Highly Recommended Reads for 2013
- Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay
- The Rules of Wolfe by James Carlos Blake
- The Highway by C.J. Box
- The Rise and Fall of North American Indians by William Brandon
- Surviving Vennie* by Howard Robert Charles
- The Sentry by Robert Crais
- Deadwood by Peter Dexter
- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
- Red Man Down by Elizabeth Gunn
- Let it Burn by Steve Hamilton
- The Orphan Master's Son (Pulitzer Winner) by Adam Johnson
- A Serpent's Tooth by Craig Johnson
- Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
- Game of Thrones by Geroge R.R. Martin
- Clash of Kings by Geroge R.R. Martin
- Chasm by Susan Cummins Miller
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
- The Shape Shifter by Tony Hillerman
- 1491 by Charles C. Mann
- Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson
NOTE: Surviving Vennie is a rare jewel--a self-published memoir and story of the adventures and disasters of life with Vennie (the (author's mother). It's a fascinating tale of life in the twentieth century, from surviving the depression, being taken prisoner by the Japanese in World War II, and coping with a mother determined to marry a rich man to insure she and her family lived the good life. It didn't necessarily work out as she planned. I found the story particularly fascinating because some of it took place in and around Hutchinson, KS (where I was born) and nearby Partridge (where Charles and I went to school in the community that helped inspire my Mad Dog and Englishman series)--a very special place.
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