Song of the Water Boatman : & Other Pond Poems
School Library Journal Review: Starred Review. K-Gr 5?Seasons set the stage for this celebration of the diverse life of ponds. The book begins with the poem, ??Listen for Me,?? in which spring peepers wake from their winter hibernation and sing out, ??Listen for me on a spring night,/on a wet night,/on a rainy night./?Listen for […]
Sisters
Publishers Weekly Four stunningly beautiful Connecticut-bred sisters pursue their disparate careers in prolific Steel's (H.R.H.) latest. There's Candy, 21, a supermodel with an eating disorder, on location in Paris; Annie, 26, a RISD-grad studying painting in Florence; Tammy, at 29 an L.A. TV producer with a new hit and no life; and Sabrina, 34, a […]
Scarlett
Publishers Weekly Rebellious Scarlett still has not gotten over her father's cheating and her parents' divorce. When she gets thrown out of yet another school, her mother sends her from London to the Irish countryside to live with her father, his pregnant wife and her stepmother's nine-year-old daughter. Scarlett begs her mother, "Don't make me […]
Innocent In Death
Publishers Weekly: Once again Lt. Eve Dallas shows why she's "New York City's top murder cop" in Roberts's 24th thriller under her Robb pseudonym set half a century into the future (after 2006's Born in Death). Dallas tries to close a case at the exclusive Sarah Child Academy, where two bright 10-year-old girls discover the […]
High Profile
Library Journal – Craig Shufelt Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information: More trouble comes to Paradise, MA, in Parker's (Sea Change) latest Jesse Stone novel, another excellent if too-short entry in an outstanding series. When a prominent national talk-show host is found hanged, Jesse is forced to handle not only a murder case but also the […]
The Double Bind
From Publishers Weekly Readers will be startled to learn early on that the heroine of this engrossing puzzle, 26-year-old Laurel Estabrook, was born in West Egg. Wait a minute, wasn't West Egg where Jay Gatsby lived? Laurel works in a Burlington, Vt., homeless shelter and is trying to overcome mental and physical scars incurred from […]
Family Tree
Publishers Weekly: When Dana and Hugh Clarke's baby is born into their wealthy, white New England seaside community, the baby's unmistakably African-American features puzzle her thoroughly Anglo-looking parents. Hugh's family pedigree extends back to the Mayflower, and his historian father has made a career of tracing the esteemed Clarke family genealogy, which does not include […]
Mommy Millionaire : How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea Into a Million Dollars and How You Can, Too!
Publishers Weekly People only learn to think like a millionaire by becoming one," says Lavine, who tucks her impressive entrepreneurial saga inside this top-notch how-to guide on launching a business. Founder and president of Green Daisy Inc., she tells how she converted a comfy pillow she invented into a successful company, sharing poignant insights about […]
Shadow Dance
Library Journal: Putting the accent on romance in her latest case of romantic suspense, Garwood gives stalwarts Jordan Buchanan and Noah Clayborne starring roles in a story that swings from Boston to small-town Texas. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Dry Ice
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Contemporary cerebral thrillers don't get much better than bestseller White's 15th novel (after Kill Me), which deftly combines complex characterization and intricate plotting. White's debut novel, Privileged Information, introduced Boulder, Colo., psychologist Alan Gregory and the clever but deadly Michael McClelland, a former meteorologist turned killer, whose rampage almost cost […]