Friday, August 5, 2011

Lost City Radio

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Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon Harper Collins, 2007. 257 pgs. Fiction For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a pe...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Belly Button Bliss

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Belly Button Bliss: A Small Collection of Happy Birth Stories Edited by Jennifer Derryberry Mann Fairview Press, 2010. 104 pgs. Nonfiction...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Divergent

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Divergent By Veronica Roth Katherine Tegen Books, 2011. 487 pgs. Young Adult Chicago is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the sel...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Aurelia

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Aurelia By Anne Osterlund Speak, 2008. 246 pgs. Young Adult Aurelia, the crown princess of Tyralt, wants control over her own life. Rob...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Stone's Fall

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Stone’s Fall By Iain Pears Spiegel & Grau, 2009. 594 pgs. Mystery This story begins in 1909 in London and moves successively back in...

Say You're One of Them

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Say You’re One of Them By Uwem Akpan Little, Brown and Co., 2008. 358 pgs. Fiction This collection of five stories brings home the p...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Ginseng Hunter: A Novel

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The Ginseng Hunter By Jeff Talarigo Nan A. Talese, 2008. 177 pgs. Fiction The Ginseng Hunter is set in China just across the border ...

The Royal Treatment

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The Royal Treatment By Lindsey Leavitt Disney/Hyperion Books, 2011. 264 pgs. Young Adult Desi Bascomb is still working as a substitute p...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Ammon

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Ammon by H.B. Moore Covenant, 2011. 288 pgs. Fiction With the fire of newfound testimony, Ammon and his brethren leave Zarahemla to pre...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Courting Miss Amsel

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Courting Miss Amsel By Kim Vogel Sawyer Bethany House, 2011. 346 pages. Romance Edythe Amsel is the new schoolteacher in Walnut Grove, a...

Blood Red Road

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Blood Red Road By Moira Young Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2011. 459 pgs. Young Adult In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kid...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Blindsided

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Blindsided By Priscilla Cummings Dutton Children's Books, 2010. 226 pgs. Young Adult Natalie O'Reilly has been losing her sight ...

Lost Encyclopedia

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Lost Encyclopedia By Paul Terry and Tara Bennett Dorling Kindersley, 2010. 386 pgs. Nonfiction Featuring over 1500 images, the Lost Ency...

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries—What am I Doing in the Pits?

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If Life is a Bowl of Cherries—What am I Doing in the Pits? By Erma Bombeck Recorded Books, 2002. Nonfiction In this collection of heartw...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Prophecy

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Prophecy: An Historical Thriller By S.J. Parris Doubleday, 2011. 375 pgs. Mystery. Giordano Bruno returns in this second installation o...
Friday, July 22, 2011

A Young Wife

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A Young Wife By Pam Lewis Simon & Schuster, 2011. 289 pgs. Historical Fiction. Based loosely on the life of the author’s grandmothe...

The Mozart Conspiracy

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The Mozart Conspiracy By Scott Mariani Simon & Schuster, 2011. 337 pgs. Fiction. As a former British SAS officer, Ben Hope has a val...

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World By Jennifer Armstrong Crown, 1998. 133 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and h...

The Sons of Liberty

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The Sons of Liberty By Alexander Lagos and Christopher Lagos Random House Children's Books, 2010. 1 volume (unpaged). Young Adult Br...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin Little, Brown 2011. 371 pgs. Nonfiction Last year I read Peter God...

Eona: The Last Dragoneye

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Eona: The Last Dragoneye By Allison Goodman Viking, 2011. 637 pgs. Young Adult In this sequel to Eon , Eona and Lord Ido are the only tw...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

What Can't Wait

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What Can't Wait By Ashley Hope Perez Carolrhoda LAB, 2011. 234 pgs. Young Adult Marisa Moreno has dreams bigger than her Mexican-Ame...

Genoa Bay

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Genoa Bay By Bette Nordberg Monarch Books, 2009. 319 pgs. Fiction There is a quote from the book Genoa Bay that states, "Grief has ...

My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business

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My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business: A Memoir By Dick Van Dyke Crown Archtype, 2011. 287 pgs. Biography His father feared that he ...

Accomplice

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Accomplice By Eireann Corrigan Scholastic Press, 2010. 296 pgs. Young Adult After attending a college prep seminar where an advisor info...

When the Black Girl Sings

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When the Black Girl Sings By Bil Wright Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008. 266 pgs. Young Adult Lahni is an African Ame...

Trespasser

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Trespasser by Paul Doiron Minotaur Books, 2011. 310 pgs. Mystery. When game warden Mike Bowditch is called out late one night for a car/...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Emperors of the Ice

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Emperors of the Ice By Richard Farr Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. 217 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction Aspley Cherry-Garrard, a.k.a. Cherr...

Hidden

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Hidden By Helen Frost Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. 147 pgs. Young Adult When she was a child, Wren was huddled in the back seat of her fa...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Delirium

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Delirium By Lauren Oliver Harper, 2011. 441 pgs. Young Adult In a future United States, love has been classified as a deadly disease, ca...