Written by Jan Karon “At Home In Mitford” was originally published in 1994 by Lion Publishing. “At Home In Mitford” is one of those stories that although it is not a classic, you just have to own. I have been a bookworm since I learned to read. I love …

This book will be a treat to all fantasy fans and especially dragon fans. It is a coming of age story, and the main character is a young dragon named Auron. He happily lives in a cave with his father, mother, and littermates, but the happiness is short-lived: one …

Kingdom Hearts Manga Volume 2 by Shiro Amano continues Sora, Donald, and Goofy’s travels to different worlds in search of Kairi and Riku. They travel to Agrabah and meet Aladdin and try to rescue Princess Jasmine from Jafar.
The manga is pretty good, the story does move a little too …

I have read and keep dipping into Hypnobirthing - The Mongan Method book. As the name suggests it is about Hypnobirthing and a particular method developed by Marie Mongan.
I was perhaps moderately skeptical before opening up the book but I have been amazed and impressed. …

It was the title that attracted me to pick up Sight - Sound - Touch - The New Medicine. I determined from the title it dealt with alternative healing methods so that piqued my interest immediately. The authors, Avril Lawrence and G.Harold McLeod did a pretty good …

What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal Them is a how to book geared for every horse owner. What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal Them is written by M. And J. Dicker. The cover of What Horses Say: How To Hear, Help And Heal …

I’ve always loved The Black Stallion novels by Walter Farley, but it’s been years since I read any of them so it was a true treat when I found this one in my local library. No one brings life with a horse alive better than he does. And no …

Description-Barnes and Noble is a huge book store that every book lover will enjoy. They stock thousands of books, some music and they offer a number of different services to make the store one of the best books stores in the United States. It is a chain store that …

When their father is accused of a crime that he did not commit, Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis have to leave their happy life and go to live in a small house in the country, where their mother has to work (as a writer) and they cannot go to school …

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is Victorian mystery, well-written and captivating. Yes, there are some hard-to-believe coincidences in this novel a modern-day writer would not have gotten away with, as well as infallible goodness of some characters; if you can’t stomach that, don’t read the book. I …

Sins Of The Wolf is a William Monk mystery, written by Anne Perry.
Once again Ms. Perry does not disappoint and writes a wonderful story.
Sins of the Wolf, the book opens with Hester Latterly accepting a position as a nurse/ companion. She is introduced to her patient and the …

Once again Jayne Ann Krentz successfully marries the paranormal (Paranormal is a general term that describes unusual experiences that lack an obvious scientific explanation,[1] or phenomena alleged to be outside of science’s current ability to explain or measure.) with modern times. Claire Lancaster, the human lie detector meets …

I have read the book —˜The power of simple prayer: How to talk with God about everything’ written by Joyce Meyer. I did not like this book. This book is, more or less, a religious book and when I went on reading it, I could strongly feel religion in …

Ghost in the Shell is a manga, or graphic novel, by Masamune Shirow. I was first drawn to the book by the author’s intense cyber-themed illustrations, but I found the story pretty impressive. It’s about a futuristic Section 9 police that hunts down cyber criminals. The lead character, …

This book is written by Walter Isaacson, and it is all about the ever famous, Einstein. I have a very interesting time reading the whole of this book. And if you have questions like what made him a genius? And how did his mind work? If so, …

Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas by Cathy Hopkins is her third book in the Mates, Dates series. This book is about Nesta, who is used to life being easy - she’s beautiful, her parents are happy, and she has plenty of pocket money. Her only real problem - and …

David Copperfield is a wonderful book written by the talented English writer Charles Dickens. Although this writer has died long ago, his books and novels still live within us because of their fantastic concept and beautiful breathtaking events. And David Copperfield is certainly not an exception.
The story follows our …

Just listen by Sarah Dessen is a book you just can not pass up. Annabel the main character is going through a denial stage where she does not want to tell the truth about what happened to her to anyone. Then everyone at school hates her. It all changes …

Discovery of India is a historical book for India, in a sense, as it is written by the first Prime Minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru. I have recently read this book. The book contains an authoritative account on India and took the reader on the path of evolution …

After reading the final paragraph of Nietzsche’s, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” I felt somewhat lied to. Throughout this text the author attempts to take an all-knowing position as if he is an omniscient narrator of the world in front of him. We are urged to …

I just recently finished a book. It is Retrovirus by T.L. Higley. Retrovirus is a Christian fiction novel. It is 367 pages.
Retrovirus was a fun book to read. It wasn’t as well written as something Huggins might write but, it was very good. …

I’m a huge fan of young adult novels, despite the fact that I’m in my thirties, and when I ran across this one on sale for the nook, I went ahead and picked it up. And right off the bat I knew this was not your typical vampire story, …

The “Global Marketing Management” by Warren J. Keegan is a great book to have for the management students, teachers as well as corporates. The book enables us to think in different angles and helps us design a plan and strategy in order to market a product globally. …

This volume of Nodame Cantabile begins with the auditions for Chiaki’s orchestra. Kuroki and Paul, from the “yakitori trio”, audition too, and finally they get to join the orchestra.
In this volume not only the funny reactions of the old members of the orchestra, but also remembering some ridiculous points …

What do we know about Steve Jobs, his formation as a person and as a businessman? What do we know about the shape of Apple Corporation? Before reading the book, I knew nothing. It is probably one of the most exciting books I have read in the last five …

This book is a good book for middle school girls. This is the 13th book in a series about a girl named Madison Finn, who likes orange, computers, and hanging out with her friends. This summer, however, she cannot hang out with her friends because she has taken a …

