Set in Germany during World War II, The Book Thief revolves around a tomboyish girl whose family is destroyed because of the war and who finds herself fostered by the Hubermanns. In her new home, she meets a lot of friends to whom she shared her love for words. …

I know that there are many people out there who wish that they could improve their vocabulary.One way to do it is by perusing Gwen Harrison’s Vocabulary Dynamics.
What I love about this book is that instead of simply memorizing the meanings of new words,you are taught how to figure …

So I love to read everyday and go through books all the time because I read them so much and can’t get enough of them. I received a book from my mother which was a black romance novel book and I just knew off top that I will like …

The first book of the Velvet Saga, the author, Jude Deveraux had once again created a book that is both entertaining and heart warming. Set in the 1500s, it is a story of a poor baron who was forced to marry a rich heiress for her wealth.
The baron, …

Iceland’s Bell is a historical novel by the Icelandic writer Halldor Killjan Laxness. It has been translated to several languages, so finding a copy in a language you can read shouldn’t be a problem. The first part is about the farmer Jón Hreggviðsson and his battle with the Icelandic authorities. …

Aurora is one of the original members of the Canadian superhero group Alpha Flight in the Marvel comics universe. Aurora’s real name is Jeanne-Marie Beaubier. She was born in French Quebec, and was raised in a strict girl for girls. She discovered her powers after …

At first, I didn’t know about Paulo Coelho until a friend of mine introduced me to one of his novel entitled “By the river of piedra I sat down and wept,” I found his work quite simple yet very inspiring with its wit and wisdom. So, I look for …

Okay lets just start this off with: I love Katie MacAlister, I love her work, I love her characters, I simply can not get enough of her books.
Now that all the gushy “I love so-and-so”, which I genuinely do, is over. Lets get down to the what you’re all …

This book is an adaptation of the 2008 bestseller,Dewey,The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched The World,also by Vicki Myron and Brett Witter. Both volumes are tributes to a very remarkable cat named Dewey Readmore Books,the furry goodwill ambassador of the library in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,where Vicki …

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon encompasses every genre imaginable. There is romance, history, intrigue, fantasy, suspense, paranormal, and action. This epic novel and its sequels grabbed me and would not let go. Outlander sat on my bookshelf for years before I read it. As a bookstore …

Batman & Daredevil: King of New York is an interesting story published jointly by DC and Marvel Comics. It was published in 2000, written by Alan Grant and illustrated by Eduardo Barreto.
The story is your basic superhero team-up, although thankfully the writers do not have Batman and …

Eclipse is the third book in the Twilight series. In this book, the main focus is Bella’s choice between Edward and Jacob. She must choose between vampire Edward and her friendship with Jacob the werewolf because she can only have one of them. Also, Bella must be careful of …

Traitor’s Purse was written by Margery Allingham, and published by Bantam Crime Line Books in 1941.
The story gets more and more absorbing as you read further one conspiracy leads to another. What’s so bewildering and frustrating is waiting for the protagonist to regain full capacity of his …

This book was very different from the books I usually read. I felt that the book was a little longer than it needed to be and for me personally, it didn’t have enough action or drama to hold my attention for very long.
I felt that the author did …

Risk Management and Insurance by US academics Scott Harrington and Gregory Niehaus is designed for use in introductory risk management and insurance courses. The book is generally aimed at the MBA level or second level risk management courses.
The second edition, published in 2003, is a significant improvement on the …

I have read the book ‘Awaken the giant within’. The author is Anthony Robbins. The author says that your life is your life, it is your business. Therefore, you have to take care of your life. You have to be your own boss. You have to be the master …

The subtitle to ‘The Complete Beatles Lyrics’ is ‘Every song written and recorded by Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr’. This book came out in 1982, published by Omnibus Press and is avalailable on Amazon. A boyfriend bought me this as a present years ago as he had …

‘Mystery of the hidden house’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. It is one of the books among the five find-outer series. The five children, Pip, Bets, Daisy, Larry and Fatty are on the look-out for a mystery. The holidays seem to be rather boring. There is not …

Donnigan Harrison is a successful farmer and a good and handsome man. He would like to get married and start a family, but there is a problem: his prairie farm is in the middle of nowhere, and there are simply no women to marry in the area. Some of …

Though it has been a long time since Stephen Covey’s book —˜7 habits of highly effective people’ came out, the impact of its content is still as strong and meaningful as it was when it had newly hit the bookstores.
The writer takes a very unconventional approach that contradicts the …

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 …

As much as I prefer adult fiction romance and romantic comedy over teenage fiction, I do have to admit that Just Listen by Sarah Dessen is pretty awesome and it got me hooked. No kidding. The storyline is very good and I won’t look down on teen fiction …

I’m a voracious reader with eclectic tastes. One of the genres that I have recently discovered is urban fantasy (sometimes called paranormal). I’m not really a fan of horror novels, which often traditionally feature characters that are staples to this category such as vampires, demons, werewolves, and other assorted …

There are countless students who have taken the course for becoming a Medical Assistant, and need to take their State Boards test to become MA’s. I do not believe that most know that there is a complete book that will certainly be of great help in studying for the …

Jerusalem Inn (written by Martha Grimes and published by Dell Publishing, 1990)
Humble and witty aristocrats amuse me, as did Melrose Plant, the good friend of Superintendent Jury. The policeman and the open-minded Earl of Caverness had conversations and exchanges that were greatly humorous, sardonic and engaging!
Superintendent Jury …

