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2016 SOMETHING TO READ – ADULTS

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The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa

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The story follows twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal, a young girl in Nazi-occupied Germany. With her family and her best friend, Hannah flees Germany aboard the SS St. Louis, a transatlantic liner promising safe passage to Cuba. Their harrowing journey out of Germany doesn’t end once they board the ship; rather, the passengers begin to realize that the ship meant to save them might be their doom.

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Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner

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From acclaimed bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes this intimate and extremely honest memoir. Hilarious and moving, Hungry Heart is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.

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Invisible Cosmic Zebra

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Written from a non-medical perspective, patients ages teen through young adult and caregivers/parents of tweens ages 6-12 can use the 100-page workbooks as a resource tool for understanding the myriad of funny-but-not-so-funny non-medical challenges they might encounter after diagnosis.

There are currently 18 workbooks available for 18 different invisible illnesses.

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Fault in our Stars

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten. Written by John Green.

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Room by Emma Donoghue

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it’s the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space.

Room is shocking, riveting, exhilarating–a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

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