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Zig-Zag Boy
Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood
by Tanya Frank
ZIG-ZAG BOY (2/7/2023)
From the first page this book caught my interest and never let go.

Tanya Frank tells how exhausting the journey is for both patient and caregiver to live with mental illness on a daily basis.

I would recommend ZIG-ZAG BOY to anguish terestrd in mental illness.
One's Company
One's Company: A Novel
by Ashley Hutson
One's Company (5/2/2022)
Bonnie Lincoln is obsessed with a television show to the point that she wants to become the characters in the show.

Winning the lottery has given her the money to create a town exactly like the TV show and become each character. She is so obsessed with her project that she …more
Never Saw Me Coming
Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel
by Vera Kurian
I Couldn't Put it Down Until the Last Page (6/22/2021)
"A psychopath is a person suffering from a serious mental disorder that causes them to commit violent or antisocial acts without any remorse."

A group of college students, previously diagnosed as psychopaths, join a clinical program to study their lack of emotions and …more
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman: A Novel
by Julietta Henderson
The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman (2/17/2021)
Norman Foreman is the 12 year old son of Sadie. He and his best friend Jax are working on a comedy act to participate in the yearly talent show Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Jax dies and Norman decides to take the act to the Festival on his own.

Sadie doesn't know who is …more
At the Edge of the Haight
At the Edge of the Haight
by Katherine Seligman
At the Edge of the Haight (10/2/2020)
Why would a young person choose to live as a homeless person?

At age 18 Maddy Donaldo went to San Francisco to live on the streets and parks of Haight/Ashbury. Along with others she met she begs for money and eats out of garbage cans. She sleeps in shelters, on the ground in …more
Daughter of the Reich
Daughter of the Reich: A Novel
by Louise Fein
Daughter of the Reich (3/15/2020)
This page turning book is about a young German girl coming of age in the years leading up to WWII .

Hetty is the daughter of one of Hitler's high ranking officers. She is torn between her father's activities and what she hears and sees happening to the Jewish people in …more
The Women with Silver Wings
The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
by Katherine Sharp Landdeck
The Women With Silver Wings (12/26/2019)
As the United States entered World War II, there were lots of women inspired to do whatever they could do to help our nation in this time of war.

A group of women pilots were invited to join the U. S. Army Air Forces as civilians. More than a thousand young women pilots …more
The Yellow Bird Sings
The Yellow Bird Sings: A Novel
by Jennifer Rosner
The yellow bird sings (11/18/2019)
From the first page of this fast paced book I was drawn in to the courageous lives of a mother and daughter during WWII. I read this in one sitting.

I could actually feel the pain and suffering of a mother separating from her little girl so that she might live and the …more
Lady Clementine
Lady Clementine
by Marie Benedict
Lady Clementine (11/5/2019)
I really enjoyed reading about Winston and his wife, Clementine and their families. To me, the author presents their personalities in ways I would not have thought to be.

Some parts of the book became slow reading but it held my interest enough to finish the book.

This book …more
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