Tim is a knight-in-training who wakes up every morning to fight off small but deadly fire-breathing dragons. And after Tim falls asleep while attempting to guard the castle gates. And because Tim fell asleep on the job, the princess gets kidnapped and put into the labyrinth of doom. So now Tim and his friend, Belinda, […]
The Lost Library is a sweet book about little kids who like reading so much. The plot is very simple and predictable and lacks any measurable detail, so you probably wouldn’t read it more than once. The main idea of the book is clever and could rather easily be turned into a chapter book teeming […]
Namaste Is a Greeting isn’t really about anything except the word “Namaste.” There’s no real storyline, just many fragmented ideas and a little girl pulling it all together. The pictures are a little too harsh with the angles and colors, especially since the topic is soft and sweet. People who have a connection to Indian […]
The Noom Mindset is the companion book to the Noom app, which helps users make better health decisions. Whether it’s creating a relationship with food, deciding to exercise or not, or learning different methods to destress, Noom can help its users with all of these. The biggest takeaway from this book was that there is […]
GRONE is an absolute masterpiece of science fiction. This massive tome of a tale spans literal centuries but somehow still manages to leave you wanting more, long after you’ve turned the last page and made some significant shelf space to house it. Deep in the bowels of Stanford University lies the QARMA supercomputer, run by […]
Francis X. Lenihan is a process server living in St. Louis when he reunites with his best friend, Dingus. Francis and Dingus served in the Army Medical Corps in the 1970s. Dingus served as it was a familial tradition, while Francis served to avoid a lengthy jail sentence. Their service in a relatively war-free area […]
It has been four decades since retired detective Larry Klinger lost his son. Yet, at 66, Larry still mourns his loss. Consequently, he joins a group of fathers who suffer from the pain of losing a child and set up meetings to discuss and help one another heal. In one meeting, one of the men […]
My Story, His Glory is Nathaniel X. Arnold’s compelling memoir of his conversion and fall from faith, exploration of diverse spiritual paths, and finding his way back to the Christian fold. Arnold’s autobiography is profoundly reflective of his youth in Alabama and the Washington, DC area in the years immediately following the Civil Rights Movement. […]
Diane 317 knew something was terribly wrong with her peaceful home. The tremors aboard the Cradle, a space station orbiting a post-apocalyptic Earth, were worsening. When Diane’s home began plummeting to Earth, she sought safety in an escape pod. The devastation of the crashed fortress was a potential gold mine to junkies, the wasteland scavengers. […]
Oh, help, I thought, less than a third of the way into this book, I’m reading poetry. It was not a complaint; far from it. Before All the World is poetry as it should be: deliberate while feeling casual, a game with words that is at once playful and deadly serious (sometimes by turns, sometimes […]
