I appreciate your posts, Dorothy. I have not read either book.   When April is over I will be heading to the library for books to borrow and it helps to have some recommends.

Faith Sherman gave a very good review of Postville USA, the AAUW IA book selection this year, at the DSM Branch March meeting.  She brought new information since the book was published about Postville.  Two of the authors will be presenting at our April 20 conference.  Plan to attend.

The Fall of Giants.by Ken Follet

I will start with Ken Follet's book, The Fall of Giants.
I enjoyed this book as it was a good story with strong character depiction and I learned World War I history all at the same time. I appreciate the authors historical research and how he integrated the history with a good story. I was ignorant of much of the "Great War's" history, so made it even more interesting. Also frightening to learn how a war causing so much loss of life and destruction was really over probably preventable relatively unimportant events. It again seems another example of not learning from past history. Sandra

When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde

A new novel that will stay on the fringes of your mind for a long time after you finish reading it, is When I Found You by Catherine Ryan Hyde. When Nathan McCann finds and saves a newborn baby abandoned in the woods, life changed for each of them. Nathan finds himself deeply drawn to the infant and makes a promise that the boy will never be abandoned again, and that he, Nathan McCann would always, under any circumstances, be there for the child, as a child, an adolescent and an adult. It is the effect of the depth and breadth of that promise on both their lives to an extent that could not have been expected, or even imagined, that forms the backbone of this thought-provoking story.

My Temporary Life by Martin Crosbie

If you enjoy a book that is both non-predictable and interesting to the end, I recommend

My Temporary Life by Martin Crosbie When Malcolm was ten, his parents divorced, and Malcolm began spending the school year with his father in Scotland and his summers with his mother in Canada. It was then that he began thinking of his life as his temporary life--a life without permanence. His adventures with his school friend, Hardly, in Scotland are both bitter and sweet.  In Canada, he finds George and his sister, Rose, to give him a sense of worth to carry him into adulthood.  It is when Malcolm meets a colorful woman to really care about, that intrigue comes into his life, and he feels the peace of a regimented life turn to panic complete with a conflict with the law and a car chase.