Hiroshima Dreams by Kelly Easton

★★★

Coraline by Neil Gailman

★★★★

"The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart.  We keep our memories longer than our names."

Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

★★★★★

"How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered."

"Zakhar, Al Tichkan."

"Remember, Never Forget."

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund

★★★★

" 'Mortality is a cause for humility,' she said to me.  'None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken.  Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in like.' "