Wickedly funny and wrenchingly sad memoirs of a young mother awaiting the birth of a Down syndrome baby while simultaneously pursuing a doctorate at Harvard.
Gift from the Sea - inner harmony and essentially spiritual, it's a eternal journey of a woman seeking living in a "state of inner spiritual grace". A great gift to any woman... and man.
Wonderful and haunting, moving and virtuosic; Emotionally wrenching yet intellectually rigorous, idea-driven but with indelible characters and true suspense. It's a significant novel, genuinely one of the year's best.
Named by the New York Public Library as "one of the books of the century," A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan; 50 years passed since it's first published, book's humor and pathos still ensured its place in the realm of classics, and remains in the hearts of readers, young and old.
