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Hiding Place
By Corrie Ten Boom
940.53 TEN
Corrie ten Boom’s account of her amazing family’s experiences during the German occupation of Holland reveals her indomitable Christian faith.

John Adams
By David McCullough
BIOGRAPHY ADAMS
Chronicles the life of America’s second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the nation.

Peace like a River
By Leif Enger
F ENGER
The quiet 1960s Midwestern life of the Land family – father Jeremiah, and children, Rueben, Davy, and Swede – is upended when Davy kills two teenage boys who have come to harm the family. On the morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell and the Lands set out in search of him. Their search is at once a heroic quest, a tragedy, a love story, and a haunting medication on the possibility of magic in the everyday world.

The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
F ZUSAK
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel – a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her and her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Life of Pi
By Yann Martel
F MARTEL
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper’s son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

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The Killer Angels
By Michael Shaara
F SHAARA
Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet tell the Southern view, while Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and General John Buford present the Northern view in this novelization of the Battle of Gettysburg.

The History of Love
By Nicole Krauss
F KRAUSS
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.

I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
By Nujood Ali
BIO ALI 2010
The true story of Yemen's heroic first child bride to win a divorce describes her forced marriage to an abusive husband three times her age, her daring pursuit of the marriage's dissolution and the cultural factors that place girls at risk in Yemeni society.

The Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
F STOCKETT
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.

The Time Traveler’s Wife
By Audrey Niffenegger
F NIFFENEG
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.