Marked is the first book of the House Of Night series by PC Cast and Kristin Cast. The story is based upon the idea of humans and vampires coexisting amongst each other. Instead of the sterotypical idea of vampires being born from another vampires bite this book makes the …

“The Warlords of Nin” by Stephen Lawhead is Book 2 of the Dragon King Series. It continues the story of Quentin, no longer a boy but a young man in service to the king of Mensandor. The book begins with the king being very ill, and the doctors unable …

Every year, kids have to do science fair projects. There are lots of books about science fair projects, and this book, Championship Science Fair Projects by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, has a lot of good projects for kids to do. A big advantage of this book is that each project is …

The book “Living Dead in Dallas” by the author Charlaine Harris, is the second book in the series which the HBO original series True Blood is based off. I have just finished this book, and even though I still thought it was interesting and more unusual than the usual …

This book is the second part of Jessica Wakefield’s dilemma with bad boy Clay DiPalma, and together they want to frame and catch Clay DiPalma in the act for giving Jessica’s best friend Isabelle Ricci a drug at a fraternity party, causing her to jump off the building and …

The title of this book, What’s a Ghoul to Do? (A Ghost Hunter Mystery) by Victoria Laurie is really funny for me and that was the major reason for why I chose to read this book in the first place.
The genre of this book is supposed to be funny and …

I really enjoyed reading this book. You call the shots recounts the story of Cameron Johnson, who started his first business at age 9. The amazing thing about Cameron is he did it all by himself. He didn’t use his parent’s money (except when he was nine they gave …

Magneto’s daughter The Scarlett Witch uses her latent powers to create an alternate world where everyone gets their deepest desires.
The result of this is her father’s desire to have mutants rule over humans becomes a reality and none of earth’s heroes are aware of anything prior to the world …

My daughter had her library day at school last Friday and brought home the book Green Wilma by Tedd Arnold. At first, I wasn’t sure what to think of it but it turned out to be a funny story.
Basically, this kids book is about a little girl who wakes …

The newest book by John Grisham is the best so far. I just finished it and can honestly say it was even better than I thought it would be. I have read a lot of his books and loved them all. The Innocent Man, Injustice In A Small …

“Black” by Ted Dekker, Book 1 of the Circle trilogy, introduces us to Thomas Hunter, a man who becomes trapped between two realities that keep switching on him. Every time he falls asleep or passes out in one, he wakes up in the other. One world is the contemporary …

My dad brought this book from Britain, when he was on a job trip to London.
The books is awefully big, 10 thousand jokes is allot, and this fills up over 1000 pages, but what the book has in quantity it lacks in quality.
Hundreds of pages filled up with lousy …

‘Five get into a fix’ is a book written by Enid Blyton and this is the seventeenth book among the famous five adventure series. Julian, Dick and Anne are ill and therefore, they have not gone to George’s house for the holidays. And now the holidays are almost over …

The book Girls In Trucks by Katie Crouch is an in-depth book that captivates the reader. It is about Sarah Walters and her quest to seek out a man for herself. It starts out as Sarah being a young girl living in the south. She attends dance classes each …

I am aware of the Semi-Homemade franchise because the series is a regular on the Food Network channel. Sandra Lee is all about making great food but in half the time which is where the semi-homemade aspect comes in because half of the dishes are from scratch and the …

Taschen books: Adolf Loos, by August Sarnitz copyright 2003, Taschen GmbH
The book is comprised by 93 pages, illustrated paper, hardcover, compiled by August Sarnitz and edited by Peter Gossel.
This particular series of books that Taschen has published on Architecture is a very useful resource for both students and professionals …

Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love by Laura A. Smit is a book that was of really no help to me. The reason it was of no help was two reasons: much of the book is written from a Christian or spiritual perspective and also, …

Writer’s Digest Magainze has been publishing a book division for years now and this is arguably their best and most important work.
Writer’s Digest first released this nifty hardcover way back in 1994 and it’s material is still relevant today, 12 years later.
In this volume, people starting out with itentions …

This is a cute little book. My library had it shelved with the young adult books, but I think it may be a children’s book as well. It has forty pages of cute drawings and wisdom. This would be a great book to read to a child or that …

I had never heard of Loren Estleman before I read “City of Widows,” so I didn’t know quite what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. Instead of the simply formal fiction of some western writers, I found Estleman’s book to well-plotted, engaging, and an excellent read.
The book features Page …

Guitar Girl by Sarra Manning is a book about a girl playing in a band and having a big ambition to strike it big. She has this particular band formed and her best buddies are all in the band.
And suddenly the band receives a record deal and that means …

This is a superb book and though the title is suggestive, it really is good and I think that the book has some really good contents. There are lots of examples from this book and interviews.
The interviews were made on VPs of Fortune 100 companies and also real business …

I have just put down Insomnia with a deep sign of satisfaction - for the third or fourth time! Stephen King is truly gifted with words, he uses them the same way a master artist wields his paint and brush; not only depicting a world, but inviting you, no …

This is a collection of eighteen, mostly short stories from the famed author, Margery Allingham. Though the stories are dated (published in 1975), they feature some of the best detective and horror stories I have ever read.
Most of the stories were highly entertaining, especially those which …

