Kate’s 2¢: “Bradstreet Gate: a novel” by Robin Kirman
“Bradstreet Gate: a novel” by Robin Kirman
It was interesting to read about the characters and how the author inter-wove them. The killer was implied, but I don’t feel the book actually had an ending.
From the web:
Robin Kirman earned a BA in philosophy from Yale College and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where she served as a writing instructor in the English department. Robin lives in New York City and Tel Aviv.
Her curiosity about human psychology has led her to combine work in psychoanalysis with writing fiction. Her first novel, Bradstreet Gate, was published by Crown in 2015, and her television series The Love Wave is currently in development.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Bradstreet Gate: a novel DB82108
Kirman, Robin. Reading time: 11 hours, 50 minutes.
Read by Cassandra Campbell.
Suspense Fiction
Psychological Fiction
When a Harvard student is murdered, professor Rufus Storrow is the prime suspect. Three of his students–Georgia, Charlie, and Alice–are in disbelief. Their own relationships are a tangled mess, and as they sort through their lives, they bear witness to each other’s and Storrow’s highs and lows. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2015.
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Kate’s 2¢:” Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America’s most dangerous female spy–and the sister she betrayed: by Jim Popkin
”Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America’s most dangerous female spy–and the sister she betrayed: by Jim Popkin
This was one of seven stories sent on a cartridge from NLS, so I read it.
This apparently well researched documentary certainly showed the seemier side of an evil woman. The answer of why someone would turn so against everything she’d been brought up with, is still unanswered.
I’d like to find more information on what Anna is doing, if she did indeed get out of prison in January, 2023.
Wikipedia
Jim Popkin is an American investigative journalist and author. He won a 2007 Gerald Loeb Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, and the George Polk Award.
Popkin is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, WIRED, Newsweek, Slate, The Guardian, Washingtonian, and on National Public Radio. He started and ran the NBC News Investigative Unit, where he was a Senior Producer as well as an on-air correspondent.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Code name Blue Wren: the true story of America’s most dangerous female spy–and the sister she betrayed DB114279
Popkin, Jim Reading time: 10 hours, 29 minutes.
Jim Popkin
Biography
True Crime
U.S. History
“Just days after the 9-11 attacks, a senior Pentagon analyst eased her red Toyota Echo into traffic and headed to work. She never saw the undercover cars tracking her every turn. As she settled into her cubicle on the 6th floor of the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, FBI Agents and twitchy DIA officers were hiding in nearby offices. For this was the day that Ana Montes—the US Intelligence Community superstar who had just won a prestigious fellowship at the CIA—was to be arrested and publicly exposed as a secret agent for Cuba. Like spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided her colleagues with brazen acts of treason. For nearly 17 years, Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the government’s top Cuba experts, a buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing US secrets to handlers in local restaurants, and slipping into Havana wearing a wig. Montes didn’t just deceive her country. Her betrayal was intensely personal. Her mercurial father was a former US Army Colonel. Her brother and sister-in-law were FBI Special Agents. And her only sister, Lucy, also worked her entire career for the Bureau. The highlight of her distinguished 31 years as a Miami-based language specialist: Helping the FBI flush Cuban spies out of the United States. Little did Lucy or her family know that the greatest Cuban spy of all was sitting right next to them at Thanksgivings, baptisms, and weddings. In Code Name Blue Wren, investigative journalist Jim Popkin weaves the tale of two sisters who chose two very different paths, plus the unsung heroes who had to fight to bring Ana to justice. With exclusive access to a “Secret” CIA behavioral profile of Ana, family memoirs, and Ana’s incriminating letters from prison, Popkin reveals the making of a traitor—a woman labelled “one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history” by America’s top counter-intelligence official. After more than two decades in federal prison, Montes will be freed in January 2023. Code Name Blue Wren is a thrilling detective tale, an insider’s look at the clandestine world of espionage, and an intimate exploration of the dark side of betrayal.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Kate’s 2¢: ”Brain Fever” by Valerie Sayers
”Brain Fever” by Valerie Sayers
I suspect this story highlights the behavior of what a mentally ill person might display. Manifestations of mental illness are observed in most of these characters, but especially, in the main character.
