Redemption

Redemption by David Baldacci 420 pages

Amos Decker and FBI partner Alex Jamison are visiting his hometown when he is approached by Meryl Hawkins, the first person Decker ever arrested for murder. Meryl is now terminally ill, but still swears her never committed the murders. Decker starts to go through the old case when he finds a connection to a new crime he may be able to prevent as long as he figures it out fast enough.

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hanna Tinti

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hanna Tinti  - 496 pages


After years spent living on the run, Samuel Hawley moves with his teenage daughter Loo to Olympus, Massachusetts. There, in his late wife's hometown, Hawley finds work as a fisherman, while Loo struggles to fit in at school and grows curious about her mother's mysterious death. Haunting them both are twelve scars Hawley carries on his body, from twelve bullets in his criminal past - a past that eventually spills over into his daughter's present, until together they must face a reckoning yet to come. Both a coming of age novel and a literary thriller, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY explores what it means to be a hero, and the price we pay to protect the people we love most.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
473 pages

The book follows the amazing life of Louis Zamperini, a troubled youth turned Olympic runner. He then volunteers to be a bomber for the Army Air Forces in the Pacific during WWII. The story expands from there.

This is the best book I have read in the last few years.

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