Claire’s 5 Top Picks
‘The Librarian of Burned Books’ by Brianna Labuskes
‘Code 6’ by James Grippando
‘Count Down’ by James Patterson
‘Collateral Damage’ by J.A. Jance
‘Beyond that, the sea’ by Laura Spence-Ash
‘The Librarian of Burned Books’ – World War II-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war, inspired by a true story. American writer Althea James, a woman from a small town in Maine, receives an invitation to participate in a cultural exchange program in Berlin in 1933. Hannah Brecht escapes from Berlin for Paris, 1936 discovering the City of Lights is no refuge from the anti-Semitism and Nazi sympathizers she thought she left behind. Hannah throws herself into her work at the German Library of Burned Books. Through the quiet power of books, she believes she can help counter the tide of fascism she sees rising across Europe. And New York, 1944, Vivan Childs has been waging her own war after her husband was killed fighting the Nazis: preventing a powerful senator’s attempt to censor the Armed Services Editions, portable paperbacks that are shipped by the millions to soldiers overseas. As Vivian unknowingly brings her censorship fight crashing into the secrets of the recent past, the fates of these three women will converge, changing all of them forever… A good read.
‘Code 6’ – Kate Gamble, an aspiring playwright, is struggling to launch a script she’s been researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, the CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data-integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western world. Kate’s play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in her father’s eyes. When Code 6 comes into play the most secret and potentially dangerous technology her father’s company has every developed, murder and kidnapping and mayhem begins.
‘Countdown’ – Five days to save the world, four days to save her family, three hours to find the world’s most dangerous double agent. A young CIA agent who’s been handed an impossible mission and so it begins. James Patterson at his best.
‘Collateral Damage’ – J.A. Jance is one of my favourite authors and this is another of her novels that didn’t disappoint. Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enteprises face the dangerous consequences of one man’s desperate search for revenge. In a race against time, Ali must assemble the pieces of a puzzle woven with vendettas she never could have imagined, all before she and the people she loves becomes collateral damage.
‘Beyond that, the sea’ – A sweeping, tender hearted love story introduce two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean and the shy irresistible young woman who will call them both her own. As German bombs fall over London in 1940, an 11-year-old daughter of working class parents is sent to America where hopefully she will stay safe. Scared and angry, Bea arrives in Boston to meet the Gregorys who fold her into their world. She adjusts to their affluent lifestyle and grows close to both Gregory boys, one older and one young filling in the space between them. Before long life in America feels more natural to her than her quiet, spare world back in England. But suddenly she is called home after the war ends. This novel is full of grace and heartache, forgiveness and understanding, loss and love.
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