Tag Archives: Jodi Webb

Titanic: The Tragedy That Shook the World — One Century Later

May 22, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:History & Current Events
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By Editors of LIFE Magazine Life, $29.95, 144 pages Published by LIFE Books, Titanic: The Tragedy That Shook the World — One Century Later follows the tradition of LIFE Magazine by telling the story mainly with photographs. Many were taken by Frank …

Cinnamon Roll Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery With Recipes!

March 12, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Mystery
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By Joanne Fluke Kensington, $24.00, 304 pages It’s just an average spring day in Lake Eden, Minnesota — snow, ice and mud that lead to a multicar pileup on the highway, plus the Swensen family finding another murder victim. When Hannah Swensen, …

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making; More Stories and Secrets From Her Notebooks

March 12, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Biography & Memoir
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By John Curran HarperCollins, $25.99, 432 pages Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making is the dissection of 55 years of work by Dame Agatha in the form of short stories, books, radio scripts and plays. Using mainly the 73 notebooks in which she …

The Twitter Book (second edition)

March 12, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Popular Culture
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By Tim O’Reilly/Sarah Milstein O’Reilly, $19.99 , 256 pages Depending on how you view it, Twitter is either silly, a networking necessity, self-indulgent or the most economic marketing plan ever. So which is it? The Twitter Book not only helps you sort out what …

Animal Planet: My Life in the Wild: Cheetah

February 21, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Kids' Books
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By Animal Planet, Meredith Costain Kingfisher, $9.99, 32 pages Cheetah is one of the first in a new My Life in the Wild series being developed by Animal Planet. The story is told by one young cheetah, from her birth through her growing …

Battle Fatigue

February 11, 2012 0 Comments the_category Category:Teen Scene
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By Mark Kurlansky Walker Children’s, $17.99, 256 pages Battle Fatigue is the story of a young man planning to move to Canada to escape the draft and the Vietnam War, reflecting back on his childhood and teenage years in a small town full …