Monday, November 06, 2006

New Fiction and nonfiction

Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. The latest novel from super-author Nicholas Sparks. John Tyree joined the Army after a rebellious high-school career. While on leave in North Carolina John meets Savannah and they fall in love. 9/11 occurs while John and Savannah are planning their lives together after John's enlistment ends. Circumstance and duty tear them apart, but will they reunite?

After they were Packers: the Super Bowl XXXI champs & other Green Bay legends by Jerry Poling. Coverage of past packers including: WR Don Beebe, now a high school football coach. LB Georeg Koonce, works at the Eastern Carolina Univeristy Athletic Office and owns real estate. Even K Jan Stenerud works for HNTB which designs and remodels stadiums.

Great Wisconsin Winter Weekends by Candice Gaukel Andrews. Information on winter sports, holidays, festivals, etc. Coverage focuses on certain cities and regions including: Milwaukee, Madison, Bayfield, Wausau, Sheboygan, and a lot of others.


The Long Walk: a true story of a trek to freedom by Slavomir Rawicz. Rawicz was a Polish Army officer captured by the Soviets in 1939 when the Soviets and germany split Poland. Imprisoned in a Siberian gulag, Rawicz and five other prisoners escaped and wlaked two thousand miles through Siberia, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert, China, Tibet and the Himalayas into British India. After reaching India, Rawicz enlisted in the Free Polish Army to continue fighting the Germans.

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