Huntington Public Library Adult Reading Challenge

Brooke Nolan is a battered child who makes an anonymous phone call about the escalating brutality in her home. When Social Services jeopardize her safety, condemning her to keep her father's secret, it's a glass of spilled milk at the dinner table that forces her to speak about the cruelty she's been hiding. In her pursuit of safety and justice, Brooke battles a broken court system that pushes to keep her father in the home.

  Lily hasn’t always had it easy, But that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up, went to college and moved to Boston, to start her own business. And when she gets the hot's for a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her very first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatene...

  We've all heard about the harrowing journey that many immigrants must make in order to reach the United States from Central America. Yet this migration has been going on for so long we barely pay attention to it or the people who somehow manage to complete the journey. Reading this book will challenge that indifference. The story begins with a catastrophic incident that will forever change the life of a mother and a child who had been living a comfortable life in the picturesque city of Acapulco. Compelled by the incident to make a spur of the moment decision to flee their home, they embark on a journey that many have made before them, but theirs has its own flavor and challenges. This very detailed account of their minute by minute attempt to survive the journey they undertake is hard to put down. It is no exaggeration to say that when reading this book, you will take the journey with them, encountering and surmounting each obstacle that presents itself along the way. By the end...