David Levithan: Love is the higher law

First there is a Before, and then there is an After. . . .
The lives of three teens—Claire, Jasper, and Peter—are altered forever on September 11, 2001. Claire, a high school junior, has to get to her younger brother in his classroom. Jasper, a college sophomore from Brooklyn, wakes to his parents’ frantic calls from Korea, wondering if he’s okay. Peter, a classmate of Claire’s, has to make his way back to school as everything happens around him.
Here are three teens whose intertwining lives are reshaped by this catastrophic event. As each gets to know the other, their moments become wound around each other’s in a way that leads to new understandings, new friendships, and new levels of awareness for the world around them and the people close by.
David Levithan has written a novel of loss and grief, but also one of hope and redemption as his characters slowly learn to move forward in their lives, despite being changed forever.

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Antoine Leiris: You will not have my hate

On ​13 November 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène, was killed, along with 88 other people at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, when three men armed with guns and suicide bombs opened fire on the unsuspecting crowd at a rock concert. Three days later, Leiris, a young journalist, wrote an open letter on Facebook addressed to his wife’s killers. Leiris refused to be cowed or to let his 17-month-old son’s life be defined by Hélène’s murder. He refused to let the killers have their way. ‘For as long as he lives, this little boy will insult you with his happiness and freedom,’ he wrote. Instantly, that short Facebook post caught fire. It was shared over two hundred thousand times and was reported on all over the world. In his beautiful and moving defiance of the terrorists who had killed his wife, Leiris became an international hero to everyone searching desperately for a way to deal with the horror of the attacks. You Will Not Have My Hate is an extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir about how Leiris, and his baby son Melvil, endured after Hélène’s murder. With courage, moral acuity, and absolute emotional honesty, Leiris finds a way to answer the question, how can I go on? This is the rare and unforgettable testimony of a survivor, and a universal message of hope and resilience. Leiris is guiding star for us all in perilous times.

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Daniel Keyes - Jóslatok az őrültek házából

Raven Slade gyakran megfordul apja elmegyógyintézetében – a borderline személyiségzavarral küzdő lány épp lábadozik legutóbbi öngyilkossági kísérlete után, és keresi a visszautat a valóságba. Raven folyamatosan küzd érzelmeinek törékenységével és a világ mozaikokra hulló követhetetlenségével, a véletlennek köszönhetően azonban egy olyan titok terhét is cipelnie kell, amely rossz fülekbe jutva katasztrofálisabb következményekkel járna, mint az ikertornyok elleni támadás.

A görög N17 terrorcsoport, az Iráni Népi Mudzsahedek és az FBI versenyt fut egymással, hogy megkaparintsák a lány tudatalattijában rekedt terrorakciótervet. Amíg mindenki a rejtélybe kódolt üzenet megfejtésén dolgozik, Raven az iszlám hit és a görög mítoszok világába téved, és saját fojtogató emlékei sötétjében tapogatózik. Vajon sikerül-e megtalálni a kulcsot, amely felszínre hozhatná az eltemetett információt, mielőtt túl késő lenne?

A Virágot Algernonnak szerzője csaknem harminc évvel első regényének megírása után ebben az izgalmas pszichológiai thrillerben is az elme titkait kutatja.

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