12:10 to 1 p.m.
Central Library
West Room

This Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, and his cartoonist son trying to come to terms with his father’s horrific experiences.

It is 1959 and the Congo is fighting for independence from Belgium. Nathan Price is a Baptist missionary who takes his wife and four daughters there so that he can preach his faith during this period of great instability. A story of colliding cultures unfolds as told from the remarkable perspectives of the five Price females.

Death serves as the narrator in this story that takes place in Nazi Germany. He relates the story of Liesel Meminger who after learning how to read begins stealing books from Nazi book burnings and the mayor's wife's library. As Liesel becomes a better reader, she begins to write a book about living through such terrible times. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.

A tale of romantic suspense unfolds when the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter, enters the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband. Suspicion and fear surrounding the fate of the first Mrs. de Winter, is fostered by the sinister housekeeper who was unnaturally devoted her.

Best selling author of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, chronicles 30 years of Afghan history as seen through the eyes of two women brought together by war, loss, and fate. This is a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and faith.

With the use of recorded testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living and the undead, this is a story that conveys the depth of fear and horror of near annihilation of human society. It also is a testimony to the ineradicable spirit of resistance as mankind fights to preserve itself during the plague years.

A father and son must journey through an apocalyptic, ashen world. Though the father reassures his child that they are good guys, in fact they inhabit a world where human morality has little significance left. The few people remaining survive by unimaginable means. This horrific yet compelling tale shows McCarthy at his most powerful writing in years.