My List of Good Books To Read

1) Chris Freeman's Streetwise

Ex-cop Joseph Soyinka made many enemies fighting corruption but refused to be intimidated - until his wife was killed and his life destroyed. Now he lives with his young son in the anonymous safety of New York City. By day he drives a yellow cab. By night he tries to forget about the past. Joseph knows his friend Cyrus is not a murderer, but he is involved in something - and he's in way over his head. The only way to find the real killer is to take Cyrus's place in a deadly game.

2) David Baldacci's Last Man Standing

Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Web was the sole survivor of a high-tech, devastating ambush.

Now Web is trying to put his life back together and understand what really happened. To get answers, he’ll need the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels and the one other human being who lived through the attack – a ten-year-old boy. But when his search leads him back to that bloodstained alley, Web suddenly realizes he is about to face his assassin again.  And this time, one of them will become the Last Man Standing.

3) James L. Rubart's Soul's Gate

What if you could travel inside another person's soul?

To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds. To help set them free to step boldly into their divinely designed  future.

Thirty years ago that's exactly what Reece Roth did. Until tragedy shattered his life and ripped away his future. Now God has drawn Reece out of the shadows to fulfill a prophecy spoken over him thee decades ago. A prophecy about four warriors with the potential to change the world....if Reese will face his deepest regret and teach them what he has learned. They gather at a secluded and mysterious ranch deep in the mountains of Colorado, where they will learn to see the spiritual world around them with stunning clarity- and how to step into the supernatural. Their training is only the beginning. The four have a destiny to pursue a freedom even Reece doesn't fully fathom. But they have an enemy hell- bent on destroying them and he'll stop at nothing to keep their quest for true freedom and the coming battle of souls.

4) Alan M. Dershowitz's Just Revenge

For fifty years, Max Menuchen has kept the secret of his past;the memories are too terrible to share. The sole survivor when his entire family was gunned down in the woods of Lithuania by the Nazi Marcelus Prandus, Max has made a new life in America.

When a chance encounter brings Max face to face with Prandus, the desire for revenge becomes an obsession. It is not enough to simply to kill the old man. For Marcelus to suffer as Mas has suffered, he must witness the deaths of all his loved ones. But can it ever be just to kill the innocent to avenge the guilty? Max' solution is both monstrous and inspired, and the trial that follows would captivate the world.

5)Because  Pula Means Rain

"I believe in ghosts" says Emmanuel, looking out across a landscape turned silver under the full Botswana Moon. Emmanuel's grandmother does not believe  in ghosts, but in such a wide and open land, spread out under such a wide and open sky, there is omm enough for many beliefs and many truths.

Because the ghosts believe in Emmanuel. Ghosts are the shadows of the past that still fall upon the present, and Emmanuel and his village have yet to face the terrible secret that lies buried in their history. For the curse to be lifted and for peace to return to the community, Emmanuel must take a dangerous journey back in time and memory,He must face down his own fears, and the buried fears of his people. He must right a terrible wrong that was committed many years ago, on a night in which there was no moon at all....

6) The River Between

From the Heinemann African writers series,The River between explores life on the Makuyu and Kamen ridges of Kenya in the early days of white settlement. Faced with an alluring, new religion and 'magical' customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it. Some follow Joshua and his fiery brand of Christianity. Others proudly pursue tribal independence. In the midst of this disunity stands Waiyaki, a dedicated visionary born to a line of prophets. He struggles to educate the tribe- a task he sees as the only unifying link between the two factions- but his plans for the future raise issues which determine both his own and the Gikuyu' survival.

7)The King of Torts

The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too terrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies  in the world and looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life- that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts....

So many books.....so little time.....