Scott Lazenby used to be a city manager for a small city in real life. He wrote this book, “Playing with Fire”, as a fictional account of the goings on within city government. From the very beginning Lazenby grabs your attention with tles of the wild people city officials …

The Meaning of India is an anthology of essay written by Raja Rao, one of the best writers of India writing in English language. It is published by the Paperback, India in the year 1996. It contains several essays elucidating the real meaning of India and explaining to the …

I have read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls and it is a moving story and a true one at that by Jeannette Walls herself. She works for MSNBC and is currently happily married and living in the US with her husband.
Her story since childhood wasn’t a happy journey …

If you need some relief from the nightmare that has been government over the last few years, America the Book is the perfect remedy. I love John Stewart’s “the Daily Show,” but even those who don’t watch it can enjoy his book.
Any one who is somewhat aware of modern …

It is amazing how a certain book can balance between science and the almost religious belief in miracles.”The Brain That Changes Itself” of Doidge tells just such stories , border lining on real miracles - paralyzed patients who begin to use their limbs, people with great brain damages who …

I picked up the Sex and the City book from the local library after watching the show for several years. Considering that the show was based on the book, I assumed that the book would follow the same kind of story lines, or at least use the same characters. …

The Dear America series is a collection of books for the child and their family learning together. It is a great collection of historical books written by various authors. They have come together to teach the truth about different parts of history from the point of view of a …

“Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte is one of my all time favorite books, almost entirely because of the title heroine. I love her self worth. Even though she thinks of herself as poor and unattractive, she still thinks she matters. I like her moral courage. …

I enjoy eating meat, but I thought I would try a vegan cookbook to cut down grocery costs. This book is great! There are so many delicious recipes to try, and not all of them contain tofu. There are recipes for basics, like making tortialls, bread, pasta sauce, and …

This is a must read for anyone who has enjoyed Ms Feehan’s work in the past.
Safe Harbour by Christine Feehan is the fifth book in her magical Drake sisters series. This is Hannah and Jonas’s story. The previous books have been building up for their story as in …

This novel, The Realms of the Gods, which is written for adults and older youths, is a continuation of the The Immortals series. While it is the 4th book of the series, it is the first of Tamora Pierce’s books which I have read. I enjoyed it, although I …

I am a Phammacy student and I have been using the Australia Medicines Handbook (AMH) 2003 for quite some time now. I got it for a cheaper price from my senior so it was definitely worth buying it. This handy book contains all the major information that a pharmacist …

I picked up the Complete Idiot�s Guide to Astrology soft cover book at my local supermarket. I have always been fascinated by astrology, and this 94 page book was only $3.95 CDN.
Published by penguin books and part of the idiotguides.com group of books, this book is an absolute marvel …

Case of the Nervous Accomplice was written by Erle Stanley Gardner (published by First Ballantine Books, 1993)
Perry Mason is still one of my favorite fictional lawyers; I find him charming, smart and resolute with tough cases and clients who were telling him the exact truth.
Sybil Harlan is aware that …

As a kid, I remember reading Anne of Green Gables and how it instantly became my favorite book. I was probably 10 when I read it, which is about the age the book is intended for (give or take a few years). I decided to read …

‘Five go off in a caravan’ is a book written by Enid Blyton. This is not so interesting book and is rather dry. The children go off in two caravans for a long journey. They meet a friend, Nobby. Nobby is very friendly to them. Nobby is a circus-boy …

This book, Why Mr. Right Can’t Find You: The Surprising Answers that will Change your Life…and His by J. M. Kearns has such an interesting title that I have come to love reading it pretty much. I borrowed this from the library and if you look at the book …

This was the first English book that I read in my life which was not in my school curriculum. So I thought it should also be the book that I should first review.
As mentioned in the title Dracula is a horror novel by Bram Stoker. What you will find …

I had read Steinbeck’s East of Eden before coming to this novel, so I was expecting something engaging. I wasn’t disappointed. The Grapes of Wrath is an excellent novel. The fact that one of the first chapters was wholly devoted to a tortoise moving along the road had me …

I read this book, Beach Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones not because I so envy the life and treatment given to the rich and famous, but rather, I read to have a glimpse of what it could be really like in the world of the rich and famous and I think …

The novel entitled “Dashing Through the Snow” by Carol Higgins Clark, and I’m guessing with the help from her mother Mary Higgins Clark, was very disappointing. I couldn’t even bring myself to completing the entire book before I had to call it quits. The novel lacked interest for …

Set in the second World War scenario, this is a gripping novel of an assorted team of British and American forces to free an American General captured in the Fort Adler. From the beginning, the novel takes us through the scenic beauty of the alpine ranges in Germany to …

The Real Bettie Page by Richard Foster
This biography of the legendary pin up queen is revealing in more ways than one.
Page had fallen off the face of the earth shortly after her glory days as a 1950’s pin up queen and biographic data was quite sketchy. In the late …

You’re So Smart, Snoopy is a book by Charles M. Schulz, which consists of selected cartoons from You’re Out of Sight, Charlie Brown, Volume 1. The book is published by Coronet Books London.
The book doesn’t really have a set theme, unlike some of the other Snoopy books. However, there …

Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr is a novel about the seemingly impossible murder of Professor Grimaud. The victim is found dead inside his room, his door locked from the inside, and it soon becomes clear that the criminal could not have escaped through either the window or the …

