BoneMan’s Daughters

Author: Ted Dekker

Bookstore Classification: Mystery/Thriller

Readers: Adults

Boneman’s Daughters is a psychological thriller. A serial killer, a.k.a. The Boneman, is in search of the perfect daughter. He has abducted six girls and has murdered them all by breaking their bones without breaking their skin. Each of them could not fulfill his expectations of the “ideal daughter.”  The Boneman’s next prey is the daughter of an intelligence officer who has been and absentee father for most of his daughter’s life. Unfortunately for him the FBI now suspects him to be The Boneman. Can the father save his daughter or is he really the Boneman himself?

I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader

Author: Kieran Scott

Bookstore Classification: Young Adult

Readers: 7^th – 12^th grade

Similar to: Anne Brashares, Sisterhood of Traveling Pants author, but G-rated.

I Was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader is the first book in Kieran Scott’s 3 part series about a non-blonde cheerleader. Annisa Gobrowski is used to moving around and starting over again at new schools. What she did not anticipate was moving to a Florida high School where she is one of to non-blonde girls in the whole school. She immediately makes enemies due to her klutz-like manner.

Fahrenheit 451

Author: Ray Bradbury

Bookstore Classification: Science Fiction

Readers: Anyone, but often used as high school required reading

This is one of my favorite books.  In a futuristic world where technology has become so advanced that houses no longer burn, a fireman named Montag is the main character of this story.  However, firemen do not exist to put out fires, but instead their job is to find books and burn them.  Society’s reasoning behind this activity is that without the differing viewpoints within books, people will find peace in their lives, which will bring harmony to the world.  Unfortunately, everyone now communicates through large television screens with little human contact.

A Lucky Child

Author: Thomas Buergenthal

Bookstore Classification: Biographies & Memoirs – Historical & Political, Holocaust History (Jewish History)

Readers: Teens (High School) – Adults

Similar to: Elie Wiesel’s Night

A Lucky Child is a memoir of a young boy, Thomas Buergenthal, who survived Auschwitz and his time after being liberated and living in Germany post WWII. Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, author, professor, political activist, and Nobel Laureate, writes the forward for this book. This book was a captivating read for me even though I have read many books detailing the Holocaust; it seems some new chapter unfolds with some type of torture that you have not encountered before.