I believe I have found a significant correlation between leeches and fast food burgers. It came to me when the loving husband and I took a brief respite from the rigors of daily living to go fishing for a few days. Always on a quest for the elusive walleye, the loving husband decided to purchase some leeches. They came in four sizes: small, medium, large, and jumbo. The bigger the leech, the bigger the price. It is my understanding, based on decades of research, that the fish is very low on the evolutionary scale. A hungry fish that comes upon a leech will never say to himself, "Oh, I’m not going to waste my time with a medium leech. I want a jumbo leech." No, a hungry walleye is going to nab the first tasty snack he sees. The four sizes of leeches made me think of Hardees. They offer four sizes of burgers, the 1/3-pound thickburger (small), the l/2-pound thickburger (medium), and the 2/3-pound thickburger (large). Then there’s the monster double bacon cheese thickburger (jumbo) that is big enough to feed a family of four. The bigger the burger, the bigger the price. One difference: The hungry human will say to himself, "I’m not going to waste my time with the medium thickburger, I want the jumbo thickburger." (Even though it has 1,410 calories, 107 grams of fat, and 2740 mg of sodium, and is big enough to feed a family of four.) After more deliberation on the subject, I believe there is a correlation between leeches and everything, including books. Our library books come in small, medium, large, and jumbo, too, except they are all the same price, FREE. A good medium-sized book on the new shelf is "Lifeguard," by James Patterson. The danger isn't in the water. When a lifeguard in a Florida resort, Ned Kelly, meets the woman of his dreams, it feels perfect except that she prefers caviar and Manolo Blahniks and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. So when Ned's cousin offers him a seemingly risk-free role in a painting heist that will make them all millionaires, Ned can’t turn him down. Then, bang, it all explodes: Tess is brutally murdered and all his co-conspirators are massacred, leaving guess-who as the leading suspect? Also new on the shelf is Danielle Steel’s new book (small) "Miracle." It is New Year’s Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. In a quiet neighborhood in San Francisco, amid the chaos of fallen trees and damaged homes, the lives of three strangers are about to collide. Maggie, still grieving a loss, slowly comes alive again, and Jack finally shares a painful secret he has hidden for years. But at the center of the friendship is Quinn. A man who has scaled heights of success in business, Quinn is now adrift, waiting as builders put the finishing touches on his newest passion, a 180-foot yacht he plans to sail around the world. Looking back at all he missed with his family while he built his empire, Quinn is consumed by guilt, focused only on escaping to the sea. But as his plans near completion and his friendship with Maggie begins to change, Quinn faces a choice, between a safe haven and an adventure of the heart. The choice he makes will affect other lives as powerfully as his own. And it will take him on an extraordinary journey, and into a second, terrifying storm, one that will bring him danger or deliverance.