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PUTTING IT ON PAPER: The Ground Rules for Creating Promotional Pieces that Sell Books
Author: Dawn Josephson Publisher: Ground Rules Press, a subsidiary of Cameo Publications, LLC ISBN: 0-9744966-1-8 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer BrownMany writers dream of the moment their book is accepted for publication. The hard work is over. All they have to do is turn over their perfectly edited manuscript to the publisher, cash their royalties checks, and wait while their publicist turns them into the next household name.
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2-25-2005
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A Caribbean Tale
Author: Rudy GurleyISBN: 1427605351If there is one element that sets apart interesting personal narratives from those that are downright boring, it is the narrator’s ability to take on the role analogous to that of an actor in a drama who vividly and effectively shares his or her experiences with the reader. These experiences can be built around one single remarkable event or it may be of a general tale comprising several events in one’s life. What is vital is that the author must clearly...
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9-23-2006
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A Rebel Life: Murder by the Rich
Author: Peter KalafatisPublisher: All and None PressISBN: 0615135145When Peter Kalafatis was thirteen years old he ran away from his Brooklyn home. He was fed up with the verbal and physical abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents and though he implored his younger brother, Archie, to stay home, the two spent a cold night in 1983 wandering the streets of their neighborhood. Eventu
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5-25-2007
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Breakfast at Sally’s: One Homeless Man’s Inspirational Journey
Click Here To Purchase Breakfast At Sally'sAuthor: Richard LeMieuxISBN: 978-1-60239-293-9 Richard LeMieux’s book, “Breakfast at Sally’s,” is indeed an inspirational read, it isn’t just a story about a homeless man and his dog, Willow, instead it is filled with uplifting stories about the friends he makes while homeless in Bremerton, Washington. First and foremost, there’s “C” (LeMieux never learns his real name, but that is incidental to his story), an eccentric music-loving homeless man...
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10-4-2008
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BULLETS Growing Up in The Crossfire
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Kat HibbardPublisher: Bridgeway BooksISBN-10: 1933538821 ISBN-13:
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8-5-2007
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King Hui: The Man Who Owned All The Opium In Hong Kong
Click Here To Purchase King Hui: The Man Who Owned All The Opium In Hong Kong Author: Jonathan Chamberlain:ISBN: 978-988-99799-8-0The nagging question I was left with after reading Jonathan Chamberlain’s King Hui: The Man Who Owned All The Opium In Hong Kong was how much was truth and how much was a figment of one man’s vivid imagination. I noticed that even the publisher cautions us stating: “This book reflect
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6-13-2008
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Mayday A Physician as Patient
Author: Allan Lohaus, M.D.ISBN: 978-0-9755922-9-8 The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsAbout the Book (From the inner flap) - Mayday! is a medical odyssey journalrevealing the thought, feelings, humor and spirituality of an American physicianduring months of hopitalization. Rising on swells of optimism and tugged down bypain, infections, operations and adverse outcomes, he drifts through waters toodeep to stand in and too dark for him...
