This book has been our guide during my wife’s pregnancy. It is a very informative book and we have been using this book since my first born until the birth of my daughter. Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg and Sandee Hathaway wrote the book and were published by Simon & …

Just finished the Audio Book version of Scott Sigler’s Contagious. This is an awesome book, in my opinion better than the first. Where the first concentrated on the immediate effects of the triangles to one person, this second book gives more of a strategic view of the situation. I …

I-SPY London is part of a series of books which can be used to make journeys and trips out more interesting, as in each book, there are hundreds of different locations for you to visit. Once you visit a location, you can put a tick in the tickbox. Once …

This book is the first book of the H.I.V.E series, one that I’ve just read and already one of my favorite series. The main character’s name is Otto Malpense.
Otto is a 13 year old teenager who is drugged, kidnapped and taken to a secret school on an unknown island. …

Paperback swap is one of two book swapping websites I’m currently using, the other is the superior Bookmooch.com.
The idea behind the site is this: you make a list on the website of books you own and want to get rid of. Another user on the site decides that …

Ernst Breisach’s Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modern, 481 pp., ISBN 0-226-07278-9, is no lightweight history book. Instead, it is a book about the writing of history: historiography. Written for graduate level students, Breisach presents a comprehensive coverage of western history that assumes some knowledge beforehand, but it could, with …

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 …

This book is an unique and interesting retelling of the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley is yet another of McKinley’s interesting books, which can be enjoyed by all ages (although they often seem more geared toward young people).
In this book, Beauty, a …

The Sunday Times Guide to Movies on Television may not be the newest film guide around - in fact it was first published in the 1970s - but I still really like it because (except, obviously, for new films) it is pretty comprehensive and gives a handy reference to …

Couch’s book, “Chosen Soldier” is another in a long line of books on the training of United States Army Special Forces Soldiers. In it, he follows several classes, starting with a group of 18 X-rays as they leave Ft. Benning Georgia and begin the long trek through their training, …

As an avid Oprah watcher, I followed the many people that read her top choice for 2008 which was Echart Tolle’s, “A new Earth”. I absolutely loved the book and really felt it was a beneficial read. I bought the book on an online book website for a reasonable …

This relatively short read is available in hardback. Mitch Album won all kinds of praise for this creative and witty novel about what could possibly happen when we get to heaven. Although the book is based on a real man’s acutal life and death circumstances, the novel …

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Cushman this semester in school and, having learned from him, I can appreciate his work a little more than I might have before.
First off, Heart Island is a collection of poetry written in meter that pays special attention to form. Cushman, …

The Step Child by Donna Ford
Harrowing has got to be the word for it. It is the story of a girl, now an adult, who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her step mother. There are a number of similar books about at the moment and it seems …

The Hearse You Came In On, was written by Tim Cockney and published by Hyperion in 2001.
Hitchcock Sewell, an undertaker, was struck by the appearance of an unusual guest at a funeral wake. A woman dressed in tennis dress had wanted to talk about her funeral arrangements; she …

I received an autographed copy of “Kat Von D: High Voltage Tattoo” for my birthday last year, and have really enjoyed looking through it. I have never sat and read the entire book cover to cover, as it isn’t designed that way. This book has tons of …

A coworker and I were chatting not too long ago, and she was talking about an amazing little book she had just finished, Five People You Meet In Heaven. I said that I would have to read it, and she said that she would be happy to pass her …

I read this wonder book called Self Incrimination written by critically acclaimed author Randy Singer. Randy Singer is a trial lawyer who has a wife and two children living in Georgia. All of his books are Christian Suspense novels.
This particular book is about a young inexperienced Lawyer named Leslie …

I found the Scarlett Letter online for about $10.00 is was written by Nathaniel Hawthorn who is a classic author so I thought that I would get it. It is about Hester Prynne and the consequences of her less than moral actions and the way that the Purtian society …

When I read the discription to this book, I was excited to listen to it. This was classified a a comedy, and comedy is one of my favorite genres. It had a very promising plot about a young educated girl trying to make her way in her …

The Charmed Ones have been kidnapped and are in the Underworld. It is up to Leo to mount a rescue for his wife and her sisters. Leo, with no powers at his disposal and no witch with enough demon-hunting experience, he soon seeks help elsewhere —“ The Future. Casting …

James Peterson follows up his bestseller “Cooking” about everything a cook would ever want to know about savory cooking with “Baking” which teaches you about the world of pastry.
The main thing I love about “Baking” is that it follows the same format as “Cooking”: there are hundreds of pictures …

I normally read books that are murder mysteries, usually I do not get into the high intrigue spy type books. That being said, Jack Higgins book Dark Justice is definitely an exception, I purchased this book on a whim and have found a new author to add to …

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. …

Susan Elizabeth Phillips is a well-known writer in the book community. I personally didn’t know any of her work until a great friend recommended Kiss an Angel to me. I was still hesitant because it’s somewhat old, and those books aren’t really my style, but because she was so …

