The book Solar Heating and Sun Heating was written by George Daniels. It is a book for everyone who is concerned about the high cost of heating a home today and might be considering alternative options. This book is written in a very simple format that the average person …

This is one of the novels in the New Yedi Order series. Han and Leias son Jacen Solo is captured by the enemy, the Yuuzhan Vong. They try to brainwash him to believe in their god and their philosophy. There is also a runaway Jedi there, Vergere, who joins …

“Brian & Bob” is a children’s book written and illustrated by Georgie Ripper and published in 2003. The book is pretty short at about 24 pages and can be read in just a couple minutes, which makes is a good last book for the night when your …

When about two years ago Sarah Rees Brennan first announced on her livejournal blog that she was about to publish a Young Adult novel, my curiosity immediately peaked. Since I knew Sarah as a good writer of fan stories, I was very interested in her original output.
It was …

Under a Worn Torn Sky by L.M. Elliott
Under a War Torn Sky is a story about Henry Forester in World War II. Only nineteen years old he is the youngest pilot in the Air Force squadron.On a mission over the continent Henrys plane is shot down by enemy fire …

Going on a trip? You never know when you’ll get a vacation. Learn to snowboard? On the weekend, you’ll probably have to work. Read a book to the baby in the evening? Now, just answering a letter. This is the “squirrel wheel” mode most ordinary employees of ordinary companies …

I have just finished reading this book called Pat Barker - The Ghost Road, which had won The Man Booker Prize before. This book is very easy to read, but seems haunting. The haunting is not actually literally ghost, but actually it refers to a war haunt.
This …

The full name of this book is “The Perfectionist’s Handbook: Take Risks, Invite Criticism, and Make the Most of Your Mistakes.” There probably isn’t anything in it you haven’t read before. I know there was nothing in it *I* hadn’t read before. The main difference between this books and others …

As a woman, I could totally relate to this book; the insecurities of being married and then getting pregnant and feeling suspicious that my husband is perhaps having an affair.
That’s a bit of the summarization for this book Shopaholic and Baby by Sophie Kinsella. Becky and her husband are …

Having Chris Claremont comes back and continues the story after Magneto’s death. Magneto has died and come back so many times, the man even lost his powers and got them back. What makes this so much different than all of those other moments? Maybe the fact that Claremont is …

Most of the romances I read (Yes, even I read romances occasionally) that are published under the Steeple Hill imprint of Harlequin books are mildly entertaining at best. Few are very thought-provoking, and only the extremely rare volume has any true depth to it. Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised …

This book by Constance Rhodes is about what she terms the “thin cage,” which is a so-called cage in which many women find themselves in where being thin becomes an obsession. The book does not necessarily talk about eating disorders, as one might think upon first reading the title …

This Goosebump book was one of my many favorites written by R.L. Stine. I liked this book because it always kept you wondering what was to happen next. It was written in a way that when the haracter was freaking ou, you fel like doing the same. When …

This isn’t the best translation of the Papyrus of Ani/Coming Forth by Day (Egyptian Book of the Dead) that’s available. But, it is (one of) the very first that was ever translated. I bought it primarily for that purpose, for it’s historical value.
So, if you’re going primarily …

Book two in a series focusing on the Klingon Empire. Following directly on from the novel “A Good Day to Die”.
The crew of the I.K.S Gorkon gave a promise to the Children of San-Tarah. Defeat the crew of the Gorkon in a series of warrior challenges and the Klingon …

The Old Contemptibles written by Martha Grimes (Ballantine Books 1992)
When Jane Holdsworth was found dead by Alex, her teenage son, Superintendant Jury was the chief suspect, being the last person to see her. He sent his pal, Melrose Plant, to investigate.
Plant discovered that the …

The print on this book caught my eye on the book stand at our bookstore, it featured a woman in an elegant eggplant cocktail dress sitting on couch, her legs were spread evenly and casually and you can’t really see her face as it’s only half-shown, but I could …

Drinking Problem by KD Wentworth is a clever story about a near future America’s solution to the problem of alcoholism. The United States government passes a law that proclaims that every person who drinks alcohol must have one container which will be refilled each time their alcohol is …

Engulfed by Bernard F. Dick
The subheading of this book ‘The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood’is intriguing.
In the old days when Paramount was purchased by Gulf and Western, there were many gasps that Adolf Zukor’s beloved studio was now in the hands of corporate accountants. …

This is the first book of the series “Dragonlance”, which describes the path of the better known shady characters of the story of the darkness. The first story about the sinking into darkness villain is that of Lord Verminaard, an antagonist in the first and original book of the …

Whenever I talk to people about Sherlock Holmes, I have a few that say they would read it if they found a story that was more like the crime dramas they see on television.
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is one of those stories that fits that description.
Much like …

Elizabeth Gilbert has long been writing fiction but this is the first time she wrote her autobiography through Eat, Pray, Love. I must say the book was very well-crafted, far from the boring tone that the word biography usually connotes. Gilbert has the gift of writing very casually and …

I had never heard of the book The Phantom Ship before. But, I found myself bored one weekend and figured I would sit down and read it; assuming I probably wouldn’t get past the first couple chapters.
I found it actually was pretty good, even though it tended to drag …

“Bark George” is a book by Jules Feiffer about a dog named George who can not bark. His mother asks him to bark, and rather than your traditional “arf” he instead moos, quacks, and meows. His mother doesn’t know what to do with him, so she takes him to …

