 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
February 11, 2008
Embraced by the Shadows by Mayra Calvani. Twilight Times Books, 2007Sadash, the vampire, first notices Alana Piovanetti while she vacations with her family in Istanbul. She is very young, a child really, but he is drawn to her. Three hundred years ago he would not have hesitated to drink of her ..
February 10, 2008
"Where the Wild Things Are" is one of the most popular picture books of all time exemplifying Sendak's incredible knowledge of the textual narrative through illustration. The cover of this book is interesting for it does not show the protagonist at all but the wild things slumbering with a ship in ..
February 07, 2008
Motor Mouth is a humorous and enticing story about NASCAR racing and the adventures of a few teams that chose to find trouble, both with NASCAR and other racing teams. Included in this story are spotters that work from rooftops telling their drivers when to move, mechanics that maintain not only ..
February 04, 2008
Dr. Ron Paul has published a new book this year, entitled “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property," which contains an extensive compilation of his thoughts on economics and presents an excellent opportunity for a special book review. This the first installment of ..
January 31, 2008
Get the help you need without spending a lot of dough. People are searching for all types of answers to all types of problems, and many want easy low cost solutions. You can get lots of free help on the internet if you have time on your hands to spend freely. One of the best places to get low cost ..
January 31, 2008
In The Mission Song John le Carré re-visits the world of espionage that we associate with his writing. He is a master of the clandestine, the deniable, the re-definable. Bruno Salvador is a freelance linguist. His parentage is complex, his origins confused, but his skills beyond question. By virtue .
January 29, 2008
Hundreds of free ebooks are available online, but what is the best free e-book on prosperity? Of course, “the best" is always a relative term, and in the end it comes down to which book resonates most with you. Having said that, we'll briefly review three of the most popular prosperity ebooks .
January 25, 2008
Joy the Jellyfish has a very serious problem. More than anything, he wants to make friends. But how on earth can he make friends when he's nearly invisible!He tries to get the attention of the other Great Barrier Reef companions--Amy Anemone, a school of sea horses, Gantian the Great White Shark, ..
January 25, 2008
Michael Webb, known as the Most Romantic Man in the World, has written a lot of relationship books on everything from dating, proposals, through romance, to lovemaking. This article will review some of Michael Webb's books.500 Lovemaking TipsThis Michael Webb book deals with one of the most ..
January 25, 2008
Sacrifice, the Ultimate Cost of Payback and Vengeance"Voice of Conscience" is a strong first novel. Behcet Kaya writes of a people and culture which is often misunderstood by those influenced primarily by Western thinking. Behcet acquaints the reader with of a mores steeped in traditions and ..
January 24, 2008
This book takes a good look at the evolving and changing world of siege warfare during the Middle Ages. But it is not a dry and scholarly look at the subject. It is clearly written in a normal tone and aimed at the average reader. And it comes complete with around 50 drawings and photographs of ..
January 23, 2008
I wrote this review to help guys who are interested in attracting and dating any hot women they like to make sound decision on whether or not to invest their money on the ebook. This article is quite long, but I think it is definitely worth the time you take to read if you are interested in buying ..
January 21, 2008
“American society today" is a book which was written in 8 chapters in English by Edward Ashbee.He is the head of Social Studies at Denstone College, Staffordshire. Ashbee is also the co-author of US Politics Today and The Politics Today Companion to American Government. The book was ..
January 11, 2008
The author brings back The Camel Club, a group of four men who together fight corruption within our government. Each member has or has had a connection with the government through one job or another and becomes very irritated when things go wrong that shouldn't. The club's unofficial leader is ..
January 11, 2008
Things were not going very well for NYPD Lieutenant James Moran. He had been through a failed marriage when his wife decided to “redefine" herself in California. For the next four years he lived a very lonely life. He thought his career was over when his knee was shattered by an assailant's ..
January 10, 2008
Inspired by Coretta Scott-King, who chose to be treated with homeopathic medicine before her death, Dana Ullman, MPH was driven to research how many famous people and notable figures have pursued homeopathy as an alternative to conventional medicine. As the practical "gateway" to understanding the ..
January 09, 2008
It may seem strange to think that there is some question as to what constitutes a children's book for many after all this would seem like a question with an obvious answer. A children's book was after all created for children. However Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain one of the books considered to be .
