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 …

I have recently read Social Psychology by Baron as a course material in my psychology syllabus. Ever since I have read the psychology by Baron, I have become a fan of him. However, this book is far much better than any book of Baron.
The real attraction of this book …

This novel, The Realms of the Gods, which is written for adults and older youths, is a continuation of the The Immortals series. While it is the 4th book of the series, it is the first of Tamora Pierce’s books which I have read. I enjoyed it, although I …

Lullaby is about a newspaper reporter researching a story on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. He learns about an African song that supposedly kills anyone that hears it. He befriends a Wiccan and her boyfriend and they go on a journey to rid the country of the song.
I usually love …

Among members of the Left, A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is probably one of the most popular history books of all time. Perhaps the most popular. It takes a brand new take on the history of the United States, trying to give …

I found this book in a friend’s list of read books and it really caught my eye. My friend loved it and she’s one of the most trustful persons I know when it comes to recommendations. But I have to say, this book was a roller-coaster of emotions for …

“Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion” is a book by Larry Nemecek that I found interesting to an extent, although really, this book had quite a bit of content that I just was not interested in. What I was not interested in was the summaries of all the episodes …

This is the second book in ‘The Selection’ series. The only reason I picked up the first book in the first place was due to the pretty cover, however the book majorly disappointed me. In spite of the poor quality of ‘The Selection’, I had to finish the series. …

The Mythic Journey by Liz Green and Juliet Sharman-Burke - bulk
I picked up ‘The Mythic Journey’ by Liz Green and Juliet Sharman-Burke at local bookstore because I like mythology, because the cover art caught my eye, but most of all, because it was on sale for $3 when it …

I used to be not a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. However, one day I came across his autobiography named My Experiment with Truth in the library. I decided to issue it, just out of curiosity to read something about the father of my nation in his own words.
It took …

After watching the movie “The Notebook” and listening to many women sing praises over Nicholas Sparks’ work, I decided to read The Notebook and see what all the fuss was about. Acquiring a copy was simple enough. My mother has two or three of his works in her bookshelf. …

This was the first book I ever read from Jude Deveraux and I was captivated by her charm and her wit and intelligence that I immediately bought more of her books! But as I read her other books, I simply still felt this as my favorite and the cutest …

I found this book with the regular fiction but it is really a wonderful fantasy novel. The world within these 333 pages is well realized and thought out —“ a completely original world that I enjoyed visiting. It seemed very real while I was reading it and I admit …

Astrid & Veronica is a gripping novel written by Linda Olsson. The story is a rare blend of friendship and also thrilling events in the past that affect the present. The author is successful in what is intended and I became a fan of this author by just reading …

The Amulet by Joanna Wayne is part of the Harlequin Intrigue series.
I just found out it’s the last of a series of three. The other two books have different authors. Just look it up on google if you are interested.
Joanna Wyanne is from Harvey LA. This …

City of Glass is the third book in the Mortal Instruments series. Clary is desperate to wake her mother from the coma state she is in and to do so, she must travel to the City of Glass. Entering the City of Glass is forbidden unless you have permission …

“The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks is one of the many that I have read by this author. My boyfriend picked up this book for me and although it took me a while to get around to reading it, I finally did. I finished it cover to cover in …

I first got interested about reading John Knowles’ A Separate Peace while browsing through the classics section of the bookstore. The blurbs at the back of the cover said that it was a story of two best friends who couldn’t have been more different from each other. Gene is …

This book for children is the 5th book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett (which, in and of itself, is a funny pen name), and continues the sad story of the Baudalaire orphans.
I have been reading this series with some children, and they really seem to …

I bought this book sometime in 2006 in one of the book store in New Zealand when I found out from my doctor that I have a thyroid problem. I instantly got so interested about finding out all about thyroid problems and there causes, prevention and remedy and …

Agatha Christie is one of my favorite writers ever since I was a child. I liked to imagine I was myself one of the characters of her books and I was helping Poirot or Miss Marple solve the mysteries and crimes lied ahead.
Though I have read most of her …

I felt that this was a very cute book to read to a child between the ages of two to five years old. It was very short, so your kids shouldn’t loose interest in hearing the story.
The story is about five little monkeys whose mother has …

In the 16. book in the series about the medieval investigator Hugh Corbett, the year is 1304 and Corbett is now the Kings emissary. One of England’s many manor lords is refusing to fulfill his promise to return a ornate cross he stole during the Crusades. He stole it from …

Thirty books. Thirty years. The end of the greatest adventure of the epic fantasy, the grand epic of the Riftwar by Raymond Fiyst has arrived. The legend of the Master Magician and his most faithful friend, the Dragon Rider, is over. The Last battle. The Fatal clash. The ending …

Recently, I finished a book written by Camika Spencer called Cubicles. The story revolves about the life of three women namely, Faulkner, Joyce and Margaret. Both, Faulkner and Joyce are black women looking for a spot in the corporate world. Actually, Joyce is a manager seeking for an executive …

Greg Iles has given us another great thriller just like his previous ones that have landed on the New York Times best seller list. All of the action in Third Degree takes place in one day, and once you start reading, that is about how long it will …

