Books That Grab Our Heart Strings By Angela Guzman l The Fault in Our Stars By John Green l Popular Sad Movies

The Fault in Our Stars

In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green has created a soulful novel that tackles big subjects - life, death and love. Green is able to balance the emotions that drive a human being when facing obstacles in life. Hazel is sixteen years old, with terminal cancer, when she meets Augustus at her cancer support group. The two are kindred spirits, sharing a compatible sense of humor that only soulmates could experience and understand. The couple fall in love even as they face universal questions of the human condition - How will I be remembered? Does my life, and will my death, have meaning? The honesty the circles these questions reveals the truth and reality that lies within life.

Love Story

Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp tongued, working class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. The two are opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are soul mates from different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed - as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.

One of the most adored novels of our time, this is the book that defined a generation - a story of uncompromising devotion, of life as it really is and love that changes everything.

My Sister's Keeper

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate - a life and a role that she has never challenged - until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.

My Sister’s Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child’s life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now classic novel of two women in the 1980s. Of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women, of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth - who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present, for Evelyn and for us, will never be quite the same again.