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Review: How To Pass Your Hair Follicle Drug Test

This fantastic little pocket guide is designed specifically to help people pass hair follicle drug tests the right way, relieving stress and boasting amazing results. The book covers how the Macujo Method works and how the author’s specialized method, known as the Mike Macujo Method ...
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Book Review: A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb

A Certain Slant of Light was published as Young Adult fiction, though its main characters are clearly the adult spirits and not the teenage bodies they inhabit. It’s a book that has great crossover potential for adult readers. ...
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Review: A Simple Plan By Scott Smith

A Simple Plan is a perfect suspense novel. Smith's protagonist, Hank Mitchell, is forever in danger of being found out. The bag of stolen money, stashed precariously under his bed, nearly throbs in the story, Tell-Tale-Heart-like, constantly in our minds as a source of potential trouble for him ...
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Review: Corbenic By Catherine Fisher

Except for a sign saying “Corbenic,” there is nothing there. After wandering around in the dark, Cal stumbles upon an upscale castle-like inn where he is welcomed with a banquet. He makes a mistake during the meal, though, and the next morning he wakes up to find himself ...
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Review: Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself By Alan Alda

Alan Alda was moved to write his book: "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" as a means of answering a question. After nearly dying in a Chilean hospital in 2003, Alda began to wonder whether he had lived a meaningful life and to ask himself, ...
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Review: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation By M. T. Anderson

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson won the National Book Award this year and was named a Printz Honor Book. It really does deserve all the attention it has received. Octavian Nothing ...
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Review: Power Play By Joseph Finder

Like Joseph Finder's previous corporate thrillers, Power Play is laced with technical jargon, which lends the story credibility yet somehow doesn't weigh down the pages. Jake turns out to have a complicated past that makes him particularly well suited to dealing with a bunch of heavily-armed baddies. He ...
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