Cowboy in My Pocket is a truly delightful novel. Written by Kate Douglas, it tells the story of a sweet romance for the young as well as the old.
Michelle Garrison is a novelist of a romance genre and suddenly, her books aren’t selling like hot cakes …

I have recently read all three books in the ‘Dark Materials’ trilogy by Phillip Pullman. All three books were equally interesting, it wasn’t one of these series where the first book seems good and then the rest fall flat and the story line was well maintained through all …

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 …

Development of friendship between the writers whose New York 1947 of narrator Stingo and Sophie Zawistowska it is young between the people of the local Judean person of the World War II and her boyfriend and Nathan fights to detail the extent private drama which breath between the hollow coast …

Like most ladies I’ve dieted many, many times. I’ve tried everything from Atkin’s to diets that came directly from hospitals for heart patients. I have made the switch lately to try not dieting. I just want to change the way I eat daily.
I try not …

I am a big fan of Louise Hay, and I love her book entitled Heal Your Body. I am very, very fortunate that I have not had to endure a long standing illness or lots of serious health problems, but I still think that Heal Your Body is a …

I bought the Total Immersion (Ti) Extra Ordinary swimming for everybody in June 2009 from the TI website. Amazingly, this is the most influential material, I identify, I have ever had with me.
I bought it after; I had a sample material on it from TI website. It is copyright …

If I have to be honest, rarely do I pay attention to the books written and based on the screenplay of a movie. Their reputation among fans and literary critics often is not high, but they still continue to come out and the fans buy them hoping to discover …

Sylvester Duncan is a small donkey who likes to find nice-looking pebbles. He collects pebbles that have unusual shape or color. When he finds a bright red, smooth round pebble, Sylvester immediately picks it up. The pebble turns out to be a magic one: it can make any wish …

Michael Pollan is the author of several previous books including the two he’s best known for “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food” and he’s a longtime contributor for the New York Times. Interestingly, Michael Pollan is not a food scientist or a nutritionist or the like, …

Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, wrote The Inheritance when she was seventeen. It was her first novel, but she never submitted it for publication. It wasn’t published until 1997.
I was pretty excited to read this, since I’ve read her books from the time …

In this book, the ninth book in the Hardy Boys series for preteen boys by Franklin W. Dixon, Frank and Joe Hardy are yet again involved in a mystery. They have been hired to find out what is happening to plane shipments - shipments are appearing at their destinations …

Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games is the story of John Patrick Ryan, an American ex - Marine and a history teacher who is on holiday in London with his wife and daughter when he foils a terrorist ambush and is wounded in the process. On waking up in hospital, he …

“The I Love Lucy Book of Trivia: Official Authorized Edition” is great fun - especially if you have friends and family members that are Lucy fans, too! If you do, you can do what I do: set an evening aside and ask one another trivia questions out of the …

This book, like the first book in the series (Sideways Stories from Wayside School) is the basis of a new TV show, Wayside, although the books have been around for quite a bit longer.
This book is just as funny as the first book in the series. There are a …

From the moment I’d heard from my professor about what happened with Enron Corporation, a Houston-based energy giant, which engaged in complicated transactions to manipulate its financial statements, I had always wanted to know: how did they do it? And how they were discovered? The unraveling of Enron’s inner …

Graves in Academe, written by Susan Kenney, was published by Penguin Books in 1986.
The author, Susan Kenney, held a PHD in English and American Literature, so it is no surprise that this story was couched in the realms of academy and literature. However, in the midst of spouting …

He sounds so strong. So vibrant. So alive.
Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, wrote Patrick’s memoir in the summer of 2009. They also recorded it as an audio book which was completed just a few weeks before Patrick’s death on September 14, 2009.
When you listen …

This was an excellent read. I didn’t want this book to end, because it is one of the best I have read in years. It is a wonderful story that has it all: seduction, danger, revenge, romance and mystery. I found this book very diffucult to put down. The …

My brother loves reading books by James Patterson, and so does my boyfriend. Both of them have a copy of this book, The 6th Target, and I just don’t get what is so fun about this book. Hence, I’ve started reading and have had good reviews about …

The Runaway Jury is another Grisham’s novel mostly based in a court environment. An old lady is suing a large tobacco firm after the death of her husband. Grisham gives us information about what happens in a courtroom, the juries daily life and how the jury team is selected …

Fullmetal Alchemist Manga Volume 1 begins with two boys in a desert town at a café listening to a religious broadcast. They learn about a priest named Father Cornelo who came to the town of Liore and tought the people about Letoism, his religion and that he can …

I think this is one of the only memoirs I have ever read and been impressed with. Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life details the life of Queen Noor of Jordan. This memoir is so well written that I was able to relate to so …

Hold Still written by Nina LaCour is great fiction with difference that it also tells the strength of friendship too. The book narrates the life of Caitlin, as a visual journey. And when I read this I also felt the same thoughts that Caitlin had. The story unveils in …

Romeo was written by Elise Title, and published by Bantam Books, 1998.
My first reaction when I read about the vicious killing of the smug psychologist, Dr Melanie Rosen, was that she deserved it. She had capitalized on the wave of terror created by Romeo, the killer who took …

I have just finished the third installment of Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John series, Lord John and the Hand of Devils. If you are not familiar with her writing, they are all period pieces and the Lord John series takes place in the 1750’s, the time of the Seven …