Summer is a wonderful time to read for pleasure and to experience the world through books. This summer you will have the option of choosing between two books. Hopefully, you will find the time to enjoy both!
Non-Fiction: Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer. At the center of Tracy Kidder’s exciting moral adventure is Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard-trained physician who decided to take his expertise and kindness “on the road.” In his quest to cure the world, Farmer has battled AIDS and other infectious diseases in Haiti, Cuba, Russia and Peru. Through the work of his public charity Partners in Health, Farmer demonstrates how one man can indeed make a difference. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope and the truth in the Haitian proverb “Beyond mountains there are mountains:” as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too. 
Fiction: The Book Thief by Markus ZusakIt’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. The author, Markus Zusak, grew up sitting at the kitchen table, glued to his chair, listening to his mother’s tales of her childhood in Nazi Germany. Such tales would later serve as a springboard for his unusual novel about the power of words to both destroy and comfort. A daring work, this novel has a bizarre narrator: Death. Drawn into a tense and dangerous historical era, readers discover how Liesel Meminger first learns to read and is transformed into the “book thief,” stealing books before they can be burned by the Nazis or confiscated from personal libraries. When her family decides to hide a Jew in the basement, Liesel holds out hope to him in the form of her two most precious commodities: words and stories. –Taken from Barnes and Noble review