Lauren Kate really out did herself with this third installment in her book series Fallen. Passion is the third book in the series, Fallen is the first and Torment is the second.
I’ll admit the first two books kind of annoyed me. The heroine Luce (Lucinda Price) reminds me of …

The WAG’s Diary by Alison Kervin is amazing but a lot of my friends do not like this story at all. They say it’s trashy, but I argued with them that we have to see from the contents’ point of view, rather than just discriminating the title. Perhaps …

My job entails lots of traveling. In a month, most of the days are spent overseas. That is why when I saw this book while I was in forage for some materials to read on my next rip, I grabbed it and immediately paid for it. As I enjoy …

This book is about apostrophe, comma, colon, semi-colon, dash, and punctuation mark. Yes! This is a book about punctuation. How boring, you might think! But this book is far from boring. In fact, it is hilarious!
This book shows how punctuation really matters to convey the right messages. …

I love books. I love them so much that I collect them. There is a difference between going to the library to check out a book and actually owning one. We have near us here in Manchester a book shop called James Books and Novelty Shop. I love this …

I found this book in the library about two months ago. I was just browsing, and this book happened to be on display. So I read the blurb, and it did seem relatively interesting, so I decided to take it out and see if it would be any good. …

In 1998, Tori Amos released my favorite of her albums to date: From the Choirgirl Hotel. And as both a Tori fan and a new pianist, a couple years ago I purchased via Amazon a copy of her sheet music book for the album, which I believe is now …

This book, written by John Grisham, is a compelling story about three disgraced judges sentenced to serve their punishment in a federal prison, and unwittingly run a scam from inside a prison. The blurb does not really give you a hint as to the entire story, leaving out the …

School’s Out by Sarah Tucker is a story that I reminisced like during my school years and me and the rest of my schoolmates would gather at the playground and all our mommies would huddle together, sit and gossip and share stories; sometimes personal too. School’s Out is something …

I have a cookbook idea, but the problem is that I’m not a wonderful cook. In fact, I’m a lousy cook. I borrowed this book for two reasons. First of all, I had wanted to see the feasibility of my cookbook idea. The second thing that struck me was …

This story, Major Crush by Jennifer Echols brought back old memories for me from my high school days. Enter 2 characters, Drew and Virginia. Both of them have crushes towards one another in the middle of the story, but not without Virginia having a major, major crush on …

Bones by Fae Myenne Ng is a touching book based on immigrants from China living in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The book touches upon many topics that immigrants living in America have to deal with including assimilation and conflicts between traditional Chinese parents and American values. I found …

Jack Canfield was the co-creator of the bestseller series, Chicken Soup for the Soul and so when I saw ‘Key to Living the Law of Attraction’ I could not resist reading it. It is perhaps the only book of its kind and is written in simple and understandable manner. …

I have been anxiously looking for this book since the Malaysian author Irfan Khairi was featured in the local newspaper. I was very excited when the book was available at a small bookstore at a bargain. It was wonderful to know that there is a Malay Internet …

This is a small paperback book with 175 pages of alien language from the Star Wars movies. The book covers Bocce, Huttese, Ewokese, Jawaese, Droidspeak, Gunganese, Neimoidian, Wookie-speak, Sullustan and Tuskan. The book includes individual words and phrases as well as a short history of each race.
As a humor …

Some time of your life after the book-reading which comes across to the book to lower the eyebrow simply, ” You think in doubt; Cripes ! Did I how make my week of rear of this one wasteful? ” Or ” Was the point of this story what? ” Or …

This volume it awesome! While the Hulk was a somewhat popular character in Marvel comics from the early 1960’s to the late 1960’s, the quality of th writing in many of the Hulk books were pretty poor. Sorry, it really didn’t grab me. However, circa 1972, the book took …

Wow —“ this was a really good book! One could say it was a superb murder mystery with a supernatural twist. The truly bizarre deaths —“ how people were cooked from the inside out but with the outer skin mostly untouched —“ really had me hooked from the first …

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is an amazing book. I feel in love with this book and it’s sequels. It takes a lot to keep me interested in a book. I have never been much of a reader but Twilight captured my attention and I could not put …

I give the book “MAKING A LITERARY LIFE” a 10 rating. I learned a lot from this book. I have already re-read it once to gain new inspiration.
This book provides invaluable tips about information only a well-published writer like C.See could know. The author provides …

Little Women is the first book about the four March sisters, who live with their mother as their father is away, fighting in the war. It tells about how they all face different temptations while growing up, and how each of them must fight to overcome their character flaws …

Wow—¦ what a cool book. This is an illustrated novel put together by Brian Selznick. In my opinion, there really aren’t enough of these. It might seem a bit childish, and it may be difficult for some to take seriously—¦ but the pictures are adorable, and …

This is the biggest book shop in Visakhapatnam. It is literally a book lover’s paradise. It has style with neatly arranged books in various titled shelves. Friendly staff is at the door step to greet you. There are always some schemes and prizes open. “World Book Day” and “Pages …

Although this is an older book that has even been made into a movie; I hadn’t heard of it until I stumbles across it in my church’s library last week. It’s a short book, well-written and every easy to read. it is also one of the most …

After reading the first two books of the Twilight Saga, I went on to read the third book, Eclipse. It really wasn’t a decision on my part so much as the book calling to me. Like many other Twilight fans, I couldn’t just read the first two …