The long-awaited, eagerly anticipated, arguably over-hyped Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has arrived, and the question on the minds of kids, adults, fans, and skeptics alike is, "Is it worth the hype?" The answer, luckily, is simple: yep. A magnificent spectacle more than worth the price of admission, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince...more
"Shoot," I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table... I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, int...more
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in...more
What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fas...more
The Final Book of The Twilight Saga, the saga devoted to the inner-workings of Bellas mind, as she meets and falls in love with a vampire, becomes best friends with a werewolf, and learns about herself and what she wants, in the process. This is the final book of the saga because, although Meyers will continue with Forks and the Cullens, Bellas nar...more
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she choose No...more
Is Prince Charming out there? Sometimes he's the cutie you've been crushing on since ninth grade. Sometimes he's disguised as the guy you'd never notice in a million years. And sometimes he's the best friend who's been beside you all along. . . .Here are three classic stories about three girls who've kissed way too many frogs . . . and three guys w...more
Help! It's prom time and once again, Nicole is without a date. Not that she needs one--she's perfectly happy to hang out with her interesting, intelligent self. So why did she open her big mouth and announce she was going to the prom with this cute stranger she met at the mall? Not only does she not know who he is or if he's taken, she's only got t...more
Johnny never thought he could cheat on his girlfriend . . . especially with her worst enemy! See if he does in Johnny, the third in the Brothers trilogy.Some summer this is for Johnny. He's stuck at a beach resort with his younger brothers, four hours away from his girlfriend, Jane. And worse, his new lifeguard partner is Kylie, his girlfriend's to...more