I bought Elegant Tatting Pattern by Janet Carroll from Amazon.com awhile back ago for an exact amount I do not remember but I am sure it was a very low price of around $5 and to top it off Amazon was having one of their 4 for the price of …

Why betterworld.com rocks: great book selection, informative reviews, international shipping, and it’s always a good cause! I visit this website regularly to check on a few books I want to know more about. They’re pretty updated on new releases and still have a few books that have gone out …

Spell of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning is the seventh and last book so far in her Highlander series. We meet another MacKeltar in this book, one that’s not like any of the others and he’s much older, primal and sexier. Cian
MacKeltar is the original MacKeltar. He’s the …

“American Egyptologist” by Jeffrey Abt, Chicago University Press, 2012.
James Henry Breasted was early on interested in the ministry. He also had a marked talent in absorbing languages. He took these attributes and interests; using them in co-ordination with a very interesting career as the United State’s first …

This book should be required reading for anyone interested in Canadian history - or more precisely, inclusive Canadian history.
Cooper has written an incredibly well-researched and presented book. Not only does she tell the story of a slave woman, Marie-Joseph Angelique, who was tortured and hanged for arson in …

I found myself having a variety of emotions with reading Battleship Sailor. The book is a memoir by Theodore C. Mason of his time in navy before, during and after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor. He was serving on the battleship California when it …

Taslima Nasreen is one of the most controversial writers of recent times she has been recently in India as a refugee as Bangladesh is not
allowing her to stay in her own country because of her controversial writings that are considered as anti Islamic. This book is first …

Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, and the Outlander series are among my most favorite books. If you like history, time travel, adventure, love, and an amazingly well written story, then you can’t miss this series. The books are not a quick read. I can usually read a novel in a couple …

The Catcher In The Rye is J.D.Salinger’s most famous novel, published in 1951. The book is an essential read, especially for teenagers, who might be inspired by its antihero, of the same age as them, facing the same dilemmas. It is a classic, and Holden Caulfield represents the icon …

I picked up this small hardback book as a funny stocking stuffer for my dad, and it’s one of my favorite things to pick up and browse through in the bathroom. Although it’s not big, it’s the perfect book for something entertaining while in the bathroom.
I got this book …

“Derailed” by James Siegel tells the story of a young married man, Charles Schine whose monotonous life begins to change drastically after he accidentally meets an attractive and sexully appealing young beauty on the train. The meeting marks the beginning of a passionate love affair, which could be even …

ESSENTIAL TOMB OF DRACULA VOLUME 2
Marvel continues its reprint of Tomb of Dracula comics and the legendary duo of Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan have their outstanding work on display.
The first few issues of Tomb of Dracula (published in vol one) were quite good, but the series was still …

This is the third installment in the Gossip Girls series fro girls. This one takes place in New York during Christmas to New Years. Blair’s parents are taking a vacation and they are gonna have a baby! Yayyyy! Blair is angry but she doesnt care cause she has much …

I have read the book —˜The secret of the wooden lady’ written by Carolyn Keene. This is one among the Nancy Drew series. This book is not so interesting. However, Nancy is quite daring in this book, just like she is in the other books. The first half of …

Wandering leisurely through one of the many wonderful art museums in Europe or America, I sometimes have a hard time conceiving how an artist like Caravaggio or Monet can bring such beauty out of simple oil and canvas. How can such plain materials aided by some brushstrokes give us …

Erdman’s “The Crash of ‘79″ is a very interesting book. I don’t rate it as one of his best such as “Set-up” or “Zero Coupon” but it’s pretty good. The book was publish in 1976 about an economic/nuclear crisis that occurs in 1979.
The book is told largely in the …

As for the book being chosen because it is the president, however it starts from the foolish person from Texas which can between fraud and the ham where life of the American differs going back. Moore takes excavation at everything which made national America. However with the nation where the …

A Royal Duty book is authored by Paul Burrell, one time personal footman of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England and who became the loyal Butler of the late Princess of Wales, Diana, when her marriage to Prince Charles became intolerable. This book is more of a biography …

I was a bit skeptical about the Crochet Answer Book (by Edie Eckman) because I thought that it was a bit overly ambitious - according to the front cover, it has the “Solutions to Every Problem You’ll Ever Face” and the “Answers to Every Question You’ll Ever Ask”. While …

This is an ultimate resource guide for parents of children with autism! This book is written by a mother of an autistic child that struggled to gather information when her son was diagnosed. The author put this guide together to help other parents quickly gather all the …

The only reason I picked up this book is because I simply can’t leave a series midway. I need to finish it, however bad the first instalment was. So, although ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was absolutely terrible, I did actually go and pick up the second book in …

The Lord of The Rings is a trilogy of books which was later made into a trilogy of films. I love both, though for sheer richness of imagery and depth of wisdom, the book is unbeatable.
The author, Tolkien, was a professor of Anglosaxon and studied ancient languages. His …

This book is by Donald Miller. Apparently he’s a Christian writer and public speaker. His tone is very relaxed and humorous. I really like his writing style. I read his other book, Blue Like Jazz and decided I wanted to read more of his work.
The whole book …

“DragonSpell” by Donita K. Paul is Book 1 in the DragonKeeper fantasy chronicles. The story takes place in Amara, a fantasy world populated by seven high races, seven low races, and dragons. Kale, a fourteen-year-old o’rant slave girl, lives in a village of mariones. The two races are a …

