With fall knocking at our door, it’s time for some serious reading. As proposed by Gucci on the catwalk, frames are slimmed down and oversized.
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While we are getting serious with the new fall looks, it’s also time to look at these two must-read books for fall.
Straight from today’s headlines, “Suffer the Children
Though it is fiction, “Believe Like a Child
Suffer the Children by Robert EarleVook Publishing
Mystery & Thrillers, Literature/Fiction (Adult)DescriptionReigniting her notorious affair with disgraced General Budge Kleeforth, Pru Malveaux urges that he redeem himself by devising a way to protect school children from lethal assault—as just occurred in a town close to Glenwood Park, Connecticut, where Budge grew up.
Gun lobbyists fear Budge’s ingenious plans to counter their products. With connections as high as the Vice President, they conspire to destroy Pru and Budge’s renewed liaison and buy out their project.
Meanwhile Glenwood Park’s teenagers believe they ought to be able to identify the next assailant through their knowledge of community secrets, not anticipating the effect of their cynicism on someone in their midst.
The arms industry’s plot threatens Pru’s ulterior motive—regaining custody of her own two children. She unintentionally drives Budge toward a young schoolteacher they have been training and discovers that her actions have cost her everything.
When Suffer the Children’s multiple story lines collide, the ensuing tragedy raises the question: If the arms industry can keep the nation’s guns safe, how is America going to keep its children safe as well?
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Believe Like a Child by Paige Dearth@PaigeDearth
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Mystery & ThrillersDescription
Alessa is just seven years old when her uncle rapes her for the first time. As the years pass, his sexual appetite becomes more voracious and his perversion more twisted, until the abuse has become almost a daily ritual, with the unspoken involvement of the girl’s mother.
At the age of sixteen, after the death of her only friend, Alessa finds herself at the mercy of her real-life monster, with no relief in sight. She flees her home to escape this hell, only to find herself descending into a more dangerous one. Alone and helpless in the streets of North Philadelphia, she encounters more human predators who want to take over her life and devour her. About to hit rock bottom, Alessa manages to break away from her new tormentors and finds refuge in a shelter for homeless and abused women.
Wherever she goes, however, trouble keeps seeking her out, until she meets three people who change the course of her life forever. Though Alessa’s bittersweet journey is perpetually fraught with challenges, she does, nevertheless, manage to find fleeting moments of joy along the way. But as she begins to settle down, a ghost from the past comes to haunt her again, threatening to destroy the very foundation of her small world and plunging her back into an abyss of despair, until she makes her final bid for escape.
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