Ordinary Human Failings -- Megan Nolan, Hardcover Alfaguara The Sandcastle Girls

The Sandcastle Girls

Track: 3 - You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven Jim Atkins

While most of us may never become Einstein

The Italian maestro Ruggiero Ricci

Ordinary Human Failings -- Megan Nolan, Hardcover Alfaguara The Sandcastle GirlsWhen a 10 year old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from "huge literary talent" (Karl Ove Knausgaard). It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants" ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His