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  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from August 2021

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from August 2021

    After a productive July reading month, August upped the ante with five books. Titles include The Last Madam: A Life In The New Orleans Underworld, The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and The Longest Night of the Second World War, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from July 2021

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from July 2021

    July was a productive reading month for my best books on Amazon list. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America, The Confessor, A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload, and The Premonition: A Pandemic Story were the books that I read. You really can’t go wrong with…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from June 2021

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from June 2021

    Fiction and history were the two book themes in this month’s best books on Amazon list. The English Assassin, George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, and The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from May 2021

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 4 Books from May 2021

    History and general non-fiction were the two categories I read in this best books on Amazon list. The books were Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression, The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster…


  • Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from April 2021

    Best Books on Amazon: Top 3 Books from April 2021

    History, biography, and general non-fiction were the three book categories I took on in my best books on Amazon April list. These books included Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny; Flip the Script: Lessons Learned on the Road to a Championship; and Double Cross: The True Story…


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