January 08, 2008
Have you ever taken the time to read “Think And Grow Rich" by Napolean Hill? If you are on the quest to become a millionaire or become a successful entrepreneur this book is highly recommended. It is book that inspires and motivates anyone who has lost their hope for ever becoming rich in ..
January 07, 2008
According to mythology, Zeus raped the princess Europa on the small island of Matala, so it is the ideal setting for Holden's dark, erotic, noir-thriller. Filled with tough, cynical characters, Matala is a short, crisp read that demonstrates the sharp contrast between the haves and have nots. The ..
January 07, 2008
Are you having trouble getting people to buy what you are selling? Read this book. Let's say you already know that to be successful marketing your business you need to identify your audience's problems and show why you have the best solutions. Isn't that good enough?David Sandler (who created the ..
January 06, 2008
On May 31, 1889 an earthen dam on the Little Conemaugh River gave way after torrential rains and washed Johnstown, a small community east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania off the face of the earth. McCullough published his work on the disaster in 1968, for which he was able to interview survivors, ..
January 04, 2008
Audio books have changed the reading habits of avid book readers. Several online shopping portals have great deal of latest books compiled in CDs and Vices. These book are designed to enhance innovative method of learning. Listening is quite easy compared to reading hence; the compilation CD ..
January 04, 2008
There are thousands of online shopping portals which provide books on every subject. You can select from the fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, thriller, comedy, horror, crime, mystery, science fiction and many more. Accompanied with several benefits and discounts, you can find best deals on the latest .
January 03, 2008
As I re-read Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad for the third time, I began to realize a ton of GEMS in there!In fact, I began to realize that classics like this and others such as Think And Grow Rich had been read by people often more than once in order to extract the precious nuggets of ..
January 03, 2008
It's fifty years since A Room At The Top first appeared. Against a backdrop of post-war Britain, a period when people really did believe that a new future, a different kind of society was just around the corner, Joe Lampton, born January 1921, aspired to social and economic elevation. Though ..
January 03, 2008
The Statement by Brian Moore is a little more than a pursuit thriller. I stress a little more because it genuinely transcends the "who's going to do it" genre, though overall it misses an opportunity to address some important and potentially fascinating ideas.Pierre Brossard is the original, but ..
January 02, 2008
In his Afterword, Brian Herbert wrote that he had already started working with Kevin J. Anderson when his father's sequel to Chapterhouse: Dune was discovered. In Dune 7, the writing duo finally found Frank Herbert's vision of the series so they could write the prequel with confidence they were ..
December 31, 2007
Manhunt is a very humorous story of a rich woman, Alexandra Scott, who makes an exchange of her lavish condominium in New York for a cabin and hardware store in the Alaska wilds. Was she crazy? Sometimes she wondered but since most of what she owed on her condo was still mortgaged, she thought this .
December 31, 2007
Napoleon Hill (1883 - 1970) was an American author and one of the earliest producers of personal-success literature. Think and Grow Rich, his most famous work, is one of the best-selling books of all time.Hill's major principle was that “people are free to believe what they want to believe". ..
December 26, 2007
Mary Thorne Randall's Search for Self Fulfillment: Key West in the Mid-19th CenturyJane Louise Newhagen has created a poignant, story. “Sand Dollar" is a remarkable fictional account of the life of Mary Thorne Randall. The novel portrays the struggles facing a woman in the middle years of the .
December 26, 2007
Reminiscent of Tom Brokaw's observations on small town life, Phillip A. Nickel mixes quirky humor with straight forward annotations. He uses a mix of warm friendly humor with and edge of irreverent mockery. Phil writes with a unique sense of word play that had me rolling with laughter. I enjoyed ..
December 26, 2007
The photography book, Magnum is a massive book which is over 500 pages long and features over 400 images that show the latter half of 20th Century and photography by modern masters. The book also features the biographies of all the featured photographers. This is sure to become one of the great ..
December 21, 2007
The 1920s in America was a decade of rebellion, reform, and reaction as traditional Victorian values came under attack from all sides. When various groups of intellectuals, blacks, feminists, and dissatisfied economic and political groups assaulted on Victorianism.Through a descriptive writing ..
December 20, 2007
Our Book of Month pick for December 2007 is One Thousand White Women, The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus. The story is built around the historical event of the 1854 Fort Laramie Peace Conference in which a highly decorated Cheyenne Chief requested 1000 white women from the US Government. His ..
December 20, 2007
Isn't that the most “in your face" title you have ever heard? And so is Lynn Grabhorn's writing style. From the moment I opened the book, to the very last page, I was tickled with wonder, billowing over forward from laughter and agreeing with right-on's, high-fives and “go girlfriend" ..
December 20, 2007
The more contemporary books I read about the law of attraction the more I feel the need to go back and read books written much before our time. The book of Wallace D. Wattles, ‘The Science of Getting Rich’ was written in 1910. After having read this book and taken notes of it I can say ..
December 19, 2007
Set in 1912, Anne Sloan's “Murder on the Boulevard" gives the reader a rather intimate look into the city of Houston, Texas during the years before WWI and the time of suffragettes. For those who are familiar with present-day Houston will enjoy reading about well-known street names and the ..
December 17, 2007
The new release from author Barbara Worton is a delicious mix of miniature stories, poems and incidental thoughts for you to ponder. “BedTime Stories: The short, long and tall tales of a sleepwriter" cannot be labeled or placed neatly into a box and that is the beauty of it.Sleep is an ..
December 17, 2007
1. Will we see any story lines from the TV series show up in any of your future short stories?No. The show and the books are two separate creative endeavours. The creators of the show have paid for the right to use the five Vicki Nelson books as the basis for Blood Ties but it doesn't work in the ..
December 16, 2007
Elizabeth Samet, a civilian professor, teaches English at West Point. She began teaching there in 1997.The author really noticed a big change at West Point after the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States. She observed many changes in both the students and the curriculum.The book covers ..
December 16, 2007
Just imagine how it would be if the Greek Gods were around today living in our modern world. Through the imagination of Marie Phillips we are taken along for a ride to see what it would be like.The twelve Greek Gods are living in London in quarters that are not in the best condition. They don't ..
December 14, 2007
When rock stars write, pens and keyboards hide; not in Patti Smith's case, however. Patti Smith is a poet through and through, and I believe she is more of a poet than a musician. Her poetry is both concrete and abstract, yet powerful, lyrical, and poignant, and she can draw word pictures that come .
December 13, 2007
You are sitting there, reading this review so I take it that you have heard about Niche Marketing On Crack. By now, you might be considering to read this e-book, but you feel like you need a review without all that hype talk before you decide to take the book or not take the book.That is smart of ..
December 12, 2007
In 1684, the body of a young woman, who had been violated horribly, is found in a New England river. The tagline of the book states that the story is based on an actual unsolved murder from Colonial American records. However, Mistress Coffin reads more like historical literature than a murder ..
December 12, 2007
Hard Body Success is the new book written by Scott Abbett which claims to be the answer to all man's fitness problems. The revolutionary book gives tips on how to considerably improve body physique whilst spending just 2% of your time each month exercising.There are countless advertisements for ..
December 11, 2007
Unless by Carol Shields has been my third novel in a row written from the perspective of a self-analytical, self-critical and perhaps self-obsessed female narrator, the other being by Margaret Drabble and Anne Enright. Maybe Carol Shields drew the short straw, because I felt that Reta, the ..
December 11, 2007
Stephen V. Masse combines a flair for writing an imaginative creative plot with colorful conversation and believable, likable characters. In “A Jolly Good Fellow" Duncan Wagner, a professional Santa Claus, who supports himself from the proceeds of his “beggar's kettle," plots a ..
December 11, 2007
Born in Philadelphia, Rob Costelloe started writing fiction at age eight. He began writing science fiction, but after high school, his writing interests changed. While attending Drexel University, he composed a series of novellas, most of them love stories set against the backdrop of World War II. ..
December 11, 2007
When I received the “Coinage of Commitment" by R. Costelloe, I first read the media release accompanying it. The book was described as a rare love story, written by a man to explore the zenith of true love. Needless to say, I was really excited -- good love stories are few and far-between and .
December 10, 2007
Way to man's heart is his stomach. Cooking good food is an art. However, not all are blessed with the talent but one can always perfect it by watching cookery shows and reading cook books.Gino D'Acampo's Fantastico is a great book to learn different delicacies in simple ways. This book consists of ..
| | |
Arts & Entertainment