This kids’ chapter book is very well written. There is a certain amount of teenage selfishness in the main character, as the story is told from her perspective, but she is not entirely selfish, being able to see things from a practical point of view.
The story itself is interesting, …

I love desserts! Sometimes I revert back to my childhood days and wish that I could have dessert before dinner. A favorite treat of mine is ice cream, and when I read this quote from the cover of Ice Cream Treats cookbook by Charity Farreira stating, “Easy ways to …

A truly sad book, Go Ask Alice is a true story published after the death of the main character by her family. This is an extreme of what happened to one girl as she went the wrong way in life. The book is composed of Journal entries from the …

Avalanche is a pretty cool character in the Marvel comics universe. he is a mutant with the power to create vibrations that cause earthquakes. He can knock over cars, create pillars of earth and even flip over small buildings. His coolness factor is slightly reduced …

Malcolm Gladwell wrote this book to show how people make split second judgments about things and how much of these judgments are correct. Gladwell is an excellent writer, he always uses lots of examples and has a way of explaining scientific information in an easily understood way. That being …

Dorland’s is one of those I consider one of my most reliable tools when I was in Nursing school years ago. It helped me greatly during my 4 years of study, as I use it everyday as it is packed with all the information I need from cover to
cover. …

I am not a huge fan of self-help books, but I am a huge fan of this one; Emotional Intellignece by Daniel Goleman. I have read this book several times, and although it is now 12 years old, it continues to fly off bookstore shelves at a rapid speed.
Emotional …

I have read the book ‘Zen and the art of happiness’ written by Chris Prentiss. The author tries to explain how is it possible to live happily through Zen. Zen is a way of life and through Zen, it is possible to experience happiness. The book is a guide …

‘The obsession’ is a book written by Kim Chernin. The author reflects on the tyranny of slenderness. The book is an analysis which is beautifully written. The analysis is about our society’s increasing demand that women be thin. The author says that men have encouraged this obsession and women …

This is one of those times I saw the TV series before I read the book. Normally I end up preferring whichever I did first (I normally read the book first, so I usually end up liking that better), but in this case, I have to give the …

Couch’s book, “Chosen Soldier” is another in a long line of books on the training of United States Army Special Forces Soldiers. In it, he follows several classes, starting with a group of 18 X-rays as they leave Ft. Benning Georgia and begin the long trek through their training, …

Loyalty Myths: Hyped Strategies That Will Put You Out of Business is written by Timothy L. Keiningham, Terry G. Varva, Lerzan Aksoy, and Henri Wallard. I had a copy of this book and think it is a good read to those who are in business or who want to …

the major conflict of Hannah Foster’s, “The Coquette” gyrates around the concept of individual liberty versus societal norms. The protagonist of the novel, Eliza Wharton, is immobilized by this dissension in which society expects her to adhere to a particular lifestyle that if she were to abide by, would …

“Maths on the CBM 64″ is what it says on the spine of this book, and so it is what I am using as the title here, but on the cover itself you get a much longer version: “Mathematics on the Commodore 64: Essential Routines for Programming”. That makes …

You can definitely change yourself for the better. In this book that I’ve read, SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life: A Four-Step Guide to Getting Unstuck by Julie Morgenstern, it gives lots of insights and how one could totally change their outlook and stuff like that. If you …

As we are very much considering moving to Spain we are doing everything we can to learn the Spanish language not only for us but also for our three and a half year old son.
So we have recently brought him a children’s book which is called Dora loves …

This is the first book by Elizabeth Berg that I have read; it was definitely worth reading. I really enjoyed reading this: the flow of the words was like sinking into a nice, cozy, world.
The only downside was that the ending felt a bit too obvious - everything wrapped …

Computer fundamental a book by BPB,I advised this book if I was advancing for my exams in aboriginal semester. For my accountable advice technology I advised this book and I got pass. Much catechism I got from this book. I admired this book actual abundant as it had helped …

The book “Nada”, by Carmen Laforet, is a book that I had to read for one of my college classes. It was originally written in Spanish and then translated into English. It mainly focuses on life in Spain directly after the Spanish Civil War.
Overall I believe it was a …

“Silent Thunder” is the ninth Amos Walker, hard-boiled detective book by Loren D. Estleman. Once again Walker enters the world of illegal weapons trafficking. In “Silent Thunder” Walker is hired by Ernest Krell, the head of Reliant, a security/private detective firm he sometimes freelances for. His mission is to …

I thought this story was very confusing. In order to understand everything that happened in it I read it twice, looked it up on Wikipedia, read it a third time, then discussed it in my Literature class. After that I found it a bit better to understand, and then …

Everyone wants a smart child. A great book to browse throuhg is “1001 Activities for a Smarter Child”. In this book there are activities/projects for young children that will engage their creativity and curiousity, as well as develop physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.
Each activity has a …

I admit I wasn’t too sure what this book was about when I picked it up. Something about the book’s title drew my attention and I liked the dark, grayish cover image it has. It looked a bit creepy and I liked that. The fact that the doorway the …

Well, I’m addicted to makeup, the new brands, the gloss, shadows and eyelashes mascaras !!!!!
From this hobby my family and friends get benefited when they have a special event like a wedding, special dinner, etc., and so they all come to me and I, within my limitations of amateur-daily-and-happy-practitioner,never …

I have read the book —˜The World of Peace’ by J. Krishnamurti. This is a very good book. It is interesting to read for anybody who wishes to think about the various problems, conflicts and disorder that is troubling the world. This book consists of six chapters. Four chapters …

