I think most people would find this book very approachable and easy to grasp. The Richest man in Babylon by George S. Clason is a beginner’s finance book. It teaches basic lessons about saving and working, as well as very basic ideas about how to invest. It’s a starter …

This book is all about the twins’ cousin Robin coming to visit to Sweet Valley. Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are psyched to see their cousin, but their brother Steven Wakefield is already dreading the day because he knows the house will be so noisy then!
When Robin arrives, they are …

“The Art of Star Trek” by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens covers all the visual forms of the Star Trek franchise, including the live action and cartoon shows as well as the movies, and even the proposed second series that was abandoned in favor of the 1979 motion picture, up …

The Ysabel Kid, written by JT. Edson is one of the Floating Outfit books that I like. This book is a western.
In this volume, Dusty Fog must go down into Mexico to convince Bushrod Sheldon to come back to Texas so the US can aid Juarez.
Dusty is my favorite …

I recently read this book, Being Kendra: Cribs, Cocktails, and Getting My Sexy Back, and I was honestly disappointed. I’m a big fan of Kendra and her first book was amazing, but this book was just wrong. I was looking forward to her usual quirky self while raising her …

I’m not a huge fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s so-called horror stories. But, I will admit, I liked his story, The Brazilian Cat.
The story, told in first person, is about a man who visits his wealthy cousin in an effort to find some relief from his financial difficulties. …

Scent of Shadows is the first book in the Signs of the Zodiac series by Vicki Pettersson. Usually, superhero books are not my cup of tea, but there was something mystical about the story line that I found immediately captivating. The book starts out with Joanna Archer on a …

Recommended ages7 and up
Molly McIntire is living on the homefront of World War II in 1944. Molly’s fathers away at war caring for wounded soldiers in England. Things have changed drastically in her home. With her mother working at the Red Cross, her older sister acting more superior to …

The Wide Window is the third book in the Series of Unfortunate Events books series by Lemony Snicket. It is probably one of my favorites in the series because it marks the beginning of the change in the Baudelaire children. In the past two books I always felt as …

‘The confidence plan:How to build a stronger you’ is a book written by Tim Ursiny. This is a book which aims at making us stronger and successful. It is written in short chapters. In each of the chapters, the author has written interesting guidelines to be followed if we …

I love this book by Martina Cole. This is one of her No.1 Bestsellers and is a really powerful story. It is about a woman called Sue Dalston who has been part of danger and violence during her East End upbringing. She was unloved by her …

O’Reilly Media
By Eric A. Meyer
November 2006
Pages: 536
ISBN-10: 0596527330
ISBN-13: 978-0596527334
The Definitive Guide: The title says it very clearly. This book by O’Reilly follows in a solid tradition of reference books we all use as indispensible guides for our computer tasks.
Cascading Style Sheets begins with a short history of the …

This book, number 54 in the Hardy Boys series of books, is interesting because the Hardy Boys and their friends are on a vacation when they stumble upon a mystery. Joe, while out in a storm trying to help someone, stumbles upon a mask which is the clue to …

My best advice when reading this book, Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble if for you to be extremely patient and totally not rushing to read because this book will send you to cry buckets of tears, if you are not careful with your feelings there …

‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’ is a book written by Susan Jeffers. This is a self-help book. It is written in an excellent manner. I liked it very much. The author has presented opinions in a wonderful and simple manner, easily understandable by readers. The various exercises …

“The Fire Rose” is an interesting fantasy novel written by Mercades Lackey.
Mrs. Lackey takes the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” and mixes in quite a bit of magic, literature and a love story. This is a very well written and captivating novel.
Rosalind Hawkins is a female scholar …

This is the 7th book in the popular series for girls, From the Files of Madison Finn, about a typical girl who keeps a computer journal and files of everything she encounters.
In this story, Madison Finn is, as always, busy, but she is even busier than normal and many …

I was reading this book, You Can Do It! the other night for my babysitting moments. Yes, it seems that is my becoming my 2nd nature job. These kids were so fascinated by the storyline and not only them; but including me as well. There are lots …

Child of Time by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
ISBN: 0330322702
Genre: Sci-fi
This is an extended version of a short story called “The Ugly Little Boy”, written by Isaac Asimov and initially published in 1956. It is the second collaboration between Asimov and Silverberg, the first being “Nightfall”, also an extended …

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett is another tale is his very popular and extensive Discworld collection. Feet of Clay is another book about Vimes and the Ankh Morpork City Watch. The Watch is expanding, with new officers of all descriptions, including humans, dwarves, trolls and a …

This book was given to me as a present from my grandparents when they came to visit last month. I was quite excited that they chose this book because I had not read it and it looked really cool. I was attracted to it very quickly mostly because the …

‘The inscrutable Americans’ is a book written by Anurag Mathur, an Indian writer. This book speaks about the experience of an Indian student in United States when he is studying there as a student on a small university campus for one year. The student comes out of a small …

Last year, a friend of mine (Aubrey Waters) got a novel that she wrote published. It is called Thirteen and Surviving. It is a novel written for adolescent age girls, and it is about a girl who goes through many difficulties over the course of turning thirteen. …

Watership Down is a classic children’s novel that has been around for over a generation. It is an excellent novel. I read it for the first time when I was 10, and then again in sixth grade. I read several more times, most recently a few …

I really enjoyed this book. Its the book following Shiver. It continues on with Grace and Sam and introduces a few new characters such as Cole. Cole was an rock star that hated the life and turned to the wolves. Once in Mercy Falls though he soon sees the truth. …

