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We Were Soldiers Once... And Young

by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway $25.00; 412 pages This book made the war in Vietnam present again, 45 years later. The best account I have ever read of a battle from the point of view of the men who fought it, backed up with

Janissaries Book Review

by Jerry Pournelle 335 pages;$5.95 This is the first book of a trilogy. Jerry Pournelle is working on a fourth, but it has not yet been finished. This is a fun book. The concept does border on the ridiculous, but the payoff comes in the form of useful

Tom Clancy Dead or Alive Review

by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwood $28.95; 950 pages Tom Clancy had reportedly given up novel writing with The Teeth of the Tiger, but clearly he has decided to return to the field with Dead or Alive. This novel picks up where The Teeth of the Tiger left off,

Project Azorian Book Review

Project Azorian By Norman Polmar and Michael White $29.95; 276 pages Hughes Glomar ExplorerI had heard of the Hughes Glomar Explorer before. The kind of science books I read as a kid often featured engineering feats such as the HGE, I can still remember the blurb about the ship

Bookmans

Today was the reopening of Bookmans in Flagstaff. The roof fell in almost a year ago due to the snowpocalypse, and the rebuilding and renovation was delayed considerably. Bookmans is one of my favorite stores, so I am happy to see it open again. While we were in the store,

Percival's Planet Book Review

Percival's Planet Book Review

Percival's Planet by Michael Byers $27.00; 414 pages Percival's Planet is a fictionalization of the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. This is more historically inspired fiction than historical fiction. This is inevitable, since there is nothing dramatic about spending months flipping through

No More Christian Nice Girl Book Review

No More Christian Nice Girl Book Review

No More Christian Nice Girl by Paul Coughlin & Jennifer D. Degler, Ph.D. $14.99 ; 177 pages I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. I was a little nonplussed to receive No More Christian Nice Girl in the mail. I had