My Lady Captor is an enchanting historical romance set along the English Scottish boarder in the 1380’s. The story involves an impoverished but prideful Scottish clan and a wealthy and stubborn English Knight. The story begins on the battlefield as the grave robbers take what they can …

Dan Brown is one of my favorite authors. I just recently finished reading Angels and Demons. I should have read this before I read The Di Vinci Code, also written by Dan Brown. In Angels and Devils is where Rabert Langdon was first introduced. He is a Harvard Sybololigist, …

When the young gentlewoman Emma Woodhouse sees her governess marry a nice man named Mr. Weston, she flatters herself that she has arranged this match, subtly leading the two people to become interested in each other. Inspired by this success, Emma takes up matchmaking as a hobby. She thinks …

Mark Haddon’s debut novel is superbly written. The story is unique and refreshing. The author’s style of writing is plain, yet very strong.
The book is about an autist boy who finds his neighbourhood dog murdered. He wants to find the murderer under any cost, because he thinks it’s wrong …

Salvation in Death is the latest installment in the In Death series. In this book, Eve and Roarke once again work together to find the killer in this murder with a lot of twists and turns.
We see more of Roarke being featured in this book - his usual expertise …

I didn’t think for a second that I could be reading a book like this, and enjoying it. My boyfriend questioned me for reading a book about defending paperback historical forms. He thought it word being so.
I thought not. I felt that by reading this long …

I bought this book by Susan Forward after 13 years of turmoil with my own mother-in-law. I purchased it at Books A Million for $13.95. It is the paper back edition and is 286 pages long.
This book has been my life saver. The author gives numerous situations and …

I don’t think there is a need to introduce an author like Gerald Durrell. Because people who love animals so much that they devote their whole life to them cannot be bad.
I got acquainted with the books of this amazing writer in my distant childhood. I admire his amazing …

Pyramids by Terry Pratchett is one the earlier Discworld novels. It is set the Kingdom of Djelibeybi, and ancient land dominated by its pyramids. It tells the story of Teppic, the young Pharaoh, who has just completed his schooling in Ankh-Morpork as an Assasin, and has returned …

Farmyard Fun is published by Templar Publishing. It is part of a Happy Snappy book series and a pop-up one. This is my daughter’s first pop-up book. We did not want to buy any pop-up books for her before because there is a high chance that she would tear …

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 …

Down on University street, in the Village, just south of Ball State University, and across from Ball State Federal Credit Union, is a tiny used bookstore called White Rabbit Used Books.
Despite being small, the store packs a huge amount of bookage into the tiny space, with floor-to-ceiling shelves of …

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Kit Kittredge is a nine-year-old girl girl growing up in the Great Depression of 1934. Kit learns that not eveything is like in the books she reads when her Father must sell his car dealership, and her older brother can’t attend college because they cannot …

Game of Thrones is a series of books by George R. R. Martin, The series is well written and uses a multi personality storyline, what I mean by that is each chapter the protagonist is a different person and we get to see the events of the story being …

1984 is a book nobody should miss. It is so captivating, so well written, a novel one will never forget. The skill of the author in creating the dark and gloomy atmosphere of a dictatorial society is amazing. You identify with the main character in his strive to retain …

Every single Mother-To-Be should be issued this book when she finds out she’s pregnant. It has the answers to every single question a pregnant woman, or even a woman just thinking of becoming pregnant, could possibly need.
The first chapter begins with symptoms you may have when …

Dostoevsky’s existentialist work Notes from Underground is effectively used to reveal startling and unconventional view of society. Even if it was written long before today, many of the themes and messages present in Notes from Underground can be applied just as accurately to modern society as well. The timeless …

People who read this book will either be (i) Rutherfurd fans, (ii) Irish history students or (iii) Random readers of historical fiction.
If you are an existing Rutherfurd fan and enjoyed his earlier books you are going to be disappointed. This latest work is turgid, slow moving and fails to …

Being the last book of the Twilight Saga Series by Stephanie Meyer, I expected something more. And by that, I do not mean volume. It is the very longest of the four books and I think a lot of it should have been written differently. She made every single …

The Truce at Bakura is a science fiction novel, set in the Star Wars universe straight after the end of Return of the Jedi. The Rebel Alliance catches an Imperial probe, and as the Empire can’t answer the distress call it is sending, Luke Skywalker and other members of …

This comic was only slightly improved over the last one.
The brunt of the comic comes in two major confrontations. The first is Zatanna’s clash with Lobo. As one would expect, Zatanna hands the main man his rear end. After all, she can decimate an …

The Rafael Affair is the first of a series of “art mysteries” set in Italy about the Rome Art Theft Squad. It introduces the characters of General Taddeo Bottando, head of the squad, and his assistant, Flavia di Stefano. They interact with Jonathan Argyll, an English art …

I am the type of person that loves to read, but it is still very hard for me to find a book that I can actually stick with. I am very busy, and my mind never really settles down! It takes a very interesting book for me to read …

The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an extraordinary book. It is amazing. It is very influential. It is very sad and emotional. But it is an amazing book. It is about the holocaust and is a true story about the author.
It starts off when the Elie is a …

I have these 2 books, which I personally bought at the bookstore, because I love both of them so much. These 2 books get 2 thumbs up from me, each having their own concept of writing and genres.
The first book is The South Beach Diet, The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, …

