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Question: What book(s) should I get for my Dad!?
This Christmas I still haven't managed to get anything for my Dad!. He's certainly the most difficult person to shop for! So this year I was thinking he would appreciate it if I got him some good books since he likes to read so much!. He likes books that involve sports, like The Money Shot by (I think) Brian Rouff, and also books involving history like "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen E!. Ambrose!. I'm looking for some really good books that my father, who's in his 50's, would really enjoy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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If you don't mind spending at least $30, one of the hottest history books out right now is American Lion, a book on Andrew Jackson!. If that is way out of your price range, there's Team of Rivals which is all about Lincoln's political cabinet and how he had both Republicans and Democrats!. He might also enjoy Pillars of the Earth but my guess is he may have already read it!. It's been out for 20 years! It's historical fiction on the cathedrals!. If he has read it, the sequel came out in paperback a few months ago and it's called World Without End!. For sports, Boys Will Be Boys has been really popular!. Again a hardcover around $25!. Tony Dungy's Quiet Strength comes recommended and it is available in paperback!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
I know nothing about sports books, but if he likes History, try "The People Of The Book' by Geraldine Brooks!.
It's about a book, which has survived nearly a thousand years, and all the people, from all over the world who looked after it, saved it from war, wrote it, added to it etc etc over the centuries!. I found it fascinating, absolutely stunning, lots of tales of courage, lots of interesting twists!.
If not that, then try some of the books by Robert Harris, Fatherland, Archangel, Pompeii for example, all fictional stories, but he knows his stuff about the history, making them seem very real!.
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my dad gives me books to read all the time! so idk if your dad has exactly the same taste, but its worth a shot!.!.!.
the surgeon
obsession
hide
youve been warned
the murder game
cat and mouse
cross
double cross
into the wild
into thin air
under the banner of heaven
web of evil
teh broker
I know this much is true
playing dead
a lot of those books are murder mystery type, but with the exception of one or two of those, i read every book, and they are amazing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer!.
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met!. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fiance? up to the West End to celebrate their engagement!. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation!.
A few hours later Danny is arrested for murder and later is sentenced to twenty-two years in prison, thanks to irrefutable testimony from Spencer, the prosecution's main witness!.
Danny spends the next few years in a high-security prison while Spencer Craig's career as a lawyer goes straight up!. All the while Danny plans to escape and wreak his revenge!.
Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's poignant novel of deception, hatred and vengeance, in which only one of them can finally triumph while the other will spend the rest of his days in jail!. But which one will triumph!? This suspenseful novel takes the listener through so many twists and turns that no one will guess the ending, even the most ardent of Archer's many, many fans!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Stephen Ambrose wrote a lot of books, and he might enjoy another of his, like Band of Brothers, etc!.
He might like John Adams or 1776 by David McCullough or Mayflower (forgot the author!.)
Another option is the universal gift!. Barnes and Noble or Borders gift card!Www@QuestionHome@Com
how about
the man and his boy
the man and his wife!?Www@QuestionHome@Com