man of Steel in comic books, radio, TV, the­ater, music and movies.

Weatherford, Jack

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Genghis Khan’s contribution cannot be summed up only in war, but in culture as well.

• The Secret History of the Mongol Queens – a gripping story of lost history and the role the female heirs of Genghis Khan played in his Empire

Weir, Alison

• The Six Wives of Henry VIII – A non-fiction book which tries to navigate through the maze which is known as the “Tudor History“. Ms. Weir tells the collective story of the six wives of Henry VIII – and no, he didn’t had them all executed.

Weisgarber, Ann

• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree – An award-winning fic­tional book tak­ing place in the Bad­lands of South Dakota, following an African-American pioneer.

Weiss, Ernst

• Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer – A fic­tional book and a Ger­man clas­sic about a cold, calculating physician who murders his wife and gets sent to a penal colony.

Wells, H. G.

• The First Men in the Moon – A science fiction classic follow Dr. Cavor and Mr. Bed­ford who found a way to get to the moon and meet its inhabitants, but will they get back?

• The Invisible Man – A sci­ence fic­tion clas­sic writ­ten in 1897 about a scientist who discovers the secret to invisibility and gone mad.

Wertheimer, Stef

• Man At a Machine – An autobiog­ra­phy of the Israeli indus­tri­al­ist and statesman.

West, Nigel

• Snow: The Dou­ble Life of a World War II Spy (with Madoc Roberts) – A non-fiction about a dou­ble agent for Eng­land and Ger­many during World War II.

Weiner, TIm

• Enemies: A History of the FBI – A non-fiction about tells of the 100 year his­tory of the famous orga­ni­za­tion. Mr. Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize win­ning author and a for­mer New York Times reporter who wrote largely about Amer­i­can secu­rity.

Wilde, Oscar

• The Picture of Dorian Gray – The classic book in which Dorian Gray is a young man who is hand­some and inno­cent. When an artist paints a por­trait of Gray, Dorian makes a wish to always look like the portrait.

Williams, John

• Stoner – A novel written in 1965 and is considered a forgotten classic about the son of a poor farmer who fell in love with English literature and became a scholar.

Wills, Garry

• James Madison – A quick biography of the fourth US President concentrating on his time in office.

Willsow, Wilson

• Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why art by Adrian Alphona and Jacob Wyatt – a graphic novel featuring the new Ms. Marvel.

Willrich, Michael

• Pox — An American History – A non-fiction book which traces how the small­pox vac­cine was dis­trib­uted dur­ing major out­breaks. Some of the vac­cines were forced onto peo­ple which caused an out­rage and the ques­tion made it all the way to the Supreme Court.

Winder, Elizabeth

• Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 – A non-fiction book which paints a por­trait of Ms. Plath dur­ing a stress­ful, event­ful and per­sonal emo­tional sum­mer of her life.

Winnick, Jack

• Devil in False Colors – a novel about current events where FBI agent Lara Edmond and Mossad agent Uri Levin investigate Muslim clerics in Los Angeles.

Winters, Ben H.

• The Last Policeman – Hank Palace just made detec­tive, he does not let his new job go to his head, the police force is miss­ing many peo­ple since it was announced that aster­oid 2011GV1 is hurl­ing through space about to destroy life on earth.

• Countdown City– The sec­ond novel in a tril­ogy finding the world 77 days before a huge meteor will hit and will end life as we know it, while ex-cop Hank Palace looking for a missing person.

• World of Trouble – Detec­tive Hank Palace leaves the com­fort­able nest he shared with his friends in New Eng­land, wait­ing for an aster­oid to hit Earth, to find his sis­ter Nico. Nico has joined a group of rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies who intend on free­ing sci­en­tists out of jail so they can save the world.

Wit­t­er­ick, J. L.

• My Mother’s Secret : Based on a True Holo­caust Story – A fic­tion­al­ized account of an actual woman who hid 15 Jews (and a Ger­man sol­dier) in her small house, located in a small Pol­ish town, dur­ing the Nazi inva­sion of World War II.

