Reviews

The families of Bitsy and Brad Dickinson-Donaldson and Sami and Ziba Yazdan converge at the Baltimore airport on August 15, 1997.  What brings them together is the arrival of two adopted girls from Korea.  The large, loud, festive Dickinson-Donaldson clan, wearing buttons that proudly display their status—“Mom,” “Dad,” “Grandpa,” etc.—are handed Ji

“As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman's primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality—and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential.” The above quote from the film says in

Emerson is not a normal 17-year-old girl. She may appear to be on the outside, but everything about her, including her daily routine, is off. A few months before her parents’ tragic deaths, Emerson began seeing people. These people were out of place, out of time and, more importantly, out of their physical bodies.

Where She Went, by Gayle Forman, is the sequel to her novel If I Stay and continues the story of Mia Hall, a beautiful cellist, and Adam Wilde, an aspiring rock musician.

Dedicated fans of Neil Young know he makes several kinds of albums.

Connie Willis’ Hugo Award winning culmination of her Feb.

Forget what you think you know about mermaids. Ariel and Disney have no place in this horrific tale of tragedy and death, love and desire, by Anne Greenwood-Brown.

Set in the tumultuous Boleyn-era England, The Crown follows would-be nun Joanna Stafford as she searches her beloved priory for a treasure of unimaginable worth—and unimaginable danger.  The scion of a disgraced and impoverished Catholic noble family, Joanna feels compelled to stand witness to a r

With The Might-Have-Been, Joseph Schuster examines the cost of not letting go of unfulfilled dreams.  Edward Everett Yates, our "hero," is a minor league baseball player who achieves his dream of playing in the Big Show. Then on what should have been the best night of his life, his dream is shattered along with his knee.

Light Yagami is a bright young man, so when he finds the notebook of a death god that will kill anyone whose name is written in it, he’s understandably skeptical.  It doesn’t take much experimentation to find out that it does exactly what it claims, and it takes even less time for Light to decide that he’s going to clean up the world by killing all the criminal