Sweet Revenge
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Bestseller Davidson is at the top of her form in her 14th culinary suspense novel to feature Colorado crime-solving caterer Goldy Schulz (after 2006's Dark Tort). As the Christmas season approaches, Goldy is thrilled to be catering not only a breakfast for the local library but also an elegant dinner […]
Away
Publisher Weekly Review Starred Review. Life is no party for Lillian Leyb, the 22-year-old Jewish immigrant protagonist of Bloom's outstanding fifth novel: her husband and parents were killed in a Russian pogrom, and the same violent episode separated her from her three-year-old daughter, Sophie. Arriving in New York in 1924, Lillian dreams of Sophie, and […]
Oga As Medicine : the Yogic Prescription For Health and Healing : a Yoga Journal Book
Library Journal Review: McCall (Examining Your Doctor: A Patient's Guide to Avoiding Harmful Medical Care) details yoga's health benefits and offers therapeutic techniques from a variety of traditions (e.g., iyengar, viniyoga, anusara) for relieving such chronic conditions as anxiety, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. He successfully outlines the reasons yoga can benefit chronic disease sufferers, referencing […]
Cave of the Dark Wind : a Never Land Book
From the Publisher: While Peter is away from the island, James and the other Lost Boys discover a mysterious cave. Shining Pearl and her sister Little Scallop warn the boys that the cave is a dangerous place, inhabited by a creature known as the Goat Taker – a beast so scary that even the Mollusk […]
The Wheel of Darkness
Publisher Weekly Review In the exciting eighth supernatural thriller from bestsellers Preston and Child (after 2006's The Book of the Dead), FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast and his ward, Constance Greene, seek peace of mind at a remote Tibetan monastery, only to fall into yet another perilous, potentially earthshaking assignment. The monastery's abbot asks them to […]
The Problem Child
School Library Journal Review Gr 4-6?Sabrina Grimm, 11, and her 7-year-old sister, Daphne, are still on the trail of The Scarlet Hand, which has kidnapped their parents. On the way to rescuing them, the sisters meet their likable Uncle Jake, whom they had never heard of before. Granny Relda had arranged for everyone in town […]
Golden Girl
The Sisters Grimm : the Unusual Suspects
School Library Journal Review: Gr 4-6?In this second book in the series, Sabrina and Daphne continue their family's fairy-tale detective work in the Hudson River town of Ferryport Landing. The village has more than its share of Everafters, a group of fairy-tale characters who escaped persecution in Europe by fleeing to America over 200 years […]