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6-18-2006
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Never Tell Me Never
Click Here To Purchase Never Tell Me Never Author: Janine Shepherd Publisher: Random House AustraliaISBN: 978-1-74166-707-3
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7-12-2008
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On My Own Two Feet
Click Here To Purchase On my Own Two Feet Author: Janine ShepherdPublisher: Random House Australia ISBN: 978-1-74166-046-3 In 1986 Janine Shepherd was hit by a truck and was told she would never walk again. Not only did she stagger doctors by learning to walk again she also became a commercial pilot and aerobatics instructor. To add more j
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7-12-2008
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Only Mortals Can Be Heroes
Click Here To Purchase Only Mortals Can Be Heroes Author: David J WeaverISBN: 0-9770916-0-0Publisher: Cambria Creations
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4-12-2008
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Riding Through It (A Memoir)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Riding Through It (A Memoir) Author: Carol McKibben Publisher: Outskirts PressISBN: 1-59800-941-9Keep riding through it, this is the advice Carol McKibben offers people, women especially, who have been in a similar position as herself.At the age of 30, Carol’s husband sexually a
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8-30-2007
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S-W-I-S-H: Maria in the Mourning
Click Here To Purchase Swish: Maria in the Mouring Author: Pamela Palmer Mutino Publisher: Outskirts Press ISBN: 978-1-4327-0086-7 Pamela Palmer Mutino’s S-W-I-S-H: Maria in the Mourning was also adapted for a staged reading in March 2007 and received stel
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7-12-2008
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Silent Prisoner
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Silent PrisonerAuthor: Amanda YoungPublisher: BookSurge PublishingISBN: 978-1-4196-6895-1 Amanda Young, author and cover-artist, hopes that by sharing her story she may help those who are living in pain, speak out and end the silence. The cover picture is very fitting to what this tale is about. Amanda has certainly captured the essence of this novel with her artistic drawing. Amanda is a registered nurse with a degree in homeopathy. She currently lives in...
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1-11-2008
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Slash
Click Here To Purchase Slash From AmazonAuthor: Slash, with Anthony BozzaISBN: 978-0-06-135142-6What's behind the untamed hair and top hat? We’ve all wondered. The erratic curls part just enough to reveal sexy full lips. Is he purposely teasing us?
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12-18-2007
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42 keys to the Second Exodus
Author: Vivianne M. Schinasi-SilverISBN: 978-1-896754-50-5 Vivianne Schinasi-Silver has penned an enchanting memoir on the life of Egyptian Jews in pre-Nasser era, and in particular of her loving family, as well as about their painful Exodus.
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6-1-2008
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A 1001 Nights in Iraq
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon A 1001 Nights In Iraq Author: Shant KenderianPublisher: Atria BooksISBN: 978-1-4165-4019-9There’s a popular saying that “truth is stranger than fiction.” In the case of Shant Kenderian, the saying certainly applies. In his nonfiction book (once the most popular selling book on BookSurge before being picked up by publisher Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster), Kenderian recounts his own tale of being drafted to fight a war against his own country.
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11-9-2007
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A Boy From Lawrence: The Collected Writings of Eugene F. Connolly
Editor: Sally A. Connolly ISBN: 0977265315Sally A. Connolly has collected and edited the writings of her late husband Dr. Eugene F. Connolly in the form of a book titled A Boy From Lawrence (TypeStyles Desktop Publishing Services, USA, 2006), copyrighted 2005 but now available afresh as a second edition. The book carries entries from Dr. Connolly's journal: short passages of memoir, poems, recollections, letters, family photographs, and quotes of wisdom by icons of literature. Two motifs of...
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9-28-2006
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A Broad Aboard in Thailand :An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon A Broad Aboard in Thailand :An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles Author: Dodie Cross ISBN: 1-978-1-88561-475-6 Living abroad in Thailand is not always all it is said to be as author Dodie Cross quickly realized. The result of her near year-long adventure? A “laugh out loud must-read memoir” called A Broad Aboard in Thailand An Expat’s Misadventures in the Land of Smiles.When newly widowed Dodie first met and became involved with Dick, she had no...
