Best of 2015: Staff Members’ Favourite Reads 2
Linda:
The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky
• eBook
What went wrong and what went right in the Iraqi invasion and occupation? As a British civilian working as a Political Advisor to US General Ray Odierno, and Petraeus, Sky was an insider who never lost her initial resistance to the war. She was there from the premature declaration of victory, through the success of the Sunni awakening to the disastrous withdrawal in 2010, and writes frankly about the work, the people and the problems.
Faye:
My Dog, Bob by Richard Torrey
Bob likes breakfast, car rides and digging for bones. Unlike other dogs, Bob can make his own breakfast, drives the family in their family car and other unusual things.
Find out what else Bob can do.
Kate:
The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis
• eBook
A steampunk alternate history in which the Dutch have become the dominant colonial power through enslaved alchemical-mechanical golems called Clakkers. There are epic battles between human and machine and good and evil, spies, treachery, explorations of identity, free will, and immortal souls, and some very creative swearing thrown in for good measure.
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
• eBook
A desperate and terrifying dip into the mind of a teen named Caden with mental illness, this YA novel is based on the author's son's experience with schizophrenia. It pulls no punches; delusions and hallucinations are scary and the treatments are difficult and life-long, but Caden's story helps to humanize people suffering from mental illness.
A raw but very important read.
The Fifth Season: Every Age Must Come to an End by N.K. Jemisin
• eBook
Orogenes are people with the ability to control the movement of the earth on this catastrophically seismic planet; they are universally feared whether controlled by the shady organization called the Fulcrum, or living on the run in secret. Pick this up if you like your fantasy very dark and filled with fabulous world-building, beautiful writing, and intense characters diverse in skin colour, gender, and sexual orientation.
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