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  • 3 stars out of 5

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

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...

  • 5 stars out of 5

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix

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...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

  • 5 stars out of 5

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

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...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

  • 3 stars out of 5

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

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...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

  • 4 stars out of 5

La-La Land by Damien Chazelle

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...

Posted by on August 23, 2017

  • 5 stars out of 5

Gyo: Complete Deluxe Edition by Junji Ito

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...

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...

Posted by on August 2, 2017

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan

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...

Posted by on August 1, 2017

  • 2 stars out of 5

Four Nights With the Duke by Eloisa James

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...

Posted by on August 1, 2017

  • 3 stars out of 5

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

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

  • 3 stars out of 5

The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband by Julia Quinn

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...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Women’s Health Big Book of Smoothies & Soups by Lisa DeFazio MS RD and Women's Health (Rodale Press)

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...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

  • 4 stars out of 5

The Last Mortal Bond by Brian Staveley

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...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley

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...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

  • 5 stars out of 5

The Emperor’s Blades by Brian Staveley

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...

Posted by on July 29, 2017

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