Reviews

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

Set in a world resembling medieval Russia, Plain Kate starts with small and ugly Kate Carver, who must watch her beloved father die.  He has witch’s fever, and soon, an anti-magic hysteria grips the land.  The gypsy-like Roamers are persecuted, people are burned.  And even Kate herself

Baldacci once again came through with a political thriller that had me guessing to the very end.  Amazon reviews have not been very good on this title but I tend to ignore most reviews.

Dominance, by Will Lavender is a quintessential mystery through and through. The novel takes place in two different time periods, 1994 and the present day, and Lavender is able to carefully keep both narratives exciting in this literary mystery novel.

With the 100 year anniversary of World War I approaching, examination of this sometimes little understood event may well become a popular topic of study for the everyday reader.  Adam Hochschild’s To End All Wars is an excellent start if one would like to broaden und

What a strange little book about a strange little family in a strange little town. When the reader meets the Blackwoods, they are reduced to three:  Constance, the oldest sister; Merricat the younger; and Uncle Julian, an old invalid.

This well done documentary tells us about the inner workings of Paris’ most famous museum, the Louvre.