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Berlitz Scandinavian Phrase Book and Dictionary
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers, IncISBN: 2831577381 Berlitz is a landmark organization in teaching foreign languages. It publishes glossy, easy to follow, and easy to carry language course books and phrase books, all carrying the Berlitz motto Helping the World Communicate. This is met with full promise as far as the pocket size Scandinavian Phrase Book and Dictionary shows us. While the small size is in itself a great convenience, this publication is attractively designed and made...
(No rating) 12-17-2006 Views: 6928

Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families after a Suicide
Author: Beverly Cobain ISBN: 1592853293The following review has been contributed by: Ernest Dempsey pen name of Karim Khan. To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Mental health nurse Beverly Cobain and crisis intervention specialist Jean Larch have authored a short but inspiring paperback book Dying to Be Free (Hazelden Foundation, Minnesota, 2006) that will serve as a healing guide for suicide surviving families and friends. Dying to Be Free is a book written in the ink of humanistic...
(No rating) 8-4-2006 Views: 8432

Your Boy
Author: Vicki CourtneyISBN: 0805430555Vicki Courtney's Your Boy (B&H Publishing Group, Tennessee, 2006) is one of the books that have a specified target audience: Christian mothers. The book aims at educating moms on raising a godly son in an ungodly world. Mrs. Courtney combines advice on ways to develop godly qualities in their sons with accounts of personal views and experiences on the topic. A large part of Your Boy is directed towards personal refinement and conscious effort in the...
(No rating) 11-17-2006 Views: 4928

Your Healing Diet: A Quick Guide to Reversing Psoriasis and Chronic Diseases with Healing Foods
Author: Deirdre EarlsISBN: 1419617079 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HERE The impetus for writing a book against psoriasis came from Deirdre Earls’ own long and painful encounter with the skin condition. The dietitian from Texas chose a more natural way of tackling her problem by healing with diet instead of chemotherapy. Her book Your Healing Diet (BookSurge Publishing, South Carolina, 2006) gives...
(No rating) 4-30-2006 Views: 6146

Pacifist Chicken And Other Largely Humorous Stories of small Hopes
Author: Andrea KampicISBN: 0976790939 Andrea Kampic has extended the title of her debutant book of humor Pacifist Chicken (Blue Agave Press, California, 2006) to specify that the stories are largely humorous but also include pieces that fall into the genre of monologues bordering on the line of cynicism. This book by Andrea Kampic is an enjoyable addition to humorous-satirical literature of our time on account of the many individual oddities and collective madness that we are all living with....
(No rating) 10-22-2006 Views: 5312

Why I’m Glad I had Breast Cancer
Author: Leonore H. DvorkinISBN: 0-8095-1096-0The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE It is indeed the challenging title of Leonore H. Dvorkin's latest nonfiction book 'Why I'm Glad I Had Breast Cancer' (WildSide Press, September 2005) that drives one to go for it. Only later does the reader feel glad for his choice as this short book makes a genuine case for looking at life in a positive light.Dvorkin gives...
(No rating) 8-2-2006 Views: 6735

Langenscheidt Pocket Phrasebook of Italian
Publisher: LangenscheidtISBN: 1-58573-509-4If you are planning a trip to Italy for the first or perhaps second time, one thing you’d need is a good guide. In the form of Langenscheidt Pocket Phrasebook of Italian, Langenscheidt Publishers (New York) provide you with the best companion you may carry in your pocket on your next trip to Italy. The glossy phrasebook of Italian, over 250 pages, teaches you how to communicate in Italian by including essential words and phrases for you to travel...
(No rating) 2-25-2007 Views: 2637

Admit It, You’re Crazy!Quirks, Idiosyncrasies, and Irrational Behavior
Author: Judy ReiserISBN: 0740751093 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan. To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Ever heard of someone who makes holes in her socks? A person who irons his newspaper? What about a cat who runs a treadmill? These and many other quirks are now available in one book to tickle your sane nerve. Author Judy Reiser brings to public notice the many quirks and idiosyncrasies of people in her recent book Admit It, You’re...
(No rating) 8-15-2006 Views: 6032

