Please Recommend some good books
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to me = ) i'm really not into reading but i want to get into it lol...i'm thinking i want true stories?
The River of Doubt was a book I enjoyed reading. It's about former president Theodore Roosevelt's trip down an uncharted river, in the Amazon rainforest.
The Lost German Slave Girl is another one I've read this year.
Adult/High School–A fascinating mystery obsessed and polarized New Orleans from 1843 until its shocking conclusion in 1849. A close-knit community of German immigrants made an amazing claim: they had seen a young slave woman whom they were sure was the daughter of a relative who had sailed with them from Holland years earlier. After her parents died, the girl and her sister had been sent off to become indentured servants. No one knew what had happened to them, but the community was positive that the slave woman known as Mary or Brigit Wilson was really Salome Muller. Lawyers were assembled, and the battle lines were drawn. The Germans maintained that an unscrupulous former owner, John Fitz Miller, had enslaved an indentured child and later sold her to her current owner. Miller hired a "dream team" to press his claim that Mary was merely a clever slave, duping a bunch of credulous immigrants. Adding to the puzzle was her lack of memory of a German childhood and Miller's inability to prove that he had bought her. Bailey has provided a rich, vibrant New Orleans setting. Using court transcripts, pamphlets produced by both sides, newspaper stories, and biographies, he has produced a courtroom thriller with unexpected twists and turns. The details he includes about the horrors of the immigrant experience, and his discussions of laws governing slave owners, make this a valuable history lesson as well.–Kathy Tewell, Chantilly Regional Library, VA
I couldn't put this down and lent it to both my mother and my sister when I was done with it. Both of them stayed up all night until they finished it.
http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Castle-Memoir-Alex-Awards/dp/0743247531
Another one I just finished was Cane River. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/102-7534249-8923317?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=cane+river&Go.x=7&Go.y=5
and I just saw by going to that link that she has another one out, so now I need to request it from the library.
I know they've been out for a long time, but I just read Chicken Soup for a Mother's Soul. Since it's a compilation of stories, you get the pay off of an ending without a lot of time. I like that,lol!
I LOVE the Chicken Soup books!
If you haven't already seen the movie, my mom said that "The Pursuit of Happyness" is a really good book. It was a true story.
Glass Castle Memoir-Alex-Awards
Cane River
I read Cane River, too. I suggested it for my book discussion, but no one else was interested, so I read it just for myself! I loved it.
Dawn, I just happened upon Cane River at Linen's and Things, of all places. It was $5 on the clearance rack, so I grabbed it. I just requested her other book Red River, i will let you know how it is.
the author of cane river used to be a vp at the company my sister works at, she left apparently to write the book.
Wow, that's cool, Colette!
Thanks = ) i totally had forgotten about the chicken soup books until after i posted this lol and of course after i went to the library = ) thanks again = ) Brandy
Just be sure to have lots of kleenex around, when you do get the Chicken Soup books!
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