Inheritance
Sadly this is the last of Christopher Paolini’s 
Book Reviews
Lincoln On Leadership
“When Abraham Lincoln came to power in 1861, he found himself in a similar dilemma. The first Republican president elected by a minority of the popular vote, Lincoln was viewed by many as a gawky, second-rate country lawyer ill equipped to handle the chief executive office – his own cabinet considered him nothing more than a figurehead. Ten days before he took the oath of office, the Confederate States of America seceded from the Union, taking all Federal agencies, forts, and arsenals within their territory. The country was so stricken that rumors of a military coup and assassination abounded at the inauguration.”
The Miracle of Freedom: 7 Tipping Points That Saved the World
“The best estimates of how many people have ever lived on the earth range from 100 to 110 billion. Freedom House estimates that approximately three billion of the earth’s current population live in “free” nations…It has also been estimated that 554 million people have lived under freedom in the United States…We can also postulate that perhaps another billion, or fewer, have lived under freedom in the other European nations…Even being generous in our estimates, it seems clear that fewer than five billion of the earth’s total inhabitants have ever lived under conditions that we would consider free. This would be something like 4.5 percent of people who have ever lived.”
Steve Jobs
“Genius, scattershot-friendly (that is when he needed something), special, bristly, detached, insensitive, sensitive, socially awkward loner, crazy, intense, aloof, crazed shaman, charismatic, creepy, dark, complex, manipulative, abusive, narcissistic, brutish, driven, full of bravado, cold, brutal, emotional, temperamental, bratty, tyrannical, anti-loyal, untrustworthy, tactical, obnoxious, impetuous, autocratic, and insanely great.”
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
A chipmunk dating a squirrel, a curious owl, a violent rabbit, and vomit-eating flies are just some of the characters you’ll meet in this collection of short stories by David Sedaris 
The Godwulf Manuscript
“You from House Beautiful or something? He said. ‘Nope, I’m a private detective.’ I showed him the photostat of my license. ‘I’m trying to clear Terry Orchard of the murder charge. I’m also looking for the Godwulf Manuscript and I think they’re connected. Can you help me?’ ‘I don’t know nothing about no murder, man, and nothing about no jive ass manuscript.’ Why did all the radical white kids from places like Scarsdale and Bel Air try to talk as if they’d been brought up in Brownsville and Watts? He stubbed out his Kool and lit another.”
A Clash of Kings
The King is Dead, Long live the King(s).
That is a pretty good way to sum up George R. R. Martin’s
The Book of Life
I was digging in an old box at a book sale and found a set of what looked like leather-bound books and were tied together with a piece of gold elastic. The Book of Life
I was not sure what to expect, but as I got into the first volume I was amused by some of the perspectives from years even before my parents were born,
The Outlaw Sea
“the ocean’s easy disregard for human constructs, its size, the strength of its storms, and the privacy provided by its horizons…many admit that it is chaos, not control, that is on the rise. They have learned what future historians may be able to see even more clearly, that our world is an ocean world, and it is wild.”
If you know nothing about the oceans this work will give you some perspective. We all learned that 75 percent of the Earth is covered by water, but we really have no clue what that really means; how vast the world’s oceans and seas are and what it takes to tame these waters.
The Jasmine Moon Murder
Theodosia Browning is the owner and proprietor of the Indigo Tea Shop catering to those who love tea and fare that goes along with that much loved drink. There seems to be a little bit of resurgence for tea lovers as more and different flavors are finding their way into markets. The tea shop provides the setting while a mysterious perpetrator provides the victim in the quaint southern city of Charleston in The Jasmine Moon Murder
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