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A Nasty Piece of Work
Click Here To Purchase A Nasty Piece of Work Author: Graham BendelPublisher: Fortune Teller PressISBN: 978-0-9547737-3-1 I was not honestly sure what I thought when I started to read this novel by film director Graham Bendel. It starts off with
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11-1-2008
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A Sublime Celestial Blessing
Click Here to Purchase From Amazon A Sublime Celestial Blessing Author: A.G BennettPublisher: World Audience ISBN: 978-1-934209-24-0A.G Bennett was born in Geelong, Victoria, Australia in 1960. He had the pleasure of sailing up and down the east coast on a yacht which his father had built. Bennett finally settled down in northern New South Wales and in the schools he attended his talent for writing emerged. Later he attended the University of New England in Armidale where he completed a...
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8-14-2007
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Ad Hudler
Click Here To Purchase Man of the House: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Author: Ad Hudler Publisher: Ballantine BooksISBN: 978-0-345-48108-5 Linc Menner is a house-husband - or to put it as the book
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11-1-2008
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Amaranth
Author: Michael Ehrenreich ISBN: 0-595-36992-8The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREThe distinguishing merit of Michael Ehrenreich’s first novel Amaranth (iUniverse Inc, Nebraska, 2005) is its striking modern realism. A rich imagery of modern city environment, modes of life, and tearing stresses of disease and ugliness make Ehrenreich’s literary fiction a 21st century classic.Amaranth bears a mature plot....
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4-2-2006
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Class
Click Here To Purchase Class Author: Jane Beaton Publisher: Sphere ISBN: 978-0-7515-4060-4
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10-19-2008
Views: 1513
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Cover the Butter
Author: Carrie KabakPublisher: Dutton Adult (June 16, 2005)ISBN: 0525948767The following review was contributed by Jennifer Murray. To read more of Jennifer`s reviews click
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4-13-2005
Views: 5419
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Deception's Fury
Author: Jacqueline RandolphISBN: 1596820462The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERE To read Dian's Interview With The Author Click hereIs it possible to write a novel in just two months? For author Jacqueline Randolph, it is. Is that novel any good? A resounding "yes" is the answer.Deception's Fury is the sequel to Randolph's Deception's Guard, featuring Rhys and Skye Wielde, two dynamic personalities determined...
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9-30-2005
Views: 2542
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Double Edged: A Change of Heart
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Double Edged: A Change of Heart Author: Ben HarrISBN: 978-1-84753-471-2Where do I begin? As soon as I saw the cover of this crime book, it instantly put me off. The dull navy blue and red world globe with a sword through just didn’t grab me at all. Then as I looked to see if the book contained an author bio, I was very surprised to see that one simply did not exist. It made me wonder “is Ben Harr really the author’s name or a pseudonym?” The painting of a...
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11-8-2007
Views: 5539
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Engleby
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon EnglebyAuthor: Sebastian FaulksPublisher: DoubledayISBN: 978-0-385-52405-6"I decided not to be mad any more; I was never going back to a place like that again." Engleby, pg. 191 Audiences love underdogs and surprises. They also love the formulaic nature of entertainment. Readers, even if they've never encountered the term "archetype," recognize signature character types when they see them. Conventional literary signposts clue readers in...
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1-8-2008
Views: 1741
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For Sarah
Title: For SarahAuthor: Annie HarmonISBN: 1-4137-7010-X The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREIs life a broken promise? A rusty chain? What about a bubble of fear inflated by an innocent kid who grew up to remember it was always there, all around? More questions make their way into debutant author Annie Harmon’s first work of fiction ‘For Sarah’ (Publish America, Baltimore, 2005).‘For Sarah’ laces several...
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4-2-2006
Views: 3725
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Killer Cats In San Francisco by Lew Shields
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Puma attacks in the suburbs of San Franciso are met with the usual stun, tag, release to the wild methodology prevalent in many areas today as man encroaches upon the habitat of critters. The notion that ‘the wild’ might in fact be inhabited by more than opossum, raccoon and the occasional rabbit is not part of the thinking of the ‘preserve the puma’ at any cost set. When Glade County (Napa? Sonoma? Solano?) residents begin to suffer puma...
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10-11-2004
Views: 4891
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Lessons from the Gypsy Camp
Genre: FictionAuthor's Name: Elizabeth AppellTitle of Book: Lessons from the Gypsy CampISBN Number: 0-312-31921-5 The following review contributed by: Dian Moore
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11-21-2004
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Looking for the Summer by Robert W. Norris
Reviewed by Paul Lappen American David Thompson is a Vietnam War conscientious objector. After spending a year in military prison, during which time he became estranged from his family, he travels around Europe, not really sure where he's going or what he's doing. In Paris, he meets a man named Hasan, who encourages David to accompany him back to Iran, his homeland. David is assured that plenty of jobs for foreigners are available. Their paths diverge for a while, and they meet up again a few...
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10-19-2004
Views: 6103
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MATTIE’S STORY
Author: Margaret A. WestlieISBN: 1-4010-9741-3 The following review was contrbuted by: Jennifer Brown : Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsNobody can tell you better than Mattie Cameron that growing up isn’t easy. Especially on Prince Edward Island in the 1800’s. But grow up, everyone must,
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7-10-2006
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Nice Wives Finish First
Author: Patricia Anne PhillipsPublisher: Dafina Books (March 5, 2005)ISBN: 0758208324 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray Jennifer Murray. Click
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6-16-2005
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OBSESSED
Author: Ted DekkerISBN: 0849943736
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2-23-2005
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Playing it Cool
Author: Joaquin DorfmanISBN: 0375836411The narrative begins with the prologue where we find Sebastian ruminating aboutwhen it all began. Sebastian, Baz to some, Bastian to others and Seba to stillothers is eighteen years old and is the person so many turn to when they have aproblem. It was Thursday when a grateful Caesar dropped Sebastian off at hishouse. Because of Sebastian Caesar has a date with Nicole. Sebastian getsthings done. In two days Sebastian and his friend Jeremy will set...
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10-23-2006
Views: 3113
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Revelations
Author: M. Scott ByrnesPublisher: Blue Stripe BooksISBN: 0-9772674-0-7The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsRevelations' by Scott Byrnes is a SF novel that holds your attention throughoutits 279 pages. Here is the blurb from the inner flap."Huddled over her seismometer on the frozen surface of Mars, NASA geologistKathy Palmer struggles to explain the image that just appeared on her monitor.Simultaneously, sixty-five million miles...
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8-8-2006
Views: 2382
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Sachiko
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon SachikoAuthor: Shizue Tomoda ISBN: 978-1419677670Publisher: BookSurge Publishing Sachiko is a young Japanese girl who desperately wants to go and study in America. Ever since coming across a novel about a young author who immigrated to America at the age of eighteen, Sackiko is determined she can have the same fate. America is where she feels there is a whole new life ready to open up before her where she can study and learn. However her parents do not see...
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2-6-2008
Views: 1867
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Sinister Among Us (A Novel)
Click Here To Purchase Sinister Among UsAuthor: Dr William BradshawISBN: 978-1-5988674-0-4Publisher: Tate Publishing and Enterprises Dr William Bradshaw, a graduate of the University of Missouri and Yale Divinity School, is one of the first and only Americans to hold a Ph.D in Demonology. He first became interested in demonology in
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6-7-2008
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THE COAST OF AKRON
Author: Adrienne MillerPublisher: Farrar, Straus, and GirouxISBN – 13: 978-0-374-12512-7ISBN – 10: 0-374-12512-0The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown & Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsWhy is Merit Haven Ash feeling so out of sorts? She’s got a good job, a willing assistant, an upstanding husband, and a party to attend. So what’s the problem?Just that her job selling ad-space to a magazine bores her; her willing assistant is altogether incompetent…and...
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9-14-2005
Views: 3069
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The Dark and Bloody Ground
Author: Roberta WebbISBN: 1-933538-08-2 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREHailing from Jenkins in Southeastern Kentucky, Roberta Webb worked as a psychiatric nursing supervisor, continued her nursing at the University of Virginia, and worked for a short time on the first atomic bomb as a minute technician. Now, living in Texas, she has embarked on a writing career with her debut novel The Dark and Bloody...
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4-2-2006
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The Dead Guy Interviews
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Dead Guy Interviews Author: Michael A. StusserPublisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 978-0-14-311227-3 Have you ever wondered what it would be like to bring Emily Dickinson back from the dead and ask her what she makes of her novels being published? Or perhaps ask Buddha what he makes of the band Nirvana? Well now you can! Michael invites our old heroes and heroines back from the dead to interview them and share a few laughs along the way.
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12-20-2007
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The Korean Palace of Honolulu
Click Here To Purchase The Korean Palace of Honolulu Author: Linda Mi-Suk Enos Publisher: Lulu.comISBN: 978-1-4357-1936-1This book is quite large consisting of A4 size pages - 434 to be exact. It certainly takes up quite a lot of space but I rather liked the large format myself and the beautiful front cover.The Korean Palace of Honolulu tells the tale of bargirls Mina, Jana, Suki, Naiomi, Mimi, Tina and Cathy momma. It is the 1980s - these girls live a life of money, passion, greed and...
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8-15-2008
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The Vampire Tapestry
Click Here To Purchase The Vampire TapestryAuthor: Suzy McKee CharnasISBN: 9780765320827
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10-6-2008
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Walking Away from Texas
Author: Sharon BradleyGenre: Teen FictionPublisher: iUniverseISBN: 0-595-32672-2The following review was contributed by: Molly Martin: CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's Reviews The narrative opens with high school senior Jaclyn bragging to Katie Mitchellthat she will be going to the homecoming dance with foot ball captain BrianEdwards. Even as she was bragging to Katie about her date Jaclyn insisted thatKatie must not attend the dance with her childhood friend Alan Thomas. Althoughthey have not...
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11-13-2005
Views: 4269
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“3 Aces”
Author: Richard Ide ISBN: 9-787774-567427Publisher: Button Top BooksClick Here To Purchase 3 AcesAbner Weaver drives an 18- wheeler long haul tr
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6-24-2008
Views: 3823
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A Dark Oval Stone
Author: Marsena KonkleISBN: 1-55725-427-3The following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's ReviewsTo read Mary's Interview With Author Marsena Konkle CLICK HERE Exploring loss and grief and their effects on a person's hope and faith, Marsena Konkle's debut novel, 'A Dark Oval Stone' is a haunting read that will captivate you from the first sentence to the last.Its protagonist, Miriam Kovatch, has experienced more loss than one person can be expected to endure....
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4-1-2006
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A Dedication
AuthorL John ZaissPublisher: Synergy BooksISBN 0-9755922-3-8The following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons Both teenagers and those who have survived their teen years will relate to the coming-of-age story told by first-time novelist John Zaiss in his book, 'A Dedication.'In a witty, cathartic tale, Zaiss introduces us to Quinnlan Marshall, a 17-year-old underachiever who matures and grows as a result of a friendship with Joe Toscano, a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran.Through the pages of...
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5-7-2005
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A Light in the Window by Jan Karon
This review was contributed by CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered. Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a columnist for the Pasadena Star-News and writes movie reviews for the Glendale New-Press. She is also the author of This is the Place a coming-of-age story about a young journalist who finds the courage and vision to lead a life she had never imagined. The prologue is available by sending an e-mail to:...
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10-19-2004
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A Man Called Stan by Jay Henning
The following review as contributed by Paul Lappen
This book tells the life story of an average person
named Stan. Told in seemingly random pieces, he experiences turbulent and quiet periods, as if he was
traveling down a river.
In one section, Stan is heading to work,a nameless
corporate sort of job that he hates. There is a new
receptionist, a beautiful young woman named Anne. Stan
eventually gets up the guts to talk to her. He asks
her out on a picnic, but sleeps late on the...
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1-1-1970
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A Time to Tell by Maria Savva
Click Here To Purchase A Time To Tell Author: Maria SavvaISBN 1-905621-27-2Publisher: Pen Press
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10-19-2008
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A View From Beyond The Path by Daniel S Kellogg
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin It is Chicago 1968 when 10 year olds, Jerod and David become involved in what may prove to be a life long tussle with Ruth. By the time the boys are ready for eighth grade they are sure Ruth is someone special. Time and the years intervene, David becomes a well known attorney, Jerod moves to Colorado, becomes VP of Operations at Good Things and begins a serious relationship with Alex. It is 2000 when Jerod glances across a crowded room to...
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10-11-2004
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A Week of This
Click Here To Purchase A Week of This Author: Nathan WhitlockISBN: 9781550228151 From literature, we always remember the truly exceptional characters, like Jay Gatsby and Anna Karenina. They are grand characters which have been erected, by their authors, as obelisks in tribute to the doom of all humanity.
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7-21-2008
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Abandoned in the Maze
Author: Michael BergISBN: 1-58982-300-1This is the heart-wrenching tale of two sisters, seventeen-year-old Irene and twelve-year-old Rita, who are separated from their mother, and each other. From this moment on, their life together will only be a distant memory. One moment the girls are bickering over who has breakfast dishes and the next, are being whisked away by some social service worker. Their tour in hell has begun. The Cobb girls and their momma aren't bad. Momma is a liaison for...
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2-12-2007
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Accidentally Engaged
Author: Mary CarterISBN: 0-7582-1539-8Accidentally Engaged is about a Tarot Card Reader who gets delayed from her yearly pilgrimage, to return an expensive engagement ring as well as a message left by an unexpected customer. The story is set at a large mansion on the grounds of Shawnee National Forest in present day Harrisburg. On Clair’s journey to return this precious ring and a disappointing message back to the unsuspecting groom, the reader finds the character has a strong intuition...
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1-30-2007
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Admit It, You’re Crazy!
Author: Judy ReiserISBN: 0740751093Judy Reiser’s book is a sequel collection of quirks and idiosyncrasies compiled from interviews with over two thousand people form various ages, backgrounds and locations. Reiser has broken them into categories: Loo-ney Tales, Funny Money, Assorted Nuts, Night Shtick, Clothes Encounters of the Strange Kind, The Howard Hughes Syndrome, and Now I’ve Heard Everything!With some of the entries, you will find yourself thinking, “and I thought I was the only one...
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4-9-2006
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Alaska Justice
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Alaska Justice Author: M.D. KincaidISBN: 978-0-9796693-0-9Publisher: Adventurous Books
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3-15-2008
Views: 4916
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American Home Life
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon American Home Life
Author: David BarringerPublisher: So New PublishingISBN: 10: 0977815129: 13:9780977815128Perhaps the tritest cliché in the English language is that you can’t judge a book by its cover. I’m inclined to agree with this; but I will say that it’s not actually a bad way of picking which book to read. I’ll admit most reviewers base their selections on something a bit loftier—something with more social or artistic reasoning behind it. And...
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9-19-2007
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American Odyssey
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Brian M. Gelinas ISBN: 1-59800-755-6Brian M Gelinas is a local reporter for a daily newspaper. In 1997 his first publication was a creative
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7-12-2007
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American Odyssey
Click Here To Purchase American OdysseyAuthor: Brian M GelinasISBN-10: 1598007556 ISBN-13: 978-1598007558
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10-3-2008
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American Warrior
Author: James SnyderISBN: 0741423200
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5-11-2005
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American Warrior
Author: James SnyderPublisher: Infinity Publishing.comISBN: 0-7414-2320-0The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY & CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsAmerican Warrior is a novel that deals mostly with theVietnam war, which in this case symbolizes theinternal conflict. The hero is abused by a drunkfather, by schoolmates and by local thugs when young.A half-Dutch and half-Indonesian man named Draegerrescues him and the two develop an intense soul-levelrelationship (as a father...
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8-14-2005
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Amos Jakey
Click Here To Purchase Amos Jakey Author: Sandra E. GrahamISBN: 1589823761 Sandra Graham has woven the classic orphan adventure tale that makes it seem as if it was an everyman’s tale. In reading this novel I began to think through stories in my own family that had as many stops and starts and twists as that of Amos Jakey.
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4-21-2008
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An Amazing Story
Click Here To Purchase An Amazing Story Author: Carlo Gabbi
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3-27-2008
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An Embarrassment of Riches (A novel)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon An Embarrassment of Riches (A novel)Author: Gerald HansenISBN: 978-0-595-44759-6Publisher: iUniverse Gerald Hansen lived in Derry, his mother’s hometown. He attended Dublin City University and as a Navy brat, grew up in California, Thailand, London, Iceland and Germany. He now works as a ESL teacher in New York with a photo album full of Derry snapshots. Fionnuala Flood’s life is falling to pieces. She slaves for hours on end scru
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3-3-2008
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An Honest Heart
Author: Richard M SiddowayISBN: 1-55517-838-3The following review was contributed by: Molly Martin: CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's Reviews The narrative opens with a mother shouting at her six-year-old. Jennica and her four-year-old brother are engaged in the usual tussle found between youngsters. In a home where the refrigerator holds only a butter dish, half empty gallon bottle of milk, jar of mustard and a six pack of beer, supper is soup ladled into three chipped mismatched bowls served...
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5-10-2006
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Anasazi Harvest by R. Leland Waldrip
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Something peculiar is going on out in Navaho country. People are dying. The cause is not clear. When the police need help they call on Chaco Rivers. Chaco has been having dreams, or something for about a month. Nothing you can really put a finger on, but something is wrong. Bodies have been found, and forensics is finding something odd in the blood of the deceased. Chaco is having personal problems too. His girlfriend Anita is just about...
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10-11-2004
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Ancient Rising
Author: J C De La TorreISBN: 1-4116-4265-1The following review was contributed by: Theresa Derwin: Click Here To Read Theresa's Reviews12,000 years ago, a human possessing god-like power imprisoned the Gods of ancient Greece in Atlantis. The Gods have been waiting millennia for humanity to gain enough power to find Atlantis and release them from their prison. But only a mortal’s hands can do the job. Danny Ryan, recent widow, bereaved of his wife and daughter is visited by Hermes, (the only...
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4-19-2006
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Angel in a Foreign City
Click Here To Purchase Angel in a Foreign City Author: Moti ShapiraISBN: 9781419671005Publisher: BookSurgeAfter reading, Ange
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4-2-2008
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Angels in the Wilderness
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Amy RacinaISBN: 0 - 9710888 - 9 - 6 Angels in the Wilderness includes all of the essentials for a riveting story. I couldn't put the book down. Amy Racina tells us of her hiking adventure, of tragedy, her struggle to survive alone in the wilderness and the hardships and blessings she encounters during her rescue and recovery. This book is just so beautifully written! Amy shares with us her deepest thoughts and emotions. She very eloquently...
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7-26-2007
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Angels of Maradona
Author: Glen Carter13-Digit ISBN # `10-Digit ISBN # 1-55081-239-4Publisher: Breakwater Books Limited
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5-13-2008
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Angels, Twice Descending
Author: Justin SmithPublished by Silver Leaf BooksThe following review of the ARC copy was contributed by: Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's Reviews Revisiting the chaotic world of Constance Fairchild, Justin Smith opens his latest novel, 'Angels, Twice Descending,' with a dream sequence that foreshadows events to come, immediately pulling the reader into the adventures of the protagonist while using lyrical language full of symbolic imagery.Set in the not-too-distant future, the...
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4-20-2006
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Anna Chase and the Butterfly Girls by Jadan B. Grace
The following review was contributed by: SHERRY L.STOLL Anna Chase and the Butterfly Girls by Jadan B. Grace is a lovely Victorian tale for young adults. Anna Chase is a widowed seamstress who does well in the local dress shop. She has a head for business and makes the world a better place for those around her. In her free time, she writes in her journal about Lady Willow’s school for butterfly girls. She shares this intricate and fanciful story with her daughter, Brandy. Lady Willow’s beauty...
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10-19-2004
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Anybody Any Minute
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Anybody Any MinuteAuthor: Julie MarsISBN - 13: 978-0-312-37869-1ISBN - 10: 0-312-37869-6Publisher: St Martin’s Press Julie Mars, author of Anybody Any Minute is also the author of The Secret Keepers and A Month of Sundays, a finalist for the Independent Press Memoir of the Year. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city.For those of you who like thought-provoking novels with a das
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3-14-2008
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Anywhere But Her by D Herrle
This review was contributed by CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a columnist for the Pasadena Star-News and writes movie reviews for the Glendale New-Press. She is also the author of This is the Place
a coming-of-age story about a young journalist who finds the courage and vision to lead a life she had never imagined. The prologue is available by sending
an e-mail to:...
