Monday, May 23, 2011

Make Believe and POW Nurses

Audio Books

Troubled Man by Henning Mankell. 14 CDs at 17 hours. Stockholm policeman Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of a Swedish naval officer who was to be his daughter's father-in-law.

Orchid Affair by Lauren Willig. 13 CDs at 15.5 hours. A long serving governess to English aristocracy quits to be a spy. She is assigned to spy on Napoleon's minister of police by being her governess.

Fiction

Final Storm by Jeff Shaara. "A novel of the war in the Pacific" Cover has a painting of a flamethrower tank.

Embassytown by China Mieville. China is a guy's name? This is a "moving personal drama...gripping adventure...sentient beings...years of deep-space adventure...distant political machinations...fragile equilibrium...violently upset...catastrophe looms."

NonFiction

We Band of Angels: the untold story of American Nurses trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman. Short description: they are lucky to be alive. Read and find out what happened.

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