by Donna | Mar 27, 2010 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann. Doubleday (2009), 313 pages. There are many reasons to read this book, the primary one being the ending, which I will refrain from saying anything about, even though I...
by Donna | Jan 8, 2010 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time, by John Kelly. HarperCollins (2005), 356 pages. Thirty million people dead in Europe, a third of the Middle East wiped out, and China...
by Donna | Nov 18, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin. HarperCollins (2004), 318 pages. From On the Banks of Plum Creek, by Laura Ingalls Wilder: “Then I’d better get the wood up before we go to town,” said Pa. “I don’t like the sound of that wind, and they tell...
by Cindy | Nov 15, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder. Random House (2009), 277 pages. Kidder tells the story in Strength in What Remains of Deo, a young man from Burundi who survives the Hutu/Tutsi massacres in 1994 and arrives in New York City with only...
by Donna | Nov 6, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier, by Scott Zesch. St. Martin’s Press (2004), 382 pages. This is a book about child abductions, perpetrated by the Native Americans against the settlers, in a very specific place...
by Donna | Oct 11, 2009 | Nonfiction, Tragedies/Massacres
Rating: A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century, by Andres Resendez. Basic Books (2007), 326 pages. This is a must read for anybody with the...