At just under 300 pages Hapgood lays out his ideas about a civilization that he believes existed before ancient Egypt by many thousands of years. This civilization, according to Hapgood, traveled the world by sea. They produced maps by which later seamen would find their way across the Atlantic. …

“Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy’s Other Couple” by Rob Edelman and Audrey Kupferberg is a book that I would recommend to any fan of the “I Love Lucy” series or “Vivian Vance” or “William Frawley”. This book is sort of like a double biography …

Akuma to Dolce is a manga by Suzuki Julietta. It’s just a little sad that the manga is on hiatus, I hope it gets back on track right away. The story is a bit of comedy, mixed with fantasy and romance. Though there’s also a some drama and heart-warming …

Lacey Armstrong is living a very ordinary life: single mom, great friends, difficult mother, and a business owner. Her day to day life is mundane with no excitement or change. However, all those things come to a standstill when Hurricane Damien levels Lacey’s home, which actually turns out to …

Baby Love, written by Catherine Anderson, is a love story about Maggie Stanley and her baby. It started out with her, carrying her baby who is very little and she ran off into the cold and snowy night. I was curious in the beginning as to why she …

This is the second girls novel form the Clique series. This one is called Best Friends fro Never. It is in Westchester duing the times of Hallowen. Massie is planning a boys girls party. Thats when the bega of the Pretty Committee finds a new friend and starts her …

Speaking as a Christian and as someone who has in the past been hurt by supposed Christians, I found Michael Green’s book to be a breath of fresh air in a world filled with inconsiderate Christians.
I am an unconventional Christian so I resonated with many of Green’s ideas. For …

I first read Anne of Green Gables, the novel by L. M. Montgomery, when I was in ten or eleven years old. It is one of the best novels I have ever read. It is a very wholesome book. There is not a single vulgar or curse …

The Secret is actually a book that I have read and enjoyed so far. It costs about $15.29, and the cover is very interesting. It has a wooden color cover, with the word Secret written in the middle of the book. The word S is highlighted …

Strange killings are taking place in Mississippi. It appears that people are being drawn into the river, and, strangely, with little resistance - according to the witnesses. The severely mutilated remains are later washed up on the shore. The witnesses are unable to give a clear description of the …

‘Smile across your heart’ is a book written by Laurie Martin. Martin gives you simple tools through which you can create new healthy healing patterns. This book will help you to improve your emotional health. Martin has explained beautifully the ways and methods through which we can heal ourselves. …

The original book is called “Onze minutos” and was written on 2003.
I want to start this review by saying that I am not a fan of Paulo Coelho, I do like the things he writes about but I do not like how he writes. Nevertheless, this does not mean …

Do you have a child in your life who is just a little more intense than the other children you know? A kid whose voice is always a little louder, who seems to be always in fast forward, whose moods (good or bad) are more intense than most kids’ …

The Vile Village is the seventh book of the Series of Unfortunate Events series and is point blank the most exciting mainly because of the number of turning points in it. I can only describe it as finding a ton of answers only to be given a 100 more …

This book is the seventh in a series of eight kids’ books called Deltora Quest. In this books, the protagonists Leif, Barda, and Jasmine must find the seventh and final gem of the missing (now mostly found) gems of the Belt of Deltora. There are a few twists and …

Isaac Asimov is one of the most prolific writers the world has ever seen. He is also one of my favorite authors. One of my favorite collections of his work is Magic, which came out shortly after his death. Although not known for his work in …

What to Expect When You’re Expecting, What to Expect the First Year, and What to Expect the Toddler Years are essential reference books to have when you are starting a family. I would think after being through pregnancy once, I wouldn’t have needed the book so much. …

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is a book purely on fantasy, but a literature fantasy. Can you imagine that? That is what I first come across when I read this book. It is full of magical fantasy and that is something that I truly admire the …

Divergent by Veronica Roth is the first book in the Divergent series. Beatrice Prior lives in futuristic Chicago, which has been divided into five factions. When teenagers turn sixteen, they have to pick which faction they want to spend the rest of their lives in. The factions are: Abnegation …

Spare me blushes. I submitted a review of “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in which I referred to my review of “Kite Runner” by the same author. When I was checking through my records I discovered I had failed to submit the original review. My apologies.
“Kite Runner” is a first …

I have used many Thesauruses to complete my work in my many years as a student. However, I think I could rightfully say that this one is one of the best I have used. It has many features which make it both user friendly, and at the same time …

If you are a fan of Piers Anthony,Lord Of The Rings, Or Fantasy novels. You should look up Piers Anthony and his Xanth series. The series is about a magical land full of Dragons, Heros, Puns, and magic. “A spell for chameleon is about a Young man named Bink …

I liked most of the Sophie McKenzie books I’ve read. The one’s I’ve read were all action-packed, fast-paced and very entertaining. After thoroughly enjoying the Medusa Project (another series by McKenzie), I decided to read more from the same author, and the first book I found was Blood Ties.
The …

If you think that life is not sugar, try reading this novel. That thought will leave you for a long time: poverty, the alcoholism of the father, the creative mother, the hostility of the other children.
It is the real story of the author, journalist Jeanette Walls. The writer’s childhood’s …

