Briddey works for a telecommunications group in the UK and seems to have a near perfect life. She is in the middle of a whirlwind courtship with a handsome co-worker who is eager to bring them even closer by having a new procedure done that will let them speak in feelings to one another - a psychic connection. She knows her nosy family won't approve but it is hard to get away from all there phone calls and drop-ins to her place and family gatherings. It will take one nerdy eccentric inventor who hides out in the basement to try and help Briddey set things right after they go horribly wrong. With a little help from C.B. Briddey might be able to sift through all the noise and find her heart. Connie Willis gives us a tongue and cheek look at the modern communication age with all its pitfalls. The technology is close enough to be scary and the characters are lovable. In this 24/7 world where we are totally on, totally available where everyone knows everything you do - is there room for secrets or love?

Epic that follows such a diverse group of characters into the hot dry Southwest where the great General Pancho Villa is dragging his ragtag army waging war against everyone- the Mexican Army and the Americans who get in his way. He was personified by journalists and early movie reels as being a brave General passionately leading his army against huge odds but what we learn here is his other darker side - the rage and uncontrollable violence sometimes without reason. During the late 1800's many East coast American barons held considerable land and mining rights in Mexico and throughout Texas and it is one family whose ill timed trip will result in having children kidnapped ,others killed and a manhunt chasing Pancho Villa through desert and mountains in heat and hailstorms. The violence of the landscape many times matched the people who lived there and fought to survive. Famous characters are sprinkled in to help illustrate the diversity - the Hollywood cowboy Tom Mix, Generals Pershing and Patton and there is name dropping of all the founding fathers of the Industrial Revolution who started our thirst for oil and coal. The easy going style found in Winston Groom's other book "Forrest Gump" is used here to help soften the violence and add little touches of innocence. It is an epic worthy of James Michener or Larry McMurtry.

Nina gets downsized from a British library and her library is disbanded so she packs up and heads north for life's next opportunity. Little did she know that she would purchase a ramshackle old van and become a mobile bookstore for a small town in Scotland. She meets an interesting assortment of men from a quiet Latvian railway man to her grumpy farmer landlord and as she brings them a new world through books they begin to teach her a new life. Nina has a lifeline in her friend and old roommate as she tries to bridge her old life in the city and new one in the country. Soon her "Happy Ever After" bookshop has become a mainstay in the little town but can Nina find her own happy ever after? Quiet and sweet with characters you come to care about.

A couple who is reeling from a violent break - in has the chance for a getaway and house swap in a Paris apartment. The problems begin as soon as they arrive and the apartment is not as advertised - it is a hovel , the other couple never arrived at their house and they can't use their credit cards. Worse yet, a crazy woman throws herself off their balcony to her death. Mark is reeling from his past marriage and is starting to hallucinate that he sees his dead daughter everywhere. Classic haunted house story.