171. Review-Lucky You
September 19, 2010
Lucky You: How to get Everything You Want and Create Your Ideal Life Using the Law of Attraction, David Hooper, 2009, ISBN 9781608420032
Everyone has heard of the Law of Attraction, but does it really work? How can the average person get the universe to send some good things in their direc...
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172. Review-Tesseracts Thirteen
September 02, 2010
Tesseracts Thirteen, Nancy Kilpatrick and David Morell (ed.), 2009, ISBN 9781894063258
Here is another group of imaginative tales from the Great White North. Because of the number of this volume, 13, this book focuses on horror and dark fantasy stories.
The world has been ravaged b...
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173. Review-Halting State
August 19, 2010
Halting State, Charles Stross, 2008, ISBN 9780441016075
This near-future story is about a bank robbery that exposes a whole lot more.
In Edinburgh, Scotland of the year 2018, a high-tech company called Hayek Associates suffers a bank robbery. A senior officer of the firm panics, a...
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174. Review-Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
August 03, 2010
Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead, Nancy Kilpatrick (ed.), 2010, ISBN 9781894063333
This is an anthology of new stories from Canada all about vampires, that mainstay of horror literature.
In the 21st century, Vampires are people, too (so to speak). They go on Oprah, they ha...
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175. Review-Gaea
August 02, 2010
Gaea, Robina Williams, 2009, ISBN 9781606191835
Third in a series, this fantasy novel is about Quant, a house cat who can cross between physical dimensions (and do a lot more than that).
Gaea (Mother Earth) has had it with mankind’s wanton destruction of her resources, including pl...
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176. Review-The Magician's Apprentice
July 22, 2010
The Magician’s Apprentice, Trudi Canavan, 2009, ISBN 9780316037884
First of a trilogy, this fantasy novel is about two enemies moving toward war, with a young apprentice stuck in the middle.
Tessia is a healer’s apprentice in the land of Kyralia. It is a place where the only "caree...
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177. Review-Odyssey
July 19, 2010
Odyssey, Jack McDevitt, 2006, ISBN 9780441014330
This far-future novel is about mankind’s attempt to learn the truth behind mysterious lights in space called moonriders.
Space travel and industrialization just has not paid off the way humanity had hoped. The search for intelligent ...
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178. Review-The Domino Men
July 15, 2010
The Domino Men, Jonathan Barnes, 2009, ISBN 9780061671701
This contemporary fantasy novel is about a file clerk suddenly thrust into the middle of a life-or-death battle over the future of Great Britain.
Henry Lamb is the sort of average person who exemplifies the term "civil servant...
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179. Review-Walking Man
July 13, 2010
Walking Man, Tim W. Brown, 2008, ISBN 9780978984700
Written as one of those celebrity tell-all biographies, this novel is about Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man.
Set in Chicago of the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brian seems to have a genetic need to walk everywhere, ...
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180. Review-The Power of Half
July 06, 2010
The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back, Kevin and Hannah Salwen, 2010, ISBN 9780547248066
This is the true story of one family’s decision to actually do their bit to make the world a little better.
The Salwen’s live in suburban Atlanta, in a $...
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