By Christopher Borrelli
Chicago Tribune
(MCT)
CHICAGO — Ever wonder what the typical rock star is thinking about on stage? Playing the same songs played a million times before? To the same audiences?...
"Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood"
That snarky opening line has spawned a five book series, a second series and two feature films. It is how we are first introduced to Percy Jackson. At the...
By Connie Ogle
The Miami Herald
“Back to Blood” by Tom Wolfe; Little, Brown ($30)
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Sprawling, messy, maddening, exhilarating, exhausting, over-caffeinated and hyper-punctuated, Tom Wolfe’s...
David Wong’s book “This Book is Full of Spiders”, is a sequel to the book “John Dies at the End”.
“This Book is Full of Spiders” is another comic horror novel that follows the antics of...
Have you ever wondered what happened after your favorite fairy tale ended, or why every princess is married to Prince Charming? Golden Globe-winner, Chris Colfer, answers these questions and more in his...
The vampire craze has a new twist leading to the idea that vampires are trapped on the earth because they are lost angels. These lost souls have been trapped on earth for centuries, trying to find a...
A young boy is born with a secret that is hidden, the only thing that can reveal this hidden knowledge is the marking on his foot.In the House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer, Matteo Alacran is born in...
Markus Zusak brings a new twist to the holocaust in The Book Thief by having death tell the story of a young girl struggling through th terrible time.
Many holocaust stories end up being the same story...