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11-30-2007
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A License To Steal
Click Here To Purchase A License To Steal Authors: Mary Jane Robinson: Walter T. ShawISBN: 9780978605902 According to the back inside flap of A License To Steal, author Mary Jane Robinson has written more than seventy-five personal histories over the past twenty years. It further mentions “that remaining true to the record, she succeeds in preserving the voice and integrity of each individual as the stories of their live
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5-21-2008
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A Place to Belong
Click Here To Purchase A Place To Belong Author: Paul MillerISBN: 1-4208-8787-4Publisher: AuthorHouse What an amazing story, one that you’ll find you are unable to put down. Pau
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3-26-2008
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After Daddy Died: Portrait of a Mad Man
Click Here To Purchase After Daddy Died Author: Dr. Naomi RobersonISBN-10: 1432719513 ISBN-13: 978-1432719517 This short book was quite disturbing in many ways. I am surprised that anyone would have survived what Dr. Roberson tell
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7-1-2008
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All for a Few Perfect Waves
Click Here To Purchase All For A Few Perfect Waves Author: David RensinISBN-13: 978-0-06-077331-1
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8-8-2008
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Becoming Jane Austen
Click Here To Purchase Becoming Jane Austen Author: Jon SpenceISBN: 13 978-1-84725-046-9After reading Jane Austen's hilarious and poignant novels, where true loveand virtue always win the day, her basic biographical facts appear quitepale in comparison. Born into the large family of a country clergyman,Austen had an education considered sufficient for her time, experienced aflirtation in her early twenties which came to nothing, lived in genteelpoverty most of her life, had one economically...
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4-9-2008
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Being Frank: My Time With Frank Zappa
Author:Nigey Lennon,ISBN 187939541X The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews Lennon was your average rebellious teenager in 1960sCalifornia, until she discovered a strange lookingalbum by someone named Frank Zappa at the local recordstore. She bought everything she could find by him,and wore out the albums due to playing them over andover. A budding songwriter, she and her boyfriendrecorded several songs on reel-to-reel tape and sentthem...
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4-14-2005
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Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person
Author: Miriam Engelberg ISBN: 978-0-06-078973-2The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereCancer brings different reactions from different people, depending on how the person is involved with the big "c" word. I can't imagine being the patient who must deal with this d
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7-9-2006
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Charlie’s Notes: A Memoir
Author: Cherie Kerr ISBN: 09648882-7-0 This review was contributed by Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews Cherie Kerr's memoir of her father Carluchi (Charlie) DePietro is "a true American story" in every sense of the phrase. It is a book about the aspirations of turn-of-the-century European immigrants, it is a book about the hopes and dreams of their children, and it is a book about the American love affair with popular music and the...
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7-8-2005
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Departure Message
Click Here To Purchase Departure Message Author: Charles L. Lunsford
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6-19-2008
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Digging Up My Gold
Arthur BirkbyISBN: 1-5988624-8-0Arthur Birkby is a storyteller. He’s a teller of tales with talent I liken to that of Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875). Birkby writes about his family members with vivid recollection. Recalling the incidents with clarity, as if it only happened yesterday, Birkby starts with an introduction to his colorful Grampop. From a ride on a moving table saw to a trolley abruptly jerking to a stop to Grampop using the words “hell“ and “damn“ -- the man had an impact...
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11-12-2006
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Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In: A True Story of the Struggles of a World Record Hymn Singer
Click Here To Purchase Don't Give Up, Don't Give In Author: Terry Dwight ColemanISBN: 978-1-60477-465-8 Terry Dwight Coleman’s battle for survival began from the moment he was two weeks old in 1951 when he was admitted to the Denver General Hospital with whooping cough. His great-grandmother came to visit him and noticed that he was crying. When she questioned the nurses what was wrong with Terry, they were unable to provide an answer. However, his great-grandmother, who was not one to give...
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5-28-2008
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Dreams of an Immigrant
Author: Elizabeth S. StegerISBN: 1-933538-22-8The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click Here
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4-14-2006
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From the Rill to the Ocean
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon From the Rill to the Ocean Author: Imre KalanyosISBN: 9781425735494 The aspiration which led Imre Kalanyos run away from the imposing communist rule of his country is a word that equals life for many of us: freedom. In his short book From the Rill to the Ocean: My Journey to Freedom (Xlibris Corporation, Philadelphia, 2007), Kalanyos compares his life in communist Hungary as chained and desperate for an outlet into the free world. His quest for seeking...