David Palmer did a good job of narrating this story for us.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valerie Sayers (born 1952) is an American writer and the author of six novels: The Powers (2013); Brain Fever (1996); The Distance Between Us (1994); Who Do You Love (1991); How I Got Him Back, or, Under the Cold Moon’s Shine (1989); and Due East (1987). Brain Fever and Who Do You Love were named New York Times “Notable Books of the Year”, and the 2002 film Due East is based on her first two novels. Reviewing Who Do You Love, The Chicago Tribune declared: “To say that Valerie Sayers is a natural-born writer wildly underestimates the facts…. She has carved out for herself a corner of the South as clearly delineated as Faulkner’s famous Yoknapatawpha County, a sense of the importance and holiness of place that calls to mind Eudora Welty’s writing on the subject.”[1]
Biography[edit]
Sayers was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. She was educated at Fordham and Columbia. She lived in New York for many years.[2] Her writing has considered the experience of Irish Catholics in the American South, the forces of segregation and Civil Rights, and the place of pacifism in domestic politics.
Sayers is most often read in the lineage of Mary Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Pat Conroy, and Walker Percy.[3] Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in such publications as The New York Times, Washington Post, Commonweal, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, Image, Witness, and Prairie Schooner, and have been cited in Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.[4] Her short story “The Other Woman” is published in Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish American Women’s Fiction (1997).
The Powers, which the Washington Post described as “brilliantly realized…in brutally elegant prose” opens in the summer of 1941, and holds the war fever then sweeping across Europe in tension with the contemporary baseball mania sweeping up the United States, a fever fueled by the Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio.[5] The journal Image: Art, Faith, Mystery featured an interview with Sayers on “Baseball and Fiction”.[6]
Northwestern University Press plans to reissue her first five novels during 2013. Since 1993, Sayers has been a professor of English and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.[7]
Critical discussions of Sayers’s work appear in Mary E. Reichardt’s Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook (2001) and in Bryan Giemza’s Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South (2013).
Sayers’s essay “The Word Cure: Cancer, Language, and Prayer” appears in the journal Image.[8]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Brain fever DB42974
Sayers, Valerie. Reading time: 10 hours, 42 minutes.
Read by David Palmer.
Psychological Fiction
Middle-aged professor Tim Rooney feels another breakdown looming when he leaves his fiancee, decides to find his former wife, and heads for New York with fifteen thousand dollars stuffed in his shoes. Tim’s mind slowly unravels as he contends with past and present troubles. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Angels of September” by Andrew M. Greenley
“Angels of September” by Andrew M. Greenley
I was happy to find out that the author, The Reverend Dr. Andrew Greeley, was an insider and knew of what he wrote.
“The four principal angels of September are priest, lover, psychiatrist, and patrol officer representing the church at its most caring best.”
I enjoyed this story read by Pam Ward.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reverend Dr. Andrew Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a research associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC).
For many years, Greeley wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributed regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal.
Life and career[edit]
Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) in 1928.[1] He grew up during the Great Depression in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, where he attended St. Angela Elementary School,[2] and by the second grade, he knew that he wanted to be a priest.[3][4] After studying at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Greeley received an AB degree from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) in 1954, when he was ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
From 1954 to 1964, Greeley served as an assistant pastor at Christ the King parish in Chicago, during which time he studied sociology at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Church in the Suburbs (1958), was drawn from notes a sociology professor had encouraged him to take describing his experiences.[4] He received a Master of Arts in 1961 and a PhD in 1962. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the influence of religion on the career plans of 1961 college graduates. At various times, Greeley was a professor at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago. He was denied tenure by the University of Chicago in 1973, despite having been a faculty member there for a decade and having published dozens of books; he attributed the denial to anti-Catholic prejudice, although a colleague said his cantankerous temperament was more to blame.[4] In 1991, he was granted a professorship in social science at the University.
