Saturday, January 21, 2012

Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark

I told you not to come...Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigial Jennings, slated for nomination as the first woman vice president of the United States.

With the help of an old flame, Congressman Sam Kingsley, Pat delves into Abigial's life, only ti turn up horrifying facts that threaten to destroy the senator's reputation and her career. Worse still, sinister connections to Pat's own childhood and the nightmare secrets hidden within it are surfacing--secrets waiting to destroy her.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Anthem by Ayn Rand

He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: he had stood forth from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. Ayn Rand's classic tale of a future dark age of the great "we"-- a world that deprives individualism of name, independence, and values--anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

This centennial edition of Anthem, celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an introduction by Rayn's literary executor, Leonard Peikoff, which includes excerpts from documents by Ayn Rand--letters, interviews, and journal notes in which she discusses Anthem. This volume also includes a Reader's Guide to her writings and philosophy.

Born February 2, 1905, Ayn Rand published her first novel, We the Living, in 1936. Anthem followed in 1938. It was with the publication of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957) that she achieved her spectacular success. Ms. Rand's unique philosophy, Objectivism, has gained a worldwide audience. The fundamentals of her philosophy are put forth in three nonfiction books, Introduction to Objectivism Epistemology, The Virtue of Selfishness, and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. They are all available in Signet editions, as is the magnificent statement if her artistic credo, The Romantic Manifesto.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Vermont Wild by Megan Price

This book is about VT Fish and Game Wardens and some of the adventures that they have had. The author of this book interviewed a group of retired game wardens and collected stories from there past. These stories include some historic events and how the game wardens were involved.

VERMONT WILD by Megan Price

This book has hilarious true stories of a goos hunt run afoul, deer jacker disasters, barbed wire blunders,tricking a trapper, a dog named Satan and many more this is the second volume. It is a book about stories about Vermont fish and wildlife wardens and biologists.

Dragon Heir By: Cinda Williams Chima

The covenant that was meant to keep wizard wars at bay has been stolen, and Trinity must prepare for attack. Everyone is doing their part: Seph is monitoring the Weirwalls, Jack and Ellen are training their ghostly army, even Anaweir Will and Fitch are setting booby traps around the town's perimeter. But to Jason Haley it seems like everyone wants to keep him out of action. He may not be the most powerful wizard in Trinity, but he's prepared to fight for his friends.

Everything changes, though, when Jason finds a powerful talisman- a huge opal called the Dragonheart- Buried in a cave. The stone seems to sing to Jason's very soul- showing him that he's meant for more than anyone's guessed.

Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will the people of Trinity be willing to fight for- and what are they willing to sacrifice? It's everyone for himself in this thrilling conclusion to the Heir trilogy.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Forever by Maggie Stiefvater

Then. When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love moved from a curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives.

Now. That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt.

Forever. Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment -- a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card

Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child, begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists-he is way too small for that- but with brains.

Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness.

What better quality for a future general to lead Earth in a final climatic battle against a hostile alien race. At Battle School Bean meets and befriends another future commander- Ender Wiggin- perhaps his only true rival. Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Crookedstar's Promise by Erin Hunter

This book tells about the Riverclans leader. How he went from Stormkit, Crookedkit, Crookedpaw, Crookedjaw, and finally Crookedstar.

How he lost all there is to loose and and then regained it. This takes please at roughly the same time as Bluestars Prophecy, and a couple years before Call of the Wild.

All from one little promise.


Monday, January 2, 2012

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Thomas wakes up in a moving structure his memory completely wiped. All he can remember is his own name but nothing of his past life. He reaches a stop and two sliding doors above him reveal to him about fifty boys, all in there late teens looking down at him and laughing.
Getting out of this box like thing was terrible, he felt sick and lifeless. Looking around he saw that he was in a vast courtyard with walls hundreds of feat tall, four openings one on each side led out into misty and dark pathways. Why was he here, what was happening to him.


Sorry its such a mystery that's where i am in the book.

Welfare Brat by Mary Childers

Mary Childer's and frank memoir tells the story of growing up in a family in which five out of seven children dropped out of high school and four different fathers dropped out of sight. While her mother's romantic charisma occasionally brightened their dim, roach-infested two-bedroom apartment, her alcohol-inspired moodiness and irresponsibility often left her children hungry and desperate. Determined to live differently, Childers finds refuge first in books and then in work. Self-sufficiency, she realizes, is her only reliable ticket out of Bronx neighborhoods increasingly characterized by arson, rampant crime, and racial conflict.

I think this book is very good so far, i'm not sure how this book will turn out but it is very sad. The preface and first chapter really draw me in because its sad and explains how she feels and how her life is as a young girl. The beginning really makes you want tor read more.