reviews

Good Girl Is No Gone Girl Author: Mary Kubica Oh, the fractured timeline. It’s a tricky, tricky beast, especially when you’re tip-toeing around some crucial event that cannot be revealed without spoiling the whole plot. Structure a whole book using that method and really, you’re just playing with fire. Unsurprisingly, first time author Mary Kubica gets burned in The Good Girl. The Good Girl revolves around the abduction of Mia Dennett. Mia is the black sheep free spirited daughter of a prominent judge and his checked-out wife. The book not only jumps between the abduction (labeled Before) and the PTSD [...]

Alone at Auschwitz... Author:  Thomas Buergenthal His story is just one among millions of victims, but as a ten-year-old Jewish boy at Auschwitz in 1944, the story of little Tommie Buergenthal stands out from the rest.  As one of the few children to survive the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, his unique perspective makes for a remarkable and riveting chronicle.  Almost sixty years later, Thomas Buergenthal finally tells his story of determination and survival in A Lucky Child. Born in the Slovakian half of Czechoslovakia in 1934 to a Polish father and German mother, Thomas was forced to move [...]