Sociology[edit]
As a sociologist, he published a large number of influential academic works during the 1960s and 1970s, including Unsecular Man: The Persistence of Religion (1972) and The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (1977).[1] Over the course of his career, he authored more than 70 scholarly books,[1][4] largely focusing on the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. His early work challenged the widespread assumption that Catholics had low college attendance rates, showing that white Catholics were in fact more successful than other whites in obtaining college undergraduate and graduate degrees, which he attributed to what he called the high-quality education Catholics received in parochial schools.[4] He also studied how religion influenced the political behavior of ethnic Catholics, and he was one of the first scholars to document the sociological effects of the Second Vatican Council’s reforms on American Catholics.[1][4]
In the early 1970s, the U.S. bishops commissioned him to write a profile of the American priesthood.[1] He completed a two-year survey in 1972, reporting that dissatisfaction among the priests was widespread; but the bishops rejected his findings.[4] Greeley said, “Honesty compels me to say that I believe the present leadership in the church to be morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt.”[4]
Greeley’s sociological work was also viewed with suspicion by some of his fellow clerics, and his archbishop (later cardinal), John Cody, denied Greeley’s request for a parish ministry.[4] Greeley criticized Cody, calling him a “madcap tyrant” when Cody closed a number of inner-city schools.
Interpreting American Catholicism[edit]
Greeley’s biographer summarizes his interpretation:
He argued for the continued salience of ethnicity in American life and the distinctiveness of the Catholic religious imagination. Catholics differed from other Americans, he explained in a variety of publications, by their tendency to think in “sacramental” terms, imagining God as present in a world that was revelatory rather than bleak. The poetic elements in the Catholic tradition–its stories, imagery, and rituals–kept most Catholics in the fold, according to Greeley, whatever their disagreements with particular aspects of church discipline or doctrine. But Greeley also insisted on the disastrous impact of Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical upholding the Catholic ban on contraception, holding it almost solely responsible for a sharp decline in weekly Mass attendance between 1968 and 1975. He believed that lay Catholics understood far better than their bishops that sex in marriage was intended by God to be joyous and playful, a true means of grace.[5]
As described by John L. Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter, Greeley became fascinated with what has been called the Catholic “analogical imagination”, the idea that “visible, tangible things in the created order serve as metaphors for the divine, as opposed to the more textual and literal religious sensibility of Protestants and others.”[1] Greeley believed that it was this viewpoint that had led the church to be a pre-eminent patron of the arts through the centuries, allowing it to communicate through artistic imagery spiritual concepts that doctrinal texts alone could not.[1] Greeley’s appreciation for the spiritual power of art inspired him to begin writing works of fiction.[1]
Fiction[edit]
Greeley’s literary output was such it was said that he “never had an unpublished thought”.[3][6] He said, “The only way I can write fiction is to keep those hours from 6:00 to 9:00 A.M. sacred.”[7] He published his first novel, The Magic Cup, in 1975,[1] a fantasy tale about a young king who would lead Ireland from paganism to Christianity. A second novel, Death in April, followed in 1980.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Angels of September DB23008
Greeley, Andrew M. Reading time: 15 hours, 2 minutes.
Read by Pam Ward.
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Bestsellers
Ann Reilly, an attractive, superficially successful career woman plagued by many insecurities, reluctantly seeks professional counsel. During the course of her therapy, she unleashes a host of painful memories and repressed emotions triggering a series of bizarre telekinetic episodes. A policeman, a priest, and a psychiatrist join forces to prevent Ann from succumbing to her dark side. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
“Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
Once I got used to the synthesized speech, cadence, and inclusion of page numbers, I enjoyed this book. I’m not sure I like the ending, but it is what it is.
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In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.
The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.
Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice” by David Tatel
“Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice” by David Tatel
Granted, this is a book written by the author of his long career as a lawyer and judge; his memories, his experiences, so, they are personal. While I enjoyed learning how the feceral court system functioned during his term, I would have preferred to learn about his blind journey without the political bias.
