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Diane's pick of the month:  I would like to share with you books that I have read and enjoyed, laughed and cried over.  Here are books that are so well written that I couldn't put them down until the end.

  Hope you enjoy them, too.

Diane's Pick

September2009

The Shack  by William Paul Young

The Shack is a story about a man, named Mackenzie Allen Phillip, "aka," Mack and his family. When Mack and his three children go on vacation, his youngest daughter Missy is abducted and brutally murdered and evidence is found in this old abandoned shack deep in the Oregon woods.

Mack is having a terrible time coming to grips with Missy's death and is angry and disappointed with God. Then Mack receives a note, apparently from God, to meet him at the Shack. 

What Mack finds when he arrives at the shack will forever change his life and let him find peace and love in his life again. If you read one fiction book this year, let this be the one.

Diane's Pick

March 2009

Run for Your Life by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge

A calculating killer, calling himself The Teacher, is taking on New York murdering the Powerful and Arrogant.  Only Mike Bennett can tackle such a case.  Unfortunately poor Mike has 10 adopted children home with the flu.

Discovering a secret pattern in The Teacher's lessons, Mike realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.

"So mind your manners....or you're next!"

Diane's Pick

February 2009

Three Weeks to Say Goodbye  by C.J. Box

 This is compelling and gripping story of an adoptive parents worst nightmare.  Jack and Melissa McGuane are told they have to give their new baby Angelina back to the birth father.

Only it's apparent that his motivation is NOT love.

As Angelina's safety hangs in the balance, Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to keep her safe.

How far would you go to save someone you love?

This is another great novel from the author of the Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett series.

Diane's Pick

November 2008

A Promise to Believe In   by Tracie Peterson

This is a story of three sisters operating a roadhouse in Montana by themselves after their father is shot.

Gwen is the oldest and has been married, but her husband died from measles the same week.  Beth is the middle sister and has a very lady-like quality about her.  Lacy is the youngest and is a tomboy and can do anything a man can do.

One day a visitor arrives and is looking for his brother who was Gwen's husband and wants the family bonds & jewelry back.

Gwen feels she is "CURSED."  Pick up this story and find out if life gets any better......

October 2008

Just Breath by Susan Wiggs

With Chicago and her marriage behind her, Sara Moon goes home to regroup (to find herself again).  See meets up with an old crush, Will Bonner, and they fall in love.  Only she is now pregnant with her ex-husband's twins.  Will this story have a happy ending?