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Dark Matter

Jason is a college physics professor with a wife, and a 15 year old son. "Are you happy with your life" are the last words he hears before he wakes up Read more...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

My Best Friend’s Exorcism

Abby and Gretchen are typical 80’s high school girls  preoccupied with boys, parties, make-up and rock music. Wanting to be the first “normal” people in their school to trip, they decide Read more...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

Walkaway

If you like technology and realistic sci-fi cut with a healthy dose of political awareness, Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway will be one of the best books you’ll read all year. When Read more...

Supergirl (Rebirth, Vol. 1): Reign of the Cyborg Supermen

Supergirl’s certainly got her work cut out for her. She needs to get Cameron Chase, the formidable director of the D.E.O., to trust her, her foster parents to hone their Read more...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

La-La Land

Stone and Gosling give excellent performances of characters torn between doing what they want and what logic tells them they should do.  Mia and Seb come across as sympathetic people Read more...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

Gyo: Complete Deluxe Edition

The horror of this seinen manga begins when Tadashi, a young Japanese man, and Kaori, his girlfriend with an ultra-sensitive nose, begin to smell the creeping stench of death as Read more...

Posted by on August 9, 2017

Hot Books for August 2017!

Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton Sue Grafton’s 25th book in the long-running Kinsey Millhone series is one of Grafton’s darkest and most sinister novels to date. This penultimate novel Read more...

Posted by on August 2, 2017

The Brides of Rollrock Island

Misskaella gets her revenge for years of rejection by giving the men what they ask her for, sea-wives so beautiful that none wants a land-wife.  The results transform Rollrock Island Read more...

Posted by on August 1, 2017

Four Nights With the Duke

Four Nights With the Duke is a Regency-era romance that tries for sensuous, but doesn’t quite make it.  Mia and Evander spend so much of the book fighting their physical Read more...

Posted by on August 1, 2017

The Birth of Venus

The Birth of Venus illuminates Florentine history through the eyes of a precocious young woman who, more than anything, wishes to decide her own fate.

Posted by on July 31, 2017

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband is a mildly sensuous romance with a plot made almost as clunky as its title by Cecilia’s deceptions, but which is entertaining enough to Read more...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

The Women’s Health Big Book of Smoothies & Soups

This colorful 100+ recipe cookbook edited by Women’s Health is well laid out with plentiful images of appetizingly arranged recipes in front of fun and trendy backdrops. There is a Read more...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

The Last Mortal Bond

This is the third and final book in Brian Staveley’s series “The Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne.” The threat of war from the nomadic Urghul people draws closer to the Read more...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

The Providence of Fire

Brothers Valyn and Kaden have been reunited and have now gone again in their separate ways. Kaden has gone with Triste and his teacher from the monastery Rampuri Tan through Read more...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

The Emperor’s Blades

The Emperor of the Annurian Empire has been killed, leaving the empire in turmoil and his three children separated in different sections of Annur, fighting to stay alive and save Read more...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

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