This book will keep you guessing until the very end to the point of frustration! Any time you have a small town you have to deal with secrets, but its like there are so many secrets you don’t know who is more likely to be guilty! The main character …

He sounds so strong. So vibrant. So alive.
Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, wrote Patrick’s memoir in the summer of 2009. They also recorded it as an audio book which was completed just a few weeks before Patrick’s death on September 14, 2009.
When you listen …

L.A. Candy is the first book/novel by reality star Lauren Conrad. At first, I was just interested to read the book because I was really interested to Lauren Conrad. I am a fan of her and I like to support her. I was also curious if she can write …

Dan Brown’s books are now read and praised all over the world and all of that is because of his bestseller “The Da Vinci Code”. Because of that every new book that famous American writer releases automatically gets a crazy amount of attention, as well as the pressure to …

So this book had a lot of hype behind it. Anytime I look up popular books it comes up. So instead of continuing to avoid this “war” book like the plague I finally picked it up. It was a struggle, I usually dislike translated books just because they are …

‘More Dash Than Cash’ is a fabulous, retro book from Vogue and written by Kate Hogg who has worked on UK Vogue. It is basically a book on how to dress stylishly on a small budget, as the title suggests, and although it is still informative today, it …

“The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” by Robin Sharma is a very nice,magnificient book.It has an powerful formula for true success and happiness.It is a self help book.It contains treasures of wisdom that can enrich and enhance the life of every single person.
If you read this book it …

I used this text book when I was in grade three in prep school, and it helped me several times to do a few assignments and projects I got when I was younger. Although I’m not sure if they still use these Carlong Primary Social Studies Books, I know …

I like the story The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I think it’s an alright story, compared to some others. That’s because this book has a unique plot and voice, and the title tend to be misleading. This is not a story about bees …

Wandering leisurely through one of the many wonderful art museums in Europe or America, I sometimes have a hard time conceiving how an artist like Caravaggio or Monet can bring such beauty out of simple oil and canvas. How can such plain materials aided by some brushstrokes give us …

Translated from Portuguese by Geovanni Pontiero, Blindness is now a full length movie starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo.
The Blindness novel starts straight in the story with the origin of the plot within the first pages of the novel. Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass disease of …

This is an old-fashioned crime story by Simon Brett, with a protagonist similar to Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. However Mrs Melita Pargeter was a more flamboyant lady, rich and vocal. Furthermore she had inherited not only wealth from her dead husband, but his professional skills, …

This book follows famous author Paul Sheldon who has a bad car accident and wakes up in the home of his “number one fan” Annie, a nurse who is obsessed with Paul and his work, that’s OK and nothing new, lot’s of people are a little crazy about him …

The PCAT is the test students must take before applying to pharmacy school, so it is therefore an extremely important test. Before taking the PCAT, I bought the 2008-2009 edition of the Kaplan PCAT book. I found it to be extremely detailed and very helpful. Kaplan teaches classes from …

The New Year Eve’s Murder (by Lee Harris, published by Ballantine Books, 1997)
This is my first Lee Harris book, and it was a real surprise. Lee Harris was a pseudonym for a romance writer, and I thought that this could be one of those simple-to-solve mysteries to …

Written by Leil Lowndes, UpDating! (How to Win a Man or Woman You Thought You Could Never Get) tend to be very useful for those singles out there aspiring to get the man or woman of their dreams.
It is not impossible and I thought this is going to be …

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is directly about vampire romance, I have to pretty much say that. It’s either you like it or hate it. If you are the vampire flick sort of reader, you might pretty much enjoy reading this. As for myself, I fall into the …

Programming in Objective-C Is a book that is aimed at people who intend purely to learn the language. Objective-C is normally 99% linked with Cocoa development in Mac OS X, this book offers no information on how to implement this language with Cocoa.
If you are already good with Cocoa …

“Curious George Flies A Kite,” written by Margret Rey and illustrated by H.A. Rey is another annoying entry in the Curious George series of books, which I find incredibly overrated.
This book features Curious George doing a lot of pointless things like playing with rabbits, trying to fish, and attempting …

Knightfall written by Dennis O’Neill is a novel, an adaptation of the eponymous comics series about Batman, released in the early 90s. Considered as a classic in the genre of superheroes, Knightfall is the original story of Bane that inspired Christopher Nolan for “The Dark Knight Rises”. At the …

Steve Berry does it again! This time the best selling author takes us on a journey to Europe, Portugal and the Sinai desert as protagonist Cotton Malone seeks the lost Library of Alexandria. According to legend, the library disappeared 1,500 years ago and contained ancient biblical documents as well …

Tuesdays With Morrie nearly got me crying for a lot of times throughout the pages in the book itself. It is a very good story, but up till now, I wonder if this is of a true inspiration account of the author or not. The story starts with …

I just finished reading Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. It is part of the Twilight Saga and the final book of the series. I have read them all. Stephenie Meyer wrote these books for young adults but they have been a huge hit with adults, including …

Japan in the sixteenth century was a time of massacres and darkness. An era, in which the applicable law, the law of the sword. This novel was written by Kitami Masao, the label this the Swordless Samurai. This novel presented the Japanese in the 16th century, with Hideyoshi as …

John Grisham is prolific writer. He produces quality material regularly and is a valuable and entertaining writer. However, Grisham’s novel, The Broker, falls short. I believe this book suffers from what I call writer’s fatigue, where Grisham has fallen victim to too much writing.
The story is crisp and …

