Hypothermia, Arnaldur IndriasonOne cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a straightforward case of suicide; Mara had never recovered from the death of her mother two years previously and she had a history of depression. But then the friend who found her body approaches Detective Erlendur with a tape of a sance that Mara attended before her death and his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers,

and beaten to death by eight police officers

the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is the quintessential dystopian novel

For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top

from the Soviet Invasion to September 10

” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor

and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power

Set in California’s lush Napa Valley and spanning four generations of a talented and visionary family

and totally hilarious

married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two

pains aux chocolats and irregular verbs

and enemies