The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is a brilliant domestic suspense novel about Samuel and his teenage daughter Loo. There are twelve gun shot wounds on Sam’s body, behind each, there is a story that still haunts Sam in the present. Trying his hardest to be a good father and shielding Loo from what the criminal past might bring, Sam could not stop Loo from uncovering bits and pieces of her mother mysterious death from her grandmother. This book is a love story, a family story, and a thriller. Besides the actions, deep emotions intertwine around grief, confusion, loss, and longing.
I read the advanced readers copy and could not put it down. This book will be published in March this year, it is definitely a page turner.
to his hometown to deal with the passing of his brother. Lee found out that his brother’s will is for him to be his nephew’s guardian. While trying to build a relationship with his teenage nephew, Lee found himself caught in the past that he does not want to remember. 
and writer Jean-Thomas “Tomi” Ungerer. He emigrated from France to the United States in his twenties, and experienced the Golden age of advertising illustrations in NYC. He then stepped into children’s book industry, later flourished in creating political posters. It provides an overview of his creative career is visually and intellectually stimulating. Ungerer’s personal experience put the audience in perspective of his work. For instance, Ungere’s children’s books often have elements of fear, this is due to his childhood experience. This film is true to the artist’s creative process, which is influenced very much by what’s around him. It is amazing to see his journey pursuing what he is interested in, and at the same time, pushing the public’s boundary on the image of a children’s book author–Ungerer was in the middle of the controversy when he did erotic illustrations while famously known as a children’s book author, his books were banned from public libraries at one point.