Anne Bishop is an extremely talented fantasy author who paints an amazingly detailed world when it comes to her writing, her storytelling skills are incredibly indepth with out of this world characters, places, and plots. You’ll instantly fall in love with each of the main characters in this book …

Southern Cross (written by Patricia Cornwell and published by Berkley Publishing Group, 1999)
This novel features a different set of characters, other than the tiresome Kay Scarpetta and her equally tedious niece, Lucy.
Police Chief Judy Hammer was handled the responsibility of Richmond and brought along her most …

This book is a must have for all aspiring writers who are ready to send their writing off to publishers or magazines for publication. IT is a useful tool for writers of all genres, fiction and non fiction.
It’s a very easy to use guide containing information and addresses …

Lauren Kate really out did herself with this third installment in her book series Fallen. Passion is the third book in the series, Fallen is the first and Torment is the second.
I’ll admit the first two books kind of annoyed me. The heroine Luce (Lucinda Price) reminds me of …

The Dream Workbook: Discover the Knowledge and Power Hidden in Your Dreams is a good book to start with if you are someone that is just starting out on your quest to understand your dreams and what they might be saying about you or your life. The reason I …

Close your eyes. Look around you. Feel everything, every object , every being , every presence. Even those that have been gone for years now. But remained sealed in atoms of smell. And existing through them.
In my view Patrick Süskind rips souls apart. Then he processes …

Lemony Snicket (pen name) writes the Series of Unfortunate Events books, which is a 13 book series. The Miserable Mill is book # 4 in the series.
After their parents were killed, and after escaping the custody of their evil relative Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans were shuttled to …

For my latest birthday I received Diana Gabaldon’s latest book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes. I have been waiting, literally years for this book to be finished and on the shelves. I was out of my mind with excitement when it was finally published in September 2005. I …

I was intrigued by the works of Kathy Reichs even since I learned that my favorite TV series Bones is based on her novels. The novel and the books have interchanged the characters; the novel’s heroine is Dr. Temperance Brennan and the author is Kathy Reichs, while the series …

The latest entry in the Sookie Stackhouse series, From Dead to Worse, takes place a few months after the explosion in the previous novel. This book is quite a bit slower than the previous books in the series, even though it is longer. Much of the first part of …

Mental Strength (Condition Your Mind, Achieve Your Goals), written by Iain Abernethy and this book has touched my raw nerve reading it pretty much. The contents proved to me that I have perhaps a weaker sense of mental strength and at times, strong. The book is not …

The Final Years of Michael Jackson by Ian Halperin takes us on a journey that was intended to expose Michael Jackson as a pedophile.
The author, Ian Halperin, set out to prove that Michael Jackson got away scott free with the crimes of molesting a young boy that …

This book by Eric Jerome Dickey is part of the collection of Urban Erotic Tales. I received this book when I joined www.blackexpressions.com book club a few months ago. Its about a woman who discovers her husband is cheating, so as revenge she cheats with the other woman’s husband.
I …

This kids’ book is part of a series of five books by Lloyd Alexander. Taran has returned from his wandering, still uncertain about his parentage but more sure of who he himself is, to find that problems abound throughout the world. Still eager to be a hero, but also …

Engulfed by Bernard F. Dick
The subheading of this book ‘The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood’is intriguing.
In the old days when Paramount was purchased by Gulf and Western, there were many gasps that Adolf Zukor’s beloved studio was now in the hands of corporate accountants. …

Making Your Money Work For You
By: Missy
This book is basically teaching you tips on how to expand your investments and savings. It teaches you that in order to make your money work for you, just pure saving isn’t enough. You need more work than that. I …

The WordPress 24-Hour Trainer book is the best introductory book that I have found on learning to use WordPress. I had read on the Internet that WordPress was easy to use and understand. That I should have just been able to jump on the forums and everything would become …

Database Systems is by far one of the worst books ever. Database Systems is a book intended to explain relation databases, instead by chapter 2 you forgot what you were reading. I think the author just assumes anyone reading this book is a genius. If you …

“Derailed” by James Siegel tells the story of a young married man, Charles Schine whose monotonous life begins to change drastically after he accidentally meets an attractive and sexully appealing young beauty on the train. The meeting marks the beginning of a passionate love affair, which could be even …

In Memoirs of a Geisha, Nitta Sayuri, the woman of the book, tells the story of her life as a geisha. As I read the book, I came into a place where a person’s facade is in dominance and of great importance. It is a world that looks …

I read an advance copy of SES Made Easy (Finally) and am pretty much ready to start my tutoring business - I was a little skeptical at first because a lot of books start with these great titles and snazzy chapters but have little actual “how to”.
I …

In The Book Thief, Death narrates the story of a young German girl, Liesel, and her life in a small German village during the time of WWII and the holocaust. Considered a young adult book, I found this to be one of the best written books I have ever …

This is the second Mercy Thompson book that I have read. I started to read this series because it contained vampires, werewolves and all the creatures that go along with their world. I wasn’t sure about the character at first, but I am growing to like her more and …

