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al idaho the youngest of seven children in a family on the fringes of traditional mormonism while most of their neighbors sent their children to public school to the doctor for check ups and injuries and let them participate in various activities westover s father distrusted the schools and the medical profession not to mention the government and other mormons physical ailments including some astonishingly serious ones were treated with homemade herbal remedies and salves and later by energy healing westover o she speculates her father has an undiagnosed mental illness he was a paranoid bully who was constantly preparing for the end of the world westover was taught to read but had no formal education in math history or science when she turned 16 inspired by her older brother westover began to think about college as a way to escape her dangerous and suffocating home environment after teaching herself trigonometry and more to prepare for the act she was admitted brigham young university westover was vastly unprepared for her new life but brilliant and committed she worked hard driven by a desire to learn she studied history learning for the first time about important world events like the holocaust and the civil rights movement her quest for knowledge transformed her taking her to cambridge and harvard tiffanie s suggestions everything under by daisy johnson fiction 280 pages paperback the dictionary doesn t contain every word gretel a lexicographer by trade knows this better than most she grew up on a houseboat with her mother wandering the canals of oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention her mother disappeared when gretel was a teen abandoning her to foster care and gretel has tried to move on spending her days updating dictionary entries one phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back to find her gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final fateful winter on the canals a runaway boy had found community and shelter with them and all three were haunted by their past and stalked by an ominous creature lurking in the canal the bonak everything and nothing at once the bonak was gretel s name for the thing she feared most and now that she s searching for her mother she ll have to face it in this electrifying reinterpretation of a classical myth daisy johnson explores questions of fate and free will gender fluidity and fractured family relationships everything under a debut novel whose surreal watery landscape will resonate with fans of fen is a daring moving story that will leave you unsettled and unstrung freshwater by akwaeke emezi fiction 240 pages paperback one of the most anticipated and best reviewed novels of 2018 freshwater is the remarkable debut of an astonishing young writer ada has always been unusual as an infant in southern nigeria she is a source of deep concern to her family her parents successfully prayed her into existence but something must have gone awry as the young ada becomes a troubled child prone to violent fits of anger and grief born with one foot on the other side she begins to develop separate selves when ada travels to america for college a traumatic event crystallizes the selves into something more powerful as ada fades into the background of her own mind and these alters now protective now hedonistic move into control ada s life spirals in a dangerous direction unsettling heart wrenching dark and powerful freshwater dazzles with ferocious energy and serpentine grace heralding the arrival of a fierce new literary voice the library book by susan orlean non fiction 337 pages hardcover but only 16 on amazon on the morning of april 29 1986 a fire alarm sounded in the los angeles public library as the moments passed the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm as one fireman recounted once that first stack got going it was goodbye charlie the fire was disastrous it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours by the time it was extinguished it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more investigators descended on the scene but more than thirty years later the mystery remains did someone purposefully set fire to the library and if so who weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire award winning new yorker reporter and new york times bestselling author susan orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before in the library book orlean chronicles the lapl fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger crucial role that libraries play in our lives delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity brings each department of the library to vivid life through on the ground reporting studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself reflects on her own experiences in libraries and reexamines the case of harry peak the blond haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the lapl more than thirty years ago along the way orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present from mary foy who in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the los angeles public library at a time when men still dominated the role to dr c j k jones a pastor citrus farmer and polymath known as the human encyclopedia who roamed the library dispensing information from charles lummis a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the l a library one of the best in the world to the current staff who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves brimming with her signature wit insight compassion and talent for deep research the library book is susan orlean s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books and why they remain an essential part of the heart mind and soul of our country it is also a master journalist s reminder that perhaps especially in the digital era they are more necessary than ever rachel s suggestions a place for us a novel by fatima farheen mirza fiction 400 pages paperback an instant new york times bestseller a place for us unfolds the lives of an indian american muslim family gathered together in their californian hometown to celebrate the eldest daughter hadia s wedding a match of love rather than tradition it is here on this momentous day that amar the youngest of the siblings reunites with his family for the first time in three years rafiq and layla must now contend with the choices and betrayals that lead to their son s estrangement the reckoning of parents who strove to pass on their cultures and traditions to their children and of children who in turn struggle to balance authenticity in themselves with loyalty to the home they came from in a narrative that spans decades and sees family life through the eyes of each member a place for us charts the crucial moments in the family s past from the bonds that bring them together to the differences that pull them apart and as siblings hadia huda and amar attempt to carve out a life