This week:
Postcards From Italy by Angela Fetch
Italy, 1945. ‘Where am I?’ The young man wakes, bewildered. He sees olive trees against a bright blue sky. A soft voice soothes him. ‘We saw you fall from your plane. The parachute saved you.’ He remembers nothing of his life, or the war that has torn the world apart… but where does he belong?
England, present day. Antique-shop-owner Susannah wipes away a tear as she tidies her grandmother’s belongings. Elsie’s memories are fading, and every day Susannah feels further away from her only remaining family. But everything changes when she stumbles across a yellowed postcard of a beautiful Italian stone farmhouse, tucked away in Elsie’s dressing table. A message dated from World War 2 speaks of a secret love. Could her grandmother, who never talked about the past, have fallen for someone in Italy all those years ago?
Susannah goes to Italy in search of answers and finds more than she ever imagined.
This is a dual storyline - part in WW II times and part current times. As the story progressed, I kept stopping to think through what I knew up to that point, trying to figure out all the connections among the characters.
It is a beautiful book, with such beautifully descriptive writing and great characters. I finished it in one day!!
Love In The Time of the Improvised Exploding Device. JP Pomerantz
I do not know how to describe this book. It was strange.
Can Jim uncover the real threat before it buries him?
Jim's consumed by the death of his family.
Not the most likely candidate to open an overseas branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He'd prefer spreadsheets and silence, sitting in an office by himself for hours on end. Why would he be top pick for the job? And why is Afghanistan about to become the largest pharmaceutical exporter in the world? Women’s militias. Covert mining operations. Rats. Biomedical espionage. Love. Intrigue. Gastric inhibitory polypeptide. Murder
This poor guy really gets put through the mill. There are a few funny moments, and it is definitely absurd!
Wrath of the Gods: A James Acton thriller (#18 of 37)
A THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY ARE ABOUT TO BE REWRITTEN!
A strange people land on the shores of the Mayan Empire, triggering a battle for the very survival of a civilization already in upheaval from a punishing drought, the fight falling to a young chieftain left to face what he believes is the wrath of gods angered by a loss of faith.
A thousand years later, Archaeology Professors James Acton and Laura Palmer are invited to an incredible discovery that reveals the truth of what happened in those fateful days 400 years before Columbus. Yet before they can fully explore this amazing find, they are thrust into the middle of the Mexican drug war, Acton and Interpol Agent Hugh Reading taken hostage, leaving it up to Laura to save them
I am a big fan of this series! The author continually finds new and intriguing ways for Acton and his wife to get in trouble, and get out of it with the help of Delta Force, the CIA and sometimes Interpol. Not once have I felt he has jumped the shark with these characters.
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