Only few days back I came through this book, ‘Happy for No Reasons by Marci Shimoff’ and I bought this thinking just to have something to read. The title gave me an impression that it would be some age-old formulas that we have been hearing from childhood and similar …

A Chance In Time by Ruth Ann Nordin made you just fall in love with the characters. In many parts of this novel you could really feel for them. This is a romance novel that is often over looked, but …

Firstly, it must be understood that this book is in fact a collection of articles, organized (but not written entirely by) French Assyriologist Jean Bottero; pertaining to everyday life in the Ancient Near East. The articles, translated by Antonia Nevill, are from the pens of a number of other …

I have been selling since age 5, and I am still doing that till date. Selling is an actitity done by any entity found in occupational activities. Without selling generating revenue for the business or company is not possible. That is, to make money as a company requires the …

Nickel and Dimed, or (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich, Henry Holt and Company, 2002, 240 pages.
Ehrenreich is a well-known writer and social commentator who writes for top magazines (Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Ms. Harper’s, etc.) who went undercover as a low-wage worker all over America: …

“Raising Dragons” is the first book of a Christian fantasy series that introduces a rather unusual concept of people who are actually… dragons. That is, dragons living in a human form. And some of them do not even know it. For Billy Banister, a school kid, the amazing discovery …

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite book of the series!! I absolutely love this book! It is a bit longer than the first two and is a bit darker, but this book is soooo good! Once again, we start off at Harry’s aunt and uncle’s …

Eight Million Ways to Die was written by Lawrence Block, and published by Avon Books in 1993.
Matt Scudder, an ex-policeman, had just been discharged from the hospital, for an alcoholic drying out. A hooker, Kim Dakkinen, who wanted to leave her pimp, Chance, had employed Matt to be the …

He lost that possession ones, started living in slum town. Because he possessed the knowledge of medical science, he helped the resident of slum town with the operation of the free clinic for those. There was the notification of interpol, at that time, vis-a-vis him, but he did that …

Mr. Cookie Baker is a children’s book authored and illustrated by Monica Wellington. The story is pretty simple, but gives children a general idea of what it takes to run a small business. Of course it does not hurt that the business in the story is a …

I like mystery books and have spent a great deal of time reading Conan Doyle�s Sherlock Holmes stories lately. One of those was his compilation The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Overall, I have to say I could tell from the beginning that Doyle didn’t really want to write this book. …

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Cushman this semester in school and, having learned from him, I can appreciate his work a little more than I might have before.
First off, Heart Island is a collection of poetry written in meter that pays special attention to form. Cushman, …

Babyville is a novel by Jane Green that focuses on the lives of three women. At the beginning of the novel, Julia is in a long-term relationship and is desperate to have a baby, Sam is married and expecting her first child, and Maeve is a commitment-phobic career …

India After Gandhi is a lucidly written book by eminent historian and sociologist Ramachandra Guha. Any one who wants to understand the evolving phases of India should go through this book. India is a country of vast linguistic, regional and political diversity. It intrigues scholar world over that why democracy …

Titles can really be misleading, Jiro Matsumoto proves that on probably one of the deepest manga I read, Keep on Vibrating. The title seems to be a sex-hungry type of manga but it isn’t just senseless sex and violence. The manga contains extreme amounts of sex, violence, incense, blood, …

I’m gonna start by saying that Tarryn Fisher is a scary lady. Every time she comes out with a new book I just get the chills, and that’s a good thing, of course, books are supposed to make you FEEL. Every book that I’ve read from her was left me …

This book follows famous author Paul Sheldon who has a bad car accident and wakes up in the home of his “number one fan” Annie, a nurse who is obsessed with Paul and his work, that’s OK and nothing new, lot’s of people are a little crazy about him …

The Horse and His Boy is the sixth and second to last book of the Chronicles of Narnia series. This book tells of a slave boy who wants to run away from his master. He meets a Narnia horse - who he is surprised to find can talk - …

I am surprised at how many people who know and love C.S.Lewis for his “Chronicles of Narnia” have never heard of his other creation, the Space Trilogy. If you are one of those people, let me introduce you to these wonderful books, you won’t be disappointed!
“Out of the Silent …

The Scarlet Letter, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a universal classic and a masterful exploration of humanity’s unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. It is a foundational work of Modern American literature. I was gifted this novel by my teacher who liked me.
The story begins when the …

This is one of the best physics text books I have ever read for A-Levels. It’s the only text book I read throughout in its entirety. Why? Its because of the way in which the book is presented that allowed me to grasp the material and feel encouraged in …

Triple Your Reading Speed, By Wade Cutler,is a book that shows you how to read faster. It contains useful eye exercises to expand your vision and increase your reading speed.It also contains many drills for practicing block reading. It includes many comprehension passages followed by multiple choice questions that …

The Intermediate Geography Workbook is produced by Rand McNally Schoolhouse Products. It covers how to read a map useing the legend. The Intermediate Geography Workbook covers longitude, latitude, world time zones and hemispheres. It covers customs, culture, animals and landmarks of the world besides geography of the seven contitinets …

As the Death God Dictates is a manga by Mimori Ao. The title is pretty strange and this caught my eye so I started reading this manga with the genre of romance, shoujo, school life, and supernatural. It should have been also labeled as tragedy because of the ending …

A Long Way Gone is a terrific book and one of the easiest reads I’ve seen recently. The plot centers around Ishmael’s experiences growing up in Sierra Leone and his time as a boy soldier.
For me, the sign of a great book is when you’re unable to put …