Dockside Bookshop’s Book Picks Are In
Here is where you will find what’s new at St. Thomas’s well-known Dockside Bookshop at Havensight Mall. Every week you will find new titles to peruse. Look for updates of our “picks” for fiction and non-fiction. We will gladly order any books you want. E-mail dockside@islands.vi
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BOOK PICKS
“Frozen in Time” by Mitchell Zuckoff, $28.99
Two harrowing crashes . . . a vanished rescue plane . . . a desperate fight for life in a frozen, hostile land… the quest to solve a seventy-year-old mystery
The author of the smash New York Times bestseller “Lost in Shangri-La” delivers a gripping true story of endurance, bravery, ingenuity and honor set in the vast Arctic wilderness of World War II and today.
On Nov. 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane on a routine flight slammed into a Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on a search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men flew into a severe storm and vanished.
In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing disasters and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors. “Frozen in Time” places us at the center of a group of valiant airmen fighting to stay alive through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter by sheltering from subzero temperatures and vicious blizzards in the tail section of the broken B-17 until an expedition, headed by famed Arctic explorer Bernt Balchen, attempts to bring them to safety.
But that is only part of the story that unfolds in “Frozen in Time.” In present-day Greenland, Zuckoff joins the U.S. Coast Guard and North South Polar — a company led by the indefatigable dreamer Lou Sapienza, who worked for years to solve the mystery of the Duck’s last flight — on a dangerous expedition to recover the remains of the lost plane’s crew.
Drawing on intensive research and Zuckoff ‘s firsthand account of the dramatic 2012 expedition, “Frozen in Time” is a breathtaking blend of mystery, adventure, heroism and survival. It is also a poignant reminder of the sacrifices of our military personnel and their families — and a tribute to the important, perilous and often-overlooked work of the U.S. Coast Guard.
“NOS4A2” by Joe Hill, $28.99
Author of the New York Times bestsellers “Heart-Shaped Box” and “Horns,” Joe Hill plunges you into the dark side of imagination with a thrilling novel of supernatural suspense that will have you flinching at shadows and checking the rearview mirror again and again. . . .
Victoria McQueen has an uncanny knack for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. When she rides her bicycle over the rickety, old covered bridge in the woods near her house, she always emerges in the places she needs to be. Vic doesn’t tell anyone about her unusual ability, because she knows no one will believe her. She has trouble understanding it herself.
Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He likes to take children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the vanity plate NOS4A2. In the Wraith, he and his innocent guests can slip out of the everyday world and onto hidden roads that lead to an astonishing playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Mile by mile, the journey across the highway of Charlie’s twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor.
And then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble . . . and finds her way, inevitably, to Charlie.
That was a lifetime ago. Now, the only kid ever to escape Charlie’s unmitigated evil is all grown up and desperate to forget.
But Charlie Manx hasn’t stopped thinking about the exceptional Victoria McQueen. On the road again, he won’t slow down until he’s taken his revenge. He’s after something very special — something Vic can never replace.
As a life-and-death battle of wills builds — her magic pitted against his — Vic McQueen prepares to destroy Charlie once and for all…or die trying. . . .
“The Lost Fleet Beyond the Frontier Guardian” by Jack Campbell, $26.95
Admiral Geary’s First Fleet of the Alliance has survived the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally. Now Geary’s mission is to ensure the safety of the Midway Star System, which has revolted against the Syndicate Worlds’ empire — an empire that is on the brink of collapse. To complicate matters further, Geary also needs to return safely to Alliance space not only with representatives of the Dancers, an alien species, but also with Invincible, a captured warship that could possibly be the most valuable object in human history. Despite the peace treaty that Geary must adhere to at all costs, the Syndicate Worlds’ regime threatens to make the fleet’s journey back grueling and perilous. And even if Geary escorts Invincible and the Dancers’ representatives safely and unharmed, the Syndics’ attempts to spread dissent and political unrest may have already sown the seeds of the Alliance’s destruction…
“The Hit” by David Baldacci, $27.99
From David Baldacci — No. 1 bestselling author and one of the world’s most popular, widely-read storytellers — comes the most thrilling novel of the year.
Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims.
No one else can match Robie’s talents as a hitman…no one except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she’s gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency.
To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. Only a killer can catch another killer, they tell him.
But as Robie pursues Reel, he quickly finds that there is more to her betrayal than meets the eye. Her attacks on the agency conceal a larger threat, a threat that could send shockwaves through the U.S. government and around the world.
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