I don't know about you but I love Christmas time! I love it because I know I'm going to get some books I would have never thought of reading because relatives and coworkers whose knowledge of my tastes runs along the lines of "I think he likes to read things." Every year I look forward to leafing through any number of Best Seller books trying to figure out which one of my favorite celebrities will play the many characters in the book! So to get ready for this Holiday season I've been boning up on this years Best Seller list. Looks like some pretty good ones are in there!
1. Recess Is Over – Jean Grillman (Farley
& Bloom)
A fledgling law firm takes on a giant
corporation whose Crazee Train beverage might be causing brain damage across
America. The firm’s newest member, Luke, may seem unorthodox but perhaps this
breath of sober air will aid this David in taking out a greedy Goliath.
2. I Will Never Stop Not Being Without You –
Nigel Stamp (Dry Aged Publishing)
A young man with a mysterious past comes to
a small town to seek redemption. The mayor’s rebellious daughter finds in the
stranger the hope she was searching for. On the eve of the town’s annual Celery
Festival secrets are revealed and lives are forever changed.
3. Zone 316 – Takeshi Motomora (Halfcourt
Press)
The year is 2068. The Solomyne Corporation’s
“Knowledge Implants” have begun to have unwanted results. A robot terrorist
group is causing havoc throughout the country. The elite have fled earth and
maintain control from a distant planet. Detective Kurt DiLallo may have found a
connection between all of these things. And the key to unlocking this
conspiracy is hiding in Zone 316.
4. Those People – Marilyn Stewart (Motherland
Publishing)
A naïve white girl finds friendship and spirituality
in 1950s Georgia. Ostracized by her peers and family, the young heroine finds
solidarity and wisdom from the unlikeliest source – from “those people.”
5. The Sweet Taste of Dirt – Louis Mallvant (LeRouge
& Stims)
An alcoholic father attempts to aid the FBI
in the hunt for the serial killer who raped and murdered his daughter. Along
the way every new rape-murder victim brings Sam closer and closer to the edge.
With stunning verbal fireworks and an almost preternatural understanding of the
mind of a rapist and murderer, Louis Mallvant writes a moving and haunting
story of fatherhood, revenge, redemption and rape.
6. I Showered With My Shorts On – David Adelman
(Horowitz & Goldman)
David Adelman’s moving and humorous memoir of
growing up Jewish in 1980s California.
7. Publish or Perish – Ken Wallace (Midweek
Press)
An Ivy League professor of Medieval
Philosophy comes under investigation for a recent spate of murders he’s fairly
certain he didn’t commit. His only recourse is to investigate himself, himself.
Will he find out if he did it before the police?
8. Belly Laughs – Meredith Meekler (Standing
Ovation Publishing)
Meekler pens a thorough and heartbreaking
biography of 1950s comedian Harry Housman. Housman’s story is a fascinating
tour through anti-semitism, alcoholism, true love, divorce, drug addiction, sex
addiction, prison survival, self-hatred, holocaust denial, prostitution,
performance anxiety, prostate examination, artificial insemination, and
stand-up comedy.
9. Stick In the Mud – Benjamin Blankenship
(Ennui Classics)
Father Jerome breathes some new life into
the goings-on at the Shadydale Senior Center. Life-affirming, casual and
thankfully very short, Benjamin Blankenship’s new novella is most certainly his
newest work yet.
10. The Smell of Chance – Vladimir Stolovich
(Downtown Publishing)
A
blind woman begins to fall for a man she meets in a bar. She uncharacteristically
opens up to this charming stranger. Her trust is put to the test though when
she finds out that he’s her gynecologist.
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