One very distinctive fact that I noticed while reading this book called Diane Johnson - Persian Nights: A Novel would be the fact that it has a very nice and interesting cover animated image of a woman, supposedly the one in the character, and the words ‘Persian Night’ being …

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Cushman this semester in school and, having learned from him, I can appreciate his work a little more than I might have before.
First off, Heart Island is a collection of poetry written in meter that pays special attention to form. Cushman, …

“Behemoth” is the second book in the fantasy trilogy by Scott Westerfield that started with “Leviathan”. After reading the book I can say it is worth buying it. At the end of “Leviathan” prince Alec, the rightful heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, escapes with his men on board …

Entirely by chance, I saw the novel AIRPORT standing lonely on a bookstore shelf and decided to read it. And as soon as I read a couple of pages, the book settled firmly into the first position of my desires, goals, and objectives for a few days.
A very worthy …

This book by the famous BBC Correspondent along with his colleague who spent more than 25 years in India is a contemporary’s version of the events that happened in India during the last three decades. The authors brought to bear their long years of experience of living in India …

It’s been a while since I review and after finishing reading this book title, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, I feel that it deserves to be reviewed and for all to read it because it is really useful for couples embarking on a marriage life or already …

Emergency by Neil Strauss is not quite like his other books in topic, not that his books topics are very similar to each other, but because this is more about an adventure and a journey that he, Strauss, had.
The idea behind the book is that in the event …

Life sometimes treats us to great joys and happiness, yielding moments that we will forever treasure and look back on with magnificent warmth in our hearts. Life, too, sometimes deals us the exact opposite, where something happens that seemingly brings the world down around us and we can’t fathom …

John Gardner ‘Grendel’. Probably, most people heard about Grendel, an infamous monster, a half-human who used to terrorize Dans’ villages. It’s considered to be one of the first and fundamental texts of English literature. In fact, it is written in Anglo-Saxon, which is completely incomprehensible for us …

This book, Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope is a classic. Sometimes I find myself looking forward to a friendship whereby somehow or rather you are looking forward to a particular special day in which you could get some kind of elixir towards a charming friendship that has been new …

High Recommend!
The Exodus, Moses’ Story from the Bible compiled by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz with notes from Charles R. Swindoll.
I have been looking for bible stories for the pre-teen level and I came across this book. I always liked Exodus myself and thought that this book was …

New Moon tells the life of Isabella Swan after abandoned by Edward Cullen. Day after day passed with depression and emptiness. Charlie almost sends Bella back to Phoenix because it did not bear to see her daughter like a zombie. Bella still continues to live and do the usual …

I have always been a fan of the comic section of the paper. When I was a child I used to always pull out the comics in every Sunday’s paper and read my favorites. As the years have gone on my favorite cartoons have changed, recently I re-discovered the …

Saw an episode of Oprah where Geneen Roth was talking about her book. Actually my step-mother is a big Oprah watcher and she knows that I have issues with food and she thought it would be a good one for me to watch. So I let her show it …

Across the Universe is the first book in a trilogy. It is told from the point of view from a girl named Amy and a boy named Elder. Amy and her parents decided to be frozen in time for three hundred years, so that when they awake, they will …

Checkmate is one of those books which make us laugh out loud after finished reading. This book can’t be categorized into any particular category as it is just a different story. This is a short story from the collection ‘A Twist in the Tale’ written by the master storyteller, …

In comparison with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created the Sherlock Holmes, I’d rather choose the Hercule Poirot character which was created by Agatha Christie. They both actually are my favorite authors for Detective’s novels. But no matter how I read all the novels, I always amazed by the …

Sleepless by Terri Clark is a two hundred and fifty seven page long teen page turning novel. It is full of action, adventure, romance, and even science fiction. This book encompasses everything that a good romantic adventure should. I would recommend that all avid teen or …

This book title, Loving Him Without Losing You by Beverly Engel (well actually part of it). The whole title is just so long. It goes something like empowering relationships or something. Loving Him Without Losing You is just the main heading title of the book. And …

Stephen King’s On writing is a fantastic book that teaches writing in a whole different way compared to most books. I loved this book because it teaches you how to write in a manner that is almost instinctual. Instead of plotting and planning the ending, the plot, the beginning …

Jennifer was born 25 years ago with down syndrome. Dire predictions of doctors with her, that she expected to be deaf, blind, and mentally retarded just before the age of two years. But Jennifer became one of the best graduates in high school and then go through her first …

Arts and Crafts is a short story that can be found in the collection Sisters in Crime volume 3. Sisters In Crime is an organization of female mystery writers. The anthology series features stories from these writers that have been chosen from a large pool of applicants. …

I’m really into historical novels and I don’t know if there are still those who, as my daughter’s fun of telling me,”is still stuck in the past”.BUt if you haven’t tried reading historicals, I urge you to start one or try one.They could really bring you to another place …

Well my friend David let me borrow this book when we went traveling out East because I had nothing to read and was getting bored. He said he had read it and like it a lot and thought that I should give it a try. I was excited at …

The author of this memoir has no doubt gotten considerable attention in the media. She was kidnapped for 18 years and only recently released from her captor. Her captor received a significant sentence—” over 100 years in prison.
I enjoyed this book mainly for its conclusion. The …