Monday Book Pick: Act of Valor

May 28, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Act of Valor by Dick Couch and George Galdorisi

The Memorial Day edition of the Monday Book Pick is the book version of the movie Act of Valor. Filmed with real Navy SEALs playing Navy SEALs, the story follows a SEAL team on a series of missions that starts with the rescue of a DEA agent being tourtured by drug dealers. We’re not talking faux tourture like water boarding either. Intelligence gathered on that mission puts them on the trail of a terrorist planning on bringing death and destruction to America. Multiple reviews by combat vets state that this is one of the most realistic military movies they have ever seen.

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Monday Book Pick: SEAL Team Six: The Novel

May 14, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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SEAL Team Six: The Novel by Chuck Dixon

A nice action novel about SEALs in the unit formerly known as SEAL Team Six. Here they are hunting Islamic terrorists who are finding and grooming “home grown” terrorists. It’s not about the fancy gear, or the politics behind the scenes, it’s about Good Guys finding and killing Bad Guys. For a $0.99 Kindle ebook, it certainly delivers value for your money. When I finished it, I was happy to find out it was the first in a planned series.

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Monday Book Pick: Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up

Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up by Katie Pavlich

Here are the details about the blood drenched Obama policy of supplying Mexican drug lords with firearms, while at the same time working to deny Americans their Second Amendment Rights. Not only have numerous Mexicans lost their lives to the Obama policy of having the ATF supply firearms to Mexican Drug cartels, US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed by a Mexican drug cartel member using a weapon supplied by the Obama adminstration.

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Monday Book Pick: The First 100 Daze

Hope n’ Change: The First 100 Daze by Stilton Jarlsberg, MD

The first e-book from the Hope n’ Change webcomic is now available! Check it out and enjoy!

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Monday Book Pick: The Steampunk Detective

March 26, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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The Steampunk Detective by Darrel Pitt

A light hearted hat tip to Sherlock Holmes, with a thinly disgusied WWI vet operating in a Steampunk 1920s. The author includes characters and references from multiple sources of the Holmes era, including Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The detective’s young ward, an orphaned high wire artist, is a references to Bob Kane’s best known character’s first sidekick. There have been a bunch of books lately that float on sea of historical and literary references, ranging from the extremely well done (the Anno Dracula) series, to bizarre shock lit (The Adventures of Ned the Seal). The Steampunk Detective falls somewhere in the middle of that. This book can be read by young teens (or younger), where the other two would not be a good choice for young audience.

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Monday Book Pick: The Sixth Column

February 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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The Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein

The first published work by Robert Heinlein, originally as a serial in the pulps of the 1940s. Based on an outline by John Campbell, Heinlein took some of the edge off the overt racism in the outline. Keep in mind that was written in the 1940s and incidents such as the Rape of Nanking were know. It’s good Heinlein, not great Heinlein.

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Monday Book Pick: Perigee

February 13, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Perigee by Patrick Chiles

A near future novel about the way we should be traveling now! A ripping good yarn with steely eyed Missile Men and Women doing the Right Stuff. To make it even better, the science is so hard it throbs.

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Monday Book Pick: Obama Sutra

Obama Sutra – An Illustrated Guide To 57 States of Ecstasy by Stilton Jarlsberg

This book is fornicating histerical! A humorous look at all the problems, screw ups, coverups and flat out incompetance of our Dear Leader explained in terms of doing the nasty!
If you don’t get one of the ‘positions’, don’t worry, at that end of the book he gives the details behind each one.

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Monday Book Pick: The Man From the Broken Hills

January 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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The Man From the Broken Hills by Louis L’Amour

The master of the American Western sets the bar high with this tale of Milo Talon showing what it means to ride for the brand.

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Monday Book Pick: Princess Valerie’s War

January 2, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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Princess Valerie’s War: A Space Viking Novel by Terry Mancour

The second in a series that follows on to one of my favorite books, Space Viking.
This is follow up book to Prince of Tanith, which was my pick back on 12/12/11. There is clearly at least one more book after this one.

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