Title: The Omega Point Author: Whitley Strieber File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction:Suspense Description:From Publishers WeeklyThe solar systems entry in 2020 into a supernovas atmosphere threatens the future of life on Earth in Striebers over-the-top sequel to 2012 The War for Souls. On arrival at West Virginias Acton Clinic, Dr. David Ford, the clinics new chief psychiatrist, learns from the woman who hired him, Aubrey Denman, that the job involves more than being a medical administrator. He must also protect the clinics secret mission from its enemies, who include the members of the Seven Families who control the wealth of this planet. When Denman dies shortly thereafter in a car bomb explosion, Ford has to fend for himself. Fords later researches in the Acton library lead him to conclude that Osiris, Moses, and Jesus, among others, were time travelers from a lost civilization. Ponderous prose (No doubt Goliath is many things, but one of them must be that violet light—the highest color of alchemical growth and also the color of ultimate death) does little to help the nonsensical plot. (June) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. FromIn a thriller about the end of the world as we know it, Strieber takes us on a journey through the horrors of apocalypse and into the promise of hope in a future changed beyond all recognition. Since 2012, radiation from a supernova has been wreaking increasing havoc with technology. Eventually, the ferocity of the solar storms threatens to burn life on Earth to a crisp. Enter David Ford, a psychologist hired to work at the exclusive Acton Clinic. Of course, nothing is as it appears on the surface. Though he has no recollection of it, David was once a student at the center that preceded the clinic, at which Herbert Acton and others taught a science so ancient it had passed into the realm of mysticism. Many of the present-day patients were Davids classmates, and they hold the only hope for the survival of humanity in their command of the science they learned there. Strieber regards the popular theme of apocalypse from a New Agey angle not unusual for him and sometimes rather dull. --Regina Schroeder

Title: The Girls of Room 28_ Friendship, Hope, Author: Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick File Type: Mobi Subject:Autobiography Description:From Publishers WeeklyBrenner, a Berlin-based journalist, focuses on 10 former child survivors, women in their late 70s, who went through the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. She notes that 12,000 children entered the camp from 1942 to 1944, but only a few hundred survived to war's end, and a handful of women of Room 28 in the camp's Girls' Home, now scattered around the world, reunited for the first time in 1991. The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp's victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries and remembrances. Forced into exile and almost certain death under the Nazi regime, the children confronted hunger, cold, terror and the soul's endurance as many of the girls of Room 28 were slowly eliminated; the small band of survivors is committed to keeping their memory alive. Well-detailed and inspiring, Brenner's book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. B&w photos. (Sept.) br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. ReviewThis beautiful evocation of heartwarming friendship in the darkest of times is unforgettable.br —Elie Wiesel The insights of the survivors and stories of the camp's victims are unforgettable and full of poignant humanity, conveyed through letters, photos, diaries, and remembrances. . . . Well detailed and inspiring, Brenner's book, especially her heartfelt epilogue, pays glowing tribute to these heroic survivors. br —_Publishers Weekly_ “Brenner chronicles the remarkable artistic experiments undertaken by the girls, especially their enthusiastic production of the children’s opera Brundibár. An inspiring story of courage rendered through impressive personal and historical detail.”br —_Kirkus Reviews_ The story of this children's home in Theresienstadt takes us to the limit of the bearable, to the place where compassion, fear, and the temptation to simply turn away all lie in wait. To resist that temptation--isn't that what the historical record must achieve?br —_DIE ZEIT _This handful of girls wanted their memories of their dead friends and their time in Theresienstadt not to be forgotten. They wanted to make the story of their survival, and the love and friendship that their caretakers showerd them, unforgettable. Together with the author, they have succeeded. In Hannelore Brenner, these women have found someone who listened to them, who read their albums of poetry, their diaries, and their chronicles, and who has written a wonderful book.br —_PRAGER ZEITUNG _Brenner has gathered together these stories with great sensitivity. She makes the past spring to life and gracefully places the personal memories of these girls into a historical context, while at the same time offering solid research and background information regarding life in Theresienstadt and the political situation of the time.br —_SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG_