Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
by Neely Tucker

Memoir
When journalist Neely Tucker and his wife settled in Zimbabwe, they knew that years of exposure to world crises had numbed their senses to human suffering. Feeling the need for a constructive response to Zimbabwe's growing orphan population, they began to volunteer at local orphanages where they fell in love with an abandoned baby girl. Their struggle to adopt and save one child re-aligned all other priorities.

Submitted by Max

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

Fiction
A very emotional book full of twists, turns, and surprise that had me weeping, but in a good way!
It pulls together an old man, a teenage girl, and a grieving widow; it's funny, sad, and hopeful, and extremely well-written.

Submitted by L.B.

Deafening by Francis Itani

Historical Fiction
A moving story of the life of a deaf woman in Canada during World War I. It's a beautifully written view of both love and war, and an unforgettable depiction of a world where sound only exists on the margins.

Submitted by L.B.