Category: General Fiction/Classics

Rocks and Shoals (Carlisle & Holbrooke Naval Adventures #7) by Chris Durbin
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Overview: With the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, the French in North America were firmly on the back foot. Pitt’s grand strategy for 1759 was to launch a three-pronged attack on Canada. One army would move north from Lake Champlain, and another smaller force would strike across the wilderness to Lake Ontario and French-held Fort Niagara. A third, under Admiral Saunders and General Wolfe, would sail up the Saint Lawrence, where no battle fleet had ever been, and capture Quebec.

Captain Edward Carlisle sails ahead of the battle fleet to find a way through the legendary dangers of the Saint Lawrence River. An unknown sailing master assists him; James Cook has a talent for surveying and cartography and will achieve immortality in later years.

There are rocks and shoals aplenty before Carlisle and his frigate Medina are caught up in the near-fatal indecision of the summer when General Wolfe tastes the bitterness of early setbacks.

Rocks and Shoals is the seventh of the Carlisle & Holbrooke naval adventures. The series follows Carlisle and his protégé George Holbrooke, through the Seven Years War and into the period of turbulent relations between Britain and her American colonies in the 1760s.
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Wanderer of Rome by Ken Farmer
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Overview: Continuing historical fiction in the time of the Roman Republic after the conclusion of the Punic wars and the fall of Carthage.

Quintus, a Centurion Princeps with four Centuries (roughly 240 men) under his command, a four-year veteran, has survived the Punic wars and takes passage on a rather unseaworthy ship to Ostia.

On board also, are twenty-three others, who arrived when the fighting was done, and therefore had no battle experience. Their ship was caught in high winds, lost her mast, and drifted until she beached gently onto the sand. The Capitaneus roughly calculated where they were and decided to walk east to the city of Sabratha (although I got a bit confused here, as he said Leptis is about a day’s walk easterly, and the next city to the west of comparable size is Sabratha). Two soldiers opt to go with the Capitaneus, while the others choose to go with Quintus. After marching west for about 30 miles/50 kilometres, they come across a small city and Quintus spins a story so that the city officials won’t realise they are a lone group. The city of Auziu offers hospitality, and the following day a conference is held between city officials and Quintus, in which he and his men are offered a goodly payment in return for their help in defending the city from brigands and roaming bands of Carthaginian guerrilla fighters.

But all may not be what it seems.
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A Quiet, Little Town by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone (Red Ryan Western #4)
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Overview: Stagecoach guard Red Ryan has managed to survive every dirty, danger-filled trail in Texas. But this time, the journey is hell on four wheels. And the next stop could be his last . . .

BIG TROUBLE IN A SMALL TOWN

It starts with an unusual request: "On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women." No problem. Or so Red Ryder thinks—until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they’re crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad dog killer is on the prowl. But that can’t compare to what’s waiting for them at Fredericksburg. In this quiet little town, every man, woman, and monk will reveal their true colors. Green for greed. Yellow for cowardice. Black for pure unadulterated evil. Which leaves Red—gunning for his life . . .
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Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras
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Overview: A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught, the bomb is defused, and he is tortured, tried in a day, condemned to death, and thrown into a cell to await the guillotine. A routine event, perhaps, in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians.

But what if the militant is a "pied-noir"? What if his lover was a member of the French Resistance? What happens to a "European" who chooses the side of anti-colonialism?

By turns lyrical, meditative, and heart-stoppingly suspenseful, this novel by Joseph Andras, based on a true story, was a literary and political sensation in France.
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In the Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo
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Overview: Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity’s place in the world.[/b]

Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer’s potions nor the medical team’s treatments could cure. Compounding the family’s grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys’ father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.

In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future.

Acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, In the Company of Men explores critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.
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