4/11/2005
A strong debut novel from a young author.
In Miranda, Beverly Whittemore's "The Effects of Light" controversy erupts and lives are forever altered when a widowed academician allows his two young daughters to pose nude for a series of photographs. Myla Rose Wolfe and her younger sibling, Prudence May, known to the public only as "Rose" and...
3/7/2005
Fact or fiction? The life of Ray Bradbury is a magical blend of both.
Live forever! Mr. Electrico cried, tapping a young Ray Bradbury on the shoulder with his sword. Static electricity jumped from the mysterious carnival performer to the imaginative mama's boy that day, and thus a great American writer was born.
8/24/2004
Some wild things were never meant to be tamed.
Then she and the coyote stood. Studying each other. Sizing each other up. Weighing their options. Their fears. Their desires.
8/8/2003
A by-the-numbers walking mummy, teen horror movie with some kinky twists.
Richard Laymon's TO WAKE THE DEAD is a by-the-numbers walking mummy, teen horror movie with some kinky twists.During a bungled robbery, the seal of Osiris has been broken on the coffin of Amara, Princess of Egypt and supposed wife of the evil god Set. Now the red-haired mummy with a great set of...
7/23/2003
An engrossing psychological suspense novel with a struggling hero worth cheering for and one of the most fascinating villains ever penned.
Hold my hand, look into my heart, let me see into yours. Unearth my demons and help me exorcise them from my soul . . .A brutal series of killings is terrorizing the nation. The Highway Killer slashes his victims' throats without any apparent struggle on their parts and then respectfully disposes...
7/1/2003
Fans of Simon Brett will heartily enjoy this cozy whodunit.
Esmond Chadleigh: the late great poet, children's author, essayist and fantasy writer, has a skeleton in his closet. To be more precise, an almost 90 year old skeleton with a gun shot wound to the back of its head is found buried in the kitchen garden of Chadleigh's Bracketts House while the ground...
6/24/2003
Fabijancic spins a fascinating tale
Destroyed bridges in the former Yugoslavia are heavily symbolic. Many of them aren't being rebuilt, and that says something too.
6/3/2003
A well-researched first novel with much potential.
In Boston immediately following the Civil War an unusual alliance is formed. The Dante Club's sole purpose is to translate Dante's The Divine Comedy from the Italian into American English and thus introduce it to the reading public. Noted poet and Harvard professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow takes...
5/6/2003
Best-selling author Debbie Ford doesn't beat around the bush
Can you judge a book by its cover? In this instance you safely can. The title, The Right Questions: Ten Essential Questions to Guide You to an Extraordinary Life accurately sums up the contents of this petite volume.
4/14/2003
An honest, no-punches-pulled biography.
We analyze their tactics constantly. We second-guess their decisions. We criticize them frequently. We love them when they win. We cast them off without a backward glance when they lose. One can't help but take sides when it comes to debating the good and the bad of American football coaches....
