Immaculee Ilibagiza's story of survival is both chilling and inspiring. Her humility, faith, and capacity for love and forgiveness carry both her and her readers through the sharing of experiences tha…
Some might argue that there is an over-abundance of fairy tale re-mixes and re-writes these days; that perhaps the genre is overused and overtired. It was with this thought that I reluctantly pi…
I jumped into this book without knowing anything at all about the story. This is what the author wanted, but it wasn't an intentional move on my part. I just knew this book was getting a lot of praise…
Long before Eragon, there was another story written about a dragon rider...
Cornelia Funke penned Dragon Rider in 1997 in German and it was later translated into English after Americ…
I've read numerous books by Lisa Scottoline. For the most part, they seem to run along the same lines, but perhaps I am just too harsh on mystery novels. I often feel, when reading a mystery, tha…
Take Cinderella, one of the best fairytales of all time, but fast forward into the future with androids and cyborgs and you have Cinder. Meyer kept the story true enough to the original that…
"They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat."
Michael Moss' Salt Sugar Fat…
Letters from Skye is a touching and powerful love story. The book is epistolary -- consisting entirely of letters -- and author Jessica Brockmole's words are stunningly beautiful and poetic. Main char…
Many times those who go to war and experience its horror are reluctant to talk about it. They have seen the terror and destruction and choose not to share it. Lone Survivor is a first…
In the final novel of the bestselling Twilight series, almost everything you expect does happen: Bella and Edward get married; Bella becomes a vampire herself; and there’s a confrontation with the Vol…
This novel begins when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated in Sarajevo. The author keeps many of the details of the story as they are in our history books, but instead of the children …
Cuban American Michael Arroyo loves pitching for his Little League team, and he loves watching his favorite pitcher, El Grande, play for the Yankees—but only on TV. He knows they’ll never be able to a…
