Debt Free For Life : the Finish Rich Plan For Financial Freedom
Synopsis GOODBYE DEBT—HELLO FREEDOM! Most of us grew up with the idea that there is good debt and there is bad debt. Good debts are generally considered to be debts you incur to buy things that can go up in value—like a home or college education. Bad debts are things like credit card balances, where […]
Healing Spices : How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease
Library Journal: Aggarwal (experimental therapeutics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Ctr.), winner of a McCormick Spice Research Institute award from the American Society of Nutrition, combines his lifelong experience with spices with medical research to give detailed coverage of 50 spices and their curative qualities. Yost (The Complete Guide to Natural Cures: Effective Holistic Treatments for Everything […]
Clara and Mr. Tiffany : a Novel
The Washington Post – Eugenia Zukerman …Clara and Mr. Tiffany is about art and commerce, love and duty. Peopled with characters both imagined and historic, it is also a study of New York's ultra-rich and desperate poor, its entitled men and its disenfranchised women. And it is the story of one extraordinary woman's passion and […]
The Poison Tree
The Washington Post – Maureen Corrigan In its intensity and overwhelming sense of loss, the voice-over that opens Erin Kelly's terrific first suspense novel…is most directly reminiscent of the unnamed narrator of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca…Karen Clarke, like du Maurier's heroine, is a nice person who has had terrible things happen to her because of […]
The Radleys
The New York Times – Matthew Sharpe The vampire novel is a crowded genre these days. To distinguish itself, a book will need inventiveness, wit, beauty, truth and a narrative within which these attributes can flourish. The Radleys, by Matt Haig, has got them…As befits a vampire story, the wit tends to be sharp, and […]
The Hunt For the Seventh
VOYA When Jim, Sal, and their father move into chilly old Minerva Hall, Jim instantly is repelled by its unpleasant owner, Lord Minerva, and by the terrifying feeling that ghostly children are just out of sight. The death of Jim's mother has completely devastated his father, who badly needs the job as head gardener for […]
Happenstance Found
Children's Literature When Happenstance is found in the cave by Lord Umber, Oates, and Sophie, he does not remember who he is, where he is, or how he got there. But the strange man Umber has a note with information about him and wants to take him away. The foursome manages to flee the giant […]
Dying to Meet You
Children's Literature Ignatius B. Grumply is the author of a children's fiction series about ghosts. Although Mr. Grumply's publisher has advanced him $100,000 for his next book, he seems unable to get started. In fact, he has had trouble getting started for more than ten years. That is why, in desperation, Mr. Grumply begins a […]
The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files
Children's Literature This initial volume in the "Saxby Smart: Private Detective" series was first published in Great Britain in 2007 and is now reissued for young American readers with delightful illustrations by the prodigiously talented R.W. Alley. Saxby Smart is a private detective—and a student at St. Egbert's School, with an office in his parents' […]
The Bat Scientists
School Library Journal Gr 5 8—This series entry takes readers along with Merlin Tuttle and a crew of BCI (Bat Conservation International) into bat caves and bridges, trees and houses to study these agile flitterers. Carson's readable, informative text dispels the ugly myths that have haunted these nocturnal hunter/gatherers, detailing bats' usefulness to humankind from […]