evil at heart by Chelsea Cain; 2009; 308 pages; Minotaur Press, New York, NY; 978-0-312-36848-7; 9/8-9/9
Remember in Alien, how every time you expected something to happen, that darn cat would pop up and then you would relax and THEN something would happen.  I kept expecting Gretchen to appear here and kept getting that darn cat.  [...]

Washington Schlepped Here, Walking in the Nation’s Capital by Christopher Buckley; 159 pages; 2003; Crown Journeys, New York, NY; 1-4000-4687-4; 9/6-9/8
Christopher Buckley can to D.C. to write speeches for HW Bush for one year in 1981 and still lives there.  I have this in audiobook format also so if I ever go to D.C. I [...]