for themselves they must reconcile their present culture with their parent s faith to tread a path between the old world and the new and learn how the smallest decisions can lead to the deepest of betrayals a deeply affecting and resonant story a place for us is truly a book for our times a moving portrait of what it means to be an american family today a novel of love identity and belonging that eloquently examines what it means to be both american and muslim and announces fatima farheen mirza as a major new literary talent eleanor oliphant is completely fine a novel by gail honeyman fiction 336 pages paperback meet eleanor oliphant she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she s thinking nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza vodka and phone chats with mummy but everything changes when eleanor meets raymond the bumbling and deeply unhygienic it guy from her office when she and raymond together save sammy an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living and it is raymond s big heart that will ultimately help eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one soon to be a major motion picture produced by reese witherspoon eleanor oliphant is completely fine is the smart warm and uplifting story of an out of the ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open your heart the indifferent stars above the harrowing saga of the donner party by daniel james brown nonfiction 384 pages paperback in april of 1846 twenty one year old sarah graves intent on a better future set out west from illinois with her new husband her parents and eight siblings seven months later after joining a party of pioneers led by george donner they reached the sierra nevada mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them in early december starving and desperate sarah and fourteen others set out for california on snowshoes and over the next thirty two days endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors in this gripping narrative new york times bestselling author of the boys in the boat daniel james brown sheds new light on one of the most legendary events in american history following every painful footstep of sarah s journey with the donner party brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative gina s suggestions before we were yours by lisa wingate historical fiction 352 pages hardcover 15 92 amazon memphis 1939 twelve year old rill foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family s mississippi river shantyboat but when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night rill is left in charge until strangers arrive in force wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a tennessee children s home society orphanage the foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents but they quickly realize the dark truth at the mercy of the facility s cruel director rill fights to keep her sisters and brother together in a world of danger and uncertainty aiken south carolina present d ay born into wealth and privilege avery stafford seems to have it all a successful career as a federal prosecutor a handsome fiancé and a lavish wedding on the horizon but when avery returns home to help her father weather a health crisis a chance encounter leaves her with uncomfortable questions a nd compels her to take a journey through her family s long hidden history on a path that will ultimately lead either to devastation or to redemption based on one of america s most notorious real life scandals in which georgia tann director of a memphis based adoption organization kidnapped and sold poor children to wealthy families all over the country lisa wingate s riveting wrenching and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how even though the paths we take can lead to many places the heart never forgets where we belong what elephants know by eric dinerstein adolescent fiction 288 pages paperback abandoned in the jungle of the nepalese borderlands two year old nandu is found living under the protective watch of a pack of wild dogs from his mysterious beginnings fate delivers him to the king s elephant stable where he is raised by unlikely parents the wise head of the stable subba sahib and devi kali a fierce and affectionate female elephant when the king s government threatens to close the stable nandu now twelve searches for a way to save his family and community a risky plan could be the answer but to succeed they ll need a great tusker the future is in nandu s hands as he sets out to find a bull elephant and bring him back to the borderlands in simple poetic prose author eric dinerstein brings to life nepal s breathtaking jungle wildlife and rural culture as seen through the eyes of a young outcast struggling to find his place in the world the monstrumologist by rick yancey adolescent fiction 464 pages paperback these are the secrets i have kept this is the trust i never betrayed but he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years the one who gave me his trust the one for whom i kept these secrets the one who saved me and the one who cursed me so starts the diary of will henry orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty monster hunting in the short time he has lived with the doctor will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business but when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her will s world is about to change forever the doctor has discovered a baby anthropophagus a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest and it signals a growing number of anthropophagi now will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume our world before it is too late the monstrumologist is the first stunning gothic adventure in a series that combines the spirit of hp lovecraft with the storytelling ability of rick riorden kim s suggestions the day the world came to town 9 11 in gander newfoundland by jim defede nonfiction 256 pages paperback the true story behind the events on 9 11 that inspired broadway s smash hit musical come from away when 38 jet liners bound for the united states were forced to land at gander international airport in canada by the closing of us airspace on september 11 the population of this small town on newfoundland island swelled from 10 300 to nearly 17 000 the citizens of gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill as the passengers stepped form the airplanes exhausted hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople this book recounts the inspiring story of the residents of gander canada whose acts of kindness have touched the lives of thousands of people and been an example of humanity and goodwill commonwealth by ann patchett fiction 336 pages paperback the acclaimed bestselling author winner of the pen faulkner award and the orange prize tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families lives one sunday afternoon in southern california 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