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I treasure the Anne of Green Gables books. My sweet mother introduced me to them along with a love of reading at an early age.

At the upper end of the Harpur & Iles series. Iles's not-so-subtle campaign against the hapless Chief Mark Lane is heavily featured, a characteristic of most of the best books in the series (recently reread).

I must admit, I am a true slacker when it comes to reading (this is my first entry on GoodReads, and there's less than a week left before the end of the quarter - sorry Miss Grimm!*). I needed a book off the required reading list that could also count as a non-fiction, and Left For Dead fit the bill. Who knew killing two birds with one stone could be so, uh, informational? It's not lengthy (a mere 191 pages) and it showcases one of the Navy's biggest disasters during the end of WWll. Written by Peter Nelson, with preface by Hunter Scott, Left For Dead is about the USS Indianapolis and her scapegoat, Captain McVay, who was wrongly accused for the "hazarding" and loss of his ship and many crew. It began on the night of July 30th, 1945, and the USS Indianapolis was headed for Guam. A Japanese sub lay directly in its path. At around 12:02AM, six torpedoes shattered the water, two of them making a direct hit. Within twelve minutes, 300 men lay lifeless, the rest scattered in the sea, the ship sunk beneath the salty waves. Those who survived the sinking had to spend five days in the ocean with sharks. The Indianapolis' captain was tried and demoted. Wrongly accused, McVay's crew fought for over a period of fifty years to try and get his name cleared. Nothing, until a young boy with a science fair project changed everything. Hunter Scott had a dream to rewrite history. This is the story. *we are using GoodReads for school