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11-27-2007
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Ghost Tango
\Click Here To Purchase Ghost Tango Author: Janeen LenfordPublisher: W.L. Ransom PressISBN: 978-0-9797830-3-6 Janeen Lenford has been a classroom teacher and a Reading Specialist for 25 years. She supervised a GED program in
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8-26-2008
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Green Day: American Idiots and the New Punk Explosion
Author: Ben MyersISBN: 193285732x This is an unauthorized, but very favorable, biography of Green Day, one of theworld's biggest punk music bands.The trio that became Green Day grew up in small towns near San Francisco. Eachcoming from difficult family circumstances, they fell in love with punk music(the Dead Kennedys, the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, among many others). Theyformed a band, and soon became mainstays at a place called 924 Gilman. It waslittle more than a vacant building, but it...
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10-20-2006
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Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered
Author: Carolyn Howard-Johnson: ISBN: 1591295505The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews This is a group of stories about family, and theoccasional strangeness that goes along with it. Asequel to her novel This is The Place, about growingup Mormon in Utah, these stories are partrecollections by older members of the family, and partthings that actually happened to the author when shewas younger.During a drive in the country with her...
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4-14-2005
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I Am Alive and You are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick
Author: Emanuel CarrereISBN: 0312424515This book is not just a biography of Philip K. Dick, famous science fictionwriter; the movies Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report are based onhis stories. It is also an attempt to find out what made him tick, to get insidehis mind. And that is a strange place to be.Dick was born in 1928, near Berkeley, California, half of a set of twins.Evidently, his mother knew little or nothing about child rearing, because Jane,his twin, died at 6 weeks of...
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10-20-2006
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If I Could Write This in Fire
Click Here To Purchase If I Could Write This In FireAuthor: Michelle CliffISBN-10: 0816654743 ISBN-13: 978-0816654741
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10-3-2008
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If This Is Heaven, I am Going to Be a Good Boy: The Tommy Leonard Story
Author: Kathleen Cleary ISBN: 0595356982The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Author Kathleen Cleary CLICK HEREProbably many of us have a favorite bartender, however, I doubt if we have met one comparable and memorable to the legendary Tommy Leonard of the now defunct Eliot Lounge that was located on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.Nine years...
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10-25-2005
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Iraq in My Eye ( Memoirs of a Navy SEAL)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Iraq in My Eye ( Memoirs of a Navy SEAL) Author: Chuck Bravedy Publisher: Publish AmericaISBN: 1-4241-7689-1 The war in Iraq has now been going on for so many years it has become a constant fight for power and a battle that has taken many innocent lives. I started to get into Chuck Bravedy’s book but I was disappointed to find I was
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11-30-2007
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It Stops With Me: Memoir Of A Canuck Girl
Author: Charleen TouchettePublishers: TouchArt Books: Santa FeISBN# 0974654507The follow review was contributed by Kathryn Atwood: There are a number of motivations to write a memoir: proximity to fame, a story that speaks to or is representative of an entire generation, or a life that simply has a fascinating angle. In many ways, Charleen Touchette’s book, It Stops With Me: Memoir Of A Canuck Girl falls into both of the last two catagories. Like many “baby...
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2-23-2005
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It’s Not My Fault –or- Can a Rabbi’s Son Find Happiness as a Tennis Pro?
Author: Daniel I. WaintrupISBN: 097548107X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews When we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we are able to laugh at our faults, weaknesses and gaffes, then perhaps we can call ourselves mature, or to quote Eleanor Roosevelt, “You don’t grow up until you have your first good laugh at yourself.”Daniel I. Waintrup spent fifteen years as tennis pro at one of the most prestigious...
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11-8-2005
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Journey Among Nations
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Journey Among NationsAuthor: Michael CohenPublisher: Outskirts PressISBN: 1-4327-0329-3 Michael Cohen lives with wife Dahlia their three sons and grandchildren in Queens, New York. He is a dynamic leader who serves as the president of the Jewish Sephardic community. He has recently headed two Afghan - Jewish delegations with the elected president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. He helps to bridge religions and enhance American - Afghanistan - Israeli ties....
