The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most
four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is
ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in
to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now ―and life as she knows it stops.
For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A
deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is approaching the end of his life.
His first thought―I'm not finished yet. Once a shining young star in academia,
a graduate of Yale and Harvard, a professor of psychology, he threw it all away
because of an obsession. Anderson became the laughing stock of his peers, but
he didn't care―something had to be going on beyond what anyone could see or
comprehend. He spent his life searching for that something else. And with Noah,
he thinks he's found it.
Soon Noah, Janie and Anderson will find themselves knocking
on the door of a mother whose son has been missing for eight years―and when
that door opens, all of their questions will be answered.
Sharon Guskin has written a captivating, thought-provoking
novel that explores what we regret in the end of our lives and hope for in the
beginning, and everything in between. In equal parts a mystery and a testament
to the profound connection between a child and parent, The Forgetting Time
marks the debut of a major new talent. – Amazon Description
The Siege Winter by Ariana Franklin and Samantha Norman
A powerful historical novel by the late Ariana Franklin and
her daughter Samantha Norman, The Siege Winter is a tour de force mystery and
murder, adventure and intrigue, a battle for a crown, told by two courageous
young women whose fates are intertwined in twelfth century England’s
devastating civil war.
1141. England is engulfed in war as King Stephen and his
cousin, the Empress Matilda, vie for the crown. In this dangerous world, not
even Emma, an eleven-year-old peasant, is safe. A depraved monk obsessed with
redheads kidnaps the ginger-haired girl from her village and leaves her for
dead. When an archer for hire named Gwyl finds her, she has no memory of her
previous life. Unable to abandon her, Gwyl takes the girl with him, dressing
her as a boy, giving her a new name—Penda—and teaching her to use a bow. But
Gwyn knows that the man who hurt Penda roams free, and that a scrap of evidence
she possesses could be very valuable.
Gwyl and Penda make their way to Kenilworth, a small but
strategically important fortress that belongs to fifteen-year-old Maud. Newly
wedded to a boorish and much older husband after her father’s death, the fierce
and determined young chatelaine tempts fate and Stephen’s murderous wrath when
she gives shelter to the empress.
Aided by a garrison of mercenaries, including Gwyl and his
odd red-headed apprentice, Maud will stave off Stephen’s siege for a long,
brutal winter that will bring a host of visitors to Kenilworth—kings, soldiers
. . . and a sinister monk with deadly business to finish. - Amazon Description
Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung
Chang
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China
that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness
history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million
copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.
An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual
window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of
courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences
of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s
struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as
members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution.
Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant,
a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each
generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately
uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and
millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history. - Amazon Description
These books are available for checkout through the Lake County Library System.
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