Our library staff pick for this week is, You’re Always Enough by Emily Ley. Our staff member loves to read children’s books. She said that there is much that could be learned from children’s books.
“We as adults can learn a lesson from children’s books just like children.”
Feelings of rejection, the expectation to be perfect and anxiety among other things can take a toll on anyone, especially children. Children struggle with making mistakes, anxiety and other emotional issues. This book encourages children who are always trying too hard, are afraid of making mistakes or just need reassurance that when they have these feelings that they are still enough. This book lets children know they can be themselves without expectations becausetheyarealreadyfully loved and treasured just as they are.
On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan's comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her second child, a son she and her husband, Max, name Monya, the Soviets invade the Baltic state of Latvia and occupy the capital city of Riga, her home. Because the Talans are Jewish, the SovietsconfiscateMax'sbusiness and the family's house and bank accounts, leaving them with nothing.
Then, the Nazis arrive. They kill Max and begin to round up Jews. Fearing for her newborn son and her young daughter, Ilana, Miriam asks her loyal housekeeper to hide them and conceal their Jewish roots to keep them safe until the savagery ends.
Three decades later in Chicago, 24-year-old Sarah Byrne is mourning the untimely death of her mother, Ilana. Sarah's estranged grandmother, Miriam, attends the funeral, opening the door to shocking family secrets.SarahprobesMiriam for information about the past, but it is only when Miriam is in the hospital, delirious with fever, that she begs Sarah to find the son she left behind in Latvia.
Traveling to the Soviet satellite state, Sarah begins her search with the help of Roger, a charismatic Russian-speaking professor. But as they come closer to the truth, she realizes her quest may have disastrous consequences.
Daughter of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders is inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women.
Going deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went to war.
Killing The Killers narrates America's intense globalwaragainstextremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world, and who eventually destroyed entire nations in their relentless quest for power.
The book moves from Afghanistan to Iraq, Iran to Yemen, Syria, and Libya, and elsewhere, as the United States fought Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as well as individually targeting the most notorious leaders of these groups. Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard create an unstoppable account of the most important war of our era in their book Killing the Killers.