London, 1944 : Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library.
Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a café, and a theater, the place offers shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city.
Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant Ruby Munroe, Clara ensures the library is the beating heart of life underground. But as the war drags on, the women's determination to remain strong in the face of adversity is tested to the limits when it may come at the price of keeping those closest to them alive.
The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson is an uplifting and inspiring novel based on the true story of a librarian who created an underground shelter during World War II.
After spending twenty yearsbehindbars,FrankMuñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. Thewifewhoabandonedhim after his arrest, the mistress who ratted him out for abetting a money-laundering scheme, the detectives who presided over his case all those years ago they all have targets on their backs.
For Ali Reynolds, the first Christmaswithoutherfather is riddled with grief and uncertainty. And with her husband and founding partner of High Noon Enterprises, B. Simpson, preoccupied by an upcoming New Year's trip to London, she is ready for a break.
But when Stu Ramey barges into her home with grave news about a serious-and suspicious--accident on the highway to Phoenix involving B.'s car, things reach a breaking point.
At the hospital, a groggy, post-op B. insists that Ali take his place at a ransom ware conference in London, as troubles brimming around High Noon come to light. But questions remain: Who would go to such lengths to cut the tech company from the picture?
And what if Ali and the rest of the team are also in danger? Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences ofoneman'sdesperatesearch for revenge in Collateral Damage by J.A. Jance.
In 1958 on Memorial Day, in the small town of Jewel, Minnesota people gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast.
Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the results of the autopsy, vicious rumors begin to circulate that the killer must be Noah Bluestone, a Native American WWII veteran who has recently returned to Jewel with a Japanese wife.
As suspicions and accusations mount and the town teeters on the edge of more violence, Dern struggles not only to find the truth of Quinn's murder but also put to rest the demons from his own past.
Caught up in the torrent of anger that sweeps through Jewel are a war widow and her adolescent son, the intrepid publisher of the local newspaper, an aging deputy, and a crusading female lawyer, all of whom struggle with their own tragic histories and harbor secrets that Quinn's death threatens to expose.
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger is a look at the wounds left by the wars we fight abroad and at home.