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1-1-1970
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At the Threshold of Liquid Geology and Other Automatic
Author: Eric W. Bragg:ISBN: 0595240216
The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsTo quote from the back cover of this book: "Thismodern collection of surrealist prose-poems wasinspired by the improvisational method of automaticwriting, popularized by the International Surrealistmovement. From one brain to another without anyliterary rules or standards; the words in theseautomatic writings are not just words, but rays...
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12-1-2004
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Atlantis Continued by Moe Dickson
The following review was contributed by:
PAUL LAPPEN
Everyone ""knows"" that life on Earth started due to
alien infestation. This novel shows how it was done.
The planet Atlantis has spent millennia working on
other planets throughout the galaxy, helping their
native civilizations to survive and thrive. For
various reasons, the planet Earth was passed over
seven times in the past. Finally, approval was given
and an observation base was set up on the far side of
Earth's moon....
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1-1-1970
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Atlas’ Revenge
Authors: Robyn and Tony DiToccoPublishers: Brainstorm Publications, Inc.This review was contributed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsAtlas’ Revenge is the second in the Mad Myth Mystery series and again sees PJ Allen dashing around trying to live his life as a student during the daytime while saving the world at night. Fortunately, he is assisted by the gods and goddesses of Greek myth, including Zeus, Hermes, Hera and Athena. They help PJ learn and indeed the intended...
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8-25-2005
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Auslander
Author: Lewis KelleyISBN: 1-933204-13-3Set against the drama of World War II ravaged Europe in 1944, Auslander by first-time author Lewis Kelley is a likable action movie that just happens to be in print form.The protagonist, Vince LaSalle, is everything one could ask for in an action hero. He's clever, moral, strong (both physically and spiritually), loyal, patient and the only living man capable of handling the missions he handles so well. Vince is also black and, this being 1944, he not...
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2-9-2007
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BED REST
Author: Sarah Bilston Publisher: Harper CollinsISBN: 0060889934The following review was contributed by: Penny WatkinsQ and her husband, Tom, are both busy, successful lawyers on the fast track to success. Both work long hours and manage a frenetic lifestyle that leaves little time for anything but work, but somewhere along the way (Q is not quite sure when) they did find time, and now they are expecting a baby boy in three months. They have it all planned out. Q will take a little time off...
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6-6-2006
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Bed Rest
Click Here To Purchase Bed Rest Author: Sarah BilstonPublisher: SphereISBN: 978-0-7515-3833-5 Sarah Bilston is British but resides in Connecticut where she is an Assistant Professor of English Literature.
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9-4-2008
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BEFIDDLED
Author: Pedro de AlcantaraISBN: 0-385-73265-1The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's ReviewsWriter/musician Pedro de Alcantara has penned an enchanting debut novel with Befiddled, wherein believable characters are drawn with the hand of an expert. The narrative focuses on Becky Cohen, a befuddled klutzy 13 year old, who is obsessed with playing the violin and her little brother Benji, who plays at being an editor for “The Splinter”....
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12-20-2005
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Before the Storm
Click Here To Purchase Before The Storm Author: Diane ChamberlainISBN: 9780778325413 Publisher: Mira Books I found Before the Storm, by Diane Chamberlain, enchanting. Diane Chambe
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7-19-2008
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Behind the Yellow Filter
Author: Stuart HeldPublisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.ISBN: 1-59800-290-2 When Robby Schein accepts a job with The Allied Group (TAG), Inc., he expects to spend his life selling cameras. After six months of successful employment, he learns that the company’s mission of selling cameras is a cover for its real task: to use photography as a tool for gathering intelligence for the American government. Eighteen months later, Robby is promoted and trained for his first field mission. The CIA needs...
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12-1-2006
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Belle Harbor Skeletons
Author:Susan M. HooperISBN 1414013728 The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews Arnie Kotkin and Barnaby Moss are lifelong friends inthe small town of Lawton, NY. Girls were never animportant part of their lives while growing up. Theirdecision to live together as a gay couple, while notexactly a surprise, elicits two very different familyreactions, the subject of this book.The Moss family comes from a lower-middle classbackground, and...
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4-14-2005
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Belong to Me
Click Here To Purchase Belong To Me Author: Marisa de los SantosISBN: 978-0-06-124027-0Published by Harper Collins In ‘Belong to Me” author Marisa de los Santos touches on the universality of humanity. Although we are all different, we share the same basic yearnings, an innate desire for
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5-1-2008
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Belong to Me: A Novel
Click Here To Purchase Belong To Me Author: Marisa de los SantosISBN: 978-0-06-124027-0
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4-4-2008
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Ben Jonjak by Roland
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshRoland Highlander Pandora lives in a bomb shelter meticulously prepared to repel spies and assassins, making sure he is armed with as much high-power weaponry as is available to him. Still, he is frequently the subject of assault: dark shadow warriors working for the CIA, a long drawn-out battle with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and even a life-and-death struggle with a giant peanut butter and jelly [jam] sandwich. Psychotic and...
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10-11-2004
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Beyond the Summit
Author: Linda LeBlancPublisher: Pilgrims PublishingISBN: 0-9785353-0-8The year is 1968. Beth and Eric, a journalist and a photographer who are also romantically involved, are trekking in the mountains of Nepal to do a story about the Sherpas. Dorje – a Sherpa who aspires to climb Mt. Everest as his childhood hero, Norgay Tenzing, had done fifteen years earlier – serves as the chief guide for Beth and Eric’s party.
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2-11-2007
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Beyond the Summit
Author: Linda LeBlancISBN: 0-9785353-0-8Beyond the Summit starts out with an enticing premise, two people from different worlds meet in Shangri-La and embark on an affair that transcends race, culture and tradition. The setting, Nepal in the 1960’s seemed like an ideal place to start, a time when tradition and modernity clashed in Nepal. Beth, a young journalist from America, arrives starry eyed and eager to document the lives of Sherpas in Nepal. Dorje is a Sherpa who dreams of climbing to...
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3-12-2007
Views: 1687
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Big Brown Bag:Stories
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Big Brown Bag: Stories Author: Mark D’ AnnaPublisher: Ex Machina PressISBN: 978-0-9772763-5-6Mark D’ Anna has been a contributing author and co-founder of the successful annual short story anthology Silent Voices. Big Brown Bag is Mark’s first book. He currently lives in Los Angeles. It’s always so refreshing when there is a new talent discovered in literature. Mark D’ Anna is one of them. He produces Big Brown Bag and if Mark continues to write
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10-13-2007
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Billy Goat Hill
Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Christian FictionAuthor: Mark Stanleigh MorrisISBN 1590524063The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERE: To read Dian's Interview With The Author CLICK HERE
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6-15-2005
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Black Rosebud - Have No Mercy II by Bobby and Kam Ruble
The following review was contributed by WARREN THURSTON
Racial prejudice is a part of the human psyche that produces senseless acts. It is a festering sore in a society that may never heal. All kinds of intolerance can be justified by this cruelest of human acts.
Since humans first appeared on planet earth, they have been wary of those who are different from them. It does not seem to matter that we all are the same at heart. That is, a person wanting to live in peace and harmony with...
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1-1-1970
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BLACKBIRD HOUSE by Alice Hoffman
The following review was contributed by:
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
Alice Hoffman has adapted the mythology of the blackbirds as prophets, spell-casters and messengers of the gods into another heartbreaking dimension in her book of short essays: Blackbird House.
The title’s “House” is a Massachusetts farm sheltering the tragic lives of various occupants over a span of two hundred years.
The author has chosen the blackbird and the farm to be the segue that links the collection of her...
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1-1-1970
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BLACKBIRD HOUSE by Alice Hoffman
The following review was submited by:
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
Alice Hoffman has adapted the mythology of the blackbirds as prophets, spell-casters and messengers of the gods into another heartbreaking dimension in her book of short essays: Blackbird House.
The title’s “House” is a Massachusetts farm sheltering the tragic lives of various occupants over a span of two hundred years.
The author has chosen the blackbird and the farm to be the segue that links the collection of her twelve...
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1-1-1970
Views: 5322
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Borrowed Lives
Click Here To Purchase Borrowed LivesAuthor: Laramie DunawayISBN: 9780979372025 Publisher: Iota Publishing Borrowed Lives, by Larami
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7-17-2008
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Bradford and the Journey to the Desert of Lop
Author: Dawn Van ZantISBN: 0-9761768-2-3The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsBradford, the title character in Dawn Van Zant's "Bradford and the Journey tothe Desert of Lop," is a boy who watches "Zorro," who owns a shirt declaring theword "warrior" and who wears a necklace that holds "cancer beads," one for everysignificant battle in his deadly struggle with the disease..One night, the...
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6-15-2006
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Brash Endeavor by William Manchee
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Stan Turner and his wife Rebekah are unaware exactly how their lives are about to change when Stan determines to open his own law practice. Following this decision the only steady, reliable income coming into their home is derived from Rebekah’s work a few hours each week at the nearby Central Receiving Hospital where she in ICU/ER nurse. Much to the delight of Stan and Rebekah clients and the promise of constant income do soon appear,...
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10-11-2004
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Brothers Forever: An Orphan Story
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Brothers Forever: An Orphan Story Author: Craig Mayeux ISBN: 978-0-595-44219-5Publishers: iUniverse, Inc.From the well-known examples of Oliver Twist, Anne of Green Gables and Harry Potter to more obscure literary figures, orphaned characters are among the most well-beloved in our rich fictional heritage. There’s something about an orphan story that touches our hearts while exploring one of our deepest fears.In his debut novel, ‘Brothers Forever: An Orphan...
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11-22-2007
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Bullets and Bandages
Click Here To Purchase Bullets and Bandages Author: Robert SanischalchiISBN-10: 1-58982-247-4ISBN-13: 978-1-58982-247-4
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7-20-2008
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Bulls Island
Click Here To Purchase Bulls Island Author: Dorothea Benton FrankISBN: 9780061438431 Publisher: Harper Collins One word to describe Bulls Island, by Dorothea Benton Frank- mesmerizing!
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4-23-2008
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Burden of Faith
Click Here To Purchase Burden of Faith Author: Dean Magdal Thompson ISBN-10: 1598586092: ISBN-13: 978-1598586091
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10-3-2008
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Bush Town Blues A '70s African Tale (Book One)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Bush Town Blues A '70s African Tale (Book One) Author: Nina JonesISBN: 184386326XPublisher: Vanguard PressNina Jones, having spent the first twenty one years of her life at locations in the bush lands of Northern Nigeria, now lives with her second husband in a village near Saffron Walden, Essex. T
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9-5-2007
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Bush Town Blues A 70’s African Tale ( Book Two)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Bush Town Blues A 70’s African Tale ( Book Two) Author: Nina JonesISBN: 9781843863274Janni is back and back with her new man, Andy. It is October in the bush in the middle of Africa and totally besotted with her new bloke, Janni makes a pact to herself. She will never stop loving him and Andy, so he claims, will never stop loving her either. Till the end of time, till the day they die, they will always be together. Problem is the parents. Oh and there’s the...
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9-11-2007
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Butterfly Wishes
Click Here To Purchase Butterfly Wishes Author: LaDonna PauletteISBN: 978-0-9792629-4-4 Butterfly Wishes is a character driven, contemporary fiction about a family battling the loss of a loved one. Fey Wright is an eleven-year-old girl who lost her mother and is trying to settle d
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4-22-2008
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By the Chimney With Care
Editor: Tony BurtonISBN: 0-9778402-3-9 This is unlike any anthology I have ever read. To my surprise, it was one of the best. 'Tis the season to hustle and bustle, hitting the malls at the crack of dawn and wrapping packages into the wee hours. I would highly recommend giving yourself a break -- a mug of something warm, your favorite recliner and "By the Chimney With Care." Better pick up two or more as you will certainly want to stuff stockings with this gem.Twenty authors...
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12-10-2006
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Cast of Shadows
Author: Kevin GuilfoilePublisher: Knopf (March 1, 2005)ISBN: 1400043085
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7-14-2005
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Cat Counsellor- How your cat really relates to you
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Cat Counsellor- How your cat really relates to you Author: Vicky HallsISBN:0593055640 Britain’s leading cat shrink Vicky Halls doesn’t rest. Following the successes of “Cat Confidential” and “Cat Detective” she has now published her third book “Cat Counsellor” and is currently working on a TV series about cats and their behavior problems.
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11-12-2007
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Catalyst, Book One in the Me & You Too series
Author: Bob HarveyISBN: 1-933538-38-4The following review was contributed by Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's ReviewsAfter a fire barrels through a townhouse complex, six strangers and their pets are brought together with a common mission to stop a corrupt businessman from levelling what's left of their homes and destroying the local ecosystem.The fire turns everything upside down for Justin Eagleton, the protagonist in Bob Harvey's 'Catalyst,' who ponders "the seeming randomness...
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7-28-2006
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Cattle Country Back Trail: Two Tales from Thompson Western Series
Author: Erwin A. ThompsonPublisher: iUniverse, Inc.ISBN-10: 0595402283: ISBN-13: 978-0595402281You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Erwin Arthur Thompson’s life has a rich credit of various art forms: poems, music, stories, family history, and dance. A veteran of the Second World War, Erwin is now in his early nineties and a source of inspiration in both writing and music. Erwin’s first book in the ‘Thompson Western Series’ is titled Cattle Country Back Trail: Two Tales from Thompson...
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7-22-2007
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Cemetery Island by Edward Kostro
The following review was contributed by: Molly MartinMargaret Hawkins was beginning to think she might like this vacation cooked up by her adventuresome husband Tom. Then, all hell broke loose. Marge, Tom and their small toothless Chihuahua, Big Mack set forth in a small houseboat on Kabetagonia Lake up on the Minnesota Canadian border region of Voyageur National Park. The first six days of their vacation were gone, and the family settled in for their last night aboard the houseboat when...
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10-10-2004
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Chains Around the Grass
Author: Naomi RagenISBN: 1902881826The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read Karim's reviews CLICK HERENaomi Ragen is an international bestseller novelist, a writer of and about the core of human life. Chains Around the Grass (The Toby Press, USA, 2003) is the book Ms. Ragen says that she became an author to write. Setting the story of a poor Jewish family in the heart of America, Naomi Ragen calls for a revision of attitudes shaped by the...
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4-21-2006
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Chasing Memories
Click Here To Purchase Chasing Memories Author: Cindy BauerISBN: 1413798357I am pleasantly surprised after reading Chasing Memories, by Cindy Bauer. Born in Iowa, Cindy now resides in Missouri with her husband. She thanks her husband, Robert, and sist
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4-4-2008
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Chenoa's Spiritual Journey
Author: Becky Jane DiceISBN: 1-59113-641-5The following review was contributed by: Sue VoganThis wonderfully distinctive story begins with a family move from an Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona to a small town in Ohio. Family friends, the Reams, are there to welcome the Gray Owl family and opens their home until the Gray Owls can settle into a place of their own. Shortly after arriving, a tragic car accident claims the lives of Chenoa’s parents, leaving her and her little brother, River...
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12-22-2005
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City of Tears by Eric Balkan
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinThe Kaskir nomads have been beleaguered by other nomads, the imperial army along with anyone else who has happened to come along. Their villages have been exhausted, children kidnapped until they are now very nearly at the end of their rope. Ailana, wife of the Kaskir chief’s son, is resolute in her determination to be reunited with her children once again. Turan Khan, Jersak nomad ruler, is every bit as determined in his pursuit to...
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10-11-2004
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Claws by Geoffrey Teller
The following review was contributed by:
TAMY BRADY
Richard Starr had it all. He was a well-respected police officer and Ruth Freeman, the love of his life, stood at his side.
One day and some horrible luck would change all that. An armed suspect ran into an underground tunnel near the Mackenzie College. Richard ran after the suspect, fired his gun, and shot the suspect. Unfortunately, a boy was also shot in the heated gunfire.
From that moment on, Richard's life changed. He lost...
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1-1-1970
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
Author: Valerie ParadizISBN: 0-7382-0917-1The following review was conributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsJacob and Wilhelm Grimm were prolific German scholars, yet the work they are best known for, the one that will eternally bear their name was not actually authored by them. The genesis of the Grimm's "Children's and Household Fairy Tales," is the fascinating subject of Valerie Paradiz's new book, Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm...
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10-30-2005
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Comes A Horseman
Author: Robert LiparuloPublisher: Westbow PressISBN:0-7852-6176-1The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN: Click to view Shelly's reviews.This book almost qualifies as NewPulp fiction, the requirements of which are related at www.newpulp.net . It doesn’t have any sex and it is too long and complex. But with these and other shortcomings, it is still a good, exciting and worthwhile book in the action/suspense genre.The complex plot revolves around two rogue FBI...
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1-4-2006
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Coming Home
Author: Catherine MacDonaldISBN: 1-932993-34-7 The following review was contributed by: Penny Watkins: CLICK HERE to read more of Penny's Reviews.Melinda Powell is a successful lawyer in Boston. She has a good life and she likes who she is, where she is and what she does. She recently bought her own home, and she’s on track to make partner soon. Melinda worked hard to escape her Nevada ranch upbringing and get where she is today.And then her father dies suddenly and unexpectedly, and her...
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7-23-2006
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Common Foe by David D Furlotte
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin It is mid 1997 and Canadian Jean Val Fincoeur, industrial show businessman, multi media project manager is ready for his 3 week vacation. Leaving his miniature collie Sam in the care of neighbor Dave Jean Val and four friends set out for the fifty year celebration held in Roswell, New Mexico. Errol Bruston, his lady friend Sharon, John Mardon, Patrick Tambler and Jean Val look forward to meeting and perhaps having a chance to get more...
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10-11-2004
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Conventional Wisdom by Deborah L. Humphreys
The following review was contributed by:
PAULA BARDELL
Deborah L. Humphreys believes that poetry is a way of
communicating. It is ‘reflection and prayer, a way to stay
grounded, honest and powerful’. She is gifted with a remarkably sensuous intelligence; her thoughts and themes arrive in impressions observed with an intense particularity, in all their magnificence and horror. She describes her approach to poetry as being ‘like a poem itself - identifying that piece of life, truth,...
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1-1-1970
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Cornered Tigress – Tigress Series
Author: Jade LeeISBN: 9780843956894 Cornered Tigress is another book in the Tigress Series. Shi Po, a teacher of the Taoist teachings as well as one of the greatest Tigresses, finds herself in trouble and unable to return to her household. This installment is about how her cook and one of her Tigress students, Little Pearl, is left behind to look after her house in hopes of her teacher’s return. The story is still set in Shanghai in the 1800’s and the harshness of life for women is...
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3-23-2007
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Corporate Seduction
Author: Bridget Midway ISBN: 1411676106 Corporate Seduction is about how two unlikely people end up discovering more about each other than they realize. Winston Biggers is a corporate hot shot who gives his administrative assistant, Maybelline Davenport, a hard time at work. Showing little appreciation for her, Winston treats her like an inferior and truly bosses her around. Maybeline uses her anger generated towards her employer and turns it into the fire she needs for her part-time...
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3-31-2007
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Courage of Fear
Author:Barbara BoyerISBN: 9780615203638Publisher: Ocean-Moon Publishing I think the closest word I can find to describe Courage of Fear, by Barbara Boyer is surprising. Barbara Boyer was born in Massachusetts, raised her daughter in Kansas, and now resides in California where she delves in writing screenplays, books, and acting. Courage of Fear is her first title.
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8-29-2008
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Courting Emma
Click Here To Purchase Courting Emma Author: Sharlene MacLaren
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4-6-2008
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Crossing the Meadow by Kfir Luzzatto
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshWhat happens to us when we die? Do we have the opportunity to make sense of our lives or just fade away? Is it possible that the ghosts of the dead surround us as we go about our normal lives? If they do, should we be paying them any attention? These issues are in the background of Kfir Luzzatto’s pleasant new novel, Crossing the Meadow. Henry is mysteriously transported from his family life in America back to his childhood town in Italy. He...
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10-11-2004
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CRUSHED
Authors: Laura and Tom McNealISBN: 0-375-83105-3 Genre: Young Adult The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's ReviewsThe Anonymous Yellow tabloid of Jemison High is the real insidious protagonist of ‘CRUSHED’, the third collaboration between husband and wife writing team of Laura and Tom McNeal. This husband and wife partnership has produced a limpidly written intrigue, believable characters and a thrilling plot.Audrey Reed, CC Mudd...
