The Recycle Barn is a great place to get used books at a reasonable price. It is also a great place to trade in those books on your shelf that you’re not reading.
Occasionally, I used to pass by the old location in Bethlehem, but it was …

Bhyrappa knits the story around that kind of principle of era of Mahabharata, an Indian Cult Clasic, helps the fact that you nod by any means and is not possible, - all qualities dual characteristic the problem which you think, and justify his/her behavior of thing and the raw on-target …

When I first discovered Vampire Knight, it was sitting on a Wal-Mart shelf crying out towards me. My first thought was this, “A graphic novel at a Wal-Mart that is not just a romance or action flick? Awesome!”, and thus I made one of the best purchases in my …

This book is written by Beverly Cleary, who wrote the Ramona the Pest and otehr Ramona and Henry Huggins books, as well as the Mouse and the Motorcycle books.
This kids book, written more for girls aged 8 - 10, is a nice look at what life would have been …

Developing the Leaders Around you is a very good book and guide for managers and supervisors. The book is all about helping others reach their full potential. The book was written by a renowned leadership author John C. Maxwell and published by Castle Edition. It is important for me …

I recently read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and loved it. I didn’t think that Russian literature was really my thing, but this book is great! It is split into two main sections. The first hundred pages or so is the crime part of the novel and the last …

“The Endless Steppe” is the true story of a young Polish girl, Esther, who gets banished to Siberia with her family in 1941.
I found this book to be very interesting. I’ve read lots of books set in the 1940’s, from every possible angle. Mostly, …

This is the YA fantasy book that totally got me hooked on fantasy. I borrowed it from a friend who had happened to receive it in a book exchange, and both of us were just so glad she did! I think I was around 14 then, and …

Twilight is a book by Stephanie Meyer about a girl named Bella Swan who moves to a town called Forks, Washington to live with her father Charlie and meets a mysterious boy named Edward Cullen. He saves her life after she’s almost hit by a car and she …

This book, Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan, is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The events in this books were much foreshadowed in previous books, and it is becoming a bit obvious as each book seems to be a lead in to …

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 …

“Once Aboard The Lugger” written by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a story about how a couple came to meet and fall in love.
The begins with a reverend Samuel Bax who comes to Troy to preach full time. It’s apparent that he is single, and all the women–the single ones–have their …

If you are anything of a horror fan (especially erotic horror) you will love the short story “Untamed Sex” by James Crawford. Found in the Fear the Fever short story collection, this tale is about a couple who still loves one another, but is having some trouble keeping …

“Schott’s Original Miscellany” is a darling little book that defies classification. It’s a reference book for all the data you didn’t know you needed to know, a pocket book for inspiration, a fascinating book to just browse. It’s tiny size makes it just right to carry in your pocket, …

Stephen King is known for writing long books. Two of his most classic works, “The Stand” and “IT”, both broke the thousand page mark. Once again, King goes for a sweeping epic with his latest novel, “Under the Dome”.
The story concerns a small town that is suddenly …

I am so disappointed with this book. There were a lot of reviews I read about it on some blogs, and I can’t believe they loved it. Honestly, I bet it took me longer to read the whole book than for her to write it. The story was too …

While I enjoyed parts of this book, such as the discussions of Jane Austen’s various books, I really did not get into this book very much. It was hard to connect to the characters, even though they, as do I, really love Jane Austen novels. It was difficult to …

The Baking Answer Book by Lauren Chattman is a little book that answers every question you have with baking especially if you’re a beginner. This little compact book is full of baking information and resources that you will feel enlightened after you’ve read it. It covers everything …

Arcade is definitely one of the most generic villians in the history of the Marvel Universe. Arcade, whose real name has never been revealed to my knowledge, is a skinny little guy who wears a white suit and a top hat with a large bow tie. He has …

I just finished reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett and I have to say that it is one of the best books I have ever read. It is US Today’s Book of the Year 2009, a New York Times Bestseller, and is a popular choice of book …

I borrowed from my sister this book, and it is a James Bond spy kind. It is a good and fun read.
Do you all know that Ian Fleming is the creator of “James Bond”? Now, we are all so ever hyped about James Bond the movie sequels …

This is another series that was recommended to me by a close friend. The Dresdin Files! Harry Dresdin is the main character and I think I am in love with him. He is a Wizard in modern day Chicago. Go figure. He has an office with Wizard on the …

Daredevil issue 292, published in 1991 by Marvels Comics, features a morbid contest between Taskmaster and Tombstone to determine who can kill the most people. Most Daredevil stories do not necessarily involve a super villian, so getting two super villians in the same issue is a real treat. …

This is one of my favourite books, definitely in my top 5 and I have read it about 5 times. I did find that once I started it I just couldn’t put it down.
The book is a true story about a young girl growing up in San Diego, …

I at first thought that by reading this book, I will find out who was Shakespeare real love interest was, as in like his girlfriend, lover, wife or something. And I was correct. This book talks about the women that Shakespeare had loved before.
Written by Pamela Rafael …

In the literature we know the fable, the story that the characters of animals, but animals as a representation of human nature. This novel is unique, because a dog named Enzo became the narrator of the novel, except the last chapter. All events in this story, seen through the …

