Archive for July 4, 2009

KILLER SUMMER by Ridley Pearson

Sheriff Walt Fleming is back. He and his department are tasked with guarding a pair of ballyhooed “John Adams” bottles of wine (reportedly a gift to Adams from fellow revolutionary Thomas Jefferson) until they can be auctioned at the summer Sun Valley fund-raiser. He is also trying to shoehorn in some fishing with his nephew, seventeen-year-old Kevin. But duty interrupts their river time when Walt, ever-vigilant, notices a wrecker towing a Taurus away from town where automotive repair services are located. His intuition tells him something isn’t right, and he, with Kevin tagging along, chases after the tow truck. This presumed traffic stop escalates into something much bigger. Walt, Deputy Brandon, Fiona, Walt’s father, Kevin. and others are propelled into a tense imbroglio featuring a trio of increasingly desperate criminals, a wealthy man’s private jet, that dawn-of-America wine, a frustrated teenage girl with whom Kevin becomes entangled, a leather-tough ranch cowboy, fraud, diversions that endanger lives, and a string of nail-biting struggles in rough country. Walt, who still feels the loss of his brother in his very bones, at first worries that his nephew has committed a crime, but he rapidly realizes Kevin has far worse problems — such as staying alive.

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RENEGADE: THE MAKING OF A PRESIDENT by Richard Wolffe

On March 18, 2008, presidential candidate Barak H. Obama spoke to the American people from Philadelphia. He addressed race in a manner that has rarely been discussed in a public forum before. But Barak Obama was a historical candidate running for the presidency of the United States of America in extraordinary times. And he spoke as someone from both inside and outside the African American experience. Two days after this address, he approached award-winning journalist Richard Wolffe, who had been covering the Obama campaign for Newsweek Magazine ever since the candidate announced his run for the presidency on January 16, 2007.

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