Book Review: ?Treasure of Eden? by S. L. Linnea
2009-09-21 00:13:00 In late March, 1954, two cousins found a cave in the Judean desert, west of the Dead Sea. Bedouins, the teen boys, believed the cave to be full of treasure. The boys knew of a promise made by the sheikh that whoever brought back home treasures of antiquity would get to go with the sheikh ...
Book Review: Site 39, Blue Orb by Otis V. Goodwin III
2009-09-17 16:04:00 I think I would put Site 39, Blue Orb squarely in the genre of classic Science Fiction. I am guessing that the intended audience is the Young Adult reader, and I do believe Otis Goodwin will do well with that sector. The heroes and heroines are youthful, and their mission is to not only save the ...
Book Review: The Year Of The Flood by Margaret Atwood
2009-09-17 16:02:00 Science fiction — excuse me, speculative fiction — loves series. For whatever reason, readers — and evidently authors — can’t get enough of particular worlds or characters. And just as Margaret Atwood distances her fiction from science fiction, she may be taking the concept of a series in a different direction. Atwood’s latest novel, The Year ...
The Fuhrer Virus ? Paul Schultz: Book Review
2009-09-13 21:28:00 This espionage-suspense caper is set during World War II, but during that odd and brooding breath-of-a moment-time period during 1941 when Russia, and England were in a desperate, full-out balls-to-the wall war effort against Nazi Germany, and America was officially a neutral nation but teetering on a knife-edge, with powerful and influential people and organizations ...
Book Review: You Unstuck by Libby Gill
2009-09-13 17:07:00 Mastering The New Rules Of Risk-Taking In Work And Life Let me pose a question, what brings about success and happiness? It was with this question on my mind that I read Libby Gill’s new book You Unstuck. I think I know the answer that Libby would propose, change and risk taking are the two key ...
Book Review: ?The Dark Horse: A Walt Longmire Mystery? by Craig Johnson
2009-09-13 00:30:00 Having won the 2009 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for the preceding novel in the series, ?Another Man?s Moccasins,? Craig Johnson makes the latest Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery another interesting and good read. Wade Basard, a wealthy rancher in Campbell County, Wyoming was killed approximately ten days ago as the novel opens. ...
Book Review: ISSA ? The Greatest Story Never Told by Lois Drake
2009-09-12 19:43:00 Neither historians nor theologians have solved the mystery of the missing years in the life of Jesus. His whereabouts between the ages of 14 and 29 are an unknown. There is a school of thought that suggests these lost years were spent with Jesus traveling, Tibet, India, and the rather elusive civilization of the Kushans ...
Book Review: ?Blood Lines: A Mystery? by Kathryn Casey
2009-09-12 18:09:00 It has been nearly a year since the events depicted in ?Singularity? and only now is Lieutenant Sarah Armstrong somewhat ready to return to work as a criminal profiler for the legendary law enforcement organization Texas Rangers. Her time at the ranch outside of Houston, Texas with her Mom, her daughter Maggie and the horses ...
Book Review: Natural Success Principals by Jack Hatfield
2009-09-12 13:58:00 Everything You Need To Succeed was inside you BEFORE You Were Born As Jack Hatfield points out, the book stores are awash in self help books. In fact I am of the belief that the Library Of Congress system for classification system is broken, they need to add Insomnia to many of these books. Some are ...
Book Review: Scarecrow Finds A Friend by Blume J. Rifken And Illustrations
2009-09-11 14:45:00 I am a firm believer that writing for young children is much more of a challenge than writing an adult novel. There are so many different dynamics at work. The book has to be visually appealing to the child, but it also needs to offer some educational value to the adult buying it. Most pre-schoolers ...
Book Review: Tess?s Tree by Jess M. Brallier Pictures By Peter H. Reynolds
2009-09-10 14:41:00 I have to admit that I am a fan of children’s books, they are a source of wonder to me. They are way more complex than they may appear to many adults. Alas adults are adults and some fail to understand, or capitalize on the learning opportunity that a well thought out picture book can ...
Book Review: Replacement Child by Judy L. Mandel
2009-09-10 02:00:00 A Memoir I am not sure that I have read a book like this before. Judy Mandel is not famous, she is not a rock star, nor a Nobel prize winner, she is for the most part, a very average person. Her story though, is a very unique one, and one that I found captivating. It ...
