Oct 13, 2011
Imagine what it would be like growing up in a family surrounded by secrecy. Many of your closest relatives are part of an organization that supports people who have been born with a gene that allows t...
Oct 7, 2011
Dellie's family has been wracked by the death of her brother. Her parents, who have been in counseling for months, are struggling to keep going. Her mother, has become distant and over-protective of D...
Oct 7, 2011
Depending on your point of view, Matthew Bannon is either really lucky or really unlucky. One day while coming home from class at his art school, he comes across a violent assassination, which is assu...
Oct 1, 2011
Richard Feynman is one of the unsung heroes of physics. Few people, including myself before this reading, would have recognized his name, yet he worked on the Manhattan Project, won the Novel Prize in...
Sept 27, 2011
This is really a great presentation of how parental expectations really can affect our life choices. Dennis Ouyang is really having a hard time living up to his deceased fathers expectations to study ...
Sept 27, 2011
This book is the sequel to the popular How the States Got Their Shapes, which went state by state in order to define how their various borders came about. I thought that was really interesting and was...
Sept 26, 2011
It's not easy being a teenager, particularly when you are a Russian immigrant hoping to be just like the other kids at school. Anya Borzkovskaya has worked really hard to fit in: she learned to speak ...
Sept 26, 2011
Readers are transported back in time to ancient Rome during the time of Julius Caeser with this novel presented as a piece written by Tiro, a slave owned by Marcus Cicero. Tiro, a real historical pers...
Sept 26, 2011
I ended up checking out this book because I was hoping to get to know the town in which I am working better. Balfour has created a really nice overview of the history of the town, including informatio...
Sept 26, 2011
Finn Whitman along with his friends Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck, who were hired to model Disney Host Interactive hologram guides for the parks at Disney World are back for another adventure i...
Sept 17, 2011
This is the third installment in one of Turtledove's more recent series: The War That Came Early. The concept behind the series is a proposal to look at what might have happened if the Nazis, under th...
Sept 14, 2011
After having given her readers a look at the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of the Yorkish Queen Elizabeth Woodville in the first book in the Cousins' War series, Gregory introduces her fans to Ma...
Sept 5, 2011
While Brent Hartinger is best known for his realistic fiction, particularly works with strong GLBTQQ characters, his newest work explores the realm of paranormal mysteries. Set on Hinder Island, a sma...
Sept 5, 2011
Nina Bloom would seem to have a dream life. She has a successful career as a lawyer. She has a teenaged girl getting ready to head off to college with a good chance of getting into Brown University. E...
Sept 4, 2011
Stephanie Plum and the gang are back for another adventure. Bodies are turning up in the empty lot next to the bail bonds office her cousin Vincent Plum owns. Since this is the place where Stephanie w...
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