I checked this book out for fun yesterday. Basically it’s an amusing quiz that you can take to see if your cat has psychic powers. Yes, I really don’t believe in psychic powers and you don’t have to either, but its still fun to add up the numbers and …

Grow Taller 4 Idiots is a book that teaches how adults can grow an inch or more from exercises. I followed the tips from this book so let me give my review.
The book lays out some guidelines on various areas which affect growth. First, it addresses nutrition and …

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” features the history of a town called Macondo. Marquez is a genius in delivering the story of society played, changed and altered by time. The story foretells that “Time passes but not so much.”(A quote from Colonel Aureliano Buendia, one of the characters). …

‘Five have a mystery to solve’ is a book written by Enid Blyton and is one of the best books among the famous five adventure series. This book is quite an interesting one, full of mystery and adventure. Mrs Layman comes to tea with Julain, Dick and Anne. Actually, …

Amelia Thermopolis is your average teenager only she is a princess, student body president, and has a boyfriend, all at fifteen. She thinks she’s a dork and is flat chested. That can’t be too hard, can it?
But right now she has a big dilema this spring due to the …

The Bride Hunter by Amy Appleton is a very delightful story and you will be chuckling your way through reading this. That was what I felt and I enjoyed this very nice, romantic and heart-warming story. I have many times during the chapters of this book, read the …

Being a fervent reader of fairy tales as a child, I picked up the Book of Lost Things with excited anticipation. The most appealing aspect of any book is to get entirely immersed in the world created by the author and this is certainly what I was hoping for …

It really worth the time and effort for me to borrow 100 Questions and Answers About Acne by Doris Day. You see the library is located quite a distance from my house and you have to walk qite a distance to the borrowing section.
Presenting the information on acne in …

This book by Constance Rhodes is about what she terms the “thin cage,” which is a so-called cage in which many women find themselves in where being thin becomes an obsession. The book does not necessarily talk about eating disorders, as one might think upon first reading the title …

I’m still exploring Prof. Tolkien’s work and I’ve heard about this book from fellow Middle-Earth enthusiasts when I used to attend the meetings or Ent-moots.
My curiosity with Middle-Earth have somewhat grown to a manageable level unlike before that I just wanted to find or complete Tolkien’s books as fast …

Among members of the Left, A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is probably one of the most popular history books of all time. Perhaps the most popular. It takes a brand new take on the history of the United States, trying to give …

Catching Fire is the second book in the series The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. And boy is it amazing! Catching Fire starts off where The Hunger Games left off, Katniss is back to normal life after she partook in the Hunger Games, at least as normal as someone …

This book has been seen on Oprah and has made it’s way into her book club, and it definitely deserves it.
I picked up the book shortly after I saw it on T.V. and began reading. It was a little hard to start at first but once you get going …

My boyfriend sarcastically asked me to read this book called Weight Watchers She Loses, He Loses by Karen and Miller-Kovach. His friend borrowed it to him, and he made quite numerous sums of pages from the book that he found to be informative for him and me, and …

“The Fire Rose” is an interesting fantasy novel written by Mercades Lackey.
Mrs. Lackey takes the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” and mixes in quite a bit of magic, literature and a love story. This is a very well written and captivating novel.
Rosalind Hawkins is a female scholar …

The Usborne Book of Weather Facts is a colourful paperback book for children of around middle school age, written by Anita Ganeri and illustrated by Tony Gibson. My copy was published a little time ago, in 1987 to be exact, but it hasn’t dated too badly and is still …

I’ve always considered myself a nerd, so when I read the synopsis of this book, I immediately thought, why not? Despite the awful cover, I decided to give it a chance and I have to say, I had a really fun time reading it.
Maddie spend an embarrassing moment …

The book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a very inspiring and indeed full of wisdom from a professor who is about to die but because of great optimism towards life and everything that surrounds him, made his remaining days well remembered by people who truly cared for …

This book is a great place to turn for restoring an old guitar you salvaged from that garage sale last month or your friend’s college box in his attic. It is also great for setting up, maintaining, and repairing you current electric or acoustic guitar. The book also includes …

The Number Power Series math books are among the best I have ever used for teaching developmental mathematics. The books are produced by Contemporary; a Chicago based educational book publishing company. The series is numbered one through seven and covers mathematics from the most basic operations to Algebra …

Thus Spake Zarathustra is one of the most lyrical books of philosophy ever written. It is famous (or to some, infamous) for its assertion that “God is dead.” But of course, there is more to it than that simple statement appears to convey.
Thus Spake Zarathustra encapsulates nothing. …

This isn’t really a book, perse, so much as a collection of patterns and the instructions for making the patterns. The pattern pieces are, of course, included, and all of the items are fairly easy to sew, especially with the step by step instructions, although some of them are …

My wife enjoys Russian classics, and she introduced me to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. I admit I am not very much into classics myself, but this one had gotten me interested. Leo’s writing takes some getting used to; he uses long sentences and puts so much thought into …

Despite the fact that it isn’t Christmas time, I still enjoyed this book. Dr. Jeffries and Katherine O’Connor are the main characters. They are brought together by fate. It was foreseen in Katherine’s neighbor’s box of kitty litter. They discover right away that they believe …

For as long as I can remember I have been a fan of Lauren Conrad aka LC. It seems like she was the only person on both her former MTV reality shows that had any sense. As a result, she has managed to break out of the reality star …