Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand – A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption.
This is an amazingly true story.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – About a young girl in 1939 in Nazi Germany whose life is changed forever when she finds a book left by accident in the snow by her brothers graveside. Unable to read her foster father helps her to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library and wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When her foster family hides a Jew in their basement, he work is both opened up and closed down.
Still Alice by Lisa Genova – Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children. When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of Alzheimer’s changes her life – and her relationship with her family and the world forever.
