Route 66 – book 3  December 2004 Featuring: Jake Ramero; Mary Lee Clawson 416 pages ISBN: 0446611700 EAN: 9780446611701 Paperback (reprint) $6.99 Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction, Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com Because the Fresh Fiction team is traveling the “Mother Road” from Texas to California, this is a perfect book for us and one of our favorites. Available in nook and Kindle. Song of the Road by Dorothy Garlock More than a motor court on Route 66, a story of second chances By 1935, countless vehicles had traversed Route 66, their hum creating a uniquely American song. Most were heading west-but roads go in two directions, and in Dorothy Garlock’s riveting third novel featuring Route 66, the fabled highway is one that leads home. SONG OF THE ROAD It’s just a string of rundown cabins on a stretch of New Mexico highway. But returning to Cross Roads widowed, broke, and pregnant, Mary Lee Clawson knows her dad’s motor court is a godsend. With steely resolve, she sets out to rebuild the failing business and discovers she has to fight more than foreclosure. There’s her mother, Dolly–disinherited, angry, and whiskey-soaked–not to mention her disreputable friends. Still, Mary Lee wins…

It’s odd to think, but the 20th Century is really over, it’s history. can you believe it? We’re in the 21st Century. Even a familiar trademarks, “20th Century Fox” really shows its age. We’ve begun the second decade of the 21st century. Wow, put that way, I just feel old. The past week our Fresh Picks were all books set in the “World Wars” era. What exactly does that mean? For our definition we used anything between 1910 to 1946. Arbitrary but we do need boundaries. Many new books are being set from the early to mid 20th century: thrillers, mysteries, romances, coming-of-age and paranormals. A plethora of choices. But it made me think. When did what I was taught in school as “Modern History – 1870 to current” become old? Seriously it had to be forced to change because no one I know lived in the 19th century and very very few in the first decade of the 20th century hence we need a different set of years for “Modern.” So obviously there was a redefining of “modern age” and I missed it! Those old German power mongers have been replaced multiple times by other power mongers. The Russian…