“The cultures of the different worlds had grown so distinct that interplanetary communication was becoming impossible. Our job was to keep them from offending one-another in order to prevent pointless conflict. We may have broadened our scope a bit since then, but that is the core of our job, and do it solely by talking to our leaders. If we ever gave them a reason to stop listening to us, we’re finished. Understand?”
So I had to ask my niece whether John actually dies at the end in John Dies at the End
I am not quite sure how to describe this book. Bizarre would be apt. More than an apt description. It was certainly entertaining and did I mention bizarre? I am not sure that I have ever read a book quite like it. David Wong’s 
“And if one organism had evolved into a nearly perfect killer, it’s very existence suggested there could be another, somewhere, that had evolved into the perfect healer. An organism whose existence was as much an anomaly as the machineel tree. And she thought she’d found it. No she was sure she had found it.”
 Catalyst 
Some post State-Of-The-Union notes from a local newspaper columnist, Salena Zito…
“Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction,’ he [Obama] said. He shamelessly went on to embellish statistics, claiming 14 million new jobs, including 900,000 manufacturing jobs. Afterward, FactCheck.orgshowed that it’s more like 9 million jobs, many of them lower-paying service jobs. And, over Obama’s time in office, manufacturing jobs have plummeted by 230,000. In short, if you “made†something in the Obama economy, you lost your job; if you “served†someone, you got a job — but probably needed two, so you could make ends meet.”
In Michael C. Grumley 
This was another enjoyable novel by Mr. Grumley. Maybe not edge of my seat, but I am currently reading the third in the series and I don’t usually read three in a row like this.
A group of researchers in Florida are working with Sally and Dirk for five years to try to get them to talk or at least understand their language. Sally and Dirk are dolphins. The researchers have been recording and compiling the clicks and utterances of the mammals for years creating a catalogue that will hopefully be used to translate. Their Breakthrough
In the first of the Will Robie thrillers, The Innocent, 
Let this statistic sink in from the Pew Foundation:
“Shifting demographics nationwide are changing the face of American employment. Immigrants make up 13 percent of the population and 17 percent of the workforce.”
I don’t think they braeak down legal versus illegal immigrants or how many of the immigrants are citizens, but here is some information on where they work;
…and there are nearly 95 MILLION Americans not in the work force;
A brilliant physicist’s fiancé is thrust into a tumultuous battle; barely escaping with her life. Her survival instincts kick in and she now enlists the help of former special forces and current private investigator, Aaron Blake. In Split Second
In Sprinkled
