PIKE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT

Elie Wesel is winner of the Novel Peace Prize and author of Night, which is also a pick for Oprah's Book Club. He is 12 years old in the town of Sighet, Transylvaina in 1944, where his days are filled with faith, trust and innocence. He shares with the reader his memories of the Auschwitz concentration camp and the to Buchenwald, where he is stripped naked and experiences man's inhumanity to man during the longest night of his life. The reader gets a glimpse of the Holocaust and the enduring spirit of one of its victims. A book you can read in one night but never forget.

Chuck Paluniuk explores the deepest darkest realms of the human psyche with riveting black humor that makes the reader almost ashamed to laugh in his novel Haunted. Answering an ad which is vicariously posted around the neighborhood, twenty-four aspiring writers decide to spend three months in total isolation to write the ultimate novel. Each person, as the days pass, give insight into their own twisted worlds while trying to survive in a world where food, water and sanity are scarce. The grotesque becomes a beautiful dance of poetic rhythm, and the most gruesome imagery becomes comical in its rare humanity. Never has cannibalism looked so good!

This is one of the first feminine science-fiction books that I have read. It has none of the jargon that most science-fiction has, and it is easy to forget that the main character is an alien that has taken over a human body. This book is about the alien's interactions with her human host, as well as how she deals with other aliens and humans. It was a great read!

The last book I read was In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth. It is about a girl that is given a copy of her mother's diary and discovers that she once wrote a letter to Harper Lee(the author of To Kill a Mocking Bird). Since her mother died when she was young she decides to run away to meet Harper Lee herself. It was a good book and an easy read.

The latest book by Delinsky is full of secrets, lies and a thought provoking cover-up by a mother and daughter.
Deborah allows her sixteen year old daughter Grace to drive home on a rainy night not knowing she had a couple of beers at a friend's house. When she hits someone on the way Deborah, who is a doctor, checks on the man and sends her daughter home. She does not correct the assumption by the police that she was driving, even after the man dies and she is charged with homicide.
How far will a mother go to protect her child and what does the guilt do to Grace? Barbara Delinsky is one of my favorite authors and this book will keep you interested to the very end!

If sword and sorcery fantasy is your idea of a good time, then you need to read this series! Comes complete with an overworked barbarian, a wizard with anger management issues, and a cast of other misfits. The author does a great job developing the characters and is reminiscent of David Eddings or Robert Jordan with his attention to detail. Don't miss out on this one!