Under the Writer's Spell

Title: Stolen: A Letter To My Captor. Author:  Lucy Christopher  Genre:  Young Adult Fiction Publisher:  Chicken House Ltd Publication Date:    May 4th 2009 Hardcover:  304 pages Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars. Synopsis : It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere. Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back? The story ...

Book Title : The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld Author Name :   Jamie Bartlett Total Pages :  320 pages Published Date : August 21st 2014 Published By:  William Heinemann My Rating : 3 Stars Synopsis: Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit – a world of Google, Hotmail, Facebook and Amazon – lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. A world that is as creative and complex as it is dangerous and disturbing. A world that is much closer than you think. The dark net is an underworld that stretches from popular social media sites to the most secretive corners of the encrypted web. It is a world that frequently appears in newspaper headlines, but one that is little understood, and rarely explored.  The Dark Net  is a revelatory examination of the internet today, and of its most innovative...

Book Title : What Great Brands Do Author Name : Denise Lee Yohn Originally Published : 20 November, 2013 Total pages : 262 pages My Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: "What Great Brands Do" shows how companies as diverse as IBM, REI, Starbucks, Lululemon, and more have all used their exceptional brand platforms as management tools to fuel, align, and guide every task they undertake--and have achieved higher-than-average profit margins as a result. What do these great brands have in common? "What Great Brands Do" shows how these firms rely on a brand-as-business management approach to grow and succeed in tough economic climates, regardless of the size of their marketing budgets. "What Great Brands Do" distills their approach into seven guiding principles and accompanying best practices to provide a thoughtful and practical methodology for putting a company's brand in the driver's seat of the organization.  The seven principles are...

Book Title: The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism Author Name : Olivia Fox Cabane Rating: 5 stars out of 5 Synopsis: What if charisma could be taught? For the first time, science and technology have taken charisma apart, figured it out and turned it into an applied science: In controlled laboratory experiments, researchers could raise or lower people's level of charisma as if they were turning a dial. What you'll find here is practical magic: unique knowledge, drawn from a variety of sciences, revealing what charisma really is and how it works. You'll get both the insights and the techniques you need to apply this knowledge. The world will become your lab, and every person you meet, a chance to experiment. The Charisma Myth is a mix of fun stories, sound science, and practical tools. Cabane takes a hard scientific approach to a heretofore mystical topic, covering what charisma actually is, how it is learned, wh...

Book Title:  Cover of Darkness Author Name: Kaylea Cross Book pages: 262 pages Series: Suspense series, #2 Genre: Suspense and thriller Originally Published:  March 15th 2010 Publisher:  The Wild Rose Press Rating: 1 star out of 5 Synopsis : Targeted by a terrorist cell, Bryn McAllister survives a bombing at the U.S.  Embassy in Beirut only to be left to die in a desert cellar. When she is rescued by Navy SEAL Lieutenant Declan McCabe and his team, Bryn must rely on the handsome officer to get her to safety. But just when she thinks the nightmare is over, family friend and legendary CIA operative Luke Hutchinson recruits her and McCabe to help track down the terrorist mastermind responsible for the attack.  With Bryn determined to see the terrorist brought to justice, Dec joins up to protect her, prepared to do whatever it takes to keep her safe during their dangerous mission. Battling the explosive attraction be...

Book Title : Thirteen Reasons Why Author:  Jay Asher Pages: 288 Genre:  Young adult fiction Publisher:  Pengiun Originally published:  18 October 2007 Rating:  3 out of 5 Stars. Synopsis: "You can't stop the future." "You can't rewind the past." "The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play." Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah's recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes h...

Title: Across the universe Author:  Beth Revis Series: Across the Universe #1  Genre:  Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult, Dystopian Publisher:  Razorbill (Penguin) Publication Date:  January 2011 Hardcover:  400 pages Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars Synopsis : A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder . Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awake on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into a brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone, one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship, tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next. Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed...