Review:Granted our library doesn’t get all that many new scary ebooks, but a ghost sticker for this one is a real reach. In fact, it’s a mystery while this gets any classification but drama, although I can see how that came to be. Premise…late 1990s, small town Iowa, video store rental tapes suddenly start showing footage that isn’t part of the original, more like someone’s surveillance tapes. Ok, yeah, that does sound spooky, but I promise you there’s a perfectly logical explanation for this, ok maybe... Read more

Review:Back in 1968, a book entitled The Population Bomb, written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich, fueled paranoia and help perpetuate the myth of overpopulation. Harry Harrison's visionary novel Make Room, Make Room preceded this non-fiction work, but capitalized on the urban overcrowding zeitgeist and he succeeded. The book at the core is a Sci-fi detective story with a murder to solve against a clau... Read more

Review:Neal Shusterman really has a knack for writing Young Adult books that resonate with a much wider audience. I started reading "Bruiser" thinking I knew what the plot was going to be - I was WRONG. I hadn't read any of the promo materials and so had no idea and am glad that it happened that way. I was able to enjoy the twists and turns of the story because of that.

I really enjoyed that the book was written in four voices and that one of the voices was done totally in poetry. Shusterman... Read more

Review:Lots of action from start to finish with plenty of suspense. It delves into Southwest Native American spiritualism and reveals it secrets ever so slowly and has a very thrilling ending. One of my favorite books. Read more

Review:In a time of dystopian stories, this one stood out and grabbed my interest. Not only great characters and adventure, but also depth to dive into with our very real reality of an ever growing population..... Read more

Review:I bought this series because i love zombie genre. As of today's mainstream change in the genre of zombie and post apocalypse, the story is told much later after the first outbreak and the end of the world as we know it. Shows view of the world from people, who where born after the old world and also from the zombie's view. Great character improvement over the books and although we have a main character it tells the story from many peoples viewpoint. Altogether it's an enchanting series. Recommen... Read more

Review:The main story line in this novel is very interesting: why would someone start a website under your name, and post odd things on it? Ferris' writing is excellent at times, and very funny, but other times merely ordinary and rambling, like a Stephen King novel without the supernatural elements. Other parts of the story, concerning the narrator Paul's relationships, kept me interested too. I agree with a local newspaper review that said it's difficult to like or empathize with Paul's character.... Read more

Review:There was nothing not to like in this book. Frankel deals with a difficult subject. She does so with grace and skill. The book is readable but also smart, a combination we don’t always get. Frankel thinks about gender and in-betweenness in a way we haven’t seen much of since Eugenides. Read more

Review:This book had some excellent sub plots. It was an easy read and fairly enjoyable.
The ending of the book stretched the bounds of reason. However, it did provide a different scenerio from most legal works of fiction.
I enjoyed the Alex Cross series. I believe those books were written at a higher level. Read more

Review:REVIEWED BY LAURA

This is a quirky and charming little book, composed entirely of Nina Stibbe's letters to her sister Victoria after she moved to London to be a nanny. Nina's letters aren't really like any letters I've read before, and they're very unlike letters I would write. Nina is hilarious and she has a keen ear for dialogue. She observes the most unusual things and manages to make the most mundane tasks funny (see excerpt below regarding laundering pillows). Throughout the book, sh... Read more