19.  First Lady of the Confederacy.  I forget the author.  This was good to read after the fiction.  She presents that Varina pretty much had to go along with her husband.  Maybe she did.  She sure sounded like a politician, saying different things to different people or groups.  She liked the wealth and didn't object to slavery, although apparently she realized the Confederacy with her husband would be a train wreck. It is so very sad. 

20.  Warlight. Maybe I'll look up the authors for these sometime. This one is Michael O, difficult to spell. Anyway, it's the best literature of anything I've read lately.  Set in London just after WWII is supposed to be over, it tells the story of a young man examining his mother's participation in covert activities. It would be a good selection for a literature class.  There is much to it, and beautiful writing.

21.  The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. This author, whose name I also forget, had written some children's books but this is his first adult one.  It has some clever bits, but lacks polish. I would not recommend it.   The protagonist is a young sociopath, and her family is likewise unloving. Everybody else automatically recognizes she is a genius. Why? They also spill all kinds of information that it seems unlikely they would.