Book Review: ?Below Zero: A Joe Pickett Novel? by C. J. Box
2009-09-07 17:44:00 April Alive? It can?t be possible that their foster daughter, April, who died in the botched raid of the soverign cult as described in ?Winter Kill?, could be alive. It?s been six years and the family of Game Warden Joe Pickett, his wife Marybeth, daughters Lucy and Sheridan has moved on though a lot of trouble ...
Book Review: Deep Dive by Richard Horwath
2009-09-07 01:54:00 How many managers believe that strategic thinking plays a key role in the survival of his or her company? Let’s see a show of hands please. Everyone? Good! That’s what I thought. Now, bear with me when I ask another question. Just what is strategic thinking, anyway? Or more specifically, how many of you feel ...
Book Review: Why We Dont Kill Spiders by Bo Macreery
2009-09-06 20:22:00 Bo Macreery, the author of the novel “Why We Don’t Kill Spiders,” is one of those rare writers who can pull a long forgotten period of history off a dusty book shelf and breathe fresh, new life into it; turning it into a rich and vibrant tale that resonates with the world we live in ...
Book Review: ?Defending Violet? by Jennifer Louise Jefferson
2009-09-06 18:45:00 Ginger Rae Reddy practices law in the city of Port Grace, located somewhere along the northeastern seaboard hard against the Atlantic. A city that, like herself, has seen tough times and still sees them and yet survives despite all odds. Ginger Rae is practicing Family Law these days which is primarily about the final collapse ...
Book Review: Looking For Dad by Frank Gorin
2009-09-04 18:36:00 A Memoir Of Catholic Misadventures And A Buddhist Beckoning If you are a news junkie the name Frank Gorin will be a familiar one. He was initially a radio newsman and then TV anchor for ABC’s Satellite News channel. He is also an Emmy winning documentary producer. Looking For Dad though makes scant reference to his broadcasting ...
Book Review: The Youngest Son by Oreste LeRoy Salerni
2009-09-04 15:38:00 Memoirs From The Motherland What a fabulous read! In my mind The Youngest Son is a cross between Brian Sewell’s awesome and often humorous DVD series The Grand Tour, and the epicurean adventures of Matthew Fort in Eating Up Italy from the the seat of a grossly underpowered Vespa scooter. Add to this mix some very ...
An Interview With Author Eric Wentz About Piercing The Veil
2009-09-03 16:07:00 I enjoyed Piercing The Veil a great deal, so much so, that I decided to pierce the veil of Eric Wentz and invite him onto my Week In Reviews radio program for an interview. I have no idea how many interviews I have conducted over the years, but it is a fairly substantial number, and ...
Book Review: Love Your Body, Love Your Life by Sarah Maria
2009-09-03 15:08:00 5 Steps to End Negative Body Obsession and Start Living Happy and Confidently Although this book is mainly aimed at the female gender, there is much to be learned from it by us mere male mortals! I actually think that for the most part we get a ‘bad rap’! With more than five decades on this ...
Book Review: The LifeQuake Phenomenon by Toni Galardi
2009-09-02 17:46:00 How to Thrive (not just survive) in times of personal and global upheaval Toni Galardi introduces us to a new concept, the LifeQuake. A LifeQuake to a person is like an Earthquake to the land. Within the pages of The LifeQuake Phenomenon we learn to spot the early warning signs and how to deal with the various stages involved. Just ...
Book Review: Primeval - Fire and Water
2009-09-01 17:17:00 The cancellation earlier this year of the science fiction series Primeval by Britain?s ITV network was one of the worst decisions in recent television history. The show was among the best fantasy shows to come out of the UK since the revival of Doctor Who and will be missed in the Saturday evening schedules. Although an ...
An Interview With Author Jerome Peterson About Thumb Flagging
2009-08-31 23:38:00 From the moment I saw the cover of Jerome Peterson’s book Thumb Flagging I just knew that I was going to enjoy it. My mother has a saying, ‘you should never judge a book by its cover’. I disagree, but that is the subject of another article, you can indeed tell a great deal about ...
An Interview With Author Jimmy Root Jr.
2009-08-31 22:58:00 Jimmy Root Jr. has just published his first book Distant Thunder, it is the first of a planned trilogy The Lightning Chronicles. I was greatly impressed with Distant Thunder, and knew that I had to track down Jimmy Root Jr. to ask him about this book. There are few perks being a book reviewer, but a ...
