[homevintner]

 The Road to Damascus  by John Ringo and Linda Evans. A bolo faces a moral dilemma about following orders or doing what's right.

[homevintner]

 Lonely Vigil  by Walter Lord. The coastwatchers of the solomon Islands.

[MaxBigfoot]

Just bought (second hand) a 2 book omnibus of 'The Chronicles Of Amber' by Roger Zelazny.  It's been years since I read any of the books, it's almost like reading them for the first time.

[TheRover]

 1776  by David McCullough.  Apparently something important happened that year.

[homevintner]

I just bought  1776  too, but haven't started it yet. I've got a few others in line first.

[ZoD]

Bill Bryson - im working through all of his stuff. Im on  Made In America at the moment.

[rtpoe]

Race of the Century by Julie M. Fenster.

In 1908, when cars looked like this:
 
and roads were virtually nonexistent outside cities, and there was no such thing as a gas station - the Paris Match and New York Times sponsored a road race between their two cities. North to Albany, west to San Francisco, then shipped across the Pacific, across Japan, ferry to Vladivostok, across Siberia, into Europe, ending in Paris. Twenty-two thousand miles.

Six cars entered.

Three cars finished. Four men travelled the entire distance.

rtpoe

[Chronicler]

Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family by John H. Davis

Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI and A Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill

[MaxBigfoot]

'There Will Be Dragons' & 'Emerald Sea' by John Ringo.
Guest starring Bun-Bun from Sluggy Freelance!  

[homevintner]

 1634:The Galileo Affair  by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
 U-Boat Ace  by Jordan Vause. The story of Wolfgang Luth.
 In the Hour Before Midnight  by Jack Higgins
 U-Boats at War by Harold Busch

[smiley]

Quote:
Race of the Century by Julie M. Fenster.

In 1908, when cars looked like this:
 
and roads were virtually nonexistent outside cities, and there was no such thing as a gas station - the Paris Match and New York Times sponsored a road race between their two cities. North to Albany, west to San Francisco, then shipped across the Pacific, across Japan, ferry to Vladivostok, across Siberia, into Europe, ending in Paris. Twenty-two thousand miles.

Six cars entered.

Three cars finished. Four men travelled the entire distance.

I remember watching a really cheesy 60s film they made of that race one summer holiday long ago. The film was called, perhaps unsuprisingly, "The Great Race".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059243/

As for good books. Just finished Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" trilogy (Quicksilver, The Confusion & System of the World) - highly recommended. Ploughing my way through Olaf Stapeldon's "The First and Last Men".

[MaxBigfoot]

Re-reading the 'Crossroads' trilogy by Nick O'Donohoe.
Not often you can read a good fantasy where the heroine is a veterinarian.

[Chronicler]

The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital : The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.

by David Ovason

[homevintner]

 Battle: The Story Of The Bulge  by John Toland

[ZoD]

Chinua Achebe "things fall apart"

Faulkner "As I lay dying"

John McLeod "Beginning Postcolonialism"
 
The last book is nigh on impenetrable.