This book if the seventh Hardy Boys book written by Franklin W. Dixon in the 50s and 60s. While many of the ideas are old fashioned, and it is especially amusing to read about the “high tech” stuff the boys have or discover, they are, in general, good books …

This book is good, damn good actually. It is a book that appeals to younger readers without talking down to them, it raises issues for discussion without forcing it or setting it up so that professors can just make stuff up to make themselves sound smarter, and it …

Wolf Tower is the first book in a short series geared toward young teens or young adults who enjoy the fantasy genre. The series, or saga, consists of four books that catalog the wacky adventures of Claidi, a slave of a sheltered little paradise in the middle of …

In the 14th volume of Nodame Cantabile we get to see Chiaki’s performance with his new orchestra. It ends up being a complete disaster, and makes him feel really frustrated. However, through all the volume he will try to turn it into a real orchestra.
I have the feeling …

This is an wonderful book about being a foster family and about saving abandoned babies.
Debbe and her family started off being approved as a foster family. Their desire was to adopt a baby to add to their family of 2. Well of course, that doesn’t always work …

“Gone” by Michael Grant tells us the story of a 15 year old boy named Sam who tries to keep law and order in the small town of Perdido Beach, California, after everyone over the age of 16 disappears in a blink of an eye. When life as you …

This was Stephen King’s third novel, released in 1977. The story is about a writer named Jack Torrance, who works as a hotel caretaker in a Colorado resort. It is understood that after he and his family moves in they will be snowed in, and they are fine with …

“Bunny Money” is a Max & Ruby children’s book by Rosemary Wells. It was published in the late 1990s and is fairly modern. The book also teaches a great lesson about spending money. It is high quality like most Max & Ruby books and my daughter …

A Man Lay Dead was written by Ngaio Marsh. (published by Little, Brown & Company in 1934)
This is surprisingly good for a debut; and not only that, Ngaio Marsh had introduced her protagonist exceedingly well the remarkably suave and unflappable Inspector Alleyn.
Nigel Bathgate was thrilled …

Patricia Briggs has proven herself to be a writer with which to be reckoned, because she has a mean way with words that will undoubtedly leave you feeling thrilled and begging for more.
In the first book of the Mercy Thomspon series, Moon Called, we get to meet our …

I just finished reading the book over the weekend. I couldn’t put it down. It was an okay book for me. My cousin had been nagging me to read it so we could discuss it; and we did last night. Her views seemed to be very different from the …

When I was in counseling for my anxiety issues, I did a lot of reading. But it wasn’t until a friend of mine actually called me Codependent that is occurred to me that I might be. So, I decided to check out this book, Codependent No More. Melody Beattie …

I don’t buy many poetry books myself, although I am a fan of the genre. Recently I purchased Persephone’s Dream and Other Tales by Persephone K Vandegrift, from ebook bookstore seller www.todaybooks.com.
This ebook of poetry is wonderful, I haven’t read anything in years that made me laugh, cry think …

Deepak Chopra is supposed to be one of the new age gurus of the era. That being said, I wanted to read a book by him so I picked up Perfect Health. For me, this book was a bit of a disappointment. All the hype surrounding this book is …

The Twilight series (composed of four books namely Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn) was really an is still a worldwide block buster phenomena nowadays. The story of the forbidden vampire - human love affair has really touched a lot of fiction lovers all over the world.
Having read …

M.Y.T.H. Inc. in Action is the 9th in Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures series, and the second of the M.Y.T.H. Inc. variety (which means it is narrated by someone other than the normal protagonist, the Great Skeeve). The book is told from the perspective of one of Skeeve’s two …

This book, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon is powerful and awesome! Maybe it has got something to do with 3 authors or that love topic is just so general and diverse that one can never stop talking or best, write about …

I actually found the book “The Long Dark Night” by the late author Joseph Hayes in my late aunt’s bookshelf with many other old paperback novels. I remembered I had read it quite a few years ago, and it had kept me up for about two nights, so I …

I picked this book of several months ago and read it from cover to finish in several days, This 1995 Stephen King classic became a favorite of among many favorite novels by King, it is about a woman named Rose who is abused for years at the hands of …

This book, Charlie All Night by Jennifer Crusie, is a light romance. It’s a quick read, and goes by very fast.
I enjoyed some of the dialogue and much of the plot of the book, however I felt that the book had a lot going on and it never really …

Ultimate Spider-Man #9 “Ultimate 6″
This volume in the Marvel remake series is quite interesting as it recreates Amazing Spiderman Annual 1, a magazine that was written forty years ago. That annual, to put it bluntly, was awful.
In it, readers were introduced to the Sinister Six, a group consisting of …

Tamara Siler Jones has created a truly wonderful fantasy forensic series for herself and this is the first book in the series. I admit I was skeptical when I first brought it home, unsure if the story would be written well or interesting, but to my delight it was …

Robin Year One: Book 2 of 4 is about Robin’s first year fighting crime with Batman; in this book they take on the klutzy Killer Moth and then Two-Face, who sees Robin as Batman’s weakness. Robin’s rash decision to stay away from Two-Face might cost him his life.
This …

The Odyssey of Captain Blood is one of my all time favourite books. The first time I read it, I was only a little girl. Despite the fact that I didn’t care much for reading, I just couldn’t put down the book. Even now, so many years later, …

‘Mystery of death’ is a book written by Swami Abhedananda. This book is a spiritual philosophy. Abhedananda’s philosophy is derived from the Upanishads, which is a very ancient spiritual text of India. In this book, the author explains that death is a mysterious phenomenon and one has to try …

