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Zero Day, by David Baldacci, Grand
Central, 2011 - Reviewed by Larry Riggs
. . . . Until the very end, this is a readable,
interesting story. John Puller, son of a legendary commanding
officer and brother of a former officer who is serving a life
sentence for treason, and veteran of combat in both Iraq and
Afghanistan, is a crack investigator of crimes involving military
personnel.
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival,
Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand,
Random House, 2010 - Reviewed by Lacey Echols
America has lost many stories about World War II with the
passage of time. However, Laura Hillenbrand has offered a
fascinating and true story of Louis Zamperini in the non-fiction
book Unbroken. During a childhood of mischief Zamparini discovered
a natural talent for . . .
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1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, Knopf, 2011
- Reviewed by Eloise Sureau-Hale
The day is going as usual, nothing particular has changed but in
the sky, there are two moons side by side, one big and yellow, one
smaller and green. You have entered 1Q84, a universe slightly off.
You are not in the year 1984 anymore; you have veered into a
different universe with Q as "question mark".
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of
America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson,
Vintage, 2010 - Reviewed by Mary Ramsbottom
If your reading habits tend to a few pages a night compensated
by weekend sprints, you might wonder whether The Warmth of Other
Suns, at 500+ pages, is worth the investment. Indeed, it is.
In Suns, Isabel Wilkerson reconstructs the Great Migration of
African-American families to urban centers of the northern and
western states between World War I and the 1970's. Drawing on
more than a thousand oral histories, Suns' narrative pull comes
from three families whose choices, reflecting . . .
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