https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik Made with sincerity en-us 2018-12-12 14:44:11 UTC 2024-10-14 07:31:39 UTC hello@padlet.com andrewsamy2 https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/313870671 We met the author of the popular Lunch Lady series here at Midland. Now read about his unconventional childhood in this graphic novel format memoir. ]]> 2018-12-12 15:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/313870671 milboerheather2 https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/313968223 The Great Alone. Hannah's vivid depiction of a struggling family begins as a young father and POW returns from Vietnam, sufferingfrom PTSD. The Allbright family, barely making ends meet in 1974, moves from Seattle to the untamed wilderness of Kaneq, Alaska, to claim a parcel of land left to Ernt by a slain Army buddy.]]> 2018-12-12 18:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/313968223 yusicatherine3 https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/313982349 In Elin's Winter Series, we meet Kelley Quinn, owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four grown children: Patrick, a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience; Kevin, a bartender with a secret; Ava, a school teacher with love troubles; and Bart, who shocked the entire family by deciding to join the Marines.

The first book in the series is Winter Street followed by Winter Stroll, Winter Storms, and Winter Solstice.  Fun holiday reading with great characters!

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Another interesting read is, Brain on Fire.  This is a memoir written by Susannah Cahalan.  In 2009 she was a healthy 24-year-old reporter for the New York Post, when she began to experience numbness, paranoia, sensitivity to light and erratic behavior. She only got worse — she began to experience seizures, hallucinations, increasingly psychotic behavior and even catatonia. Her symptoms frightened family members and baffled a series of doctors.  After a month long hospital stay she finally met a Dr. who made her eventual diagnosis and planned her treatment for anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease that can attack the brain. 

]]> 2018-12-13 18:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/314384940 straussbergsharon2 https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/314388100 I enjoyed this quick read. Here's what a review on Goodreads said: Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years - ever since her husband died in a car accident.]]> 2018-12-13 18:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewsamy2/z4tqi7fgi3ik/wish/314388100