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THE MADONNAS OF LENINGRAD, BY DEBRA DEAN [Fiction] Imagine yourself walking through a stripped Hermitage Museum and envisioning each and every painting that used to hang in the now-empty frames. The Nazis are bombarding Leningrad and the Hermitage's collection of art has been packed away, leaving only empty frames. Marina, a tour guide at the museum, crosses back and forth in this narrative as a young girl in warring Russia to an old woman suffering the onslaught of Alzheimer’s. The glowing colors that grace the Hermitage keep reappearing in her “memory palace.” This is a poignant tale about the memories we have.
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WHAT THE DEAD KNOW, BY LAURA LIPPMAN [Mystery] Who would have thought that a traffic accident would open up a cold case file from 30 years ago? Two young girls, sisters, had disappeared from a mall and were never heard from again. . . until now. Kevin Infante, a Baltimore detective, is assigned to the traffic case. The reason for this assignment is that the perpetrator claims to be the younger of the two missing Bethany sisters. What happened so many years ago? Why was there no contact made? Read this book and find out.
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A FAR COUNTRY, BY DANIEL MASON
[Fiction] The author’s debut novel was The Piano Tuner, written while he was a medical student. A Far Country tells a fable-like story of a young girl, Isabel, who has psychic abilities and yearns to reunite with her brother. They are in an unnamed country with constant drought problems, and her brother, Isaias, takes off headed for the chaotic city to the south. The beauty of this book lies in Daniel Mason's exquisite prose.
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WHEN INVISIBLE CHILDREN SING, BY DR. CHI HUANG
[Non-Fiction] This is a story of Bolivian street children, but also of faith, despair, and heartbreak. Dr. Chi was a young man who took time off from Harvard Medical School to work in the streets of La Paz. Here he found children betrayed by the very people who were supposed to love and protect them. Eventually, the good doctor comes to understand himself, and his own alien past, and begin to plan for the future.
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HOUSE OF RAIN: TRACKING A VANISHED CIVILIZATION ACROSS THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, BY CRAIG CHILDS
[Non-Fiction] What ever happened to the Anasazi? This Native American people inhabited Chaco Canyon (now New Mexico), retreated to Mesa Verde and then just disappeared! In this work of historical detection, Childs tries to piece together all the clues that point to the disappearance and dissolution of this once mighty and powerful civilization. The Anasazi led lives of great richness. They left behind traces of a culture that was extremely advanced. They carved out a life in the driest region of the United States, even down to the Sierra Madre in Mexico. But where did they go? This work offers some answers.
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