by Retired Reviewer | Aug 21, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children'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 grocery store that he...
by Retired Reviewer | Aug 21, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, Young Adult
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 thinking of picking up this...
by Retired Reviewer | Aug 20, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Comics & Graphic Novels
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 as they experience the...
by Retired Reviewer | Aug 20, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
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 and traded it all in...