At fourteen, Frances Fabri, a Hungarian Jew, and her entire family were interred in a Nazi concentration camp. Though nearly all of her family perished in the Holocaust, Fabri and her mother survived and returned to Hungary at the end of the war. Fabri later immigrated to the United States and settled in Northern California. She was among the first American Holocaust survivors to recognize the importance of collecting the oral histories of survivors, and of ensuring that no one ever forgets the atrocities committed in Europe in the mid-Twentieth century. 
Each tightly woven story explores Fabri's own experience from the perspective of a range of characters: the Hungarian peasant who dresses in her Sunday black damask and carries a Bible as she witnesses the removal of the village doctor; the commandant-only a soldier, after all-who numbs himself before choosing which of the internees lives and dies; the young woman who is proud of her role as a foreman in the labor camp; another who sacrifices her life to save an insane man, the only one who realizes that she has been chosen to die.
Written in an elusively beautiful style characterized by prose both laconic and graceful, Crickets Would Sing manages to capture the reader's heart and imagination in a way that first-person memoirs cannot. One of the most powerful and significant books about the Holocaust to be published this century, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the internal struggle of those who faced this chilling ordeal and survived.

Crickets Would Sing

Literature & Fiction

Fabri, Frances

Contemporary

Boaz Publishing Company

On a hot August night in Texas, 22-year-old Jesse Sublett was onstage experiencing what he thought was the realization of a long-held dream: his first big gig with a rock band. The next day, however, as he returned home, he found a nightmare instead: His longtime girlfriend, Dianne Roberts, had been savagely murdered in their bed.Jesse became the police’s prime suspect. While in custody he figured out how a close friend brought the serial killer into their home. Jesse solved the crime and, though he couldn’t undo the damage, he moved on.Jesse and pals Fazz Eddie Muños, Jon Dee Graham, and Billy Blackmon created the Skunksa new wave rock ’n’ roll band that was instrumental in establishing Austin, Texas, as the live music capital of the world. In his star-studded memoir you’ll find cameo appearances from Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello, Carla Olson, Rolling Stones, Go-Go’s and more.In the late 1990s Jesse was diagnosed with stage IV throat cancer, with less than 99 per cent chance of survival. He came to understand that the cancer was somehow connected with his past, with the hardscrabble life he endured growing up in the Texas Hill Country, his girlfriend’s murder, and the self-absorbed life of his years on tour with the band.Never The Same Again is a road trip through a landscape of rock and roll dreams, murder and diseasea true story, mostly, about a tall, rugged Texan facing long odds and running out of time.

Never the Same Again: A Rock 'n' Roll Gothic

Biographies & Memoirs

Sublett, Jesse

Arts & Literature

A powerful tale of great rhythm and grace, David Fuller Cook's Reservation Nation is a complex portrait of life on a North Carolina Indian reservation. The story is told by Warren Eubanks, a young man who struggles to unlearn the lessons of his childhood on the reservation. Eubanks' imperative to uncover truth takes him down Reservation Road to the American Indian Movement and tribal politics. This journey is punctuated by land grabs, oil and mineral rip-offs, murders, and betrayals — a litany of long-nurtured grievances that pit Indian against Indian. Take David Fuller Cook's trip to Reservation Nation and you'll find a remarkable people and come to know an unforgettable young man who stays true to his tribe while he learns to look the world in the face.

Reservation Nation

Cook,david

United States

Told through the eyes and experience of Brother August, The Great Days is a disturbing tale of megalomania and submission that takes place as a spiritual community in the sparse Arizona desert prepares for the great days, a period of enlightenment, to arrive. When Papa, the cult leader, takes a ten-year-old girl, Melody, as his fifth and final wife, some followers resist. But a supreme being cannot accept doubt from his disciples, and resisters are redirected into compliance.
As Papa's chief aid and spiritual interpreter, Brother August's loyalty to Papa's vision is taken for granted. But August's love for Melody and her mother jolts him from the intoxicating spell of Papa's power, and soon, August's awakening edges this fragile cult to a ferocious breaking point.

The Great Days

BROWN, ELI

A woman’s car is hit broadside. When she awakens from a three-week coma, Danielle McAllister slowly realizes that she has new awareness―the disturbing ability to read the emotions and motives of others with perfect clarity. But this strange gift has a price. Danielle’s husband, James, feels shame as he discovers her ability to know his intentions. The marriage goes through a series of jolting revelations while James copes with his transparency. As things fall apart, Danielle forms a relationship of great delicacy and caution with a young man named Harper. Part protectiveness and part suppressed desire, the connection between them deepens while Harper is exhilarated by the same transparency that James finds so shameful. With a touch of Magical Realism, this love story powers a profound and disturbing mystery―what happens inside a person who is completely seen and known, yet not accepted? Wawona Hotel is a searing look at that question, a book both lyrical and wise, that pushes to the core of the human need to be loved.

Wawona Hotel

McKay PhD, Matthew

An epic that spans a crucial period of American westward expansion, Not Between Brothers is the bloody and gripping tale of the birth of the Lone Star State. Comprising a large cast of characters that includes memorable historical figures such as Stephen Austin and Sam Houston, the novel unfolds through the eyes and experience of Remy Fuqua, an orphan whose understanding of his fellow man is almost as great as his predilection for battle and his fierce national pride. When he marries a well-born Tejana, Beatriz Amarante de la Cruz, Fuqua is tempted to abandon the world he comes from until a tragic loss catapults him straight to the front lines in the battle for Texan independence-the landmark battle of San Jacinto.
Not Between Brothers is also the story of the fearless Comanche warrior Kills White Bear, whose distrust of the white man turns to enmity when a virulent smallpox plague brought by white traders wipes out his family and decimates his people. His vendetta eventually and inexorably makes Remy his greatest enemy. As the two men stalk each other across the Texas prairie, their struggle pits nation against nation, husband against wife and, unforgettably, brother against brother.

Not Between Brothers

WILKINSON, DAVID

Every May college graduates across the country ask themselves one very important question--now what? For Brant Gilmour the answer is prison. With little thought to a career, indeed, despite the bitter consequences of institutionalization, Brant takes a job teaching GED classes to inmates at an Indiana correctional facility made famous when Mike Tyson was incarcerated there. And so begins Brant's education.

Mike Tyson Slept Here

Huntington, Chris

Literary

Us is a masterful rendering of the life and relationships of Margaret, a young woman tortured by her struggle with dissociative identity disorder, written by psychologist Dr. Matthew McKay. Dissociative Identity Disorder, a severe and controversial psychological disorder, is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identity states or personalities. Treatment is aimed toward ultimately integrating the multiple personalities. Us is the story of a woman who chooses to live her life without undergoing this recommended integration, and wants her boyfriend, Walker, to accept her as she is―alternating between a frightened child, an angry male adolescent, a bawdy southern belle, and a suicidal woman who seems to belong nowhere. Us explores the question of what happens in relationships when one is damaged, but seeks acceptance as opposed to being “fixed.” As Margaret teeters at the edge of self-destruction, Us examines the far limits of what can be given in the name of love.

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