THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN—David Baldacci—A delightful twist on Christmas stories affirming the basic goodness of humanity while providing a grand variety of stories of old themes. Wonderful characters ride the trains and a trip across the continent at Christmas time allows Baldacci with “wit and wisdom” to explore, surprise and continue surprising the reader. A priest, a film maker and his entourage, our hero a reporter and his former lover, train personnel, a boy's choir and more add to the mysteries and memories of a much different Baldacci.