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12-16-2007
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Just East of Eden: Tales From The Blog
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Just East of Eden: Tales From The Blog Author: Eric WilderISBN: 9780615152301One of the greatest strengths of blogging and the world of blogosphere is that it offers to many a voice and platform that is outside the mainstream media. Moreover, it transcends more traditional communication forms and can work in a variety of setting as it can get around the editorial filters that are imposed by the traditional media. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that...
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10-20-2007
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Lang Lang: Playing with Flying Keys
Click Here To Purchase Lang Lang: Playing With Flying Keys Author: Lang Lang, with Michael FrenchISBN: 9780385735780Publisher: A Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers Click Here To Purchase Lang Lang: Playing With Flying Keys
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7-26-2008
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Love You, Mean It: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Friendship
Authors: Patricia Carrington, Julia Collins, Claudia Gerbasis and Ann Haynes with Eve CharlesISBN: 1-4013-0229-7 This book was written by four widows of the September 11th, 2001 attacks in New York City. The widows formed a Widows’ Club, WC, and made it a priority to regularly gather for healing and friendship to help them navigate their way through the therapeutic process. The women found support from friends, family and co-workers, but nothing could replicate the irreplaceable bond they...
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9-30-2006
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Making History: How to remember, record, interpret and share the events of your life
Author: Kim PearsonISBN: 10: 1881849031When our children, relatives and friends broach the subject of writing our memoirs, most of us manage to provide a broad array of negative responses from who cares about our lives to even if I wanted to write my memoirs, how would I go about it as I don't have a clue. To help us overcome our lack of enthusiasm, Kim Pearson has come up with a most unique resource, Making History: How to remember, record, interpret and share the events of your...
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6-21-2007
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Manic (a memoir)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Manic A Memoir Author: Terri Cheney
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3-5-2008
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Manic: A Memoir
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Manic A MemoirAuthor: Terri CheneyISBN: 978-0-06-143023-7
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2-19-2008
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Mayday! : A Physician as Patient
Author: Dr. Allan LohuasISBN: 0975592297 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE ‘Stand tall-think tall’ was the advice of Allan Lohaus’s physical therapist, as Dr. Lohuas was wanting in spirit while having just caught the road to convalescence. Earlier came in Dr. Lohuas’s life course a painful period of intestinal surgeries and dependency on medical aid. As he came out of the nearly helpless anguish,...
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6-18-2006
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Me and My Father's Shadow: A Daughter's Quest and Biography of Ted Lewis, The Jazz King
Author: Dawn WilliamsISBN: 0-9770783-1-0Ted Lewis, a clarinetist and showman with a decades-long career, was one of the first Northern bandleaders to try to master jazz. He also secretly fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter. Dawn Williams, the daughter in question, has attempted to combine her own biography with that of her father in her slightly uneven but ultimately rewarding book, "Me and My Father's Shadow."Conceived during a one-night stand and brought up by a single mother,...
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12-18-2006
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Memoirs From Normandy: Childhood, War, and Life’s Adventures
Author: Armand IdracISBN: 0-9743158-5-0 The following Review was contributed by by Kathryn Atwood: Armand Idrac’s Memoirs From Normandy: Childhood, War and Life’s Adventures is appealing on many levels. It first caught my eye because of my intense interest in World War II history; the prospect of reading a French child’s perspective of the Normandy invasion was too much to resist. The chapter covering the invasion doesn’t disappoint. The particulars of one of the greatest...
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4-14-2005
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Memoirs of an Immigrant
Click Here To Purchase Memoirs of an Immigrant Author: Olof A. EriksenPublisher: Outskirts PressISBN: 978-1-4327-1014-9
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8-2-2008
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My Father's Secret War
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon My Father's Secret War Author: Lucinda FranksISBN: 1-4013-5226-X My Father's Secret War is not only a glimpse into the clandestine world of an American spy, but at the same time the author shares with us how she and her family were affected by her father's remoteness of spirit and his long absences. This book is an emotionally charged true story, a combination of intrigue, love and heartbreak. The author, Lucinda Franks, has written for many publications,...
