Thursday, September 17, 2009

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison is an award-winning American and Irish novelist for his bestselling science-fiction novels which often revolves around the contrast between the thinking man and the man of force.

“Make Room! Make Room!” is a 1966 Sci-fi novel written by Harry Harrison that plots out the unrestricted population growth set in New York City. Grieving under the burden of 35 million inhabitants in this city, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a murderer who has killed a very wealthy man, apparently the victim of an attempted robbery that went wrong. Andy lives in half a room where his roommate Sol -- a retired ex-army engineer lives along with him.

Andy is now on the desperate heat since he has to trace out the killer in this huge population. Only help that he can get in this case from this over-populated society is the victim’s girlfriend who lives one of the few functioning high rise apartments left in New York City. Soon Andy and the victim’s girlfriend get closer and moves in to his apartment. In the meantime, the killer returns back to the city after a couple of days. In the meanwhile, Andy gets depressed for the death of his friend and roommate -- Sol, who was injured severely during the protest against the revision of a legislative bill supporting family planning.

Soon, things get revealed for Andy, that the victim’s girlfriend seems likely to be the mistress of the killer. She used to go with rich people and satisfy them for money. Can Andy trap the Killer?

Rosie Harris's Interesting Page-turner 'Love Changes Everything'

Rosie Harris was born in 1925 in Cardiff, who has resided there and in the West Country for a while. She is a well-known author of romantic fiction. In 1975, her first novel was published, followed by eight other novels all under the name Marion Harris. Now she lives in Buckinghamshire and writes full time.

Love Changes Everything” is one of the excellent novels written by Rosie Harris which revolves around the miseries, life and love of a young girl. Trixie Jackson is a fourteen year old beautiful girl, moving her days with good hopes. She has lot of plans for her future, but her present days get worse day by day, filling up with disappointments. Since she gets sacked from the local factory, she is been forced to serve as a housekeeper for one of her father’s friends -- a man whom she doesn’t like at all.

Trixie is now been kept behind the doors, working as a housekeeper and burning out her desires. Since she is from the poor status, she is in urgent need for money in order to take care of her little sister, Cilla and her mother. Being a housekeeper, her days soon become a living hell. Soon she tries to escape quickly from her workplace, willing to lead her life as her wish. But she injures herself and gets admitted in hospital.

However, Trixie’s troubles are not yet over since her mother meets with a tragic accident and dies. Unfortunately, Trixie and her younger sister Cilla are now placed at the mercy of their threatening father, who soon brings his mistress -- Daisy into the family. Now this step mother will stop at nothing to push the girls’ lives to terrifying miseries. Can Trixie face her problems and take care of her sister? Will anyone help Trixie from her problems?

The Reading Room by Ruth Hamilton - Love! Life! Courage!

Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She is a well-known writer in the north-west of England. Being the bestselling author of nineteen novels, Ruth Hamilton now lives in Liverpool.

The Reading Room” is a rich, compelling novel of love and courage written by Ruth Hamilton displaying her unique warmth and humor. The story revolves around the miseries of a courageous lady -- Leanne Chalmers, who decides to move to Lancashire with her friend and her daughter, hoping that she could start a new life and hide her identity. She has already made a successful career in displaying her own style of home decoration and design on the nation's screens.

When Leanne moves to her new place, she changed her name as Lily -- very keen to hide her identities so that her husband, Clive -- who is been sent to prison for his crimes can’t able to find her. Soon Leanne and her companion make friends with Mike -- the Catholic priest, Eve -- a Liverpudlian, Paul and Maurice -- the hairdressers, and Dave and his love -- Philly. Everyone thinks that Lily, with her best friend and a small child has come up from the South West.

As the days go on, Lily's new life gets filled with peace as she joins Dave's reading room, a shop come cafe and library where she begins to relax. But things started to change worse, when one of her friend -- Eve is wounded badly in a burglary, which made Lily to get afraid that her husband has found her hide out, getting closer to her living place for killing her. Will Lily be saved from her terrifying husband?

The Kissing Game by the Award winning author Suzanne Brockmann

Suzanne Brockmann is an award winning American romantic fiction novelist who is born in 1960. She resides outside Boston with her husband and two children.

The Kissing Game” is a thrilling romantic novel written by Suzanne Brockmann under the Sunrise Key series. As the story begins, aspiring private investigator Frankie Paresky finds herself committed to abona fide case -- needs to track down the missing heir of her wealthy client, who used to vacation on the island. Joining in this assignment with Frankie is Simon Hunt, her best friend's brother and a notorious heartbreaker whom she's loved forever. Simon Hunt and Frankie have already met each other during their teenage. Frankie knows very well that Simon is a bed jumping commitment guy, but even then couldn’t stop herself in admiring at him.


But for Simon, he wishes to prove things wrong about Frankie’s opinion about his character, since he’s been dreaming about her as they were teenagers. As the story moves, the duo gets into the act of finding the missing heir of her client. During their investigation, the clues direct them to mysterious journeys which made Frankie to feel safe as long as her partner is with her.