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4-12-2006
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Cry The Night by Glenn Miller
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinA little boy punished by being put into sack and suspended from beam in cellar at the hands of a unbalanced mother is later a youngster made to stand in a darkened cellar for hours on end. The body of ten-year-old girl, an extended, fruitless search, and a missing six-year-old set in motion a twenty-year odyssey. The town of Traviston, Australia is forever changed in 1981 with the murder of Sarah Nielson and the disappearance of her little...
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10-11-2004
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Cyberjihad
Aurhor: Robert Lanzone ISBN: 1420821458The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews Unbeknownst to the average person, the world is run bya group of interconnected computer networks called theControl Grid, or the Global Security Network. It runseverything from stock markets to America's missiledefense shield.Kyle Pemberton is a Wall Street IT whiz. He takes on aspecial overseas assignment at his firm after thedeath of his friend, and predecessor,...
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10-26-2005
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Dad Today, Groom Tomorrow by Holly Jacobs
The following review was contributed by:
SHERRY L.STOLL
Dad Today, Groom Tomorrow by Holly Jacobs is a Silhouette romance set in Lake Erie, Pennsylvania where the pregnant Louisa Clancy ran to seven years earlier leaving behind the love of her life, Joseph Delacamp. She never expected him to ever find out about their son, Aaron. Then one fateful day he was the new ER doctor in town and walked into her chocolate shop on Perry Square. She certainly never expected Joe would want to become...
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1-1-1970
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Dancing With My Daughter: Poems Of Love, Wisdom & Dreams (Genre-Poetry) by Jayne Jaudon Ferrer
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Illustrating the phases of a daughter's growth from infancy to adulthood, each stage is presented by a dance: Waltz, Jitterbug, Tango, Samba, and Freestyle. Waltz (Infancy): offers Heirloom in which an ‘all thumbs’ mom laments that the family sewing talent evident in a handmade dress has skipped a generation. Passing the Torch is a poignant peek into a mother’s memory of her childhood and wonder at the memories she may be creating for her...
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10-11-2004
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Darcy's Story: 'Pride and Prejudice' told from a whole new perspective
Author: Janet AylmerISBN: 10:0-06-114870-9Jane Austen's novel, "Pride and Prejudice," tells the tale of Elizabeth Bennetand Fitzwilliam Darcy, a pair who spend most of the novel too ensconced in theirpersonal foibles (his pride, her prejudice) to realize that they are meant foreach other. When the light finally dawns, true love and the end of the storyare not far behind.While Elizabeth's painful journey towards self-revelation makes her one of themost compelling characters in...
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12-4-2006
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Darwin’s Orphans
Author: Mark SalowISBN: 0595397778 The new futuristic action thriller novel Darwin’s Orphans (iUniverse Inc., Lincoln, 2006) by Mark Salow incorporates some novelty of thought and fresh qualities in the familiar storyline of conflict between the good and the bad guys in an advanced future world. Salow’s book tells the story of a pop star Bobby Joe who becomes the president of the United States somewhere around the latter half of the 21st century. His efforts to bring peace to humanity are...
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2-25-2007
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Dead Letter
Click Here To Purchase Dead Letter Author: Frank ShimaISBN: 159298245X Publisher: Beaver’s Pond Press I find myself with mixed opinions after reading Dead Letter, by Frank Shima. Frank Shima grew up in Southern M
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9-4-2008
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Degrees of Separation book one Falcon’s Bend series by Karen Wiesner and Chris Spindler
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Stephan Kelley, adoption case representative for the Second Chance Adoption Agency faces a difficult decision when seventeen year old Taaya Savic gives birth to twins. Kelley does have two couples who would each like one child, neither wants to take responsibility for two. The wealthy DeMazzinos are offered the frail, weaker twin who Kelley feels will need more attention, and possible health care than the stronger girl taken to Jane and...
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10-11-2004
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Depression is a Choice Winning the Battle Without Drugs
Author: A.B.CurtissThe Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinDepression is a Choice is a documentary, text book type work of 20 chapters in which a woman who is a therapist and well acquainted with depression offers some concrete insight and advice into depression and how to manage it through employing Directed Thought. Curtiss says Directed Thinking is a combination of awareness, understandings, formula thinking, and mind trips applied to depression; my own and others'. Chapter 2...
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10-11-2004
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Desert Medicine
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Desert MedicineAuthor: Judy AlexanderISBN: 10:0825420083: 13:978-0825420085 Judy Alexander shows
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2-1-2008
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Desperate Tigress – Tigress Series
Author: Jade LeeISBN: 9780843955057 Desperate Tigress is an internal journey of one woman’s goal to seek immortality through her sexual teachings. Her life is filled with caring for her children, fulfilling her husband’s needs and mundane tasks of caring for her household. Shi Po feels the need to find happiness within herself in order to continue her life on Earth.This is a sexually charged story set in Shanghai in the 1800’s. The author immerses the reader in Chinese culture and gives...
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3-23-2007
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Diverting The Buddha by Bob Swartzel
The following review was contributed by: WARREN THURSTON REVIEW The most difficult task for a government to tackle is that of putting in place cultural change. The new, often imposed culture never has its nurturing needs met. It finds itself thrown upon the seedbed of change and left to grow the best way it can. What usually occurs is that the old culture consumes the new one. In doing this it adapts the imposed new ways to reflect the old philosophy. On the surface all appears well, but...
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10-19-2004
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Don’t Never Shoot Short
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Don’t Never Shoot Short Author: Kent F. Frates:ISBN: 1933538899
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1-21-2008
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Double Forte
Author: Aaron Paul LazarPublisher: PublishAmericaISB:N 1-4137-2838-3The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews. Aaron Paul Lazar’s first published effort has produced a nice mystery book, which will be a series. His alter ego, Gus Legarde, is a music professor in the Rochester, NY area. He is a nice man, who loves to play piano, listen to opera, cook, garden, scratch his animals’ ears, and play with his little...
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1-10-2005
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Dragon Tamer
Title: Dragon TamerAuthor:Cole Barton ISBN: 1553952766 This review was contributed by: Paul Lappen -CLICK TO VIEW>>>>Paul Lappen's ReviewsBlake Morgan is a DEA agent. He is involved in twomajor arrest operations, one involving drug running inMexico, and the other involving drug and peoplesmuggling in Seattle. Both are solid arrests, the kindwhere convictions are practically guaranteed. That is,until both suspects are released, and granted immunityfrom prosecution by someone very...
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10-22-2004
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DragonSpeaker
Author: Laura Chipman ISBN: 1424101360The following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsDragonSpeaker (it is written together though the book cover shows the two wordsseparately) is a book for the child in each of us. It is a story of magic, offire-breathing dragons and how a small girl of 10 is called to save them fromextinction. The dragons us the fire not only to punish evil people, but also toroast apples! Jamie Mathews is a DragonSpeaker, one who can...
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12-29-2005
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Edges:Subtitle:O Israel, O Palestine
Author: Leora Skolkin-SmithPublisher: Glad Day Books, 2005ISBN: 0930180144The following review was contributed by: CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON
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5-31-2005
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Envy of the Gods: If The Reward Were Right
Author: Andrea SavitchISBN: 1933538112 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan :To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Envy of the Gods (Bridgeway Books,
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5-17-2006
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Evacuation Plan: A novel from the Hospice
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Evacuation Plan: A novel from the Hospice Author: Joe M. O'ConnellPublisher: Dalton PublishingISBN: 978-0-9740703-8-4 Death isn't usually the focus of contemporary novels. It's dark, it's uncomfortable, and it doesn't typically inspire the warm and fuzzy feeling that mass market readers seem to require for beach reading selections. Death forces readers to confront their own shortcomings, failures, and emotions. But while death may be a topic most authors...
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11-15-2007
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Execution of Justice
Author: Patrick DentPublisher: Dent PublishingISBN: 14116-3747-XThe following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN: Click to view Shelly's reviewsThis book starts out, I believe, on a complicated footing. There are three separate subplots with three separate main characters. This causes the story line to be somewhat convoluted. It would have been better to tell the story in first person from the POV of each character. It would have made it easier to read.The writing is...
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10-24-2005
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EYES OF BETRAYAL by Patricia A. Rasey
The following review was contributed by:
JULIE AMIDON
Drop the clutch, let’s burn out and roll! Patricia Rasey delivers the goods once again with this tight, fast paced tale of love, sex, kidnapping and murder. While this book definitely is a good stand alone read, it’s even more fun if you’ve read the first book in the series, “Kiss of Deceit”. But if you haven’t, don’t worry; it isn’t necessary to enjoy Eyes of Betrayal.
Two years have passed since the love of LeAnne’s life roared...
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1-1-1970
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Farewell Alexandria
Click Here To Purchase Farewell Alexandria Author:Derek Adie FlowerISBN: 9781847534422 Publisher: LULU.com After reading Fare
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3-31-2008
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Faux Elvis
Click Here To Purchase Faux Elvis Author: Pat CookISBN: 1-4327-0236-XPublisher: Outskirts Press The build up and descriptions of the small newspaper office, characters and town were very authentic in this
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5-5-2008
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Firebelly
Author: J.C. Michaels Publisher: Philograph Press ISBN: 0-9726173-0-1 The following interview was contributed by: Penny Watkins: CLICK HERE to read more of Penny's Reviews.Firebelly is a tale about the life of a firebelly frog, from his beginning as a single cell until he makes a choice that transforms everything. He embraces freedom and creates his own life when he chooses whether he will be a pet, or be a wild frog.Firebelly is an allegory, an existential metaphor. Michaels divides the...
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6-15-2006
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Firecracker Jones Is On the Case
Author: Christopher KlimISBN: 0-9726906-7-0 The following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click here to view more of Emily's Reviews
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6-3-2005
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Fires of Darkness
Author: Tom BufordISBN: 1933148144 The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERE To read Dian's Interview With The Author Click HereAuthor Tom Buford explores the interesting concept of how the battle between good and evil takes place by alternating between the spirit realm and the earthly realm, much like Frank Perretti. He realistically addresses the subject of pornography, homosexuality, addiction, and drug use, without...
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9-30-2005
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Flash Point by Metsy Hingle
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshKelly Santos has escaped from her unhappy childhood in an orphanage to become a leading New York fashion photographer. Despite her talent, success and good looks, she remains insecure and unhappy because of her extraordinary psychic abilities – psychic abilities that enable her to see the past and read the feelings of people with whom she comes into contact. Kelly returns to her hometown of New Orleans to say goodbye to the only person with...
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10-11-2004
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Flesh Hell
Author: Kirsten Imani KasaiISBN: 0-595-38274-6The following review was contributed by: Deborah Augustin: Click here to read more of Deborah's ReviewsThe very first chapter of Flesh Hell has us titillated, wanting to know what happens next as the protagonist, Joely, is about to have an operation of some kind. The rest of the story could be described as a slow seduction as the reader wants to know more about Joely, a stripper, and what will happen to her next and what she will decide to do....
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7-11-2006
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FLIGHT OF ANGELS by Marilyn A. Gardiner
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinBeth Kincaid whose pastime is brass rubbings and her husband Kevin have been traipsing to cemeteries all over England where Beth has been making rubbing after rubbing. Kevin’s endurance for the activity is wearing thin when his wife insists that she must have just one more after finding Olivia Elizabeth Avenlyng’s crypt nearly hidden in a church in Kent. She feels obliged to rub the eerily resplendent commemorative brass of a woman who...
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10-11-2004
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Flight to St Antony
Click Here To Purchase Flight To St Antony Author: Tony BlackmanISBN: 978-0-9553856-6-7Publisher: Blackman Associates What a prologue to this aviation mystery! I was righ
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10-12-2008
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Flush
Author: Carl HiaasenISBN: 0-375-82182-1The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's Reviews Carl Hiaasen, best known as a controversial investigative reporter in South Florida, has another best-seller on his hands with his recent addition, Flush. Hiaasen’s first novel for young readers, HOOT, was the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Newbery Honor.In this fast reading adventure for young adults, “FLUSH”, Hiaasen...
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12-20-2005
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Following My Toes
Author: Laurel Osterkampen ISBN: 1-933826-27-4This is a story about a woman, Faith Emerson, who finds herself dumped by herboyfriend of two years for her best friend. He friend Carolyn suggests that shemake a change and move to the “big city”. Faith decides that an adventure iswhat she needs to shake up her life. Enter a case of clouded perception ofpersonalities, a screwball chain of events that is just farfetched enough tomake you believe it could really happen, a psychic ability that Faith...
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12-7-2006
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For Sarah
Author: Annie Harmon, 2005,ISBN: 141377010x The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews In their own words, this is the story of the Welsh sisters, and their lives withJack, their mean and abusive stepfather.Every Sunday, the whole family attended church, like the typical happy family.The rest of the week, there were beatings (with a leather belt) and molestation,for little or no reason. The family wore hand-me-down clothes. The justicesystem...
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5-2-2006
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Forward to Camelot by Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn
The following review was contributed by
WARREN THURSTON
A soap-opera actress with old family tragedies is recruited for a treasure hunt that will take her back to Dallas in 1963. She agrees to go, but only if she can spend time with the father she never knew, who disappeared forever the day the president was shot. Once back in 1963, though, she will find that her beloved lost father is somehow tied to a plot that will result in the assassination of the president. She finally makes the...
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1-1-1970
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From The Agency With Love by John Moore
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshJonathan Stuyvesant-Smith lives with his wife, who is almost completely paralysed as a result of a car crash and who lives in a sense of rage that requires new full time nurses on a regular basis. Rich and indolent, Jonathan’s every action is commented on and swooned over by a chorus of women who flutter around continental Europe dallying with the very best of things. But who is the new nurse? Are her credentials as they appear or is she in...
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10-11-2004
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Frustrated Young Men
Author: John O'Brien: ISBN 0974619604 The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews This is a first book from a recent Harvard graduate.These stories deal with real-life subjects, likedepression, love and loneliness. One story looks atparts of growing up and being a teenager about whichsociety has a tendency to forget. Another story isabout a man who carries on a friendship/relationshipwith a young woman with bulimia, to the displeasure ofhis...
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4-14-2005
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Gail’s Place: A Trilogy of Plays in Two Acts
Author: Tom Anselmo ISBN: 0977079414 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read Karim's reviews CLICK HERE Thomas Hardy didactically preserved his Tess, a young woman who attempted to be honest in her intimate relationship by revealing her secret, and thus ended at the gallows. Tom Anselmo takes care to let his Gail clinch a footing in both her inner and social worlds as she unveils the mask of falsity in relationships. Anselmo’s first volume...
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4-16-2006
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Getting Matushka Out
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Getting Matushka Out Author: Ian McDougallISBN: 1-4196-5187-0Publisher: BookSurge LLCIt's hard to properly categorize this beautifully written novel. On one level, it's a thriller with scenes of document forgery and terror attacks on a tourist ship. On another level, it is a love story infused with Russian history set amidst a tour of the Volga. Ultimately, it's about the secrets that hold a family together or tear it apart. In short, there's something for...
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8-27-2007
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Ghostly Acts by Melinda Rucker Haynes
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinTennis champion, Seattle denizen, popular high school junior Ele, Electra, O'Neill is displaced from her blissful, cushy life after her parents, history teacher dad and theater-struck mom determine to transfer the ménage to the old family stomping grounds in none other than apparition capitol of Montana. The extravagant O’Neills purpose to reinstate the antiquated and run-down Virginia City Theatre. As always Ele is counted upon by her...
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10-11-2004
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Gone But Not Forgotten: A Christmas Story
Author: D.M. WilmesPublisher: iUniverse.comISBN: 0-595-3333-1The following review was contributed by: Katherine J. Turcotte You do not have to read this book at Christmas time for the lesson in love that it offers. Clay Williams is a classic workaholic. Never without a beeper and constantly in demand at work, he seldom has time for his family. The carrot dangled before him, the promise of a promotion, pushes him forward. He is drifting away from the people who love him most; his wife Tara,...
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4-13-2005
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Good-bye and Amen
Click Here To Purchase Good-bye and AmenAuthor: Beth GutcheonPublisher: William MorrowISBN: 978-0-06-053907-8 Family is very much a part of this novel. It features many characters that are involved with one anoth
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9-30-2008
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Groundswell
Author: Gary WilliamsPublisher: Infinitypublishing.comISBN: 0741419165
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5-19-2006
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Harvey & Eck
Author: Erin O’BrianISBN: 1-55410-270-7 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray Somerset: Click Here To Read Jennifer's Reviews: In Erin O’Brien’s novel, Harvey & Eck, the story is told in a series of letters that are written over the time span of a year and a half. We open with Harvest Moon, Harvey for short, randomly selecting someone {a Timothy J. Ecklenburg, Eck for short, to be exact} to tell her story with deep secrets to. We find out that Harvey is pregnant,...
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7-28-2006
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Hearts of Stone
Author: Kathleen ErnstISBN: 0-525-47686-5 Occasionally, you find a book so captivating that you read it in one sitting. Hearts of Stone is one of those books—I literally didn’t put it down until I finished it. At just fifteen, Hannah Cameron finds herself the head of her family. It’s 1861 and Hannah’s life on Cumberland Mountain (
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12-25-2006
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Hell Cop by David C. Burton
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshWhat if there were really a hell, a hell of torments too dire and horrible even to imagine? That would be awful enough for souls justifiably damned for their misdeeds during life. But if innocent souls were somehow consigned to the flames instead of the heaven they deserve, then this would be too terrible to bear. In these cases, it is necessary to find a Hell Cop willing and able to brave the dangers of hell and retrieve the lost soul from...
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10-11-2004
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Her Mouth Looked Like a Cat’s Bum
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Her Mouth Looked Like a Cat’s Bum Author: Matthew WardPublisher: World Audience ISBN: 978-1-934209-20-2Matthew Ward, a new Australian writer, currently lives in Newcastle Australia. He has written some non- fiction articles for literary magazines and websites. He has had his short stories appearing online and in print. His story, Jake With A Snarly Smile On His Chops, is published as a novella by Independence Jones. He is the founder, editor and publisher of...
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8-14-2007
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Hidden Grace
Author: Garland RoperISBN: 0-9768276-0-3The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HERETwenty years of Dr. Garland Roper’s experience as a psychotherapist have consummated in the from of a deeply disturbing, insightful, and healing book ‘Hidden Grace’ (Cliffside Press at OMNI, Maine, 2005). A literary novel, a psychological study of psychosexual torture and depression, a case against inhuman foster neglect, and a...
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4-2-2006
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Hobgoblins
Author: Jacob JaffeISBN: 0-595-38421-8Hobgoblins is a novel about a psychologist named Dr. Ritter who finds himself involved in a political plot to thwart the government. One of his former patients is the main player in this political game and he finds himself in a difficult position as doctor and patien
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2-21-2007
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Hobgoblins: A Novel
Author: Jacob Jaffe. ISBN: 0-595-38421-8. A Series of Fortunate CoincidencesHobgoblins, by Jacob Jaffe, is a story of intertwining webs set to a political thriller. The story centers on a young man, Marty Ritter, who is a psychology graduate student. As the plot opens, Marty works as an intern at a psychology clinic. Under the supervision of the dictatorial Bartlett, Marty is unfairly punished for having avoided Bartlett's seminar and for having a dissenting opinion concerning...
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3-18-2007
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Homefront
Author: Kristen J. Tsetsi ISBN: 978-0-6151-3990-6Kristen J. Tsetsi’s debut novel, Homefront, takes us into the life of twenty-six year old Mia, who faces a battle against anxiety, loneliness and despair when her boyfriend is deployed to Iraq.By alternating plot with a slices-of-life format, Tsetsi gives dimension to her book in a subtle and masterful way, contrasting her clear, precise, concrete prose—which makes up the majority of the book—with a...
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4-26-2007
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Honeycomb
Click Here To Purchase Honeycomb Author: Israel del RioPublisher: CreateSpaceISBN: 978-1434809544 Israel del Rio began writing Honeycomb over ten years ago, which is loosely based on two of his actual past-life recollections.
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7-17-2008
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HOUDINI
Author: T.J. BanksPublisher: Booklocker.com, Inc.ISBN: 1-59113-734-9Genre: Young AdultThe following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown : Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsWho ever said cats don’t care about their owners? Houdini, a Flamepoint Siamese kitten who was abandoned by some college students in an on-campus apartment, is all about his owner. Jill, a kind hearted little girl with a fondness for cats, takes in Houdini and gives him the best love and care he’d ever...
