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A book review of Prince of Darkness by Barbara Michaels.
A book review of Sleepwalk by John Saul.
A book review of Midnight voices by John Saul.
A classic, first published in 1891; a ghost story, told by a governess who takes a job at an old family estate in a romote location in Essex, England.
This article describes the basic theory of motivation.
With nearly a million children kidnapped each year in the US, this story follows one woman's desperate search for her daughter.
Are you a pet owner looking for more natural ways to keep your dog or cat healthy and happy? if so, this book is a must have for your library of reference books!
As the title of this book implies, with ingenuity and an obvious love of the sea, Ms. Nolan took some wonderful old standard nursery rhymes and wove them into sea and coastline themed poems.
Through delightful rhyming text and numerals Ms. Slade creates a wonderfully engaging learning experience for children. Each page offers a new addition problem.
A review of Stephen King's part writing class, part memoir, "On Writing".
How to Win Friends and Influence People is a book written by Dale Carnegie. It is one of the best selling self-help book
Where can you find books on such popular culture topics as Disneyland, film noir architecture, surfing culture and Sunset Boulevard?
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis is an expository account of how the conservative right and the fundamentalist Christians have gained political control of the nation, ignoring our deepest held moral values -- human rights, land...
This is a book review on the fiction book, The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold
Book review of the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestseller, The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner.
Four diverse books on Geisha. Which one should you read? Memoirs of a Geisha; Geisha, a Life; Autobiography of a Geisha; and Liza Dalby's Geisha are reviewed.
What follows is a review of Book 1 in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Lightning Thief. An action-adventure story for all ages, The Lightning Thief is sure to please.
I talk about the characters of the Crucible by Arthur Miller. Boring stuff.
Discussion on theme of social responsibility in Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth.
Tales of Russian folklore, children and their Babushkas, and catching fireflies at night ... but how did author Patricia Polacco dream up all of these wonderful stories? Her ancestors and her lived them.
The Body of Christopher Creed was written with the purpose to help people understand what could happen when people refuse to see the truth, when they lie in order to obtain their reality and when they lack the tolerance and compassion for others.
A review of Hate List, a book in which a girl is living in the aftermath of a school shooting which just might be her fault.
Carol Higgins Clark is the daughter of the famous suspense queen, Mary Higgins Clark. The writing style of Carol Higgins Clark is completely different from her mother. While Mary Higgins Clark is good at gripping you with terror,
The purpose of education is to develop critical thinking skills. However, it does not mean that those who graduated from college develop critical thinking skills, since many who enter college refuse to use their brains in the first place
Dillinger's Wild Ride is a book of legend mixed with fact. It is the story of a real man. It is the story of real events. Dillinger's Wild Ride is also the story of how that real man and those real events became rewoven in a tapestry of newsprint...
The vast differences and small similarities between the novel and movie: Frankenstein.
Dr. Rosenthal's mental patient seeks outside assistance...of the killing kind, and a senator suffers for it, as a plot is hatched to hire Radell.
David Young has written a book about true joy that is greater than we can imagine.
Absolutely amazing, as I remember like it was yesterday when my life appeared bleak after the birth of my second child. Truly, I was taken by disbelief. No one was more surprised than me to verify I was six to seven weeks pregnant. Can you believe I actually thought I caught the flu? And just when embarrassment, immense guilt, humiliation, and shame were seemingly enough to endure, I encountered more than I could have ever contemplated and imagined.
It's called kudzu... deep in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, these dense green vines grow like Jack's beanstalk, blanketing every tree, power pole, and anything else in its path. Everett Pratt hates kudzu for what it will do to the timber on his mountain. He will do anything to keep it from invading and choking life from his family's livelihood. Sam, Everett's nine-year-old son, likes kudzu and will do anything he can to protect it. He believes that 'Whatever God makes has got to have some good in it.' Can the Pratt family survive kudzu's smothering threat as everything significant in Sam's life occurs under the kudzu?
With firm, declarative sentences Robert Kagan effectively outlines a very concise vision of the world's political alignment as it stands today.
A brief look at the author and his fist group of novels.
The first book I read this year was about a great man, Mohandas Gandhi, or better known as Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi's whole quest was for Indians to be treated as equals and to have the rights they deserve.
As the title says, Finger Lickin' Fifteen is the fifteenth book in the Stephanie Plum series and this latest book is a hilarious, rib-ticklin' read.
Philip Crawford is a successful philanthropist, but at the same time he is lonely and looking for love - so what is his problem?
Blank verse, and full of euphemism, attempting to capture the natural essence of music.
A blank verse poem that attempts to capture Victorian imagery mixed with serenity and individualism.
This is based on a Shakespearean sonnet and is another tribute to writing. Loving the use of free and blank verse.
This is a very short free-verse poem. It's an attempt at irony.
I wrote this poem using scientific vocabulary gathered in my high school science class.
The third of three Shakespearean sonnets I wrote.
This is the second of three Shakespearean sonnets I wrote. This one is a tribute to my tenth grade science teacher.
This is a sonnet I wrote in the Shakespearean style. This is one of three.
A profile of expatriate writer and Nobel Prize author Ernest Hemingway.
