True Compass, by Edward M. Kennedy
In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal storyof his legendary family, politics, and fifty years at the center of national events. His life has been marked by tragedy and perseverance, a love of family, and an abiding faith. There have been controversies too, and Kennedy addresses them with unprecedented candor.
The Price of Stones: Building a School For My Village, by Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, with Susan Urbanek Linville
Growing up in Uganda, Kaguri overcame proverty to earn a degree from the national university and worked as a human rights advocate, eventually making his way to pursue studies at Columbia University. When he returned to his village with his American bride, they were overwhelmed by the plight of his village's many AIDS orphans and vowed to open the first tuition-free school for these children. Despite daunting obstacleslack of funds, skepticism from almost everyone, a lack of supplies, and corrupt school inspectorsthe couple doggedly built one classroom after another. Kaguri shows how one ordinary person can achieve monumental results. His story will captivate readers.
Predator, by Terri Blackstock
A killer is stalking the online social network GrapeVyne. Determined to bring her teenage sister's murderer to justice, Krista Carmichael puts her own life on the line to bait the killer. But when this online predator turns his sights on her, will she be able to control the outcome?
On the Crest of a Wave, by Fran McNabb
Camille Hollander struggles to keep her family fed and safe during the last years of the Civil War. With Union-occupied cities on their east and west and prisoner of war camp on an island just twelve miles south of the coast, she and the other villagers must learn to cope with everyday hardships. When her brother is captured and taken to the island camp, Camille faces the biggest struggle of all. Meeting Major Jake Warren, the Union commander of the island camp, makes her realize that the enemy is not always the bad guy.
Sand Castles, by Nancy Gotter Gates
When her husband Leland retires, Ginny McAllister finds herself living in the Sarasota condo he bought without involving her in the decision. Family and friends are left behind in the move. Adding to her low spirits is the recent discovery that Leland was unfaithful years before and the fact that their son and his wife have decided not to have children. Leland happily fishes and plays golf. Ginny, trying to find her niche, develops a growing interest in a poetry group, and one member who stuns her by asking her to mary him.
The Other Family, by Joanna Trollope
When Richie Rossiter, once a famous pianist, dies unexpectedly, Chrissie knows that she must now tell the truth to their three daughters: their parents were never married. And there is one more shock to come when Richie's will is read. It seems he never forgot the wife and son he left behind years ago, Margaret, who lives a quiet life of routine and work, and Scott, who has unresolved feelings about the father who left him. Now two families are left to confront their losses and each other, and neither of them will ever be the same. Full of perfect observations and emotional insights, The Other Family is a story of modern famiily life from one of our most beloved authors of domestic fiction.
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Audiobooks:
The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom. Read by Orlagh Cassidy and Bahni Turpin.
Orphaned while aboard a ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia deeply bonds with her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house and she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalities are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.
Shades of Blue, by Karen Kingsbury.
Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it alla great career, a beautiful and loving fiancee, and a fairy-tale life ahead of him...when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him. Lost innocence and one very difficult choice flood his conscience, and he is no longer sure what the future will bring except for this: He must go back to the shores of Holden Beach in search of his first love, and a forgiveness neither of them has ever known. Three people must work through the repercussions of a decision made long ago before any of them can look toward a new future.
No Time to Wave Goodbye, Jacquelyn Mitchard. Read by Susan Denaker.
It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son, Ben, was abducted. By some miracle he returned nine years later. But their peace has always been fragile. Ben returned as, essentially, a stranger and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown. Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged as a fledgling filmmaker. Vincent's new documentary, No Time to Wave Goodbye, focusing on five families caught in the torturous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children, shakes his own family to the core. Beth is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever. The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent's success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are drawn back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their livesand with only hours to find the truth that can save a life.
The Blind Side: The Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis. Read by Grover Gardner.
In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. Based on the true story of a young man born into a family of thirteen children and a mother addicted to crack. He does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football. What changes? He takes up football and school after a rich, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself.
The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel, by Alexander McCall Smith. Narrated by Lisette Lecat.
Alexander McCall Smith's internationally best-selling and award-winning series starring Bostswana's leading lady detective continues with this 11th charming tale, as Mma Ramotswe travels to the Okavango Delta to visit a troubled safari lodge. Filled with the gentle wit and lush descriptions the series is known for, this latest installment is another irresistible novel from a truly gifted author.