Reviews

One of the popular dystopian books of 2011, Shatter Me follows seventeen-year-old Juliette, an imprisoned teenager with a power so deadly that it terrifies even herself.  Juliette lives in a world destroyed by war and waste, and run by a regime called the Re-Establishment.  A fami

I picked this book out because of my enduring fascination with how the economic situation got to where it is today.  I’m a major tightwad…a saver against that inevitable rainy day, when I lose my job, my health, or my home.  Being rather fearful, I could never fully enjoy the benefits of the credit driven, leveraged pleasures of consumption.  (I still have

This book is about a magic house towering above the Czech city of Brno. The house was custom built by a visionary architect for a Jewish-Catholic newlywed couple in the 1920s. The new house projects wealth, self-confidence, beauty and a new architectural form.

Another Scandinavian “must-read” mystery, this complicated tale is set in and around Oslo.  The killer’s trademark is a snowman – placed outside the home of the victim, sometimes using parts of the victim in the design, as well as other creative means to communicate the theme.  Harry

If this book is about anything, I surely don’t know what it is. Confined to his home for ten days with a host of his closest friends and family, Max engages in conversations about war, love, family, filmmaking and, well ... everything.

A Million Suns, the sequel to Beth Revis’ best-selling Across the Universe, starts three months after the action of Across the Universe.

Sweet title, not a sweet story.  Vanessa Diffenbaugh has used the Victorian dictionary of flower meanings to create a story filled with the harsh reality of life for a foster child.  Victoria Jones has just been emancipated – out on her own after shuffling from foster families to group homes for 18 years.

This non-partisan guide is a good refresher of the whole U.S.

In this second book of Susan Beth Pfeffer’s Last Survivor Trilogy, we are brought back to the start of the cataclysmic events of her first novel Life as We Knew It.  However, in this book the story is told from the point of view of Alex Morales, a sev