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5-14-2007
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Nile Cruise and Beyond
Author: Brigitte FoulkeISBN: 1413786375In her Prologue, Brigitte Foulke author of Nile Cruise and Beyond mentions that her son calls her a lunatic, because he could not imagine that her story actually happened to her. However, as she states, her friends believe her story to be true, but many don’t understand why she can’t wipe out those eight years and move on like nothing happened. From its title to its conclusion, Brigitte Foulke’s Nile Cruise and Beyond is intended as a chronicle of...
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1-24-2007
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Notes From Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune
Click Here To Purchase Notes From Nethers: Growing Up in a Sixties Commune Author: Sandra EugsterPublisher: Academy Chicago PublishersISBN: 9780897335614 No discussion about the Sixties is complete without mentioning communes. Stories about them (and the zany goings-on in them) have taken on almost mythical proportions in the last few decades: free love, nudity, weird ri
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8-26-2008
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Nub: Story of an Ex-Cripple
Click Here To Purchase Nub: Story of an Ex-Cripple Author: Emile BarriosISBN-10: 0974926450 ISBN-13: 978-0974926452
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7-11-2008
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Once Blind: The Life of John Newton
Author: Kay Marshall StromPublished by Authentic PublishersISBN: 978-1-934068-27-4Click Here To Purchase Once Blind The Life Of John Newton
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6-12-2008
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Out of Season:The Johnny Luster Story
Author: Mary E. Adams ISBN: 096398697XThe following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews This is the story of Alaska's last great mountainman, a man who was born twocenturies too late.Luster was born in the early 1900s on a Shoshone reservation in Wyoming. From anearly age, he was more interested in hunting and trapping by himself out in thewilderness than in conventional things like school and getting a job. Somethingof a smart aleck, he was constantly...
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1-11-2006
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Out of the Frying Pan
Click Here To Purchase Out Of The Frying Pan Author: Gillian ClarkISBN-13: 987-0-312-36693-3ISBN-10: 0-312-36693-0
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6-4-2008
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Outside Looking In
Author: Pete Mitchell Alias StratmasterISBN: 184667-011-XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Outside Looking In ends with the words “Remember, Keep on rocking, it’s the only way to survive, especially-if you’re-OUTSIDE LOOKING IN.”
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7-24-2006
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Paper Poppies: A Memoir by Marianna Vekhova
ISBN: 978-0-975961-91-9Author: Marrianna Vehovan: Natalia Klukovkina (Translator) The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsA good memoir brings a single life sharply into focus; when that life illuminates a turbulent historical context, the results can be enthralling. Marianna Vekhova's memoir, Paper Poppies, is such a book. Orphaned and hospitalized with spinal tuberculosis during the second world war, four year-old Marianna...
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10-21-2005
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Sharks on Wounded Fish:Chum Water
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Sharks on Wounded Fish:Chum Water Author: Hodge WoodISBN: 978-0-9785158-6-7Publisher: River Road Press After Hodge Wood’s recovery from critical injury, he went on to practise occupational therapy for twenty years. Wood was later recognized as Oklahoma’s Occupational Therapist of the year in 1991.Wood is an Officer on the Board of Directors of the Mid-America Chapter, Paralyzed Veterans of America.He has published articles which describe recreational sports...
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9-27-2007
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SixtyFive Roses: A Sister's Memoir
Click Here To Purchase SixtyFive Roses: A Sister's Memoir Author: Heather Summerhayes CariouISBN: 13: 978-1-55278-678-9: 10: 1-55278-678-1Publisher: McArthur & CompanyIn a wrenching memoir that exacts a huge emotional toll on its readers, Heather Summerhayes Cariou, author of SIXTYFIVE ROSES, has effectively conveyed the turbulence and sadness that a family endures as it deals with the caring for a child who was born with Cystic Fibrosis.
