by envisionmg | Apr 21, 2015 | Fantasy, Staff Review
Recommended by Linda The Secret Prince is a story of magic, adventure, surprise, fairytale and deception. As an infant, Thorn, is left by a cave entrance and is cared for by an old man. The old man teaches Thorn survival skills and stories of the mean king who took...
by envisionmg | Apr 17, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Carol Early in the 20th century Jewish families were leaving the “old country” for America. Addie Baum’s family was one that settled in Boston in the poor section of the North End. Of three sisters, Addie is the youngest and only born...
by envisionmg | Apr 6, 2015 | Fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Linda Touch & Go is a quick read suspense thriller without a lot of murder and blood. It involves a wealthy Boston family of three who have been kidnapped and hidden in the woods of northern New England. The husband is talented in the fields of...
by envisionmg | Mar 30, 2015 | Non-fiction, Staff Review
Reviewed by Chris Much like the 100th anniversary of the Titanic in 2012 inundated us with retrospectives and movie rereleases, expect a flood of books on the Lusitania for its centenary coming up in May. You may remember the Lusitania from the footnotes of your high...
by envisionmg | Mar 23, 2015 | Fiction, Rachel Reviews, Staff Review
Since seeing all three Swedish adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest) as well as David Fincher’s Oscar-winning adaptation, I’ve felt no real need to...
by envisionmg | Mar 16, 2015 | Historical Fiction, Staff Review
Living in the soot-stained darkness that was Pittsburgh in 1941, John is keen to enlist after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He doesn’t view it as a choice or an option; it’s something he has to do. There is one problem, one impediment to enlisting: his age....