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10-20-2005
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How to Hunt a Husband by Holly Jacobs
The following review was contributed by:
SHERRY L.STOLL
How to Hunt a Husband by Holly Jacobs is a romantic comedy where two strangers Shannon O’Malley, a school teacher, and Nathan Calder, a pharmacist, unite in a plan to get their meddling mothers off their backs about marriage.
“Too bad you aren’t a stripper or something. I could take you home and scare my mother out of rushing me into marriage.”
“Yeah,” Shannon said, wistfulness in her voice. If only I was a stripper and you...
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1-1-1970
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I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay by Harlan Ellison and Isaac Asimov
The following review was contributed by:
PAUL LAPPEN
This is Ellison's script, written in the late 1970s,
for a full-length movie incorporating several of
Asimov's classic I, Robot stories.
The essay which begins this book is not as vitriolic
as some others of Ellison's, but it pulls no punches
in chronicling the script's journey through Hollywood.
The process was characterized by delay after delay.
The script was supposedly ""impossible"" to film. At one
point, Ellison...
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1-1-1970
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III Met by Moonlight by Sarah A. Hoyt
Reviewed by Paul Lappen
One day, a young William Shakespeare comes home from
his teaching job to find his wife, Nan, and infant
daughter, Susanna, missing. Stick figures have been
left in their beds, which means that they haven't just
left, they've been kidnapped by elves. Having no idea
what to do or who to see, Will starts to think that
his wife and child are gone forever.
Meantime, at a nearby elven castle invisible to
humans, Titania and Oberon, the King and Queen, have...
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1-1-1970
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Immortal
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon ImmortalAuthor: Traci L. SlattonISBN: 978-0-385-33974-2Published by Delta Trade Paperbacks Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live to be 180 years old? If given the chance to experience such longevity, would your ambitions, goals and pursuits change or would your priorities remain the same? Does a long life necessarily mean it will be richer, happier and more fulfilling?These questions and more are addressed in the historical novel, ‘Immortal,’...
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3-6-2008
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In Search of a Brilliant White Cloud
Author: Simon van der HeymPublished by Ivy House Publishing GroupISBN 1-57197-420-2The following review was contributed by Mary Simmons: Click Here to view Mary's other reviews.Simon van der Heym chronicles one man's life journey in his debut novel, 'In Search of a Brilliant White Cloud.'Van der Heym draws on his own life experiences as a child fleeing the Nazi invasion of Holland, a businessman, a husband and a father and a cancer survivor.His protagonist, Eric, goes through all of these...
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5-15-2005
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In the Light of the Passing
Author: K.C. BergISBN: 0741427990The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop An Ingenious work of fiction and romance! Nadeena disobeys her father orders to succumb to an arrange marriage and runs to the dells, a usual hideaway place for her. Her father, the commander of Sarzan planet, is known to be a tyrant to his people and wants to get rid of Nadeena because she is against his beliefs and way of ruling. In the woods, she falls into the hands of the miners, the prisoners her...
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7-18-2006
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Inquest on Imhotep
Click Here To Purchase Inquest on Imhotep Author: Derek Adie FlowerISBN: 978-1-4303-2599-4 Derek Adie Flower takes Egyptology by storm. Inquest on Imhotep is a fast pace mystery and murder story interwoven with some mysticism that is a pleasure to read. The action of the novel travels from Memphis, Egypt to Sienna in Italy.
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7-17-2008
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Inquest on Imhotep (Beyond the White Walls)
Click Here To Purchase Inquest on Imhotep (Beyond the White Walls) Author: Derek Adie FlowerPublisher: LuLu PressISBN: 978-1-4303-2599-4Derek Flower was born in Geneva and raised in Alexandria. Flower received a cosmopolitan education at Italian, French and English schools in Egypt before attending Malvern College in England and completing his studies in Oxford where he received an honours degree. He lived for many years in the South of France before residing to Tuscany and then onto the...
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8-18-2008
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Interview With Tom Buford Author of Fires of Darkness
Author: Tom Buford ISBN: 1933148144 The following interview was conducted by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERE To read Dian's Review of the Book Click HereBP: Fires of Darkness at times resembles the writings of Frank Perretti. Has he been an influence on your writing? Buford: Yes, he was. His was the first Christian fiction I ever read. It was several years after I read This Present Darkness that I wrote Fires of Darkness. I intentionally did not open...
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9-30-2005
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It Might Have Been What He Said
Author: Eden CollinsworthPublisher: Arcade PublishingISBN: 1-55970-812-3 The following review was contributed by: Evelyn Sears: Click here to read more of Evelyn's Review:Isabel tried to kill her husband, but she can’t remember why. With the help of her psychiatrist, Isabel slowly restores her memory of the events surrounding the attempted murder. They begin by examining Isabel’s childhood.
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6-15-2006
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It’s Only Temporary
Author: Eric ShapiroPublisher: Permuted Press ISBN: 097655593X
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7-11-2005
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Jackie’s Week by n/a
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinSix months ago Jackie was brutally attacked by someone she did not know and she had her car stolen as well by the vicious thug. Since that time Jackie has been understandably terrified that she will again be attacked by the frightening lout. Suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Jackie has been housebound, worried almost to distraction and hiding out in a rented apartment. With the concerned help of her younger sister and Donna’s patient...
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10-11-2004
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Jane Austen in Scarsdale: or Love, Death and the SATs
Author: Paula Marantz CohenISBN: 0-312-32502-9The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsThere's something about Jane Austen's novels that makes the suddenly addictedreader cry out: "What? She only wrote six?" The unsuspecting will instantlycrave more of her witticisms, her lovely command of the English language, herhilarious but believable characterizations and her entertaining plot points thatalways lead to a...
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7-26-2006
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Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels Author: Deidre Le FayeISBN: 0 7112 2278 9 Although the themes in the novels of Jane Austen are absolutely ageless, her novels were set in a distinct time and place and it is the details of these settings – though not absolutely integral to her themes of true love and integrity – that can be occasionally confusing for modern readers. What was a barouche box? A phaeton & ponies? Austen’s contemporaries knew...
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12-15-2007
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Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte BrontëISBN: 13 978-1-59308-117-1ISBN: 10 1-59308-117-0Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, a well-loved contribution to British classic literature, not only conjures images of mysterious gothic edifices and windswept moors, but more importantly, traverses the immeasurable depths of human emotion and its relation to the rigid social structure of the 19th Century. An exceptional amalgamation of ardent sentiment, extraordinary yet accessible characters, mystifying somber ambiance, and...
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4-20-2007
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Jason and Medea: A Whirlwind of Ruin
Author: Matthew L. HunterPublished by iUniverseISBN: 0-595-34321-XThe following review was contributed by: *Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read More Of Mary's ReviewsTackling some of today's most pressing issues through an ancient story, 'Jason and Medea: A Whirlwind of Ruin' tells a tale of love, adventure and violence against a backdrop of philosophy and mythology.Author Matthew L. Hunter prefaces his novel by acknowledging that many readers will already be familiar with his title characters...
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1-3-2006
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Jason Seeley’s War
Author:Dean SalterISBN: 0973066318Genre: fiction/modern AmericanThe following review was contributed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's Reviews
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6-22-2005
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Jerome and the Seraph
Author: Robina WilliamsPublisher: Twilight Times Books ISBN: 1931201544 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray Somerset. Click HERE to view more of Jennifer's ReviewsIn Robina William’s first novel, we are introduced to Jerome, a brother from afriary in England at the time of his unfortunate and fatal accident. The rest ofthe story revolves around Jerome getting used to his new level of existence andlearning how to move between what he knew and what he knows now, all...
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8-6-2005
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Jerome and the Seraph
Author: Robina WilliamsISBN: 1931201544 At a rural friary in Britain, Brother Jerome slips and cracks his head open onthe gravestone of Brother Aloysius. Jerome is killed instantly. When he wakesup, he is not in Heaven, but alone in a gray, featureless sort of place. Thefirst person he meets is Brother Aloysius, who apologizes for the circumstancesof Jerome's death. Jerome eventually meets up with all the dead Brothers of thefriary. The "leader" or "guide" of the group is...
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10-29-2006
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Jungle Fever by Franz L. Kessler
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinBook is written in three distinct sections. First Book Journeys to the Congo It is August 1994 and oiler Raoul Stern is writing a letter to his wife Aliye. His business trip aboard a Boeing 737 is much as any other, a brief landing in Libreville and back to sleep before the plane lands and he is told his visa is not valid and he must leave his passport. Mr Lamira of Lowland Oil drives Raoul to his hotel and it is not long before Raoul meets...
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10-11-2004
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Keeper of the Arts
Author: Jackie Grant MillerPublisher: Trafford PublishingISBN: 141207784-2Any one who watched Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" (if not other movies) will be certainly intrigued by the apparently effortless way the Master defends him/herself from many attackers. And watching that movie and some of Jackie Chan certainly whetted my curiosity and so when an opportunity came along to review this book, I said yes. I also read / heard of other styles like Aikido, Jujutsu etc. and thus wanted...
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6-23-2007
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KISS OF DECEIT by Patricia A. Rasey
The following review was contributed by
JULIE AMIDON
Get ready for a great ride! Kiss of Deceit took me down a road of intrigue, romance, with a twist at the end I probably should have seen coming; but didn't....
Take a small town female deputy, who's big on heart, and really wants to be a cop to Help people, not harass them, (wow, what a concept!). She wants to get the bad guy(s) that are leaving a bloody trail through her small town where everyone knows your name...and your business...
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1-1-1970
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Laguna
Author: Michael PutegnatPublisher: Synergy BooksISBN: 1-933538-21-XThe following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's Reviews The opening paragraph of Michael Putegnat's 'Laguna' portrays an egret hunting for minnows before being torn apart by a Peregrine falcon. A character who observes this transference of power considers the nature of justice, concluding that it only takes one moment for the predator to become the prey.This sequence sets the tone for the rest...
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6-6-2006
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Last Call
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Last CallAuthor: Blair OliverISBN: 978-1934209745 By way of common experience, we don’t usually tend to stay motionless in a seat or else we may feel numb. Discomfort causes motion and only when we start shifting sides within the confines of a seat do we realize that arriving at a balance of ease is not a promised lot. Similar is the case of the protagonists of Blair Oliver’s book Last Call (World Audience Inc., New York, 2007) who are all men, mostly in...
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2-27-2008
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Last Tango with Marlon: A Novella
Click Here To Purchase Last Tango With Marlon Author: Fletcher RhodenISBN-10: 1425152651 ISBN-13: 978-1425152659
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10-3-2008
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Lessons From the Gypsy Camp
Author: Elizabeth AppellPublisher: Scribes Valley PublishingISBN: 0-9742652-1-7The following review was contributed by: Katherine J. Turcotte & Click Here to View Katherine J. Tucotte`s Reviews: Consequences. We all face them throughout life. For ten-year old Lolly Candolin, consequences are unusually cruel. In her attempt at getting her alcoholic father to stop drinking, Lolly’s bold ultimatum costs her her beloved old cat, Bo, tossed heartlessly in a burlap sack into the...
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5-5-2005
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Lety’s Gift
Author: Coralie Hughes JensenPublisher: Lightning Rider PressISBN: 0-9787318-0-8Thunder roars and wind howls echoing throughout the small fishing settlement as this mystery story opens and sees Lety Hawkins give birth to a baby girl named Sophie. Sophie’s head is wrapped in a caul which is said to mean that she would have a special healing gift. This proves to be true when she is taken to see a sick woman and rubs the old lady’s limbs. Suddenly the woman is up and moving freely again. These...
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5-22-2007
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Lizard Dreaming of Birds by John Gist
The following review was contributed by
PAULA BARDELL
“Is it too much to suggest that we may recognize... the beauty and fittingness of an environment created by an assembly of creatures?” — James Lovelock (Gaia, Oxford University Press,
1979)
To label John Gist’s latest offering a ‘horror novel’ would be far too simplistic. His chronicle of half-life and sudden death in the American West is disturbing and occasionally gruesome, but it is also starkly beautiful in places – especially...
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1-1-1970
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Losing Patience
Author: Joyce FaulknerPublisher: Red Engine Press, 2004ISBN: 0974565245 The following review was contributed by:
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4-5-2005
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Lost Land of Jur by Tom Johnson
The following review was contributed by:
SHERRY L.STOLL
Lost Land of Jur by Tom Johnson takes you on another scientific adventure through time portals in the Jurassic Period. This time our hero is early 1900’s pilot, Jack Richards. He’s learned of Jur’s existence and vows to experience it for himself. He meets and falls in love with the exotic beauty, Mai Ling, from the 1960’s who has accidentally slipped through another time portal. A language barrier exists between them...
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1-1-1970
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Lost on Earth Romantic Thriller by Lily Alex
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Appearing as a respectable businessman bored, forty two year old Robert Noirson must follow the rules of society when he attends a charity event helping to fund a Catholic run orphanage. Chapter 1: part 1 begins with the meeting between orphaned Mary and Noirson. Mary is quick to understand that despite her misgivings she must accept the ministrations of Noirson. After all he is wealthy and can do much for the orphanage. If angered he can...
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10-11-2004
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Madapple
Click Here To Purchase Madapple Author: Christina MeldrumPublisher: Alfred A. KnopfISBN: 978-0-375-85176-6 Madapple tells the incr
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7-28-2008
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Mama Peavy says, “Women, It’s OK to Marry an Ugly Man”
Author: Mary R. Butler Illustrator: Charles Somerville Publisher: Green Olive Tree (GOT) Publishing ISBN: 978-0-9636963-7-3Mary R. Butler wrote her first short story while in fifth grade at school. Everyone was impressed by her work; her teacher even accused her of stealing her piece from a book. Of course, this was not true as Mary then went on to become a playwright, poet and the inventor behind the hilarious character, Mama Peavy, proving to everyone she could write and entertain. She is...
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6-17-2007
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Manhook: A Novel
Author: Ken RatcliffeISBN: 141960807X The following review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's Reviews Bob Lutz’s world is spiraling out of control: his colleagues hate him and his new job is not what he was led to believe; his psychiatrist is continually increasing the dosage of the medication he does not take and his wife is concerned by the way he seems unable to think things through to any sort of logical conclusion. To make things worse, his best friend has...
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3-31-2006
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Marathon
Author: W. William WinkurPublisher: Kissena Park PressISBN: 0-9768508-0-XThe following review was contributed by: Evelyn Sears: Click here to read more of Evelyn's Review.
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6-12-2006
Views: 2388
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Marathon
Author: William WinokurISBN: 0-9768508-0-XThe following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Marathon," a novel by first-time author William Winokur, depicts the redemption of Marianna Gardner, a hard-driving lawyer who skips her father's funeral in order to win a big case. When, two years later, she suddenly becomes possessed of a desire to reconnect with family, she searches for a long-lost family friend, "Uncle" Ion...
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7-26-2006
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Match Made in Heaven
Author: Bob MitchellISBN: 0-7582-1269-0The following review was contributed by: Jim Curtiss. Click Here To Read More Of Jim’s ReviewsThe set-up (or backswing, if you will) of Match Made in Heaven is thatof a seasoned pro: the protagonist, Elliot Goodman, is rushed to the ORwith a heart attack. Praying for his life, God appears to Elliot andasks why his life should be spared. Not able to answer to the Almighty'ssatisfaction, Elliot finds himself transported to the links for the golfround of...
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8-28-2006
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Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter
Author: Thomas Kaplan-MaxfieldPublisher: Kepler PressISBN: 0-9713770-3-0The following review was contributed by: Emily VeingloryPublicity material from Kepler Press described this book as 'chicklit. written by a man' but nothing could be further from the truth.Chick lit (much as I love it) is 'lite' entertainment and 'Memoirs ofa Shape-Shifter' is a dense, dark and complex story. Put aside timeto read it in a quiet room with your full concentration. This bookreminded me that reading can,...
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8-12-2005
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Memoirs of a Virus Programmer
Author: Pete FliesISBN: 0976542684 Living near Minneapolis, Johnny Pepper is a young software engineer who gets ajob at the high-tech Beamer Corporation. He can't wait to do some actualsoftware engineering, but is told to read manuals until the right project comesalong. His office mate is Danny, a very cynical person who spends his daysreading news items off the Internet to Johnny, despite Johnny's absolutedisinterest, and in gabbing with a woman named Fillmore. Needless to say, Dannydoes...
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10-29-2006
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Memories Vision
Click Here To Purchase Memories Vision Author: Ken ColemanISBN: 9781425797232Publisher: Xlibris
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7-8-2008
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Memory Has A Way Of Playing Tricks On Us
Title: THE BOOK OF MEMORIESAuthor : Ana Maria ShuaIntroduction by Ilan Stavans, editor of the series on Jewish Latin America ISBN 0-8263-1949-1The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman &CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's ReviewsMemory has a way of playing tricks with the human mind. Some facts are blurred, some are clear, some simply vanish! This is one reason I found the first half of The Book of Memories a difficult read. However, as memory often does, when...
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11-27-2004
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Merlin's Kin
Genre: Young Adult FantasyAuthor: Everett ColesLine/Publisher Archimedes Presse P.O. Box No. 62 TADCASTER North YorkshireLS24 9WP: United KingdomISBN: 0954861809The following review was contributed by: Molly Martin & CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's ReviewsThe narrative opens with a determined bearded man in a red cape shoutingorders as a battering ram is moved into place. Without warning in the innerquartz cave where Merlin and others have slept for eons a horrendousbattering resounds....
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2-25-2005
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Misadventures & Merfolk: The Tale of a Seaside Village Gone Mad by Kelly Reno
The following review was contributed by TAMY BRADY
Brendan James is a travel writer. He's had one successful novel and one horrible flop. He's now on the search in the British Isles for ideas for his third novel, that will either make or break his writing career. Unfortunately, he finds nothing in these islands except sheep and his deadline has come and gone.
With panic setting in, Brendan attends the Mermaid Festival in
Heather Bay on the Isle of Sky.
This event celebrates the...
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1-1-1970
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Misadventures and Merfolk by Kelly Reno
Author: Kelly RenoISBN: 1891437011The following review was contributed by: Andrea Wren & CLICK TO VIEW Andrea Wren's ReviewsIf you're looking for a chunky, holiday novel to get to grips with - and are bored of risqué Hollywood love affairs (and other such over done genres pertaining to be the next summer blockbuster) - then you've picked up the right book. Misadventures and Merfolk is full of fairy tale action in an easy to read style, perfect for the beach or by the pool, particularly...
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5-1-2005
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Moonfleet by J. Meade Flakner
The Following review was contributed by: John Walsh The life of a wrecker and a smuggler! The southern coast of England is the historical home of goods smuggled across the English Channel from continental Europe; it is a place where the fierce seas and the fiercer King's Men combine to make the wrecker's life a short and dangerous one. This is the background to Meade Falkner's excellent late nineteenth century drama, Moonfleet. The title is derived from the village that gives rise to our...
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10-11-2004
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Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine
Click Here To Purchase Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine ISBN: 9780981748108:Publisher: Orange Alert Press Once again, I am impressed by a Ben Tanzer novel. Ben Tanzer’s writing has been featured in Rated Rookie, Chicago Parent, Abroad View, Clamor, Third Coast Press, and The Truth Magazine. Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine follows his first book, Lucky Man. Ben Tanzer
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9-13-2008
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Mourning Meadow
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Mourning MeadowAuthor: Larion WillsISBN: 9781934041161Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo BooksAfter reading the book Mourning Meadow, by Larion Wills, I am, overall, impressed. Larion Wills, a pseudonym for Larriane Wills writes in the romantic fiction and sci-fi genres. She has books in print and ebooks.
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3-15-2008
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Mozart
Author: Robert HowePublisher: XlibrisISBN 1-4134-6664-8The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews.
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4-11-2005
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Mozart: A Novel
Author: Robert HowsePublisher: XLibris Corporation. ISBN: 1-4134-6664-8This review was contributed by John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's Reviews
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12-8-2004
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Mr Touchdown
Author: Lyda PhillipsISBN: 0595672884The following review was contributed by: Molly Martin: CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's Reviews The narrative opens on a dusty Tennessee day in 1965. That is the day when Eddie Russel’s preacher father drops a bomb shell. Eddie and his sister Lakeesha will be part of a small group of black high schoolers to integrate the local all white high school. For fo
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5-30-2006
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Mr. Darcy’s Diary
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Mr. Darcy’s Diary Author: Amanda GrangeISBN 10:1-4022-0876-6 Mr. Darcy is almost a secondary character in the story that made him one of the most beloved heroes in all of Jane Austen’s novels. Although Pride and Prejudice utilizes the device of omniscient narrator, the reader spends most of the book inside the sparkling head of Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy’s ultimate destiny; it rarely gets inside of Darcy’s.Novelist Amanda Grange has sought to remed
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10-22-2007
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Murderer in the Mikdash
Author: Gidon Rothstein. ISBN: 1-4196-0756-1 Messiah has come, the Temple has been rebuilt and the Law has been reestablished. Rachel Tucker’s husband has vanished off the face of the earth and her best friend is dead. Life in post-Messianic Israel is far from utopian.Rachel is a correspondent for a major news station in the United States, a new mother with a colicky baby and probably a widow. She despairs of finding out what happened to her husband, but she assumes he is dead. She knows...