Dinner with Da Vinci: The Road Royale Through Rebirth
Author: Leslie J. McclintonISBN: 1933538554The name of da Vinci has reached an acme of attention with Dan Brown's pop buster The Da Vinci Code. Now used in a radically different mode, it shows up in Leslie J. Mcclinton's snazzy title Dinner With Da Vinci (Great Reading Books, Texas, 2006). Combining autobiographical nonfiction with science, history, anthropology, journalism, and spiritual quests, Mcclinton has strummed the thread of rebirth and its conscious experience. The core...
(No rating) 11-6-2006 Views: 4203

Mayday! : A Physician as Patient
Author: Dr. Allan LohuasISBN: 0975592297 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE ‘Stand tall-think tall’ was the advice of Allan Lohaus’s physical therapist, as Dr. Lohuas was wanting in spirit while having just caught the road to convalescence. Earlier came in Dr. Lohuas’s life course a painful period of intestinal surgeries and dependency on medical aid. As he came out of the nearly helpless anguish,...
(No rating) 6-18-2006 Views: 5156

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...
(No rating) 2-25-2007 Views: 2686

The Mentoring Mom: 11 Ways to Model Christ for Your Child
Author: Jackie KendallISBN: 1596690054 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Over the years, Hollywood movies have stamped on the layman’s mind an image of a typical American family as a rubber band stretched by stressors of self-centeredness and unbridled individualism. This stamp is particularly lasting in case of teen folk. As we read Jackie Kendall’s The Mentoring Mom (New Hope Publishers,...
(No rating) 8-1-2006 Views: 7288

Scars of the Square Needle
|Author: Pierre R. Beaumier ISBN: 1-59800-002-0The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREDick Boucher is a Franco-American who gets himself caught in an alienating Navy venture as he tries to save himself being drafted for the army against Vietnam. What follows is enigmatic, humorous, satirical, and adventurous in Pierre R. Beaumier’s ‘Scars of the Square Needle' (Outskirts Press, Denver, 2005). Beaumier’s...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 5472

A Boy From Lawrence: The Collected Writings of Eugene F. Connolly
Editor: Sally A. Connolly ISBN: 0977265315Sally A. Connolly has collected and edited the writings of her late husband Dr. Eugene F. Connolly in the form of a book titled A Boy From Lawrence (TypeStyles Desktop Publishing Services, USA, 2006), copyrighted 2005 but now available afresh as a second edition. The book carries entries from Dr. Connolly's journal: short passages of memoir, poems, recollections, letters, family photographs, and quotes of wisdom by icons of literature. Two motifs of...
(No rating) 9-28-2006 Views: 4678

Traces: Birth of Alexander the Great
Author: Faye TurnerISBN: 0976250039The wife of Philip of Macedonia is pregnant with a child whose birth, as a son, will let Philip continue to rule his land. A secret web of conspirators is on its move against the destined scene of a great leader’s birth and the one person who can save the true prince is someone who can question the paternity of the coming child. After Brown’s Da Vinci Code, Faye Turner takes her turn of reinventing history through her latest historical novel Traces: Birth of...
(No rating) 12-16-2006 Views: 5806

Train of Thought
Author: Elisabetta BenedettiISBN: 9781430308744Italy is remembered for many historically significant points, most notably perhaps for the renaissance revival of arts and humanities in Europe. Now we have this new voice from Italy, an authoress named Elisabetta Benedetti, who has embarked on a writing career with her groundbreaking debutant work Train of Thought (Lulu Press, October 2006). It is a short book that offers a radically different and unique literary experience when weighed against...
(No rating) 1-12-2007 Views: 5819

A Dialogue of Civilizations: Gulen’s Islamic Ideals and Humanistic Discourse
Author: B. Jill CarrollISBN: 9781597841108 B. Jill Carroll, a lecturer in humanities and religious studies at Houston’s Rice University, undertakes the enterprise of creating meaningful dialogues between some of the most celebrated scholars of human history. In her latest book A Dialogue of Civilizations (The Light Inc, New Jersey, 2007), Carroll selects five major themes of philosophical discussion and brings them up in the light of the teachings of six influential thinkers. The book...
(No rating) 6-12-2007 Views: 3362

Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition
Author: Thierry Hentsch: Translated by: Fred A. ReedISBN: 0889225095ISBN: 978-0-88922-509-1Before leaving the world to join the eternal spirit, the late Thierry Hentsch gifted the western literature a book of literary criticism, history, and philosophy that is rich in meaning and universal codes of the human existence as recorded in the western literary traditions of our planet. Translated by Fred A. Reed, Truth or Death (Talon Books, Canada, 2004) analyzes full circle the theme of death and...
(No rating) 5-20-2007 Views: 5854

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,
(No rating) 5-17-2006 Views: 2329

O’Connor’s Federal Rules: Civil Trials 2005
Author: Michael C. SmithISBN: 1884554962 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE Michael C. Smith is an attorney with The Roth Law Firm in Marshall, Texas, where he specializes in product liability, and complex commercial and patent litigation in federal and state courts. Smith has served as chairman of the Local Rules Advisory Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas since...
(No rating) 5-24-2006 Views: 4152

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....
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 3169

The 4 Realities of Success During and After College
Author: Bob RothISBN: 1420844709 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREHere is a self-help/how to book that tells college students about all the things they must take care of in order to be mate with success. Published by Authothouse, (Indiana, 2005) Bob Roth’s The 4 Realities of Success During and After College is a guide for college students, recent graduates, and young adults, showing how to achieve...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 3803

Human Species and Beyond
Author: Rajesh SinghISBN: 0976498170 The follow review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE The rather effusive start of Rajesh Singh’s Human Species and Beyond (Synergy Books, Texas, 2006) sets the reader on precarious footing while grappling with the metaphysical codes that come riveting at him/her from the very first page. With no preface or foreword, Singh’s book starts brusquely with the assumption that man is suffering...
(No rating) 7-23-2006 Views: 3609

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out
Purchase This Book From AmazonAuthor: Ibn WarraqISBN-10: 1591020689 When it comes to exposing the baseness of religious dogma, Ibn Warraq proves a one-man-demolition squad, particularly when the religion in target is Islam. The title of Warraq’s book Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out (Prometheus Books, New York, 2003) is just the start of Warraq’s challenge that thrashes the tyrannical Islamic notion of possession: kill those who leave Islam. However, it’s not a one-man team here that probes...
(No rating) 7-3-2007 Views: 4734

Sleeping on Potatoes
Author: Dr. Carl Nomura ISBN: 0970194730 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Review CLICK HERE ‘Sleeping on Potatoes is the metaphor for the bumpy and lumpy ride I had in my formative years,’ Dr. Carl Nomura explains in the preface to his debut publication Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy Adventure from Manzanar to the Corporate Tower (Erasmus Books, Washington, 2003). Nomura then extends this metaphor into a vivified mosaic...
(No rating) 6-1-2006 Views: 4983

Slow Dancing at Death’s Door
Author: Amy C. Baker ISBN: 0781442621 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREIt is impressive to see that a woman, Amy C. Baker, from the corporate world has stepped forward to show us our deepest human value: the need for serving our departing generation. Her book Slow Dancing at Death’s Door (Life Journey/Cook International, Colorado, 2006) incarnates a healthy form of what has been called ‘Survivor’s...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 5837

Positive Energy
Author: Judith OrloffISBN: 1-4000-8216-1The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREVeteran psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff ventures to spotlight practical Energy Psychiatry, her expertise, a blend of traditional medicine and subtle energies of body and mind in her latest book Positive Energy (Three Rivers Press, New York, 2005). Grounded mainly in the deep-rooted mystical traditions, Energy Psychiatry is a...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 5978

The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love
Author: Susan JeffersISBN: 0974577693The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREThe subject of a successful love relationship has been tried to banality in innumerable publications. While most of them might be out in the print for making bucks, Susan Jeffers’ latest book The Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love (Jeffers Press, California, 2005) is one winning endeavor of showing the path to a lasting love life....
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 3700

Dressed in Fiction
Author: Clair HughesISBN: 1845201728The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read Karim's reviews CLICK HEREStarting with a discussion of the centrality of fashion in dress to human behavior, independent scholar Clair Hughes takes a look at the employment of dress in select English fiction in her book Dressed in Fiction (Berg Publishers, Oxford-New York, 2006). Clair’s work is a confluence of literary criticism and critical description of scenes of...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 3878

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...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 3694

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...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 5847

