- Author: Robert Scotellaro
- Publisher: Graham Denton
- Classification: Childrens Poetry, Illustrated
- Reviewed by: Nicole Braganza
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Here is certainly a very fine collection of limericks brought to you by Robert Scotellaro. Light and humorous, they are sure to tickle your funny bone as you come face to face with The Invisible Man, Abdul the Bear, The Miserly Cyclops and the very interesting ghost with the Polka Dot Sheet. The fantastic range [...]
- Author: Gerald Allen Wunsch, Drawings by Irene Joslin
- Publisher: 1st Books Library (2003)
- Classification: Illustrated
- Reviewed by: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Author Gerald Alllen Wunsch believes Curiosity is the first children’s book to tell the story of the Underground Railroad from a contemporary perspective. Trust me. Children will not care. They’ll only notice that it’s a delightful mystery a la Nancy Drew that has a couple of things going for it that are often neglected in [...]
- Author: Connie Gotsch
- Publisher: DLSIJ Press
- Classification: Romance
- Reviewed by: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
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Watch out world! A new author of note is emerging. Connie Gotsch uses her experience in the world of broadcasting to color a story about a woman who must learn a new way to fight repression if she is to carve a new world for herself. Dr. Betsy Craig battles the inherent suppression of an [...]
- Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson
- Publisher: PublishAmerica
- Classification: Contemporary, Short Stories
- Reviewed by: Kristin Johnson
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s second book Harkening, “a collection of 19 gentle sequels” to her debut award-winning novel This Is The Place, won the Excellence in Writing Award from WordThunder.com, and one of the stories won the Red Sky Press Award. If the story was up against the other 18 in this collection, the judges must have felt [...]
- Author: John van de Ruit
- Publisher: Penguin
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Spud is set in South Africa in 90′s. A time of major events… On the 2nd February president FW de Klerk scraps apartheid and states that Nelson Mandela will be released from prison. It’s also the time of another major event, it’s Spud Milton’s first year at an all boys boarding school. He was accepted [...]
- Author: Giles Emerson
- Publisher: Granada
- Classification: European History
- Reviewed by: Shep
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Sin City takes us on a humorous journey through time, spanning the period between the Roman occupation and the end of the Victorian era, covering a number of themes, namely sex, theatre, sport, drugs, and food. The book at times causes some surprise, such as Church organised prostitution, the man who walked 1000 miles in [...]
Matt Ridley decided to write Genome because of a chance remark by an evolutionary biologist, David Haig. Haig stated that chromosome 19 was his favourite chromosome. Why? Because: ‘It has all sorts of mischievous genes on it…’ Genome, Matt Ridley This idea stuck in Ridley’s head and so Genome the book was started. What Ridley [...]
- Author: Charlotte Russell Johnson
- Publisher: TEC Publications
- Classification: Inspirational
- Reviewed by: James L McTyre Jr
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A Journey To Hell and Back is a gripping saga of a young woman’s journey from adolescence to adulthood at an accelerated pace. This book is an exploration of a troubled teen’s journey into the underworld to emerge as an independent, confident, and self-assured woman. Pitfalls, tragedy, and trials that lure a young honor student [...]
- Author: Terry Pratchett
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Classification: Discworld
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William de Worde, son of Lord de Worde, has found himself running the Discworld’s first newspaper. And even the Patrician has taken an interest. That was until he became the papers headlining story. William’s investigation gets him in trouble with ‘The Firm’. A two man outfit, well one man and one unknown being with a [...]
- Author: Stephen King
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The Story The 4th book in the Dark Tower series (but not the last) takes off from the cliff-hanger ending of The Wastelands. And sees the resolution of that particularly nasty fix! The remainder of the book focuses on Roland of Gilead’s past. It reveals more about his first companion’s and the first girl to [...]
