reviews

Tough Cop Crime and Hidden Secrets Author: John Sandford Haunted by the mistakes of youth, hard-bitten police detective Lucas Davenport returns to an unsolved kidnapping/potential double homicide from twenty-five years ago. Suspecting something strange at the time, the youthful and rebellious Davenport had neither the position nor the tenacity to thwart his superiors and follow his suspicions to the bitter end. Now, all these years later, a new construction site unearths the brutalized bodies of the two missing girls and Lucas returns to the case, riddled with guilt imagining all of the girls who have died at the hands of [...]

9000 years of suds... Authors:  Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith and Aaron McConnell More than 35 billion gallons a year! That’s enough beer to quench even the most outrageous thirst.  Spanning the globe, the artful combination of barley, hops, yeast and water is second only to tea when it comes to popular liquid diversions.  While it’s obvious that beer has made quite an impact on the world, what you may not know is that the history behind it is abundantly interesting.  Displaying an intoxicating enthusiasm for their subject, writer Jonathan Hennessey, brewer Mike Smith and illustrator Aaron McConnell have teamed up [...]

An Intensive Mother/Daughter, Generational Story Author: Amy Tan A complex history of stories and jangled voices, Joy Luck Club examines the tumultuous relationship between mothers and daughters with the added layer of immigration and shifting cultural identity. The four mothers (Suyuan Woo, An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Betty St. Clair) are first generation Chinese, immigrants with hidden histories and the scars of living compounded by the terror of a new country and the desire to hold onto tradition and the identity it assigns. The four daughters (Jing-Mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair), conversely, see their mothers as [...]