The Alliance
Gerald N. Lund
This science fiction novel begins in a community located in Wyoming, eighteen years after most of civilization is destroyed. The people in this community are captured and integrated into a “perfect” society. After the people in this community are captured and Continue reading
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey was Jane Austen’s first published novel. It takes place in Bath, England, where she goes with her aunt and uncle, and begins her experiences in the real world. She also spends time in Northanger Abbey, the estate of her beloved friends Eleanor and Henry Tilney’s father. The Heroine of the novel is Catherine Morland, a seventeen year old girl. Not only does she fall in love Continue reading
Piano Classics 2
This is the HUGE book of Classics you may have seen in the music store. The main contributors to this book are J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Schubert. Some of the more popular composers in this book are Handel, Joplin, Saint-Saens, and Tchaikovsky. Continue reading
Music by Dario Marianalli
This book of piano music is from the music off of the newest Pride and Prejudice movie, starring Kierra Knightly and Matthew Macfadyan. There are a few amazing songs as you may know, many however are just back ground music. Most of the songs are soft, repetitive, and full of scales. Overall, Continue reading
Paint the Sky With Stars
The Best of Enya
This book by Enya, contains an excellent collection of classic song transcribed to piano sheet music, including The Memory of Trees, and Paint the Sky with Stars. These songs are incredible to listen to, and make excellent performance pieces on the piano. Continue reading
Jon Schmidt
New Age Classical Piano Solos, Including Waterfall and Tribute
Well, our website states that we are dedicated to reviewing books: of all kinds. So here is the first of my favorite Piano books.
Jon Schmidt is today’s classical composer. I generally refer to his genre as modern classical. This book is a combination of probably his most popular compositions, and certainly some of my favorites. Continue reading
Eclipse
by Stephenie Meyer
Eclipse is the third edition to the Twilight series, and not the last.
In this book, Victoria is as vicious and determined to kill Bella as ever. There is the stress of when, and if, Bella will actually be turned into a vampire, (Edward refuses to change her until she marries him; a revolting idea to Bella), when will the Volturi will arrive, and also the newest problem: Who is creating a new army of vampires, and why? Continue reading
New moon
by Stephenie Meyer
New Moon, the sequel to Twilight, is debatably as action packed as the first. In this book, Edward breaks up with Bella, thinking that separating his world from Bella would bring her more safety. This only throws her into a state of depression. Jacob, only an insignificant character in the first book, is the person who helps pull her out of her deep state of depression. Continue reading
by Christopher Paolini
If you don’t know about this book, then here is a short background…
This book is a fantasy adventure novel part of the inheritance series and is a story about a boy named Eragon who lives in a land called Allegasia who discovers an odd stone which turns out to be a dragon egg. This dragon, who he names Saphira, hatches for him and bonds to him at the beginning of this adventure. Upon finding the dragon many changes happen inside him and to those around him pushing the adventure into overdrive. Continue reading
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
This book is remarkable in its future outlook. It was written many years ago projecting around the time of our day. The way he wrote the book a reader might think he had seen forward to our time and seen the iPOD, and LCD televisions.
The story starts on the premise that it has become against the law to own and read books. For many reasons that will be presented this futuristic society simplified things and got rid of radical ideas and anything that might be presented in books that wouldn’t allow things to be nice and simple. Continue reading
