The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan is the third in the Percy Jackson series. This time Percy teams up with a pair of huntresses to retrieve Artemis in an effort to thwart war between the Olympians and the Titans. Riordan has done a masterful job in this series to stoke interest in Greek Mythology. My 8 year old can’t get enough of them and that is reason enough to recommend this one.

Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle is one that is worth skipping. I picked this up at the library the other day and read through it in no time. The illustrations by Patrick McDonnell are, to me, the lone highlight of this New Age booklet. The message is nothing novel: simplicity and recognizing the oneness of all is key to the higher life. However, Tolle does not have the theological weight to pull off any level of greater meaning.