David S. Tatel – Wikipedia
David Stephen Tatel (born March 16, 1942) is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Education and career
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David S. Tatel is a senior counsel with the Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice. Prior to returning to Hogan Lovells, Judge Tatel spent nearly 30 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where he was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to fill the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Jun 11, 2024 · David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved–or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal …
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Jun 11, 2024 · David Tatel was a superstar trial lawyer in two of the world’s best law firms. He gave that up to advance the cause of civil rights at the highest level. He then distinguished himself as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice. DB122023
Tatel, David S. Reading time: 10 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by John Lescault; David S. Tatel.
Biography of Persons with Disabilities
Disability
U.S. History
“A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years. Initially, he depended upon aides to read texts to him, and more recently, a suite of hi-tech solutions has allowed him to listen to reams of documents at high speeds. At first, he tried to hide his deteriorating vision, and for years, he denied that it had any impact on his career. Only recently, partly thanks to his first-ever guide dog, Vixen, has he come to fully accept his blindness and the role it’s played in his personal and professional lives. His story of fighting for justice over many decades, with and without eyesight, is an inspiration to us all.”– Goodreads. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The golden doves: a novel” by Martha Hall Kelly
“The golden doves: a novel” by Martha Hall Kelly
This was one of seven stories sent on a cartridge from NLS, so I read it.
Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Marta Hall Kelly, Saskia Maarleveld did a good job of narrating this book. The author provided the narration in the beginning and at the end of the well-researched, creative, non-fiction story.
The back and forth time-line kept the narrative arc advancing, while providing detailed background information.
I enjoyed this book
Martha’s debut novel Lilac Girls, became a New York Times bestseller the week it was published in 2016 and then went on to sell over two million copies and publish in 50 countries. The novel is based on the true story of 72 Polish women who were imprisoned and experimented on at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.
Martha Hall Kelly is an author and native New Englander, still pinching herself since her debut novel Lilac Girls, became a New York Times bestseller the week it was published in April 2016. Following Lilac Girls, she wrote two prequel novels, Lost Roses (April 2019) and Sunflower Sisters (March 2021).
Martha Hall Kelly – New York Times Bestselling Author
marthahallkelly.com/
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The golden doves: a novel DB116590
Kelly, Martha Hall Reading time: 16 hours, 49 minutes.
Jeremy Carlisle Parker; Marta Hall Kelly; Saskia Maarleveld
Suspense Fiction
Historical Fiction
Spy Stories
“American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are thrilled to be working in the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are finally arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a reclusive Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie’s mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who joined her daughter in Paris when the world seemed bright. And Arlette’s son is stolen from her, never to be seen again. A decade later the Doves fall headlong into a dangerous dual mission: Josie is working for U.S. Army Intelligence and accepts an assignment to hunt down the infamous doctor, while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “All the little bird-hearts” by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
“All the little bird-hearts” by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Rose Akroyd did a good job of reading this novel. I like the title and think it exemplified the enigma that is the autism spectrum.
I felt an over-whelming sadness at the end of the story, until I read the epilogue. Then, I didn’t feel quite so angry at loosing her child. When I read about Vita’s taking the infant of AnnaBelle, I wondered if that was a fore-shadowing of what was to come.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow is a British writer whose debut novel, All the Little Bird-Hearts, was longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.[1] The novel tells of a friendship that develops between Sunday, an autistic woman living in a Lake District home, and her newly arrived eccentric neighbor Vita, who emigrated from London with her husband Rollo. The friendship between the two women eventually sours as Sunday’s daughter Dolly begins to favor the relationship with Vita while neglecting her mother.
The Booker Prize judging panel stated the work was a “lyrical and poignant debut novel [that] offers a deft exploration of motherhood, vulnerability and the complexity of human relationships”.[1] James Smart, writing for The Guardian described the work as a “tightly focused story, set almost entirely in two neighbouring houses on a quiet street, that’s also a gleeful skewering of social codes, a raw portrait of family life and a revealing account of neurodivergence.”[2]
Biography[edit]
Lloyd-Barlow obtained her PhD in creative writing from the University of Kent, with Amy Sackville serving as her doctoral adviser.[3] Lloyd-Barlow’s debut novel, All the Little Bird-Hearts, was developed as a result of her PhD studies.[3] She became the first autistic author to be nominated for a Booker Prize with the novel’s longlisting in 2023.[4]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
All the little bird-hearts DB118799
Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria. Reading time: 9 hours, 18 minutes.