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9-21-2006
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My Little One by Nancy Rechtman
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Thirty four year old Emma Bronfman respected teacher and her LA talent scout husband Steve have tried for years to have a child. Seven years of criticism and pressure from Steve’s controlling, grandchild hungry mother, trips to infertility clinics, hormone injections and nothing has produced a baby yet. To top it all off Emma’s widowed father has a bimbo girlfriend who is twenty six and pregnant. Emma’s crippled self esteem continues to...
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10-11-2004
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Nameless Night
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Nameless NightAuthor: GM FordPublisher: HarperCollinsISBN: 978-0-06-087442-1 The title of GM Ford’s novel Nameless Night fills in all the appropriate blanks for his latest action adventure. He ma
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2-29-2008
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Neitherworld Book One Akiiwan
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Neitherworld Book One Akiiwan Author: Scott BakerISBN: 9781434813299Publisher: CreateSpace Publisher An Epic Imagination The first volume of Scott Baker’s debut novel, Neitherworld Book One Akiiwan, treats the reader to an imaginative and entertaining story that reaches across centuries and multiple dimens
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2-22-2008
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Never Mind the Track
Author: Sy Nazif ISBN: 0977923800 The following review was contributed by: Evelyn Sears: Click To View More of Evelyn's Reviews.Eddie Howell is thirty-something. He is smart, funny, charming, independent, lazy, self-centered and rebellious. He repeatedly falls in and out of love, but he never loves. This book is Eddie’s account of his adolescent and early adult life. The first chapter describes the adolescent experiences that shaped the man Eddie later became. The opening scene, a...
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5-22-2006
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Night Soldiers
Author: Peter TuscaroraISBN: 1413766137 Set in the near future, Earth has been taken over by capitalism. Countries havebecome economic zones. There are lots of Little-Rich left, like entertainers andsports stars, but the world is run by five Super-Rich people, calledCapitalists. Individually worth trillions of dollars, they each run a specificpart of the world. Within their areas, they exert absolute control, and there isconstant battle with the other four Capitalists. Techno-military updates...
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1-5-2007
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Nirvana
Author: Kevin Marley:ISBN: 1411622197The present review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews A Human Soul is watching the people of Earth from Heaven, knowing that he isabout to be sent there to become human. He is born as Ray Sawol of Philadelphia.Ray grows up in present-day America, about which the author has very little goodto say. His parents get divorced, because of his father's infidelity. Ray is ona constant search for enlightenment, for that undefinable...
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1-17-2006
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Noble’s Gold
Author: W.C. CraddockPublisher: Inkwater PressISBN: 1-59299-219-6 Sam Noble, a low-level government employee approaching retirement, has started writing the novel he always dreamed about. Unsure what he should write about, Sam takes a friend’s advice and begins writing random passages that he intends to stitch together later (p. 29). Drawing from sources in science, history, religious studies, economics, and various other disciplines, he contemplates the role of gold as a treasured...
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10-26-2006
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Not On The Level
Author: Michael V. MaddaloniISBN: 1-4259-0861-6Michael Maddaloni writes the fictional story of Joe DeFalco from early childhood to manhood. Joe is an altar boy in the Catholic Church, enlists in the Marine Corps, and then he's off to college. Joe ends up as a Secret Service Agent. Joe De Falco was born in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia -- a street-smart Italian-American boy. His father dies (while using the latrine) during World War II, leaving Joe to grow up in his father's...
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11-13-2006
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Nothing But The Blood
Author: Ruth Gunter MitchellISBN 9-781419-615375 Aunt Inny – everyone has one. You know the type – has the devil in them, or so they say. They spoil holidays, upset family members, and even wreck Christmas trees. The member of the family that makes everyone wonder if they were found on the doorstep and the one you want to throttle when they embarrass you. It makes one wonder how they could be kin. Jenny recounts how she saw things in such a clear fashion that you can almost see the...
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3-12-2007
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Now You See Him (A novel)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Now You See Him (A novel)Author: Eli Gottlieb Publisher: William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins)ISBN: 978-0-06-128464-9 Eli Gottlieb is the author of The Boy Who Went Away that won the Rome Prize and also the 1998 McKitterick Prize from the British Society of Authors. It received extraordinary notices and was a New York Times Notable book. Gottlieb currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. The first chapter of this fine literary fiction begins by...
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2-28-2008
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Obedience
Click Here To Purchase Obedience: A Novel Author: Will Lavender
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10-24-2008
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Obsessed
Author: Ted DekkerPublisher: WestBow PressISBN: 0-8499-4373-6The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews. The thriller/suspense/mystery (or as they call Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code—“intelligent thrillers”) genre absolutely requires that the premise be rational, realistic, and believable; that one learn something from it; and that it have a chase theme. I have been writing in the genre; so I may be hypercritical. But I think...
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2-23-2005
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October Mourning: A Novel of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Author: James Rada, Jr,ISBN: 0971459932The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews In late 1918, World War I is winding down, but America's major cities, likeBoston and Philadelphia, are being decimated by Spanish Flu.The disease hasn't yet reached Columbia, Maryland, where Dr. Alan Keener, freshout of medical school, treats a young mother named Sarah. She is feeling sickand feverish, classic flu symptoms, for which she is told to go home and...
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4-18-2006
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Offspring of a Paradise (Genre-War Fiction) by Safi Abdi
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinHana is only six when her world is turned upside down. Clan wars have begun in Somalia. Her father is dead by only hours, her brothers are taking part in the rampaging, her uncle is trying to spirit his mother and his brother’s pregnant wife and young child away from danger when they are ambushed. Hana and her grandmother spend two years on the run before finally reaching the faint sanctuary of ‘the wall’ where they will live for a time....
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10-11-2004
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Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane AustenAuthor: Sybil G. Brinton ISBN 10:1-4022-0888-X It seems that there is a new Jane Austen sequel being published every week and for Jane Austen fans, this is a wonderful opportunity to once again inhabit in the elegant but hilarious world of Austen’s Regency period romantic comedies. "Old Friends and New Fancies," written in 1913 by Sybil G. Brinton stands out from the...
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12-11-2007
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On The Banks Of Lethe
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: James L. Grant Publisher: StoneGarden.net PublishingISBN: 1-60076-051-1Who is Becks? That is the question on Charlie’s lips when he receives a phone call from a woman who he doesn’t even remember. Why is she calling him and perhaps more importantly why does she say she loves him? Charles wonders at these questions but comes up with no answers by himself. He’s still trying to trace Trish and Douglas who had befriended him. Charlie has...
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7-18-2007
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On The Eighth Day by Alan Cooper
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin The year is 1810. Napoleon meets with his engineers to discuss his dream of invading England via a tunnel under the sea. By 1812 two disastrous attempts to construct the tunnel have caused many deaths. The men now employed in the third effort have no knowledge of this. And in the year 2001 a tragedy has taken place, 2,000, perhaps more citizens have been killed. London is ruled by martial law even though the authorities would deny this if...
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10-11-2004
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One Among the Indians
Author: Martha Bennet StilesISBN: 0-595-40668-8One Among the Indians is a fictionalised account of a young boy’s journey to the New World. The author is a direct descendant of Tom Savage, the protagonist of the novel. The tone of the book is suitable for teen readers but there is nothing childish about it that would stop an adult from enjoying this book, it is perhaps best described as a historical novel. The story begins in England as young Tom Savage is at a crossroads. As the youngest his...
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9-25-2006
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One Last Dance
Author: Mardo WilliamsISBN: 0-9649241-4-5This book is filled, no, it's overflowing, with humor, causing my lips to rise up at the corners starting with the very first sentence. One Last Dance begins wit
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11-12-2006
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Only In My Dreams by Rhonda Empson
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin It is 1141 when Lord Bayard is surprised to find a drowning woman in a pond. Lea, who entered the pool in the twentieth century is just as surprised to realize Bayard is a knight, horse, sword, medieval dress and all. Thus begin the misguided adventures for modern Lea and medieval Bayard. She meets Richard of the lovely smile, Sara who causes her much jealousy, Logan who claims to be Bayard’s father. Captured by the lecherous Logan; Lea is...
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10-11-2004
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Opening Bell by Keith D. Cummings
Reviewed by Paul Lappen
This is the story of a financial, and political, coup
d'etat in near-future America.
Marc Reid is now a hot-shot New York investment
banker. Having watched the family business in Virginia
be wiped out by greedy lawyers, and the general
degradation of America, he hatches a long-term plan to
take America away from the life-long welfare
recipients and give it back to hard-working Americans.
He knows that the plan will take years to come to...
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1-1-1970
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Operation Supergoose
Click Here To Purchase Operation Supergoose Operation Supergoose, Author: William Hart Publisher:Timberline Press
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7-28-2008
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Passup Point
Author: Coralie Hughes Jensen Publisher: Lighting Rider Press ISBN: 0-9787318-1-6I liked the format of this book, the setting out in small and varied chapters allowed the story to flow easily. This novel is a captivating read full of twists and secrets that instantly have your attention from the very first chapter. When Father Jonah Devlin arrives in the fishing village of Passup Point he becomes immediately aware of the wild atmospheric elements. Coming from Boston USA to the deep...
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5-15-2007
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Patrons In a Bar
Author: A.J. BuressISBN: 1591290503The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsThis is the story of Jake Tidwell, your averagefresh-out-of-college type, living near Pittsburgh.Looking for more from life than the usual 9 to 5 job,Jake takes off for a year of traveling around America.He also figures that, as a would-be writer, he shouldhave some experiences worth writing about.Jake is one of those who likes his liquor and drugs,and has something...
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11-30-2004
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Pax by Meg Davis
The following review was contributed by:
TAMY BRADY
Pax is the story of a young girl whose simple quiet life suddenly transforms into a complicated noble destiny. Pax had lived in anisolated house hidden in the forest. Her only companions were her aged guardian Noria and Gnone the trader. Noria on her deathbed tells Pax of her true destiny, as the savior of all the four lands: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Renalions.
Pax is a well written interesting fantasy aimed at teenagers. The...
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1-1-1970
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Peacemaker
Genre: ThrillerAuthor's Name: Dan RoncoISBN Number: 0975271148
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2-26-2005
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Pedestals
Author: Janet ShoupISBN: 1590804260The following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click Here To Read Emily's ReviewsThere are many things that make “Pedestals” a worthy read. From fast-paced action to humor, author Janet Shoup delivers a consistent and clear work of fiction. When Jack, a disenchanted and discouraged cop, decides to take a leave of absence after 15 years on the force, he thinks he will have time to relax and get over his girlfriend leaving him. His sudden departure...
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11-16-2005
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PERMISSION SLIPS
Author: Jerry SanderISBN: 0-9766127-0-4Publisher: The Way It Works Press The following review was contributed by Emily ShafferFor those of us whose high school years are a somewhat distant memory, Jerry Sander’s novel Permission Slips serves as a not-so-gentle reminder of the timeless issues, fears, and discoveries experienced by teenagers. It also offers a realistic glimpse into the lives of today’s teenagers, in some ways tougher and more complicated than ever before.“Glimpse” is the...
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8-15-2005
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Pink
Author: Jennifer Harris Publisher: Harrington Park PressISBN: 978-1-56023-629-0Jennifer Harris has been a successful poet, having had her poetry featured in several national magazines from the New York Quarterly to Swerve. Jennifer founded and directed a three-year reading series at The Art Institute of Chicago. Amongst these many successes, she became the editor of a small literary magazine called JackLeg Press. She was also a finalist in FourWay Books national book contest. Ms Harris was a...
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6-14-2007
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Plastic Gods by William Manchee
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin As a follow up to Death Pact in which we met Rich Coleman and his wife Erica, comes Plastic Gods. The book opens with attorney Coleman ruminating over his life with Erica, his children and his law practice. Coleman is surprised when eldest son Matt announces his marriage plans to a woman he has only recently met. Matt and Lynn hold an almost single minded determination to quickly become very wealthy. Their plan is to tap into the potential...
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10-11-2004
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Pledge of Honor by Lori L Anderson
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshJamie MacGivens has only a few minutes between finding her boyfriend in bed with her best friend before she is abducted by aliens and flown to another planet. In company with other earthlings, she is imprisoned and marked out for slavery – for the men, forced labour, for the women, becoming brood mares for the nefarious Berloffs. The planet on which Jamie and the others land is dominated by the Berloffs but there are others there too. The...
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10-11-2004
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Plowin' Newground
Title: Plowin' NewgroundAuthor: Jerry W. Brown ISBN: 0970557523 The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsGeorge "Jickie" Jennings is the son of a moonshinerfrom the Louisiana Bayou. He realizes, early on, thateducation was his ticket out, so scholarships toTulane University, then UCLA-Berkeley, lead to himbecoming a civilian scientist with the DefenseDepartment. He is called back home when Ersel, hisfather, is severely injured in...
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10-31-2004
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Prelude to a Mushroom Cloud by Lee Herald
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Burt Stephens awakens on a stormy December night in Chicago with a feeling of unrest. His baby sitter hastens to reassure the worried little boy. It is 1965, just before Christmas and Stephens’ parents have just been killed. From that point the orphaned youngster is raised by his grandfather. He does not understand the psychic encounters he begins to experience. By 1990 a grown up Burt begins recording his varied and various psychic...
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10-11-2004
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PRETTY LITTLE DIRTY
Author: Amanda BoydenISBN: 1-4000-9682-0 The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's ReviewsWith her debut novel Pretty Little Dirty, Amanda Boyden explores the twilightzone between childhood and the hazardous sides of adult world. It is the storyof a fatal attraction between two good and beautiful students who drag eachother into the mud. Pretty Little Dirty is a glimpse or an eyeful into thenymphomaniac lives of two troubled...
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3-27-2006
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Prisoners of War
Author: Katie ThibodeauPublishers: American Book PublishingISBN: 1-85982-237-4The following review was contributed by Mary Simmons. To read more of Mary’s Reviews CLICK HEREIt can be a painful experience to enter the mind of a young woman who is slowly destroying herself under the guise of wanting to be thin.In Katie Thibodeau's 'Prisoners of War,' the experience is also a beautiful one.Exploring the parallels of her protagonist's war with bulimia and the tragic occurrences faced by the...
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7-19-2005
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Providence Pond
Author: Beresford McLeanISBN: 0-9753297-1-5 The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereAfia's two-week marriage to Bem Covey was anything but normal. They had said their vows ; "Bem left the ceremonial hall and had not been seen since." From that day, Afia "had taken comfort from Esi, her best friend."The women find themselves in a "smoke-filled tavern" just after Afia's favor
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6-5-2006
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Psycho Psychic
Author: Betsy GallupISBN: 1413787614The following review was contributed by: Tami Brady: Click Tami Brady's Reviews to view more of Tami's Reviews. Lily Banks and Kate Libson have been friends since the forth grade. Lily is the flighty spiritualist who is always looking for her next cause believing it to lead to her destiny. Kate is the sceptic, always trying to protect Lily from the disaster that she brings upon herself.Lily's latest infatuation is with Princess Eva, a renowned psychic...
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5-20-2006
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Public Lies
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Public LiesAuthor: Brenda YoungermanISBN: 10: 1432712969: 13: 978-1432712969 Once Upon a Time there was Vince and Nancy…This is the sobering story about domestic and substance abuse in America and becomes somewhat of a knowing commentary about the gigantic obstacles that must be surmounted be they social or through the courts system. Nancy Lewiston’
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12-31-2007
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QUEEN OF DREAMS by Chitra Banerjee DIVAKARUNI
The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman artist and author. With her latest novel, critically acclaimed author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni chronicles the lives of a Bengali immigrant family living in California at the beginning of the new millennium. Using powerful, lush and rich language that is particular to Indo-English authors, DIVAKARUNI immerses her readers into the minds of the characters who play various roles in the novel. In the first chapter, she describes a...
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11-4-2004
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Rabbit in the Moon
Click Here To Purchase Rabbit in the Moon Authors: Deborah and Joel ShlianISBN: 978-1-933515-14-4Publisher: Oceanview
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6-7-2008
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Raging Silence
Author: Amanda StoneISBN: 0-9764981-1-1The following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons: Click Here To Read Mary's Reviews In a time when it is reported that half of all marriages end in divorce and every two-and-a-half minutes someone is sexually assaulted in America, a novel that explores how both of these issues can tear a family apart is sadly one which many will relate to on a personal level.Amanda Stone takes on these turbulent topics in her semi-autobiographical novel, 'Raging...
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4-1-2006
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Raging Silence
Author: Amanda StoneISBN: 0-9764981-1-1"A North Carolina native, Amanda Stone was born and raised in Greensboro. She earned her degree in literature and language from North Carolina State University and studied abroad in the Netherlands and Austria. It was in Europe that Stone first began to explore and challenge the demons in her past. A child of divorce, she had been sexually abused by a family member for several years. Recognizing that the traumatic abuse would have long-term...
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11-15-2006
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Rainbow Dust
Author: Eleanor RothISBN: 1-932695-15-X “Danger alerts those who are connected…” That’s what Zeke tells Margaret when they meet for the first time. What makes this statement so unusual is that Zeke’s speaking to Margaret telepathically—she hears him in her head. Margaret can’t make sense of it though. Who is Zeke, why is he in her head, who’s in danger, and how is she connected to this voice in her head? To the delight of the reader, neither Margaret nor the reader will learn the answer to...
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1-4-2007
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Rainy Day People
Authors: Susan C. Haley with Robert J.DelanyISBN: 0741428741 The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsWidowed early, Amber is living by herself by the ocean in Florida. She has aquiet connection with nature, and a wild, reckless side, That is characterizedby her enjoyment of speeding along in her silver convertible, while heavy metalblasts from the car stereo.During a trip into town, Amber meets a man in a local bookstore. There is somesort...
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5-2-2006
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Reality: The Novel
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Jeff HavensISBN: 978-0-089733-548-5Publishers: Academy Chicago PublishersWhether you love it or hate it, reality TV has permeated the American television landscape. In this biting satire, Jeff Havens has presented a withering view of the medium from inside the creative consulting offices of Nova, whose mission is to develop new reality shows for the major networks. Nova's shows are designed to push the envelope to new heights of outrage and...
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8-3-2007
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Red Roses For a Dead Trucker by Anna Ashwood Collins
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Abby Doyle is an efficiency expert with a somewhat less than perfect driving record who also has been known to solve a crime or two. Driving a ‘make do’ rental to the ritzy Catskills resort ‘The Babbling Brook Inn,’ now that Avis and Hertz will no longer rent to her Abby finds herself explaining to the police that the reason she is sitting in a ditch is not her choice. Abby meets an old friend at the resort, however Todd Mason dies before...
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10-11-2004
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Red Sorghum
Author: Mo YanISBN: 0140168540The following review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsRed sorghum is a cereal grass that, in Mo Yan’s wonderful and magical novel, stands proudly across the territory of Northeast Gaomi Township as a form of red blanket or flag, mirroring the great acts of our parents and grandparents and dwarfing the petty actions of our days. As it is observed on one occasion, in the days of our fathers, even dogs were the equal of people. And...
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4-18-2006
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Relocating Mia
Click Here To Purchase Relocating Mia Author: Rebecca LerwillISBN: 9781933538877 Publisher: Bridgeway Books I am pretty impressed with Relocating Mia, by Rebecca Lerwill. Born and raised in Germany, Rebecca Lerwill moved to the United States in 1995 and has lived in Califo
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5-10-2008
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Reluctant Heroes
Author: Steve Westcott ISBN: 184386021X The following review was contributed by:
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5-13-2006
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Revelations Alpha and Omega by David Allen Rigsby
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinIn deep space God recognizes He can bring light from darkness. Soon He creates man in His own image and creates for Himself a flying machine of gold. Over a span of six millenniums God creates the world, life and Eden the home for His last creation: man. After taking a millennium to rest God checks in to see how things are going with His creation only to find one third of the angels, man and the most beautiful angel Lucifer have fallen into...
