Her entry begins:
As soon as I read a review of Far From the Tree, a nonfiction book by Andrew Solomon with the subtitle Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, I knew that I had to read it. As the mother of two wonderful teenagers, one of whom has decided that he just may be too dynamically creative to bother with college despite the fact that both his grandfathers and his mother were or are college professors, grappling with accepting your children for who they are as individuals has been much on my mind lately.About The Money Kill, from the publisher:
Solomon brilliantly examines the lives of families raising a child who is somehow different either from his or her parents or society at large. What is it like for hearing parents to raise a deaf child, and what is it like for a hearing child to be raised by deaf parents? What if your child grows up to become...[read on]
Former New York City police detectives-turned-Brooklyn private investigators Karin Schaeffer and her husband Mac survived when brutal terror invaded their lives more than once. Now the offer of thirty thousand dollars for one day's work in London, followed by aLearn more about the book and author at Katia Lief's website.family vacation in an exotic locale, seems too good to be true. And then they discover that it is.
Putting Mac's investigations into the alleged marital infidelities of billionaire Godfrey Millerhausen on hold, the family finds paradise in the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Sardinia. But the holiday turns dark and terrible when the children vanish. Suddenly Karin and Mac must unravel a deadly web first spun when wronged wife Cathy Millerhausen walked into their world—as they discover firsthand the true evil of big money: how far it reaches, what it buys ... who it kills.
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