by vjbooks | Jul 6, 2010 | Children and YA, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Author Justin Cronin Visits VJ Books! Mitchell and John had the opportunity to visit with Justin Cronin as he signed books for us. He is a professor of English at Rice University in Houston, and is somewhat breathless about the rave over his new book, The Passage. He...
by vjbooks | May 18, 2010 | Children and YA, Clive Cussler, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Bestselling Author Clive Cussler Releases Signed and Limited Editions of his Latest Children’s Novel-The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy, Clive Cussler’s rollicking sequel to The Adventures of Vin Fiz (2006), has just been released. ...
by vjbooks | Oct 13, 2009 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
Now in Stock! VJ Books has received: The Return by Ben Bova, Meg: Hell’s Aquarium by Steve Alten, The Magic Thief Book 2: Lost by Sarah Prineas The Return Signed First Edition Hell’s Aquarium Signed First Edition Lost Signed First...
by vjbooks | Feb 16, 2009 | Children and YA, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Summary for Maximum Ride 5: MAX by James Patterson The latest installment in James Patterson’s series (Maximum Ride 5) for our younger audiences is now available to order. Check it out! Comfortable in their new safe house, Max and the rest of the Flock finally...
by vjbooks | Feb 9, 2009 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
Signed First Editions are now available to order. “Once again, Hiaasen has written an edge-of-the-seat eco-thriller. When their unpopular biology teacher goes missing in a suspicious fire during a field trip to the Black Vine Swamp, Nick and Marta don’t...
by vjbooks | Dec 11, 2008 | Children and YA, Clive Cussler, We're Talking Books!
(www.vjbooks.com, Sept. 2008) Did you know that some of the bestselling authors of adult fiction also write for younger readers? Ridley Pearson, Dave Barry, Rick Riordan, Clive Barker, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Clive Cussler, and Carl Hiaasen are just a few...
by vjbooks | Dec 9, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Sept. 29, Dave McKean) A lavish middle-grade novel, Gaiman’s first since Coraline, this gothic fantasy almost lives up to its extravagant advance billing. The opening is enthralling: “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a...
by vjbooks | Dec 1, 2008 | Children and YA, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
(marketwatch.com, Nov 20) Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced that the organization will name James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton its 2009 Grand Masters in honor of the Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth next year. Not since 1978 has the organization...
by vjbooks | Nov 28, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
(Journalinquirer.com, Nov. 24, Richard Tambling) This chapter book (Science Fair) by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson is outrageously funny at times. But of course it’s based on an outrageous idea: that a foreign agent might use the projects at a middle school science...
by vjbooks | Nov 20, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Max Leon, Nov. 10) I am of that population segment that is constantly derided as “not reading anymore,” and is therefore treated by publishing companies as a vast, mysterious demographic that’s seemingly impossible to please. Kind of...
by vjbooks | Nov 7, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
John and Mitchell met with Christopher Paolini recently and confirmed that there will be a 4th Eragon book. Although he wouldn’t give many details he did mention “Were-Cats”. . .(?) The 4th book from the Inheritance series will be published by Knopf....
by vjbooks | Nov 5, 2008 | Children and YA, We're Talking Books!
Click to see the video about Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry’s Science Fair! Click here to order the book from VJ Books