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February 2009

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published February 2009.

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Son

by M. Wayne Cunningham

Based on an event that took place in 1932 this novel reshapes the deadly shooting of a white teenager Michael “Son” Morrison Moss Jr. by a black schoolteacher in Austin Texas. The author chronicles sixty-year-old Charlie Jarrell’s... Read More

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Rooke's Island

by Lisa Bower

With top-notch writing and a suspenseful story S.K. Whalen’s Rooke’s Island is well suited for both children and adults. Protagonist Margery Mutters is independent intelligent and interesting—women with this holy trinity of... Read More

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The Longest Patrol

by Gary Presley

In the United States they are known as members of the “Greatest Generation”: those young men who donned uniforms and sailed off to fight the Axis nearly seven decades ago. Their stories are heroic and legendary told in histories like... Read More

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The Nicoli Conspiracy

by Beth Hemke Shapiro

This story of action and adventure packs an enormous amount of material into relatively few pages—unfortunately too much material. W.D. Dodge’s Ukrainian-born heroine engages in a great deal of sex and travels extensively both... Read More

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9/11: Pentagon

by Lawrence Kane

This book contains a set of fifteen strategies designed to help leaders facing crisis. Written by Trina Hines a motivational speaker leadership coach retired US Army First Sergeant and former Pentagon leader it contains many elements... Read More

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The Last Paradise

by Kristine Morris

Post-Civil War Galveston is the setting for this exquisitely written, character-rich debut novel by Michael Kasenow. The author masterfully paints a vivid picture of the “alley people” of the reconstruction-era Texas city: a colorful... Read More

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