This is a poem written as a sort of ode to writing itself. It's free-verse written in partly archaic vernacular.
Brief reviews of the four vampire novels no fan of vampire literature should go without reading.
A review of Atlanta Nights, a book written with the intention of creating the worst novel ever.
A review of The Broadway Musical, Joseph P. Swain's award-winning critical analysis of famous Broadway shows.
A review of Thraxas, the first book of the Thraxas series, by Martin Millar (writing as Martin Scott).
A review of Summer Knight, the fourth book of the Dresden Files series.
A review of the novel Death's Daughter by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Amber Benson.
A review of Grave Peril, the third book of the Dresden Files series.
A review of Montague Summers's classic work on vampirism and vampire lore in Europe.
A review of Ann Aguirre's wonderful new urban fantasy novel, Blue Diablo.
I wrote this after the death to my favourite writer, Kurt Vonnegut jr. as an ode to him.
Science fiction has given the English language an assortment of new words throughout the history of the genre. What new words are on the horizon?
If you do not immediately identify with Betsy, then as you read on you will find yourself identifying with one of her friends.
A review of Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night.
Even several years later and with lots of support, the tragedy in West Memphis continues as three men remain in prison for a crime they did not commit and for which they were convicted with no conclusive evidence.
All writers dream of writing the great American novel and being rich and famous. It is not impossible to do; it just takes a lot more work than people realize.
"So You Think You Can Dance" trotted out its Top 14 dancers and a new scholarship foundation, the Dizzy Feet Foundation, Wednesday night. Judge Nigel Lythgoe was giddy talking about the upcoming 100th "So You Think You Can Dance" episode...
An established lawyer finds everything about his life suddenly turn strange. Conner thinks strangers are staring at him. Then he notices a man working on the building across from Conner's office. Conner becomes convinced the worker is spying on him.
Ken Mansfield once worked with music celebrities, including the Beatles, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and more. In Between Wyomings, he tells how he lost everything, but at his lowest point, found new life.
This brilliant story tells us the monumental saga of one man's twelve year search for his family's origins. His determination and single minded devotion to his cause.
I'm a big fan of Young Adult literature, so I was excited to read Waters's spin on teen drama: teen zombies returning from the grave. Unfortunately, after reading it, Generation Dead left me a little cold.
Read this for the best love quotes from Twilight. The Twilight saga is full of memorable quotes.
A great book review about The List, written by Sherri Lewis
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Do yourself a favor and escape into this well written and well read audio book.
This is an actual Midterm paper I submitted in Shakespeare's Comedies & Tragedies at Chapman University.
This was an assignment for a Bible as Literature Course at Chapman University. This is a basic summary of the New Testament before the resurrection of Christ.
Teachers take note: Don't hesitate to stray from the so-called literary canon. Teaching Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is just as legitimate teaching, say, Huck Finn.
This is a review of the book by Dr. Erwin Lutzer, "The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage." He looks at the issue from both sides and quotes many sources, and writes in a very respectful tone.
Both Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Swift knew the possibility to live one's life devoted to an ideology and the danger associated with that lifestyle. They use antithetical structure to place ideologies side-by-side to portray that danger.
Science fiction is a fun, mind-opening and wide-ranging field of literature, but it can be hard to find a place to start. With the novels listed here, you'll be ready to make your way into a whole new literary world.
A review of the latest novel in Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson series, Iron Kissed.
A review of Night's Daughter, Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel based on Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
This article lists five great movies based on books. Adaptations of The Great Gatsby, A Clockwork Orange, Being There, Short Cuts, and Running With Scissors are discussed.
Ah, the south Pacific. How does one make sense of those trackless, mysterious waters? I turn to the muses, artists and writers from Herman Melville down to James A. Michener.
From ancient manuscripts to the Internet, English resists the efforts of English teachers and lawmakers to keep it under contro.
Investing on the upper and lower exchanges are distinctly different
This is a summary and and brief critique of American Jesus, written by Stephen Prothero.
Stoppard's famously comic--and tragic-- carefully toys with the theme of predestination through stichomythic dialogue between its two major characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. What, then, is his ultimate message to the reader in this context?
Book Review on the children's book Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk with a short summary of the story, more information about the author and his other books.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a great book that discusses addiction from an insider's perspective.
A sneak peak of the book cover for "New Moon" and more information about the movie.
This article contains a review of Koslow's newest novel.
A guide to staying on top of your reading schedule by learning to enjoy it!
Looking for a book that will change the way you approach your life? Seeking something to help free your mind from the tangles of the world today? Take a moment to review the ideas presented here...
A short description of the character development of Dominique Francon in section I (out of IV) of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.
A description of the title character of Section I (of IV) of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, Peter Keating.
List of the top ten novels of our time.
A review of the children's book "What Makes a Rainbow?" by Betty Schwartz.
Competing with young June's burning ambition to be a top designer are war hero Arthur Rogers and his handsome younger brother, Charles. But, June's boss, entrepreneur Robert Watson - ruthless in both business and affairs of the heart - is determined not to lose his gifted designer to the ties of marriage or romantic love, ultimately forcing June to make a difficult decision between following her mind or her heart...
Book Review of Prairie Tale: A Memoir by Melissa Gilbert.
An analysis of the final scenes of Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop."