SCCCLD Book Challenge

Granted, this is only my second James Patterson book, but it was light years better than the other one I read. He co-wrote this book with ...

This was a book discussion title that details the very last trial Abraham Lincoln participated in before he ran for president in 1860. I fou...

11.22.63 A date that will forever live in our minds. For the men of John F. Kennedys secret service, this is the day where they felt like ...

Egads! My second non-fiction book of the year and it's only March. This is very unusual for me:-) The subtitle for this book is: Love, D...

Neuroscientist Adrian Owen has dedicated the last twenty years exploring the gray zone--what the lay person knows as the "vegetative...

This might be the only non-fiction review you see from me all year as I tend to stick to fiction. Unbroken is a biography of Louis Zamperini...

How do you look beyond what seems intuitive to what is really true? Levitt is offering to retrain your brain so you don't fall into the ...

The log cabin quilt is expanded and amended to create unique variations.  Using the basic block, designs feature the Chicago skyline, New Yo...

This book of geeky essays talks about a myriad of different subjects from the apparent functional illiteracy of the Star Wars Universe, to...

This is a fascinating book about the "self," and how certain parts of the brain impact one's perception of body, mind, and sel...

Eruption written by Steve Olson is the story of events leading up to the massive eruption of Mount Saint Helens and it's aftermath.  Ols...

The subtitle of this fascinating book says it all: "what bugs, burns, prints, DNA, and more tell us about crime." McDermid takes t...

Richard Engel is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC. Straight out of college, in 1996, Engel moved to Cairo to start reporting on wor...

This is an account of James Garfield's brief presidency. I found this rendering of our 20th President of the United States fascinating. ...

This is the story of the eldest Kennedy daughter - the one most people have never heard of.  It is a story of how those who were born int...

This book is not a feel good story - it is the story of a young neurosurgeon, who at the age of 36, is facing a terminal cancer diagnosis...

This book is based on the same case as The Exorcist playing in theaters in 1973, which was based on William Blatty's 1971 book of the s...

Just Mercy: a Story of Justice is an account of the work done by Bryan Stevenson to find justice for men, women and children on death row in...

Chip Kidd has been designing book covers for quite awhile. In this brief book, Kidd demonstrates the importance of first impressions in life...

Sociopath Next door / Martha Stout 241 p. Martha Stout, a 25 year Harvard psychologist, offers this book to help identify sociopaths.  She...