Unscrambled Eggs
Author: Nadia BrownISBN: 1-4137-8169-1The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read more of Karim's Reviews CLICK HEREIf a book is short and carries choice verse, few would leave it to a second sitting. Miami author Nadia Brown instantiates this assertion in her first book of poetry Unscrambled Eggs (Publish America, Baltimore, 2005). A collection of sixty poems, Unscrambled Eggs is an artistic pluck in the floating stillness of mundane thought. A...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 6192

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...
(No rating) 4-16-2006 Views: 3990

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...
(No rating) 4-16-2006 Views: 2313

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...
(No rating) 7-22-2007 Views: 6164

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...
(No rating) 4-21-2006 Views: 1668

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...
(No rating) 4-2-2006 Views: 5331

The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Ostrich Wakes Author: Jean Davison Publisher: Kirinyaga Publishers, Texas, USAISBN: 0-9785150-0-5When the American anthropologist and author Jean Davison returns to her home base in Kenya’s verdant highland, she is not merely crossing political boundaries; she is, instead, transcending ethnic lines to assess the social change in her beloved Kenyan people. It’s been over a decade now since she last enjoyed her stay with her friends in Kenya and Jean’s...
(No rating) 6-5-2007 Views: 4133

Heaven’s Witness
Aurhors: Joseph Telushkin and Allen EstrinISBN: 1592640915 The following review was contributed by: Ernest Dempsey, pen name of Karim Khan: To read Karim's reviews CLICK HEREIn the vista are two authors, Joseph Telushkin and Allen Estrin, who have joined heads to chill the breath of mystery nuts with their paranormal psychological thriller Heaven's Witness (Toby Press, Connecticut, USA, 2004). The prologue of this 462 pages, hardbound, chiller sets one's curiosity on heels in a second and...
(No rating) 4-16-2006 Views: 7210

And Then It Was Teatime
Author: Laurie NienhausISBN: 9780979238901 Tea, reading, and conversation go so perfectly well together in literature and real life that teatime has become just another term for get together. And if that sounds a contrivance, take an enjoyable walk across the sundry scenes of teatime depicted in some of the much celebrated works of English literature, as compiled by Laurie Nienhaus in her latest book And Then It Was Teatime (Gilded Lily Publishing, Florida, 2007). And Then It Was Teatime...
(No rating) 12-28-2007 Views: 3070

In Home and War: Karim Khan (also known as Ernest Dempsey) comments about the violence in his country-Pakistan
My hometown Hangu has become quite famous for sectarian violence over the past ten years. What apparently started as a Shi-Sunni conflict is now said to be a profitable war zone where dealers in weapons and war related stuff are making profits at the expense of the town’s peace and security. It is deplorable and shameful, and yet it continues! The culprits are still at large! By pure chance, I always happened to be outside Hangu (and in Peshawar city, where I graduated and now am employed)...
(No rating) 3-30-2008 Views: 5711

Random Thoughts
Author: Howard WuISBN: 9781425162382 Letting one’s thoughts ramble is sometimes a delightful venture. Meaning and order may arise from the apparent randomness, like the Brownian motion of particles that determine the temperature of an object. Howard Wu’s anthology Random Thoughts (Trafford Publishing, British Columbia, 2008) is an instance of creating meaning through randomness of thought and content.
(No rating) 3-26-2008 Views: 2425

E-Mails From Hell
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Emails From Hell Author: David EarthmanIBSN: 1-933538-45-7The Internet is our day’s most precious technological gift, both for communication and for wasting our precious time. David Earthman’s latest humor book E-Mails From Hell (Synergy Book, Texas, 2007) takes up the latter aspect of online communication via e-mail. Through a series of biting e-mails and their replies, Earthman’s book makes a light-hearted spoof on the abuse of Internet correspondence for...
(No rating) 10-19-2007 Views: 4084

Mindful of Madness
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Mindful of Madness Author:Ida-Rose MeadISBN-10: 1598001590 Ida-Rose Mead’s humorous fantasy Mindful of Madness (Outskirts Press, Colorado, 2007) has all the idiosyncrasies of a literary work that results from out-of-the-box thinking of a creative writer. In both language and thought, Mead exhibits her highly developed creative imagination. Mindful of Madness is the unusual story of Conrad Buncombe whose continual dream about a sapphire-eyed beauty leads him...
(No rating) 9-24-2007 Views: 4407

