by Site Owner | Sep 20, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
by Vera Caspary Edited by AB Emrys Crippen & Landru Publishers, $19.00, 240 pages The Murder in the Stork Club is a collection of mystery novellas by Vera Caspary, a 1940s writer more known for her screenplays, especially for her adaptation of her novel Laura. The...
by Site Owner | Aug 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
by Richard Yancey Minotaur Books, $24.99, 240 pages The Highly Effective Detective Crosses the Line is the fourth in the series and begins with a PI who isn’t exactly a PI—he lost his license. Private Investigator Teddy Ruzak skates on the edge of the rules with his...
by Site Owner | Aug 3, 2011 | Tweens
Elvira Woodruff Scholastic, $16.99, 240 pages Four boys lead ordinary lives of campouts, homework, and new sneakers…except for that time an old rowboat transported them to Revolutionary War times. They swore never to go near the boat again — until one...
by Site Owner | Jul 30, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Nature, Outdoors & Animals
by Kathryn Lasky Candlewick Press, $16.99, 64 pages Spiders. Yuck. Although that’s most people’s reaction, Silk and Venom shows readers the world of spiders through the eyes of Greta Binford, an arachnologist. The book explores how Binford’s childhood and schooling...
by Site Owner | Jul 30, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
By Michelle Knudsen Candlewick Press, $15.99, 32 pages Sally’s class has a great big science project: they’re hatching eggs. But right from the beginning Sally knows something is different about her egg. And her “chick” Argus doesn’t look or act like any of the other...
