‘Iceberg’ is the second book in Clive Cussler’s unrelated series of ‘Dirk Pitt’ novels. This book has a different plot, but will feel very familiar to Clive Cussler fans, which is a positive and a negative for it. On the plus side it retains Clive Cussler’s famous action style …

Victor Mancini is a medical school dropout who has found a way to pay for his mother’s expensive health care; he chokes. In this story, the main character named Victor goes to a variety of restaurants such as Chinese, Greek, Spanish, and more. He proceeds to order a plate …

I’m an avid reader and I tend to read a variety of subjects, and I had never even heard of The Power of Purpose or its author. However, the title alone made me think it would be a good read which is why I gave it a test drive …

Reed Shelton, a tough policeman, goes hiking with his shy, stuttering wife Beck in hopes to “toughen her up” through the experience. In the forest, they are attacked by strange creatures, and Beck is kidnapped. Reed calls help, and the rescue mission begins. What makes the story especially interesting …

Prepare to be surprised - this book has hidden depths! I had to read it more than once before the full power of this book hit me.
I may have purchased it whilst studying canine behaviour but the real force of the books message is that the technique described can …

Tamara Siler Jones has created a truly wonderful fantasy forensic series for herself and this is the first book in the series. I admit I was skeptical when I first brought it home, unsure if the story would be written well or interesting, but to my delight it was …

The Kaplan Practice Tests for the SAT is a very helpful book if you wish to find a good amount of practice for the SAT. It contains twelve full length practice exams with answers and has very good and detailed explanations for every single question on the practice test. …

This is Book 2 of the Dragon in Our Midst series, a sequel to “Raising Dragons.” Billy, a teenager who had discovered that he is actually a dragon in a human form, continues to live on the run, hunted by dragon-slayers. Billy isn’t alone; he has his best friend …

I bought for my sister this book that I have read before called You - On A Diet, which costs about $16.99, written by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz. Both of these are a team of doctors from America, and they are writing to translate why that dieting …

Friday Night Knitting Club is a book written by Kate Jacobs and the author is actually a New York Times bestselling author from a previous novel. In this story, it is about Georgia Walker and she has this particular yarn shop that takes a pretty deal out of …

I’d Tell You I Love You But Then I’d Have To Kill You, is the first book in the Gallagher Girls series. Cammie Morgan goes to a girl’s boarding school. Not just any old boarding school though. It is a school for spies! Cammie’s school has spy lessons, spy …

The winner of The Man Booker Prize 2008, The White Tiger is a novel that keeps the reader addicted to it from the moment he reads the first page. I bought this book recently and found it to be an above par book. The attractive hard cover as the …

The First Days of School is an excellent book that every teacher should have.It is good for teachers who are completely new for the profession as well as those who have been teaching for a few years.It is full of great ideas and sugegstions that any educator can implement …

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan has to be one of my favorite books. I love all the books in the Shopaholic series, but this one is one of my favorites. It follows Becky Bloomwood and her boyfriend Luke as he decides to launch a career in New York City. Becky decides …

Several month’s ago I had the opportunity to read The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg. I enjoyed the book immensly and so when I saw her novel Open House at the library I knew that I just had to read it.
To be tyotally honest Open House was …

I recently bought “The Stinky Cheese Man” for a children’s literature class, but I first read it in elementary school. The book is full of wackily illustrated fractured fairy tales, which give a new and strange perspective to the classics. The book is illustrated by Lane Smith and won …

Starting with the cover art and the title before I even looked through this book I just knew this was a book that my children and I would enjoy. In the beginning this reminds you of the classic chicken story where the hen wants someone to help her cook …

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, as the name implies, is a retelling of well-known fairy tales with a modern twist. James Garner takes these old classics and rewrites them in modern style with politically correct language and wording. He is making fun of political correctness i.e. the overly …

This was a sweet story and makes you want to believe that there really are nights in shinning armor out there to protect the ones they love from all danger that comes their way. I would rate this book as a must read for everyone that is a …

Bayou Moon written by Rebecca York. This is from the Harlequin Intrigue series. It is in paperback form.
The setting is the Bayou in New Orleans, LA. Main character is Tess Beaumont. Tess is a news reporter. She has grown up and lived in and …

The first Harry Potter book, where the craze all started. I read it at the age of 16, just because I wanted to know what all the hype was about. Four years, five novels and four movies later, I can tell you anything and everything you want to know …

Like book one of the series, this book was written
so that both parents and their children can read about how puberty is going to affect the children and even their relationships with their family.
Unlike book one though, this book gives a little less scientific explanation about the physical …

I picked this reference book up at Borders, in their clearance section (which is rather extensive, at the one near us). It looked very interesting, and was inexpensive.
The book is chalk full of pictures related to the subject at hand. And, the pictures are truly beautiful, ranging …

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 …

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 …

A Box Full of Kisses is a short story on the site indianchild.com. The story starts out by a father that got angry on his 3-year-old daughter for buying a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight for them and his father became furious when the child tried …

