Novels
You've Been Warned by James Patterson and Howard Roughan.
47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter. The return of Bob Lee Swagger. Swagger's father Earl survived Iwo Jima with the Medal of Honor and a dead Japanese officer's sword. The dead officer's son tracks the sword back to Bob and Bob travels to Japan to return the sword to the family. When the Japanese family is killed for the sword Bob Lee starts to look around.
Large Print
Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs. Remember that outrageous cover blurb on the regular print edition of this? It's missing on this one.
Lost Diary of Don Juan by Douglas Carlton Abrams. "This thrilling page-turner masterfully renders the voice of Don Juan, and intriguing figure - from his secret childhood in a convent to his life as a libertine and to his inescapable fall into the madness of love."
Road to Samarcand by Patrick O'Brien. Treasure hunt across the Gobi Desert and into the mountains of Tibet.
Sleeping Beauty Proposal by Sarah Strohmeyer. Thirty-six year old Genie expects a proposal from welthy Hugh. When Hugh proposes to the wrong girl Genie keeps up a facade that she is his fiancee.
NonFiction
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: three generals who saved the century by Stanley Weintraub. "The story of their interconnected lives opens a fascinating window onto some of the twentieth century's most crucial events, revealing the personalities behind the public images and showing much of a difference three men can make."
The War: an intimate history: 1941-1945. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. Print companion to Burns' upcoming multi-part documentary on the U.S. in World War Two. Lots of photos.
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