The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz
The Heir by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Manny by Holly Peterson
Double Cross by James Patterson
Run by Ann Patchett
T Is For Trespass by Sue Grafton
A Sister's Secret by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Last Night At the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan
Thursday, February 21, 2008
New Arrivals: Audio Books
Thursday, February 14, 2008
New Arrivals: Fiction
Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman
Light Of The Moon by Luanne Rice
Duma Key by Stephen King
Bright Captivity by Eugenia Price
Blood Red by Heather Graham
Holiday In Death by J.D.Robb
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder and Other True Cases by Ann Rule
Woman In Red by Eileen Goudge
Nell's Cowboy and Lone Star Baby by Debbie Macomber
Redemption Fallls by Joseph O'Connor
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Waking With Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey
Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
Sammy's House by Kristin Gore
Sizzle and Burn by Jayne Ann Krentz
As The World Churns by Tamar Myers
Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell
The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
The Life by Jay McInerney
Beverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods
Shadow Music by Julie Garwood
Hokus Pokus by Fern Michaels
New Year's Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
Back On Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber
The Shooter by W.E.B. Griffin
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
Second Sight by Amanda Quick
Capitol Conspiracy by William Bernhardt
The Appeal by John Grisham
Today in History, February 14, 1945
The British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force today dropped thousands of tons of bombs on Dresden, the capital of the Saxony region of Germany. Dresden had been predominantly constructed out of wood, and the incendiary bombing caused a firestorm that ravaged the city. The inferno reached 2,700 degrees (Fahrenheit) in places and killed an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 civilians.
“The Dresden assault struck the network of rail and highway arteries and depots upon which the Wehrmacht is dependent to supply its front-line forces, now rapidly falling back upon the Saxony capital,” reported the Winnipeg Free Press on February 14, 1945. “[…] Dresden itself was hit by nearly 4,000 R.A.F., Dominion and American bombers last night and today in the first big joint operations supporting the Red army offensive.”
NOTE: Late American author Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner-of-war held in an underground camp in Dresden at the time of the bombings. His novel Slaughterhouse-Five is based on what he experienced during and following the firestorm.
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Friday, February 1, 2008
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