Adult Recommendations

Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia

Aspiring actress and high school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her entire life perfecting the roles of daughter, friend, and good student, but when she is found violently murdered in her small, Midwest town, secrets of who she really was begin to emerge.  

Told from the perspectives of Hattie, her secret lover, and the sherriff investigating her murder, Everything You Want Me to Be dives into the final year of Hattie's life, as the mystery of her brutal slaying unfolds. The reader is left to wonder, was Hattie merely a victim or did the mesmerizing young woman orchestrate her own untimely death. 

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

In his latest book, Douglas Preston joins an expedition to Central America to find an abandoned city once called The White City or The City of the Monkey God. While archaeologists encounter difficulties in their normal course of exploring the remnants of civilizations lost to time, locating long-abandoned ancient cities increases the hazards they face. In this case, the dangers the team and Preston encounter are numerous and life-threatening, beginning with the flight into the jungle and mountains of Honduras where they believe the city is hidden. 

More dangers lurk for the team when it arrives in Honduras. Diseases, jungle fever, snakes, insects, and jaguars threaten their lives on a daily basis.  Combating all these obstacles, while hauling state-of-the-art equipment, the team of archeologists works for months trying to find this lost city and learn about an unknown people. 

This book gives readers a peek into the world of archaeology and the sciences and dangers involved in their research and is well worth the read!

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

The roots of Georgia Hunter’s debut novel began when she learned she came from a family of Holocaust survivors. Based on true events, the Kurc family’s story begins with one son, Addy, in France, and the remainder of the family in Radom, Poland. Austria and Czechoslovakia have both fallen under Nazi rule. Then barely five months later, Germany invaded Poland. War and circumstances scatter the Kurc family members, challenging them to their limits of resourcefulness and fortitude.

Painstakingly researched, the author artfully paints an engrossing story of her ancestors’ struggles to survive Hitler and Stalin’s reigns of terror over the course of six years and their resolve to reunite.

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