Read by Rose Akroyd.
Family
Psychological Fiction
“Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It’s 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old etiquette handbook that guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly, her clever, headstrong teenage daughter, now on the cusp of leaving their home in the Lake District of England. When the glamourous Vita and Rollo move in next door, the couple disarm Sunday with their charm, and proceed to deliciously break just about every rule in Sunday’s book. Soon they are spending loads of time together, and Sunday feels acknowledged like never before. But underneath Vita and Rollo’s allure lies something else, something darker. For Sunday has precisely what Vita has always wanted for herself: a daughter of her own.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Angel Fire” by Ron Franscell
John Polk did a good job narrating this story for NLS.
I’ve read other accounts of the atrocities in Vietnam and even the descriptions can be very disturbing. I can understand how being witness to a massacre could really blow your mind.
I thought the ending was a fitting way to wrap up the story.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ron Franscell (born January 29, 1957) is an American journalist, novelist and true crime writer best known for the true account The Darkest Night about the 1973 crimes against two childhood friends in the small community where Franscell grew up.
Franscell was raised in Casper, Wyoming, where he attended Kelly Walsh High School. He attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis and later Casper College, where he was editor of the school newspaper (The Chinook). He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wyoming in 1979.
Franscell and his wife live in Placitas, Sandoval County, New Mexico. His wife, Mary Franscell, is a high school English teacher. He has two children.
Career[edit]
He worked as a journalist in Wyoming, New Mexico and California for Gannett newspapers from 1983–1989 and is a past president of the Wyoming Press Association.[1]
When Hurricane Rita made landfall in Texas, Franscell, managing editor at the time for the Beaumont Enterprise, rode out the storm with staff members in the newspaper’s building.[2][3]
In 2001, he was hired as a senior writer and columnist to write about the American West by the Denver Post, where he stayed two years. Following 9/11, he went on assignment for the Post to the Middle East. He worked for the Hearst Corporation from 2004–2008.
He was a judge for Knight Ridder newspaper’s Top Books of 2003[4] and the International Association of Crime Writers Hammett Prize in 2017.
In 2008, the book Fall: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town, Franscell’s book about a crime against two young girls who were his next-door neighbors in Wyoming, was republished by St. Martin’s Press with the new title The Darkest Night.[5]
His book Delivered From Evil, for which he interviewed survivors of notorious mass killings in America, was released in January 2011. After the assassination attempt near Tucson, Arizona the same month of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords’, when 18 other people were shot, six of whom died, Franscell was asked to comment for media outlets about mass murders.[6][7]
True Crime Zine gave Franscell’s ninth book, The Crime Buff’s Guide to Outlaw Washington, DC released by Globe Pequot Press in September 2012, a five-star review.[8] The Huffington Post reviewed The Sourtoe Cocktail Club, about a father-and-son road trip before Franscell’s son Matt left for college.[9]
Franscell’s The Crime Buff’s Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania was released by Globe Pequot in October 2013.[10]
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Angel fire: a novel DB49893
Franscell, Ron. Reading time: 11 hours, 19 minutes.
Read by John Polk.
Psychological Fiction
Twenty-four years after the reported death of his war correspondent brother Daniel, Cassidy McLeod receives a call that will forever change his life; Daniel has been found alive in Vietnam. When the much-changed man returns home, the joyful reunion soon turns somber. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1998.
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Hey! You got eyeballs in there?
A collection of stories depicting the life and times of a blind girl as she experiences the challenges of being a young child, teenager, wife and mother, and grandmother. As she grows up, some of Grace’s stories are happy, some trying, some enlightening, and a few journeys are sad, but they’re all the warp and weave of what goes into the tapestry of life we call Family.
The daily living skills demonstrated by the fictional characters in these stories and in the Resource List are valid, tried, and true.
“Dream it! Write it! Read it!”
— Kate Chamberlin, Educator/ author/Philanthropist, July, 2024
ISBN: 9798334756762