52 Books 52 Weeks / Week Ending March 11, 2013
BUDDY: HOW A ROOSTER MADE ME A FAMILY MAN by Brian McGrory
After several dark and disturbing books, it was time to read something a bit more uplifting. I found it in Buddy!
Brian McGrory, a second cousin of columnist Mary McGrory, was a confirmed bachelor and a well-known journalist for the Boston Globe. He spent many years enjoying the streets of Boston with his golden retriever, Harry, but Harry became ill and eventually passed away. Brian began a friendship and then a relationship with Pam, his beloved dog's vet. But Pam came with a ready made family: two daughters, and multiple pets that included a cantankerous rooster named Buddy, and Brian's life changed drastically when Brian and Pam fell in love, and Brian left his much loved Boston home for a home in suburbia.
Buddy adores Pam and her daughters but sees Brian as an interloping intrusion, and does everything he can to rid the house of Brian. Brian comes to understand the special love that the rooster has for Pam and her girls, and realizes what a role model the rooster is. Buddy becomes Brian's inspiration for his unconditional love for his new family in this funny, warm and heartwarming story.
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First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, Bk 1)
Interesting premise. Charley is the grim reaper and helps the police since she can communicate with the dead. It's a paranormal mystery-romance with humor. I'm looking forward to the next in the series.
A smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper
Charley sees dead people. That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to go into the light.” But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely. This is a thrilling debut novel from an exciting newcomer to the world of paranormal romantic suspense.
Reunion A Search for Ancestors
Ryan Littrell
Where do I come from?
That question sets Ryan Littrell on a journey that crosses centuries and many miles. An anonymous letter, found at the bottom of a box of black-and-white pictures, reveals the first clues about his grandmother's family story, and soon those clues lead him to a country graveyard and a long-lost cousin.
Then faded names in old books, along with a DNA surprise, unearth one more generation, and yet another. And as one hint leads to the next, from the 19th century back into the 18th, he discovers his family's place in a people's tragic struggle--a tale of heartbreak, betrayal, and unfailing strength.
A real-life account, "Reunion" shows how our ancestors just might still be a part of us, and how our story began long before we were even born.
Grounds to Kill
Wendy Roberts
I like Wendy Roberts other series but found this one lacking. I found the main character hard to like. What I liked about this mystery is it kept you guessing who was the killer. I'll be reading the second in the series to see how the characters develop and another great mystery!
Barista Jen Hanby's coworkers give her a hard time for bringing coffee and pastries to a homeless man who sits outside her café—but she has a secret. The scruffy man is her father. She's also hiding the little matter of why her palm itches. But how can she explain that her hand has a mind of its own and writes messages from the beyond? Right. That'll get her Employee of the Month. When she finds herself scrawling your boyfriend is cheating on you! to herself on the bathroom mirror, she immediately dumps the guy. But then his little fling—who just happens to be her half sister—turns up dead, and suddenly Jen's homeless father is the prime suspect. Jen knows he is being framed and must take matters into her own hands to protect him. But will anyone believe that the crazy old man is innocent? Or that his spirit-writing daughter holds the truth?
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