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Nov 26 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko
Destinies in Motion is an epic adventure fantasy tale written by author and illustrator Liliya V Galitskaya, a Russian seamstress living in Canada. The story introduces the Vladners, a family whose everyday lives are suddenly changed by events that seem beyond their control. Lana, the daughter of the family decides to take on the quest [...]
Nov 20 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Avery Hurt
William Samuel Babington, the protagonist of Aeternum Ray, by Tracy R. Atkins, was born in the twentieth century and spent his youth in the same world we now inhabit. But by the time Babington succumbs to the heart defect he inherited from his father, the world and humans have changed dramatically. Told in the form [...]
Nov 14 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko
Geoffrey Young’s novel “Fall” is a tempestuous marriage between beautifully crafted prose and a story that leaps time and place to explain exactly why we find our narrator, Paul, a waiter and would-be writer (there is only one letter difference between them, he tells us hopefully) who sits on a fire escape in New York, [...]
Nov 13 2012in Book Reviews, Features by tbmarkinsonTags: Fiction, politics
If you took a poll asking people the capital of California my guess would be that not many people would know the answer. If you continued by asking how many of them have visited the capital city of California, I think even less people would answer in the affirmative. Books and movies that take place [...]
Tags: Fiction, politics
Nov 7 2012in Book Reviews, Features by tbmarkinsonTags: Fiction, mystery
Tropical Temptation: A Kristen Maroney Mystery, by Susan LaDue, is a short mystery involving a cast of characters residing in Placencia, a small Caribbean town in Central America. Kristen Maroney owns a beach and resort wear boutique. She’s divorced, has a sexy boyfriend, wonderful friends, and a dog named Buster. Her store doesn’t make a ton of [...]
Tags: Fiction, mystery
Nov 2 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Avery Hurt
The Book of Revelations: From Bombingham to Obama is a book of fiction. It is, however, based on real events, and the main character, Addie Mae Collins, was a real person. She was one of the four teenage girls who were killed in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama when the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was bombed. [...]
Oct 30 2012in Book Reviews, Features by tbmarkinsonTags: Children's Books, Children's Literature, Fairy Tales
“The Dragon Who Feared Fire” is a delightful tale about two outcasts who find each other and discover the true meaning of friendship. Even before Harold’s birth, his father knew he would not be like other dragons. Percy, Harold’s father, predicts, “Growing up may be hard for you, but you’ll be a dragon unlike any [...]
Tags: Children's Books, Children's Literature, Fairy Tales
Oct 24 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine ToskoTags: Fiction
Butt Ugly is a story of “love and baseball.” It is the heart warming tale of the cantankerous Cole Catalpa Junior, born with a deformity to the face that is so hideous people stare and comment all the time. He proves his bullies wrong when he starts pitching his anger out on his father’s barn [...]
Tags: Fiction
Oct 23 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko
This book is written by a Canadian mechanic with an interest in the origin of language. He has obviously spent a great amount of his life reading and thinking about this question, not just as a technical quandary but rather a personal one. As a Christian with no other language knowledge past that of high [...]
Oct 19 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko
When you pick up a fantasy genre book for teenagers, you expect Tolkeinesque trekking through rocks and meeting strange hybrid creatures, right? You expect lengthy descriptions of mountains, tunnels and pathways, yes? You expect charm, betrayal, adventure and friendship across species and a hero with the odds against him, don’t you? You get all of [...]