Eating with the enemy: how I waged peace with North Korea from my bbq shack in Havensack/Robert Egan and Kurt Pitzer

New York: St Martin's Press, 2010.

Believe it or not, this is a true story of a burger-maker from New Jersey, on a mission to promote international peace.

"Why can't an ordinary guy have an extraordinary solution?" asks Robert Egan.

In an engaging, quick-moving style, he tells of the 13 years in which he unofficially embroiled himself in diplomatic battles between the U.S. and North Korea, travelling there several times and hosting north Korean diplomats in his N.J. bbq shack and making fast friendships across enemy lines.

For readers interested in a funny, off-beat memoir about serious issues.

The art of forgetting/Camille Noe Pagan

New York: Dutton, 2011.

Beautiful, exhuberent Julia is one day hit by a cab in New York and suffers brain damage that changes her personality and steals her memories. Her best friend Maria, successful but lacking in confidence finds her life changes too as she has to now take on an alpha personality and take charge. Both women have to face up to their relationship and decisions taken in the past and find the balance between forgetting and forgiving. A story of the true meaning of friendship, written in contemporary style, this novel will find definite appeal with the twenty-somethings.