Somewhere in Germany - Stefanie Zweig

Springtime In Britain - Edwin Way Teale

The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux

Castaway in Cornwall, Julie Klassen

On the Beach - Nevil Shute

Saving Sandcastles - Meredith Summers

Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach -- Colin Cotterill

Hidden Grandma - Susan Riehle

Grandmother's Teapots, Nelda Powell

Shaking the Family Tree -- Buzzy Jackson

The Flame Trees of Thika - Elspeth Huxley

(an enjoyable read)

I Smell Smoke - Craig Halloran

Comes a Time for Burning -- Steven Havill

Some Like it Hot: Stories - Brenda Jackson

The Burning Court, John Dickson Carr

House on Fire.....Joseph Finder

A World Lit Only By Fire .... William Manchester

Fanning the Flames - Ian Chillcott

Instant Anger Management - Aaron Karmin

Dinner in an Instant -- Melissa Clark

Three O'Clock Dinner - Josephine Pinckney

( a Charleston classic).

Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime, John Dunning

Owls of the Eastern Ice -- Jonathan Slaght

The Owl Always Hunts at Night - Sam Bjork

I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Margaret Craven

My Name s Asher Lev - Chaim Potok

My Name Is Mary Sutter .... Robin Oliviera

Remind Me Who I Am Again - Linda Grant

Whose Face Is In The Mirror ? - Dianne Schwartz

Til We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis

Faces in the Water - Janet Campion

The Case of the Substitute Face -- Erle Stanley Gardner

Night of Masks ... Andre Norton

The Turquoise Mask - Phyllis A. Whitney

The Mask of Sanity - Hervey Cleckley

The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor

Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Charles Shultz

Happiness - Will Fergusson

Happy Days Are Here Again - Doug Olsen

( and I am going to hear this all day!)

The Happy Bottom Riding Club - Lauren Kessler

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding - Deborah Baker

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Alpha Beta Omega - L C Davis

Delta Wedding -- Eurdora Welty

When People Were Nice and Things Were Pretty: A Culinary History of Marigold, A Mississippi Delta Town, Renelda L. Owen

Marigolds for Malice - Bailey Cattrell

With Malice Towards Some - Margaret Halsey ( 1938)

One of my favorites ....

A professor's wife recounts her impressions on her first trip abroad, at the time of her husband's exchange professorship with a staff member of a Devonshire college. She is all eyes for new sights and this is a readable, entertaining account of places, people, and life around her. Through the pages of her diary the reader shares her experiences:- the house they rent, the neighbors' gossip, teas, dinners, difficulties in adapting herself to what is expected of her, her husband's dry humor and flawless behavior, amusing commentary, honest likes and dislikes, all with skilled and original (sometimes overly so) turn of phrase.

Malice at the Palace, Rhys Bowen

Nursing a Grudge......Michael Biehl

Grievance: A Novel -- Christine Bell