For One More Day by Mitch Albom
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I enjoyed this book more than his previous book The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It was a quick easy read. It will put a little guilt on your conscience about how we should treat our parents. Luckily the character Charley “Chick” Benetto was able to see what sacrifices his mother made for him and the power of a mother’s love even beyond the grave helped him to want to live instead of committing suicide. Enjoyable but the best book yet by Albom is Tuesday’s With Morrie.
Page - Rock Hill ISBN 1401303277
Phoebe MacNamara is a police lieutenant in Savannah, Georgia and works as a hostage negotiator. She is also the glue that holds her family together. Her mother has not stepped out of the house in years and she is trying to raise her young daughter and work too. Phoebe found her calling at an early age when her mothers violent boyfriend held her family hostage. She enjoys her job and is way too busy to start a relationship with Duncan Swift. Then as if life weren’t busy enough, someone has targeted her and her loved ones leaving threatening messages on her doorstep. In this case she is not the negoiator but feels more like the hostage. This story starts from page one and doesn’t slow down till the very end.
If you love FBI thrillers with a little romance thrown into the mix you’ll enjoy this book. Julia Ransom has long been suspected of murdering her much older husband but the police have never been able to get any evidence or proof to arrest her. When suddenly there are attempts on her life, the local police and FBI begin to realize that the real murderer is still out there and must be afraid that Julia could identify him or her. Without the help and protection of Special Agent Cheney Stone, Julia’s life would be in even more danger. The author also brings in another story line parallel with Julia and Cheney. She brings in characters from her previous novel and continues to tell the story of Sheriff Dixon Noble who was last seen in Point Blank. The two storylines weave together very well and you can’t wait until the last page to see how she wraps it up.
I’ve found a great mystery author that I want to tell everyone about. If you’ve never read Greg Iles, you should check him out. Having just finished Turning Angel, I’m definitely going back for more. This gripping legal mystery is set in Natchez, Mississippi. Penn Cage - lawyer and author - has just learned that his best friend, Dr. Andrew Elliott, was the secret lover of a beautiful 17-year-old high school senior found raped and murdered. Though Penn is upset with Drew for this shocking and inappropriate relationship, he signs on to represent him in court and unearth the real murderer. Before he can begin, however, both men are drawn into a the dangerous territory of blackmail, drug trade and violence. Other people start to die and the secret lives of the town’s high school students are revealed. Cage learns that these kids are not the innocent babes of his youth. There are some lurid scenes of pornography, drugs and sex that provide powerful depictions of teenagers’ lives today. I found the plot entertaining and educating while also keeping me on the edge of my seat. If you like James Patterson, then you will like reading Greg Iles. Iles’ writing is a little more graceful than JP, but his plot twists, contemporary settings and hard-edged suspense are just as satisfying. York County Library also has Turning Angel available in Large Print, audio CD or audio cassette.
There are a lot of dysfunctional families in the world but when you come from a family of private detectives, you enter a whole new level of dysfuntion. You’re doing background checks at 12 and following people at 14 and there is no privacy at all. As Isabelle Spellman grew up she expected to be allowed a little more privacy but instead her parents continued to follow her, investigate her boyfriends, have her followed and stooped to bugging her phone. Isabelle fought back the only way she knew how, but the results weren’t what she expected. This book is all about family. What drives you nuts and what you can’t live without. This is Lisa Lutz’s first novel and I think we might see more of Isabelle and her warm, funny, crazy family. 
Hosseini has written a very different book from Kite Runner, but it’s still a book about Afghanistan. The Afghanistan he remembers from his childhood and the country it came to be. The book begins in 1964 when a Mariam is five. She lives with her mother in a hut in a small village. Her father visits weekly but won’t acknowledge her to the world. When her mother dies, he marries her off to a man 3 times her age. What follows is the story of their marriage along with the changes that Afghanistan went through in the 1970’s through the present. When Mariam’s husband takes a second wife, Laila, Mariam finally finds something she has never truly had, the love of another person and your heart breaks just a little for her. Laila’s story is just as interesting as Mariam’s and just as sad. The book is heartbreaking, but at the end, a little hopeful. 
Almost eight years apart in age, sisters Geri and Ginger have different lives and different strengths and different goals but they live only a few blocks apart and seem to be in every facet of each other’s life. Geri is completely freaked out by the fact that she’s turning 50 in a few weeks and Ginger is trying to keep her parents from moving and kicking her out of the furnished room over the garage (frog). Geri’s son is chosen for a part in a movie filming nearby and Ginger agrees to accompany him to the set every day, where she has a chance to work on what she wants to do next with her life. When Geri’s life starts to fall apart, both sisters learn something about each other and themselves. Throw in a couple of crazy parents and you have a light book with enjoyable characters that makes for a fun summer read.
Literature professor, Rose Archer travels to Italy to research the life of Ginevra de Laura. She was hoping to find the poetry written by Ginevra de Laura, specifically her sonnets. Written in late sixteenth century the sonnets could provide a link between Shakespeare and the poet. The discovery could make her career and make provide the details for a new book on sonnets. What she didn’t figure on was a film company, an old lover and a couple of murders interrupting her research. The book has wonderful descriptions of the small town in Italy near Florence. The villa and the gardens along with the town are easy “to see” when reading this book.