I purchased this book about a year ago and never got around to reading it until now. Although this book was written in 2003, it is still very applicable for 2008 and 2009. If more people had read this book in the last few years, I would like to …

Chopra opened this novel, with scenes of King Suddhodana (Siddhartha’s father), who are fighting against the enemy. At the same time, Queen Maya, the empress of Suddhodana, through the woods Lumbini. She was pregnant with a baby and plans to give birth at home parents. Not yet reached the …

I have read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald many times. It is one of the prime possessions in my personal library. Going through this book always give me reason why it is considered as one of the best American novels.
The story of the book revolves around …

If you currently work from home or plan on working from home anytime soon then this is a must have book. It covers many, many important topics related to working from home including: the pros and cons of working from home, equipment needed to work from home, work from …

Amongst the books promoting vegetarianism I have ever read, I think “Food for Thought” by Avaduthika Anandamitra Acarya is one of the bests and the most complete. It explain vegetarianism and why we should follow it based on the concepts of yoga.
According to yoga philosophy, there are three …

The Host, written by Stephenie Meyer, is a very unique book that my friend had given to me for loan recently. This is a unique book, I say because of the amazing plots that surround it.
It is as though the author cleverly plays a very futuristic, modern era …

I first heard of this book series written by Charlaine Harris only after I started watching the first season of the series “True Blood” on HBO. I just finished the first one which is entitled “Dead Until Dark” last week, and thought that it was not half as bad …

France, 1625. D’Artagnan, an ambitious 18 year old young man from the province of Gascony, comes to Paris, hoping to establish himself at the king’s service. He knows little about politics, the court, and the secret war going on between the king and the cardinal. Officially, the king and …

Essential Art History’s title is quite a claim for anyone to make for a single book, and one which in actual appearance is fairly unassuming, being no more than a medium-sized hardback of a little over 300 pages, albeit one with a rather startling bright blue front cover. This …

The Chosen One, written by Carol Lynch Williams, is a fantastic book that focuses on the life of a young girl named Kyra, who lives in an isolated community. Within the community there is polygamy, forbidden books, and forbidden relationships between young girls and boys. Kyra starts breaking the …

Dreamworks Bee movie book is a collection of 16 buzz worthy sounds which is a good tool to encourage young children to develop their skills of listening and to distinguish the different kinds of sounds while at the same time enjoying the story. My little one got this …

India After Gandhi is a lucidly written book by eminent historian and sociologist Ramachandra Guha. Any one who wants to understand the evolving phases of India should go through this book. India is a country of vast linguistic, regional and political diversity. It intrigues scholar world over that why democracy …

If you are already used to the basic HTML scripts in Java Programming in games specifically, you might want to get this book: Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.
It is super useful and there are just lots of codes and HTML scripts which you can embed …

This book has 2 authors and the title, Moody to Mellow by Stephen Palmer, Get a Life is a really good book that you should not underestimate its power to change your views totally and giving some good tips for you to control your feelings of anger and etc. …

Opposite to the previous volumes, in the 5th volume of Nodame Cantabile there’s only a storyline, the school festival. By the beginning of the manga, the S orchestra will play for the first time in front of their school mates. They decided to play wearing costumes, to keep with …

If you need motivation, this is a very good book for you.
The English is simple, and the way the author presents makes it easy to read and understand the contents.
You will not feel bored when you read it.
There are many famous quotes which help you to motivate yourself. I …

I read this book a few years ago, mainly because I’m a big fan of its author, Chilean writer José Donoso, and I had read many of his novels, except this one; I had read a few reviews praising the book and regarding it as Donoso’s masterpiece, so I …

Carina Maria DiGrata, a young Italian woman, leaves her home in California after catching her fiancé Flavio with her sister. She goes to Colorado, to the small mining town of Crystal where she has purchased a house and hopes to start a new life and forget her sorrows. However, …

Double Dealer (CSI Las Vegas) was written by Max Allan Collins and published by Pocket Books, 2001.
I have watched the TV series and thought about giving the books a try. It proved to be just as interesting as the screen version. It is a totally different experience; …

I love this book very much. It has a very gorgeous cover and I love it very much. I think I’ve seen Gok Wan before somewhere in a TV fashion show and I think he has great flavors of style.
There is 1 particular tongue in cheek …

When my son was diagnosed with autism, the doctor gave me “Children with Autism: A Parent’s Guide” to help me get a better understanding of what my family would be facing. Right from the beginning, as I was reading the forewords and introductions - written by autistic parents …

The Fisherman is a scary horror story from the anthology Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror. This anthology contains many stories of horror collected from various places and all by different authors. I had not read a story by Brian Rosenberger before, and had not heard of him. However, …

This is an amazing book if you want to change your bad habits for good. We are all so busy trying to make changes from the outside, when really success has to come from within. All of the things we do are based off of the habits that we …

Flight into Danger is a page turning thriller of a book. The story describes a chartered flight full of football fans going to Vancouver to catch a big game. On a stopover at Winnipeg, a truck salesman named George Spencer boards the flight, and is seated next to a …

Recently, I came to the very last page of “The Choice” a novel by Nicholas Sparks. And while I found the romance behind this novel heartwarming and beautiful, I did not find this story to have as much depth to it as some of his other novels.
The story …