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The Webber Family Bookshelf: September 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Monday, September 22, 2014. AN INVISIBLE THREAD by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski. Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski, An Invisible Thread: The True story of an 11-year-old panhandler, a busy sales executive, and an unlikely meeting with destiny. New York: Howard Books; division of Simon and Schuster, 2011). Also available for Kindle and Nook and as an audiobook. Recommended by Wilda Morris. I made the “mistake” of opening the book to read a few pages while my...I’m...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: March 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. MARIE CURIE AND HER DAUGHTERS by Shelley Emling. Shelley Emling, Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Also available on Nook and Kindle. Reviewed by Yvonne Addis. A popular women's magazine of the era. As private secretary to "Missy" Meloney, my grandmother, Ruth Beard Addis, worked for a woman who had access to celebrated people all over the world. As a widowed mother of two, Marie str...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: July 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Monday, July 21, 2014. THE THEFT OF THE VIRGIN by John Scherber. THE THEFT OF THE VIRGIN by John Scherber. John Scherber, The Theft of the Virgin. San Miguel Allende Books, 2012). Also available on Kindle. Reviewed by Wilda Morris. But The Theft of the Virgin. The ninth one, was a bit lighter, and I had already purchased several books (i.e., my suitcase was getting heavy! As with most such series, later books give away some things that happened in earlier books. Scherber work...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: November 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Sunday, November 23, 2014. AGAINST FOOTBALL: ONE FAN’S RELUCTANT MANIFESTO by Steve Almond. Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto. Melville House Printing, 2014). 177 Pages. Also available for Kindle and Nook. Reviewed by Chuck Dayton. This is a treatise written by a journalist and former sports reporter and play-by-play man. It is his ruminations about his fanatical habits of watching football and being a fan of the game since early childhood. His major moral quest...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: February 2015
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Wednesday, February 4, 2015. THE COMMANDANT OF LUBIZEC: A NOVEL OF THE HOLOCAUST AND OPERATION REINHARD by Patrick Hicks. Patrick Hicks, The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of the Holocaust and Operation Reinhard. Steerforth Press, 2013). 252 pages. Also available for Nook and Kindle. Reviewed by Tom Kessler. The Commandant of Lubizec. The Commandant of Lubizec. Ultimately, to engage deeply with the novel strips one of the shields of objectivity and distance and asks what indi...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: May 2015
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Sunday, May 3, 2015. THE VIOLINIST’S THUMB: AND OTHER LOST TALES OF LOVE, WAR AND GENIUS, AS TOLD BY OUR GENETIC CODE by Sam Kean. Sam Kean, The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War and Genius, As Told By Our Genetic Code. Little, Brown and Company, 2012). Available in hardcover, paperback, audible, and Kindle formats. Popular science writer Sam Kean works the same magic with DNA in Violinist’s Thumb. The final chapters of the book cover the controversies surr...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: August 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Sunday, August 24, 2014. LONE SURVIVOR by Marcus Luttrell. Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson, Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. Little, Brown and Company, 2007). Also available on Kindle and Nook and Audio CD. Reviewed by Kevin A. Penrod, Jr. Petty Officer Matthew Axelson. Petty Officer Danny Dietz. Lieutenant Commander Erik Kristensen. Chief Petty Officer Dan Healy. Petty Officer First Class Jeff Taylor. Addis...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: July 2015
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Saturday, July 25, 2015. DEFENDING BALTIMORE AGAINST ENEMY ATTACK by Charles Osgood. Charles Osgood, Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack: A Boyhood Year During World War II (New York: Hyperion, 2004). Unabridged CD read by the author (Brilliance Audio, 2004). Available for free on Audible at amazon.com. Recommended by Wilda Morris. Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Family Member's Blogs and Websites. Morris, W...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: January 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Friday, January 24, 2014. LET HIM GO by Larry Watson. Larry Watson, Let Him Go (Milkweed 2013 Minneapolis, MN, 2013). 269 Pages. Also available on Nook and Kindle. Reviewed by Chuck Dayton. Larry Watson is a favorite author of Sue’s and mine. Recently he was in Iowa City reading from this new book of his. We spoke with him and had our copy autographed. My favorite book of his in the past was Orchard. Wednesday, January 15, 2014. CROSSING THE WIRE by Will Hobbs. Hobbs has work...
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The Webber Family Bookshelf: February 2014
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The Webber Family Bookshelf. Saturday, February 15, 2014. DOCTOR SLEEP: A NOVEL by Stephen King. Stephen King, Doctor Sleep: A Novel. Also on Nook, Kindle and Audiobook. Stephen King reads an excerpt on YouTube at http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Reviewed by Kevin A. Penrod, Jr. So after a discussion with my Gramma, who worked hard to teach me the magic of books, we discussed my favorite author Stephen King. S. From the author who has done so much, here is his first ever sequel. Doctor Sleep. Anita’s ...