Reviews

An offshoot of their YouTube video project with more than 6000 video testimonials, Dan Savage and Terry Miller’s It Gets Better is a timely collection of original essays from a wide range of voices urging teens not to give up or give in to bullying.  This collection includes essa

Having enjoyed the first three season's of Showtimes "The Tudors", I was anxious to view this fourth and final season.  In this final season, we meet King Henry VIII's last two wives, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr, who are played beautifully by Tamzin Merchant and Joely Richardson, respectively.  The entire season is comprised of only 10 episodes.  The first five episodes deal with King Henry's affair and marriage to the very young and morally questionable K

An easy read introduction to the brain and its chemistry, Quirk: brain science makes sense of your personality explores the science of what makes each of us tick.

I recently used coolrunning.com's  Couch Potato to 5K plan to start jogging and have since run two 5Ks. While that plan ultimately worked for me, I so wish I had discovered Run Your Butt Off!, from Runner’s World, first.

If you are looking for a fast-paced action read, then this debut novel by Helen Simonson is not for you.

Leap of Faith by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is an honest and open look at faith, forgiveness, trust and honesty.  After being expelled from public school at the very beginning of 6th grade, Abby's parents enroll her at the Catholic school even though they aren't Catholic and don't even attend church regularly.  While Abby will have to attend a required religion class

Livvie Owen and her family have always lived in the little town of Nabor with an "a" which is right next door to the much bigger town of Neighbor with an "e".  Livvie Owen and her family have lived in a house on almost every street in Nabor and Livvie Owen commemorates their time in each house by inscribing the words "Livvie Owen Lived Here" on

Critical Care by Candace Calvert is a great alternative to ER, House and Grey's Anatomy.  Claire Avery, former emergency room nurse, is now the nurse educator at Mercy General Hospital.  Claire no longer feels able to work in the ER after being on duty when her firefighter brother was brought into the ER with fatal injuries.  Hence, her new job as nurse educator

Most of us have encountered Amish Friendship Bread at some time in our lives and know that it can be both a blessing an a curse.  (Who has time to babysit a bag of starter that will end up multiplying exponentially and cause friends and acquaintances alike to run when they see you coming with a plastic baggie of starter?)  At any rate,

The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen, author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon and Garden Spells, takes us this time to Walls of Water, North Carolina, which is famous for its waterfall