Tenacious Tris and gang continue their high-stakes venture in Veronica Roth's New York Times Best Seller Insurgent. This second book in the dystopian Divergent trilogy begins minutes after the first b…
Italy. The mere mention of the name invokes images and feelings, even for those of us who have never been there. The focus of The Girl in the Glass is Florence, Italy, a place full of magnif…
This Dark Endeavor is the first book in the planned The Dark Endeavor Chronicles Series by Kenneth Oppel. This book has been written as a prequel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, incorporating younger …
The Enchanted Truth: A Modern-Day Fairytale for Grown-up Girls is a gift book. A short fable with a moral, it is perfect for that friend right after a break-up. Petrie's voice i…
The second installment in Patterson's 'Maximum Ride: The Fugitives' series picks up right where the first book left off. Almost right away the reader is thrown into the fast-paced action of the stor…
What teenage girl wouldn't die to be given the opportunity to be on a reality television show to potentially become prom date to the President of the United States' hotty son? Well, Addy, for one. She…
In this first book of a (completed) four book series called The Homelander Series, Andrew Klavan hooks the reader with immediate page-turning suspense. It became so intense in a few spots that I kept …
When Ellie gets in a terrible car crash, the perfect life of the perfect girl is shattered. Her life suddenly becomes fragile and she quickly discovers who her real friends are and who truly loves her…
Danny the Champion of the World is a story about a father and son. Of course, that is not all it's about, but the relationship between them is so strong that it is likely to be what readers…
Anna Quindlen covers much of what makes up our everyday lives between the covers of Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. She points out that what we keep on our refrigerator denotes what decade…
In Darkness is anything but an easy read. The storyline moves between the violent, gritty, and often hopeless streets of modern Haiti—where gangs rule and the United Nations offers very little he…
Take a huge landfill and populate it with lots of interesting characters who make a living picking through its heaps and the setting for The Rent Collectoris laid. Much like a garbage heap the story …