This story appeared in the collection Delhi Noir. This book of short stories contained stories written by Indian writers. All of the stories take place in Delhi.
Gautam under a tree is about a journalist and writer named Gautum who is commissioned to write a story about the murder of …

This review is based on the first chapter of the famous book “Multiple Streams of Income” by Robert G Allen. I really appreciate the comment that ‘prosperous people never finds money as just a colored piece of paper, but as “Money seeds”. Really great approach. His concept of money …

If you have not read Ilion, the first part of this series that recreates the most authentic way science-fiction history of humanity, then perhaps you should grab it.Not the other, but you must read also Olympus, The better continuation of the starting novel.
Novel “Olympus” is no less important than …

I have read the book —˜Teach yourself body language’ written by Gordon Wainwright. This is an excellent book. The author has done a great job. Everyday, we come across other people and we look at their bodies, but the vast majority of us do not make any attempt to …

The Last Sacrifice is the sixth and final book in the Vampire Academy series. When this book first came out I basically rushed out to the shop to buy it, after the last chapter of the previous book which had gripped me. The book begins with Rose locked …

I borrowed the book The End of Advertising as We Know It from the library the other day. This book is written by Sergio Zyman and Armin Brott. My friend told me that the book’s price is around $27 or something. That is really lucky of …

‘The man-eater of Malgudi’ is a book written by R.K. Narayan. This is the story of Nataraj, a man who is a printer in Malgudi. Nataraj and his close friends find themselves disturbed when a taxidermist named Vasu moves in. In this story, a man gets murdered and Nataraj …

I found this book to be pretty disappointing.
The basic storyline is about a spirit who wants to tell it’s story and all the things it’s been through. The main plot is the spirit avenging the death of a young girl.
The first few pages held such promise, but it …

Back in college I was really thinking if I should pursue Nursing as my course. In those days I was very much stressed with Academics and hospital life too. As I was looking for answers I came across a book entitled Chicken Soup for the Nurse’s Soul. I have …

I am so looking forward to the movie version of the book, The Duchess by Amanda Foreman. I have just bought this book a few days back and I have finished reading it already. It got me HOOKED, would be the right word to sum up the reading …

My friend gave me a book entitled “Straight From The Heart-A Prayer Companion”. It is a compilation of different prayers. There you can find prayers to different saints like a Novena Prayer for desperate cases (St. Jude Thaddeus), Novena Prayer for cancer patients (St. Peregrine), Novena …

“Playing with Fire” is the first book in Katie MacAlister’s Silver dragon series. Honestly I picked up this book out of curiosity. I’ve never really been into multi-racial romance novels or dragons. I like dragons but I never understood how they could be sexy. Nothing wrong with a multi-racial …

This is a truly fantastic adventure story and one that is well written. It has danger, excitement, bravery and a lot more. The story moves fast, especially once they get on the ship heading for space. The characters seem like real people, each with his or her own personality, …

I like Linda Grant’s books. They usually make me laugh and lead me through a variety of emotions within the stories. This particular book was no different and I actually found this one to be one of my favorites. “Lady Luck” is a story focused on …

I only know of David Hicks through his textile designs that appeared in movies like The Shining. I was really interested to know what was going on design wise in the sixties and seventies, that made him so influential.
From the bold red cover and thickness and size of this …

“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 …

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a classic horror novel. However, you will find the manner in which the novel was put together very interesting: it is a series of diary entries, newspaper clippings and letters. This type of novel is called an ‘epistolary novel’. Dracula is one of the primary …

The later 19th-early 20th century American novelist William Dean Howells was broadly popular in his longago day. Howells produced more than 100 volumes of fiction, travel writing, poetry, and literary journalism; but as the author sadly recognized toward the end of his long career, his star was already in …

I’m in the process of reading Varney the Vampire by Thomas Prescott Prest. And, while I haven’t finished the book yet, I have read enough to draw some conclusions about it.
First, the book is supposed to be very gory. Maybe it was during the time it was written, but …

I felt that this was a good book in explaining who the characters are in Star Wars Clone Wars. The illustrations were adequate as well.
The storyline is about Anakin and Ahsoka on another mission. They have to go to a castle to rescue Rotta the Hutt who …

Sudoku, book by Lisa Penttila is an excellent book with lot of good Sudoku puzzles in it. To start with tile of book is original Sudoku original which is appealing and that is the reason my husband bought it as a gift for me. I am big Sudoku fan …

A few months ago I began programming in Processing to create some interactive applications at work after having just a brief introduction to the language on a “programming interactivity” course. Because the language is pretty simple and the resulting programs are all visual I found it very easy to …

The fourth book in Stephen Coonts’ Deep Black series has the National Security Agency’s covert team going somewhere that the NSA’s Deep Black has never been before, at least through the stories we have seen already, South America. Despite the continuity issues(in the previous installment it was revealed that …

So, we come to the end of this five book, unnecessarily drawn-out series. After four books, none of which I enjoyed, we come to the final (hopefully, considering Kiera Cass enjoys extending her book series) installment of ‘The Selection’ series. The first three books focused on America Singer and …