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...
Archie the Daredevil Penguin
On this laugh out loud trip to Antarctica, old friends are always by your side and new friends can be found in the most unexpected places.
Posted by Book Rex on August 17, 2017
The Mesmerist
13 year old Jessamine can see people’s thoughts and speak to the dead. To learn about her newfound powers she is shipped off the live with a family friend, in Read more...
Posted by Book Rex on August 11, 2017
Beach Baby
A day at the beach comes to a close as the sun begins to set; a mother cuddles her sleepy little one, giving comfort and promises that more adventures await Read more...
We Are Okay
After tragedy struck, Marin left San Francisco behind, along with her home and everyone she knew. Staying alone in her New York dorm over winter break, she will be forced Read more...
Posted by Book Rex on August 11, 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 Book Rex 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 Alex C. 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 Book Rex 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 Book Rex on August 1, 2017
Don’t Wake Up the Tiger
Tiger is asleep, but she is blocking the way of Frog, Fox, Turtle, Mouse, and Stork. Our animal friends will need the reader’s help to make it to their party Read more...
Posted by Book Rex 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 Book Rex 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 Book Rex 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 Book Rex 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 Book Rex 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 Book Rex on July 29, 2017