Beth Revis’ fantastic Across the Universe trilogy concludes with this tightly-plotted and fast-paced book. Shades of Earth
The author has been compared to Marjorie Rawlings and other famous Southern writers who provide insight into Southern culture. This interesting saga delves into the culture of a backwater town in northern Florida where the residents - an inbred mix of whites, American Indians and African Americans - have secrets, loyalties and codes known only to them.
According to a recent review in The Kansas City Star, reading Rise to Greatness is a great way to prepare for watching Steven Spielberg’s movie, Lincoln, so I read it.
The Space Between is another stand-alone novel by Brenna Yovanoff. This novel follows two protagonists—Daphne, the daughter of Lilith and Lucifer, and Truman, a human boy.
Today we hear a lot about choice. We hear that it is within our power to make choices that benefit us and to take responsibility for choices that haven’t. Good messages, but are they true. Free Will argues that choice is an illusion. Author Sam Harris has degrees in philosophy and neuroscience, and he makes a convincing argument about how our brains and bodies are already choosing prior to our taking any action.
Rachel Cohn has outdone herself with this post-apocalyptic world and most of us might consider the ramifications of cloning. Beta is set on the island of Demesne, where the air is so full of oxygen that it almost feels like paradise.
When you get to the end of a book you've loved, there’s a sadness that it’s over. But when I finished Their Eyes Were Watching God I was glad - glad that I had read this again.
In Walker’s beautifully-written debut novel, it’s the end of the world as we know it, but instead of a sudden vampire plague or apocalyptic alien invasion, scientists discover that the Earth’s rotation is slowing. Days and nights are getting longer, birds are dying, and whales are beaching themselves by the thousands.
In A Private History of Awe, Scott Russell Sanders takes a thunderstorm and illustrates how it can dance across three generations. Sanders not only spotlights the beauty and spectacle a thunderstorm can create, but also its rude and wild fury.
How far would you go to know the truth about your father? When orphan Carver Young discovers a letter written by his father, he becomes caught up in the hunt for a notorious killer who just may hold the keys to his past.
