Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

The Love Dare

The Love DareThe Love Dare Unconditional love is eagerly promised at weddings, but rarely practiced in real life. As a result, romantic hopes are often replaced with disappointment in the home. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.The Love Dare, as featured in the popular ne ...

Breaking Dawn

Breaking DawnBreaking Dawn Now, how do I write a review about this book without giving too much away to both readers who have yet to read the Twilight saga and those who are about to read it, whichever book they're currently at? Tough. What's not tough though is telling you h ...

The Shack

The ShackThe Shack Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his ...

Brisingr

BrisingrBrisingr OATHS SWORN . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the R ...

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (Unabridged)

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution  and How It Can Renew America (Unabridged)Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America (Unabridged) Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges ...

New Moon

New MoonNew Moon I loved this book even more than the first one! The whole series is great. These books got me hooked in a way few books can, i couldn't think of anything else until i had finished all 4. Now i'm just disappointed that i have finished them all, so i h ...

The Last Lecture

The Last LectureThe Last Lecture My mother read ths book and passed it on to me. I read it and passed it on to my sixteen year old daughter. She read it and passed it on to a friend. Randy Pausch is (I say is and not was because I believe he is still with us in so many ways) a remar ...

Eclipse

EclipseEclipse First of all, I would like to preface this review with a concession (so two stars). I really did like the first book and I had high hopes that the characters would grow and mature. Much to my dismay they did not, well one in particular. Bella. She is ...

Twilight

TwilightTwilight ...

Edgar Sawtelle

Edgar SawtelleEdgar Sawtelle Author John Wroblewski has woven a brilliant, absorbing story that is worthy of a major book award. His handling of descriptive detail in creating graphic local color settings, his intriguing use of the points of view-primarily those of the mute boy ...