Thursday, August 19, 2010

Books received for review

Roy And Lillie: A Love Story, by Loren D. Estleman. "a unique new novel about love, history and the social constraints to which one must submit. The bond between Judge Roy Bean and actress Lillie Langtry blossomed across of land and ocean."


Tears Of The Mountain by John Addiego. "...chronicles a single day in one man's life - July 4, 1876 - along with a series of alternating flashbacks that all lead up to an eventful Centennial Independence Day in Sonoma, California. However, as he reflects on past love, the pioneer journey of his youth, and the many violent conflicts of the West, voices of the long dead come to him, and old wounds resurface, threatening everything he holds dear."

Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County by John W. Davis. "It is a story outlandish enough to defy credibility. Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War exploded on the local and national consciousness in 1892 and has never lost its imaginative power. The basis for such classic novels as The Virginian and Shane...Now Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's greatest range war. The result is an all new interpretation." This is the book I'm reading now.

The Light of Day by James Byrd. "Those who hate humanity have taken over the environmental movement. The environmental movement has taken over the world's government. Those governments have joined together to form The World Consortium...and have moved everyone underground to isolate people from the environment...However,not everyone wants to live underground. Not old man O'Hara. That's why he joined the Resistance, but that was years ago...It would be a dismal existence if not for his grandson Jeff. Jeff is everything he imagined his son would be: smart, independent, inquisitive, defiant, everything except free, but that's about to change."

The 2012 Codex by Robert Gleason and Junius Podrug. "Inspired by the visionary works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Gary Jennings' Aztec Series...In the arid canyonlands of Mexico, the race is on for the ultimate end-of-the-world codex - the final prophecy of the god-king Quetzacoatl, who ruled Mexico 1000 years ago. Archeolinguists Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones are on the hunt for that sacred codex, while 500 years ago Pakal, a young slave-scholar, sets out on the same deadly quest."

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