Page Turners

Here is a list of books that have been shared on KMA's Page Turners with the Shenandoah Public Library.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

aired the week of July 20, 2015

No One to Trust by Lynette Eason is the first title in her Hidden Identity series.  Summer Abernathy wakes up with a gun pointed in her face and instructions to find a laptop and flash drive or else.  Where is her husband Kyle and why has he stolen this laptop and put her in danger?  Who can she trust?  A great thriller from popular Christian Fiction author Eason.

aired the week of July 13, 2015

The Objects of Her Affection by Sonya Cobb is a first novel that follows young mother Sophie who quite by accident starts a life of crime.  It is so easy to steal art objects out of the museum in diaper bags and a large stroller when your husband works at the museum.  No one would ever suspect....

aired the week of July 6, 2015

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury tells the story of a magical summer in Green Town, Illinois in 1928.  Follow 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding as he makes many wonderful discoveries.  A classic in the vein of  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

aired the week of June 29, 2015

Black Fridays by Michael Sears is set in the high finance world of Wall Street.  Jason Stafford has just been released from prison and is back in New York looking for work when he is approached by a firm to look into irregularities.  Everything looks fine on the surface but the more he digs the larger the scam becomes.  This could rock Wall Street, and put his very life in jeopardy.  Best book I've read that has a young child character with sever autism.

aired the week of June 22, 2015

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is set in Thailand in the near future when calories are the currency after fossil fuels run dry and the world's food supply has been destroyed by genetic mutations and resistant diseases.  Follow a large cast of characters as they try to survive in this brave new world.  One man is searching for Thailand's fabled seed bank of unmodified seeds, but should such a treasure fall into his hands?

aired the week of June 15, 2015

Bent Road by Lori Roy follows the Scott family as they move to the family farm in Kansas after race riots break out in Detroit during 1967.  Arthur has left after his sister Eve died under mysterious circumstances, vowing never to return.  Now he is back with his family and it is stirring up old memories.  When a young girl goes missing all eyes turn to the Scott family.