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Posted in Fantasy, Young Adult on Jan 18th, 2008
by Regina Doman
reviewed by Tannia E. Ortiz-Lopes
Some books take you traveling into space. Others bring you back in time. But then one day, when you least expect it, you come across a book that grabs your imagination and leads you on a road of adventures and suspense into a world combining elements of fantasy […]
Posted in Action/Adventure, Children, Fantasy, Young Adult on Dec 7th, 2007
By J.K. Rowling
reviewed by John Murphy
I was a pimply teenager when Star Wars: the Phantom Menace came out in the summer of 1999. Two of my siblings and I skipped class on a Monday morning to attend the first showing. After the movie was over, as we walked out of the theater into the mid-afternoon […]
Posted in Historical, Young Adult on Jun 5th, 2007
reviewed by John J. Desjarlais
Belisarius: Book I, The First Shall Be Last
by Paolo A. Belzoni
Arx Publishing, 2007
$14.95
ISBN-13: 978-1889758-78-7
Historical fiction set in the distant past has often been used as a platform to comment on contemporary events. Yes, the reader says, that situation was like the one we face today, and the way their heroes […]
Posted in Suspense/Thriller, Young Adult on Jan 23rd, 2006
Reviewed by Debra Murphy
Author Regina Doman has re-worked the venerable “Snow White and Rose Red” fairy tale, one of the Grimm Brothers’ most memorable, into a cracking good suspense yarn for young adults, and the young at heart of all ages.
Blanche and Rose Brier are a Sense-and-Sensibility pair of teenagers newly arrived, with their Widowed […]