Fiction by Catherine Ryan Howard
This is THE Catherine Ryan Howard book, the one she is famous for. I thought I had read it before, but it turns out I had just heard the concept or watched the movie or something, because if I had read THIS book before I would have remembered.
This is a lovely story.
Fiction by Gordon Korman
Middle schooler Chase Ambrose wakes up in the hospital after falling off a roof, and he doesn't remember anything about his life. When he begins to find out about himself, he learns some things he doesn't really like: it seems like he was a real jerk before his accident. Can he become the person he wants to be, or is he stuck being the guy everyone remembers that he was before?
This was a great story for young people!
Fiction by Susan Richards Shreve
On June 17, 1941, a group of nine people take three canoes along the Bone River in Wisconsin on the way to a place called Camp Mini HaHa. They stop on the shore along the way to camp, next to a sign that reads “Missing Lake.” The next morning Josephine Grove, one of the nine people, is found strangled to death underneath that very sign, and her husband William confesses to the murder. Four years later William Grove dies in prison.
Over sixty-five years later, William and Josephine’s daughter Georgie (who had been only four years old at the time of the tragedy) goes on an odd quest to find out what truly happened that night. What she really wants to believe is that her father did not actually kill her mother; however, there is the irrefutable fact that he said he had. And can anyone ever find out the truth of events that took place so long ago?
This was an interesting story. I categorized it as a mystery, but it’s more of a story about how the past affects the present, whether we know the truth about it or not. It has very good characters.
Fiction by Beth O'Leary
Tiffany Moore is desperate to find a new place to live in order to get away from her terrible ex-boyfriend, but she really doesn’t have enough money for anything decent, especially in London. She ends up signing on to a strange flat sharing agreement with a man called Leon, wherein she gets the flat’s single bedroom on nights and weekends, and he occupies it on weekdays from eight am to six pm.
Theoretically the two of them will never see each other. But the reader can guess that they definitely will…
This was a lovely little straight romance with great characters. I will look for more by this author!
Fiction by Drew Hayes
I'd call this a parallel novel in the "Super-Powered" book series. (see below for the last one of those)
In this book, Owen Daniels (whose sons Herschel and Roy are main characters in the Super-Powered novels) decides to come out of his self-imposed exile and rejoin the world of superheroes. But after so long out of the game, the only team who is willing to take him is a group of Corpies, supers who offer services for corporate hire.
As I would expect from this author, this was a really good story.
Nonfiction by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
In 1942 Dr. Eger was a Jewish teenager in a town on the border of Czechoslovakia and Austria. Her father was a talented tailor and her mother and two sisters were accomplished musicians. Then suddenly the Nazis were in power and the family was shipped to Auschwitz. In 1980 Dr. Eger is a respected psychologist in El Paso, Texas. This book is about what happened to her in between.
It's a very moving story and also she has practical advice about overcoming trauma.
Fiction by Agatha Christie
