Half-Broke Horses / Jeanette Walls
Described as a “true-life novel,” Half-Broke Horses tells the story of Walls’s grandmother, Lily Casey Smith(1901-1968). Smith, who died when Walls was eight years old, was a tough, intelligent woman who found a life lesson in everything. She lived a hard-scrabble life in West Texas and Arizona, but “got the lace knocked off her panties” early while breaking horses on her parents’ farm.
Taking double loads, she earned a bachelor’s degree in 2 years; book work was so much easier than ranch work that she felt like a lady of leisure. She taught school – and to earn more money, also drove the bus (a hearse!) and worked as the school janitor. As a young mother, she sold bootlegged whiskey out of her home till a disgruntled customer almost got her arrested.
A hard-working ranch wife, Lily was also a winning poker player, a racehorse rider, and a bush pilot.
THE GOOD SOLDIERS
By David Finkel
Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, commanding officer of the Army infantry battalion 2-16, has a motto: “It’s all good.” From a skinny boy with protruding ears, “The Kauz” molded himself into the man who could do the most pushups, run the fastest mile. A man whose opinions are sought by others, who could ask anything of anyone and have that person comply for fear of disappointing him. “As one of his soldiers said, ‘He is the kind of [leader] you would follow to hell and back.’” (p.9). And follow him they did. Into the most dangerous area of Baghdad, determined to be the difference in “the surge.”
David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and editor at the Washington Post, was embedded with the battalion. This book documents their fifteen months in Iraq.
David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and editor at the Washington Post, was embedded with the battalion. This book documents their fifteen months in Iraq.
My sister's keeper / Jodi Picoult
A teenage girl suffering from leukemia. A younger sister genetically designed as an ideal donor. A family devastated by difficult choices. The movie earned $12.5 million on opening weekend. Don’t miss the original!
Harvest Cove is a lovely tourist spot in summer, but in winter, it’s a tiny, frozen ghost town. And in the cold of the Canadian winter, something is stalking teenagers, making them disappear. From his half-Ojibwa girlfriend, Danny learns about Windigos, massive cannibalistic creatures that hunt and sting their prey. Danny and his friends decide the
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