Written By: Cevin Soling

Illustrated By: Steve Kille

Published By: Monk Media.  First Edition

Hardcover, 40 Pages

Product Description From Amazon.com: We’ve all heard of stray cats following kids home or a lost puppy yelping by a kitchen door for food, but did you know that even a wayward little bomb needs love and attention too? When a bomb, looking for a friend, follows a young boy home, trouble breaks out in a suburban household that is just trying to keep peace with the angry neighbours next door.

The Bomb That Followed Me Home is one of the most amusing young adult books I have read and it made me smile.  I found that the story and the illustrations went well together and made my reading experience enjoyable.  I love the twist the author put on the old “puppy followed boy home” story.  I recommend this book for everyone 14 years of age and older.

Monk Media
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Cevin Soling
http://www.cevinsoling.com/

Written By: Karen Page & Andrew Dornenburg

Published By: Little, Brown & Company a Division of Hachette Book Group Inc., First Edition

Hardcover, 392 Pages

Product Description From Amazon.com: Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe–it’s knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs’ combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating “deliciousness” in any dish. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal.  Seasoned with tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from America’s most imaginative chefs, THE FLAVOR BIBLE is an essential reference for every kitchen.

The Flavor Bible can do the impossible and make even the food I cook taste good.  Hidden inside these unassuming pages is everything you need to make a magnificent meal.  The book starts by exploring the four basic tastes (salty, sour, bitter and sweet).  From there using the four basic tastes it goes on to explain which flavors work together the best to give you the most mouth watering meals over and over again.  I highly recommend this book for anyone that ever steps foot in a kitchen.

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Karen Page & Andrew Dornenburg
http://www.becomingachef.com

Vigilante Witch Hunter

Written By: Gary Turcotte

Published By: Outskirts Press, Inc.

Soft Cover, 252 Pages

From The Back Cover:Every dark cloud does not have a silver lining.  Melissa married the man of her dreams.  She didn`t know that he was a fortune teller.  His secret life brought many dark hearted people into Meliaas`s future.  She wondered if her soul mate had sold his soul to the devil.  Sometimes a buried treasure is best left alone.

Vigilante Witch Hunter is a new and interesting take on fortune telling.  I found this book to be well written and very fun to read.  The only thing that disappointed me was the ending.  It seemed that the author ran out of idea`s and just through something together that confused me and really let me down.  I recommend this book for anybody looking for something new.

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Gary Turcotte
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2844791.Gary_Turcotte

Written By: Raymond Benson

Published By: Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. First Edition

Soft Cover, 305 pages

From The Back Cover: Musicians in progressive rock bands in Chicago are being murdered–one by one.  The local police have no clues, but several of the musicians who fear they’re next on the hit list claim that the killer is a ghost from the past–a woman who was reported missing and presumed dead for over thirty years!.  The Rockin’ Security team is called into action.  Spike and his partner, Suzanne Prescott, travel to Chicago to investigate the case, only to find that no one wants to talk.  As Spike digs deeper, he begins to unearth a lode of deadly secrets involving sex, psychedelic drugs, and, of course, rock ‘n’ roll.  And it isn’t long before the private detective becomes a pawn in a very dangerous game.

Dark Side of the Morgue is a well written crime thriller that was easy to read, with a flowing story.  I found that the book had a slow start but it picked up not to far along.  I also found it hard to keep track of all the band names and who played with who and on which bands; I spent a lot of time at the front of the book rereading the Chicagoprog Family Tree.  One of the things that I didn’t like about this story was at about 1/3 of the way through the book, the author gives you a good clue as to who the killer is and I was pretty sure (that early on) who the killer was; it was a bit of a let down.  I would recommend this book for anyone that is a fan of crime thrillers.

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Raymond Benson
http://www.raymondbenson.com/

Written By: Drew Magary

Published By: Little, Brown & Company a Division of Hachette Book Group Inc., First Edition

Hardcover, 288 pages

From The Inside Flap: This will be the very last book you ever read. Because after you read this book, you, good sir, will know how to be a pro athlete. And pro athlete’s don’t need books. Or strong family bonds. Or any of that stupid crap. Not when they have ready access to millions of dollars and scores of smoking-hot chicks with questionable judgement. With Men With Balls, you learn how to: Showboat using classic pantomime techniques, Exploit the recent death of an opponent’s parent for strategic gain, Figure out whether or not a stripper actually fancies you, Cope with the emotional fallout of rookie-year hazing games, like broomstick orifice potluck, Find out which free locker-room amphetamines will give you a shot of energy, and which will cause you to run down terrified schoolchildren with your Escalade (NOTE: Some do both), Avoid media scrutiny by directing beat writers and columnists to the nearest hot buffet. So grad your balls — you’re about to become a homerun hitting, steroid-injecting, angry-orgy-having Turbostud. They’re gonna need a whole ocean just to wash your jock. Is that better than reading? F–K and yes.

Men With Balls is the funniest book I have ever read. I found the book easy to read and well written. This book had me is stitches from the first page covering everything you need to know to be a Pro Athlete. It starts by with an introduction to Pro Athletedom and goes on to talk about teammates, fans, fame, women and many other things pro athletes have to deal with. I highly recommend this book for all sports fans or anybody with a sense of humour and an open mind.

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Drew Magery
http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/

How To Profit From The Coming Rapture, Getting Ahead When You’re Left Behind

Written By: Steve & Evie Levy as told to Ellis Weiner & Barbara Davilman.

Published By: Little, Brown & Company a Division of Hachette Book Group Inc., First Edition.

