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Book Beat - Seeds of Evidence by Linda J. White

For FBI agent Kit McGovern, her grandmother's Chincoteague Island home seems the perfect place to recover from an unexpected divorce. Until she discovers a boy's body on the beach. Police officer David O'Conner also came to Chincoteague to recover. Kit and David team up to solve the murder with nothing but seeds in the boy's pocket to guide them.

In Seeds of Evidence by Linda J. White, Kit and David trace plant DNA and ocean currents, and they discover a dangerous human trafficking ring.

Seeds of Evidence is a suspenseful story sown with fascinating investigative details, planted on a picturesque island, and cultivated by characters you care about. Linda J. White has harvested at least one avid new reader—me!

Today in World War II History

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto70 Years Ago—Apr. 18, 1943: “Palm Sunday Massacre”—US Ninth Air Force fighters shoot down 50 German transport plances bound for North Africa. Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japanese Combined Fleet, shot down and killed by US Thirteenth Air Force P-38s over Bougainville.

Today in World War II History

Emblem of 306th Bombardment Group70 Years Ago—Apr. 17, 1943: US Eighth Air Force: 107 B-17s bomb Focke-Wulf plant in Bremen, 16 lost including 10 in 306thBomb Group, heaviest US loss so far. US War Manpower Commission prohibits essential workers from leaving jobs.

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70 Years Ago—Apr. 16, 1943: Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally ingests LSD and learns of hallucinogenic properties.

Book Beat - The Dance by Dan Walsh

On the surface, Marilyn Anderson has it all - a gorgeous home, three beautiful grown children, and a successful husband. But on the inside, she feels overlooked and dismissed. When Marilyn moves out, gets a job, and starts taking ballroom dancing lessons, her husband, Jim, is stunned and dumbfounded. Winning her back will mean asking himself hard questions - and listening for the first time in his life.

The Dance combines Dan Walsh's fiction skills with Gary Smalley's knowledge of relationships and counseling. The Anderson family reflects real-life problems faced in many "good Christian homes." The engrossing story gives insight about marriage without sounding preachy. The characters are realistic, like your own friends, and I enjoyed the story thoroughly. I'm looking forward to the rest of the Restoration series, which will follow other members of the Anderson family.

Today in World War II History

Maj. Gen. Omar Bradley (right), commander US II Corps
 and Lt. Gen. Kenneth A. N. Anderson, commander of the British First Army70 Years Ago—Apr. 15, 1943: Gen. Omar Bradley takes command of US II Corps; Patton relieved to prepare for invasion of Sicily.

Today in World War II History

70 Years Ago—Apr. 14, 1943: Stalin’s son, Yakov Dzhugashvili, dies as a prisoner of war of the Germans.

Today in World War II History

Three WAVES by the Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC, 1943-45
(National Archives photo)70 Years Ago—Apr. 13, 1943: President Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s birth—statue originally made of plaster painted bronze due to wartime restrictions on metal. FDR proclaims: “Today in the midst of a great war for freedom, we dedicate a shrine to freedom.”

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70 Years Ago—Apr. 12, 1943: US Second War Loan Drive begins, centered around Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms posters. Hitler appoints influential Martin Bormann as Secretary to the Führer.

Today in World War II History

70 Years Ago—Apr. 11, 1943: German Gen. Rudolf Schmidt relieved of command of Second Panzer Army when his brother is arrested by the Gestapo. US takes Kairouan, Tunisia and its airfield.