Jamie At Home
Library Journal: Oliver, host of numerous TV cooking shows and author of seven other cookbooks, is just as passionate about food and cooking as he was when he burst on the scene in The Naked Chef . One of his newest fascinations is with gardening, and this companion volume to a PBS series of the […]
New Hampshire, a Picture Book to Remember Her By
Inside New England
The Given Day
David Keymer – Library Journal: Shamus Award winner Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner, displaying all the virtues the author (Mystic River) has shown in his exceptional series of crime novels: narrative verve, sensitivity to setting, the interweaving of complicated story lines, an apt and emotionally satisfying denouement-and, above all, the author's abiding […]
Eve of the Emperor Penguin
JACK AND ANNIE continue their quest for the secrets of happiness?secrets they need to save Merlin. This time, the Magic Tree House takes them to the one continent they haven?t visited before: Antarctica! What can they hope to learn about happiness in such a barren place? Only the penguins know for sure . . . […]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson: ?this remarkable first novel by the Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson?has been a huge bestseller in Europe and will be one here if readers are looking for an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller that is variously a serial-killer saga, a search for a missing person and an informed glimpse […]
Inkdeath
Kirkus Reviews A monumental third installment brings the Inkheart trilogy to a grueling, blood-spattered, mortality-obsessed close. The Inkworld is in disarray: Its author, Fenoglio, has lost his ability to write and, therefore, shape events; the odious Orpheus, however, has taken to recycling Fenoglio's words to control the narrative/world himself. The evil Adderhead, whose immortality was […]
The Maze of Bones
Kirkus Reviews "Synergy" is the name of the game in Scholastic's post-Potter search for market share. Grace Cahill has died, and her orphaned grandchildren Amy, 14, and Dan, 11, are among the heirs offered a choice: They can accept one million and walk, or they can take the first clue in a worldwide scavenger hunt […]
Eulalia!
School Library Journal: Gr 4-8- Pitchforks, daggers, mace, and chain-these are the weapons of choice in a warring animal realm. Lord Asheye of the fortress mountain Salamandastron seeks a new Badger Lord, one who has been prophesized to shun armor and a sword. This young badger is possessed by the deadly Bloodwrath, a ferocious rage […]
Brisingr, Or, The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular
The Washington Post – David Anthony Durham: As an adult, I read Brisingr with a mixture of admiration for Paolini's accomplishments and an awareness of the book's flaws, which prevented me from being fully won over. But that's hardly a slight. Had I read this novel when I was 13, it would have kept me […]