Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond is a non-fiction book that attempts to discover the reasons why some civilizations developed more quickly than others and in fact conquered them. It is a review of history from a unique perspective, combining insight into technological achievement as well …

This book was very enjoyable.Once I started reading I couldn’t stop it is place in a time before WWII.With a man that is a lot of trouble with England.He is from St.Petersburg Russia.As the story goes he falls in love with a woman from a rich family.Her family is …

If you’re a fan of children’s books, then Ogden Nash’s Candy is Dandy will be a definite treat! A collection of wonderfully amusing poems by famous children’s writer Nash, the book itself is a good buy, what with the amazingly delightful prose that everyone, even adults, will truly enjoy. …

Black Bird is a Japanese Manga by Kanoko Sakurakoji that has now been converted into English. This is like my all-time favorite manga at the moment. I mean I love this manga. I will admit that that it’s sort of cliché with a girl, needing to be saved by a …

I have only recently discovered the work of the Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, and I am glad I did. I like his values and for me, it makes him even more commendable that he tended to cause outrage with his plays in his own time and clearly struck …

I was trying to figure out just how to get a grip on my finances with all the different income streams that many freelancers have and found The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers and the Self-Employed.
This book bills itself as the only personal finance system for people with …

It’s hard for me to write a review for this story without giving spoilers to those who haven’t read it yet, because that would totally suck, it’s a story that’s very worth reading til the end. But I’ll do my best, at this point I didn’t even know what …

This book is very interesting. It has the top 10 places in Madrid that you would love to visit. I would love to go to Madrid someday, and check out these places. They are divided into 6 manageable areas, and also include some places of interests …

Before I begin with the review of the book, I guess I should discuss a little about the author - Ito Junji.
Ito Junji is a manga artist known for his weird and sometimes creepy horror stories that I feel sometimes is trying to poke fun or reflect a certain social …

To Pleasure a Lady is written by Nicole Jordan and this book is really “something”. It is a very good love story to depict the settings of historical romances which I love to read so much.
This is like one of the first few series of her book and …

“Joy in the Morning” is by Betty Smith, author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”. It tells the story of the first year of marriage of Carl and Annie Brown in 1928.
I got this book because I loved “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” so much. “Joy in the …

Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Rock and a Hard Place is a novel that I found to be fairly enjoyable and memorable. Fans of the character known as William T. Riker will get a definite kick out of this novel because a large portion of it focuses …

Daredevil Issue 235 was written by Danny Fingeroth and published in 1986. Steve Ditko was the artist. This is a good old fashioned issue that focuses on the hero overcoming great odds in the form of one of Marvel’s most powerful super villians, Mister Hyde.
The issue shows …

I found this book to be laugh out loud funny. The pliable Richard Novak finds himself in all sorts of precarious situations in the course of what seams like just a few weeks. To quickly summarize: Richard would have been perfectly happy living his unconscious life …

Jean Staker Garton, Litt.D, L.H.D., has written a book examining many of the popular slogans people use who are in favor of abortion. Garton herself admits in Who Broke the Baby that she was initially pro-choice. Around the time of Roe vs. Wade, she identified with the feminists who …

This is the fifth book in Sweet Valley’s The Unicorn Club series and right now we have an additional member namely Evie Kim. She’s a very sweet gal who is just like Elizabeth Wakefield and Maria Slater and this is her story to tell.
In this book the Unicorns are …

So, after having managed to finish the first two instalments in the Matched trilogy, I had to finish it. If I could ditch books based on how good they are, I would have given up on this trilogy at the end of the first book itself. But, I somehow …

Once again here is another book that tricked me by its cover. I admit when I checked it out from the library I had absolutely no idea what this novel was about - I only knew I had picked it up from the Fantasy/Science Fiction section. The front cover …

This is one of the best books I ever read by the bestselling author James Patterson. It is the story of Max, a genetically modified girl who escapes from a clandestine laboratory in the wilderness of Colorado. She is then discovered and cared by Frannie O’Neill, the local vet …

The Pillsbury Halloween Fun Book may look small on the outside, and something that anyone might think would not be useful in finding delicious and spooky looking foods for the Halloween season. But that is definitely not the case with this book. It small that’s true, but the book …

Arrow’s Fall is the third novel in Mercedes Lackey’s Arrows trilogy, set in the fictional location of Valdemar. It is conclusion of the cycle and therefore brings resolution to most of the subplots of the series, culminating in the protagonist’s eventual happy matrimony to her one true love. Naturally, …

When my daughter turned one year old she became interested in books, although she can’t read yet she loves to scheme through it. when she turned one year and six months somebody offered me an encyclopedia package but then again I can’t afford it One time we went to …

When a fiction writer is starting out, one of the pieces of advice he or she is given on how to make characters come to life is for the author to write out a character’s entire life history. “You may not use a word of it in the finished …

“Life on Purpose For Women” book by J.M.Farro as the author is a book for people who seek life devotional. This book is about how God inspires us to live on purpose in this world where difficulties keep on appearing in our daily life. In consists 85 chapters and each …

