Book Talk for February 20 2024

Book Talk

Book talk for February 20 2024

One Child
By Torey L. Hayden

When six-year-old Sheila, the unwashed, unkempt daughter of a migrant worker injures another child, she is temporarily placed in the author's class of retarded and handicapped preadolescents. Hayden soon realizes that this troubled child, whom the court wants to commit to a state institution, is gifted with the IQ of genius. 1980.
DB16872

The Shining
by Stephen King

Jack and Wendy Torrance come face-to-face with terror when they become caretakers of a haunted old hotel in the snowy mountains of Colorado. Their five-year-old son Danny, who appears to have psychic powers, is the first to sense the evil in the building. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 1977.
BR13271 DB10563

In Cold Blood: a true account of a multiple murder and Its consequences
by Truman Capote

The author coined the term "nonfiction novel" for this account of the murder of a Kansas family. He reconstructs the crime and the backgrounds and personalities of all the principals, drawing his information from observation, interviews, and official records. Violence and some strong language.
BRC01440 DB22726

Breaking his code
by Patricia D eddy

"Camilla Delgado: I'd rather be elbows deep defusing a car bomb than all up in anyone's feels, but civilian life is messy--and all I've got since one slip almost sent me home in a body bag. Now I debug lines of code by day and spend my nights with WestWind, a retired SEAL. It's not what you think. We're online gaming buddies, geeking out and trash talking to our heart's content. But now he wants to meet up. I'm weak enough to say yes, though there's something he has to understand. I handle my own stuff. I guard my heart. And I trust no one. West Sampson: FlashPoint's irreverent mouth and uncanny gaming ability have been a welcome distraction from the cold-sweat nightmares that still plague me eight years after leaving the teams. And the fact that the latest fitness fads are killing my Krav Maga studio, forcing me to take on risky rescue missions to make ends meet. One date with Cam and I'm on fire for more, but she's retreating back behind her keyboard--and her secrets. I'm willing to lay it all on the line to show her broken can be beautiful. But she has to be willing to reveal her raw edges--and trust that my own are a perfect fit." -- Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2017.
DB108532

The Tiger's Child
by Torey Hayden

Special-education teacher continues her narrative of Sheila, the abused but highly gifted girl whose experiences she documented in One Child (RC 16782). This chronicle picks up seven years later as Hayden seeks out the now-thirteen-year-old Sheila to renew their bond and record events of the intervening time. Strong language. 1995.
DB59596

Mrs Quinn's rise to fame
by Olivia Ford

In good Faith Joe Dillard no 2
by Scott Pratt

"A family of four is slaughtered in rural Tennessee. Two weeks later, a retired high school principal and his wife are brutally slain. Two Satan-worshipping teens stand accused. It's up to prosecutor Joe Dillard to convict them. A former defense attorney who spent way too much time defending people he knew were guilty, Joe is determined to win this case to atone for his past. But an evil young woman named Natasha is responsible for the slayings and Joe knows it. Natasha is walking around free because the two boys who have been arrested are too terrified to implicate her. Now Joe must risk everything -- including his family's safety and his own life -- to bring an evil murderer to justice." -- Provided by publisher. Violence and some descriptions of sex.
DB111946

The Silent Girl: a Rizzoli and Isles Novel
By Tess Gerritsen

After tourists find a severed hand in Boston's Chinatown, detective Jane Rizzoli and her partner Barry Frost locate the corpse. The case seems to be linked to a grisly murder from the past. Violence and some strong language. Commercial audiobook. 2011.
DB73

MoonFall
by Jack McDevitt

In 2024 U.S. Vice President Charles L. Haskell is on the Moon to open its first colony when reports arrive that a comet is headed there on a collision course. Evacuation alerts from the Moon are interspersed with bulletins about Moon fragments that will bombard Earth. Some strong language.
DB49162

Gone Tomorrow: a Jack Reacher novel
by Lee Child

Riding the New York subway late at night, former military policeman Jack Reacher sees a woman exhibiting all eleven signs of being a suicide bomber. He approaches her and she kills herself--thrusting Jack into the nightmare she was trying to end. Violence and some strong language. 2009.
BR20387 DB69167