From the Rill to the Ocean
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon From the Rill to the Ocean Author: Imre KalanyosISBN: 9781425735494 The aspiration which led Imre Kalanyos run away from the imposing communist rule of his country is a word that equals life for many of us: freedom. In his short book From the Rill to the Ocean: My Journey to Freedom (Xlibris Corporation, Philadelphia, 2007), Kalanyos compares his life in communist Hungary as chained and desperate for an outlet into the free world. His quest for seeking...
(No rating) 11-27-2007 Views: 3857

Departures
Click Here Tp Purchase From Amazon Departures Author: Linda BenninghoffISBN: 1596610115Linda Benninghoff’s departures (March Street Press, North Carolina, 2004) is a chapbook of 19 poems, along with some images, that are themed on the feelings connected with the act of ‘leaving’. Some of the poems address those who are no more but whose memories still ache in the heart and mind of the poet. Other poems focus on people, places, things, and animals that have been part of a lasting memory but...
(No rating) 10-30-2007 Views: 2656

Illuminated
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Illuminated Author: Matt BronleeweISBN-10: 1595542493 ISBN-13: 978-1595542496 Music writer and producer Matt Bronleewe’s debut novel Illuminated (Thomas Nelson Books, Tennessee, 2007) is a thriller that ventures to unfold an arcane interpretation of the various illuminations that embellish copies of the famous and rare bibles known as Gutenberg Bibles. The book tells the story of August Adams, an archaeobibliogist, and his family who must put their...
(No rating) 11-17-2007 Views: 3220

Let Us Share; A Conversation on Growing Older
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Let Us Share; A Conversation on Growing OlderAuthor: Lou Dunn DiekemperISBN: 1-933538-76-7 Reading Lou Dunn Diekemper’s latest book Let Us Share: A Conversation on Growing Older (Synergy Books, Texas, 2007) rolls your fear of aging one-eighty degrees to bring the bright side of aging to the attention of your thought. And thinking is what her viewpoint underscores: ‘introspection can increase our victories.’
(No rating) 2-23-2008 Views: 3682

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...
(No rating) 10-6-2007 Views: 5671

A Conversation with Ernest Dempsey pen name for Karim Khan
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Karim Khan who goes under the pen name of Ernest Dempsey.Ernest is from Pakistan and is a research associate in Geology. He is the founding member of World Audience Inc and is the author of three books, The Biting Edge, Island of Illusions and Blue Fairy and Other Stories. In addition, Karim is a reviewer for Bookpleasures.com and other sites.Good day Ernest and thanks for participating in our...
(No rating) 10-9-2007 Views: 3945

Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection
Author: John ManGenre: History/AsianISBN: 0-5538-1498-2The following review was contributed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsGenghis Khan is a name that instills mingled emotions of awe, horror and fascination even eight hundred years after his death. Born into obscurity in a vast grassland people by nomadic hill tribes people, he rose to prominence first in his large family, then his tribe and then among his whole people, welding t
(No rating) 6-1-2005 Views: 4306

The Book of Life
Click Here To Purchase The Book of Life Author: Ronnie LeeISBN: 978-1432700096 The Book of Life by Chin
(No rating) 5-30-2008 Views: 5455

Strategies
Click Here To Purchase Strategies Author: Tami BradyISBN: 1-932690-48-4
(No rating) 5-7-2008 Views: 3352

Proceedings of the 6th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
Click Here To Purchase Proceedings of the 6th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference Author: George W. DohertyISBN: 978-1932690569 George W. Doherty, an LPC in Wyoming and the president of the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute, has put together the
(No rating) 3-31-2008 Views: 6675

Bullets:Growing Up in the Crossfire (Bridgeway Books, Texas, 2007)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Bullets:Growing Up in the Crossfire Author: Kat HibbardISBN: 978-1-933538-82-2 Physical and emotional traumas inhibit the normal psychological development of many victims. However, some people emerge more confident and beautiful after the hardest of physical and emotional crises; the latter include individuals like Kat Hibbard, author of the recent autobiographical book Bullets: Growing Up in the Crossfire (Bridgeway Books, Texas, 2007). In her short but...
(No rating) 11-8-2007 Views: 4299

Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History Of Ancient Egypt
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History Of Ancient Egypt Author: Barbara Mertz (also known variously as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) ISBN: 9780061252761In her revised and updated second edition of Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs (HarperCollins, New York, 2007), Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (also known variously as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) takes us back to antiquity on a new journey through the ancient Egyptian civilization....
(No rating) 1-19-2008 Views: 3383

Geochemistry of Marine Sediments
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Geochemistry of Marine Sediments Author: David J. BurdigeISBN: 978-0-691-09506-6 David J. Burdige’s Geochemistry of Marine Sediments (Princeton Univeristy Press, New Jersey/Oxfordshire, 2006) is a comprehensive publication on all the components of marine sediments and every significant process involved in their derivation, transport, lithification, and diagenesis. The book cruises through the marin
(No rating) 3-13-2008 Views: 1973

Good-bye, Baby Max
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Good-bye, Baby MaxAuthors: Diane Cantrell & Heather CastlesISBN-10: 1933538953 ISBN-13: 978-1933538952 Many children books are printed each month to amuse kids of varying ages. This colorful, hardcover children’s title Good-bye, Baby Max (Bridgeway Books, Texas, 2007) by Diane Cantrell & Heather Castles is special in its purpose of teaching an invaluable lesson: that of properly saying the final farewell to a loved one who is no more. The book tells...
(No rating) 2-16-2008 Views: 3948

Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar Author: Dennis PollockISBN: 0-7396-1721-7Dennis Pollock, author, evangelist, and the founder of Spirit of Grace Ministries, offers practical help for hypoglycemic, diabetics, people fighting fatigue and mood swings, the weight-conscious, and the general health-conscious reader in his recent book ‘Overcoming Runaway Blood Sugar’ (Harvest House Publishers, Oregon, 2006). Two qualities of Pollock’s publication distinguish its...
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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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Tonya Harding’s Story Revealed in The Tonya Tapes
Click Here To Purchase The Tonya Tapes Author: Lynda ProuseISBN: 10: 1934209805: 13: 978193409806Publisher: World Audience IncAfter a good 14 years of infamous silence, US skating icon Tonya Harding is back on the scene! This time, best-
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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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AIDS Orphans Rising
Click Here To Purchase AIDS Orphans Rising Author: Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd ISBN: 978-1932690477
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Humanizing Madness
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Humanizing Madness Author: Dr. Niall McLarenISBN:1932690395 The 21st century is frequently experiencing intellectual challenges to several established theories in science. Lately, seasoned Australian psychiatrist Dr. Niall McLaren has put the practice of psychiatry to a hard challenge by showing its lack of any sound theory of mind. In his book Humanizing Madness (Future Psychiatry Press, Michigan, 2007), Dr. McLaren criticizes the arbitrariness of...
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The Case Against ‘Jesus’
To Purchase The Case Against 'Jesus' Click Here Author: Burton H. WolfeISBN: 978-1-934209-55-4For nearly two thousand years, billions of people have believed in Jesus Christ of the New Testament as a historical figure who lived on this earth and performed miracles. But did Jesus really exist or is he an invented character, no more than a rewr
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The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money Author: Michael GilbertISBN-10: 0977655237: ISBN-13: 978-0977655236 Compared with medieval, Victorian, and early-20th-century times, women today enjoy an awesome degree of freedom with work, relationship, and individual life choices. Or is it an awful and undue burdening of the female members of society at the expense of men? In the context of evolutionary biology, Michael Gilbert, of the University of Southern...
(No rating) 2-13-2008 Views: 2737

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...
(No rating) 10-11-2004 Views: 4279

Managing Leadership by Jim Stroup
The Following review was contributed by: John Walsh:To read John's Interview with the author CLICK HERE.Leadership is one of the more interesting and contested issues in the world today. Do we want leaders who involve us or and consult us and consider our opinions or do we want leaders to be strong individuals who go ahead and make decisions based on their judgement irrespective of dissenting views? Do we want leaders who believe they are inspired by God? Does it matter who our leaders are?...
(No rating) 10-11-2004 Views: 16244

A Conversation With Mathias Freese Author of Down to a Sunless Sea
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Down To a Sunless Sea Author: Mathias B. FreeseISBN: 978-1-58736-733-5Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, award winning author Mathias Freese, author of Down to a Sunless Sea, The i Tetralogy and countless other writings.Good day Mathias and thanks for participating in our interview.
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