Returnable Girl by Pamela Lowell. Pamela Lowell was inspired to write this book based on her job as a family therapist. As I was reading through it, I noticed that some of the terms and lingo that foster care workers use is the very up-to-date as to …

“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 …

I am a pretty advaint reader of Fantasy/Fiction and have read hundreds of books. And i have to say R.A Salvator is as of now my favorite writer of all time. His Dark Elf Trilogy (which is only just the begining of a epic 28 book series i believe) …

It happens, true only seldom, that after reading a book I get stuck with whole images in my head.
Sometimes it happens, after reading a good book that remains with me for a while, before allowing me to anchor myself into reality, that I see images rolling before my eyes …

If you are already used to the basic HTML scripts in Java Programming in games specifically, you might want to get this book: Advanced Java Game Programming by David Wallace Croft.
It is super useful and there are just lots of codes and HTML scripts which you can embed …

Plastic Girl is a manga by Furuya Usamaru. This one shot has the genres of drama, josei, psychological, seinen, and a bit of gore. The manga talks about the life of a girl who is a bit of mystery. According to her, her father was afraid and her mother …

India’s Struggle for Independence is undoubtedly one of the most popular book of Modern Indian History. I first heard about this book when a controversy erupted about the term used by Bipan Chandra for some Indian freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh and others. The author has used the term …

This is the first novel by V.C. Andrews that I read and it was truly superb. The suspense in the story was so good that I actually read the entire book, all 423 pages, in a single afternoon. While I have read many great books in the past few …

I read this book because I read Inkheart, also by Cornelia Funke, and loved it —“ and the Thief Lord actually looked like more my style than Inkheart did. It looked a little bit dark (but coming from Cornelia Funke I knew it would also be charming), intriguing, …

Tower of Destruction, by Keith Martin, is a fairly late entry in the long-running Fighting Fantasy series of solo gamebooks, having first been published in 1991 and coming in at number 46 in the original Puffin sequence. It is not one I would consider a classic, and nor does …

My 5-year-old daughter has been getting a bit bored with the kids’ books they force her to check out at school and expressed a desire to read some chapter books with me.
I wasn’t sure how much of a step she was willing to take, but I remembered I still …

I’ve read several of Sarah Dessin’s books for youths and The Truth about Forever, like most of her other books, is excellent. (Although I was wondering for a while where the forever part came in but I did figure it out)
I really felt the frustration that each character was …

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson was truly fantastic. The book intertwines the tale of the1893 World?s Fair in Chicago with a cunning serial killer H. H. Holmes. Both stories were awesome, but the story of Holmes was riveting, this guy was so calculating …

The Sword in the Stone is the first book in T.H. Whites 5 book series “The Once and Future King” about King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table. In the first book, Arthur is still a boy living with his adopted uncle and cousin; he’s called Wart and …

A classic in the fantasy genre and a veteran in the writing of bestsellers, Terry Brooks brings joy to his fans for nearly three decades with exciting fantasy novels, among which I can mostly point out the novels from the series “Shannara”. They are the most known and most …

Eric Nylund’s novel “Halo: The Fall of Reach” serves as a prequel to most of the popular Microsoft series of Halo games, and runs parallel to the events in the recent release, “Halo: Reach.” In “The Fall of Reach,” Nylund allows readers to discover the history of the …

while this book does not have a twisted ending like most of Stine’s other books, I liked this book because one of the main characters defeats the one causing all of the evil–King Jellyjam. Not to mention, chapters end in cliff hangers making you want to keep on reading …

I love to travel in the Philippines even though I have lived here all my life. Being a third world country though, there are not a lot of maps and guide books written about the Philippines, especially the countryside, even though it has one of the most striking sceneries …

Anne of Green Gables is a charming story on a little orphan girl who keeps getting into scrapes. At first the Cuthberts don’t want her because she is not a boy but in the end they keep her because she needs them and they need her. I love this …

When I was growing up in the 1970s I adored The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton and used to read it over and over. This is the second book in a series, the first of which I used to read as well which is called The Enchanted …

This book, by Tamora Pierce, is both a social stance and a fantasy adventure, combined in a Young Adult book that kids will both understand and love. This well written, exciting tale begins with four young children, Lady Sandriline fa Toren, the duke’s niece; (10), Trisana Chandler, a merchant’s …

I normally don’t read these kinds of books, I stick to extra thick fantasy books, while this is a very thin German, realistic classic. As a matter of fact I had to read it in class when I was in highscool. It is one of the few school books …

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 …

Atkins for Life is a book that was put out by the Atkins diet people.
It tells you alot of the fundamentals of the Atkins diet and also gives you low carb menus for effectively controlling your weight. It gives varied low carb menus starting at 19,45 and going up …

After seeing the previews for Atonement the movie I was excited to read the book. I always read the book before seeing the movie because 99% of the time the book is better. I was sadly disappointed with Atonement the book by Ian McEwan. I was …