Who said that Cinderella had to become the princess? Why not just cut the sotry off and the end and leave you guessing? That is what this story did, and it was so upsetting because the book was so good, the ending did not close anything up, just left …

I loved stories about soldiers because they’re always filled with so many emotions. This was recommended by a friend who’s just like me, she loves a good drama that brings tears to your eyes and make you sigh. I was really looking forward to it and it didn’t let …

Speaker of Mandarin was written by Ruth Rendell (published by Pantheon Books, 1984).
This is really surprising - Inspector Wexford on a vacation in China. The first part of the book described his experiences there; some were rather amusing. I am glad that Ruth Rendell did not try …

Gary Chapman, the author of several family & relationship-related non-fiction books (including the famous “Five Love Languages”), and Catherine Palmer, author of over 40 novels, team up for this work of fiction titled “It Happens Every Spring.” The result? Nice, but oh, so average…
The story is smoothly written but …

“Nightmare Academy” by Frank Peretti is Book 2 of the Veritas Project series. This time, the Springfield family-team of undercover investigators of strange/supernatural occurrences works on a case of a runaway teen, found in the middle of a road with his memory completely blank. When a flicker of memory …

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Psychic Awareness, is another great mini-book put out by the AMI (American Media Inc.) in digest Version. Designed to give a thumbnail sketch on Psychic Awareness and the branch of Psychology that studies it, this 94-page book retails for $3.95CDN.
I have always been interested …

The book, Other People’s Husbands by Judy Astley is a perfect summer read. I have always wondered what it would be like to be married and having feelings for another wife’s husband? That would be really dramatic and over the top sinful kind of feeling. But it …

The Carnivorous Carnival is the ninth book of the series of unfortunate events series. It shows as the children are thrown into the world of a freak carnival as Count Olaf seeks the help of Madam Lulu so he can go in search of the Baudelaire children once …

One of my favorite authors is Sophie Kinsella, and I got her book Twenties Girl for Christmas. Once I started reading it, I didn’t want to stop! It is about a girl who just happens to be in her twenties (though that isn’t what the title is …

Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games is the story of John Patrick Ryan, an American ex - Marine and a history teacher who is on holiday in London with his wife and daughter when he foils a terrorist ambush and is wounded in the process. On waking up in hospital, he …

This book, Exploring the Darker Side of America: Strange Highways: A guidebook to American mysteries & The Unexplained by Jerry D.Coleman could actually be better. The pictures are quite in handy, and in depicting the story, I sort of understand what the author was trying to talk about. …

If you are in downtown Baltimore and are a book lover we have one of the best Barnes and Nobles stores around. Barnes and Noble is located in the inner harbor promenade, near the ESPN Zone. This is a three story building, with a café that overlooks the …

Dictionaries themselves are of course ten a penny these days, whether in paper or electronic form, However, The Visual Dictionary by the Canadian author Jean-Claude Corbeil, is something that in my experience at least is just about unique, to the extent that I am really rather surprised not to …

I am currently enrolled in Spanish 2 and I wanted a quick, easy reference book. Another reason I wanted to get a phrase book is so I can start getting ahead of what I am learning now. I got this book because it looked easy to understand and when …

The romatic mystery of Legend is universal, but more so that of the Celtic legends and myths then any other. Dating back hundreds of years sometimes, Celtic myths tell us of the old days when a hero was a hero and thwarting the next villian was the least …

I had never heard of the book The Phantom Ship before. But, I found myself bored one weekend and figured I would sit down and read it; assuming I probably wouldn’t get past the first couple chapters.
I found it actually was pretty good, even though it tended to drag …

I have read the book ‘Letters to Gauri’. This book is written by M.V. Kamath, Indian writer. This book is the collection of 84 letters which are written by the author to his grand-daughter, Gauri.
Gauri is an adolescent girl and is studying in a school which is far away …

‘The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan is a truly mesmorizing novel about the relationship between mother and daughter. With sixteen- that’s right, sixteen!- tales spanning three generations, ‘The Joy Luck Club’ will entertain and captivate from beginning to end!
The book is broken up into sections based on the …

Anne of Avonlea is the second book of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s popular series of Anne books, about the irrepressible and high spirited Anne Shirley.
Anne of Avonlea moves at a slightly slower pace than the first book, Anne of Green Gables, which took us through Anne’s childhood. Now Anne is …

This is one of those books I just love to read period. By Reason of Insanity is a criminal thriller novel written by Randy Singer. The premise kept it interesting for me and I was excited with all the twists in the plot. I like to read crime novels, …

I’ve always wondered how does one write a book, especially a love story where it’s very compelling and in which it is not easy to achieve. But after reading You Can Write a Romance by Rita Clay Estrada, I feel a little bit knowledgeable like delving into the minds …

Now here is a unique, interesting book by Lincoln Child. After reading two dull stand-alone novels by this author, I was beginning to wonder if he lost his creativity. But this page-turner proves it’s alive and well. He has gone back to what he and his often co-author Douglas …

Opal by Lauraine Snelling is Book 3 of the Dakotah Treasures series. Opal Torvald, born in Chicago and taken to North Dakota by her sister Ruby at the age of 9, is now 14. She loves her new home, especially horses, and does not miss city life one bit. …

Estleman continues his quirky view of the American West with “Black Powder, White Smoke.” Three main plot threads weave together to form the book. First is Honey Boutrille a black man who owns a “saloon” in New Orleans when the story begins. Honey’s parents had been slaves. Early in …