Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

Vanishing Acts by Jodi PicoultDelia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search and rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it." In shock and confusion, Delia must

Blending memoir and literary criticism

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War

Particularly in these difficult times

White's classic novels

traditionally known as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta

What we do in this life will influence our lives to come as we evolve towards immortality

she must uncover the truth about a complex case

’People and their acts of bravery are often lost to the annals of history

regional and international circumstances

As suspenseful and satisfying as the best of his Dirk Pitt novels

with extensive geographical and historical context with many illustrated maps

she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together – how they met