Changes is the twelfth novel of the Dresden files, featuring Harry Dresden, the only wizard in Chicago who is listed in the phone book. I think it is one of the better ones in the series, it is definitely exciting enough. There’s action in every chapter, sometimes maybe a …

This story is also about historical romance and it is about duty to the Crown of a Duke for honor and duty versus his love for a lady that he truly loves. If you were to ask me in this modern day, whether there is such a thing, …

Mercedes Lackey is a very prolific writer: with dozens of novels in a number of cycles, she writes fantasy novels in the romance as well as young adult genres. Having recently re-read the first trilogy of the Valdemar chronicles, with young Talia as the girl protagonist, I decided to …

Night Smoke is the fourth story in the Night Tales series written by Nora Roberts. And once again, it’s a hit!
In this story, we meet Ryan Piasecki and Natalie Fletcher. For those of you who have read the first story in the series, you would know that Natalie is …

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, …

“Scuba Bunnies” is a children’s book authored by Christine Loomis and illustrated by Ora Eitan. It was published in 2004. As one may deduce from the title, it is a story about little bunnies who decide to go diving in the ocean.
Pros: The language is quite …

I recently read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Foer as an assigned reading for an English course. I really enjoyed this book, possibly more than any other book I have read. It was both engaging and easy to relate to in many respects.
It is the story of …

The minds at Leap Frog have come up with a great first book called the StoryBlock Book. This is one that a baby or toddler can do all by themselves. And it has the one thing a baby loves the most besides food. Noises. As the pages turn …

In my Bedroom, by Donna Hill is a fictional novel. The book is about a woman and her life. She suffers a traumatic event and the story centers around how she handles that event. Much of the book tells about how she relates to her family and friends. There …

Shivers was a series of books written by the writer M.D. Spencer. In fact, I think they came out around the same time that the other series of books, Goosebumps, which were written by the writer R.L. Stine came out in the nineties. When I read a few books …

Star Trek: Insurrection Novelization, much like the movie itself, is a story that flows fairly slowly. There is some action near the beginning of the novelization, as well as near the end, but for the most part, this novelization is about the characters and how the area of space …

MIA: Missing in Atlanta is written by Debby Giusti and this is part love and part adventure story. I love the story-line pretty much because the plots are really well-written. Jude Walker is a war hero and he has come back to look for the woman that …

My brother loves traveling, and so do I. We have been traveling before, just the two of us, and we love exploring cities for almost every part of the world, and it helps by having this book called Cities Ranked & Rathed, written by Sperling, Bert, Sander and Peter.
However, …

“The Billion Dollar Sure Thing” is probably the best of Paul Erdman\’s early books. Published in 1973, the book deals with desire of the money to devalue the US dollar in relation to both foreign currencies and against gold. For those of us who don’t know a lot about …

The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky is a very strong, poignant and emotional coastal-ride story for me, filled with lots of excitement.
The storyline is very straightforward, and just reading the title for the first time, I know that there’s a ’secret’ to this story, and dying to …

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 …

I spent a good chunk of this issue confused. I got the gist of it, but at the same time I was a bit lost.
Two new heroes emerge named Nightwing and Flamebird. Now, I know that they were two characters tied to Kandor, so it makes sense …

I found this book amongst a few of my aunt’s school books some years ago, and it has helped me in many European history projects I have had since. I remember that just going through the book itself was interesting, as the language used was not too difficult to …

The Lottery is a story written by American author Shirley Jackson. I read many of her works in college, and just love her to the point style. The Lottery is no exception! The story is about a town where the people perform a type of ritual in order to …

This book is kind of futuristic and at the same time awesome and quite chilling to read. The book main focus character which the author has written is the character Paul Proteus and he is the focal point of everything in this book. I thought that the …

Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart. This is the first of 3 books in this series. I’ve read all three and it’s worth it. This book was very suspenseful and the characters are loveable and likeable.
Amanda Crosby is the main character in this book. …

This is the second book in the series about Anne Shirley, the first is Anne of Green Gables and covers Anne’s life from she’s 11 until she’s 16. This book covers to the next two years, in which Anne works as a school teacher in the Avonlea landscape. You’ll meet …

This book is like a great diary reading for me by the author. I consider it my IOI and the small, short stories are all extremely fun to read and I love the short titles and quotes. The little things in life really does make a big difference …

I actually read this book after reading his second book. I thought that from the title it was more of a biography and not necessarily about the dogs. In Be the Pack Leader, he makes several references to this book so I gave in and got one. The first …

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories is awesome. My boyfriend is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan so I bought this for him just a few months ago. It has all the short stories in there along with annotations on the side and historical information as well …

Angels and Demons is a murder mystery shrouded with the well-researched resurrection of a secret brotherhood. The narrative starts with the brutal murder of a world renowned scientist, whose body gave a frightening clue upon which the hero began his search for the murderer. Set in modern …

This is so far the most inspiring book I have ever read. This is written by Rick Warren a Prostestant Pastor who touched millions of lives through his writings in the book.
Regardless of religion, race or nationality this book has continuously …