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Meet the Author Who Cracked Open the Stem Cell Controversy
2007-06-23 14:04:00 Meet Yvonne Perry, author of RIGHT TO RECOVER: Winning the Political and Religious Wars Over Stem Cell Research in America BloggingAuthor s: Yvonne, what prompted you to write your book? How did you come up with the idea? Yvonne Perry: Reverend Dan Bloodworth came to me in 2005 seeking a ghostwriter for his son?s story.Dan?s All-American athlete ... More About: Open , Meet , Controversy
New Novel: Africa Will Always Break Your Heart
2007-06-22 08:30:00 In his new novel, Africa Will Always Break Your Heart, author Gerrie Hugo shares his first-hand story of racism, corruption and hate during the period before the first ever South African democratic elections. This book is about paying the ultimate price when speaking out against crimes against humanity committed in the name of Apartheid. And who ... More About: Military , History , Fiction
Meet an Author With First-Hand Experience in Fighting Terrorists
2007-06-21 07:18:00 Meet Peter Davies, author of Scatterlings of Africa. Born and raised in Africa, Peter Davies served as a territorial soldier in Rhodesia from 1963 to 1975. He saw action, and took part in captures and interrogation. This gave him insight into terrorist minds, many of which were successfully encouraged to ‘turn’ and fight alongside Rhodesia’s soldiers ... More About: Experience , Fighting , Author , Meet , Terrorists
Ad Exec Tickles Funny Bone With New Book About Working With the Stars
2007-06-20 20:11:00 Many ?Captains of industry? have committed their innermost thoughts to books after they have retired. Many of these books are insightful, and educational, but generally speaking they are dry and boring, unless you have a specific interest in their company or industry. Allen Rosenshine, author of Funny Business : Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, And the Mad, Mad World ... More About: Stars , Non-Fiction , Book Reviews
Book Review: The Dallas Women?s Guide to Gold-Digging With Pride
2007-06-19 15:52:00 Harriet Klausner is Amazon’s #1 Reviewer In The Dallas Women ’s Guide to Gold -Digging with Pride: A Novel, by J.C. Conklin, the Wall Street Journal sends almost thirty, Manhattanite Jennifer Barton to work at the Dallas bureau. While there her boyfriend Rafe dumps her for a much older wealthier married witch. Outraged she asks her roommate Aimee to ... More About: Fiction , Book Review
A Shocking Interview With Matthew Carr About The Infernal Machine - The His
2007-06-18 15:35:00 Matthew Carr has produced a very interesting, thought-provoking, and in some eyes controversial book about the long, and usually not very elegant history of terrorism. I had the pleasure of interviewing Matthew recently. I have interviewed many authors, but this one has a twist in the tail that I certainly did not expect. The Infernal ... More About: Machine , Interview , Matthew
A Magic Typewriter Turns a Hack into a Bestselling Author
2007-06-13 07:34:00 Harriet Klausner is Amazon’s #1 Reviewer. Here’s what she thinks of Walpuski’s Typewriter by Frank Darabont. Hollywood writer Howard Walpuski dreams of one day becoming a household name, but so far even he recognizes the litter box junk he writes. When his IBM Selectric II suddenly spit smoke and had one last death rattle, he panics because he ... More About: Magic , Hack , Author , Thor , Turn
From the Front Lines of the War over Stem Cell Research in America
2007-06-12 08:03:00 RIGHT TO RECOVER: Winning the Political and Religious Wars Over Stem Cell Research in America , by Yvonne Perry gives readers an accurate picture of the controversial field of embryonic (blastocystic) stem cell research. In addition, it highlights the progress of therapies resulting from adult stem cell research as well as those from stem cells found in ... More About: Health , Non-Fiction
A Brilliant Novel That Affords the Reader the Stance of an Outsider
2007-06-12 07:28:00 Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Mohsin Hamid writes so well that were it not for the propulsive force of his quietly building suspense story, the reader would be tempted to linger over passages of elegantly beautiful prose. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a timely book, yes, but it is far more: the novel underscores the ... More About: Fiction , Reader , Brilliant
Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America
2007-06-10 13:13:00 RIGHT TO RECOVER: Winning the Political and Religious Wars Over Stem Cell Research in America , by Yvonne Perry gives readers an accurate picture of the controversial field of embryonic (blastocystic) stem cell research. In addition, it highlights the progress of therapies resulting from adult stem cell research as well as those from stem cells found in ... More About: Health
Book Review: The Name of the Wind
2007-06-10 08:27:00 Harriet Klausner is Amazon’s #1 Review er. These are her thoughts on The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One), by Patrick Rothfuss. As a child, Kvothe traveled with his parents from town to town as part of a troupe giving performances. His parents were quite talented, had the patronage of a lord, and stopped ... More About: Fiction , Book Review , Book
