Historical Fiction Post
Author: Jeff Shaara
Title:No Less Than Victory: a novel of World War II
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publication Date: 2009
Number of Pages: 449 pages
Geographical Setting: Normandy invasion to the Battle of the Bulge. With an epilogue about the major players.
Series (If applicable): No, but Jeff Shaara has put out a ton of WWII, WWI and Civil War Non-Fiction (last count 10).
Plot
Summary:Take a journey of World War II through the eyes of Patton, Eisenhower, two young American Privates and Albert Speer ( Minister of Armaments and War Production) and Gerd von Rundstedt (German Field Marshal). If you are reading this book you probably already know the dates and major people in WWII history. However, this is a dramatized account of those events along with tons of factoids about the War and everything related to this war. I have read several of Jeff Shaaras' books and this one was great.
Subject Headings: Historical Fiction
Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: :Authentic, Accurate, Patriotic
3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors
3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors
Friday, March 22, 2013
Non-Fiction Post
Author: Phil Jackson and Michael Arkush
Title:The Last Season : A Team in Search of its Soul
Genre:Non-Fiction
Publication Date: 2004
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Geographical Setting:LA Lakers 2003 and 2004 season
Series (If applicable): No
Plot Summary: Phil Jackson talks about his experience with the 2003/2004 LA Lakers. It is a very candid account of Phil Jackson's thoughts on Kobe, Shaq, and their playoff run. Don't even think about this book if you are not a NBA fan. About half the book is a game by game account of their playoff run.
Subject Headings: LA Lakers (Basketball Team)
Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: :Authentic, NBA Insider, Tell-All
3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors
Ring of Hell: the story of Chris Benoit & the fall of the pro wrestling industry by Matthew Randazzo. This was suggested to me from a professional wrestler as being the best book he had ever read on wrestling. I concur.
Gandhi on non-violence by Gandhi. This is a book of selected reading on his philosophy and experience with non-violent action.
Joel Whitburn's music stars: brief bios of every recording artist who ever charted by Joel Whitburn.
3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors
Basketball Jones by E Lynn Harris
The Schoolyard game: an anthology of basketball writings
Triple Threat by Jacqueline Guest
Author: Phil Jackson and Michael Arkush
Title:The Last Season : A Team in Search of its Soul
Genre:Non-Fiction
Publication Date: 2004
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Geographical Setting:LA Lakers 2003 and 2004 season
Series (If applicable): No
Plot Summary: Phil Jackson talks about his experience with the 2003/2004 LA Lakers. It is a very candid account of Phil Jackson's thoughts on Kobe, Shaq, and their playoff run. Don't even think about this book if you are not a NBA fan. About half the book is a game by game account of their playoff run.
Subject Headings: LA Lakers (Basketball Team)
Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: :Authentic, NBA Insider, Tell-All
3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors
Ring of Hell: the story of Chris Benoit & the fall of the pro wrestling industry by Matthew Randazzo. This was suggested to me from a professional wrestler as being the best book he had ever read on wrestling. I concur.
Gandhi on non-violence by Gandhi. This is a book of selected reading on his philosophy and experience with non-violent action.
Joel Whitburn's music stars: brief bios of every recording artist who ever charted by Joel Whitburn.
3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors
Basketball Jones by E Lynn Harris
The Schoolyard game: an anthology of basketball writings
Triple Threat by Jacqueline Guest
Western Post
Author: Louis L'Amour
Title: Hondo
Genre: Western
Publication Date: 1952 Won the Fawcett Gold Medal 1952
Number of Pages: 178
Geographical Setting: Southwest Terr. Apache Country
Time Period: Post Civil War
Series (If applicable): No
Plot Summary: A lone man that only has his pony, dog and gun finds a beautiful woman and a young boy who needs a father in his life. The boy's deadbeat father is found by Hondo and there is a showdown! There is also Apache on the Warpath and an bloodthirsty warrior is vying for power.
Subject Headings: Apache Indians- Wars- Women Pioneers - Arizona
Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: : Action, Justice, Moral and Bromance.
Similar Authors and Works (why are they similar?):
Louis L'Amour The Haunted Mesa. This is written by the most notable name in the western genre but it is fantasy. Here we have the western formula; likeable man solves a problem with violence (with a rifle) and saves somebody but within the realm of parallel universes.
Cindy Bonner Lily. Cindy is known for combining romance, western and historical fiction and it is done via a women's voice. In Lily a 15 year old girl falls in love with an outlaw. She exchanges her boring farm life for her new outlaw life. This is a first in a series that deals with young girl and watches her grow as a person.
Elizabeth Fackler's Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato. Elizabeth writes in the women's lives genre. The aforementioned title is more western than women lives but the women are more developed and have a brain and gives a better perspective of what really went down in the west.
3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors
Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear were state historians for several western states and they are best known for the First North American series. These are historical fiction but are quite accurate.
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors
Zane Grey- Riders of the Purple Sage
Terry Johnston--Carry the Wind
Kathleen O'Neal Gear--Sand in the Wind
Author: Louis L'Amour
Title: Hondo
Genre: Western
Publication Date: 1952 Won the Fawcett Gold Medal 1952
Number of Pages: 178
Geographical Setting: Southwest Terr. Apache Country
Time Period: Post Civil War
Series (If applicable): No
Plot Summary: A lone man that only has his pony, dog and gun finds a beautiful woman and a young boy who needs a father in his life. The boy's deadbeat father is found by Hondo and there is a showdown! There is also Apache on the Warpath and an bloodthirsty warrior is vying for power.
Subject Headings: Apache Indians- Wars- Women Pioneers - Arizona
Appeal 3 terms that best describe this book: : Action, Justice, Moral and Bromance.
Similar Authors and Works (why are they similar?):
Louis L'Amour The Haunted Mesa. This is written by the most notable name in the western genre but it is fantasy. Here we have the western formula; likeable man solves a problem with violence (with a rifle) and saves somebody but within the realm of parallel universes.
Cindy Bonner Lily. Cindy is known for combining romance, western and historical fiction and it is done via a women's voice. In Lily a 15 year old girl falls in love with an outlaw. She exchanges her boring farm life for her new outlaw life. This is a first in a series that deals with young girl and watches her grow as a person.
Elizabeth Fackler's Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato. Elizabeth writes in the women's lives genre. The aforementioned title is more western than women lives but the women are more developed and have a brain and gives a better perspective of what really went down in the west.
3 Relevant Non-Fiction Works and Authors
Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear were state historians for several western states and they are best known for the First North American series. These are historical fiction but are quite accurate.
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
3 Relevant Fiction Works and Authors
Zane Grey- Riders of the Purple Sage
Terry Johnston--Carry the Wind
Kathleen O'Neal Gear--Sand in the Wind
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