If you love page turners then you will love this book. This is the kind of book that you stay up all night reading, a science fiction book about invaders who come and take over human bodies. The minds of these hosts take the place of the human soul, but leaves the human body intact, so it ...
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A Brief "Bite" About Laurell K. Hamilton
On February 19th, 1963 the New York Times #1 selling author Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born. She has said that the moment she decided she wanted to write was when she was 13 years old and read the short story collection "Pigeons From Hell". She has ...
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Finding Betty Crocker
It's totally true, Betty Crocker is a myth. She may look lifelike (and quite motherly) on that box of Hamburger Helper, but get over it, she's only a figment of an adman's imagination. What's Hamburger Helper? If you don't know, well, then you definitely need to read ...
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The untimely passing of Tim Russert just days before Father‘s Day, seems to have given all of us a reason to take a look back at the extraordinary books he authored. Although so well known as ‘the Mayor of Washington‘, or as the tough interviewer at the helm of the Meet the ...
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Are you mystified by the how's and why's of the kitchen? Do you enjoy cooking, but want to kick it up a notch? Do you wonder why sometimes even your tried and true recipes fail, often at the most critical times? Then The New Kitchen Science by Howard Hillman is for you. Even the most experienced ...
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Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

Anyone who's ever had romantic notions of running away to join the circus should read this book before they act on those dreams. This book opens up the underbelly of the circus, from the personal relationships to the dangers associated with the animals. ...
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A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine LEngle
I remembered this as being one of my favorite books as a child, and I was not disappointed! L'Engle is simply an amazing story teller.

She is a master of incorporating real life science into a fantasy novel, in such a way that:
1. I ...
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Iggy Corso has come to a major crossroad. Thrown out of high school at sixteen, he has one friend who lives on the edge of reality and two parents who have been swallowed up by the addictions and desperate life of poverty too often found in the projects. But, Iggy has a plan. The way he sees it, ...
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John Grisham‘s fame as the master of the legal thriller is well earned and no secret. However, in his novel A Painted House, Grisham displays his deep talent in a completely different setting and genre. Set on a family cotton farm in 1950s Arkansas, A Painted House is a story told from the ...
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The Emptiness Of Our Hands A Lent Lived On The Streets - by Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray

I'm not certain what possessed the author and her friend, James, to spend Lent as homeless people, on the streets of Ohio, but her book about her experience personalizes a very real problem here ...
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I have to admit Foer's unique writing style, in this book, was both effective and creative. He uses an almost streaming consciousness, flowing writing to portray Oskar's (a 10-year old genius, yet emotionally traumatized, boy) thoughts and takes on conversations he is having with others. There ...
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Eat, Pray, Love One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia - Elizabeth Gilbert
To sum this book up concisely - it was wonderfully written, by a completely self-absorbed woman. What more can I say?

Gilbert, although an incredibly talented writer, is so ...
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Michael Chabon‘s The Yiddish Policemen‘s Union follows Detective Meyer Landsman‘s investigation of a chess player‘s murder in Sitka, Alaska. The fictional city of Sitka is a temporary settlement given by the US government to the Jewish people after Israel fails in 1948. But ...
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Veronika Decides to Die is another great book from renown author Paulo Coelho. The story line is quite interesting. It starts off on the day that Veronika wakes up cleans her room up, gets everything ready, takes sleeping pills and decides to die. Why she believes that this is the decision to ...
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The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyfee Hall, published in London at the beginning of the 20th century. At the time of this books publishing, it was very controversial. London authorities believed it to be obscene and forbade it to be sold probably because it dealt with the gay and lesbian ...
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a great literary novel published in 1985 by the German novelist Patrick Suskind. This novel takes an interesting turn right from the beginning. It is about scent and the way we perceive it and what it does to our emotions. The story is set in the 18th century ...
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Edward Said was an author and scholar of international reputation. A professor of comparative literature at Columbia University and literary critic, he became widely known, also outside the academic community for his book "Orientalism", a critique on Western scholarship published in ...
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James Lee Burke is without a doubt one of the most talented writers alive today. Best known for his long-runing series of novels with Dave Robicheaux as the troubled protagonist, Burke combines the best elements of an exciting and gritty crime novel with his own social commentary on current and ...
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Master of Horror: Stephen King
Few authors hold the power to captivate and terrify readers as often and as thoroughly as Stephen King. Born September 21, 1947, King began his writing career penning short stories for men’s magazines while working as a high school English teacher ...
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Stolen Innocence tells the story of Elissa Wall, a former member of the fundamentalist Later Day Saints religion, and her life as a member of a polygamous sect. Beginning with her earliest memories, the book takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster as Ellisa rips the lid of secrecy off ...
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"What is the What" is the new novel by Dave Eggers, founder of the magazine and publishing house McSweeneys, Pulitzer Price nominated writer and, since his first bigger appearance at the turn of the millenium, one of America's most promising and most innovative young authors.
After his ...
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His Majesty‘s Dragon
Somewhere on the Atlantic during the Napoleonic Wars: A British frigate under the command of Captain Will Laurence takes a French ship and the British Navy soldiers find a terrific loot, the egg of a dragon.

This egg of an at that point unknown dragon ...
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