The first book of the Velvet Saga, the author, Jude Deveraux had once again created a book that is both entertaining and heart warming. Set in the 1500s, it is a story of a poor baron who was forced to marry a rich heiress for her wealth.
The baron, …

The New Indigo bookstore finally arrived in Milton! It was large and bright and I couldn’t wait to start shopping. It was quick and easy to find someone to help me use their touch-screen system, and equally efficient to find what I was looking to purchase. I was thrilled …

This is one of the novels in the New Yedi Order series. Han and Leias son Jacen Solo is captured by the enemy, the Yuuzhan Vong. They try to brainwash him to believe in their god and their philosophy. There is also a runaway Jedi there, Vergere, who joins …

The Light Princess by George MacDonald is a charming fairy tale about a princess who was cursed at birth by a witch in a rather unusual way: she is doomed to have no gravity. The curse affects both her body and character: having no weight, the princess just floats …

This book is written in the same manner of Michael Chrichton’s medical science fiction thrillers. This book I think is better in a book format rather than its online version. At 52 chapters it is just too long to have to read online. This is a …

I love this book, as it is one of the crazier of the Goosebumps series. Not to mention, the book contains some neat twists. It made it to TV, and at times, I do watch the episode.
The story’s plot is set around a girl whose name is Lucy. She …

“Spring Things,” authored by Bob Raczka and illustrated by Judy Stead is one of those children’s books that has a cute cover but not a whole lot of depth once you start flipping the pages. My three-year old was disappointed that it was not longer. She prefers books …

General Studies (GS) is an integral part of majority of competitive examinations in India which are organized for government jobs. Indian Economy, Indian History, Current Affairs, Indian Polity, Geography, General Science and Current Affairs are part of GS. Hence it is quite bulky. I have appeared in many competitive …

The Catcher in the rye is a novel set in the 1950 and revolves around a lost and angst adolescent. The protagonist is Holden Caulfield, though there are other sub characters. Although Holden Caulfield is the elegant portrait of a lost teen, he has lost his touch with the …

I’ve wanted to read this book since it was published on august of last year, but for some reason I didn’t read it until now. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover was a book that even though I liked it, I didn’t love it, to be completely honest.
This book …

When Professor Henry Conklin discovers an ancient mummy from South America, he hopes that it will help his scientific theories and also to prove that the great buildings of the Incas are actually the work of another kind of older civilization. He realizes with dismay and chagrin that the …

This book’s first attribute is that it really is short and can be read in an afternoon, this is great by my opinion because nowadays we can rarely find the time to enjoy the good book. This book brings us into the life of the man named Mersauld, his …

This book Animation: From Script to Screen by Animation veteran Shamus Culhane is a very valuable book. As a student of Animation it has helped me gain valuable information about the process of Animation.
As the cover page says this person is truely is legendary animator and he has …

WOW! I read all 4 of these books back to back in less than two weeks and loved every minute of it. I can only say if you are a fan of smart, sexy heroines you MUST read this series.
Riley is one of the best female leads in …

“Going After Cacciato” is a novel about a squad of infantrymen in the Vietnam War. It’s an interesting story and has a surrealistic quality about it that at times makes the reader feel as if he were experiencing the disorientation many of those who served in Vietnam experienced.
There are …

I both love hate the book, On Writing Well. I fail to understand how anyone could edit as much as William Zinsser does, and still maintain credibility and legibility. Unfortunately, I have followed the instructions by Mr. Zinsser to the point where my work becomes completely dull and dry. …

The day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth is a an another masterpiece by the author. The novel is about conspiracy of killing the French head by an organization called OAS. What they do is call a guy a real perfectionist sniper killer and most importantly a clean sheeted …

To be honest this is a review of a review, let me explain: my sister told me to read Entering The Circle by Olga Kharitidi because, she said, I would get something significant from it, so I did as I was told.
Set in Siberia the story begins mundane enough …

I pawed through the many AP test preparation books in my local Borders bookstore and tried to look for one with many practice exams. I wanted one that would help me with the timing of my multiple choice questions, since in class we have only 40 minutes to do …

Oh the many amusing adventures of Stephanie Plum! This time around she is caught up in a disappearance of someone she was overheard threatening. So that means that insanity will ensue because she has to track down the real reason he is missing and then her little posse is …

I love a good action book anytime. Dead Even is written by Brad Meltzer and cost less than $10, but the story is so good and perfect. It feels exactly like reading a novel or something. It is about Sara Tate, avery good Manhattan based assistant …

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 …

Vijay Tendulkar book “a stubborn girl,” is an adapted version of his play, while passing through the same thing most realize that the ideal, ethics, truth and honesty such terms mean only when you have all the tools to live life existed. Perhaps these cases will be referred to …

This is a YA book where the main protagonists are 16-year-old Ethan and 15-year-old Lena. Ethan is a normal mortal while Lena is a caster (otherwise known as witch) with incredible powers. Their love is doomed by a curse on Lena’s family incurred a hundred years ago by one …