TITLE: THE PYONGYANG OPTION AUTHOR: A.C. FRIEDEN GENRE: ESPIONAGE THRILLER PUBLISHER: AVENDIA PUBLISHING GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: New Orleans attorney Jonathan Brooks is desperate to rebuild his law firm after Hurricane Katrina. Short on clients, he takes the only work he can find: a murky business deal in Ukraine. But after he lands in Kyiv, his client’s
TITLE: THE GRAVEYARD BOOK AUTHOR: NEIL GAIMAN GENRE: FICTION, NOVEL GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He
TITLE: 1984 AUTHOR: GEORGE ORWELL GENRE: FICTION, DYSTOPIAN, NOVEL, SATIRE. GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, the chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not
TITLE: INTO THE WATER AUTHOR: PAULA HAWKINS GENRE: FICTION, NOVEL, MYSTERY/THRILLER GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she
TITLE: THE KITE RUNNER AUTHOR: KHALED HOSSEINI GENRE: LITERARY FICTION GOODREADS SYNOPSIS: “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.” Amir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashtuns. Hassan, his