Book Reviews

Title: Miss You To Pieces
Author: Donna M. Purkey
Genre: Childrens
Reviewer: Jim Greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1470158035

Riley’s dad is in the Navy and deploys for 6 months. To help Riley count the days, his mom introduces a unique puzzle project in which he also finds comfort, strength, and encouragement. Children experiencing a temporary separation from a loved one will identify with Riley’s story and will learn that while we are challenged, we also grow and become stronger. We build ourselves as Riley builds his puzzle, and we stay connected to our loved ones as Riley’s family, and his puzzle pieces, stay connected. The puzzle project can be easily adapted for any family experiencing a temporary separation. The book includes tips for creating your own puzzle project!

Title: Get Rich in a Niche: The Insider’s Guide To Self-Publishing in a Specialized Market
Author: Jeffrey Bennett
Genre: Reference
Reviewer: Terry Shoptaugh

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B0056QJKFE

Get Rich in a Niche shows you how to be a niche expert in three well explained steps
1. Become an expert
2. Publish your book
3. Market your book

Title: Insider's Guide to Security Clearances
Author: Jeffrey Bennett
Genre: How-to
Reviewer: Terry Shoptaugh

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B004KSPYTK

Turn your passion for business into work for the US Government. Discover what you need to know about how to get a security clearance and perform on classified contracts.
This book explains how to obtain such clearances.

Title: Burn the Town and Sack the Banks: Confederates Attack Vermont
Author: Cathryn Prince
Genre: Non-Fiction History
Reviewer: Betsy Beard

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0786717513

On a dreary October afternoon, bands of Confederate raiders held up the three banks in St. Albans. With guns drawn, they herded the townspeople out into the common, sending the people of the North into panic. Operating out of a Confederate stronghold in Canada, the raiders were young men, mostly escapees from Union prison camps, who had been recruited to inaugurate a new kind of guerilla war along the Yankees' unprotected border. The raid, though bungling at times, was successful ând the consequent pursuit of the rebels into Canada. The celebrity-like trial it sparked in Montreal and resulting diplomatic tensions that arose between the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, left the Southern dream of a second-front diversion in ruins. What survived, however, is a fascinating tale of the South's desperate attempt to reverse the course of the war. Burn the Town and Sack the Banks is a tale filled with dashing soldiers, spies, posses, bumbling plans, smitten locals, lawyers, diplomats, and an idyllic Vermont town, set against the backdrop of the great battles far from the Northern border that were bringing the Civil War to its bloody conclusion.

Title: Tullykillane, 1941
Author: David Anderson Westwood
Genre: Historical Fiction
Reviewer: Terry L. Shoptaugh

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B005AZ5FKU

A young American, who only signed on as a seaman to forget the humiliation of his football career's disastrous end, is shipwrecked in neutral Ireland three months before Pearl Harbor. He soon becomes entangled with the IRA and the Nazis, but he's determined to get his revenge.