Kittling: Books

  First Line: It was March 13, 1945, and Ensign Jeanne Doll from Omro, Wisconsin, knew that something bad was going to happen . My grandfath...

  This is my latest attempt to share the books I've read with you all. My only excuse is that, for the past few months, I've been mu...

  First Line from Prologue: This story begins in another place, another time, in a world of which only fragments remain . 1856. Both from se...

  I'm so far behind in my book reviews that I didn't know where to start until I took a deep breath and realized that the best place...

  First Line: When the outlaw duo of George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn Thorne, kidnapped Charles Urschel in July 19...

  First Line: My mother's migraines hold me prisoner for much of my childhood . Recently, I have immersed myself in the history of India...

  First Line: One night in September 2018, I dreamed that I was standing in a courtroom, blinking in the bright lights, with microphones pok...

First Line: Catharine Read Arnold Williams was a fearless woman .   When Sarah Maria Cornell was found dead on a small New England farm in t...

  First Line from Prologue: One afternoon in the summer of 1985, my grandmother and her four sisters, ages seventy-two to eighty-nine, gathe...

  First Lines: Los Angeles, November 1934. The wire reports traveled three thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean and described a gruesome ...

  First Line: This book was born on a cold, drizzly, late spring day when I clambered over the split-rail cedar fence that surrounds my past...

  First Line: We were lucky at first .   Adrian Hyland's Kinglake-350 is the riveting account of Black Saturday, February 7, 2009-- the...

First Line: As he walked through the storied gates of Alexandria in the fall of 1801, a young British officer named William Richard Hamilton...

  From the Foreword by David Grann: The first thing you notice about these thirteen remarkable true tales by Douglas Preston is that they al...

    First Line: On the evening of December 14, 1842, the United States brig-of-war Somers sailed through the Narrows of New York Harbor .  ...

      First Line: By 1863, however, both the water and the canyon were controlled by the Apaches, who were being led by an imposing and char...