An Author?s First-Hand Experience Fighting Terrorists in Rhodesia
2007-06-09 01:22:00 Peter Davies, author of Scatterlings of Africa, was a first-hand witness to the terrorist war in Rhodesia that culminating in the formation of Zimbabwe. Reviewer Simon Barrett conducted this interview with Mr. Davies. Q: Can you give our readers a little Bio about who Peter is? A: Hello Simon; as you know, I was born and brought ... More About: Experience , Fighting , Author , Terrorists , Hand
New Novel Asks if It Takes a Lifetime to Know What Side You?re On. Good or
2007-06-07 08:44:00 Grady Harp is one of Amazon’s Top Ten Reviewers Reading The Human Effect, a first novel by Egyptian writer Akmal Shebl, (writing in English and in a language that gleefully mixes vernacular with formal prose) is an experience not unlike reading a first venture into magical realism. Shebl has a voice and style that set him apart ... More About: Fiction , Lifetime , Good , Side
New Novel Explores the Mystery of Falling in Love
2007-06-06 15:25:00 Dance of the Heart, a new novel by James Therrian, is the story of a gay male dancer in a long-term committed relationship, who is attracted to his new female dance partner. Michael Baldwin is a successful professional dancer who has it all; a great career, a wonderful relationship with his partner David, and a brand new ... More About: Love , Fiction , Romance , Mystery , Fall
Lewis DeSimone Enters the Pantheon of Important Writers
2007-06-06 08:44:00 Chemistry by Lewis DeSimon e Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Discovering a new excellent writer is one of the joys of reading that reigns at the top of the reasons why we read books. CHEMISTRY is a novel by Lewis DeSimone that is at once intelligent, informed, eloquent, erotic, thought provoking, profound, sensitive - and important. With this ... More About: Writers , Enter , Import
Interview with Sandy Lender, author of Choices Meant for Gods
2007-06-05 17:00:00 BloggingAuthor s.com recently had the opportunity to interview Featured Author Sandy Lender, author of Choi ces Meant for Gods Q: Your book Choices Meant for Gods is a fantasy story about a young lady on the run from a madman. When she stops running and starts fighting, she discovers she’s wrapped in centuries of prophecy. Where did you get the ... More About: Interview , Thor , Ender
A Story of Triumph as Told by a Gifted Novelist
2007-06-05 09:10:00 There are times when stories about successes in educational advancement are told in a manner that feels more like inspirational magazine material than a book: the achievements of underprivileged young people overcoming potentially insurmountable odds are related in a touching way but hardly register as great writing - content over style. In the matter of The ... More About: Story , Fiction , Triumph , Told , Tory
Looking for God Within the Kingdom of Religious Confusion
2007-06-04 17:07:00 Looking for God within the Kingdom of Religious Confusion is a VERY well-written novel by AW Schade. There has always been a need for novels of this sort that explore the differences and similarities among religious faiths, but at this particular juncture in our history this book is extremely timely. While most of us are perplexed by world ... More About: Sion , Look
Fantasy Novelist Makes Splash With Choices Meant for Gods
2007-06-04 08:34:00 Choices Meant for Gods by Sandy Lender Choices Meant for Gods from ArcheBooks Publishing is the story of Amanda Chariss, a young lady who?s been on the run from a madman all her life. When she finally chooses to stand and fight, she discovers she?s wrapped in centuries of prophecy that demand she protect the very gods ... More About: Fantasy , Splash , Lash , Choi , Choices
NBA Player Doug Christie and Wife, Jackie, Release No Ordinary Love: A True
2007-05-31 07:48:00 NBA star Doug Christie and his wife, Jackie, announce the release of their first book, No Ordinary Love , scheduled to debut June 1st, 2007. The book - released through the Christies? publishing company, Infinite Love Publishing - provides a candid look at the Christie’s own relationship and illustrates how mutual respect, friendship, and a commitment to ... More About: Sports , Wife , General , Non-Fiction
Managing the Workplace Through Building Relationships
2007-05-30 15:22:00 Business Guru Jane Treber Macken calls on her 36 years of acclaimed expertise in the business field to put together her first book, The Art of Managing: How to Build a Better Workplace and Relationships . Her vast knowledge in both business and psychology bring a holistic flow to her methods, making her strategy a natural marriage ... More About: Business , Building , Non-Fiction
Allied Soliders Survived A Single Day of Nazi Propaganda, May 11, 1944
2007-05-28 15:12:00 Paper War: Nazi Propaganda In One Battle, On A Single Day Cassino, Italy, May 11, 1944, from Mark Batty Publisher is a stunning graphical look at the Nazi war machine’s most powerful weapon: Propaganda. On May 11, 1944, as the 8th Indian Division of 13 British Corps prepared for the Battle of Monte Cassino, the waiting soldiers were bombarded with Nazi ... More About: History , Non-Fiction , Book Reviews
A Fictional Assimilation of a Fictional Family - Or Is It?
