Name: Amy
Title: Henry's Wrangler
1. Unsatisfying job I had before Puddn'head: I worked as a secretary for a very small non-profit out of my boss's basement.
2. Books that make me happy: The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty, The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella and Harry Potter.
3. Guess what I've never read: Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
4. Desert Island Books : The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and anything by Meg Cabot.
5. Books I can't believe you haven't read : The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Dominque, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780312370848
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: St. Martin's Griffin, 9/2008
This is an extraordinary book and I believe it to be one of the best books that I have ever read. This novel depicts the round-up of French Jews during WWII by French policemen, and focuses on ten year old Sarah, who locks her four year old brother into a secret cupboard to protect him when the French policemen come to take away her and her family. Sarah eventually becomes separated from her parents and desperately tries to find a way to return to Paris to free her brother from the cupboard. The novel zips back and forth in time between Sarah's story and the story of Julia Jarmond in 2002, who is writing a newspaper article about the French round-up of the Jews, and unknowingly finds a dark secret linking her family's past with Sarah's. The writing of this book is beautiful, as is the story of Sarah's strength. This book has become very close to my heart.
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9781580053594
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Published: Seal Press (CA), 2/2011
-- This is a wonderful and heartbreaking book about the lives of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo written first hand by Lisa Shannon, the founder of the organization Run for Congo Women. Shannon travels to the Congo to report about the horrifying effects of the nation's civil war on the women of the region. The personal stories of the brutalized women are tough to read, however the resilience of the women is overpowering. Everyone should read this book. These women need their stories to be heard in order for these atrocities to stop.
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9780765328656
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Published: Tor Teen, 8/2011
'Anna Dressed in Blood' is an awesome, new, fresh take on the supernatural thriller genre. This book has no predictable werewolf/vampire love triangle, nor an angst ridden girl who makes all of the obviously wrong choices. This book is written from the perspective of Cas, a teenage boy (gasp!), who roams around the country with his Wiccan mother killing ghosts. Cas is cool and blunt, and very self assured. He has no insecurities, which makes this a very fun read. He encounters the ghost of Anna Korlov, a ghost who was once a beautiful teenage girl, slain on her way to a school dance by having her throat slit by an unknown murderer. Her murder was so violent that when she was found her entire white dress was soaked in blood, hence the nickname 'Anna Dressed in Blood.' Anna haunts her old house and literally rips apart anyone who enters it, except for Cas. Anna is vengeful and incredibly strong, and Cas is unable to kill her. Why has she spared his life? How did she gain so much strength and who killed her all those years before? This story is scary and awesome. I would definitely recommend it those who love ghost stories, creepy books, paranormal/supernatural thrillers, and especially to those who are bored of predictable plots.
