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Me Before You
by Moyes, Jojo, 1969-
April 23, 2013
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Will Traynor was once a handsome, young, successful, vivacious man living in London. Now, after a tragic accident, he is a 35-year-old quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair and his parent’s house in a small English town for the rest of his life.Louisa (Lou) Clark is a quirky, 26-year-old recently unemployed waitress in a long-term, dead end relationship, living at home with her financially struggling family in the same small English town.When Lou, desperate for work to help support her family, interviews for a job as a caregiver she never expects to get the job - she's not in... Read Full Review
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Code name Verity
by Wein, Elizabeth.
February 2, 2013
Call Number: YA
In October 1943, two British girls, a pilot and a spy, crash their plane in Nazi-occupied France. The spy is captured and imprisoned by the Germans. She is forced to give up her secrets and reveal her mission in writing or face torture like the other captives in the prison. What she really writes, though, is the story of her friend Maddie, the pilot of the crashed plane, whom she assumes is dead.But once the narrator details her experience with the British military and her current situation being imprisoned with the Germans, the reader’s world is turned upside down.Beautifully written... Read Full Review