2007

In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing, a collaborative journal by Lee and Bob Woodruff, reveals how a courageous and loving family, whose life dramatically changes without any warning, pulls together to turn a possible disaster into a victory of the soul. However, this story is more than just a story about [...]

Black Boy tells the tale of a black man’s harrowing journey as he tries to overcome discrimination and segregation not only in the South during the Jim Crow era but also in the Chicago of the 1930s. To accomplish this Wright begins his autobiography as a young boy growing up in pre-Civil Rights era Mississippi [...]

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison addresses more than the 1940s Afro-American community, as the idea of self-loathing (either within oneself or within a community) is not specific to any one group of people. Additionally, the author gives readers a dramatic look at the profound impact that parental love and support (or lack thereof) can [...]

Tess Gerritsen’s book Vanish is a powerful tale of exploitation with political implications that unravel in a swift, pulse-pounding fashion guaranteed to keep you turning the pages as she successfully manages to run parallel story lines while incorporating unbelievable twists and turns that bring about a totally unexpected ending. Gerritsen’s fans will also be pleased [...]

Within Ron Gilster’s 800 page PC Repair Bench Book is a get-in, get-out Power Pack guide that covers hardware such as motherboards, storage devices, and printers. The book also includes a CD Rom that contains a host of utilities which many users may wish to try.  On the CD you will have access to topics such [...]

Suze Orman‘s eighth book, Women & Money acknowledging that there are powerful societal and emotional impediments that block even the most successful women from maximizing their financial resources. She identifies these attitudes, expectations, and self-sabotaging behaviors, showing how they work, and helps readers break through so they can know their worth. Further, she addresses how [...]

The true story behind The Freedom Writers Diary began in the fall of 1994, at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, when an idealistic twenty-three-year-old high school teacher, Erin Gruwell, faced her first group of high-risk teenagers. These teens, a diverse mix of students from some of the roughest neighborhoods in Long Beach, [...]

In her book, The Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage, Laura Schlessinger, bestselling author and talk show host once again shares her strong beliefs on what makes for happy marital unions. Schlessinger’s goal, through this her second book on the topic of marital bliss, is to reintroduce readers to the meaning of femininity and masculinity [...]

In her novel First Offense, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, a New York Times bestselling author, draws on her experience as a former California investigating Probation Officer in Court Services to deliver a thriller that openly presents the dark evil that lurks in the heart of man while revealing the inter workings of the legal system. Possibly [...]

Dean Koontz’ The House of Thunder is similar to his work, The Voice of the Night, in that it offers a one-character viewpoint and tailors down the descriptive detail to a tolerable degree, which is a refreshing change for many readers. First released in 1982 this book was originally published under one of Koontz’ [...]