I thought this was a great adventure story especially for anyone interested in the Alaskan Gold Rush. The main character is a 15 year old boy that stowsaway on a boat leaving Seattle that is headed to the Klondike goldfields. It gives you an idea of the difficulty of such an endeavor and also captures the excitement of getting the "gold fever."

Really good behind-the-scenes Star Wars book! Taking place 5 years before Star Wars Episode II, Outbound Flight is about a colony ship sent by the Republic to explore and colonize Wild Space, to extend the Republic’s borders. Meanwhile, Darth Sidious has his own plans for the voyage, designed to further damage the Republic for the upcoming Clone Wars.

A golden egg in the Pinhoe Family has been guarded from one generation to another, safely just like ‘erasing’ their existence from others, isolated in their own little world. What, some may ask, is the significance of the egg?

What will happen if someone magically powerful enough, especially Chrestomanci, discovers their existence and their unique form of magic? Would they be subject under his rule?

Omar Khayyam (Ghiyasoddin Abolfat’h Omar ebn Ebrahim) was a Persian poet that lived from c.A.D. 1048 – 1131.

He wrote a number of four-line verses called rubai, a Persian form of poetry. The collection of his poems is called the rubaiyat (the plural form of rubai).

In the Rubaiyat, Khayyam expresses his opinions of life: one should not postpone pleasure until another day because the opportunity may not repeat itself. This carpe diem point of view is also present in the Epic of Gilgamesh of ancient Mesopotamia.

Oedipus awaits Creon in Thebes for the message from Apollo. Creon returns to say that the murderer of King Laius will be found in the city of Thebes, and the murderer is to be either exiled or executed. Who is this murderer? How could they solve this crime that was committed long ago?

Sophocles was one of the best tragedy playwrights in ancient Greece. He first achieved recognition at the age of twenty-eight when he defeated Aeschylus, another great playwright of the time. However, one of his best-known plays today, Oedipus Rex, did not receive a prize.

As Oedipus searches for the truth of his childhood and life as a magnificent king, I thought over this question: "Is the outcome determined by the gods and therefore uncontrollable, or could Oedipus have changed his fate?"