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9-19-2008
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Sleeping on Potatoes
Author: Dr. Carl Nomura ISBN: 0970194730 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE ‘Sleeping on Potatoes is the metaphor for the bumpy and lumpy ride I had in my formative years,’ Dr. Carl Nomura explains in the preface to his debut publication Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar to the Corporate Tower (Erasmus Books, Washington, 2003). Nomura then extends this metaphor into a vivified mosaic...
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6-1-2006
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Some Day Never Comes
Author: Kerry LePageISBN: 978-1-4343-2855-0When Kerry LePage looked back on his life that has spanned fifty plus years, he sincerely felt he had something to pass unto anyone who would listen to him. What's more, he believed that now was the right time to do it or as my own father used to tell me, do it now, tomorrow never comes. As LePage points out in his introduction, what motivated him to write Some Day Never Comes was that the only memories he has of most of his relatives are their...
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4-20-2007
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Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve
Click Here To Purchase Somewhere In Heaven Author: Christopher AndersenISBN 978-1-4013-2302-9Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books that have been translated into more than twenty languages worldwide. A former contributing editor of Time and senior editor of People, Andersen has also written hundreds of articles for a wide range of publications, including Li
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7-19-2008
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Speak Right On: Dred Scott
Author: Mary E. NeighbourISBN: 1 59264 144 XThe following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Speak Right On" is a fictionalized biography of Dred Scott, theAfrican-American slave at the center of the hotly debated antebellum SupremeCourt decision that will forever bear his name. Scott was a slave who, becausehe had lived in the free North with his Southern master for a time, decidedlater to sue for his freedom on that basis....
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8-11-2006
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Spirit Matters: A Memoir
Author: Matthew J. PallamaryISBN: 978-1-4343-1801-5Publisher: Mystic Ink Publishing Click Here To Purchase Spirit Matters
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6-2-2008
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Starlust: The Price of Fame
Click Here To Purchase Starlust: The Price of Fame Author: Jesse Cutler Publisher: Morgan James PublishingISBN: 978-1-60037-418-0 I wonder how many people will recognize the name Jesse Cutler? He was a popstar who grew up on the streets of New York City and became a member of The Young Ex
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11-1-2008
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T: An Auto-Biography:
Author: Feather Schwartz FosterISBN: (10) 0-9785158-3-8From the moment "T" (that's short for Model-T Ford) rolls off of "Mr.Ford's assembly line" until he gets rescued from a junk heap by his firstowner's great-grandchildren, "'T' An Auto-Biography dishes up a lot ofeducational fun. Not only does Feather Schwartz Foster give a detaileddescription of the appearance and workings of a Model-T Ford, but as thecar passes through time and changes owners, Foster also...
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2-9-2007
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The Carny Kid Survival of a Young Thief
Author: Kenneth KahnISBN: 0976111500 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With The Author CLICK HERE
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7-14-2005
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The Equinox: Silenced at Ten
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Equinox: Silenced at Ten Author: John Aldrich Simpson Publisher: BooksurgeISBN: 978-1-4196-7672-7John Aldrich Simpson, a biblical prophet and Teamster, currently lives in De Soto, Mo.Do you believe in an all seeing presence? Well you may do after reading this book. I thought the cover of this book was attention-grabbing, with a keen eye to detail. The greyish black against the salmon pink works wonderfully, especially with the lovely pale pink flower....
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11-21-2007
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The Faron Young Story: Live Fast Love Hard
Click Here To Purchase The Faron Young Story: Live Fast Love HardAuthor: Diane DiekmanPublisher: University of Illinois PressISBN:978-0-252-03248-6 Diane Diekman talks about how she had the pleasure of meeting Faron Young on St Patrick’s Day 1970 at a concert of his she attended.He struck her as a true gentleman who insisted on walking her back to her c
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9-14-2008
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The Ghosts of Vietnam
Author: Jim StewartPublisher: IuniverseISBN: 0-595-36282-6The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews.This book is an honest self-published memoir. One would think from the title that it is a story about a gung ho fighter who is going to tell us about his heroics during the war. Then he gets back to the U.S., meets the Anti-War Movement and starts the PTSD screw up (drugs, booze, sex, rock and roll and divorces). Also, there is the...
