http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5On March 22, 2006, local author Andrea Houdek author wasavailable for booksigning on her book Mice in My Tummy . You can read her blog here.http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~67386.aspx3/27/2006 10:04:08 AMParker LibraryGrade B The icon of the Holy Mother of Katarini hanging in a church in a small village was destroyed in a fire during World War II. The icon, known to have supernatural powers, shows up 60 years later in an art collection inherited by Ana Kessler from her grandfather. Matthew Spear from the...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~255580.aspx2/26/2007 2:17:40 PMParker LibraryWar Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict (2005) by Michael Byers; Grade A International law expert Michael Byers uses case studies of wars and military actions to examine the role and evolution of laws surrounding armed conflict. He focuses much attention on the influence o...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~293432.aspx4/12/2007 2:48:51 PMParker LibraryThe Immoralist by Andre Gide (translated from the French by Richard Howard); Grade B In the beginning of The Immoralist by Andre Gide (translated from the French by Richard Howard), the scholarly Michel, a historian and occasional professor who finds he no longer wants to reside in Paris, ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~293455.aspx4/12/2007 3:14:58 PMParker LibraryGrade : A On the Beach is Nevil Shute's chilling, prophetic novel about the lives of people waiting for their own deaths -- and the end of humankind -- from radiation advancing on the winds: After a nuclear holocaust that begins with a war between Russia and China, the Northern Hemisp...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~328025.aspx6/28/2007 6:35:03 PMParker LibraryBlank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget By Tim Weiner Grade: A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent Tim Weiner, whose new book, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA , promises to be "a credible and damning indictment of American intelligence policy," according t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~336444.aspx7/18/2007 4:23:23 PMParker LibraryBlank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget By Tim Weiner Grade: A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent Tim Weiner, whose new book, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA , promises to be "a credible and damning indictment of American intelligence policy," according to...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~336498.aspx7/18/2007 6:18:29 PMParker LibraryOverthrow: America 's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq Grade: A Lovers of nonfiction regarding American foreign policy or international affairs will find great storytelling combined with amazing detail -- at times brutally graphic detail -- in Overthrow: America 's Century ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~344738.aspx8/7/2007 4:45:47 PMParker LibraryThe World Without Us By Alan Weisman 320 pages $24.95 ISBN 0-312-34729-4 B+ The World Without Us generated buzz when it catapulted itself to the bestseller list in the summer of 2007. In it, author Alan Weisman -- a veteran journalist and really, really good science writer -- ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~454299.aspx4/10/2008 6:09:07 PMParker LibraryThe Martian Chronicles By Ray Bradbury First published in 1950 Grade: A+ Written in 1949 from a series of short stories about Mars, Ray Bradbury wrote The Martian Chronicles as a novel both on the advice of a publisher and because of his own desire "to prevent the future" after ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Parker/Stories/Archive/Reviews/Books/Story~461013.aspx4/24/2008 1:37:14 PMParker Library