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Heart of Oak: The Bolitho Novels #27 (The Bolitho Novels)
Alexander Kent
McBooks Press, 2008
Heart of Oak
I own the complete series of the Bolitho novels and I want to say I have enjoyed reading them. I have reread them several times and never seem to get board with them. I would like to see the series continue with Adam at the helm.
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Mutiny: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Julian Stockwin
McBooks Press, 2005
Read the series!
Julian Stockwin's Kydd series now stands at 8 volumes. Mutiny is the fourth in the series and finds Thomas Paine Kydd a master's mate serving on the 64 gun Achilles in 1797.
I guess I'm an advocate of Stockwin primarily because Stockwin's books move the genre from the ...
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Better Than Peanut Butter & Jelly: Quick Vegetarian Meals Your Kids Will Love! Revised Edition
Marty Mattare, Wendy Muldawer
McBooks Press, 2006
Wonderful!!!
we are transitioning our children, aged 3 and 6 to vegetarianism, and this book is a godsend. I had first taken it out of the library (an older edition) and knew right away I would buy it. My kids were hot dogs and chicken nugget kids, and I swear, I never thought they ...
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Night of Flames: A Novel of World War II
Douglas W. Jacobson
McBooks Press, 2007
A suspenseful account of a little known aspect of WWII
Night of Flames, by Douglas W. Jacobson, is a novel about World War II, and more specifically, about the Belgian resistance movement known as the White Brigade. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Jan and Anna Kopernik, a young Polish couple who is ...
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Command: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Julian Stockwin
McBooks Press, 2008
Command: A Kydd Sea Adventure. "A Good Read"
Once again, Julian Stockwin has given us a fantastic narration into the life of Thomas Kydd, who was originally pressed into the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman, and rises to become a Captain, an almost impossible feat! This book is action packed, and a real page ...
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Tenacious: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Julian Stockwin
McBooks Press, 2007
Kydd improves as Stockwyn does.
The earlier Kydd sagas took a bit of fortitude to get through. Clearly, Stockwyn was so invested on seamanship, he did not seem as committed to spinng a page turning yarn. However, as time has gone on, Stockwyn and his hero, Kydd have improved. In this most recent ...
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Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
Erik Marcus
McBooks Press, 2000
The best by far.
When I decided to go Vegan last November, like with many things in my life; I did my fair share of research on the subject. I purchased a few cookbooks and several books on Veganism. While most of them were helpful (The Complete Idiot's Guide to Veganism, Skinny Bitch) ...
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The Admiral's Daughter: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Julian Stockwin
McBooks Press, 2008
The nautical adventure of a lifetime continues....Don't miss it!
The latest installment in the Kydd series, "The Admiral's Daughter" was quite a departure from what we had seen thus far. Just as Julian Stockwin has matured and increased in skill as a writer, Kydd and Renzi have grown and matured. The inclusion of details of their ...
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Four Kings: Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran and the Last Great Era of Boxing
George Kimball
McBooks Press, 2008
Fantastic Book covering a Fantastic Era in Boxing
George Kimball absolutely nails one out of the park with this well researched book covering a time in Boxing that he lived through covering the sport.
Each fighter: Duran, Leonard, Hagler and Hearns are each given equal coverage and there is absolutely no bias or ...
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The Privateer's Revenge: A Kydd Sea Adventure (Kydd Sea Adventures)
Julian Stockwin
McBooks Press, 2008
The Privateer's Revenge
We have just finished reading The Privateer's Revenge received 2 October 2008. Once again, Julian Stockwin delivers a thoroughly researched and wonderfully exciting page turner. My Husband and I have admired all nine Kydd books for their historical accuracy and the ...
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Jester's Fortune (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Dewey Lambdin
McBooks Press, 2002
a maturing of the author?
Disagreeing wholeheartedly with the reviews preceding this one, I find a more "thinking" Lewrie who has risen above his Ram-Catting somewhat. I think Lambdin has pursued excellence with diligence and obvious research to describe naval action in a little known corner of ...
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Success to the Brave (The Bolitho Novels)
Alexander Kent
McBooks Press, 2000
kent's pacing of narrative and realism win through
Classic Bolitho. Our hero overcomes personal doubts and worries whilst always doing the right thing.A story that rushes forward page by page.Personally I have found this to be the most complete Bolitho I have so far read with his charater becoming a deeper fuller ...
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Passage to Mutiny (The Bolitho Novels)
Alexander Kent
McBooks Press, 1999
5 Pacific Paradises Plundered
Passage to Mutiny is the fourth Kent novel set outside of an actual war and the fourth that deals with pirates. In the past Richard Bolitho has ultimately enjoyed great success against pirates while Kent has had mixed success writing about it. This time Kent gets it ...
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For My Country's Freedom (The Bolitho Novels)
Alexander Kent
McBooks Press, 2000
Not up to par!
While I enjoyed this book, I don't feel that it was up to par with the rest of the books in the series. The story seemed a bit too contrived and there was not enough action in the book. In addition, the action sequences were not up to par with what has been written ...
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A King's Commander: The Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures #7 (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Dewey Lambdin
McBooks Press, 2008
Good Historical Fiction is Good Fiction
In this seventh installment of the adventures of Dewey Lambden's Alan Lewrie naval adventure series, or hero is finally and permanently "on his own bottom", with command of a captured French corvette renamed in English service HMS Jester after Adm. Hood's opinion of ...
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