Audiobook. I'd read the first book a long time ago. It didn't go over a ton of the last book, which I actually liked, even though I don't remember a lot of the details of it. Still, I knew who the main players were and the gist of what happened, so I was never lost. Plus, this is actually a whole...
Meltzer's book presents ten great historical mysteries and the conspiracy theories associated with them. It is an enjoyable book to browse and includes numerous illustrations and documentation. As one would expect, few of the mysteries are resolved but enough evidence is presented to make the rea...
Today - Tomorrow - and Future . . . . Throughout history, there are far more than some fifty-five achievers ─ as we know. However, this author gives insight into the honors of fifty-five achievers. The details are short and easy to read. There is a two- page write up for each. Behind those pa...
This picture book is a very simplified version of a biography of Abraham Lincoln up until the Gettysburg address. I gave this book a five out of five because it is very easy to understand language -wise, and if the children had a hard time understanding the content, the cute illustrations are ver...
As a child I loved history and I found this love through historic picture books. Now that I am older I have tried to share that love with children through those same books. Unfortunately the kids I have read them to didn't feel the same way about history as I did when I first read them. When I sa...
2.5 starsThis is my first experience with Brad Melzter. The First Counsel is about a White House staff lawyer Michael Garrick being framed for murder of another White House staff and his tryst with the First Daughter Nora Hartson. Most of the book centers around Michael and Nora's relationship wh...
Dead Even by Brad MeltzertFirst Meltzer asked the uncomfortable question “what if you can’t trust your friends?” Now he is back with another uncomfortable and life altering question, “how far would you go to protect the one you love?” It’s a question that new Assistant District Attorney Sara Tate...
The book The Millionaires by Brad Meltzer is a story about two brothers. One brother is Charlie Caruso, who is a low level employee at the exclusive bank Greene & Greene. The other brother is Oliver Caruso, who is the youngest associate at the entire bank. Charlie and Oliver soon begin planning ...
The Zero Game for which this book is named is explained as a frivolous activity in which Congressional aids find themselves relieving the boredom of their lives. Contestants make book on whether certain small things will or will not get included in final congressional bills. Matthew has been in...
Matthew Mercer y Harris Sandler participan en un misterioso juego del que casi nadie conoce su existencia; ni sus amigos, ni sus compañeros de trabajo ni, naturalmente, sus jefes, que son algunos de los congresistas y senadores más poderosos del Capitolio. Con cada apuesta aumentan el riesgo, la ...
Always start with the positive... So, yes. I read it, lasted all the way through, and don't think of it as time lamentably and irretrievably lost.That having been said... Is it too much to ask for books in which the Perilous Plot is advanced by means other than abject stupidity on the part of th...
Two brothers. Three secret service agents. And millions for the taking. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers at Greene & Greene, a private bank so exclusive there's a $2,000,000 minimum. But when the door of success slams in their faces, the brothers are presented with an offer they can't refus...
A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden. A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency.And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation. There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I find those stories for a livi...
With everything else that she’d lost in life—the DJ jobs… the advertising jobs… even her mom—maybe in this moment, Clementine was due for a gain. Plus, it was still her dad. How could she not have some emotional connection? And that was the one thing that Beecher—who lost ...
Leader of Burma’s democratic movement. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has devoted her life to the freedom of the Burmese people. For peacefully advocating a nonviolent struggle over a military dictatorship, she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. The repressive government of Burma has ...
Lowell Nash called out to his four-year-old daughter early the following morning. Staring at the TV, she didn’t respond. As Deputy Attorney General, Lowell wasn’t used to being ignored, but when it came to family . . . family was a whole different s...
Naomi says, racing toward the small window, then pointing outside at the surprisingly full tree that stood alone in the alleyway on the east side of the house. “You sure that’s a crabapple?” I ask. She nods. “You can see the fruit.” &nbs...
The Roman asked, his voice squawking through the scrambled satellite phone. “It’s fine. Problem solved,” O’Shea replied, keeping the phone close and staring out the small oval window of the chartered seaplane.“What does that mean? Let me speak to Micah!”“Yeah, well . . . that’s a little harder th...