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Book Review

Saving Marina about ex-New York detective advance of their move to Palm Beach, Teresa experiences a
Eddie Perlmutter who retires series of strange dreams involving a young girl, Marina, who
By Nils A. Shapiro to Boca and finds himself had lived in the mansion – a girl who for some reason seems
Having now reviewed embroiled in cases taking so familiar to her. At the same time, Teresa is confused by
more than 200 books for place in familiar locales odd encounters she has with some local people, their negative
this column since I began throughout our fair city … and resistant attitude toward her, and by discoveries she
publishing book reviews just and others. makes about the ghostly history of the mansion. All combine
over 16 years ago, I always So, when a newly to dramatically change Teresa’s life to the point where she
consider it a special treat to published novel – Saving begins to question her feelings about everything in her life:
come across Palm Beach Marina by Ines Ferrari Garcia Michael, his attitude toward her, and whether to end the
County authors whose works of Palm Beach Gardens – marriage – in fact, whether to give up the entire idea of the
might otherwise remain was recommended to me, I mansion and bed and breakfast.
hidden from many neighbors unhesitatingly opened it to About halfway through the book, as these strange dreams
if I were not afforded the the first page, began reading about the young girl, Marina, persisted, I sensed that I had
opportunity to bring their considerable talents to light here. and, once again, knew that I figured out their meaning and how the author had planned
Several such books and authors come readily to mind: Our was in for an enjoyable reading experience in the hands of a her ending. But in a truly brilliant and surprising twist, I was
own Dale Brown’s Small Steps … Big Changes: The Personal creative Palm Beach County author. proven wrong; the actual ending is perfectly credible and
Stories of a Life Coach!; Starting Small and Making it Big: Garcia has imbued her story with several ingredients much more impressive than I had anticipated.
An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Billion-Dollar Philanthropist, certain to appeal to a large audience. Many readers who If Hollywood makes a film from Palm Beach Gardens’
one of the most fascinating and inspiring books I have ever begin this story, which unfolds as a first-person narrative by Ines Ferrari Garcia’s novel, I hope they don’t change
read, and which I highly recommend to everyone as a true a woman named Teresa, will empathize with her situation. the ending. And I wonder if you will come any closer to
contemporary Horatio Alger memoir by Bill Cummings, An interior decorator, happily married to an architect, she and anticipating it than I did.
who vacations with wife Joyce at their Singer Island home her husband have decided, now that their daughter is off at
part of each year; Florine Mark’s Talk to the Mirror: Feel college, to leave New York, purchase a historic old mansion
Great About Yourself Every Day, by a Broken Sound Club in Palm Beach, Fla., completely renovate it and turn it into Palm Beach Symphony from page 14
member who built a Weight Watchers franchise into the a luxurious bed and breakfast – an exciting new chapter in
largest of its kind in the world; An Inside Seat, a memoir by their life together.
public relations pro Maxine Adler, who has since retired at With Teresa in Florida overseeing the months-long
Woodfield Country Club in Boca; Steve Forman’s irresistible renovation construction, and her husband, Michael, in New
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