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10-11-2004
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Robin: The Loveable Morgan Horse
Author: Ellen F. FeldISBN: 0-9709002-5-2The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Robin: The Loveable Morgan Horse," fourth in a series by horsewoman Ellen Feld, introduces two new characters: Karen Greene and her "loveable" horse, Robin. Karen, a relative newcomer to horses, experiences a physically and emotionally damaging accident (with another horse) in the first chapter which drags her riding confidence...
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1-19-2006
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Roommates Wanted
Click Here To Purchase Roommates Wanted Author: Lisa JewellISBN: 9780061137471 Publisher: Harper Collins To sum up in one wo
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4-10-2008
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Safe Beginnings by Christine Duncan
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Following a threatening telephone call; fire breaks out and Kaye Berreano hurries to vacate residents in the Denver Battered Women’s Shelter where she is night shift counselor. Kaye pounds on doors, locates the fire and to her dismay the soon to be single mom with divorce pending Kaye finds the new resident Mary Ellen Schuster is unconscious in the fire. Complicating the situation is the fact that no one at the safe house was too fond of...
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10-11-2004
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Savage Land Of Jur by Tom Johnson
The following review was contributed by:
SHERRY L.STOLL
Savage Land of Jur by Tom Johnson flings you back into the prehistoric dinosaur age. The main characters, Odette and Ron, have separately happened upon a time portal that has transported them to the Jurassic Period. They’ve fallen in love, married, and are now looking for a race called “The Ancient Ones” that are no longer able to reproduce whom they believe are the key to finding their way back home.
Odette and Ron face...
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1-1-1970
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Seat to Heaven :Short Stories, Vol.1-7
Author: Mel Waldman Publisher: World Audience ISBN: 978-1-934209-94-3I have got to say that I love the author’s artwork more then his short stories. The book covers are fantastic designs of colour and obscure shapes which can be interpreted in many ways if you really study them. I practically liked the Cigarette Woman, volume 1. In volume 1 the stories are strange, deep, weird tales of life death and who we are, why and what’s it all about? I think he means to say that whatever road we take...
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8-20-2007
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Secondhand World
Author: Katherine MinISBN: 0-307-26344-4Katherine Min has penned a poignant story about a Korean/American teenager girl living in Albany. In a beautiful language, she recounts the tale of Isadora Myung Hee Sohn, Isa, born in a superstitious society that worships boys. “Boys are loved whereas girls are just born”. Her four year old brother, Stephen is killed by accident. After such a blinding loss, her mom is a depressive whereas her dad, a physicist, is cold as ice, almost never shows his...
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12-27-2006
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September Dawn
Click Here To Purchase September Dawn Author: Carole Whang SchutterISBN-10: 1434300226 ISBN-13: 978-1434300225
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4-21-2008
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Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace
Click Here To Purchase Shades of Darkness Shades of Grace Author: Catherine JohnsonISBN: 978-0-595-46032-8Publisher: iUniverse Catherine Johnson
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4-12-2008
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SHADES OF MOLLY
Author: Margaret A. WestlieISBN: 0-7388-3751-2 (Hardcover) 0-7388-3752-0 (Softcover)The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown : Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsLife for Molly certainly hasn’t gotten any easier. Ever since the stroke, her words don’t always come out right; she can’t do the simplest things for herself, such as dress or feed herself; and she can’t even sit alone in her wheelchair without being secured by a strap. What’s worse, every night...
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5-15-2006
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Shadow of Doubt by Linda Morelli
The following review was contributed by:
CAROLYN HOWARD -JOHNSON
Here is a modern mystery with enough sexual anticipation to please the most avid reader of romances and enough sound writing to please readers who prefer more in their reading fare.
A lovely young woman who has been well-taught to distrust finds herself living in a home painted in her sister’s colors, literally. The lovely house, situated on the Pacific coast in Mendocino, is a subtle metaphor for what...
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1-1-1970
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Shelby and the Shifting Rings
Author: A.M VeillonPublishers: Parity PressISBN 0-9762015-4-2The following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons: To read more of Mary’s Reviews CLICK HERE'Shelby and the Shifting Rings' is the first instalment in A.M. Veillon's Defender of Time series for young adults.It tells the story of 12-year-old Shelby Shodworth, an orphan who lives with her uncle, Leviticus Pottsworth, until she is shipped off to Ms. Peabonnet's Academy for Girls, a stipulation of her mother's will. At the academy,...
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6-24-2005
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Shep: Loyalty Beyond All Bounds
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Shep: Loyalty Beyond All Bounds Author: Kevin DavisISBN: 978-1-60383-012-6Publisher: Holy Fire Publishing Kevin Davis is a freelance writer, who won a National Pet Talent Television Show with his Border Collie, Kena who goes by the name of “The Soccer Dog”. He started writing screenplays after a Hollywood Manager saw some of his material and told him he had a writing talent. He wrote Shep: Loyalty Beyond All Bounds and has dedicated it to Donald Marshall...
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10-1-2007
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Shining Mountains, Western Sea
Author: Margaret WymanISBN: 1931857016The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews This novel tells the story of the expedition of Lewis and Clark across early1800s America, but not from the usual perspective. It doesn't use the point ofview of Lewis or Clark, but those of John Colter and George Shannon, twoPrivates on the expedition.Colter is an experienced mountain man and hunter, and Shannon is aninexperienced graduate of West Point, who tries,...
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4-25-2006
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Signals
Aurthor:Kevin D. RandleISBN 0-441-01039-3The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsSet in near future Earth, a signal has been receivedfrom space whose origin can't be explained. Theinitial thought is that it comes from one of theplanets or moons in this system, or that it's somepreviously unknown pulsar or other interstellar noisemaker. All that is known about the source of thesignal is that it is 50 light years away, and that itis heading...
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5-18-2005
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Silver Creek
Author: A.H. HoltISBN: 0803496001The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews Several years ago, John Garrett left his father's Arizona cattle ranch, vowingnever to return. Now, a neighboring ranch owner, Tim Hostetter, has beenmurdered, and Garrett cattle have taken over the ranch. An employee of anotherneighboring ranch, owned by Russ Blaine, is found murdered, and some Blainecattle are missing. Garrett's father, Mason, has made no secret of his...
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1-8-2006
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Sleep Before Evening
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Sleep Before Evening Author: Magdalena BallISBN-10: 1904492967 ISBN-13: 978-1904492962 In her debut novel Sleep Before Evening (Bewrite Books, United Kingdom, 2007), Magdalena Ball probes into the psychic maze of teenage delinquency. The book shows the angst of the heroine Marianne Cotton, a 17-year old girl of artistic aptitude, who grapples with the emptiness of life by resorting to drugs and ends up close to death. From the death of her affectionate...
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10-6-2007
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Small Town Punk
Author: John Shepard|ISBN: 0977197255 It was 1984 when my sister came home with a safety pin in her lip and a newly dyed, jet-black, mullet spiked high on her head. She was wearing a black leather jacket and swore me to secrecy about the lip piercing so our mother wouldn’t find out. Although I was only in elementary school at the time I thought it was the coolest goddamn thing I’d ever seen. Many of us remember the 1980s by the horrifying tide of conservatism that swept across the country....
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12-30-2006
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Snapping the String
Click Here To Purchase Snapping The String Author: Robert Paul BlumensteinISBN: 978-1-4327-1520-5Publisher: Outskirts Press
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6-7-2008
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Something That Lasts
Author: James David JordanPublisher: Integrity PublishersISBN: 159145428XThe following review was contributed by: Evelyn Sears: Click here to read more of Evelyn's ReviewsReverend David Parst has it all:
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5-30-2006
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Sons of the Black Hand by Carolyn Kvajic
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshAlexandra Miletic leads a tempestuous life as a journalist in Florida, frustrated by her inability to break in to the big time and unsure whether her loving but slightly dull sports reporter boyfriend is really her future. She knows little of her heritage as the child of a mixed Croatian-Serbian marriage and the main legacy she has is a partiality for slivovitz, cigarettes and passionate arguments. However, covering what threatened to be a...
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10-11-2004
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Star
Author: Tom PetersISBN: 1553521927The following Review was Contributed by: Emily Burson Click Here To Read More Of Emily's Reviews “Star” is an unlikely book about an unlikely hero—a half Lab, half Rottweiler dog. It does not take long to forget that Star is a puppy and instead find her to be a capable, smart, and loveable heroine in the middle of a dark and
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11-16-2005
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States of Grace: a Novel of the Count Saint Germain
Author: Chelsea Quinn YarbroPublisher: TorISBN: 0-765-31390-1The following review was contribubted by: Emily Veinglory: To read more of Emily's reviews CLICK HERE This is the twentieth (yes, twentieth!) novel in the Saint-Germain series. Someyears ago I spent a lot of money to acquire a grubby Australian paperbackversion of the first in the series, 'Hotel Transylvania'. Now I have in myhands a handsome hardback copy of the most recent. Although the books can beread out of order I suggest...
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11-25-2005
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Stelzer’s Travels: A Voyage to a Sensible Planet
Author: Dan HurwitzPublisher: Booklocker.com, IncISBN: 1-59113-669-5The following review was contributed by: Tami Brady & CLICK TO VIEW Tami Brady's ReviewsStelzer’s Travels: A Voyage to a Sensible Planet takes the reader on an incredible journey to the Luxenben. Our host is David Stelzer, an over the hill businessman from the planet Earth. Stelzer’s one true love is money. The pursuit of this one true love takes up most of the man’s life and almost all of his thinking. However, a strange...
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5-23-2005
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Stolen Boy
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Stolen BoyAuthor: Michael MehasPublisher: iUniverse ISBN: 978-0-595-43571-5 Michael Mehas worked as the associate producer on Alpha Dog, a major film that starred Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone. In 1988 Michael received his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law and later graduated from the Academy of Justice School of Advocacy. Michael had a brief period with the Public Defender’s office and private practice where he...
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1-15-2008
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Stormy View
Author: Nikki Leigh ISBN: 1-59088-548-1Stormy View is set in the same small coastal town of Misty View as Nikki Leigh’s first novel, Widow’s Walk. Whereas Widow’s Walk took place in the 19th century, however, Stormy View is set in the 21st century. Kennalyn never knew why her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Stevens, hated her; it was “hate at first sight.” Mrs. Stevens made it clear that Kennalyn was unwelcome and would never be good enough for her son. Kennalyn and David married anyway and...
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3-5-2007
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Story of the Sand
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Story of the SandAuthor: Mark B. PickeringISBN: 978-0-595-47205-5Publisher: iUniverse Mark B Pickering, born in Colorado, grew up in South Florida. He now resides in Atlanta with his beloved dog, Munich. Since fighting in the unforgiving sands of Iraq, Sampson Roy has returned to his home in Georgia. He has changed so much from how he was before he went to serve his country. Where once he was an optimist,
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2-29-2008
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Straying From the Path (a Baker’s Dozen of Fairytale Poems) by Rie Sheridan
The following review was contributed by PAULA BARDELL
In ""Straying From the Path"", Rie Sheridan attempts – 'with the aid of a modern looking glass' - to explore the underlying emotions and motives of traditional fairy tales; those dark little accounts of jealousy, cruelty, fear, loss and vengeance,so popular with children.
There are rumors that /
the test was fixed. /
That the prince slipped /
so much hardware /
in between the mattresses /
that an imbecile /
could have felt...
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1-1-1970
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Succession
Click Here To Purchase Succession Author: Herbert Lobsenz Publisher: Zumaya PublicationsISBN: 978-1-934135-81-5 Being a big animal lover, I absolutely fell in love with the beginning of this novel. Lobsenz writes about a lovely half-shepherd, half-Labrador who belongs to t
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7-2-2008
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Summer Snow
Author: William T.HathawayPublisher: Avatar PublicationsISBN: 0-9738442-3-XThe following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's Reviews Summer Snow is a fiction by William T.Hathaway, a US war veteran and now a peaceactivist. The story takes place in Kyrgyzstan, which has borders with severalother countries including Afghanistan, China and..... A nuclear bomb is stolenand it is suspected that Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations could beafter it for...
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8-8-2006
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Summersville
Author J.M. O’Shaughnessy Publisher: Banda Press International, Inc.ISBN: 978-0-9773175-2-3A magazine is soon flicked through while on a flight or on a train journey, simply because there is no time to read and finish a book. However Banda Press International has successfully filled this gap. They are providing One Flight Fiction, a series of novellas that can be read within a few hours. These books are graded in ‘read time’ ranging from 0-1 hours 1-2 hours and finally 2-3 hours. Even for...
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5-14-2007
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Survival Op: The Fear in the Wilderness (Book one in the Survival Op series)
Click Here To Purchase Survival Op: The Fear in the Wilderness (Book one in the Survival Op series) From Amazon Author: Scott AllenPublisher: iUniverse ISBN: 978-0-595-42062-9 Oklahoma Rising Star Teacher of the Year in 2004, Scott Allen teaches eighth grade English and coaches football, basketball, and track in the Putnam City school district. Allen currently lives in the Oklahoma City area.
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8-10-2007
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Tales From the Brothers Grimm
Click Here To Purchase Tales From the Brothers Grimm Adapted by: Mazan, Cecile Chicault, and Philip Petit Genre:
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8-22-2008
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Tales From the Crypt Graphic Novel:#1 Ghouls Gone Wild!
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Tales From the Crypt Graphic Novel:#1 Ghouls Gone Wild! Publisher: PapercutzISBN – 13: 978-1-59707-082-9Papercutz has dipped into the classic comic vault and brought back the granddaddy of thrills and chills – Tales From the Crypt with the Crypt-Keeper, the Vault-Keeper, and the Old Witch. With the heavy hand of gore horror that has been extremely popular in the recent years, I find it refreshing to take steps back to the basics of horror, where if you do...
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11-9-2007
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Tea and Chocolates
The Following Review Was Contrubuted by:Molly Martin: CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's Reviews Title: Tea and Chocolates Genre: General Fiction Author: Jo Janoski ISBN: 1413725937
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10-24-2004
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TEETH IN A PICKLE JAR
Author: H.B. Milligan Publisher: Hand-in-Hand PublishingISBN: 0-9768994-0-X The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown : Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsMegan needs a change. Her life has just never been easy. Raised by a rigid Italian mamma, married to and divorced from a man she never loved, teaching French for meager pay, and raising a headstrong daughter of her own, she’s never known true risk.H.B. Milligan’s story, TEETH IN A PICKLE JAR, is Megan’s story. Just as...
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1-4-2006
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Terminal 9 -- The McCallister Files Book Three
Author: Patricia H. Rushford and Harrison JamesISBN: 1591452120 The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERE Antonio "Mac" McCallister and new partner, Dana Bennett, are trying to ignore their attraction to each other while solving the murder of Clay Mullins, an 89-year old, retired, wheelchair-bound railroad worker who owned prime riversi
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9-2-2005
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Terminal Vibrato (and other stories)
Click Here To Purchase Terminal Vibrato And Other Stories Author: Stanford PritchardPublisher: Beaufort BooksISBN: 978-0-8253-0513-9 Stanford Pritchard graduated from Haverford College before studying as a Rockefeller Fellowship recipient at t
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8-12-2008
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That Ridiculous Blue Sky
Author: Monica B. MorrisPublisher: iUniverse, Inc.ISBN: 0595384269
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6-6-2006
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The Angelic Prophecy
Author: Robert L. Hecker ISBN: 159426256X Michael Modesto is your average hard-driving rock star who is getting tired ofthe music life style. At a post-concert party, he meets a young woman named MarySchaefer, who doesn't look or act like the typical groupie. Against his betterjudgment, he accompanies her to a local hospital that treats crack babies. Heholds one of the babies, and is suddenly convulsed by extreme pain throughouthis body. When he recovers, he finds that the baby is cured....
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10-28-2006
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The Annotated ‘Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Annotated and edited by David M. ShapardPublished by Anchor Books, a division of Random HouseISBN: 9780-307-27810-4 “Pride and Prejudice” is such a delightful romantic comedy that Jane Austen afficionados never tire of savoring its literary delights. The character-transforming romance between the sparkling Elizabeth Bennet and the aloof but ultimately heroic Fitzwilliam Darcy and the book’s intriguing and often hilarious cast of secondary players have made “Pride and Prejudice” one of the...
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4-20-2007
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The Apparition Trail by Lisa Smedman
The following review was contributed by:
PAUL LAPPIN
This book is set in 1880s Canada, eh? But, in this
world, the moon has acquired a slow orbit on its axis,
due to being struck by a comet several years
previously. Also, the secret of perpetual motion
machines and magnetic locomotives have been discovered
and put to practical use.
Corporal Marmaduke Grayburn of the Northwest Mounted
Police is one of those building the western frontier.
For most of his life, he has been...
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1-1-1970
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The Attack
Author:Yasmina KhadraTranslated from French by John CullenISBN: 0-385-51748-3An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is the focus of Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack. Some attacks are targeted against hate mongers and others take their evil sweet revenge on innocent children.The narrative opens with a missile attack on a fugitive cleric known to spew hatred. The main protagonist, Dr. Amin Jaafari, was at the wrong place at the wrong time and is caught in the inferno! Khadra flashes back to a...
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2-26-2007
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The Augur’s Voice by Kerry Orchard
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Sarah Tims receives word that her father has just died. Debating with herself about whether to ‘go home’ or not Sarah finally decides she should attend the funeral. Sarah’s life at home was not filled with joy following the untimely death of her mother when she was but a child. Sarah goes to the home of her aunt and uncle and disappears. Unbeknownst to Aunt Mary Sarah had come across the membrane separating this world from that of...
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10-11-2004
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The Big Shuffle
Author: Laura PedersenISBN: 0-345-47956-4The Big Shuffle is part of a series of books following the adventures (and misadventures) of Hallie Palmer. This was my first time reading a book from this series and I’m very delighted to have come across this book. It’s difficult to find books written for teenagers, especially teenage girls, which are not filled with trips to the mall, the dilemma of which boy to go to the dance with and all the rest of it. It was wonderful to read a book about a...
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12-20-2006
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The Bitten
Author: Stephen Lee CummingsISBN: 0595399134The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop, To read more of Manuela's reviews CLICK HERE A fresh vampire taleStephen Lee Cummings is a sharp and talented writer. His first novel “The Bitten,” is a contemporary story of vampires, that feed on people’s blood but live like humans. Mark and Jack, the two main characters, were bitten by vampires when they were young and then were
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7-27-2006
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The Blood of Flowers
Author: Anita AmirrezvaniPublisher: Little, Brown and CompanyISBN: 0-316-06576-5In the blink of an eye, everything can change. One tragic event can send lives spiralling down a staircase full of unknowns. In her debut novel, Anita Amirrezvani explores this theory through the eyes of a young Iranian woman living in the 17th century. At the age of 14, the unnamed narrator is looking forward to a new chapter in her life. She is expecting to be married before the year is out and her only troubles...
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7-25-2007
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The Blue Hole by Rolland Love
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinStrange happenings are taking place in the Ozarks. Doc Barnes and his hound Lucky are missing, The Conner Brothers are strange beyond belief and frightening as heck to kids in the area, and Buzzard Thompson has sure enough killed his whole family with a shotgun. Fifteen year old Tommy Benson is determined to face down his fears …… by going camping with younger brother Dub down at Blue Hole. Blue Hole is where Tommy got bitten last year,...
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10-11-2004
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The Booster
Author: Jennifer SolowISBN: 978-0-7432-8183-6The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereJillian Laurel Siegel is a shoplifter, a thief -- a booster. She doesn't do it out of necessity but out of a need to fill a void. It is instant gratification. She sees an item and it almost calls to her -- take me, I am yours. Jillian is in advertising with a make-or-break presentation to stage. She is nervous, but boyfriend Alex assures her that she will...
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8-20-2006
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The Boyfriend List
Author: E. LockhartPublisher: Delacorte Press, a division of Random House Children’s Books IncISBN: 0 385 73206 6
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8-4-2005
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The Bunko Babes
Click Here To Purchase The Bunko Babes Author: Leah Starr BakerISBN: 0978513754 There are three Fs in this heart-warming d
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4-19-2008
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The Bush by Richard Rathwell
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshHank Rousseau, Country Director for an unnamed charity in an unnamed African country, must cope with not just the usual chaos of overseas aid projects but conniving and unbalanced agency workers, witchcraft, revolution and murder. He is reluctantly drawn into the role of aid detective, despite his dearest wish to return home and enjoy the reception-seminar-fundraising circuit he feels is his due. Instead, he must bribe, trek and generally...
