orphanage, Lisa Wingate's Before We Were Yours. The children weren't always orphans, but stolen babies and children. I was completely invested in wonderful characters of this loving family.
Finished Extinction by Douglas Preston. This was NOT Jurassic Park. Good book.
Just finished #10 of the Spencer Quinn Chet series Of Mutts and Men. "When Chet the dog and PI Bernie Little of the desert-based Little Detective Agency, arrive to a meeting with hydrologist Wendell Nero, they are in for a shocking sight—Wendell has come to a violent and mysterious end. What did the hydrologist want to see them about? Is his death a random robbery, or something more? Chet and Bernie, working for nothing more than an eight-pack of Slim Jims, are on the case." Ended up being a very exciting episode, and #8 and #9 books all great.
Also highly recommend Breakfast With Buddha by Roland Merullo. "When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger--and amuse himself--he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way." Wry, funny, warm, and thought provoking .
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