by Site Owner | Jan 19, 2012 | Science Fiction
by Emily Diamand The Chicken House, $17.99, 368 pages In the future, London is toast. There is nothing beyond Great Britain. Travel is limited to small skiffs and battle schooners. Computers are evil and tribal clans rule. Flood and Fire follows Raiders’ Ransom,...
by Site Owner | Dec 19, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
by Ry Cooder City Lights Publishers, $15.95, 224 pages Big on character, high on mood, these seven stories by musician and composer Ry Cooder are jagged depictions of a high-noir, post-war, fringe-centered Los Angeles. Famous for collaborations with traditional...
by Site Owner | Nov 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Relationships & Sex
by John & Stasi Eldredge Waterbrook Press, $14.99, 224 pages Subtitled Find Your Way to Something Beautiful in Your Marriage, this husband and wife couple have found considerable joy along the bumpy road that marriage can take between a man and a woman. Told...
by Site Owner | Oct 6, 2011 | Science Fiction, Young Adult
by Marlene Perez Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $7.99, 242 pages Daisy has two psychic sisters, her boyfriend’s a werewolf and her boss is invisible. In book five of the “DEAD IS…” series a lot is paranormal. In her last year of high school, Daisy and her classmates want...
by Site Owner | Oct 5, 2011 | Young Adult
by Anne-Laure Bondoux, translated by Y. Maudet Delacorte Books for Young Readers, $17.99, 180 pages Over a five-year journey, a young boy and the woman who pulled him from a train wreck, travel through the collapsing Soviet Union on their way back to France. This...