Fiction

Title: Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies
Author: Sonia Meyer
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Lee Boyland

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0982711514

In 1956 Khrushchev s Thaw triggers the Hungarian Revolution and upheaval in the Soviet Empire. During Khrushchev s first state visit to Helsinki, Dosha, star rider of the Soviet Dressage Team and her horse defect with the help of local Gypsies. The novel follows the life of Dosha, a Gypsy in disguise. It offers unique insight into the tribal life of nomadic Gypsies, who under Stalin joined partisans fighting Nazi invaders, only to face entrapment during Khrushchev s Thaw. By then Dosha and her talented circus horse have been drafted into the dressage team in Leningrad. Navigating political intrigue, narrowly escaping discovery by the KGB, she enters a love forbidden to Gypsy women. One goal remains uppermost in her mind leading her tribe and her horse to freedom in the West.

Title: Domers
Author: David Couzins
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: jim greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0983086303

2080 A.D., the United States is a “virtual” country where citizens live sealed inside millions of family-sized domes protected from the terrors of the Outside. A betrothed couple is kidnapped from their home and for the first time is exposed to Nature and to Freedom while getting caught up in a multi-tribe Native American army’s war with Mexico.

Title: Cooch
Author: Robert Cook
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0984315500

lejandro Mohammed Cuchulain, called Cooch or Alex, became a Marine at sixteen and a CIA special-operations trainee at 17. His father is a wheel-chair bound former marine and Medal of Honor winner who gives Alex advice as to how to survive in a violent world. His mother is the daughter of a Bedouin sheikh who sends a young Alex off, during his summer breaks, to experience the Bedouin life. The combination of a very young start in learning the art and craft of violence, combined with a thirst for knowledge combine to help him to become both a noted designer and user of explosives and an expert in Islamic affairs. Violent, yet thoughtful, Cooch represents the best in fast-moving, popular thrillers.

Ah, the conundrum of civilized behavior. If you deal with animals by using animal behavior against them, are you civilized for protecting the society, whatever it takes, or have you become an animal and consequently not fit to mingle in civilized society?"

Title: A Golden Weekend
Author: Larry Carello
Genre: Fiction
Reviewer: jim greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0980228409

Mel Rosco and his brother Jimmy shared the same last name, but that's where the similarities ended. After years of barely getting by, Mel teetered on the brink of financial collapse. Plagued with bad luck, about all he could count on was the moral support of his wife, his kids and a handful of friends. On the contrary, life couldn't be sweeter for his older brother Jimmy, who had risen to the top of Woodland Beach's social ladder through planning, strategy and hard work. His swanky Shoreline Inn was a landmark, a place where customers waited in long lines for a table. The upcoming July 4th weekend provided both men with opportunities: Jimmy could fatten up his bank account; Mel would have one last chance to save himself. Neither man had any idea how the dramatic events of this golden weekend would change his life for ever.

Title: Wisconsin Iron: A Novel of the Civil War
Author: Michael Eckers
Genre: Fiction, Historical
Reviewer: Don Arndt

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1453874739

Fighting in the famed Iron Brigade, Henry McCollum was already a combat veteran before his 17th birthday. This novel is about his experiences fighting to preserve the Union against the Confederate forces. From First Bull Run to Gettysburg, the Iron Brigade fought in every major eastern engagement of the American Civil War. Henry was right in the middle of it all.