Have You Read These?

The staff of the Andrew Heiskell Library recommends the following books.

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
RC 55533 / BR 15225
South Carolina, 1964. Fourteen-year-old Lily rescues her African American housekeeper--and substitute mother--Rosaleen, from the hospital. Rosaleen had been beaten for trying to register to vote. They flee to a safe place where Lily's battered late mother had also fled--a beekeeping operation run by three black sisters. Some strong language. 2002.

Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
RC 62628
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist expands on her Los Angeles Times articles about immigrants traveling from Central America to the United States. Follows the harrowing journey of seventeen-year-old Honduran Enrique, who, feeling abandoned, tried to rejoin his mother, who had been in America for more than a decade. Violence. 2006.

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
RC 64825
Author of The Elusive Embrace (RC 50368) documents his quest to uncover details about six relatives killed during the Holocaust. Recounts his international journeys to interview witnesses to the victims' hiding, discovery, and murder. Describes the impact of their deaths on his family. National Book Critics Award. 2006.

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
RC 62505
When the Germans invade France in 1940, Parisians flee to the countryside amid chaos. The following year, the Nazis occupy a provincial village, where a woman--who is hiding another villager wanted for the murder of an enemy soldier--falls in love with a German officer. Published posthumously in 2006. Bestseller. 1942.

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