2007-05-27 19:29:00 Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer A Year with the Hoopers, by by James Hoby. James Hoby is a writer new to this reader, an artist who is a welcome discovery. Like some of our more controversial novelists of the time - Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Chabon, Augusten Burroughs, Mark Haddon, etc. Hoby begins his witty ... More About: Family , Fiction , General , Mila
What Goes `Round, Comes `Round: The Tragedies of Success Examined
2007-05-24 18:58:00 Arlington Heights by Erica Lewis ARLINGTON HEIGHTS is author Erica Lewis’ second novel following the auspicious debut of THE MANSION. It is gratifying to observe an author’s steady growth as demonstrated by this very fine, fresh new novel that addresses the course of a gifted and beautiful black woman who overcomes the stigmata of a youth of mistakes ... More About: Fiction , Success , Exam , Round , Tragedies
Far Finer A Book Than The Title Suggests!
2007-05-24 10:29:00 Fish: A Memoir of a Boy in a Man’s Prison by T.J. Parsell Grady Harp is an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer T.J. Parsell had many things going against him - after a life that would have been the destruction of most other youths suffering an abusive home life and going to prison for ‘armed robbery’ which in fact was ... More About: Fiction , Book , Title , Fine
Caramelized Banana and Peanut Butter Toast . . . Can This Be a Real Diet?
2007-05-24 08:47:00 The Reality Diet : Lose the Pounds for Good with a Cardiologist’s Simple, Healthy, Proven Plan by Dr. Steven Schnur Over the past 15 years I have tried many diet plans and found that most of them did not work over the long-term. They either were too restricting, too complicated or too time-consuming. Dr. Schnur?s approach to weight loss ... More About: Banana , Peanut , Non-Fiction , Book Reviews
Review: Sioux Dawn . . . Crazy Horse and the Fetterman Massacre
2007-05-21 07:25:00 Sioux Dawn : The Fetterman Massacre , 1866 by Terry C. Johnston I had the great pleasure of spending a week with author (and storyteller extraordinare) Terry C. Johnston back in 1995. At the time, Terry was leading a History America Tour, and our route covered the major hot spots of the Plains Indian Wars, including Fort Phil Kearney, site ... More About: Fiction , Review , Crazy
The Life of Buenos Aires was a Labyrinth
2007-05-20 20:57:00 The Tango Singer: A Novel by Tomas Eloy Martinez Reviewed by Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer Tomas Eloy Martinez is a superlative writer. He has written about his native Argentina in award winning books such as ‘Santa Evita’ and ‘The Peron Novel’ and though he has been on the faulty of Rutgers University (Latin American Program) ... More About: Life , Fiction , Buenos Aires , Labyrinth , Aires
The REALity Diet: Lose 2 Pounds a Week with Cardiologist?s Simple Proven Di
2007-05-18 01:42:00 The Reality Diet : Lose the Pounds for Good with a Cardiologist’s Simple, Health y, Proven Plan by Dr. Steven A. Schnur, M.D. After seeing many of his patients fail on fad diets, and suffer health-threatening side effects, Dr. Steven A. Schnur, founder of the largest cardiology practice in South Florida, developed a breakthrough program: The REALity Diet ? ... More About: Non-Fiction , Week
Review: Aging Rock Musician by Day, Private Investigator by Night
More articles from this author:2007-05-17 15:38:00 Black’s Beach Shuffle Author: Corey Lynn Fayman It’s 1999 in San Diego, California. Money is being made in new Internet companies like Amazon, Yahoo! and EBay. Eyebitz.com is another company looking to break into the Internet world. Rolly Waters is an aging rock musician who has a part time day job being a private detective. His band has ... More About: Fiction , Review , Rock , Whodunnit , Night 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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