“Bunny Money” is a Max & Ruby children’s book by Rosemary Wells. It was published in the late 1990s and is fairly modern. The book also teaches a great lesson about spending money. It is high quality like most Max & Ruby books and my daughter …

I often stumble on the books section at nytimes.com every weekend. Featured in the —˜books of the times’ lately was Gypsy Boy, a memoir written by Mikey Walsh. I was sold when the writer quoted gypsy boy asking, “Oh my God, have you met Madonna?” The …

“The Haunted Hotel” is one of Wilkie Collins’s lesser known works. Shorter than his other novels, this book is a mixture of mystery, melodrama, and a ghost story with elements of psychological thriller. The events take place in 1860. A count gets married despite the fact that he was …

„Colters’ Woman” is about three brothers and one woman.
The first thing I thought when I read that summary was “conflict”. Your typical love story with the girl in the end choosing one of the brothers.
But there’s a plot twist I did not anticipated. The girl, whose name is Holly, …

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 …

Meanwhile is an interesting concept for a children’s book. The author, Jason Shiga, combines the idea of a graphic novel or comic strip book with a brainstorm web and a choose your own adventure style book. Even on each page there are paths to follow, and some of them …

I have not read many books by the lawyer and author, John Grisham; however, when I read the book “The Street Lawyer” by him some months ago, I thought that it was a really good book.
At first when I saw it, I thought that it would be slightly …

The I Love Lucy Scrapbook is something that I most definitely recommend to all fans of the classic and iconic sitcom! This scrapbook features pictures, little known facts, trivia, memories and more for each and every episode of “I Love Lucy” produced. In many ways, it helped me to …

Reese ran away from her hometown after her boyfriends tried to kill her. He’s not being prosecuted, so to save her life she decides to leave to another state, change her name and start all over. That’s where she meets Mason, a boy she immediately feels attracted to. The …

Perfect Match by Jane Moore is near to perfect. The story is about a couple with a child and embarking on getting another baby so that the baby would in turn be able to help their son, named Ben to be cured from his illness.
They need …

“Expiration Date” by Eric Wilson is a supernatural thriller that tells the story of Clay Ryker, a 29 year old man who has been keeping a dark secret for the last 12 years of his life. Back in his high school days, Clay was involved in an accident that …

I adore this book. I’ll say it again - I adore this book. I hate the movie but the book I have read several times in my lifetime and I’m only 27 years old lol. It is a really thick book but it is so well worth it. The …

The Author has a series of books involving a psychologist, Alan Gregory and his wife Lauren and good friend Sam Purdy ( a police detective. The books should be read in order as the subplots with these characters are a major part of what makes me continue to read …

This book has been very helpful to me when I studied about visual basic 6 and XML. I worked for a data processing company before that specializes in data conversion into a XML format. The book is quite thick; around 725 pages in all but do not let 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 …

Romeo was written by Elise Title, and published by Bantam Books, 1998.
My first reaction when I read about the vicious killing of the smug psychologist, Dr Melanie Rosen, was that she deserved it. She had capitalized on the wave of terror created by Romeo, the killer who took …

Levitt is an economist at University of Chicago. Dubner is a journalist from New York Times. Together they produced this maverick work. According to Levitt, Economics is a science with excellent tools for gaining answers but a serious shortage of interesting questions.
Levitt raises some interesting questions like why …

I am not a big fan of scary stuff, be that in movies or books, but somehow, when I had come across Stephen King’s “Misery,” the premise of the book intrigued me. The back cover blurb said something like, “an injured writer held hostage by a psychotic nurse.” That …

I was prepared to hate this book by Amy Chua which is an account of her parenting life with her two daughters. A mother who demands her child practice her musical instrument 6 hours a day. Every day. A mother who demands her children get straight As in school. …

Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell is not the best book I’ve read recently. The book is nothing like you’ll expect from Candace Bushnell if you’re expecting Sex and the City type of writing. The television series itself is nothing like the book and I shouldn’t have expect …

I enjoy reading this book, Seventeen by Booth Tarkington. Seventeen refers to the Seventeen years old.
Seventeen years old is the time when puppy love occurs. I enjoy reading about all the silly things that this seventeen years old, William Baxter, did when he was in puppy love.
The …

The Color Purple is a book which I think should be read in schools across anywhere. The contents are good and the author is Alice Walker. I didn’t know that there was a movie on this story as well. At first, I went to read this …

What do you think about the feelings of a child who is between armed conflict? Suffer? That is something that must be felt by all people. But, for children can be more than that. Fear of death plus the separation of parents and family are two different sides. And …

Catwatching & Catlore is an easy to read on cat behaviour by the famous zoologist, Desmond Morris. I borrowed this book years ago when I got myself two little kittens to scare off the mice problem I had in my terraced house, but if you want to buy …

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 a great book for all ages and will keep you up late turning the pages. Once you start reading it you will find it hard to set it down. It is a romance novel with vampire and werewolf twists that will keep you wondering what could happen …