I really liked this book! The thing I liked the most about it was the conversations that the main character, Christina, was having with the ghost that decided to haunt her thanks to her playing with an Ouija board. At first she was really scared, freaking out about it, …

Sense and sensibility was the first novel Jane Austen published. It tells the story of three sisters and their mother after their father’s death. The estates pass on to their older half brother, and they have to move to a smaller house without all the luxury they have been used …

“This Lullaby” is an amazing book. Its probably the most beautifully written book I’ve ever read. It tells the story of the love we all dream of, the love we all want. It tells the tail of the love that none of us think is possible, but somehow is.
The …

While this book deals with a very different topic and has quite a different feel to it than Gary Paulsen’s other books such as Brian’s Winter and Hatchett, it still has his easy flow from event to event and is definitely based upon an interesting idea. Like many of …

The 2010 First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 is here guys. It is the go to review book for the USMLE. I ordered my copy two weeks ago and gone through all the systems. I absolutely love love love this book. I was using the 2008 version …

The New Year Eve’s Murder (by Lee Harris, published by Ballantine Books, 1997)
This is my first Lee Harris book, and it was a real surprise. Lee Harris was a pseudonym for a romance writer, and I thought that this could be one of those simple-to-solve mysteries to …

I was waiting in line for my daughter to purchase her manga books and I saw the cover of this book by Susan Mallery. Honestly, that is what attracted me to the book. It wasn’t the picture but the title. Even in current news stories you …

I’m starting to get a little frustrated with James Patterson, and beginning to wonder if he even bothers to write anymore. Many of his recent books have been “co-authored” with another writer, and I recently learned how this works.
Basically Patterson comes up with an idea, and turns it …

I heard about Mother Teresa’s deep and strong devotion to Jesus Christ and her great love to the poor. As her congregation Missionary of Charity is widely known all throughout the world. She’s called to be the “Living Saint.” So when a friend of mine told me about a …

‘The man-eater of Malgudi’ is a book written by R.K. Narayan. This is the story of Nataraj, a man who is a printer in Malgudi. Nataraj and his close friends find themselves disturbed when a taxidermist named Vasu moves in. In this story, a man gets murdered and Nataraj …

I have been in the health care profession for years now, and I love my profession so much. It is very rewarding in so many ways. Hadn’t I been to nursing school years before, I would never have picked up a single medical book my whole life. That’s true, …

This is a horror or thriller novel about a killer tiger that gets loose in Los Angeles and the caring zoo veterinarian who is willing to risk her life to save the big cat. I really enjoyed reading this book, mainly because the tiger was not portrayed as a …

Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age By Martin Torgoff
Totally brilliant! Torgoff chronicles America’s obsession with drug culture from the end of World War Two to the modern age and does so in a way avoided by many interchangable books on drug abuse: he puts …

Fruits Baskets Manga Volume 1 tells the story of Toru Honda, a high school student who is homeless and leving in a tent so she can have a place to stay until her grandpa finishes having his house renovated. One day on her way to school, she sees …

I had never heard of Clive Cussler or his ‘Dirk Pitt’ series before reading this book, and I have to say that I am extremely impressed by all aspects of it.
The book’s storyline is amazing, twisting and turning like …

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 …

All seems lost after the ending of “The Mark of Athena”, the third book in the series of the Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan. The seven of the prophecy, who alone can stop the revival of Gaia, the ancient and vengeful goddess of the Earth, are separated and …

Religions , mysteries , encrypted messages , ruthless killings and persecution… These are the main themes in the novel by Michel Benoit, who will keep you under tremendous pressure from the beginning of his book to the last chapter. It is questioned not only the sustainability of the Catholic …

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 …

This book for youths, the beginning of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, starts the series off strong. Rick Riordan has created an interesting main character, although the foreshadowing is really strong, and a somewhat new plot.
Arguments among the Greek gods and the Greek gods or other …

Disease Leukemia is the most bad news, if it happens to us. Moreover, if you have to imagine living life to count the days and through the days of suffocating. However, Sam McQueen who wrote the story in his book “Ways to Live forever, trying to overcome all the …

I have been fairly impressed with the relatively new Virgin Comics. I wasn’t expecting a great deal from them, however the couple of titles I have read I have rather liked (especially Ramayan 3392 AD). So I was somewhat optimistic when I picked up this title: John …

This is the first novel by James Patterson that I’ve ever read or tried to read. Beach Road is coauthored by Peter de Jonge, so maybe it is different from other Patterson novels.
I found it difficult in the beginning to keep the story and the characters straight. Each chapter …

Recently, I had the opportunity to take a look at the book, What Happens When I Talk to God, The Power of Prayer for Boys and Girls by Stormie Omartian with artwork by Shari Warren. It was published in 2007.
I adore the artwork, all of which elicits smiles …

What an adventure! I find Alice’s adventure very unrealistic and silly sometimes, but it makes sense that it is merely a dream. However, I think about the thin line between dream and reality. For instance, Alice started to grow bigger towards the end of he dream, signifying that she …

I really enjoy Christian fiction. I like mystery and suspense as well. Recently I finished reading Death Watch by Jack Cavanaugh and Jerry Kuiper. Death Watch is a Christian fiction novel. It is about a woman reporter who is covering a story on death watch …