The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Kim Edwards

Recommended by Donna

FIC EDWARDS

This is a book of fiction that takes place in the early 1960s. On a snowy night a woman gives birth to twins, a healthy boy and a girl with Down Syndrome. Unbeknownst to the mother, the father sends the baby girl away. The story tells of a grieving mother who cannot forget her only daughter and a brother who feels the loss of his twin.

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Messenger of Truth: a Maisie Dobbs novel, by Jacqueline Winspear

Recommended by Danielle

FIC WINSPEAR

Set in England during the 1920s, this is the 4^th book about Maisie Dobbs’ adventures as a female private investigator. Times for women have changed while most of the men were off fighting the war leaving the women responsible for supporting the family. In this episode, Maisie must help find out if the death of her client’s famous artist brother was indeed an accident or murder.

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Rattled, by Debra Galant

Recommended by Jennifer

FIC GALANT

Set in a new “McMansion” community of suburban New Jersey, Heather Peters, a superficial, materialistic, lawyer’s wife and class mom, finds trouble when her handyman, a local egg farmer, kills an endangered rattlesnake on her back porch. Animal rights activists are alarmed and Peters is arrested at her misfit son’s school on Back-to-School Night. A national media frenzy surrounds Peters, the “rattlesnake killer,” forces animal rights activists to act on behalf of snakes, exposes the land developer’s crooked business deals, and embarrasses the Homeowners Association in her community. Peters is forced to save her reputation and her family’s home at Galapagos Estates. A funny book.

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Closure: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission, by Lt. William Keegan and Bart Davis

Recommended by Jennifer

974.7104 KEE

Lt. Keegan lets his guard down in a personal account of his 9 months at Ground Zero. His duty to defend the honor of the victims, their families, and the PAPD is uncompromised by his conversational dialog and graphic, often disturbing, passages. Closure is a valuable contribution to the body of works about the attacks on September 11th. Reviews