If you're looking for a good book to sink your teeth into, check out these favorites.
We asked Westlake Porter Library's Frances Brawner and Susan Cozzens which books are flying off the shelves and which have recently graced their night stands. Whether you read them on an e-reader or prefer an old-fashioned paperback, these books come highly recomended. 1) "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett A captivating tale about a 22-year-old college graduate, a black maid raising her 17th white child and the maid's sassy tell-it-like-it-is friend whose cooking is nothing short of miraculous. The three unlikely friends come together in a way that society doesn't accept in 1962, when segregation was the rule of the land. "The Help" is a fictional masterpiece and has been a bestseller for nearly 100 weeks. "This runaway hit has all the secret …
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Patrick O'Donnell tells unheard tale of George Company.
Give Me Tomorrow is the tale of one group of men struggling against the odds to defeat the enemy and protect each other. The book is Westlake native Patrick O'Donnell's seventh. With it, he hopes to tell a story of the Korean War -- the "Forgotten War" -- and chronicle the feats of the men who fought it. O'Donnell returned to Westlake Thursday night to speak about his book at Borders . C-SPAN recorded the appearance for later airing on its Book TV programming schedule. "I wanted to really capture the entire Korean War experience and sort of give people an understanding of it," O'Donnell said. "Hopefully, it will build some understanding and other families will embrace that and find their own veteran stories." O'Donnell is a longtime …
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