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10-11-2004
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THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Author: Andreas Steinhöfel: Translated from the German by Alissa JaffaISBN: 0-385-72943-XPublishers: DELACORTE PRESS May 2005 The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman &CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's Reviews Andreas Steinhöfel has fashioned a somber and enthralling novel for teenagers. THE CENTER OF THE WORLD is set in Visible, a decrepit mansion in the old world, most likely in Germany before...
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6-30-2005
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The Chase for Beauty
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Chase for Beauty Author: Robert MendelsonISBN: 978-1-60037-278-0 Everything in life was good up until that point. His medical career was a success and his family were happy and secure. That is until a so-called friend of his daughter Karen, killed her one night on their back porch while her parents were sleeping upstairs. The Chase for Beauty chronicles
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1-28-2008
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The Clothes on Their Backs
Click Here To Purchase The Clothes on Their BacksAuthor: Linda Grant ISBN: 978-1-84408-541-5Publisher: Virago
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10-12-2008
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The Deal
Click Here To Purchase The Deal Author: Adam GittlinISBN-10: 1933515139 ISBN-13: 978-1933515137 The Deal by Adam Gittlin starts out as the chance of a lifetime…
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9-4-2008
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The Dharma King
Click Here To Purchase The Dharma King Author: B.G. Stroh Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 978-0-595-71690-6 The beginning of this rather impressive novel unfolds as Samuel Falk Simms wakes up in his loft before he beginni
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9-14-2008
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The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer
Click Here To Purchase The Dolphin: Story of a DreamerAuthor: Sergio F. BambarenISBN: 978-1-4019-1896-5
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10-12-2008
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The Drummer Boy
Author: Ted DekkerISBN: 1-4041-0299-X
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10-23-2006
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The Family History
Click Here To Purchase The Family History Author: Jean Jardine MillerPublishers: JM PublishingISBN: 9780973137651 In The Family History, a multigenerational saga of one family’s heritage, author Jean Jardine Miller explores how grief affects two women who become widowed mothers at
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7-9-2008
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THE FINISHING SCHOOL by Muriel SPARK
Reviewed by Lily Azerad-Goldman, artist and writer in Montreal,
Muriel SPARK has added yet another star to her long list of novels with The Finishing School. This 23rd novel or novella as it is only 181 pages long, confirms her secure status among British novelists.
Written in a rapid, economical style, it is fast paced and very comical at times.
As in her well known novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the primary action of the novel takes place in a school setting, College...
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1-1-1970
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The Firebrand by Debra A. Kemp
The following review was contributed by:
TAMY BRADY
The Firebrand is the touching story of Lin, a girl born into slavery on the Isle of Orkney. After the untimely death of her mother, Linn and her older brother Dafydd must take care of themselves. Neither child resembles the typical slave. Dafydd is a gentle caring boy with the soul of a bard. Linn is the brash warrior always finding a way to get herself yet another beating.
They survive the hard work, beatings, and hunger each day by...
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1-1-1970
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The First Sandcastle
Click Here To Purchase The First Sandcastle Author: M.E. DELGADOISBN: 978-0-9801410-0-9 M. E. Delgado’s recent novel, The First Sandcastle, is narrated from the point of
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5-11-2008
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The Fisherman's Son by Marilyn Peake
THE FISHERMAN'S SON REVIEWED BY WARREN THURSTON
The unexpected loss of a parent can shatter a young life. Suddenly a child can find itself thrust into the role of an adult. A whole new world is opened up, one that is full of surprises and grief.
One such victim of this cruel twist of fate was Wiley O'Mara. He was the twelve year old son of Vail O'Mara, who fished for a living when he was not drinking. Wiley could not understand why God chose to take his mother from him, as she was...
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1-1-1970
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The Forbidden Daughter
Click Here To Purchase The Forbidden Daughter Author: Shobhan BantwalAdvance Uncorrected Proof CopyISBN-13: 978-0-7582-2030-1ISBN-10: 0-7582-2030-8 Publisher: Kensington
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8-4-2008
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The Forgery of Venus: A Novel
Click Here To Purchase The Forgery of Venus Author: Michael Gruber ISBN: 978-0-06-087448-3Publisher: William Morrow
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5-1-2008
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The Front Porch Prophet
Author: Raymond L. AtkinsISBN: 978-193383638-6Publisher: Medallion Press Raymond L. Atkins’ stories have been published in Christmas Stories from Georgia, The Lavender Mountain and Fire Review amongst others. His columns regularly appear in the Rome News Tribune and Memphis Downtowner Magazine.
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8-25-2008
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The Gatherer
Click Here To Purchase The Gatherer Author: Jerry BayneISBN: 978-1419687365
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4-13-2008
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The God Tools
Author: Gary WilliamsPublisher: Infinitypublishing.comISBN: 0741431297 The following review was contributed by: Evelyn Sears. Click here to read more of Evelyn's reviews.
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5-21-2006
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The Graveyard Mystery by Jeanine Berry
The following review was contributed by:
WARREN THURSTON
REVIEW
Growing up is a difficult part of life. The passing of each year places more pressure on children to act responsibly. All around them children find that different groups expect them to conform to the norm.
First there is one's parents to contend with. They expect their offspring to be model citizens that obey all of the family's rules. It does not occur to them that their behavioral standards may be too high....
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1-1-1970
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The Hero Perseus
Title: The Hero Perseus Author: Robyn DiTocco and Tony DiToccoISBN: Hardcover 0-9723429-0-7ISBN: Soft cover 0-9723429-1-5Genre: Young AdultThe Following Review Was Contributed by: Molly Martin & CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's ReviewsPJ, Percy John, Allen’s comfortable life ends suddenly when his father is lost to an unexpected accident. PJ is one unhappy teenager when his mother Dana takes him with her to the small boring town of Athenia.Back home in New Jersey he had a cute girl friend...
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11-27-2004
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The Hero Perseus
Author: Robyn and Tony DiToccoISBN: 0972342915Genre: Young adult, AdventureThe following review was contributed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsPJ Allen has moved with his mother to a small town in northern America after the death of his father. While he is coping with
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12-3-2004
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The Highlander by Elaine Coffman
The following review was contributed to Bookpleasures by Amanda Kilgore REVIEW Tavish Graham believes he has found a dead woman, when he discovers a naked body lying in his way. However, Sophie d'Almbert is very much alive and intriguing. She is also an unwanted problem, leading him to pass her over to his brother James, the Earl of Monleigh. James is not as turned off by the lovely foreigner as his brother. In fact, he finds himself very attracted to her. Her memory has been lost, and for...
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10-19-2004
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The House in Morocco
Click Here To Purchase The House in Morocco Author: Rosalind BrackenburyISBN: 1-902881-76-1Publisher: The Toby Press LLC Rosalind Brackenbury, author of The House in Morocco was born in London and grew up in the south of England. She has lived in Scotland, France and now lives in Key We
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7-2-2008
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The Lady of Two Lands by Elizabeth Delisi
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Artist/illustrator Hattie Williams has the unsettling feeling that someone is watching her as she strives to produce illustrations for a book Thomas Harris, museum Egyptian Curator has ready for publishing. The ancient female Pharaoh Hatshepsut is giving Hattie particular problems. Hattie’s drawings are lovely, however the pictures she has produced are flat and lacking life. Tom allows Hattie use of Hatshepsut’s falcon necklace to help...
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10-11-2004
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The Last Cato
Author: Matilde AsensiISBN: 978-0-06-082857-8 The following review was contributed by: Sue Vogan, Writer & Author of NCO-No Compassion Observed: To read more of Sue's reviews Click HereDr. Ottavia Salina works as a paleographer for the Vatican and the work keeps her in the secret recesses below ground. She is a stickler for accuracy and perfectionism as she preserves the most sacred documents and artifacts and will not tolerate anyone who is negligent. But, of course, that could be...
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5-13-2006
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The Legend of Juggin' Joe
The Legend of Juggin' JoeISBN: 1411625889 Joe Jeckel was born tenth out of eleven children on a hardscrabble farm in thehills of upstate New York. His parents, Doc and Isabel, didn't have much, butthey managed. Joe was one of those who had a real talent for getting in trouble.One day, in his early teens, Joe gathers up some jugs to hold what comes out ofthe family still, a popular pastime. The only way to determine if a jug is emptyor full is to blow across the top of it, which Joe...
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10-29-2006
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The Legend of Ron Anejo by Ed Teja
The following review was contributed by:
SHERRY L.STOLL
The Legend of Ron Anejo by Ed Teja is a Caribbean adventure told in the first person narrative. Captain Ron Anejo lives on a shoestring as he leads our narrator and a few other would be smugglers up and down the Caribbean on his rickety boat. He’s in total bliss even though all he has is bad luck:
“Remember when you told me that it was nice that we’d hit rock bottom because we couldn’t sink any lower?”
Ron nodded, still...
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1-1-1970
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The Legend of Ron Anejo by Ed Teja
The reviewer of the following review is Warren Thurston,author of children's books, who lives in Australia.
You can find out more about Warren by clicking on his
his site
The Caribbean has always brought to mind scenes of tropical beauty. It is a place where the free spirit of the early buccaneers lingers. Somewhere that one can be the master of one's destiny and leave the hassles of the modern world behind.
So it was with the great Ron Anejo and his shipboard mate, the narrator...
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1-1-1970
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The Legend of Zoey
Author: Candie MoonshowerISBN: 0-385-73280-5Publisher: Delacorte Press I don’t fall asleep while reading. When I get sleepy, I put the book aside, turn out the light, and pull up the covers. How anyone can fall asleep with a book in their hands and the light on is beyond me—or at least it use to be. Candie Moonshower’s The Legend of Zoey was so compelling that I simply couldn’t bear to put it down. I knew I was growing sleepy, but I couldn’t stop reading. So finally, I have the experience of...
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4-29-2007
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The Letter Writer
Author: Robert Mercer-NairneISBN: 0974814105The following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click Here To Read Emily's ReviewsCan You Really Get Rich Quick?“The Letter Writer” is about all good things…money, love, the pursuit of happiness…and also about the pa
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11-29-2005
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The Loch
Author: Steve AltenHardcover: 496 pagesPublisher: Tsunami Books (May 1, 2005)ISBN: 0976165902
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6-2-2005
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The Lonely Impulse by Jim Cort
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin The man known as Milo Costigan sat in a black bar in Newark when Julia Malcom, special assistant for security for Ackerdyne Industries enlists him to recover something stolen out at Black River nuclear power plant. Julia’s boss, Jason Ackerdyne, owns the plant. As a rule whites only came to the bar by accident. JoMack the bartender has known Costigan for a while. William Dowd of the Provisional Irish Republic Army is the thief. Costigan...
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10-11-2004
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The Looming Fog
Author: Rosemary EsehaguPublisher: Oge Creation BooksISBN: 1-933496-00-2Who we are is often directly linked to our gender, so how different would we be if that were stripped away from us and we were treated as less than human because we were neither male nor female?In ‘The Looming Fog’ by Rosemary Esehagu, the narrator is an intersexual who was abandoned at the age of seven and left to fend for itself in the rural Nigerian village of Hidaya where no one will even acknowledge its...
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3-27-2007
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The Lucky One
Click Here To Purchase The Lucky OneAuthor: Nicholas SparksISBN: 9780446579933 Publisher: Hachette Book Group (Grand Central Publishing) I found The Lucky One, by Nicholas Sparks, captivating. Nicholas Sparks is a #1 New York Times best-selli
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10-17-2008
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The Master of God's Domain
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Master of God's Domain Author: Norman Dubeski, Ph.D.ISBN : 978-0-9782026-1-3Norman Dubeski's, The Master of God's Domain, is the story of Tristam Wagner, an egotistical Medical intern. Tristam hates medicine, but has decided it is a necessary evil in order to live the life he wants. Firstly, it pays well, which allows him to afford certain luxuries he missed growing up in a single parent, blue-collar home. Secondly, and more importantly, it helps to...
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11-7-2007
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The Mills of God
Author: Justin SmithPublished by Silver Leaf BooksTo be published in 2006The following review was contributed by: Mary Simmons: To read more of Mary's Reviews CLICK HERECombining corporate espionage, intrigue and murder with poetry, art and the enduring strength of the human soul, 'The Mills of God' is a pleasure to read.Justin Smith's suspenseful tale is woven around the theme of reincarnation and the nature of corruption. Clever, witty and at times shocking, the novel is set in the...
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6-12-2005
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The Monk Upstairs
Click Here To Purchase The Monk Upstairs Author: Tim FarringtonISBN: 978-0-06-081516-5Publisher: Harper Collins Tim Farrington is the author of Lizzie’s War and also The Monk D
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3-26-2008
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The Monk’s Son
Author: W.R.Wilkerson IIIPublisher: Ciro’s Books
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6-23-2007
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THE MONSTER’S MIND
Author: A.J. Conley Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN: 1-4137-6572-6 The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown & Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's Reviews
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4-21-2005
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The Muse and the Mechanism
Author: Josh Davis: ISBN: 0974726176 The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews This is the story of Charlie Fell, a twenty somethingwriter living in the small town of Alton. It's arather grubby sort of life, watching his friendssmoke, drink and use various other illicit substances.James, one of Charlie's housemates, is a fall-downdrunk who imprints the outline of his body inCharlie's ceiling because of one of his falls. Charliefinds...
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7-8-2005
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The Oculi Incident
Author: Regis Schilken Publisher: ISBN: 978-0-9764981-3-1The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Murray Somerset: Click Here To Read Jennifer's Reviews: In the vein of The Davinci Code and genera of religious thrillers it seemed tohave spawned, Regis Schilken’s book, The Oculi Incident, fits very nicely into it.The story starts out with a mysterious murder and disappearance at amonastery to which we jump forward seven years to a seemly unrelated miracle atthe town’s church. It...
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7-28-2006
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The Odyssey Gene
Author: Kfir LuzzattoISBN: 1590804732With a title of The Odyssey Gene, I was anticipating a novel based on gene science (genetics). What I wasn't expecting was a work of science fiction with undertones of politics, passion, and prejudice.New Nations Organization programmer John Hektor is selected for a promotion -- once he passes the mandatory DNA test. He us stunned when he learns that he has failed. He has tested D-positive. There will be no promotion. Worse yet, Maya, his girlfriend leaves...
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11-14-2006
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The Organ Grinder and the Monkey
Click Here To Purchase The Organ Grinder and the Monkey Author: Sam Moffie Publisher: Xlibris ISBN: 978-1-4363-2775-6 Carmen Antonucci was a veteran of World War II. Being a family man he enjoyed taking his grandson, Seymour, for walks. He would squeeze Seymour’s hand if he saw anything he didn’t like happening on the streets of Steubenville, Ohio. He couldn’t understand why t
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8-21-2008
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The Other Side of the Mountain by John Braswell
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinWhen Apache Jim Callingbird, special forces Vietnam veteran, finds his family dead he knows he must avenge their deaths. And avenge them he does before setting in play a series of not all unexpected adventures for himself. Followed by local Sheriff Coontz who will not cross reservation lines Callingbird begins a climb up the mountain he hopes will bring him relief if not freedom from the memory of his dead loved ones that he cannot escape....
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10-11-2004
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The Outlander
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Gil AdamsonPublisher: House of Anansi PressASIN: B000RW4C1V
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7-18-2007
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The Ovum Factor (A Novel)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Ovum Factor (A Novel)Author: Marvin L. Zimmerman ISBN: 978-1-933538-99-0Publisher: Synergy BooksMarvin L. Zimmerman is a businessman, publisher and author. He has always been a bit of a fantasist; one of his dreams, in particular, is the genesis for this book. So intrigued by his dream, Zimmerman woke his wife and recounted it to her on the spot. The next morning, Zimmerman could still c
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3-18-2008
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The Painter
Author: Adam SigalPublisher: Booksurge PublishingISBN: 1-4196-0276-4The following review was contributed by: Theresa Derwin: Click here to read more of Theresa’s reviewsAtmospheric, undeniably well written and full of stunning imagery, The Painter is not for your casual light-hearted reader. There are very few laughs to be found in Sigal’s debut novel, and those that are found, are covered in a dark, wry veneer. Sigal’s novel is witty, but at the same time, can tumble the reader into a...
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9-9-2005
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The People of the Sea
Author: Scott MarcanoISBN: 0-7414-2730-3The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"The People of the Sea," a face-paced novel by screenwriter Scott Mar
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1-19-2006
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The People’s Republic of Desire
Author: Annie Wang: ISBN: 0060782773The following review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsChina has nearly always been squeamish about sex. Historical shyness and itstwin prurience were overlaid by the heavy hand of the Chinese Communist Partywhich defeminised generations of Chinese women.One of the more interesting effects of the opening of the Chinese economy and the influence of globalisation has been the flowering of the expression of female sexuality for...
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6-7-2006
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The Philosopher’s Apprentice
Click Here To Purchase The Philospher's Apprentice Author: James MorrowPublisher: Harper CollinsISBN: 978-0-06-135144-0 Londa Sabachthani is seventeen, brilliant and thoroughly amoral.
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7-28-2008
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The Plated Heart
Author: Diane Goodman: ISBN: 0-88748-452-2Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.The following review was contributed by: Penny Watkins.The Plated Heart is a beautiful, surreal book. Technically a collection of short stories, the vignettes are tied together by place (Miami) and food. Each character is a preparer or consumer of food. Claire is a caterer at an uneasy family celebration. Janine is learning to cook so she can take care of her dying grandmother. Belle eats her...
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5-31-2006
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The Poison Plum
Author: Les RobertsISBN: 13: 978 - 0 - 9789659 - 0 - 7 The Poison Plum is presented as fiction but yet the underlying basic message of the book is very true to life. This is a book that everyone needs to read. You don't have to be a Lyme disease patient to appreciate this gripping tale of political intrigue. It is most definitely a page turner and it was very difficult to put down. The book begins in Alabama, back in the 1940s, where the famous Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment took place. ...
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10-16-2007
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The Power of the Dark Goddess (and other stories)
Author: George J. BryjakPublisher: Myopic Moose PressISBN: 978-1-60402-477-7George J. Bryjak moved to the Adirondack Region of New York state with his wife Diane after teaching sociology at the University of San Diego for twenty-four years. His short plays have been performed in New York, California, Connecticut and Rhode Island. He has been the co-author of sociology text books, many articles and many pieces in various newspapers across the country. Here is George’s first collection of short...
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10-23-2007
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The President's Parasite
Author: Jim MusgraveISBN: 0977650367 The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop, To read Manuela's reviews CLICK HEREA satiric look into the human mindThe President’s Parasite is a collection of short stories in which the author creates a paradox of the human life. Throughout the entire book, Jim Musgrave continuously makes fun at human strange behaviors and oddities. He mocks America’s worldwide politics and its president, the Nazis and their beliefs, the war in Iraq and how much...
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9-6-2006
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THE RED CHURCH by Scott Nicholson
The following review was written by STERLING PEARCE. You can learn more about the reviewer by clicking on her name. To read the interview with the author click HERE Ronnie Day has enough to worry about for a 13 year-old boy. His parents are always fighting, and he spends most of his time trying not to look stupid in front of Melanie Ward. Why does he have to put up with his pest of a brother, Tim, wandering off through the graveyard of the Red Church? All his life Ronnie has been hearing...
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10-19-2004
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The Religious & Other Fictions
Author: Christina Milletti ISBN NUMBER: 0-88748-453-0The following review was contributed by: Deborah AugustinDespite the different settings, the different characters, The Religious and Other Fictions are perfect together in this collection. Each story asks the question, what is fiction and what is fact? One person’s truth is another’s fiction and vice versa. The title itself is apt, encapsulating the essence of the stories, fictions.
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6-8-2006
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The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg
Click Here To Purchase The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg Publisher: Aflame BooksISBN: 10-0955233992: 13-978-0955233999
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6-5-2008
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The Root Of All Evil: The Almighty $ Some Pray For It...Others Pray To It
Author: Joylynn M. JosselISBN 0-9706726-9-1The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews. I liked it. I shouldn’t have, but I did. I shouldn’t have liked it because I’m white, a man, and old. The author is a black woman, probably young, who speaks in a lingo (black street talk) that I don’t completely understand. But I sure understood the explicit sex talk and graphic sex scenes. The three women friends in this book...
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4-1-2005
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THE SEVENTH JEWEL
Author: J. J. Pritchard Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.ISBN: 0-595-33674-4 The following review was contributed by: Emily Shaffer: To read more of Emily's ReviewsClick HereDeep in the heart of 15th century Peru, a young Incan girl is taken up the highest mountain to pray for the end of a disastrous drought. At the top, however, she discovers her true fate – to be buried alive as a sacrifice to the gods. Centuries later, in present-day
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6-29-2005
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The Shadow Year
Click Here To Purchase The Shadow Year Author: Jeffrey Ford ISBN: 978-0-06-123152-0 Publisher: William Morrow What a brilliant, atmospheric and thought provoking read about a young boy growing up i
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4-29-2008
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The Shadows of Nikki (Based on a true story)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Shadows of Nickki Author: Christine D. PattersonISBN: 978-1-4327-0833-7A long time ago there was a young child called Nikki who was adopted in the early sixties at a very young age by seemingly caring foster parents. Nikki was placed in their care amongst many other children she later called her brothers and sisters. She had no idea of the horrors that were to happen. Author Christine Patterson enters her friend Nikki’s childhood.
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10-28-2007
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The Smart One and the Pretty One
Click Here To Purchase The Smart One and the Pretty One Author: Claire Lazebnik Publisher: Hachette Book Group (5 Spot) ISBN-13: 978-0446582063
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10-23-2008
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The Sons of Maeve Trilogy
Authors: Dave & Rose Cox ISBN: 1420808141The following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click Here To Read Emily's ReviewsThe Sons of Maeve Banish the Winters BlahsIf you have a child (or spouse) that has fallen in love with high adventure books such as “The Lor
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11-29-2005
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The Sons of Maeve: Aarrawn's Labyrinth
Authors: Dave & Rose CoxISBN: 1425941540 The following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click Here To Read Emily's ReviewsThe Twisting, Tempting Journey ContinuesAuthors Dave & Rose Cox created a magical and mystical world in their first book, The Sons of Maeve Trilogy. That world is furthered along in Aarrawn’s Labyrinth, the spectacular follow-up to the original stories of Thann & Gimble. Heroes Thann & Gimble literally fell into another world at the start of the...
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9-3-2006
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The Temptress Ariel
Author: Greg BauderPublisher: Publish AmericaISBN 1-4137-3296-8The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews This story provides an insightful look into lives of the mentally ill. In this short story, Don is a moderate schizophrenic but he is stable and i
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2-23-2005
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The Temptress Ariel
Author: Greg Bauder Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN: 1-4137-3296-8 Don fell in love with Ariel the very first minute he saw her. With her long black hair and easy smile, she was a beauty like no other he’d seen. He wanted to kiss that smile, to love the moody new girl in the psychiatric boarding home.
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4-21-2005
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The Time Has Come - The Book of Grace - Part One
Author: Barbara Oleynick ISBN: 978-0-9755922-5-0 and 0-9755922-5-4 Publisher: Synergy BooksThe following review was contributed by: S.V. SWAMY: CLICK TO VIEW S.V. Swamy's ReviewsThe photograph of a small baby with chubby cheeks and beautiful eyes calls toyou from the front cover of this book. If you are called or destined to respond,you will read this book, like I did. This books gets to the core of the reader,the heart. It certainly did to me. Made me cry at several places with itsintense...
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11-13-2005
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THE VISION:Book One in the Green Stone of Healing Series
Author: C. L. Talmadge Publisher: Quiet Storm PublishingISBN: 0-9744084-9-2 The following review was contributed by Emily ShafferA long time ago, right here on Earth, a civilization not much different from our own existed on the small island of Azgard. Unfortunately, their problems are all too familiar as well: war, racism, sexism, power plays, unrequited love, and plenty of dangerous secrets. In this society, the dark-skinned Toltecs are the ruling class, the light-skinned Turanians...
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5-29-2005
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The Warm Wind of Palestine
Author: Scott S. CryeISBN: 193207757X (fiction - 9/10)The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen & CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's ReviewsJenna Haabeb is a strong-willed young woman living inthe middle American town of Springfield. She is ahighly respected doctor and medical researcher workingat the local hospital. However, she is also aPalestinian in post-9/11 America, a place of hostilityand suspicion toward an unknown part of the world.She has made many friends,...
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4-14-2005
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THE WAY THE CROW FLIES by Ann-Marie MacDonald
The following review was contributed by:
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Governor-General’s award-winning playwright and the author of “Fall on your Knees,” which won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book and an Oprah Book Club pick. Apparently, her new novel follows in the inevitable path of success.
You will never look at a crow the same way after reading this author’s newest work of fiction, The Way The Crow Flies.
This long-awaited novel is an intense...
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1-1-1970
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THE WEIGHT OF THE SKY
Lisa Ann SandellISBN: 0-670-06028-3The following review was contributed by: Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's ReviewsTHE WEIGHT OF THE SKY is written solely in free verse- a popular form of poetry that does not rhyme nor does it have a meter. Its popularity stems from the belief that free verse is poetry without rules. Moreover, it is different from prose or poetry in the arrangement of carefully chosen words into verses. Lisa Ann Sandell’s debut novel, THE WEIGHT OF...
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4-27-2006
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The Wilderness Within by Barbara Spring
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Poems and travel stories ranging from Great Lakes, to Africa, Galapagos and Mexico dot one hundred pages of this work produced by author, professor, featured writer and poet Barbara Spring. Bear Woman, Celtic Mirror, Whale Songs, Persephone Emerges, Prairie Child, On Puget Sound, Queen Asa’s Viking Ship, He was a Farm Boy Once and Forget me Nots and Otters are some of the titles to entice the reader. Grizzly dancing to tambourine, wild...
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10-11-2004
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The Winners Circle
Author: Christopher KlimISBN: 193343502XThe following review was contributed by: Emily Burson: Click Here To Read More of Emily's Reviews What if Winning the Lottery Twice Is the Worst Thing That Happened to You?“The Winner’s Circle” is an interesting story. Protagonist Jerry Nearing is barely scraping by. His house is in shambles, his wife is angry at him, and he knows the best money he can find means that he has to shovel his way into a pile of fresh manure. When a nest of rattle snakes...
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1-10-2006
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The Wish Club
Author: Kim StricklandThree Rivers PressCrown Publishing GroupISBN: 030735282XISBN-13: 9780307352828 Wish Club is a zany and witty story that you are sure to love. It involves five women, Claudia, Lindsay, Gail, Mara and Jill who are members of a book club. Their book club seems just like any other book club, five women sitting around talking, drinking wine, and even discussing the book they have been reading. Things in their book club had been going rather well until one of the women...
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4-17-2007
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The Year I Lost My Popularity
Author: Leigh-Ann Kidwell Publisher: PublishAmerica ISBN: 1413783767 The following review was contributed by: *Jennifer Murray Somerset: Click Here To Read Jennifer's ReviewsLeigh-Ann Kidwell’s book, The Year I Lost My Popularity tells the story ofElizabeth, who just two weeks prior to her thirteenth birthday moves to a newtown about an hour away from everyone and everything she has known all her life.As with all changes in life, especially ones during the teen years, it’s a hardone to...
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10-13-2005
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The Year of the Monkey: A Novel
Click Here To Purchase The Year Of The Monkey Author: William Lewis ISBN-10: 0595475841 ISBN-13: 978-0595475841William Lewis has written a very solid novel with The Year of the Monkey. It is set in the backdrop of early 1968 before the Tet Offensive and features the usual list of Vietnam War story characters: The veteran who gets returned to the front after have tasted life again b
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8-23-2008
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The Year the Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs and Elivis Presley
Author: Diane ThomasISBN: 1-59264-122-9The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsDiane Thomas' "The Year the Music Changed" is an emotionally moving novel that explores the issues of individuality, personal gift, loneliness and race all within the context of that favorite haunt of literary writers: the American South. But the South of this novel isn't the decayed Confederacy of Harper Lee and William Faulkner. Though...
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6-1-2006
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Their Way Home (My adventures as a Ghost Guide)
Click Here To Purchase Their Way Home Author: Melissa Van RossumPublisher: MetaPublishingISBN 13: 978-0-9792265-3-3ISBN 10: 0-9792265-3-8 I’ve always had a keen interest for things paranormal so this book appealed to me on many levels. Melissa Van Rossum is a physic who has seen ghosts for most of her life. Growing up be
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9-24-2008
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This is the Place: An Award-Winning Novel about Love, Prejudice and Redemption Set in Utah in the 50s. by Carolyn Howard-Johnson
The following review was contributed by Rolf Gompertz who is the author of eight books, including, Abraham, the Dreamer/An Erotic and Sacred Love Story, a provocative, biblical novel about Abraham, his wife, Sarah, and “the other woman,” Hagar. REVIEW This is the Place is a magnificent book and Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a magnificent writer. Her book is a joy to read. It is a work of literary art. It has something to say. It is an important book. It is a book that touches the heart, mind and...
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10-19-2004
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Thran Reborn by H. David Blalock
The following review was contributed by: PAUL LAPPEN Andalarn Thran, head of House Thran, is attempting to reestablish his family on the island of Adylonis. The House was exiled to the mainland several hundred years previously when it took sides against another human House who had attacked a race of dwarves called the Telmet. Andalarn is not the hero type, being a merchant with five children. With help from an elven healer named Baliak, he appeals to the Telmet for help in restoring House...
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10-19-2004
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Three 1-Act Plays
Author: Tom AnselmoISBN: 0977079422 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read Karim's reviews CLICK HERE The second volume of Tom Anselmo plays Three 1-Act Plays (Red Brindle Press, New York, 2006) is not a series like the first one Gail’s Place by virtue of the same protagonist and unity of place, but by the common motif resolution of self’s internal conflicts. As Anselmo puts it in his preface to the plays ‘I write about people who are on the...
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4-16-2006
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Too Many Secrets by Linda Guyan
The following review was contributed by:
TAMI BRADY
The town of Pinewood is full of secrets. The strangest of these secrets are those surrounding the haunting of the Carlisle Cabin. Known as a party cabin in the seventies, the Carlisle Cabin's reputation suddenly and forever changes when the Carlisle's teenage son Alex goes missing. The last place Alex had been seen was the Carlisle Cabin. Most people in the town thought the boy had simply ran away from home but others knew better....
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1-1-1970
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Touch of Fate
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Touch of FateAuthor: Christine AmsdenISBN: 1-931201-97-8 Touch of Fate is a paranormal story about a woman named Marianne who has an extraordinary gift – a gift of foretelling the future. When she can’t change the course of events, she feels powerless and as though it runs her life. After moving to St. Louis because of the signs, she meets a group of women who share her gift. When one of the women in the circle gets killed, a good friend, she tries to...
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10-22-2007
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Treasure of the Amazon
Author: Pinkie ParanhaISBN: 1-59414-430-3 The following review was contributed by: Amy Huffman Cloer: To read more of Amy's reviews CLICK HEREPinkie Paranha’s novel Treasure of the Amazon seemed like the perfect book to take the the beach. Beach reads need to have and easy style, a fluid yet streamlined plot, interesting characters, and an element of fantasy. A beach read should not be complex, overly thought-provoking, pessimistic or in any way cause the reader to evaluate her...
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5-29-2006
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Under the Glacier
Author: Halldór LaxnessISBN: 1-4000-3441-8 For the life of me I can’t remember what led me to it. I’m sure it started out innocently enough…a title sounded interesting…someone recommended a book…I can’t be entirely sure. But, two years later I found myself at cocktail party, babbling endlessly, in a marginally-coherent fashion, about Scandinavian literature. I’m well aware that enjoying Scandinavian fiction is the type of idiosyncrasy you would expect from a pretentious asshole....
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12-30-2006
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Unseen Forces
Author: Ed KovacsPublisher: Ardelyan PressISBN: 0-9762097-0-5 The following review was contributed by Tami Brady & CLICK TO VIEW Tami Brady's Reviews For millennia, secret societies have been protecting the secret to immortality. For nearly as long, power hungry officials and corrupt leaders have been trying to uncover this secret. A fringe archaeologist, Dr. S
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4-13-2005
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Unwell
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Unwell Author: Leslie LiptonISBN: 0-595-85926-7This is Ms. Lipton’s debut novel – I can barely wait for her next. It is well written about a subject I have only read about in medical books (most of which are without feeling and utterly scientific). Lipton brings the emotions associated with this disease to your doorstep and crosses the threshold with a realistic inside look as this devastating illness – the world of Anorexia Nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa is an...
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9-11-2007
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Vanished
Author: Ward TanneberPublishers: Kregel Publications ISBN: 0825438500 The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore
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4-14-2005
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Vencil
Click Here To Purchase Vencil Author: Frank ShimaISBN: 0-87839-224-6Vencil is the name James (or Jim) in Czechoslovakian. Not knowing this before I read the book, the title seemed strange to me; nor could I get an idea of what to expect based on the blurry picture of old men on the front cover.
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7-15-2008
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Vigilante Virus by R Leland Waldrip
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinFirst it is sexual deviates, rapists, child molesters and the like who begin to become diseased with a particularly virulent strain of the mumps. Bill Etelmeyer, investigative officer with the US Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, has his work cut out for him with this mysterious case. As they each recover the afflicted men find they have been effectively castrated and are not particularly interested in sexual liason with anyone. Hard...
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10-11-2004
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Virus Games
Click Here To Purchase Virus Games Author: G.L SheerinISBN: 978-1-934454-04-6 Publisher: Synergy Books G.L Sheerin is an information t
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5-5-2008
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Voices Airy by Catherine Karp
The following review was contributed by:
TAMY BRADY
The year is 1918. World War One is rumored to end any day now. The influenza is running rampant. Death and chaos is a common companion. For seventeen-year-old Lucy Crumb, life has never been more uncertain. Her father unexpectedly died of a heart attack.
Now she would be living with her older sister whom she hadn't seen for a number of years, since her sister was sent away to a home for unwed mothers. There were other rumors about...
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1-1-1970
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Walking Away From Texas
Author: Sharon Bradley Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 110 pages Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (October 31, 2004) ISBN: 0595326722
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7-6-2005
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Wave Watcher
Author: Craig Alan JohnsonISBN: 0-87743-707-6The following review was contributed by: Jim Curtiss: Click Here To Read More Of Jim’s ReviewsThrough journaling, writers not only find and perfect their voice, theyalso discover inspiration, which is apparently what happened to CraigAlan Johnson. So valuable is journaling to Johnson that Wave Watcher,his first novel, presents us with the journal of Ray, a gifted 11-yearold boy who is attempting to make sense of the patterns he believes rulehis...
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8-1-2005
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What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
The Following review was contributed by: John Walsh“I was hoping for some breakfast,” she said. “Breakfast has been served,” he answered, without looking up. “You’re too late.” “I could do myself some toast: if there’s a toaster somewhere I could use.” He stared at her as if she were a madwoman. “I’m afraid that won’t be possible,” he said. “There are cold kidneys left. That’s all. And some sweetbreads.” Living away from one’s home country, it is salutary at times to be reminded of all the...
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10-11-2004
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What Night Brings
Author: Carla Trujillo ISBN: 1880684942 Set in the Bay Area of the 1960s, this novel is narrated by Marci Cruz, aneleven-year-old Latina who fervently wishes for two things. The first is for Godto turn her into a boy, because she has something of a crush on Raquel, herteenaged neighbor; the second is for Eddie, her father, to disappear.A couple of times a week, Eddie beats Marci, and Corin, her younger sister, forsome infraction, usually with his leather belt. It always occurs when...
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10-25-2006
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When Crickets Cry
Author: Charles MartinISBN 1-5955-4054-7The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN: Click to view Shelly's reviews.This is a book about the heart—both physical and spiritual. The setting is today. The narrator in first person is a heart transplant surgeon. He is a miracle worker. But he couldn’t save his wife’s heart problem. She dies. He falls apart and retires incognito to northwest Georgia and builds a house on a lake.He does no more surgeries and disappears from...
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1-14-2006
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When Shadows Fall
Click Here To Purchase When Shadows Fall Author: Kate FellowesISBN: 9781934041222 Publisher: Swimming Kangaroo Books After reading the book,
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3-29-2008
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When the Bluebonnets Come
Author: John J. DwyerPublisher: Bluebonnet PressISBN: 978-0-9768224-1-7 Young Katie Shanahan’s life is idyllic until the day her father sets out in search of a rabid dog and encounters several men discussing a mysterious business deal. Upon spying him, the men assure him that their business venture will bring plenty of jobs for folks in Cotton Patch, Texas. At a town meeting a few days later, the men reveal their plans to establish a casino, race track and “Family Entertainment Complex” on...
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5-12-2007
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When the Nile Runs Red
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: DiAnn Mills:Publisher: Moody Publishers:ISBN: 0-8024-9911-2; 13: 978-0-8024-9911-0 It is July 2005. Sudan has endured more than twenty years of civil war, and every city, town and village across the country has suffered. But hope is alive now; the warring factions of the north and south have signed a peace treaty and a southern hero, John Garang, has agreed to be vice-president of the northern-based government. Larson Farid, an American doctor,...
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7-26-2007
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Whispers of Inspiration
Author: Darlene Manchester and Steven ManchesterThe following review was contributed by: Jim M. Curtiss Whispers of Inspiration, by Darlene Manchester and Steven Manchester, isan uplifting collection of spiritually-oriented writings. Intended to bea compilation of today's finest writers and poets, authors of all levelswere invited to share their tales and poems to illustrate the myriadaspects of the human condition, including love, family, and hope. Andwhile topics such as death, grief and...
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4-21-2005
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White As Snow
Author: Donna Westover GallupISBN: 0975961942The following review was contributed by: Manuela Pop: To read more of Manuela's reviews CLICK HEREAn inspiring story, giving us hope and strength “White as Snow” is a story about a ten year old boy, Charlie who lives with his grandpa in a ranch far away from anywhere, near the Rocky Mountains. His grandpa falls sick with pneumonia and rests unconscious in bed for weeks. Having no one in the world to care for him and help him out, Charlie has to...
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7-23-2006
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Who Killed Andrei Warhol
Click Here To Purchase Who Killed Andrei Warhol Author: Alexander J. MotylISBN: 978-0-9795852-0-3Publisher: Seven Locks Press
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4-14-2008
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Widow’s Walk
Author: Nikki Leigh ISBN: 1-59431-343-1It’s 1841, and Lizbeth Sullivan is putting together the finishing touches for her wedding to her beloved William, which is only a few days away. Lizbeth’s father, Captain Sullivan, is at sea on the last fishing trip of the season. A violent storm comes up, but Lizbeth is sure that the Captain will get his crew safely home; he’s the most experienced and most careful ship’s captain in the area. She’s sure he’ll be home soon—until she goes up to the...
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3-5-2007
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Withdrawal
Author: Michael HoffmanISBN: 1403369402The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews Set in present-day Canada, somewhere near Toronto, this is the story of LenFishman. In his mid-40s, he has returned home after 25 years of aimlesswandering, mostly in Africa. He lives with his mother, in the house in which hegrew up, sleeping on a couch in what used to be his room.Len discovers that Saul, his father, was an amateur philosopher who, perhaps,was not...
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1-16-2006
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Wives and Sisters
Author: Natalie R. CollinsPublisher: St. Martin’s PressISBN: 0312334281Genre: Adult/Fiction/Suspense
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2-26-2005
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Wives and Sisters
Author: Natalie R. CollinsPublisher: St. Martin’s PressISBN: 0312334281Adult/Fiction/Suspense
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4-5-2005
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Wolf's Rite by Terry Persun
Reviewed by Paul Lappen
Llewellyn ""Lew"" Smith is a hot-shot New York
advertising executive. He is also obnoxious,
controlling, manipulative and willing to walk over
anyone to get what he wants. In short, he is a
thoroughly dislikable person, the sort of person who
deserves to die in the early part of the novel.
One day, his boss sends him to New Mexico to do some
pro bono advertising work for a group of Navajo
indians. When he arrives, a couple of other Native
Americans,...
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1-1-1970
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Working the Hard Side of the Street by Kirk Alex
The following review was contributed by
PAUL LAPPEN
This is a group of short stories and poems about life
in present-day Hollywood, as seen from the bottom
looking up.
Alex is a native of Sarajevo who found himself in Los
Angeles by way of Brussels and Chicago (plus an army
stint in Vietnam). He had writing in his blood, and
figured L.A. was the place to go. While amassing
rejection slips, he worked a variety of jobs including
furniture moving, painting apartments, TV repos...
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1-1-1970
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