Moreover Frankie also stands between pleasure and panic and so she needs to solve this case as soon as possible so that she can keep herself away from her love and desires over Simon. Completely seductive and irresistibly inventive, “The Kissing Game” is a thrilling tale of secrets, mysteries and romance.

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs - Discover the World of Werewolves

Patricia Briggs, an award-winning fantasy author was born in 1965 at Montana and now lives inWashington State. She has resided in various cities in the Pacific Northwest. The tendency to share her discoveries with the rest of the world led her to writing.

Cry Wolf” is another novel in Mercy Thompson series, which stars a very different heroine. Mercy is subjected to paranormal affairs as she steps down to earth mechanic. The story begins with Charles Cornick -- an Alpha who is the son of Bran -- the Marrok and leader of all alpha werewolves, is investigating about a rogue werewolf who turned out Anna Latham into a werewolf, against her will and she was beaten down and brutalized. When Charles meets Anna, he identifies that she has been changed into a rare and precious Omega wolf with the ability to calm wolves and keep their violence in check. During investigation, Charles is shot by silver bullets which have subjected him to bad wounds while he was helping Anna.


It is brought to the notice of Bran that similar attacks are held near Marrok’s own ter­ri­tory in Aspen Creek, which made him to suspect that someone in his Alpha werewolf is out of mind and have decided to attack the public. But, Bran always wants to present a friendly opinion of the wolves to the world when they dis­cover that were­wolves inhabit this planet, too. So, Bran assigns next assignment to Charles who is still recovering from injuries and Anna insists on accompanying him on their journey in search of the evil-minded werewolf. Soon Charles and Anna are joined by Asil, an ancient werewolf and Walter -- an ex-soldier/werewolf and they team up together against the forces of evil and black-magic. Who is behind these brutal attacks? Can this Marrok’s team succeed in this battle?

Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada - A Page-turning Moral Thriller

Hans Fallada was born in 1893 in Greifswald in north-east Germany and he was one of the most famous German writers of 20th century who lived a chaotic life.

Alone in Berlin” is a 1947 novel by Hans Fallada, which outlines about German resistance to the Nazis. It is based on the true story middle-aged couple who committed acts of civil disobedience in Berlin during World War II. The story begins in June 1940 in a Berlin apartment, where the old Persicke -- a drunkard retired publican, and his ambitious Nazi sons celebrate the fall of France. At that time postwoman Eva Kluge delivers a devastating letter to a quiet and self-contained couple -- Otto and Anna Quangels in that apartment, the couple learns that their only son has been killed in the war.

The apartment was occupied by an elderly Jewish woman Frau Rosenthal on the top floor whose husband is dragged off by the Gestapo, and seeks some help from Judge Fromm, the retired intellectual. While in the rear tenement, Evil-minded Emil Borkhausen -- a blackmailer and pimp who sniffs around for a chance to earn a quick profit is living with wife Otti who has five children by various men, and entertains her clients. The Quangels couple gets frustrated over their son’s death and decides to begin a campaign of resistance by dropping hundreds of anonymous postcards attacking Hitler in stairwells and offices all over the city, hoping that these postcards will instigate a wider revolt against the Party.

Soon, these cards come to the notice of the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich who tries to trace out the people behind this act. Knowing about the postcards issue, Borkhausen, along with little Enno Kluge -- the postwoman's estranged husband who is a pathetic gambler and womanizer gets themselves involved in this act, so that they can earn money through their blackmail and betrayal acts which will tighten the Quangels’ neck. Will the couple get caught?

The Secret War by M. F. W. Curran - Mankind vs. Daemon

Matt FW Curran was born in 1974 in Essex and now he lives in Sheffield with his wife.

The Secret War”, written by M.F.W.Curran is a historical fantasy novel that plots out the secret battle fought between Heaven and Hell. Angles and Daemons, knights and vampires fight for the future of mankind, and as the two sides continue their war across the world, innocent people are caught up in the clash.


As the story begins, Napoleon has lost and so the battle of Waterloo comes to an end. The newly promoted Captain William Saxon and his closest friend Lieutenant Kieran Harte are survivors of the Battle of Waterloo along with their few men. William is much disappointed as he lost many men under his command. Also his buddy, Kieran has been injured and is exhausting in the Belgian town of Gembloux where he falls in love with a neighborhood lady. Soon he decides to leave the army once his colleagues return home, willing to start a new life with his lover.

But things started to change, when a mysterious artefact is stolen from the body of a dead French soldier, which has the power to raise a daemon. Soon this daemon plunders the town of Gembloux, killing soldiers and civilians alike, including Kieran's lover. Subjected to emotions and anger, Kieran and William join hands to fight against this monster, in order to kill it once in for all. During this mission, they meet a man named Engrin who leads them to Rome and introduces them to a fading secret organization in the Catholic Church that is fighting against these daemons and worse. Also they get a chance to meet an enigmatic warrior, who is believed to have the key for the fate of mankind. Will the daemon be killed? Or is this the end of mankind?