Soft Cover, 224 pages

From The Back Cover: The Rapture is coming. Horrifying bloodshed and destruction will follow. And that means one thing: investment opportunities! Any Day now, Jesus is going to rapture up about 1.5 billion people to join him in Heaven. Five billion of the rest of us — Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, all Catholics, Most Protestants, members of every other religion, and, of course, atheists and agnostics — will still be here, with questions. Questions such as: What’s in this for me? How can I not only survive but thrive in the seven post-Rapture years of chaos, agony, and bad weather leading up to Armageddon? Steve & Evie Levy answer these questions and more. They guide you step-by-step through the financial conundrums you’ll face as Judgment Day approaches.

How to Profit From The Coming Rapture is a well-written humorous book about making money as the world goes to hell. The book has a Rapture-Tribulation Timeline and covers everything from Run up to the Rapture to the three Tribulations, The Seal Judgments, The Trumpet Judgments and The Bowl Judgments giving you money making tips for every step of the way. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it for anybody with a good sense of humour.
 

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Ellis Weiner & Barbara Davilman
http://profitfromthecomingrapture.com/content/index.asp

Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?

Written By: Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur with Brendan Hay.

Published By: Grand Central Publishing a Division of Hachette Book Group Inc., First Edition

Hard Cover, 272 Pages

From The Inside Flap: If you hate: chick lit, Che Guevara merchandise, pop Kabbalah, cosmetic-surgery-gone-wrong-as-TV-entertainment, Oscar parties, hedge fund boys, Mac junkies. ikea, or even just the word “uber,” then you need… is it just me or is everything shit? An encyclopedic attack on modern culture, this is the standard reference for everyone who believes that everything is shit.  Which it is.  This book says NO to the phony ideas, terrible people, useless products, and annoying doublespeak that increasingly dominate our lives.  This brand-new edition is based on the runaway UK bestsellers and adapted for American readers by ex Daily Show and The Simpsons contributing writer Brendan Hay.  Never before has a book been so entirely full of shit.

Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? is a book for anybody who has had enough with all the gizmo’s, gadgets, slang and all the other ”insanely annoying modern things”.  In one of the funniest books I have ever read Steve, Alan and Brendan have hit the nail on the head with everything from Ads for Credit Cards, Faux Swearing to Inconvenient Truths and Restaurant Service Charges.  The authors have written down what annoys, pisses off or just plain confuses us about everything modern.  This book made me laugh out loud and was genuinely amusing.  I highly recommend this book for anybody that needs a good laugh.

 Hachette Book Group Inc.
www.hachettebookgroup.com

Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur
http://www.iseverythingshit.co.uk/

Divine Justice
(Book Review)

Written By: David Baldacci

Published By: Grand Central Publishing a Division of Hachette Book Group Inc., First Edition

Hardcover, 400 Pages

From The Inside Flap: Known by his alias, “Oliver Stone,” John Carr is the most wanted man in America.  With two pulls of the trigger, the men who destroyed Stone’s life and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced.  But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations he carried out prompt the highest levels of the U.S. government to unleash a massive manhunt.  Yet behind the scenes, master spy Macklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse.  He, more than anyone else, wants stone dead.  With their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club risk everything to save him.  Now, as the hunters close in, Stone’s flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia - and into a world every bit as bloody and lethal as the one he left behind.

Divine Justice is a well written edge of your seat thriller.  From the start of the book the main character is on the run seeming to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Even with all the bad luck he always seems to come out on top.  Mr. Baldacci has written one of the best thriller novels I have ever read it was hard to put this book down.  I highly recommend this book for anybody that loves a good thriller.

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David Baldacci
www.davidbaldacci.com/web/

Written By: John & Geri McPherson

Published By: Ulysses Press, First Edition

Softcover, 316 Pages

From The Back Of The Book “During my first years of learning survival I took a course in survival and primitive earth skills taught by John and Geri McPherson.  I was excited by their unbelievable passion and their intrinsic understanding of survival.  Their teachings took me from understanding basic skills to a full-blown love for the ancient technologies that humans developed to survive.  John and Geri are the real deal.  They don’t just teach this stuff, they live it.  I loved the experience with them so much i came back a second time a few years later.  Now that I have traveled the world as Survivorman – experiencing and filming survival in every ecosystem there is – I can sit back and watch my shows and see John and Geri’s teachings peek through in every situation.  I have been able to understand survival because of John and Geri, and can highly recommend this book.  Les Stroud, AKA Survivorman”

Ultimate Guide To Wilderness Living is a very informative and well written book.  This book will give you the information you need to practice living in the wilderness.  It covers everything from building shelters, making fires and hunting and making meat.  I personally will start by trying to make a bow with my son when spring gets here in may.  I enjoyed this book immensely  and highly recommend it for anyone who is thinking of spending anytime out in the wilderness.

Ulysses Press
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John & Geri McPherson
http://www.prairiewolf.net/Pages/PW.html

Written By: Orson Scott Card

Published By: A Tor Book, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, November 2008 First Edition

Hardcover, 369 Pages

From Front Book Flap:  “At the close of Ender’s Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – knows that he cannot live on earth.  He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: He is the savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony.  He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemon’s control, a pawn in his brother Peter’s political games.  Or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war.  The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told…until now.”

Ender In Exile is a well written and entertaining book.  I started reading this book with a little apprehension with it being book 10 in a series.  I was worried that I would not understand some of what was going on in the book.  Mr. Card added enough back story so first time readers are not left in the dark.  Ender In Exile was written to take place mostly between chapter 14 and 15 of Ender’s Game.  Ender In Exile leads the reader from Ender leaving the military, to being in politics and finally to Ender leaving it all behind to find his place in the galaxy.  I really enjoyed reading this book the flow of the story was good, easy to follow and very entertaining.  I highly recommend this book.

A Tor Book, Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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Orson Scott Card
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