If you’ve ever wanted to take a crash course in the sciences, then Astronomy & Natural History Connections: From Darwin to Einstein may just be the book for you. Barry Boyce’s book makes a bold attempt to teach readers about the wonders [...]
What does a dog like more than playing with a new toy? A new friend to play with, of course! In an open field, a black pup happily wags his tail as a raven circles in the sky overhead, watching. The dog suddenly digs up a red ball, its color [...]
Gabriel Hunt and his brother Michael are attending a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art when a beautiful woman carrying a strange bundle makes her way to them. As she approaches, a waiter pulls a gun on her and demands the bundle. While [...]
Professor and archeologist Michael Drake is going over his notes when he receives a life-changing phone call from his brother-in-law Charles. Charles has been going through his late father’s papers and has found an old document that he [...]
Based off the movie How To Train Your Dragon, Dragons: Riders of Berk is a full-color graphic novel about Hiccup and Toothless, and most of the kid characters we now know from the movie. It provides you a guide at the start that gives everyone’s [...]
Like most of us, Flemming Flinders spends a bit of each day dreaming about the fantastic things he reads about in his favorite books. Will he ever have an adventure like the characters do in fairy tales? One day Flemming decides to lock up the [...]
Since the cover displays a redheaded girl in a green dress set against a fog-bathed rocky landscape, when paired with the actual story, it is difficult not to immediately think of the movie Brave. This will sit well or poorly with readers [...]
Jim Mayfield is a very reclusive man. In his family’s cloistered inn in Bear Creek, Pennsylvania, he spends his retirement from NASA whittling rocking chairs and hiding from the world. His isolated life, however, begins to drastically [...]
D. Taylor, creator of the graphic novel Dead Run, is an artist who uses pictures and words to tell a horrifying and gripping tale about a bio-terrorist attack that ravages a city and all who dwell within it. Taylor’s story follows three people [...]
In the summer of 1995, a family of five from Albany, Oregon set out on the adventure of a lifetime. They had volunteered to manage the Mennonite Guest House in Nairobi East Africa for three months. Together they left the comforts of home behind [...]
We all have hobbies. Some people like to collect things. Others like to shop. And some people enjoy travel. Melody Overton, Public Defender by day and Starbucks aficionado by night, has found her hobby…all things Starbucks. Read about her [...]
Tommy Dayton, former lead guitarist of the rock and roll band Currant, is dead. His closest friends, however, are unable to accept that his death was a suicide. In Tommy’s Song, a group led by the tortured Vietnam War veteran and former [...]
Detective Ash Aiken’s assignment to a high profile serial killer case comes soon after he has returned to the job. He took time off to get his head straight after his wife left him. The murderer, called “The Slasher” because of the condition of [...]
This book contains two novellas, The Select and The Orphan. These short stories had me wishing they were full-length books, as each story was so well-written that you feel these kids deserved to have their entire story told, not just a teaser [...]
Gaie Sebold’s novel, Shanghai Sparrow is a masterpiece of tension, combining espionage, magic, and murder on the gritty streets of steampunk London. Eveline Duchen is a thief and a con-artist, eking out a tremulous existence as a pickpocket and [...]
Gabriel Hunt is sharing a drink with a beautiful redhead at the Discoverer’s League Lounge when several men with guns burst in to demand the historic Death’s Head Key from him. Gabriel has just returned from the Amazon with the artifact and is [...]
Book three of the Seven Wonders series sees the same nonstop, fast-paced story as the previous two books. You will find it hard to put this book down once you start reading. Back again are Jack, Cass and Aly, and they are searching for the third [...]
Dell, a former Legionnaire and mercenary, and his wife Dolly, a former battlefield nurse, have settled in a quiet town on the Oregon coast hoping to live in peace. But when a body is found on the beach, they are drawn into a situation that leads [...]
Book Three of the Dharma Detective Series By Gay Hendricks & Tinker Lindsay Hay House, $14.95, 338 pages Private Investigator Tenzing Norbu, a former monk and one-time LA detective, has been hired to solve what seems to be a simple missing [...]
If you like unusual sentences, people who often don’t make sense – or make more sense than not – and short stories that stretch the entire book, then this is your new favorite book. File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents is about Lemony [...]
