Book Feature: Fail Nation

Title: Fail Nation
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publication Date: October 2009
Price $11.99
Description: Just like Fail blog it shows you the epic fails that we put out every day.

Book Feature: NutureShock – New Thinking About Children

Title: NutureShock – New Thinking About Children
Author: Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Publication Date: 2009
Price: $24.99
Description: Parenthood is tough – this book sheds light on some new ideas of how you can help shape your child. You can be a great parent – but if you don’t know why some of these key things occur then you can’t fix them. This book tells you some shocking science behind why your children behave the way they do.

Book Feature: Fish: Finned and Gilled Animals

Title: Fish: Finned and Gilled Animals
Author: Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by: Kristin Kest
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Description: A short and fun picture book with tons of information about fish. Great to start your kids on – but with enough facts that even if you don’t know anything you aren’t just making things up. This group of books is great for teaching children – and I would recommend them for everyone!

Book Feature: If your kid eats this book, everything will still be okay

Author: Lara Zibners, M.D.
Pages: 296
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Publication Date: 2009
Price: $14.99
Description: A list of various things that can happen to a child. Written in plain English (not just for doctors) it tells you if this is something you need to worry about or if you can chalk it up to being just normal kid stuff!

Book Feature: If you were a Capital Letter

Title: If you were a Capital Letter
Author: Trisha Speed Shaskan
Illustrated by: Sara Gray
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Description: Do you want to teach your children when they should be using capital letters? This book will help you do it. Lots of pictures and mini-stories along with the rules of capitalization make teaching this enjoyable for everyone. This group of books is great for teaching children – and I would recommend them for everyone!

Book Feature: If you were a Triangle

Title: If you were a Triangle
Author: Marcie Aboff
Illustrated by: Sarah Dillard
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Description: Triangles are everywhere. This books help point out those triangles to children and explains also the facts about triangles. It even ends with a little quiz, glossary and index. This group of books is great for teaching children – and I would recommend them for everyone!

Book Feature: If you were a Plural Word

Title: If you were a Plural Word
Author: Trisha Speed Shaskan
Illustrated by: Sara Gray
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Description: One of the first things you learn in grade school is all about plural words. And this book explains all the ways you do that and how it works. This group of books is great for teaching children – and I would recommend them for everyone!

Book Feature: Move It! Work It!

Title: Move It! Work It!
Author: Laura Purdie Salas
Illustrated by: Vivianna Garofoli
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2009
Description: Like to sing? Want your children to learn about simple machines. The easiest way to remember anything is through music. And this book combines the two of those things to help your children remember the facts and concepts that you are teaching them!

Book Feature: Jason and the Golden Fleece

Title: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Author: Nel Yomtov
Illustrated by: Gerardo Sandoval
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Description: A graphic novel about Jason’s quest for the golden fleece. Told in a new way that will intrigue any child.

Book Feature: If you were a Plural Word

Title: If you were a Plural Word
Author: Trisha Speed Shaskan
Illustrated by: Sara Gray
Publisher: Capstone Publishers
Publication Date: 2010
Description: One of the first things you learn in grade school is all about plural words. And this book explains all the ways you do that and how it works. This group of books is great for teaching children – and I would recommend them for everyone!

Book Feature: Aurora of the Northern Lights

Author: Holly Hardin
Pages: 32
Price: $18.95
Category: Christmas/Holidays
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Description: Aurora goes off on her own after the death of her parents. Because of who she is no one will listen to her. With the holidays coming Aurora is able to use special gifts to find her way to her new home.

Book Feature: Hollywood is Like High School With Money

By Zoey Dean
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: July 2009
Pages: 278
Price: $13.99
Description:Taylor Henning thinks she finally has everything she wants. She is an assistant at a major movie studio. Quickly she realizes there is a lot more to the business (a lot more cattiness that is). How is Taylor supposed to fit into this Hollywood lifestyle?

She meets her boss's daughter Quinn and realizes that there may be someone who can help her. Quinn is the queen of her high school and maybe she can teach Taylor how to be queen bee too. But is that what Taylor really wants?

Book Feature: Dial Emmy for Murder

By Eileen Davidson
Publisher: Obsidian
Publication Date: June 2009
Pages: 294
Price: $6.99
Description: Alexis Peterson is ready to move on to another soap. And her fans can't believe it. But there is already a lot going on in Alexis's life - she is going to be a presenter at the Daytime Emmy Awards. But during what should be a great honor in her life she is dragged into a mystery when a copresenter loses his life. Can Alex find out (with the help of Detective Frank Janks) who the murder really is?

Book Feature: Lovestruck Summer

By Melissa Walker
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 266
Price: $5.99
Description: Priscilla "Quinn" likes being the alternate girl. She thrives being the girl with the blue short hair that loves bands and alternative music. When an opportunity comes up to go work for her favorite bands music label she jumps on it. Even if she is only 18 years old. So off she goes to Texas to live with her cousin "Party Penny". Penny is everything that Quinn hates - pink, bubbly, and a sorority girl. When Quinn meets the guy of her dreams - Sebastian she thinks her summer is made. But why can she not stop thinking about her cousin's friend Russ.

Book Feature: The Corinthian

Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication Date: Original 1940 - Republished 2009
Price $13.99
Pages: 261
Description: Penelope Creed will do anything to stop the marriage she is being forced into. Even if it means dressing as a boy and running from London. On her way she meets Sir Richard Wyndham. Sir Richard knows he can't let Penelope run around the countryside on her own - so he offers to be her protector. What happens when he can't escape her love?

Book Feature: The Nonesuch

Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication Date: Original 1962 - Republished 2009
Price $13.99
Pages: 337
Description: Ancilla Trent is a woman who chaperones others. She is too old for marriage (at least according to society). She is assigned the duties of watching Tiffany Weld she is not looking forward to it as this girl is known to be difficult. Tiffany runs off leaving Ancilla to deal wit the scandal. Sir Waldo Hawkridge is a kind man who helps Ancilla deal with this horrible occurrence. And what they both learn is love can come at any age.

Book Feature: Frederica

Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication Date: Original 1968 - Republished 2009
Price $13.95
Pages: 437
Description: Frederica brings her younger sisters to London in order for them to make an advantageous match. To do this though she needs the help of her distant cousin the Marquis of Alverstoke. Dispite Alverstokes concerns he can't help but listen to Frederica's compassion and straightforwardness and agree to help them. Before they know it there is danger for both of them.

Book Feature: The Greatest Knight - The Unsung Story of the Queen's Champion

Author: Elizabeth Chadwick
Publication Date: September 2009
Pulisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 560 pages
Price $14.99
Description: William Marshall saves the life of the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. From being an obscure knight to being appointed as tutor to the heirs of the throne he becomes a favorite. There is much danger to being the favorite of fickle royalty. Add to that the enemies you create just by being a favorite and you will find many willing to take you down.

Book Feature: Along Came You

Author: Karona Drummond
Illustrated by: Estelle Corke
Ages: 4-7
Publication Date: April 2009
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Cost $15.99
Description: A book written to tell a child from mother to daughter how much life changed when they were born. In a fun way it explains all the things that they now get to do because there is a wonderful child in their life.

Book Feature: Drood

By: Dan Simmons
Read by: Simon Prebble
Playing Time: 10.5 hours
Price: $34.98
Publisher: Little, Brown