Original Language: English Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Country: USA Publication Date: January 3, 2012 ISBN : 0312641893 Page Count: 400 My rating Blurb Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, the ruthless lunar people wat…

My rating Blurb Rostand's masterpiece-and the ultimate triumph of the great French romantic tradition-is the magnificent hero-for-all-seasons, Cyrano de Bergerac. My thought In Paris, in the year 1640, a brilliant poet and swordsman named Cyrano de Bergerac finds himself deeply in love with his…

Published:  October 18, 1851 Author:  Herman Melville Original language:  English My rating Blurb The setting is the Pacific and Indian Oceans on a whaling ship called the Pequod. Some of the main characters are Moby Dick, a large whale, Ishmael, narrator of the book, Captain Ahab, captain of the P…

Published:  1923 Author:  Agatha Christie Genres:  Short story, Detective fiction Blurb A grand treasure for fans of the grande dame of mystery, The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories brings together nine rare and brilliant Christie tales of murder and detection that span nearly half a century of …

Published:  September 2006 Author:  Tatiana De Rosnay Genre:  Fiction Adaptations:  Sarah's Key  (2010) My rating  Blurb Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger broth…

Publisher :   Hodder Published :  2008 Copyright :  Jodi Picoult 2007 ISBN-10 :  PB  0-340-89726-0 ISBN-13 :  PB  978-0-340-89726-3 My rating Genre  Paranormal  Book blurb Do we love across time? Or in spite of it?  A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, an…

My rating Book blurb A powerful political novel based on the sudden, mysterious death of the man who had been handpicked to succeed the hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha.Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question. The man who died by his own hand, or another+s, was Meh…