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 …

I have read the book —˜How to get what you want and want what you have: A practical and spiritual guide to personal success’ written by John Gray. This is an interesting book and also helpful, although I could not find anything new. Since I had read several similar …

Megatokyo has about 4 volumes released thus far. This comic can also be found online at megatokyo.com created by Fred Gallagher. Up to now, this anime has over 800 comic strips.
The protagonist is an american otaku (anime fan) named Piro who is stranded in Japan with his friend Largo, …

Freckle Juice by Judy Blume is a great kids’ book for kids aged 7 - 9 (or even 10 year olds might find it funny). I had almost forgotten about it until a student handed it to me a couple of weeks ago. Even though it was written many …

Good House Cheap House is a book written by Kira Oblensky. It illustrates tweenty seven different designs for homes that are inovative and creative. They demonstrate how to recycle different products and incorporate them into unique features that can make a plain house stand out at a reasonable price. …

The Star Fox 64 Nintendo Players Guide is a terrific resource for those gamers that want to acquire some of the highest scores possible in this space shooter. The guide goes into significant detail not only how to acquire a medal on each level, but also surpass that score. …

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 …

This is the first book in the series about Brother Cadfael, a monk in the 12th-century Benedictine monastery of Shrewsbury, in England near the Welsh border. The series has inspired many other writers of medieval mystery, and the first book is as exciting as the others, although many of the …

Predators was written by Daina Graziunas and Jim Starlin (published by Warner Books in 1997)
Originally published as Thinning the Predators, this is one of the numerous books about vigilants dispensing justice where the courts failed. It is a wonder that the police or the FBI wasted so much …

Just, it must be verified with commencement, the fact that is that Google is service. That does not offer the product which has the consumer basis of the captive. As a result it is the company of the completely new method Google gaining your new kind of money. That …

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 …

I don’t know what your name is, but I know who you are - and on this principle Susan Jeffers may be said to speak to us all as she writes Dare to Connect. For despite the many surface differences we manifest as human beings, one would hope we …

Bet You Can! is a fun and exciting way for young inquiring minds to explore science. This book is full of neat science tricks that seem to defy the laws of our world, but really can be explained by simple laws of matter.
Normally in life there are orderly …

This was the first novel that I read by Heather Graham and it has made me a fan of her books. It is expertly plotted with enough of suspicious characters to make you question just which one is the criminal. The main plot is simple enough: a young woman …

“Beep Beep Vroom Vroom” is a children’s book authored by Stuart Murphy and illustrated by Chris Demarest. It was published in 2000 by HarperCollins. It is a cute little story about a boy and his little sister who both love playing with his toy cars. My …

Sacrificial Ground (written by Thomas H Cook and published by Warner Books, 1989)
This story has its hidden charms, though you have to get through the first few chapters to get into the essence of the story. Once past that, the mystery and suspense is certainly spell-binding.
Frank Clemons was …

My favorite Danielle Steel book has got to be “Family Album”. I started reading her books when I was in junior high and she is still one of my favorite authors just because she always has great story lines. “Family Album” was no different.
Faye Price was a …

This story, A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown is based on real events and I did cry when I read this book.
It is about Brown, from a girl right up to adulthood and how she had suffered through the hands of her own father whom married a …

Ersatz Elevator is the sixth book of the series of unfortunate events series. It explores the lives of the Baudelaire orphans in the home of their new guardians: Esme and Jerome Squalor. I thought these were two of the interesting guardians that the Orphans have had. This is mainly …

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 …

As I mentioned in a previous review, in high school one of my subjects was Chemistry, but unfortunately I found that I was not understanding some of the themes and concepts being taught. I also did not have very good Chemistry teachers to make things worse, so I realised …

Mike Davis’s book was on that was really hard for me to really peace together. I found that he really had issues putting a thought together. It seemed like to me that he start the paragraph about a flood then somewhere in it we be talking about earthquakes …

After passing the period in which Nostradamus scared me with his apocalyptic predictions, land of prophets not interested me at all. That is why, the name Edgar Cayce did not say a word to me nor I expected to find myself in this book a modern Nostradamus: perhaps just …

Gerald Durrell has written many books, I have already written about his book “My Family and Other Animals.” If you want to learn about the African country Cameroon, not only that its national team is good at soccer, then the book “The Bafut Beagles” will help you a …

Sebastian Faulks quit his career in journalism to become a professional writer in 1991. Birdsong was his fourth novel, published in 1994 and in the intervening decade, has come to be seen as a classic in the field of war literature. In contrast to the majority of books based …

There are some stories you read that illicit a sigh of satisfaction. This is one of those books. This is the third book in a series by Jayne Ann Krentz that does not require you to read the other two books in the series to follow the …

