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Sister

Sibling Mystery Author: Rosamund Lupton Told in the first person in the form of a letter, Sister is a story of murder.  It's also a story of self-actualization, healing past wounds and a deep appreciation for the magic of unconditional love. Beatrice is writing to her sister Tess, a sister that has gone missing in their native London.  Beatrice, in her adulthood, has become ensconced in a safe, controlled job and relationship in New York City.  Her free spirited artist sister, very pregnant with her first child, has vanished while Beatrice is on vacation, unwillingly cut off from her usual [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:28-07:00April 16th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |

Book Thief, The

Death Narrates Nazi Germany Author: Markus Zusak Books and movies about war can make the most complicated of human circumstances seem simple, black and white, a basic battle between right and wrong.  In some ways, and in some wars, there is truth to be found in the basics, but to stop there ignores the real people whose lives are ended, destroyed and forever altered by conflicts in whose creation they had no part.  The Book Thief acknowledges all of those people through the vector of a single small girl living as part of the most highly controversial civilian population in [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:30-07:00April 6th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |

Before I Go to Sleep

Forgetting to Remember Author: S.J. Watson When I wake up in the morning I usually have the same first thought, "Do I really have to get up now?"  What if your first thought, every single morning, was, "Where am I and who is this man in my bed?"  In such a case you would most likely have a problem with either substance abuse or promiscuity.  Or maybe you have amnesia.  Guess which one applies in Before I Go to Sleep? If you guessed promiscuity, I like the way you think, but you're wrong.  Christine Lucas has amnesia.  She forms memories [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:30-07:00April 6th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |
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