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Happy Saturday!!! You know what that means… Week 4 of Bookapaloosa.

I have to say… 4 weeks of giving away books from my own shelves and it doesn’t even look like I’ve touched them. Anyways…First up, a big ‘ole Congrats to Tina Norman who was last weeks Movie Tie-In’s winner!

Now on to business. This week I’ve decided to target those of you that house the more “serious” read gene. There was a period in my life where I became obsessed with the human psyche. I wanted to understand why people did what they did, how they would react in the most severe of situations… what made them tick. The 3 novels I picked for this weeks give-a-way combined all of these. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

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Popular writer and Outside columnist Sides (Stomping Grounds) interviewed participants in one of WWII’s little-known exploits: the rescue of 500 American and Allied POWs from Cabanatuan prison camp on the Philippine island of Luzon. This gripping account intertwines the tale of these prisoners, who were survivors of the horrible Bataan Death March in 1942, and 121 officers and men of the army’s Sixth Ranger Battalion. Led by Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, these Rangers, who had yet to taste active combat, trekked 30 miles behind Japanese lines to effect the rescue, haunted all the while by the knowledge that if their secret mission was leaked, the POWs would probably be massacred by their captors. Sides includes the heroic efforts of Claire Phillips and other resistance fighters to keep the Americans supplied with accurate intelligence, and the scores of villagers who helped the POWs to safety. Some Alamo Scouts and two Filipino guerrilla groups provided no small assistance to Mucci and his men. The raid itself was almost anticlimactic as the Rangers burst into the POW compound, eliminating the garrison and bringing out the inmates in less than half an hour. It’s a tale worthy of a Hollywood movie (and film rights have been optioned by Universal). The author’s excellent grasp of human emotions and bravery makes this compelling book hard to put down. (May 15)Forecast: This is for fans of Flags of Our Fathers who have been waiting for another installment. First serial rights have been sold to Esquire, and the author is booked on the Today Show. With more exposure like that, and with blurbs coming from the likes of David Halberstam and Jon Krakauer, this should sell hugely.

On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane’s fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help — and ultimately found it.

Tom Brokaw goes out into America to tell – through the stories of individual men and women – the story of a generation, American’s citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to bud modern America.