Batman: Year Three 3 of 4 has Dick Grayson as Nightwing still searching for Batman while Alfred confronts Tony Zucco and begs him to leave Gotham.
This was a great issue, because it delved deeper into Alfred’s, Bruce’s and Dick’s characters and revealed more about them. The plot was …

This book published in the year 1932 is a critique that the author, Aldous Huxley, wrote about the advance of science in the time when he was living.
Summarizing, the story happens in a future London, with really advanced science, where humans aren’t born the traditional way anymore, but are …

A Hat Full Of Sky is a beautifully written little book that is written by author Terry Pratchett. A Hat Full Of Sky is written for children and I have also read this book. I bought A Hat Full Of Sky for my kids, thinking that they would love …

Anne Bishop is an extremely talented fantasy author who paints an amazingly detailed world when it comes to her writing, her storytelling skills are incredibly indepth with out of this world characters, places, and plots. You’ll instantly fall in love with each of the main characters in this book …

” If someone does not stop him , two great houses will be in flames. Blood will be spilled and screams will echo forever. There are wolves in the pen and they want to destroy us all.” This ominous prediction made by Razor Eddie, a future god in Nightside, …

This is a beautiful story about ostracism and prejudice. The main setting is the small seaside town of Torcurra and brings together three colorful characters: Marnie, a brazen 16 year old girl, Raven the village ‘madman’ and Father Brannan a kind priest.
Newly wed, Marnie moves to Torcurra with …

The Notebook is an amazingly captivating book by Nicholas Sparks. The story is told in such a beautiful way and really makes you feel what is happening in the book. The story is a good read and is definately a great love story. Nicholas Sparks …

I heard about this from a friend and the internet. A lot of people were talking about it. I was intrigued, but I decided to put off buying it for a while. I thought it could wait. After reading it, I had this tiny regret that I thought I …

I had read reviews of Mary Higgins Clark’s latest book, I’ll Walk Alone. None of them were very good. But I thought this is Mary Higgins Clark, I love all of her books. So I bought it anyway and sat down to read it as soon …

“One Silent Night” is a dark fantasy novel written by Sherrilynn Kenyon.
In this novel Stryker is the son of Apollo who is sworn to over throw his father. Zephyra is a half demon woman who was Strykers wife. She has sworn to kill him since he betrayed her. He …

“The Lucy Book: A Complete Guide to Her Five Decades on Television” is a book that I was somewhat disappointed with. I felt much of this book was filled up with unnecessary things, like, for example, all the episode recaps and summaries! How many times are authors going to …

I love the National Parks. I love the idea of the National Parks and I truly loved reading The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009) by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. This is a chronological account of how our National Parks came into being and when …

I have lots of James Patterson novels, and he is the author that I would someday like to meet and salute. I really respect his writings, and his stories are very movie-inspiring. He should make his books into movies.
The title of this book is Cross, and it …

“Songs of the Humpback Whale,” is Jodi Picoult’s first published novel, and yet, in my opinion at least, it is one of her best. Unlike many of Picoult’s later novels, which deal heavily with moral and ethical issues (occasionally at the expense of the characters involved), this novel deals …

Don’t Be That Girl is a book that when I read, I feel like it has got something to do with me. Because, I won’t say which, but I fall into 1 kind of category as described by the author in this book; naming Travis. L Stork. …

I read this book because I absolutely adored Dawn Cook’s ‘Truth’ quartet, and I was so excited to read another fantasy by the same author. I didn’t necessarily appreciate the title of this book, as anything with ‘princess’ in it just sounds kind of cheesy and girly-girly, but …

“Rules for Writers: Sixth Edition by Diana Hacker” was the book of choice for my English Composition class at Full Sail University. We used it mainly for learning APA style.
Honestly when the school gave us this little book, I did not think much about it. It was …

Ultimate Spiderman #3 “Double Trouble”
Here he is, the Ultimate universe’s Doctor Octopus!
The problem with Doctor Octopus in the ‘regular’ books was that he played the role of a powermad, meglomaniacal scientist looking to dominate the world…and rob banks.
In other words, any way the wind blows. He became an unfocused …

It’s hard to follow up a work that has been so well-received with another smash hit. That, however, was exactly what Douglas Adams did when he wrote The Restaurant at the End of the Universe—”the sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe.
In the sequel, more randomness ensues as …

Strong Medicine was written by Arthur Hailey. It’s about the pharmaceutical business, specifically one woman who works her way up the ranks of a pharmaceutical corporation during a time when women in power was unheard of.
Celia Jordan started with the pharmaceutical corporation as a saleswoman. During her time as …

This book, for a first novel, is a fun and interesting book by E.L. Konisburg. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is about a girl named Claudia and her younger brother, James.
It follows a few themes that many kids will understand: boredom with regular life, …

‘The Princess and the Goblin’ is a novel written by George MacDonald. This novel is a highly interesting novel. It is good to read this story. It is a thrilling story and it catches hold of the attention of the reader.
The princess, whose name is Irene, was a beautiful …

I just had to read a book for school that really got my attention, It is called “Who Moved My Cheese” by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Foreword by Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D.
This book is short and it is basically just a story of two mice and two little people and how their …

I love to read, heck, I love it so much I decided to become a writer so I could write my own stories. My background is in journalism though, which has taught me a lot about writing, research and the nitty gritty bits of writing that creative writing or …

One of my favorite authors, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen (Harvest, Bloodstream, The Surgeon, The Sinner, among others) gives us another suspense-filled, action-packed thriller that keeps us riveted from the first page to the last. The Mephisto Club is a story about a serial killer who tortures …