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The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

It is Kentucky in 1964 and a freak winter storm keeps Dr. David Henry from getting his pregnant wife to the hospital in time to give birth. He handles the delivery himself with the help of a nurse. His wife gives birth to twins, one a healthy boy and one a girl with Down's Syndrome. Trying to save his wife from a life of suffering, he gives the girl to his nurse and instructs her to take it to a home. He tells his wife the baby died at birth and only later finds out the nurse kept the girl. This event will haunt everyone involved for the rest of their lives.

Kim Edwards is the author of a short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.

Reviews:

"Unfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story."
-- Sue Monk Kidd

"Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper's Daughter."
-- The Washington Post

"Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it...The Memory Keeper's Daughter has it all."
-- Sena Jeter Naslund

"Kim Edwards has created a tale of regret and redemption, of honest emotion, of characters haunted by their past. This is simpy a beautiful book."

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Celebrate National Library Week!

April 15 - 21, 2007

Award-winning Author Chang-rae Lee
Sunday, April 15
2:00 p.m.
Hershey Public Library

Author Chang-rae Lee will discuss his writing as the guest speaker at our kick-off celebration of National Library Week. Lee is the author of three novels: Native Speaker, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the American Book Award; A Gesture Life, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Prize and the NAIBA (New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Book Award); and Aloft, his most recent work. Lee currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University.

Books will be sold before and after the talk and a book-signing will be held after the program.

Publisher's Weekly says about Aloft: "Lee's genuine compassion for his compromised characters makes for a truly moving story about a modern family."

The New York Times Book Review calls A Gesture Life "stunning."

Surprise Endings

If you like to be surprised, you'll want to check out the following titles:

Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver [MYS DEA]
Quadriplegic forensic specialist Lincoln Rhyme is called in to track down a contract killer known as the coffin dancer, who has been hired to kill three witnesses in an upcoming federal trial.

Exclusive by Sandra Brown [FIC BRO, CAS, LP]
The newborn son of the President and First Lady dies suddenly. Television reporter Barrie Travis tries to find out if it was an accident.

The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken [FIC MCC]
A lonely librarian falls for a young man who suffers from gigantism. Their loneliness is only one thing they have in common in this unlikely romance.

High Crimes by Joseph Finder [FIC FIN]
A lawyer at the top of her profession must defend her husband in a military court for his alleged horrific crimes while serving in Vietnam.

Judas Child by Carol O'Connell [MYS OCO, Pbk M 892]
Two young girls have disappeared and a cop and a forensic psychologist, former classmates who carry childhood scars of their own, team up to find out what happened.

Kolymsky Heights by Lionel Davidson [FIC DAV]
Suspensful thriller centered around a top-secret research camp in Siberia. The center's director enlists the only man who can safely preserve a Russian discovery for the benefit of humankind rather than allow it to be used for evil purposes.

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult [FIC PIC, OS CAS, LP]
The excruciatingly difficult choices a family must make when one of their children is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease is explored with great compassion and fairness to all perspectives.

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer [FIC ARC]
Conman Harvey Metcalf swindles an Oxford don, a society physician, a French art dealer, and an English lord out of their savings - until they wise up and exact revenge.

The Other by Thomas Tryon [FIC TRY]
Twin Boys were born just before and after midnight, giving them different birthdays and different astrological signs. One boy is good-hearted; one only appears that way. The good-hearted twin tries to turn his brother around - or is that just how things seem?

The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon [FIC SHE, Pbk F 87]
Beautiful but poor Paris-born Noelle Page falls in love with an American flyer during WWII. When she becomes pregnant, he deserts her and sets her on a ruthless path of revenge.

Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow [FIC TUR, CAS, CD, LP]
In this legal thriller, married prosecuting attorney Rusty Sabich's affair with a colleague comes back to haunt him after she is raped and murdered, and he becomes the accused.

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