Book Reviews

Overton Window by Glenn Beck
A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed . . . can it be stopped?

There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the Window and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country.

For Noah Gardner, a twentysomething public relations executive, it's safe to say that political theory is the furthest thing from his mind. Smart, single, handsome, and insulated from the world's problems by the wealth and power of his father, Noah is far more concerned about the future of his social life than the future of his country.

But all of that changes when Noah meets Molly Ross, a woman who is consumed by the knowledge that the America we know is about to be lost forever. She and her group of patriots have vowed to remember the past and fight for the future--but Noah, convinced they're just misguided conspiracy-theorists, isn't interested in lending his considerable skills to their cause.

And then the world changes.

An unprecedented attack on U.S. soil shakes the country to the core and puts into motion a frightening plan, decades in the making, to transform America and demonize all those who stand in the way. Amidst the chaos, many don't know the difference between conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact--or, more important, which side to fight for.

But for Noah, the choice is clear: Exposing the plan, and revealing the conspirators behind it, is the only way to save both the woman he loves and the individual freedoms he once took for granted.

After five back-to-back #1 New York Times bestsellers, national radio and Fox News television host Glenn Beck has delivered a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that seamlessly weaves together American history, frightening facts about our present condition, and a heart-stopping plot. The Overton Window will educate, enlighten, and, most important, entertain--with twists and revelations

no one will see coming.


Publisher's Weekly



The Island


The main character is Birdie Cousins she has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Island is full of upheavals and revelations. Settle into Summer with this entertaining read.


                                -Sandra D.

Undead and Unfinished by Mary Janice Davidson
Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor returns in the ninth novel in the "New York Times" bestselling series.

Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is having a tough time getting through the "Book of the Dead"-until the Devil strikes a bargain. She offers Betsy a chance to finish the cursed (literally ) thing, and finally discover all its mysteries. There's just one catch...

Betsy and her half-sister Laura have to go to Hell long enough for Laura to embrace her dark heritage (after a rebellious youth of charity work) and finally make nice with her mother, aka Lucifer. That means interacting with their family's past. In doing so, they're impacting the future in ways they never anticipated.


                                -Laura B.


I loved this book

""It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.""

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear--of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

Author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger.

Now this is what you would call inventive storytelling.


                                -Sandra D.

Coming this fall
America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag**
Sarah Palin $25.99. 224 Pages.
In a book framed by her strong belief in the importance of family, faith and patriotism, the best-selling author of Going Rogue ranges widely over American history, culture and current affairs, and reflects on the key values—both national and spiritual—that have been such a profound part of her life and continue to inform her vision of America's future.

Adam & Eve
Sena Jeter Naslund, $26.99. 352 Pages.
After her dying husband entrusts her with proof of extraterrestrial life, Lucy Bergmann is called to Egypt to help carry an artifact containing information concerning the true authorship of the Book of Genesis, only to have her plane go down near the supposed location of the Garden of Eden, where she meets Adam, an American soldier whose search for spiritual and carnal knowledge has led to madness.

The Brave by Nicholas Evans
$26.99. 352 Pages.
After his estranged soldier son, Danny, is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tom Bedford must come to terms with his own past--during which a shocking act of violence ended his parents' idyllic Hollywood union--if he is going to help exonerate Danny. By the best-selling author of The Horse Whisperer.