Follow Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy as they attend Hailsham – a pleasant English boarding school where the students are well supported although they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed very little contact with it. When they are allowed to leave Hailsham, they finally realize what it is and who they truly are. I can’t put this book into words. It was so good. 

T his memoir describes one of the worst documented cases of child abuse in California history. Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She would play tortuous games with him that left him almost dead, games that he would learn to play in order to survive. It's disgusting how someone can treat another human being like this, especially their own child.

A three year old girl is the victim of a hit and run. Left in a coma, she has the ability to heal the sick. Each chapter has sections told through the different points of view of the characters. The ending was disappointing (too rushed), but overall this book was really good.

Jack, a pilot, is flying a plane when it explodes. His widow tries to figure out what happened on the plane and uncovers something about her husband of sixteen years she did not know about.

I couldn't put it down. I wanted more, more, more! "The Pact" has something to do between seventeen-year-old Emily Gold and seventeen-year-old Chris Harte. The pair had been best friends their entire lives and later end up as lovers. Picoult takes us through the “now” and “then” to help us understand the story and the characters. 

Made up or not, I don't care; I love this book. Written in a unique style, this page turner tells the story of a drug addict and his journey to get clean. I was addicted.

In this book there are two stories – one story is about a Jewish girl named Sarah during the Vel d’Hiv Roundup in France, and the other story is about an American journalist named Julia who finds out about a lot of terrible things that went on during this time while writing an article about the Vel d’Hiv sixty years later. This book was a page-turner. I really enjoyed the author's writing.

I couldn’t put this book down! My heart broke for Alice, an intelligent fifty year old woman with a successful career as a Harvard professor, who has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The author really made me feel like I knew Alice personally and that I was helplessly going through her decline with her. Beautifully written.

Jeannette Walls grew up with her alcoholic father who believes everything is a conspiracy and her artist mother, who has a teaching degree. They put themselves first before their kids. The parents make me angry, so I’ll leave it at that. It is a great book, though. I’m glad she never gave up because she has talent as a writer and we never would have had the pleasure of reading her work.