by ta | May 20, 2008 | Fiction
Have you read about the controversy regarding the Harry Potter Lexicon? Here are some opinions on the issue: From Orson Scott Card From Slate.com From Neil Gaiman What’s your take? Leave a comment. Let us know.
by kimb8 | May 19, 2008 | Fiction, Romance
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading “soul” who has been given...
by radguru | May 8, 2008 | Fiction
Written chronologically in reverse, this new novel by one of my favorite authors keeps the reader guessing. It begins with the wedding preparations of Allie a transplanted American in London. She’s invited her sister to be her maid of honor. Maddy has always...
by ta | May 6, 2008 | Fiction
At night the garden drops below daylight language and murmurs in an older tongue, in voices of wormwood and rue, black cohosh and henbane, reminding me that the plants of the garden attend to me as well as allowing me to attend to them. In the berry patches, orchards...
by ta | May 1, 2008 | Adventure Classics, Fiction
Best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was also a passionate historian, and The White Company was his favorite among his own works. This spirited account of the exploits of a crew of Saxon archers during the Hundred Years War features...
by radguru | Apr 30, 2008 | Fiction, Historical Fiction
The author of Peace Like a River has written another well-crafted novel. Monte Becket is an author whose one book was a huge success. He is under great pressure to write another blockbuster, but has a severe case of writer’s block. His story starts in...