I have sooooo many books!
The This or That Giveaway! feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to clear my shelves and to share some of the many books I have. It's a way for me to cull my collection and give someone else the chance to enjoy these treasures.
Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!
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The Last Year of the War
Susan Meissner
ARC ~ Pub date March 2019Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity.
The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness, Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future beyond the fences.
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The Perfect Son
Lauren North
ARC ~ Pub date August 2021
A disturbing and shocking debut novel of psychological suspense about a recently widowed mother, her young son, and the lengths she'll go to in order to keep him safe.
When Tess Clarke wakes up in the hospital the day after her son Jamie's eighth birthday, she's sure of these things: She's been stabbed, her son is missing, her brother-in-law and her grief counselor are involved. But no one is listening to her.
After her husband, Mark, died suddenly in a terrible accident a few months earlier, the only thing keeping Tess together is Jamie. As they struggle to make sense of their new life without Mark, they find joy in brief moments of normalcy like walking to school and watching television together. Life is hard without Mark, but Tess has Jamie, and that's what matters.
But there in the hospital, confused and surrounded by people who won't listen, Tess’s world falls apart. To save her son, she must piece together what happened between Mark's death and Jamie's birthday, but the truth might just be too much for her to bear.
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I dreamed of being a nurse when I was growing up - read all the Sue Barton Student Nurse books I could get my hands on. Nope. I finally realized that I can't stand blood and needles. I couldn't even watch my kiddos get their shots or watch hubs give himself his insulin injections to this day. After an in-home daycare when my kids were little, and a few other jobs, I ended up doing what I loved - working in a library for 28 years before retiring last year. Life is good!
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Long story but I don't remember my childhood.
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ReplyDeleteBeing an avid reader from very young I always wanted to be a librarian and I was for many years.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be happy. Most of the time I am.
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to be a school teacher. I got pregnant and married at 17 and had two babies 17 months apart. I am so grateful for them but didn't go to work til they started school. I am a retired AT&T operator.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to be a photographer. I married a farmer and became a farmer's wife, I couldn't be happier.
ReplyDeleteWanted to be a lawyer but became a teacher
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