September 29, 2006 – 6:30 pm
After being struck by lightning, Harper Connelly can find dead people.She doesn’t see them and she can’t communicate with them. She senses their dead bodies. If she’s close enough, she can relive their last few moments. You might see it as a strange job finding dead people, but Harper sees it as service to the dead while bringing some closure to living. But most of the people are very suspicious of her talent.
Harper and her stepbrother, Tolliver, travel around the country. In most cases, they find the body, determine the cause of death, get paid and move on quickly. Things changes in Sarne, Arkansas, where our reluctant heroes become entangled in the small-town politics and murder.
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September 28, 2006 – 1:48 pm
Another great addition to the Artemis Fowl series is the fifth installment ,with reportedly just one more to go. In this book, Artemis finds out about an eighth type of farie: Demons. Most of the characters are back, including of course Artemis, the teenaged criminal mastermind, Butler his bodyguard, Holly, the former female LEP recon official, Foley the Centaur and Mulch the amazing digging dwarf. But thats not all there are also new and exciting characters. There’s Minerva Paradizo, a twelve year old French child genius who can give Artemis’ brain cells a challenge, Doodah Day, a thief who’s the Michael Schumacher of the Pixie world, Imp No. 1 the non-warping demon, and the megalomaniac Leon Abbot, but that’s not all folks. Read More »
September 27, 2006 – 6:19 pm
Love, Marriage and… a baby? That’s what all women wants, or is it? Claudia Parr would like to differ. She doesn’t have a maternal instinct that she’s aware of, and she’s perfectly alright not to find it. And when she was about to give up on finding a man who would share her thoughts, she finds Ben.
It was a dream come true for Claudia, they fall in love, and everything was going just fine and it looked ike they were going to have a fantastic life with no children.But when Claudia and Ben’s closest friends announce that they’re expecting, Then, one of them has a change of mind.
Through Claudia’s predicament, Giffin dares to ask tough questions, like “Is a marriage enriched – or is life necessarily more meaningful – if you have kids?” or “Is it OK to not want kids?”
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September 26, 2006 – 7:07 am
What happens when a King is caged and placed in a Zoo for a time longer than he can remember? Yes, I’m talking about the Lion himself. And one fine day his cage is destroyed and he is let out free in to a world which is in more chaos and turbulence than any jungle he knew. The “Pride of Baghdad,†a 136 page graphic novel in all it’s originality, is a piece of work from Vertigo by writer Brian K. Vaughan, and artist Niko Henrichon. Based on a true story from the early days of the Iraq war, the theme starts when an American bombing destroys the Baghdad zoo. A Pride of lions which escaped from the zoo lands in the capital city in the middle of the United States invasion. After a long stay in the cage, it’s their first taste of freedom. But at what cost? Read More »
September 25, 2006 – 7:51 am
“Every family is a ghost story . . .â€Â
The most awaited Mitch Albom’s book is to be released tomorrow. I have pre-ordered a copy and anxiously waiting to crab a mug of coffee and read the book. So for all the anxious readers .
Synopsis
Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.
For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? Read More »