A story of a vengeance well taken. This just about sums up the story of The count of Monte Cristo. If the law can’t help you gain justice, you have to help yourself, is the message this story sends out. The book, written by Alexandre Dumas The book tells …

In my Bedroom, by Donna Hill is a fictional novel. The book is about a woman and her life. She suffers a traumatic event and the story centers around how she handles that event. Much of the book tells about how she relates to her family and friends. There …

Kerim Alakusoglu is a fictional character of Orhan Pamuk, and the stories were written in the novel is called Snow. Snow became one of the novel written by Pamuk, besides The White Castel, The Black Book, My Name is Red and The New Life, which he won the Nobel …

I’ve recently been trying to read more inspirational books - travel, biography, that sort of thing to get a better idea of the things I could do with my life. I randomly chose to read Yes Man mostly because the trailers for the movie seemed funny, and I thought, …

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories is awesome. My boyfriend is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan so I bought this for him just a few months ago. It has all the short stories in there along with annotations on the side and historical information as well …

What’s the stupidest decision a person could ever make? What has never had a good outcome for anyone who has tried it? What did Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada decide to have Spider-man do? The answer to all three questions is “Make a deal with the …

This novel, In One Year and Out the Other, is a collection of short stories. Most of them are about finding new romance or boyfriends.
It isn’t really the most interesting collection ever. Many of the stories are a bit disjointed and fairly short. They don’t really have any character …

Shadow Over Kiriath is Book 3 of Karen Hancock’s Legends of the Guardian-King series. The fans of the first two books will not be disappointed. Hancock continues the story with just as many plot lines and plot twists, the same deep thought, and the same excellent quality of writing. …

Just finished the Rich Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki.
To summarize, these books advocate the importance of being involved in investment and business-making rather than being an employee in one’s life. The books are based on the real story of the author, hovering about the influence he had had from …

Life of Peter Drucker, in part, determined by events that are not intentional. However, for Drucker, coincidence does not mean anything to them, are not ready at their door, knock at the event. Does this book is a biography of Drucker? Of course not. Krames not write a biography …

While this book promises to teach Economics in One Lesson, it is less a a book about basic economics and how the free market economy works than it is one about economic policy and how to examine its effectiveness. Henry Hazlitt wrote this little gem of a book …

I recently finished reading Wormwood. Wormwood is a book written by G.P. Taylor. I really like Christian fiction novels. However, Wormwood left me feeling uneasy.
Wormwood is about people living in London in 1756. It is a battle between good and evil. The …

Daredevil issue 274 was published in 1989, towards the end of Ann Nocenti’s stint as writer for the series. I enjoyed Nocenti’s writing at times, but the art by John Romita, Jr. always turned me off to the extent I had a hard time enjoying even a good …

“Edwina The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct” by Mo Willems is an enchanting tale that not only entertains but teaching children about friendship. The cartoons images are adorable and child-like and will make for a great story for your children to read.
This story is about a local …

This book from the well-known series by JK Rowling was a good read, and enjoyable for any age. It begins and ends, of course, with the school year at Hogwart’s. This year is supposed to be especially exciting due to the triwizard tournament, which, despite being too young, Harry …

CAGE - Marvel Max
“In this neighborhood, you don’t go looking for trouble. trouble finds you!”
Remember my Essential Luke Cage review? Well, the character is brought into the moern age with the R Rated Marvel Max line and it is a great re-imagining of the classic character albiet a bit …

I think there is a powerful voice of writing in Trespass by Valerie Martin very much. The story is amazingly written and I think there are lots of elements of self-reflect as well as lots of self-thoughts.
The story is about the normal life of an American family who lives …

I have always wondered why when I was in a relationship or relationships before and certain guys that I was involved with would have this ‘emotionally unavailable’ syndrome. But after reading this book, Emotional Unavailability: Recognizing It, Understanding It, and Avoiding Its Trap by Bryn C. Collins, I finally …

I love reading psychological or medicinal help books, and in this James Morrison - Dsm-IV Made Easy: The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis, it describes the detailed and complete steps to diagnosis, that we all do not know of much.
This book is quite hard for me to understand at first, …

There’s a bookcase in my apartment that is sadly not visited all that often. I don’t know about you, but most of the books I’ve thought of as page turners didn’t really involve any page turning, just screens from various reading devices. A Killer’s Kiss is special to me …

Dictionaries themselves are of course ten a penny these days, whether in paper or electronic form, However, The Visual Dictionary by the Canadian author Jean-Claude Corbeil, is something that in my experience at least is just about unique, to the extent that I am really rather surprised not to …

This book, this can’t be happening, is the first book in the MacDonald Hall series by Gordon Korman. It is very funny, and a great book for kids.
The story is basic, about two boys named Bruno and Boots who are constantly in trouble, so their headmaster decides to separate …

The title book, Pride & a Pregnancy Secret is a really good love story. The author of this book is none other than Tessa Radley and she has written very well that I enjoyed reading this love novel pretty much.
In Pride & a Pregnancy Secret, it starts off …

This is supposed to be a guide for inner transformation and if you like the physic this is an interesting book, if not forget it. Going Within is supposed to be a roadmap for achieving inner transformation. In this book Shirley Maclain covers many aspects of the physic …

This is the first book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni that I have read; I randomly selected it in the bookstore for the kids to try. It was definitely a good choice, this book is very enjoyable and strangely compelling. It’s definitely a great read for kids 8 and up, …