Children?s Book Review: ?Davey BigHead: Dream Big? by Peter J. Hayden
2009-08-30 23:21:00 Self published through Amazon?s Book Surge Division, this children?s book tells of Davey?s experiences at his first day of school. Davey has a very big head that is far out of proportion to the rest of his body. He can?t get on the bus because his head is too big. He gets caught in the ...
Book Review: ?Strangle a Loaf of Italian Bread? by Denise Dietz
2009-08-30 02:45:00 Ellie Bernstein likes to clip coupons and watch police shows when she isn?t doing her things as leader of a local chapter of ?weight winners? or reading a complex mystery novel. That is, when she isn?t helping out her boyfriend, Lieutenant Peter Miller of the Colorado Springs Police Dept. These days find her also babysitting ...
An Interview With Author Phil Davidson About Dreamer
2009-08-29 21:19:00 Phil Davidson has just published a great action/thriller novel Dreamer. It hit my radar a couple of weeks ago and it is a wild ride from start to finish. What I enjoyed most though was the depth of this book. It operates on several levels, and it is up to the reader to decide how ...
An Interview With Author Gary Lamit
2009-08-27 15:34:00 Gary Lamit has a long history of of writing books, most though are of a technical nature. His latest venture is into the world of children’s books. Children’s literature is a very different beast. A completely different set of dynamics come into play. I enjoyed Wally The Walking Fish and think that it contains a ...
Book Review: Breathing Water by Timothy Hallinan
2009-08-25 21:28:00 In Breathing Water, the third book of the series featuring ex-pat writer Poke Rafferty, the reader is treated to a visit to Bangkok to witness the delicate intricacies of the social and political system of Thailand, not always a pretty sight. The story begins when Rafferty wins a most unusual prize in a late-night poker ...
Book review: The Enemy is Within
2009-08-23 22:23:00 The Enemy is Within by Patrick G. Cox I rather enjoyed this book, this is a sequel to Out of Time and I was keen to find out how the characters got on in their new time and space. I have finally got my answer. We continue to follow the trio, although the “Powder Monkey” is stuck ...
Book Review: The Tented Field by Susan Downs Burleson
2009-08-23 18:31:00 A Family’s Civil War Letters I have a friend who runs a small niche publishing house. he only works with history, and the books have to be unique, some new perspective on an event. I refer to the style as ‘Living History’, events as seen at the time through an observers eye. The Tented Field is ...
Book Review: Lost: Messages From the Island
2009-08-23 01:40:00 Like its principal characters, ABC’s series Lost has had a checkered history. After a blistering first two seasons, viewing figures declined to unanticipated lows. That prompting some doomsayers to wonder if the show might be canceled. Thankfully for anyone wrapped up in the complex mythology of Lost, ABC was not so rash. The series then ...
Book Review: Dreamer by Phillip L. Davidson
2009-08-22 18:38:00 I think it is fair to say that Dreamer is a complex book that works on many levels, different people will interpret the story in different ways. At the most simplistic level it is an action thriller concerning a group of Vietnam veterans that are once more called to arms, by a comrade who invokes ...
Book Review: Wally The Walking Fish ? Meets Madison And Cooper by Gary Lami
2009-08-22 15:12:00 I enjoy children’s books, I guess I am a child at heart. I actually think that the genre is much misunderstood. A children’s book is not a simple project, the author has many variables to contend with, not least of which is balancing the entertainment value that the child perceives with the educational value that ...
An Interview With Author Sam Moffie
2009-08-20 23:23:00 I am likely one of the few people that can honestly say that I enjoy my job. I get to read books, and talk to the authors. Generally I can tell how an interview will unfold just on the book itself. I read No Mad, and was firmly convinced that Sam Moffie and I would ...
Craft Book Review: ?Wool Pets? by Laurie Sharp
2009-08-18 04:43:00 Needle felting is using wool fibers and shaping them to create an object like a butterfly, kitten, rabbit, etc. The basics are wool, a barbed needle and a foam pad, though in the materials section, the author explains in words and pictures that it can be a bit more complicated than that. For example, the ...
Cookbook Review: ?Back of the Box Cooking? edited by Barbara Greenman
2009-08-18 03:45:00 If you are tired of saving recipes off of boxes, this book is for you. It features 500 recipes from over fifty brands in a hardback spiraled book format. These recipes are ones consumers requested the most from companies. The thirteen chapters cover every meal time, snack time and desert. Each contributed recipe is just ...
