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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Reviewed By: Jim A boy who lived in a paradise, primitive but capable of meeting all his needs as far as he was concerned becomes embroiled in travesty turning him into a killing machine and freezing his soul. This is enough to not only capture a reader’s imagination, but to be curious as to how such a story could be real. And real it most assuredly is! This book was a devastating, intriguing and humbling look into a young boy’s, actually a child’s life. A boy, who because of circumstances not in his… [ Read More... ] |
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A New Lu Reviewed By: Nicole Lu is about to turn 50, has recently been divorced, and is helping to plan her grown daughter's upcoming wedding. When she discovers that she's pregnant with her ex-husband's child she is needless to say, less than ecstatic! Her daughter, Dallas, isn't much help either when she finds out that her mother will huge by the time of the wedding! And the fifty something magazine that Lu works for is shocked by the news. Ah what is girl to do? [ Read More... ] |
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A Year of Magical Thinking Suggested By: Kat Imagine that your husband of almost 40 years suddenly dies at the dinner table of a massive heart attack. Then, while dealing with this terrible loss, your only child lies ill in ICU. This was author Joan Didion's life two years ago. She lost the love of her life, her best friend and editor, and then suffered another loss, her only child. How can anyone cope with these type of losses? Didion approaches it the only way she can, to write about it. If you have ever experienced… [ Read More... ] |
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Among the Hidden Suggested By: Jess Luke, an illegal third child, is forced to hide out in an attic for his whole life, until he meets Jen, annother third child, who gets him to really think about his rights as an illegal person and forces him to step far out of his comfort zone. [ Read More... ] |
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An Ace Minus One Suggested By: Tim Morrisroe The historical fiction is set primarily during the Great War. Young Jack Elliot escapes the law in Minnesota by fleeing to Europe where he finds himself drivng an ambulance on the Western Front. Craving further adventure, he volunteers to fly aeroplanes with a French squadron. This novel is historically accurate, with plenty of authentic combat aviation sequences. The plot is fast-paced and the dialogue tinged with black humor. The author is a former Air Force pilot with a deep knowledge… [ Read More... ] |
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Angle of Repose A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a New England woman who moves across the country to a remote coal mining town in the Sierra Nevada region. Her unique life story is narrated one hundred years later by her grandson, a retiring historian, who now finds himself living in her home in Grass Valley facing his own life issues. [ Read More... ] |
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Better Off : Flipping the Switch on Technology Reviewed By: Angela Better Off is an entertaining and interesting read about one M.I.T. graduate’s quest to test his theory that technology has made our lives more stressful and complicated. As a project of his thesis, Eric Brende and his new bride, Mary, go off to live with an Anabaptist community for 18 months. During those months, Brende exchanged labor for housing; learned to grow, harvest and sell pumpkins and sorghum for income; helped with barn raisings; and experienced many other non-technological… [ Read More... ] |
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Birthright Reviewed By: Stephanie What would you do if you found out your life was a lie? Archaeologist Callie Bunbrook loves bones, which is what pulls her to Woodsboro excavation site. But then Jake Graystone shows up (Callie’s ex-husband) to head the anthropology side of the dig. A woman claims to know that Callie is her kidnapped daughter Jessica. Callie’s life is thrown into chaos. Callie starts to investigate her kidnapping, only to have someone try anything, including murder, to stop her. Will she continue… [ Read More... ] |
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Blue Smoke Suggested By: Stephanie In this novel, Nora Roberts lights up Baltimore's Little Italy with this story of love, family, food and arson. This story begins when a young girl named Reena witnesses a tragic fire and then fast-forwards a few years. It skips quickly over spans of years and then focuses on Reena's progess in becoming an arson investigator. [ Read More... ] |
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Blue Water Reviewed By: Susan Meg and Rex Van Dorn's lives are forever changed when a drunk driver kills the couple's six-year-old. The driver is one of Meg's best friends. This is the story of two families united by tragedy - a solid novel on themes of grief and loss. Join the Clive Book Club on Tuesday, September 26th at 7:00 p.m. for a discussion on this novel. [ Read More... ] |
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Breaking a Leg Suggested By: Carrie Lewis I don't know, this is supposed to be a book about acting which I am interested in and I read some of it online and it looked interesting so I would like to read the whole thing. Thank you! [ Read More... ] |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Suggested By: Sam A Funny book about a little boy whose dreams come true at a magical chocolate factory [ Read More... ] |
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Chasing Vermeeer Reviewed By: JJ Suggested By: JJ A famous Vermmer paimting is stolen, and two sixth graders are drawn together by the strange coincidences occuring prior and after the theft. Can they rescue the painting before it's destroyed, and figure out why such odd things are happening? [ Read More... ] |
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Cruncy Cons Reviewed By: Angela Crunchy Cons is a term that Rod Dreher uses to describe a conservative leaning group that is focused on traditionalism. A group that holds traditionalist thinkers, such as Russell Kirk, in high esteem and would like to see American values revert back to days of the old Republican regime. Although they believe in conservation; local business/small business; personal mobility versus reliance on big oil and the wisdom of the Slow Food movement they separate themselves from the liberal… [ Read More... ] |
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Defiance Reviewed By: C.K. Toby Steiner wants to be regular. He wants to be a normal kid. Nothing will ever make him want to go back to the hospital to treat his cancer, making him even more sick. While going on a bike ride, he meets a 94-year-old woman named Pearl and becomes her best friend. Pearl believes that she can talk with a cow named Blossom, while reading poetry to her, and Toby finally understands the true meaning of life. This is one of the best books I have ever read. [ Read More... ] |
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Dizzy City Reviewed By: Charlie This is a fascinating story that offers an inside look into the strategy and detailed planning used by the shrewdest of con men. Ben Cramb is a British soldier who is severely wounded and demoralized by the horrible trench warfare in France during WWI. When his three close friends are killed he deserts the army, stows aboard a ship and finds himself in New York City. Once there he meets a master con man who becomes his friend and mentor, teaching him to exploit others for financial… [ Read More... ] |
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Dr. Mary's Monkey Suggested By: Allan Mattsson Dr. Mary's Monkey should be read by everybody. Presently a controversial flu vaccine is being grown using cancerous monkey cells. Millions of people were injected, or took it orally, in the late 1950's and early 1960's; these doses of polio vaccines carried the SV40 monkey virus, which causes multiple kinds of cancer. Today, most people now have SV40 monkey virus in their systems, but only in this book will you find the reason why it was covered up, and its links to secret… [ Read More... ] |
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Echo Park Reviewed By: Charlie This is another in the series of Harry Bosch detective novels. Harry has come out of retirement and returned to the unsolved murder section of the Los Angeles Police Department. Thirteen years ago a young woman name Marie Gleseo was murdered and the crime remained unsolved. The case has surfaced again and a person accused of two recent murders has confessed to several additional crimes, including the murder of Marie. Harry and his current police partner become involved with some brutal… [ Read More... ] |
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Elsewhere Reviewed By: Nicole Fifteen-year-old Liz wakes up to find herself on a boat to Elsewhere a place where everyone ages backwards. Liz will never see her sixteenth birthday, get her driver's license, or go to prom because next year she will fourteen! How did she get here and is there anyway to get back home? Nominated for the 2007-2008 Iowa Teen Award. [ Read More... ] |
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Fairest of Them All Reviewed By: Nicole Imagine having gorgeous blonde hair and being the most beautiful girl in school; not only that but you have just landed the lead role in a major movie production! Suddenly your hair begins falling out, your movie contract is cancelled and your mother can’t stand to look at you! Will this be the end of everything you have dreamed of? [ Read More... ] |