Written by Tom Peters, this is one excellent book for managers. In fact, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies was required reading when I was trying to become a manager at San Miguel Corporation, the Philippines’ biggest and most influential corporation. As such, I …

McNally’s Secret (written by Lawrence Sanders and published by Berkley Publishing Group, 1992)
Reading about Archy McNally’s escapades always makes me feel relaxed and lazy. The rich, pleasure-seeking playboy who was surprisingly sympathetic and bighearted, is also a passable detective.
His father, Preston McNally, had a case that the firm …

This is the first novel that I read by Clive Cussler. I had seen his books in the library many times but never realized that they were adventure stories. I wish I had known that sooner, as I love adventure stories, especially if they are related to the …

Unwind by Neil Shusterman is the first in a trilogy of books. The plot follows three main protagonists, who all end up telling the story from their points of view, they are Risa, Connor and Lev. Risa is an orphan from a state home who happens to be …

Four mothers, four daughters, four families, and a mosaic of stories. The Joy Luck Club presents the tales of Chinese immigrant women and their American-born daughters, living Americanized but principled as Chinese. While the generational differences are like those experienced by other mothers and daughters, the cultural differences add …

Sarah Waters’s second so-called neo-Victorian novel takes place in two - or perhaps even three - spaces of confinement: namely, London’s Milbank prison for women; one of the protagonist’s Victorian household, where a despotic mother treats her with mind-altering drugs to manage her depression, which had resulted in a …

Ken Blanchard became famous for his runaway best seller The One Minute Manager way back in the 1980s. This book seems to have been written with the same gung ho spirit: turn your customers into raving fans. Yes, this is a cheerleading book, co-authored by Blanchard, the …

In this book for boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, teenage sons of the famous detective Hardy, help their father on many of his cases, and also often get their own cases. Sometimes the cases they get are related to the cases that their father is working on.
In The Melted …

The hype surrounding this book and the others in the Millennium Trilogy drew me to pick it up and I thought it would be an intense, suspenseful story that would educate me about some of the horrors of the world. Instead, I was faced with paragraph after paragraph of …

I had never heard of this book, but when I finally did, the book was praised for its informative perspective social and psychological constructs that have dictated much of societal ideologies. The fact that the book addressed suppression of religion fascinated me a bit as I am one open …

The first thing I want to say is that this book doesn’t contain kind of “wonderful theory”; in fact, it focuses on the skills and hints for you to start a small talk and keep it go on for at least 5 minutes.
I used to think those small talks …

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 am a huge fan of Suzanne White, an experienced and respected astrologist who although an American, lives in Paris, France.
The reason why I became a fan was when I ran across her tome entitled: The New Astrology - A unique synthesis of the world’s two great astrological systems: …

Written by Al Kelley, Ph.D. , and professor of mathematics; and Ira Pohl, a professor of Computer Science with 30 years of experience as software methodologist; this book is a must-have for students of Computer Science who wants to master this language.
The book is divided into 15 chapters, and …

I had wanted to read ‘The Five Love Languages’ by Dr Gary Chapman for a very long time. Each visit to the Bookstore found me picking up a Copy and setting it back down. The cost of the Book ($12.99) wasn’t the factor, well maybe for me it was …

Margaret Truman learned all about the ins and outs of Washington politics when her father was President. And she has turned that knowledge into a career as a prize winning mystery writer. In her latest book, Murder On K Street, there is the murder of a Senator’s wife …

Batman: Under The Hood Volume One by Judd Winick tells the story of Batman’s battle with the mysterious Red Hood who is killing criminals in Gotham, and who he is under the hood, is truly surprising.
This graphic novel is very well written. Judd Winick writes a good Batman …

Malgudi days is a collection of 32 short funny and witty stories. Its author as I have mentioned in the title is R K Narayanan.
The stories happen in Malgudi, an imaginary town located somewhere on the banks of Sarayu (a river in South India). Even though it is common …

I didn’t buy this book, but instead found it, along with a few others like it in my aunt’s bookshelf. I considered myself quite lucky to come across it too, since at the time I found it, I was planning on going on a low calorie diet.
Despite the …

“Everyone Dies” is the eighth book in Michael McGarrity’s Kevin Kerney mystery series. I think it is one of the best so far. In this book Sara, Kerney’s wife is due to give birth at any time and so is with him on maternity leave instead of being on …

Marked for Murder (written by William X Kienzle and published by Ballantine Books, 1989)
A very tricky story —“ simply devious and brilliant! When I thought the story had ended with the arrest of the murderer, it turned out that he was only a copycat. How interesting! …

I think I have underestimated the awesomeness of Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. I thought it is just another bimbo type of story and I was wrong. This story has contents and a great plot.
It shows how a perfectly made up town and a posh one at …

This story is a beautiful fairy tale about courage. One princess, the older sister, is brave about everything, while her sister is afraid of everything. The older sister is the protector, until she comes down with a sickness that cannot be cured. The younger sister finds out that the …

This book is translated by Barbara Miller. Originally, Bhagavad-Gita is one of the hindu scriptures and is ancient wisdom. The book is good to read, but I must say that Miller has not done a very good job of translating it. Some of what is written is misleading. However, …