Ken Kreckel

Silver Like Dust: One Family’s Story of America’s Japanese Internment

By Kimi Cunningham Grant - Published 2012

Genres:

Nonfiction

Through conversations recorded by her granddaughter, a Japanese-American woman recalls her life during World War II. Born into a poor but industrious family ...Read Review

A Death in Summer

By Benjamin Black - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This latest offering in the Quirke series opens with the shotgun killing of newspaper proprietor Richard Jewell, aka Diamond Dick. His own paper ...Read Review

A Moment in the Sun

By John Sayles - Published 2011

Genres:

EpicLiterary

This epic work tells the stories of several men and women caught up in the violent end of 19th-century America. These include Hod ...Read Review

Victory and Honor

By W.E.B. Griffin - By William E. Butterworth IV - Published 2011

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryThriller

Just after Victory in Europe day, Cletus Frade, Army Air Force fighter jockey, Argentine commercial pilot, and member of the OSS, finds himself ...Read Review

The Devil’s Ribbon

By D.E. Meredith - Published 2011

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Following on the success of Devoured, this novel returns to the exploits of pioneering forensic pathologist Adolphus Hatton and his assistant, Albert Roumande, ...Read Review

The Brummstein

By Peter Adolphsen - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

In 1907, Josef Siedler descends into Switzerland’s Hölloch Caves searching for a gateway to the land of the “inner earth.” Instead he ...Read Review

Waltzing with the Enemy

By Helen Mitsios - By Rasia Kliot - Published 2011

Genres:

Nonfiction

This is another memoir from a survivor of the Holocaust, but one with some crucial differences. First off, it is written by both ...Read Review

Child of the Fighting Tenth

By Forrestine C. Hooker - Published 2011

Genres:

NonfictionWestern

This re-released memoir recounts the early life of author Forrestine “Birdie” Cooper Hooker, growing up in the frontier West. The daughter of an ...Read Review

The School of Night

By Louis Bayard - Published 2011

Genres:

Thriller

Discredited Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is tasked by a ruthless antiquities collector to recover a missing letter which was stolen by Henry’s ...Read Review

Mr. Chartwell

By Rebecca Hunt - Published 2011

Genres:

Literary

Esther Hammerhans, a young librarian with the House of Commons, is disturbed when she finds a prospective new lodger at her front door. ...Read Review

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