High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. My best friend’s exorcism : a novel / Hendrix, Grady This is a book about second chances.” (Catalogue) He is loved by many people but is happy to be alone until Ilse Brauchmann comes into his life. “In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.” (Catalogue) But ahead of that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family will all come bubbling to the surface.” (Adapted from catalogue) By morning the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party and anticipation is at a fever pitch. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.” (Adapted from catalogue) Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. “In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. We’ve had a dig around the collection and here are some that you might enjoy… As those of us in Generation X are firmly planted in middle age, and the children of Gen X are nostalgic for the music they listened to when they were children, now’s a great time to seek out books either set in the 1980’s or with that 1980’s vibe to them.
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