This is one of my favorite fictional novels. I’m crazy about love stories, may it be fictional or real, and this book did not disappoint me one bit. Twilight is an amazing love story between two different beings. It is a beautiful thriller narrated in way that made so …

Definitely a diet book with a difference! Expect the unexpected and be prepared to consider something totally different. Food That Make You Lose Weight published by editions reuille is most certainly not your usual calorie counting, points charting driven hell!
The author Isabelle Martin had got fed up with all …

If I was afraid of zombies as a somewhat legitimate monster after “Resident Evil,” I’m absolutely horrified of them after reading Jonathan Maberry’s “Patient Zero.” George A. Romero doesn’t have much on what I really feel is the up-and-coming Godfather of the Hard Science Fiction Zombie. Romero’s claim to …

It’s been awhile since I read a book purely for fun so I approached Loren D. Estleman’s “Sudden Country” with eager anticipation. I was not disappointed.
“Sudden Country” is a short western (182 pages) set in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The main character is David Grayle. …

City of Lost Souls is the fifth book in the Mortal Instruments series. At the end of the previous book (City of Fallen Angels), we find out that Jace and Jonathan/Sebastian have become mysteriously tied. Desperate to find Jace, Clary turns her group of friends into a search party. …

Mental Strength (Condition Your Mind, Achieve Your Goals), written by Iain Abernethy and this book has touched my raw nerve reading it pretty much. The contents proved to me that I have perhaps a weaker sense of mental strength and at times, strong. The book is not …

“The Sound of Water: Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets - Shambhala Centaur Editions” by Sam Hamill is a lovely poetry book that is decorated with beautiful haiku that capture simple moments in nature and enrich those moments with vivid details and expressions. If you have relatively …

Night Kites is a very sad yet great book. It was released in 1986 but I didn’t read it until about the year 2000. It’s a really good book that talks about love and life. I thought the story about Erick and Jack and Nikki was sad. I think …

Years ago, when I was an elementary school student, the school district used Mcgraw-Hill Math textbooks. By the time I was in 6th grade, I had been using them for about 6 years. In those years, I became used to learning the way that this textbook had shown us. …

Written by Al Kelley, Ph.D. , and professor of mathematics; and Ira Pohl, a professor of Computer Science with 30 years of experience as software methodologist; this book is a must-have for students of Computer Science who wants to master this language.
The book is divided into 15 chapters, and …

Miriam the Medium by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro is brilliant. I’ve always wanted to find out the perspectives of a psychic and how they go about doing their business. Although I think that no one in this world could really predict anything, much less the future of someone, this …

‘Mystery of the secret room’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is a very interesting book and is one among the series of the five find-outers. Frederick, nicknamed Fatty, spends his holidays with his friends and has lot of fun. This time, he has learnt the art …

Dead Even by Mariah Stewart. Part 3 of a series. Again, this is the best series of books I’ve read in a long time. Centers around family and the FBI family of special agents.
Three prisoners got together one day in a holding room and swapped names …

I am doing grade four piano theory at the moment and ‘Master Your Theory’ by Dulcie Holland is the book I’m currently using. I have used other theory books before but this version gets straight to the point and teaches you what you need to learn right away. The …

The reason why I picked up My Swordhand is Singing from the library was mostly the fact that it had positive critics and praises written all over it, which made it look like a dark, intriguing and uplifting story of aincient horrors, honour and family values. Unfortunately, it was …

Wife No. 19 or The Story of A Life in Bondage by Ann Eliza Young was written in 1876 and takes you through one woman’s journey to escape Polygamy. I had watched a made for T.V. movie by the name of Wife No. 19 where the 19th wife is …

I love to read and so my kindle gets a lot of use. Mysteries are one of my favorite types of books and I had heard good things about this e-book. I saw it online and decided to order it since most of what I heard and read were …

‘Breaking Dawn’ is the final installment of the ‘Twilight’ saga, and I would like to say that ‘Breaking Dawn’ is the book that broke me; as in broke my pocketbook!
I had not read any of the books in the series until the Twilight movie became available for ownership and …

“Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law-America’s Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them” is a book that basically takes a look at the television landscape from the very early 1950s to the very late 1980s. What I really like about this book …

If those Harry Potter books aren’t encouraging the kids to read, have you considered manga? Manga is the term applied to graphic novels from Asia. Generally they’re Japanese, but most bookstores consider Korean graphic novels as manga as well. These books are every lazy reader’s dream- …

I look for the Handyman magazine to come in the mail each month. I love it! As soon as I get it, I look at it before any other mail. I go right then and look to see what new projects are highlighted for the new month.
My daughter and …

This was an odd sort of book for me. Eckhart Tolle is one of the most spiritual and new agey people out right now. He has written and published a number of books and being spiritual. He is a big believer in present awareness and the like. This book …

A friend recommended this book to me after having read it herself, saying that the plot was quite different to many others she had read before. So I went to the library and picked it up, had a read of the blurb, and decided to give it a go. …

Robert Goddard narrates a one week story about actor Toby Flood, who arrives in Brighton early December, for a final week production of Joe Orton’s play Lodger in The Throat.
Toby is having a divorce from his wife Jenny, whom he still loves. At the time, she …

I recently got this book as a birthday gift from a couple of my very good friends.Its the first work i have read by Kim Edwards.
“The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” is the story of a doctor who conducts his own wife’s delivery on a stormy night in 1964.His wife has …

I was quite enthralled by this novel, I had a hard time putting it down. The manner of writing can definitely draw your curiosity, making you want to know more about the protagonist of the story. I feel that her experiences were described so well, anyone would be able …