Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Packers, Commandos, Witches, AC/DC, Jockeys, Mobsters

NonFiction

Rockers and Rollers: a full-throttle memoir by Brian Johnson. Lead singer of AC/DC remembers his life after recalling whatever cars he owned at the time. "Now I know I take the piss out of Porsches a lot, but it;s only because racing against them is so difficult, because they never break, sort of."

Family Secrets: the case that crippled the Chicago mob by Jeff Coen. Shootings, bombings, loansharking.

Aaron Rodgers: leader of the pack by Rob Reischel. Lots of big color photos.

Return to Titletown: the remarkable story of the 2010 Green Bay Packers edited Joe Funk. Game by game with many color photos.

The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals edited by Gail Damerow. Providing nests for your ducks and geese to lay their eggs in helps keep the eggs clean and protects them from being cooked by the sun.

Pavement Chalk Artist: the three-dimensional drawings of Julian Beever by Julian Beever.

Rights of the People: how our search for safety invades our liberties by David K. Shipler. How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost?

Boy Who Came Back From Heaven by Kevin and Alex Malarkey. Is that last name a kind of joke? I'm late on buying this one, I should have noticed it's absence earlier.

Heaven is for Real: a little boy's astounding story of his trip to heaven and back by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. Same story, different kid.

10 Commando by Ian Dear. Ten Commando was composed entirely of men who came from Nazi-occupied countries such as Holland, Poland, and France.

Enter Night: a biography of Metallica by Mick Wall.

Fiction

Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. Magic in Chicago.

Gamble by Felix Frances. Felix finished this one his father and he started.

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