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<\/a>Grace Carter, 11, has a talent for hiding things. She’s had plenty of practice, burying thoughts and feelings that might anger her strict Evangelical pastor father, and concealing the deep intuition she carries inside. \u201cThe Knowing,\u201d as Grace calls it, offers glimpses of people’s pasts and futures in \u201cThis I Know\u201d by Eldonna Edwards.<\/p>\n<\/a>Arundhati Roy\u2019s \u201cThe God of Small Things\u201d is set in the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, where fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cThe Unbearable Lightness of Being,\u201d by Milan Kundera, is a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities. Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterfully written novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cValley of the Dolls\u201d by Jacqueline Susann: Washed down with vodka or swallowed straight for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn’t matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry, only to find that there is no place left to go but down \u2014 into the \u201cValley of the Dolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>\u201cThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,\u201d by Muriel Spark, begins at the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, where teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods; in her attraction to the married art master, Teddy Lloyd; in her affair with the bachelor music master, Gordon Lowther; and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 in her dedication to “her girls,” the students she selects to be her cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me.<\/p>\n