This is book 3 of the Rihannsu series. Also known as the Bloodwing chronicles. War is brewing between the Romulan Empire and the Federation and Kirk and his Romulan ally Ael are right in the middle of it again.
Plot-wise, this book smacks of a holding action. Little goes on …

“Red, White, and Blue Good-bye” by Sarah Wones Tomp is a heartwarming story for children that tells of not only our country, but how a child might feel if their parent or family member was to be part of the army.
This story is from a little girl’s point …

Book Review
The Diary of Jack the Ripper
Narrative by Shirley Harrison
This was an intriguing book. If you are familiar with the Jack the Ripper case then this book will be of great interest. If you are unfamiliar with the case then maybe you need to read up on it before …

This children’s book by Roald Dahl is not quite as funny as some of his others, but still contains many of his zany ideas and funny words.
The story is of a boy, who Dahl does not give the name of, whose parents unfortunately die in a car accident. He …

I read the wonderful book “The Forever War” by the American fiction writer Joe Haldeman all in one breath. A great read, often compared to “Catch 22″ by Joseph Heller , but far more subtle and readable.
The main protagonist Mandela also has serious problems with …

George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984″ is not only a great book, it is also a startling look at a possible future if we don’t heed Orwell’s advice.
The novel takes place in the year 1984 in a futuristic London that doesn’t seem like London at all. In this …

Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown. Catchy title and author’s name I think. This is a memoir. The story of Cupcake Brown. This story is very insightful into the life of a young african american girl who’s life takes a horrific turn. She takes …

This is another awesome novel from the Danielle Steel collection. From the first paragraph of this story, I was pulled into this story as if I were the main character. I felt every emotion the character was feeling throughout the entire story.
This story is about the love …

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 …

Vetrikku Viraindidu is a superb Tamil book from Sri Ramakrishna Madam, Mylapore, Chennai. Swami Vimurthanandhar wrote this book. The meaning of ‘Vetrikku Viraindidu’ is ‘Hurry up towards Victory’ in English. This book following the approach of Vivekanandhar ‘Be a good human being before you …

For those of you who are constantly searching for a way to lose weight, I understand the hard times you go through. It is specifically hard for me because I am a vegetarian. I have no problems with weight, but I do have a problem with nutrition. The book …

I do really appreciate the book “The World’s Last Dictator” by Dwight L. Kinman. I recommend this book for the students of endtime prophecies. I has a comprehensive discussion on the New World Order, the cashless society, the Antichrist, the one-world government and other endtime events and occurrences. …

The Silmarillion , a book mostly written by J.R.R Tolkien and put together by his son does a great job of filling the gaps in the LOTR Mythology, it reaches the level of real myths and the attention to detail is incredible.
It’s a big book, and it contains very …

The New Year Eve’s Murder (by Lee Harris, published by Ballantine Books, 1997)
This is my first Lee Harris book, and it was a real surprise. Lee Harris was a pseudonym for a romance writer, and I thought that this could be one of those simple-to-solve mysteries to …

Dewey’s Nine Lives is a collection of nine true short stories by the author of Dewey,The Library Cat Who Touched the World,the 2008 bestseller. Dewey Readmore Books gained international fame during his nineteen years as the library cat in Spencer,Iowa,where Vicki Myron, the author, was the head …

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 …

After reading the first book in the series, I knew I had to read the second book. I liked the characters in the first book a lot, and the plot itself wasn’t too bad. So I went the library and picked up the first book, hoping that Cammie would …

Are your kids crazy about dragons? If so, here is a book for them: “How to Train Your Dragon” by Cressida Cowell. This book has it all: great adventures, lots of humor, whacky names like Snotface Snotlout - and, of course, dragons.
The book is a “memoir” written by Hiccup …

Book title: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last, Random House, London, 2001.
Collins admitted that this 300-page book is a sort of prequel to his previous book, Built to Last, and expands some of the ideas …

So we need money and I have alot of Cd’s I need to get rid of. Why not sell them on eBay I think to myself! Yeah what a fantastic idea! So I gather up the Cd’s I am willing to part with and burn the others to cheap …

The book “Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love” by Roy F. Baumeister and Sara R. Wotman helped me. It did not provide me with absolute relief from the pain that I have felt off and on over the past five years, but it has served to help …

The Oathbound Wizard is the second book in the books written by Christopher Stasheff.
In this sequel to “Her Majesty’s Wizard”, Matthew Mantrell has stayed in Merovence and is trying to persuade Alisande to marry him.
She has hesitated for three years. So in anger, Matt swears to throw the …

I have been working for the past 10 years. And since I have the spending power, I often lavish myself with beautiful clothes and accessories, and take on expensive vacations across the globe. Then I wonder where does my hard-earned money go to? Why am I …

Each of us knows the orcs - a wild, dirty and extremely evil race. These creatures are one of the main races in almost every fantasy work. They are the servants of the Dark Lord and are completely subjected to his will. They also form an integral part of …