This book is full of luscious recipes. Unfortunately, many of the recipes call for ingredients I don’t normally keep around the house, such as fresh rosemary or wild mushrooms, but for special occasions these recipes would be easy to make and delicious.
All of the recipes are carefully explained - …

Broken Flower by V.C. Andrews is a powerful book about a young girl experiencing adolescence way before her time. She had to cope with
the sudden changes in her body and the conflicts within her family.
While the grandmother first started off like an evil witch, she later shows …

Thriller is really by a large list of some of the best thriller novel writers out there today. James Patterson is the one that edited the book. It is a collection of 31 short stories written by 31 different great writers. James Patterson edited them all together for this …

This books is created by Robert T. Kiyosaki, financial advisors of Bill Gates (the owner Microsoft Corporation). This book writes to achieve financial freedom. In his book, Robert T. Kiyosaki separated people into left-quadrant and right-quadrant. Left quadrant is people who works to get money and in the right …

As my title says, “Frogs into Princes” is an introductory book to the discipline/technology called NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), written by its founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder, in 1978.
Firstly, Bandler and Grinder clearly state that they are not a new “school” of psychology, nor they are intending to become …

The best words to describe the book “Recipes for a Perfect Marriage” by the Irish author, Katie Kerrigan are pills of wisdom about marriage. This novel stays away from the usual cliché that we usually see in Hollywood movies, and tackles the real thing being married for …

Recommeded ages 7 and up
Addy Walker is a slave girl in Pre-Civil War North Carolina.Addy works on the plantation with her Mother, Father, her older brother Sam, and her baby sister Esther.
One night Addy hears her parents talking about escaping north to freedom Addy knows that if anyone finds …

A friend had strongly recommended this book to me, so I went to the library and picked it up. I was put off it quite a lot after hearing what some other people had thought of it, but I thought I should read it myself and make my own …

The Christmas Cricket is a children’s book written by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Timothy Bush. It was published in 2002. The story tells of a little cricket who sneaks inside a home and treats the family inside to a special Christmas song.
The story does a nice job …

This is probably the most important work by Osho. Although Osho has given thousands of commentaries , and tackled every spiritual , and scientific, and philosophical subject, yet, this vision for sex, and sexuality, is more popular and also controversial, and most of the people, who do not know much …

‘The castle of adventure’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. It is a very interesting and exciting book. This is a book that is worthy to be read and I have read it twice.
Dinah and Lucy-Ann are staying at Spring cottage on castle hill with a certain …

As far as vampires are concerned, Sir Francis Varney (the title character from Varney the Vampire) has to be one of the meekest I’ve ever read about.
Varney comes off as an evil villain early on in the book but, the more you read about him, the more you learn …

I read The Dante Club last year and absolutely loved it! It is one of my all time favorite books! The author was absolutely brilliant to come up with this story. In this book, famous people like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and JT …

This book totally made up for the disappointment I felt with New Moon. The Cullen family is back and much to my delight I got to read about other members of the family’s background. In the first book we hear about Carlisle and Alice and briefly about Esme and …

This book, The Photographer’s Website Manual by Philip Andrews is very interesting and definitely gorgeous and full of graphics. This book teaches how to create a photographer web site interestingly and attractively. There are lots of color combination, remapping of colors and I love the transparency designs as …

Second only to Tomb of Dracula, this was Marvel’s best horror series mainly because it STAYED a horror series with only occasional forays into storylines that were similar to a hero story line. (The one example is the two parter featuring villain The Hangman, and he’s so creepy the …

“Sugartown” is the fifth Amos Walker mystery book by Loren D. Estleman. Amos Walker is the current king among hard-boiled detectives, at least in my book. In “Sugartown” Walker works three different subplots and confronts a host of villains as he investigates the cases he was hired to solve. …

Like so many people my wife, my self and our two young boys have decided that we are fed up with English weather and have decided to move to sunny Spain. Of course we are not just going to up and move we are doing our home work first, …

Three Fates, by Nora Roberts, is a story about six characters who come together to save three ancient—”and supposedly priceless—”statuettes from falling into the hands of greed. Cleo, Rebbecca, Tia, Malachi, Gideon, and Jack eventually band together; through many trials and arguments, they succeed in keeping the statuettes …

In the second issue of the new creative team’s take on Batgirl, we see the focus on youth and the social dynamics of young women not faltering. However, we do see a little more of the origins of batgirl that actually makes sense. After the last issue’s initial missteps, …

This is my favorite of Dave Barry’s books. It is screamingly, hilariously funny. It is a nice, thick book with medium sized print, so you are getting a good amount of material in one book. In his typical style, Barry takes his every day life and …

This is the first book in a very popular series of children’s fantasy novels called “The Underland Chronicles” and one I thoroughly enjoyed reading. And yes, adults can enjoy this book, too, so don’t let the fact it’s published for kids stop you from reading it. In many cases, …

This book, a kids’ book about a girl who has trouble dealing with her autistic younger brother, is actually quite nice. The story flows smoothly, and you can feel the main character’s frustration, both with the fact that she feels her brother gets everything and she “doesn’t matter” to …

“Brave Irene” by William Steig is a simple but touching story about a young girl who braves a bad snowstorm in order to help her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, is a seamstress. She has just completed a beautiful dress for a wealthy duchess and must deliver it in …

Tony Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye, is a great portrait of character’s alienation from the world as a result of loss of community and connection to the past and as a start of sadness, solitude and madness. this novel really helps the reader understand that an …