First Novel - “Nerve Damage” by Peter Abrahams
Dareen Jellie R. Bongan - Discussion Director
Sometimes the dead live on in your dreams . . . at least that's true for Roy Valois. His wife, Delia, died fifteen years earlier while working for a private think tank and he has never forgotten her. Roy is a well-known sculptor in the art world. His newest piece, a magnificent creation he calls Delia, has just been finished, a sign that he's found a little closure at last.
Then Roy gets some news of the grimmest kind. It's the kind of news that forces thoughts in unexpected directions, such as the contents of one's obituary. Roy and his lawyer, a close friend, find themselves wondering whether Roy's obituary will mention a big goal he scored in college hockey. Roy's friend suggests that they could probably find out. With some help, they hack into the morgue files of the New York Times. There's no mention of the goal, but something else about his obituary bothers Roy. According to the New York Times, his wife was working for the United Nations when she died—not the think tank ....
Second Novel - "The Time Capsule" by Lurlene McDaniel
Dareen Jellie R. Bongan - Discussion Director
In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teachers time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to “help people” and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adams leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins family. Their mother and father are always workingnot only dont they have time for Alexis and Adam, they dont have time for each other. Alexis cant even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World.
No one is prepared when Adam gets sick again, but this time Alexis is not alone. Adams illness reunites the family. And Alexis discovers that the time capsule predictions werent so far off the mark.
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Third novel - "The Fourth Letter" by Alison Quinn
Dareen Jellie R. Bongan - Vocabulary Enricher
A stranger in a strange land...
A promise made to her dying father brought Nicole Lord from her home in Paris, France, to the remote hills of Vermont. There, she tried to make peace with her father's mother--an embittered, eccentric old woman who was convinced her artist son had deserted her years earlier.
Nicole was met with rejection and coldness, not only from her grandmother but also from the housekeeper, Delia, and her son, Mark. Nicole's only comfort was the suave and sophisticated doctor, Alan, who treated her grandmother.
Though Mark remained remote and secretive, Nicole found herself drawn to him. But Nicole's life was in jeopardy and her relationship with Mark threatened...unless the truth that lay hidden in a sealed letter was revealed...
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Fourth Novel - "AGATHA"
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devon, England in 1890, the youngest of three children in a conservative, well-to-do family.
Taught at home by a governess and tutors, as a child Agatha Christie never attended school. She became adept at creating games to keep herself occupied at a very young age. A shy child, unable to adequately express her feelings, she first turned to music as a means of expression and, later in life, to writing.
In 1914, at the age of 24, she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a nurse. It was while working in a hospital during the war that Christie first came up with the idea of writing a detective novel. Although it was completed in a year, it wasn't published until 1920, five years later.
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" gave the world the inimitable Hercule Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer who was to become one of the most enduring characters in all of fiction. With his waxed mustache and his "little grey cells," he was "meticulous, a tidy little man, always neat and orderly, with a slight flavor of absurdity about him." (The New Bedside Christie Companion...)
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