Book Reviews

Title: Wind to Water
Author: David Hamershock
Genre: Non-Fiction, Inspirational
Reviewer: Claudia Pemberton

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1598587889

A United States military plane is shot down over the Iraqi countryside; its young pilot is presumed dead. A decade later, his fiancé, Maryn, takes a trip to Australia to finally say goodbye to her airman who never came home. The Seattle school teacher meets a divorced marine biologist named Grant on a tour. Grant soon discovers he's attracted as much to Maryn's wit as to her looks. But occasionally, a melancholy creeps into her eyes. Eventually, she allows Grant to read a letter from her fiancé--the kind soldiers write "just in case." Grant halts his romantic feelings and their friendship blossoms. Later, they reunite in California, but Grant wonders if Maryn's past is truly behind her. 'Wind to Water' is a love story, travel adventure and romantic comedy. It chronicles an ordinary man's search for an extraordinary love in a world mostly unfit for such a venture.

Title:Seen From An Open Window
Author: jim greenwald
Genre: Poetry, Book ofPoetry
Reviewer:

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1430327901

Love touches us all; it can be both wonderful and devastating, sometimes simultaneously.We always seem to get back up, dust ourselves off and wade into it again and again. We each have our experiences, to us unique, but truth be told we can identify readily with each others.

"footprints in the snow" speaks of the desire to start over, something we all wish at times. "you" talks of loss in ones life, it can be from a loved ones passing or leaving, each carries its own scars. "lies in the dark" is about realization, facing the truth which we try so hard at times to avoid. "Sci-fi and reality meet a broom" talks about the adventure of growing up amid adult fears."left right~left right~lets ununite" a little political frustration about our world and its issues.

Each tells a story and hopefully will provide an enjoyable reading experience. Some are of love and its emotions, others about life and growing up. They are both introspection and a view from an open window. I am glad I have this opportunity to share each with you.

You are all invited to look through my window.

Title: Wishing for Rain
Author: jim greenwald
Genre: Poetry, Book of Poetry
Reviewer: Bill McDonald & Betsy Beard

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1413776701

We all have feelings, wishes and desires, to some expression comes easy while to others an endless struggle or a fight they refuse to join for a myriad of reasons. I have tried here on these pages to express not just my feelings but my perceptions of others feelings. There is nothing more complex than love, look for a definitive definition and surely your search would take years. My inspirations come from many directions, experiences, words overheard, a scene that unfolds before my eyes, a movie, a song. All directed in an endless search to express love and all that it encompasses. I hope my writing draws you in and it becomes part of you, join me in the journey. Enter my book, I hope you enjoy it.

Title: Flight Surgeon: Diary of Medical Detachment, 1943-1944
Author:Ernest Gaillard, Jr.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir
Reviewer: Weymouth Symmes

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1410746712

The text consists of a World War II war narrative from the perspective of the flight surgeon. The setting is in the European Theatre of Operations on a Fortress base in East Anglia. This deals primarily with an ancillary ground command and with only testimonial reference to any aerial combat. It deals with more in the way of the pertinent day-to-day logistics and emotional anxieties and ordeals of the supportive, ground-based non-combatants when dealing with returning crews. This is a whole other story and rarely, if ever, addressed.

The text comprises a foreword, additional readers' notes, the body of the text, numerous photos and images, secret reports and endnotes, and a contemporary, explanatory glossary of period terms and acronyms.

Title: Open Source
Author: Matthew M. Frick
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Weymouth Symmes

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1453719989

- In the dead of night, on the dark waters of the Baltic Sea, a cargo ship is hijacked.
- In the Atlantic Ocean, a small flotilla of Russian warships is dispatched to re-take her.
- In a quiet tavern in Savannah, Georgia, an off-work vending route driver watches a thirty-second news report of the incidents.

"What if...?" That was what Casey Shenk thought when he heard about the hijacking of the MV Baltic Venture. A simple diversionary blog posting that infers an illegal arms sale is involved comes too close to the truth for some, who would rather the speculation stop there.

When anonymous threats turn deadly, Casey looks to the only other person who believes his theory; Susan Williams, an analyst for the private geopolitical consulting firm Intelligence Watch Group. With Susan's help, Casey digs deeper and discovers something much bigger that involves elements at the highest levels of governments on three continents.

Casey and Susan soon find themselves in the crosshairs and at the center of a complicated plot to shape world politics that will affect the balance of power in the Middle East and change the world forever.