Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom3 reviews Gus Lee Harmony, 2003 A family in context + Compelling cultural drama draws you in and won't let go + Compelling cultural drama draws you in and won't let go In this remarkable memoir, Gus Lee presents a clear and compassionate picture of his parents, grandparents and their 'clans' set in turbulent times. He brings alive the social, historical, religious and cultural context which informs their actions and reactions making them comprehensible to a ...             God Laughs When You Die4 reviews Michael Boatman Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2007 A Wonderful Debut + fast, violent, and unsympathetic + Dark, Skanky, Funky Little Twisted Tales: Performance Art Michael Boatman's debut collection is not one to miss by any means. He blends humor with horror, the strange with the unknown--and I loved it! Reading through the pages, it just slipped right through my fingers, and before I knew it I was done with the book begging for there to be more. This is a ...             The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories14 reviews Various Penguin (Non-Classics), 1989 Wow, Vampires Used To Be Scary! + Not Free SF Reader + The Essential Book of Vampires + This book has it all ! + Excellent starting platform for traditional vampire fiction             Animorphs: Visser (pob) (Animorphs)38 reviews K.A. Applegate Scholastic Paperbacks, 1999 Insight Into the Yeerks + Animorphs: Visser book review + Breath of Fresh Air + One of the best             Kissing Sin (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 2)26 reviews Keri Arthur Dell, 2007 Kissing Sin + Kissing Sin + kissing sin + Kissing Sin Book             Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)2 reviews Lord George Gordon Byron Penguin Classics, 2006 Byron at his best . . . + The romantic soul A legend in his own lifetime, Lord Byron stamped contemporary Western culture with the mark of his dark imagination, and his poetry has lost none of its iconoclastic power today. Without a doubt, this is the finest single-volume edition of Byron currently available. By omitting the rambling ...             Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia Andreas Huyssen Routledge, 1995 As we are approaching our fin de sielce, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Musuems and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if there were no tomorrow. Contemporary art and literature focuses on memory and the past, rather than claiming radical breakthroughs into some unknown future. With the recent resurgence of nationalism and issues of national identity, the ...             Shards of Crimson (Crimson City)10 reviews Liz Maverick, Patti O'Shea, ... Love Spell, 2007 Shards of Crimson Rocks! + I want more! (Crimson City!) + A varied collection for fans of the Crimson City series + A varied collection for fans of the Crimson City series             Grandfather Twilight (Paperstar Book)40 reviews Barbara Helen Berger Putnam Juvenile, 1996 A Must Book for Every Child's Library + fantastic evening book + Awesome book + The perfect book to quiet the soul before bedtime. + A classic             Full Moon Rising (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 1)81 reviews Keri Arthur Dell, 2006 My First Book by this Author + Super Reader I really enjoyed this book, it had lots of action in it. Riley is half werewolf, half vampire and I found her very likeable. I read the book in one day and I am on to the second one in the series.             Deathbird Stories1 review Harlan Ellison Blue Jay, 1983 Some of the best writing by Harlan Ellison I suspect that most of these stories are already in The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective (Revised and Expanded) and that renders this collection obsolete. Could be why it's out of print. I had a copy and I read it so many times. Then I gave it to a friend that I never talk to anymore. Be ...             Dead Over Heels21 reviews MaryJanice Davidson Berkley Trade, 2008 Fun Quick Reads. + Fun! + Vampires and Mermaids and Werewolves, oh my! + Great Work!             Tempting Evil (Riley Jensen, Guardian, Book 3)17 reviews Keri Arthur Dell, 2007 Simply Captivating! + new author to me + Tempting Evil + PERFECTLY GOOD READ BUT NOT AS STRONG AS THE OTHER TWO IN THE SERIES + Prefer the previous two             Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)7 reviews George Gordon Byron Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 the shining star of Romanticism + How the serpent's voice sounded to Eve + I read this for a class, not for leisure. + Byron yesterday and Byron today             Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus Novels)44 reviews Ian Rankin St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1995 Mr. Hyde's Edinburgh, not McCall Smith's... + Inspector Rebus is compelling main character + A dark and brooding story + Character study + Knots to Be Tied, Crosses to Bear             Byron: Life and Legend7 reviews Fiona MacCarthy Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 Finest Byron biography ever written. + First rate research against a dry story. + Byron: Life and Legend + Such a Victorian was he + The Legend made real             God's Day Off1 review John Smale Exposure Publishing, 2006 This is a great book This is a serious novel that addresses corruption in business, politics and the church. However, this book will entertain you...and it will make you think...and it will make you laugh...and it will make you scratch your head...and it will make you look at the world in a different way. A must for ...             Someone is Killing the Gay Boys of Verona13 reviews Mark A Roeder AuthorHouse, 2000 Enchanting Tale of the Gay and Supernatural + This Time Around Mark Roeder stands out as the leading contemporary writer of romantic fiction focused on gay youth coming of age. This book, one of the Gay Youth Chronicles, concocts a fast-paced action thriller out of a frothy brew of supernatural elements, imaginative and engaging characters, and a core message ...             God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan24 reviews Jonathan D. Spence W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 good book with bad title + What is a civil war? + Best Taiping history in English is second best available This is a very good book about an unpleasant page in Chinese history dominated by a religious lunatic. It is amazing and surprising how religious thought can stir up the masses. We have other examples in recent history - the Moonies, Jim Jones and the tragedy at Jonestown. I must admit I do ...             Edge Of Twilight (Twilight Series Book 10) (Mira Romance)15 reviews Maggie Shayne Mira, 2005 Really wonderful book...but not series + great series + Good quick read.... + Edge Of Twilight, Maggie Shayne + I believe this is the 10th in the series