I was looking for a daily devotional book for a long time. The ones I found were so cheesy they made my brain hurt when I read them. It’s like, can’t we be realistic? Life isn’t all flowers and candy! I needed something that was going to make me …

The Dragon King fantasy series by Stephen Lawhead seems to be lesser known than his other works, perhaps overshadowed by them. In Book 1, titled In the Hall of the Dragon King, we are introduced to a fifteen year old boy named Quentin who is an acolyte in the …

This book is one of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot mystery novels. It is not my favourite of her books, however I did enjoy it for many reasons.
I liked the presence of the other, obviously inferior detectives (although this did sort of remind me of a Sherlock Holmes mystery) and …

This is a dark fantasy novel about an Incubus (a male sex demon) named Sebastian who has fallen in love with an innocent human woman. I don’t think I ever read a story about an Incubus before and I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to …

Sophie Kinsella’s first book featuring the shopping crazy Rebecca Bloomwood has since been made into a number one smash box office hit film. In this first of the five very sucessful ‘Shopaholic’ books, we meet the main character Rebecca Bloomwood. Rebecca or ‘Becky’ works for a financial magazine, …

This is the best book I have ever read. It is a must-read. Every emotions known to man has been touched by this book.
It is a story about Mackenzie Philips who lost his daughter to devastating and horrible events that indicate that she is murdered. It is about his …

I found “The Autobiography of Foudini M. Cat” at the library and was immediately intrigued. Especially because it wasn’t in the children’s section. I would have expected a book written from the point of view of a cat would be considered a children’s book. But, it …

I think Emma Chase writes the most amazing characters, they’re so much fun to read and have so much personality that they completely captures you and make you fall in love with them from the start. My ultimately favorite book from her so far is Sustained, the second book …

Margaret Peterson Haddix has a knack for bringing history to life for the teen aged readers. By putting young people into historical situations, she makes history less stuffy and more personal. Her latest work, Uprising, tells the story of one of the worse disasters in American history, …

The Clutter-Busting Handbook by Rita Emmett is just something random I picked up because I thought that it might help me to become more organized. (Of course, it does become another item in my place, so it could be counter-productive).
There’s lots of helpful ideas for how to get …

Hello! I would like to share an amazing find with anyone who’s in the education field or has students struggling in school like I was with Advanced Placement Statistics (or any other level of Statistics).
Stats: Modeling the World, offers real life examples and problems so you will not be …

Joy of Cooking—”a cook’s encyclopedia for cooking like a pro, is a book I was familiar with, but never had the opportunity to purchase for myself. My mom has one of the older versions with the purple cover, but I have never managed to borrow it from her. A …

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is an excellent book which is a very worthy successor to the orginal book in the harry potter series, Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. I loved this book and found it very comforting somehow, a very gentle and fun fantasy to …

“Zinotchka” by Anton Checkhov is about how a young boy came to know to true meaning of a woman scorned.
First, the story begins with an eighth year old boy in class, and he notices something is off about his teacher. She is anxiously looking out the window, and nervously …

To be absolutely sure that you are right, and also to be sure that the whole world is wrong, is not easy at all. But just such characters can be found in the book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by the writer Michael Lewis. And they are …

I simply love the book title, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self by Ellyn Spragins, simply said. This book features a lot of authors that I really love reading their individual books. The authors range from Nora Roberts right up to Madeline Albright and many …

I have downloaded a few free e-books from the Barnes and Noble website, and this has to be in the top five books that I’ve read for free ever. It’s by John Harold McCoy and starts off really slowly talking about small town life and a woman who lost …

Hatching Magic is the first novel by Ann Downer which I have read. It is a kids’ novel, probably best for ages 8 - 12. It is a clever novel that uses some common ideas as well as adding a few touches.
The story has a nice flow to it, …

Changes is the latest in the critically acclaimed Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, first published in 2010. Fans of the series are already familiar with Butcher’s character, the modern-day wizard Harry Dresden. Walking a fine line between the magical and the mortal worlds, Dresden always manages to …

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 …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Call to Darkness is a rather mysterious novel that takes place during the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The reason I use the word “mysterious” is because this novel offers a pretty good science fiction mystery story. In this …

When one night Sydney is torn away from her sleep, her first thought is that her biggest nightmare comes true - she will be sent to the correctional center because she has helped Rose Hathaway. But another reason appears - Jill , the sister of the moroi Queen …

I’ve always been a big fan of Gene Wilder: from his early role in “The Producers” and “Bonnie and Clyde” and his movies with Richard Pryor, culminating in “Silver Streak,” the movie that gave hope to ordinary people hoping to triumph over evil. Naturally I arranged to get “My …

“Prime Time, Prime Movers: From I Love Lucy to L.A. Law-America’s Greatest TV Shows and the People Who Created Them” is a book that basically takes a look at the television landscape from the very early 1950s to the very late 1980s. What I really like about this book …

Just seeing the front cover of this paperback novel, and reading the small summary at the back was enough to make me interested in this novel that I found in my aunt’s bookshelf some years ago. Although I thought the book was somewhat interesting, I thought the writing was …