The Diary Of Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the extracts from a diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944 and Anne Frank ultimately died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After the war, the diary was retrieved by Anne's father, Otto Frank.First published under the title Het Achterhuis:...

To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel is loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with serious...

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London, england and Paris, France during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the brutal oppression of the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and the corresponding truculence demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the...

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

The Secret, is a book from the film produced by Prime Time Productions, consists of a series of interviews and dramatizations related to "The Law of Attraction". The subsequent publication of a book by the same name and of the same topic as the film, has attracted interest from media figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Larry King as well as criticism from the mainstream press. The film is largely influenced...

Sidney Sheldon Book Reviews

ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK?On the same day, people around the different parts of world are reported dead.In Berlin, a woman is found dead in the bath tub. In Paris, a man commits suicide plunging from the Eiffel Tower. In Denver, a small plane is destoyed by hurricane and the black box is missing. In Manhattan, a body washes ashore along the River. On investigation it was found that all the victims are connected to Kingsley...