Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Magazine Cover of the Week

TIME Magazine 
Person of the Year 2003
The American Soldier



NY Times Bestseller List (Fiction) 02/28/2016

New York Times Bestseller List
Hardback Fiction
Top 10
Week Ending February 28th 2016


10 - Breakdown - Johnathan Kellerman
(2 weeks on list)
The psychologist Alex Delaware and the L.A.P.D. Lt. Milo Sturgis search for the missing son of a troubled actress.

9  -  Blue - Danielle Steel
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah 
(50 weeks on list)

7  -  My Name is Lucy Barton - Elizabeth Strout
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
(57 weeks on list)

5  -  All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
(93 weeks on list)

4  -  Find Her - Lisa Gardner
(Debut)
The Boston detective D. D. Warren hunts for a missing woman who was kidnapped and abused as a college student and may have become a vigilante.

3  -  NYPD Red 4 - James Patterson and Marshall Karp
(3 weeks on list)

2  -  Brotherhood in Death - J.D. Robb
(2 weeks on list)  (#1 last week)
Lt. Eve Dallas of the NYPD helps a friend and her husband solve a mystery involving politics and real estate.

1  -  Morning Star - Pierce Brown
(Debut)
In Book 3 of the Red Rising trilogy, set in a dystopian future, Darrow incites a rebellion.


Monday, February 29, 2016

Monday, February 22, 2016

1980 Sportsmen of the Year

February 22nd 1980 
The US Men's Olympic hockey team pulled one of the biggest upsets in sports history when they defeated the USSR in the 1980 Olympics to earn a berth in the gold medal game.   Team USA would beat Finland for the first gold medal in hockey since 1960 and maybe stars out of the entire team.

Team USA would go on to be named Sports Illustrated's Sportsmen of the Year for 1980