Bøger af Sue Halpern

For head librarian Kit, her local public library offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems.That changes when fifteen-year-old, homeschooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary and is assigned community service at the library for the summer. Bright, curious, and eager to connect with someone other than her hippie parents, Sunny coaxes Kit out of her self-imposed isolation.In this little library that has become the heart of this small town, Kit and Sunny are drawn to each other, and to a cast of other offbeat regulars. As they come to terms with how their lives have unraveled, they also discover how they might knit them together again and finally reclaim their stories.

Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico's Neovolcanic Mountains, and then make the return trip in the spring.In Four Wings and a Prayer, Sue Halpern sets off on an adventure to delve into the secrets behind this extraordinary phenomenon. She visits scientists and butterfly lovers across the country, offering a keenly observed portrait of the monarchs' migration and of the people for whom they have become a glorious obsession. Combining science, memoir, and travel writing, Four Wings and a Prayer is an absorbing travelogue and a fascinating meditation on a profound mystery of the natural world.