Wow, just when I thought I couldn’t read any thing that would creep me out any more, I come across Bram Stoker’s short story Burial of the Rats and have to say I got chills.
The story, which is about an Englishman who is traveling through France and accidentally comes …

I thought that when my friend talked about the sexual scenes in this book, it was over the top. So when I read Forever by Judy Blume, I was enthralled by the moral education that teenagers could get from reading the story.
Though my friend is right, perhaps …

This is the last book in the author’s Boreal Moon trilogy. It took me a while to finish this series, for although there are several good points about these novels, I had a few problems with the style of the writing.
First off, the good points. May has …

This book is with out a doubt the best I have read. I received this book from an aunt as a gift, at first the style The Book Thief confused me but after the first page I was hooked. The Book Thief is the story of Liesel Meminger, …

When I had first read “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley, I was surprised at two things: first, at the depth of the story, and second, at how badly distorted the story is in the movies. Instead of the traditional, beaten to death evil-monster-kills-everybody scenario, the novel deals with the complex …

I bought this book because I have been working on learning to sew. I already can sew a little bit, I just wanted to be able to do other stuff as well, and this book seemed to be a good fit.
Even though the title is Bend the Rules Sewing, …

Tatted Snowflakes by Vida Sunderman is a tatting pattern book filled with, you’ll never guess, patterns for tatting a variety of snowflakes.
Even though I was not a beginning tatter when I purchased the Tatted Snowflakes book it does have a small section on how to tat on the introduction …

Even if you are not in the movie industry business, I find reading Movie Business Book by Jason E. Squire a good knowledge on movies in general and how the business of it goes about. You will be amazed at how these people in the movie industry have the …

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett is yet another installment in his popular discworld series. The novel features the return of Susan, the grandaughter of Death and Lu-Tze, the master monk. It involves a nefarious plot by the evil Auditors to end the world by stopping Time …

Although I’m not a big fan of crime thrillers, I think it is necessery to salute the man who sold more copies of his books than the feeble books of Dan Brown and (especially) Stephanie Meyer. Stieg Larsson has created absolutely wonderful images and a fascinating action that highly …

Books on health and well-being are big sellers these days, and Dr. Oz, the doctor made famous by Oprah Winfrey, has joined the trend by authoring, along with his co-author Michael F. Roizen, a series of “YOU” books. I have read both “YOU Staying Young,” and YOU Being Beautiful,” …

Growing up as one of four very active children and home schooled by our mother, there was never a dull moment. We also all loved reading and a good adventure story! That is, if we were ever able to sit still long enough to hear one read …

I bought this novel because I saw it in the bestseller book section and the title itself caught my attention and when I read at the synopsis, it’s not that bad and quite interesting as it talks about life and death.
“Five People You Meet in Heaven” is about …

I needed a book to read for a flight home with a wait in the airport. I like mysteries, the supernatural, and an occasional romance. This book had it all.
The cover with the vampire floating and holding the female caught my eye and made me pick it …

This is a standard textbook for learning the C program. It is written by the world reknowned author, E Balaguruswamy. The book is written in a format that is very simple to understand. It begins for the very basics of programming. What is better is that you need not …

This is a really great book by Orson Scott Card. It is part of a series that the author has written about a boy named Ender who is sent away from his home to his school to be trained to become a military strategist in a war against an …

I read the book The Wrinkle Cleanse by Cherie Calbom, and thought it was interesting, engaging and a very informative book about aging and beauty in general. While the concept of the book is not at all original, I think this is one of the few books which really …

This book is an amazing book and a must read for any hacker who wants to learn about hacking app’s and finding exploits to make app’s do what you want. The book gives examples such as how to make a simple bingo game app give you root access to …

Clockwork Angel is the first book in the Infernal Devices series, which is a prequel series to the Mortal Instruments series. Tessa Gray arrives in England during the reign of Queen Victoria, leaving her home in America behind. Soon after arriving, Tessa is kidnapped by the Dark Sisters who …

I just finished reading the book over the weekend. I couldn’t put it down. It was an okay book for me. My cousin had been nagging me to read it so we could discuss it; and we did last night. Her views seemed to be very different from the …

The Tipping Point is the second book already of Malcolm Gladwell. This self-help book is a very good read. I’ve always loved and admired the logic of Malcolm Gladwell. He has a way of explaining things that’s very easy to understand.
This book basically talks of a social phenomenon …

You know, people don’t write stories like this anymore. We are more enthralled by action espionage thrillers, politically correct views on racism and discrimination, and fantasy fiction filled with horror and romance. The old days of writing are gone.
Instead of telling a story, authors today tend to put more …

Where do people get so many disgusting things from? From birth, upbringing, or environment? All these questions I tackled with John Steinbeck as I read his novel, The Winter of Our Discontent.
Usually, Steinbeck wrote about ordinary people, toilers fighting for their rights in this life. His characters are understandable …

Shortly after hearing the news of Harvey Pekar, the author of American Splendor’s death, I decided to go through every comic book of his I could get my hands on. I did so in chronological order, starting with the American Splendor anthology before going on to one-shots like ‘Our …