One Hundred Names

One Hundred Names by Cecelia Ahern
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Kitty Logan’s career has hit rock bottom – she followed wrong information and falsely accused a popular teacher of wrongdoing on her TV show. Now fired and ashamed, Kitty has to face the fact that her mentor, friend, and head of the famous magazine Etcetera, Constance, is dying from cancer. Upon asking the question of was there a story you wish you’d written but for whatever reason never wrote, Constance tells Kitty to check her files at home under “Names”. After her funeral, Kitty returns to Etcetera and digs through the files, and as a tribute to her late mentor, follows up on a very confusing list of one hundred names. With only two weeks until the magazine goes to print, Kitty must hunker down and find clues.
Warm-hearted, but more down to earth and less magical than her other books, Cecelia Ahern has written another goodie.


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Take Me Home

Take Me Home by Dorothy Garlock
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A quiet, sleepy town far away from the war…

When Billy Tate is ready to ship off to war, he asks his best friend Olivia Marsten to marry him. Even though Olivia is not in love with Billy, she says yes… because how could she say no? When stranger Peter Becker arrives in town and saves Olivia from being hit by a drunk driver, she really regrets her answer to her best friend, but she can’t let him down. Peter finds himself falling in love with Olivia but is afraid to tell her the truth about his identity and the fact that he’s an escaped German POW. When Olivia’s family is put in terrible danger, the truth finally comes to light.


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Fair Play

Fair Play by Deeanne Gist
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dr. Billy Jack Tate hung up a shingle in Chicago in 1893 and waited on patients to flock to the door. Unfortunately, 30 year old Billy Jack was a lady doctor in a man's world. So, when one of the chief executives of the Chicago World's Fair came to the city and ask her to fill in at the Woman's Building infirmary, Billy was ecstatic! Her first patient of the day is none other than Texas Ranger Hunter Scott, appointed as a Columbian Guard at the fair, who is dismayed at being treated by the likes of a female. But after Scott heals from his discomfort, the two find themselves thrown together in an attempt to rescue an abandoned baby, save a poor, young boy from prison, and build a safe, new playground in a bad section of town near Hull House.

Humor mixed in with history strikes the right note in this charming, inspirational novel.

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