Reading Recommendations:Dune Road, a novel by Jane Green.Set in Connecticuts' tong Gold Coast town of Highfield, Dune Road tells the story of Kit Hargrove, whose divorce has granted her a new lease on life. No longer a Wall Street widow with the requisite diamond studs and Persian Rugs, Kit revels in her clapboard with the sea green shutters and sprawling Impa-tients. Her kids are content, her ex cooperative, her friends steadfast, and each morning she wakes up unable to believe how lucky she is to have landed the job of her dreams, assisting the blockbuster novelist Robert McClore.A mysterious tragedy drove this famous writer into seclusion decades ago, and few besides Kit are granted access to his house at the top of Dune Road, with its breath taking view of Long Island Sound. But all that is about to change. At a rare appearance at the local book store, McClore meets Kit's new friend Tracy, whose weakness for older men rivals her powers of self-reinvention. Are the secret visits of her boss's new muse as innocent as Kit would like to believe? When a figure from her mother's past emerges with equally cryptic intentions just as the bear financial market is upending her best friends life, Kit discovers that her blissfully constructed idyll, and the gorgeous man who has walked in with creamy white roses isn't as perfect as she thought. Ties to friends and family are further reaching than ever before. Jane Green at her best, full of brilliant insights into the challenges that come with forging a new life.And, The Snow Child, a novel by, Eowyn Ivey.Homesteaders Jack and Mabel have carved out a quiet life of hard work and routine for themselves in the wilderness that is 1920's Alaska, both still deeply longing for the child its now impossible for them to have. Yet their love for each other is strong and in a moment of levity during the season's first snowstorm, they play together, building a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone but a trail of tiny steps remains. For weeks following, they both catch glimpses of a blond little girl alone in the woods but neither dares mention it to the other afraid that long buried hopes have overruled common sense.Then the little girl, who call herself Faina shows up on their doorstep. Small and fair, she seems truly magical: she hunts with a red fox at her side, she leaves blizzards in her wake and somehow she manages to survive alone in the harsh Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mable struggle to understand Faina, they come to love her as their own. But in this beautiful violent place, things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform them all. The reader will never forget this one!And, Brooklyn Heights, Miral al - Tahawy, Translated by Samah Selim.Hend, newly arrived in New York with her eight year old son, several suitcases of unfinished manuscripts, and hardly any English, finds a room in Brooklyn teeming with people like her who dream of becoming a writer.As she discovers the various corners of her new home, they conjure up parallel memories from her childhood and her small Bedouin village in the Nile Delta: Emilia, who sells used shoes at the fleas market, smells like Zeinal, the old woman who worked for Hend's grandfather, the reflection of her own body as she dances the tango awakens the awkwardness of her relationship to that body across the years; the story of Lilith, the Egyptian bourgeoise who has lost her memory, prompts Hend to safeguard her own. Through this Kaleidoscopic spectrum of disadvantaged characters we encounter unique but familiar life histories in this award winning and intensely moving novel of displacement and exile. See you at Rylander