Thanks for the Memories Cecelia Ahern . Harper , $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-170623-3 Contrivance and a multitude of sitcom mixups drive Ahern’s fifth novel. When Joyce Conway gets a blood transfusion after a tragic accident that caused her to miscarry, she strangely picks up the memories of her donor.

Now that we’ve all voted for the guy we wanted, and President-elect Barack Obama is waiting in the wings to get what he promised the electorate he’d do done, I thought it might be interesting for network television to give us another political drama or sitcom.