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Almost Home Pam Jenoff  | American State Department spy Jordan Weiss returns to London to be with her dying friend and is forced to confront the demons of her past when she learns that her boyfriend's death ten years earlier was not an accident and has a direct link with the money laundering case Jordan is currently investigating. Genre: Suspense fiction, Mystery fiction The LMHS Library owns 4 titles by this author. |
The Kommandant's Girl Pam Jenoff  | Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's Catholic cousin, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile. Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the resistance to use her position to access details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety -and her marriage vows- in order to help Jacob's cause. As the atrocities of war intensify, so does Emma's relationship with the Kommandant, building to a climax that will risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves. Genre: Historical fiction (Holocaust), Romantic fiction The LMHS Library owns 4 titles by this author. |
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson  | Millenium Trilogy; Book 3 Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. Shes fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, shell be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. On her own, she will plot revengeagainst the man who tried to kill her, and against the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Genre: Suspense fiction, Multicultural fiction (Sweden) The LMHS Library owns 3 titles by this author, all part of the Millenium Trilogy. The others are The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Bk. 1) and The Girl Who Played with Fire (Bk. 2). |
The Girl Who Played With Fire Stieg Larsson  | Millenium Trilogy; Book 2 Mikael Blomkvist is publishing the story of his career, exposing the extensive sex trafficking operation between Sweden and Eastern Europe, but when two investigative journalists are killed the night before the story runs and Lisbeth Salander is implicated, Mikael vows to clear the girl's name and find the true killer. Genre: Suspense fiction, Multicultural fiction (Sweden) The LMHS Library owns 3 titles by this author, all part of the Millenium Trilogy. The others are The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Bk. 1) and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Bk. 3). |
Sarah's Key Tatiana de Rosnay  | PARIS, JULY 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard - their secret hiding place - and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. SIXTY YEARS LATER: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah. Because the grandparents of Julia's husband moved into the apartment once owned by Sarah's family, we learn what Sarah discovers when she finally returns ten years later with the key - knowledge so traumatic that it changes Julia's life forever. Genre: Historical fiction (Holocaust) |
The Help: a novel Kathryn Stockett  | Skeeter returns home to Mississippi from college in 1962 and begins to write stories about the African-American women that are found working in white households, which includes Aibileen, who grieves for the loss of her son while caring for her seventeenth white child, and Minny, Aibileen's sassy friend, the hired cook for a secretive woman who is new to town. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, these three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction Also available as an e-book (Nooks 1-3). |
