Travel related books
Company of Liars is a well written historical novel set at the time of the Great Plague in Europe, 1348. The disease has just reached the shores of England and the populace are starting to panic as it spreads across the country, sparing no-one. Although this is the background, the tale essentially
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The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones-Shakespeare-or someone using that name. Interred With Their Bones is the story of a lost Shakespeare play and the quest to discover who really wrote the plays credited to one William Shakespeare. Interred Withe Their
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The great thing about audio books is they are constantly changing but one cannot discount the fact that their origins all came from cassette books. Sadly, since the production of cassette tapes are limited, one day soon even the cassette books will no longer be used. It would become more of a memo
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If you are wondering what ebooks are, you have been missing out on them for the last 5-10 years. Ebooks are electronic books which you can download instantly whenever you want. Some are free and some you have to pay for. There are just like any other book you would get from your local library exce
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From times past, African stories have thrilled and excited people on the continent and around the world. This is not surprising due to the richness of the African tales originating from the continent. Many tales or stories from authors on the continent, contain a rich blend of proverbs and good o
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Deciding where to buy audio books is easy these days if you know where to look! It used to be that you'd have to drive all around town to different bookstores to get the ones you wanted. Now all you have to do is navigate the best online storefronts, and you can have audio titles delivered right t
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is a fantastically well conceived book by Robert M. Pirsig, author of the subsequent work "Lila: An Inquiry into Morals". In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance he presents a part-fiction part-fact account of a motorcycle journey through the back-ro
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Buddha is Hiding by Aihwa Ong shows the perils of multicultural policy compounded by multiculturalist thought. Ong's book follows the lives of 50,000 Cambodian refugees we accepted in the 1970s. During the reign of Pol Pot in Cambodia approximately one third of the population was killed. Many of
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First published in the early twentieth century shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin has been translated by Natasha Randall and republished in 2006. We is considered a precursor to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Fourand has a feeling similar to Ray Bradbury's Fa
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When was the last time you ventured into the land of make believe? Every so often, I love to read fairy tales and folktales because we can learn from them. I read Best-Loved Folk Tales of the World by Joanna Cole and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wish that life were that simple where the good guy u
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