LibraryAware March 2023

Gretchen's Pick

Untamed
by Glennon Doyle

An activist, speaker and philanthropist offers a memoir wrapped in a wake-up call that reveals how women can reclaim their true, untamed selves by breaking free of the restrictive expectations and cultural conditioning that leaves them feeling dissatisfied and lost.

Suzanne's Pick

Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true?

Pauline's Pick

The proposition : a novel
by Madeleine Roux

To get revenge on Lord Boyle, who tricked her in becoming his betrothed, Clemency Fry joins forces with a mysterious man who also has it out for the duplicitous aristocrat, carrying out a risky plan that could possibly lead to the destruction of their reputationsor true love.

Janet's Pick

A casualty of war
by Charles Todd

Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger

Yvonne's Pick

And there he kept her
by Joshua Moehling

Reeling from personal tragedy, former police officer Ben Packard takes a job as a sheriffs deputy in small town Minnesota and leads the investigation when two teens go missing, forcing him to dig deep into his own past.

Lainie's Pick

The Bad Room : Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. a True Story of Survival.
by Jade Kelly

After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her staggering true story.

'This must be what prison is like,' I thought as another hour crawled by. In fact, prison would be better ... at least you knew your sentence. You could tick off the days until you got out. In the Bad Room we had no idea how long we'd serve.

David's Pick

The recruit
by Robert Muchamore

When James is recently orphaned, he is recruited by a secret agency for his math skills and must undergo one hundred days of grueling training

Kathy's Pick

Local woman missing
by Mary Kubica

When Delilah, who disappeared 11 years earlier when she was only 6 years old, shockingly returns, the residents of a quiet suburban neighborhood want to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find.

Haley's Pick

Woman 99 : a novel
by Greer Macallister

Going undercover to rescue her wrongly committed sister from a notorious asylum, Charlotte uncovers a dangerous secret about the institution and why their fellow inmates were put away. By the author of The Magician's Lie.

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