Book Review: No Mad by Sam Moffie
2009-08-15 18:40:00 Aaron Abraham has finally made it to the big time, his novels have been selling steadily, now a publisher has paid a six figure advance for his next book. A book that signifies a change in writing direction. With a working title of Yearbook, Aaron is going to reconnect with his school classmates from a ...
Book Review: Thumb Flagging by Jerome Peterson
2009-08-15 16:07:00 What is Thumb Flagging? In a word, Hitch Hiking. In many ways a long lost art. As a teenager in the 60’s and early 70’s it was my preferred mode of transportation. In the summer a couple of us would hit the tarmac heading off to one music festival or another. A bedroll, a two ...
An Interview With Victoria Cristiani Rossi
2009-08-15 15:51:00 Victoria Cristiani Rossi has just released a memoir Spangles, Elephants, Violets And Me. It takes us behind the scenes of the traveling circus, a staple of the first half of the 20th century. The Cristiani family are one of the best known multi generational circus families, their skills on horseback were legendary, and over ...
Book Review: Tommy Gun Tango by Brant Randall and Bruce Cook
2009-08-13 22:20:00 In the midst of the Depression, California beckons as a place to find financial security and a better life, so Marshall Lawe, who lost his job as a constable in Peony Springs, Massachusetts, packs up and heads west. As he put it, the town dried up and his job with it. As he’s driving along a ...
An Interview With Gaston Delesdandroux
2009-08-13 19:57:00 I can honestly say that I love my job. I bounce out of bed everyday and have no idea what is going to happen next. No boring 9-5 for me, more 6am to 8pm of sheer fun! My office, and I use that term loosely, consists of three computers, a couple of phones, CD and ...
The Soul of Baseball
2009-07-15 13:50:00 The Soul of Baseball “I remember catching batting-practice home runs, she said. “That was when baseball was still baseball.” “I don’t mean to interrupt,” Buck O’Neil said, “but baseball is still baseball.” The above quote pretty much sums up legendary Negro Leagues player, manager, Major League coach & scout, and ambassador for the game, Buck O’Neil. Always meeting ...
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2009-06-22 08:40:00 Several months back, I began reading Salman Rushdie’s “Enchantress of Florence”. Even brilliance of prose can be tedious, as I realized not too far into the book. Nonetheless, it did trigger in me some interest in history. Out came a dusty paperback from my bookshelf, an old edition of History of India Vol. 2 by ...
Book Review: ?Born To Run? by James Grippando
2009-03-08 17:36:00 “Born to Run” marks the return of Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck in a case as crooked as they come and one that means he never steps foot into a courtroom for the entire novel. Jack is still dating FBI agent Andie Henning who just might be the best thing that ever happened to ...
Book Review: Florida?s Vanishing Trail by James Hammond
2009-03-05 19:20:00 It was truly the Garden of Eden. Birds, fish, and animals of every size and description thrived together in a landscape of lush tropical vegetation amongst exotic flowers and palm trees that rose in some places to more than one hundred feet; all relatively untouched by man. This was the Florida Everglades region of Southwest Florida ...
Book Review: The Attraction Distraction by Sonia Miller
2009-03-05 17:16:00 Why The Law Of Attraction Isn’t Working for you… And How To Get Results - Finally I found the title of this book to be slightly misleading, I assumed upon reading it that it would be yet another treatise on the subject of relationships with others. Yes I suppose it is about relationships in a manner, ...
Book Review: ?A Romantic Way To Die? by Bill Crider
2009-03-01 19:22:00 Death at a writer’s conference as a theme is something that every author does at some point in a series. It also is a frequent theme for websites where entrants may even win a trip to the sponsoring writer’s conference. It is so overdone it is clichéd. Yet, it is done because as a thematic ...
Book Review: ?Somebody Owes Me Money? by Donald E. Westlake
2009-03-01 17:37:00 All Chet Conway wanted was his money. Money he won through his local NYC bookie after he placed a bet on a horse. Conway drives a cab and is always getting advice from passengers. Most times he ignores what he is told and moves on to the next fare. This time his fare figured out ...
Book Review: ?Dead or Alive? by Michael McGarrity
2009-03-01 16:01:00 It begins in the Bernalillo County Detention Center in New Mexico where a mistake is made and inmate Craig Larson is accidentally picked to go to a minimum security prison outside Springer, New Mexico. He’s killed before and gotten away with it. He got caught because he stayed too long in one place and now ... |
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