Synopsis: Does your dog really love you? Neuroscientist Gregory Berns used an MRI machine to find out. What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner--completely awake. They … Continue reading Review: What It’s Like to Be a Dog by Gregory Berns
Synopsis: Try Not to Die TV-XXX (Salty language, Sexual innuendo, Vomit-inducing ultraviolence) TBA. Pirate transmission. North America's number one reality television show returns with instant fan favorite Dawn Churchill, a plucky, hometown girl from the irradiated ruins of the former United States. Will she survive the night in the electrified, booby-trapped arena or will one … Continue reading Slashvivor! by Stephen Kozeniewski and Stevie Kopas
Synopsis: From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story. Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an eye-opening journey to uncover how women are being … Continue reading Review: Inferior – How Science Got Women Wrong by Angela Saini
Synopsis: “The night I met Death, he thought he was just passing through.” The eerie, obsessive attraction between a restless woman and a dangerous traveler tips into madness. Terror with a twist, STALKER is a richly gothic tale to be read by candlelight. This book has been sat on my TBR for far too long, … Continue reading Pauline West has kickstarted my Halloween
Synopsis: In Domengrad, there are rules all must live by: Fear the Gods. Worship the Magicians. Forsake the Iconoclasts. To Annabelle Klein, the rules laid down by the Magicians are the mere ramblings of stuffy old men. As far as she’s concerned, the historic Iconoclasts, heretics who nearly destroyed the Magicians so long ago, are … Continue reading Review: Colorless by Rita Stradling
Synopsis: Veronica’s first date with Sebastian not only stirs up a powerful attraction, but also a series of supernatural events that will tear them apart. After countless hours of dead end online dating, Veronica meets up with Sebastian at a reportedly haunted restaurant, since he knows she has a fascination with the paranormal. While enjoying … Continue reading Review: Dead Over Heels by Theresa Braun
Synopsis: A wealthy woman strangled six hours after she’s arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can’t control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of … Continue reading Review: The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
Synopsis: Left penniless and alone by the untimely death of her father, Sarah Lowell works as a day nurse at King’s College Hospital. Her daily walk to and from work crosses the Rookery of St. Giles, a dangerous place made all the more frightening by the fact that someone lurks in the shadows, watching Sarah, … Continue reading Review: Dark Embrace by Eve Silver (Dark Gothic #6)
Synopsis: If you could change history, would you? College graduate Josephine “Josie” Jackson answers ‘yes’ to the question on a survey while visiting an Old West tourist trap. The next morning, she wakes up in Indian Territory in the 1840s, where she’s given a mission to complete before she can return to her time: to … Continue reading Audiobook Review: West by Lizzy Ford, Narrated by Lillian Yves
Synopsis: For everyone and everything there is a time to die. Lirael is no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, with Dead creatures to battle and Free Magic entities to bind. She’s also a Remembrancer, wielder of the Dark Mirror. Lirael lost one of her hands in the binding of Orannis, … Continue reading Review: Goldenhand by Garth Nix (Abhorsen book#5)
Synopsis: Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of E.T., roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. But when they arrive at high school, things change. Gretchen begins to act…different. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre behavior start to pile up, Abby realizes there’s only one … Continue reading Review: My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
Synopsis: Set on the ragged edge of a postapocalyptic frontier, Blackwing is a gritty fantasy debut about a man’s desperate battle to survive his own dark destiny… Nothing in the Misery lasts… Under a cracked and wailing sky, the Misery is a vast and blighted expanse, created when the Engine, the most powerful weapon in … Continue reading Review: Blackwing by Ed McDonald (Raven’s Mark book 1)
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