Fiction

Title: Navy Rules
Author: Geri Krotow
Genre: Romance
Reviewer: Barbara peacock

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0373717865

Wounded during a military rescue, Commander Max Ford returns to a naval base on Whidbey Island to recover. And part of his treatment involves working with a therapy dog. Max is surprised to learn that the dog's owner is Winnie Armstrong, widow of his closest friend. She and Max were close in those months following her husband's death. But they drifted apart, until that one night two years ago. The night friendship turned to passion.

Now he's even more shocked to learn that Winnie has been keeping a secret from him. A baby girl. His daughter. It's even more important he heal so he can be a part of his child's life—and Winnie's. Because all the attraction that pulled them together that one night is still there…only stronger.

Title: Mossingdene
Author: David Andrew Westwood
Reviewer: Terry Shoptaugh
Subcategory: Historical Fiction

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B005E90HW8

Fifty thousand Americans and their hardware parked in a rural English community of a thousand villagers, just a grudging step away from the Middle Ages, on the eve of the invasion of Europe. An effective recipe for mayhem, sex and espionage.

Title: Bittersweet Tamed
Author: David Michaelson
Genre: SciFi
Reviewer: Betsy Beard

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B0081UC25C

The intrepid pioneers finally tame the new planet only to be
threatened with annihilation by the returning Odeon Ancient Ones.

Title: Valdinato, 1943
Author: David Westwood
Genre: Historical Fiction
Reviewer: Betsy Beard

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B006PW43EQ

The story begins in New York, but since the central character, Ennio, an Italian-American pastry chef, decides he should sign up, the action soon moves to the invasion of Italy. He becomes a cook with a company moving north from Naples, village by village, toward Rome. Meanwhile Lucia is working the family farm in the Liri Valley below the Abbey of Monte Cassino. Ennio and his friends are stopped short by the Germans at their Gustav Line, of which the Abbey forms a crucial part. Lucia’s farm is bombed, and she and Ennio are soon involved personally in one of the worst battles of WWII.