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9-24-2005
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The Grand Illusion
Authors: Chuck Panozzo with Michele SkettinoPublisher: AmacomISBN: 978-0-8144-0916-9Many of you probably already know who I mean when I mention the name Chuck Panozzo but for those of you who aren’t too familiar, he was the first person to form the rock group Styx. He was also one of the bravest men back in the early days when the band was formed for coming out to a few of his close friends and family. However for many years after this, his sister Emily remained convinced that her brother was...
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6-24-2007
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The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint
Author: Tommy ChongISBN 13:978-1-4169-1554-6 We read memoirs to get an intimate and insightful look into the lives of people we find fascinating. We read them to get a glimpse into other people’s minds. Tommy Chong (of the legendary comedy pair Cheech and Chong) allows us inside his head with his first book attempt, The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint. In it, Chong relives his highly publicized arrest and subsequent imprisonment on federal drug paraphernalia charges. Unfortunately...
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12-30-2006
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The Jewish Lady. The Black Man & The Road Trip
Click Here To Purchase The Jewish Lady The Black Man And The Road Trip Author: Carol Sue GershmanISBN: 978-61524288 0I am not quite sure what to make of Carol Sue Gershman and The Jew
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9-29-2008
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The Last Schoonerman: The Remarkable Life of Captain Lou Kennedy
Author: Joe RussellISBN: 0-9789350-0-4That it was possible during the middle of the twentieth century to profitably haul cargo between the Caribbean, Canada and the northeast USA with sailing ships similar to those used in the 1850s will probably come as quite a surprise to many of us today.This was how the legendary Lou Kenedy, who owned and skippered ten vessels, earned his living from the age of twenty-one during the height of the Depression until he retired and sold his last schooner in...
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4-3-2007
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The Lemon Tree
Author: Ilil ArbelPublisher: iUniverseISBN: 0595339824 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews: To read Norm`s interview with the author, Ilil Arbel, Click Here
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5-10-2005
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The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine - A Young Woman's Autobiography of a 20-Year Tale of Trials & Tribulations
Author: Shirley ChengPublisher: Self Published by Author ISBN: 1-4116-1860-2Category: AutobiographyThe following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY & CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsThe book with the rather long title is the story ofShirley Cheng, an American girl (of Chinese descent),who was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritiswhen just 11 months old. Cared for by a loving,courageous and spiritually strong mother, Shirleyovercomes all her physical challenges including...
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8-1-2005
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The Storyteller’s Daughter: A Return To a Lost Homeland
Author: Siara Shah.Publisher: KnopfISBN: 0375415319 The following review was contributed by: Leila DewjiAnyone with an interest in postcolonial literature will be all too familiar with the frequent formula of romantic nostalgic pining for a land that is no longer theirs, or in the case of Rushdie a land and life from which he has been banished. From their outside positions as westerners they try
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1-14-2005
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Vietnam: No Regrets
Click Here to Purchase From Amazon Vietnam No Regrets Author: J. Richard WatkinsISBN: 0-9793629-0-3Publisher: Aventine Press How would you feel if you had to board a plane and go to fight in a war, knowing you might never see your friends or family again? This is the question young twenty-something J. Richard Watkins had wondered as he boarded a plane to fly to South Vietnam. I’m sure there will be some readers who pick up this book and can completely relate to Watkins because they were...
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9-27-2007
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Virgil Fox (The Dish)
Authors: Richard Torrence and Marshall YeagerISBN 097129707X The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews Based on a memoir by Ted Alan Worth, this is a look ateasily the most famous organist since Johann SebastianBach.Worth first met Fox when he played an organ concert ata church in California. Worth was totally blown awayby the things Fox did that day; he didn't just playthe organ (from memory, which was unheard of in theorgan world), he mastered...
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10-12-2005
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