Wishnia, Kenneth

• The Fifth Servant– A fictional mystery set in 1592 at Jewish Ghetto in the city of Prague. The book is rich with Jewish culture and the tensions between Jews and Christian.

Wood, Frances

• Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present – a non-fiction book about Chinese literature.

Wolverton, Dave

• The Courtship of Princess Leia (Star Wars Guest Review) – An enjoy­able romp of a story with some very puz­zling characterizations.

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Yip, Mingmei

• Skeleton Women – A novel about Camilla is an orphan girl in Shanghai who is plucked out of the orphan­age by a Chi­nese crim­i­nal gang and gets trained in the arts of seduc­tion and assas­si­na­tion. Camilla is then planted as a spy in the midst of a rival gang and uses her cun­ning and skill to become the mis­tress of the elderly leader, Mast Lung.

Young, Alfred Fabian

• The Shoemaker and the Tea Party– Tells the story of some major events from the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion through the eyes of a com­moner, George Robert Twelves Hewes.

Yousef, Mosab Hasson

• Son of Hamas – A fascinating memoir by a son of a high ranking Hamas official who became a born again Christian and an Israeli informer.

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Zackheim, Michele

• The Last Train to Paris – Rose Manon is an Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist, born in Nevada, liv­ing in New York try­ing hard to deal with the atti­tudes of the 1930s. Rose has been posted to Paris with a loom­ing global war on everyone’s radar.

Zahn, Timothy

• The Thrawn Tril­ogy

  • Heir to the Empire (Star Wars Guest Review) – A Star Wars book. Five years after Return of the Jedi, and Leia have twins on the way. Luke is try­ing to estab­lish a direc­tion for the Jedi move­ment. But Grand Admi­ral Thrawn is trying to do what the Emperor failed to do – destroy the Repub­lic.

  • Dark Force Rising (Star Wars Guest Review)– Continuation of the incred­i­ble story of the New Republic’s efforts to repel the attacks of the for­mi­da­ble Grand Admi­ral Thrawn in Dark Force Ris­ing, the sec­ond vol­ume of a tril­ogy

  • The Last Command (Star Wars Guest Review)– The cli­mac­tic novel in Tim­o­thy Zahn’s superb Thrawn Tril­ogy which is brought to conclusion in a highly reward­ing tale, inter­twin­ing the mil­i­taris­tic and pre­cise sto­ry­line of Grand Admiral’s Thrawn’s cam­paign against the New Repub­lic with the more meta­phys­i­cal strug­gles of Luke Sky­walker and insane Jedi clone Joruus C’baoth.

Zafón, Carlos Ruiz

• For­got­ten Books series

  • The Shadow of the Wind– A worldwide best seller. The book follows a young boy named Daniel and has possibly one of the best literary inventions of the decade the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books”.

  • The Angel’s Game – a pre­quel to Zafón’s pre­vi­ous novel Shadow of the Wind, also taking place in Barcelona involving a writer who finally got his big break… but did he?

  • The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón– The third book in the For­got­ten Books series. The first two books, The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel’s Game have been inter­na­tional best sell­ers..

Zander, Joakim

• The Swimmer– Even though this novel is a fast read, it requires some atten­tion from the reader. Mr. Zan­der casts many stones at the polit­i­cal estab­lish­ments of the US, Swe­den and other Euro­pean countries..

Ziegler, Irene

• Ashes to Water– A fictional mystery which takes place in pre-Disney Florida. This is a very atmospheric novel involving a small town murder and a resolute woman intending on cracking the mystery.

Zrihen-Dvir, Therese

• The Stairway to Heaven – A short fictional story told from the view point of two women after they had witnessed the Beit-Lid massacre in Israel.

Zuckoff, Mitchel

• Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II– The epic search for miss­ing World War II Coast Guard sol­diers who were on a res­cue mis­sion.

• Lost in Shangri-La– A non-fiction book about a plane crash in Dutch New Guinea dur­ing World War II. This book is nar­ra­tive his­tory at its best.

Zusak, Markus

• The Book Thief – An award winning book, narrated by Death, following the life of a little girl in Nazi Germany.