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How About A Romantic Getaway To The Big Island Of Hawaii?
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com recently interviewed George Applegate, Executive Director of the Big Island of Hawaii’s Visitors Bureau. CLICK HERE to read what George has to share with us.
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8-3-2006
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Exploring Southern India
Santosh Kumar, who lives in Bangalore India, shares his vast knowledge with Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com about vacationing in southern India.CLICK HERE to find out more about the south India.
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7-10-2006
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Romantic Britain
If you are interested in Britain as a Romantic Getway be sure to check out Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com & Sketchandtravel.com's interview with Paul Chibeba, Media Relations Executive VisitBritain. Paul discusses romantic venues and wedding destinations in Britain.CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW
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8-1-2006
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Ever Thought Of Staying In A Lighthouse As A Romantic Getaway?
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com & Sketchandtravel.com interviews an expert on lighthouses, Author Mary Beth Temple, who shares her profound knowledge about lighthouse B&Bs, and also her knowledge about the New Jersey coastline.To read what Mary Beth has to say click on:http://sketchandtravel.com/INTERVIEWS2.cfm?holdid=106Norm Goldman, Editor Bookpleasures.com
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1-13-2005
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We Always Need New Book Reviewers
Bookpleasures.com is always on the lookout for new reviewers who wish to join our international community.If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please contact Norm with a brief sampling of your writing as well as a brief resumé of your credentials.Although none of our reviewers receive monetary compensation, we do receive complimentary books. We also have the opportunity to meet some very interesting authors.This is a perfect way to widen your contacts,...
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12-27-2006
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Minnesota As A Romantic Getaway?
Want to know more about Minnesota As A Romantic Getaway? Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com & Sketchandtravel.com interviews Tim Bewer travel author and expert on Minnesota.To find out more about Minnesota as a romantic getaway, click on:http://sketchandtravel.com/INTERVIEWS2.cfm?holdid=103Norm Goldman, Editor Bookpleasures.com
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1-13-2005
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How Do California Couples Plan Their Romantic Getaways With Their Dogs?
Norm Goldman, editor of Sketchandtravel.com and Bookpleasures.com recently interviewed author Maria Goodavage, who is an expert on how couples plan their romantic getaways with their dogs in California.Read what Maria has to share with Norm by clicking HERE
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1-12-2005
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Copyright & Disclaimers
The contents of all material available on this website are copyrighted by our reviewer-contributors or Bookpleasures.Com. Copyright is not claimed for work submitted by contributors or authors who wish to retain copyright of their work. Reproductions in whole or part of the reviews published on Bookpleasures.com without permission from our reviewers is strictly prohibited. Norm Goldman and/or Bookpleasures.com has no responsibility for the views, opinions and information communicated on this...
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4-21-2007
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Inerested in an Art Vacation in Connecticut?
Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com interviews Sandy Betner, newly appointed Director of the Connecticut Art Trail. Read what Sandy has to share with Norm pertaining to the trail by clicking here.
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8-29-2006
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Are You Interested In Hiking The Swiss Alps?
If you are interested in hiking the Swiss Alps, you may wish to read the following interview that Norm, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com has conducted with an expert, Virginia Van der Veer CLICK HERE to read the interview.
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6-15-2006
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I Love The Alphabet by Dar Hosta (Author) Dar Hosta (Illustrator)
The following review was contributed by:
Lily Azerad-Goldman Artist and Author
I LOVE THE ALPHABET is the second offering from Dar Hosta, author and illustrator par excellence. She has managed to perfect her talent following the publication of her first book I LOVE THE NIGHT which was already a little masterpiece.
A graduate in creative writing, Dar Hosta’s darling alphabet stanzas wonderfully convey her playful and warm personality.
Engaging as ever, Dar Hosta’s illustrations...
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1-1-1970
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Who’s Looking Out For You? by Bill O’Reilly
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
Two-time Emmy Award winner for excellence in reporting, Bill O’Reilly, most appropriately describes himself in his latest book, Who’s Looking Out For You, when he quotes one media analyst who stated: “O’Reilly comes off like a jerk or a genius depending on who you talk to.”
There is no shortage of useful advice in O’Reilly’s most recent tome, wherein he advises his readers in a frank tone (be they his...
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1-1-1970
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Fast Track
Author: John DeDakisISBN: 159507094XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews John DeDakis, who edits and writes on Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room, has crafted an exciting narrative with his debut novel Fast Track. Our story begins with a cataclysmic event when our principal protagonist Lark Chadwick's aunt, Ann, unexpectedly takes her own life. Lark had been very close to her aunt after her parents were killed...
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2-27-2006
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Interested in Knowing About Botswana?
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Sketchandtravel.com & Bookpleasures. com interviews an expert on this beautiful African country. To read this fascinating interview CLICK HERE
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9-4-2007
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BOOK REVIEW SERVICES & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
***PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF OUR NEW WEB SITE. CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE NEW SITE WHERE YOU WILL FIND OUR SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS.THANKSNorm Goldman, Publisher & Editor Bookpleasures.com
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10-10-2004
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Dream Travel With The Emphasis On Music
Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com interviews husband and wife team, Kirk and Ann Woodyard, organizers of Music and Markets, wherein they conduct trips to Europe focusing on the music festivals.To read what this interesting couple have to say about these trips CLICK HERE
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11-16-2005
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Interview: Harry Pariser Author of Explore The Virgin Islands
If you are interested in knowing more about the Virgin Islands, you may want to read what travel expert and author Harry Pariser had to share with Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.comClick Here To Read The Interview
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7-12-2005
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Why Vacations Are Good For Your Health
If you are interested in knowing why vacations are good for your health, Norm Goldman, Editor of the travel site SKETCHANDTRAVEL.COM and Bookpleasures.com interviews Dr. Mel Borins.To read the interview CLICK HERE
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8-11-2005
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The Great Pretender
Author: Millenia BlackISBN: 0451216482 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Imagine for a moment you are living a double life with a wife and two teenage daughters in Miami, while tucked away in Orlando you have for six years being living with your mistress and a young daughter born out of this adulterous relationship. You divide your time between your two families, spending two weeks with each. On the other...
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1-21-2006
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Samantha Coomber Vietnam Travel Expert Interviewed
If you are interested in traveling to Vietnam, you are sure to find travel writer and author Samantha Coomber's interview with Norm Goldman extremely informative and interesting. Samantha is an expert on Vietnam.CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW
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11-27-2005
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Cactus Island: A Stan Turner Mystery
Author: William MancheeISBN: 1929976364William Manchee’s Cactus Island: A Stan Turner Mystery is one legal thriller that will have you scratching your heads, even if you don’t believe in extra-terrestrial life.How do you defend someone who insists that he saw a space ship that caused him to lose control of his jeep, plunging over a hill and resulting in the death of a friend who had been a passenger in the vehicle? The driver, Steven Caldwell, who survives the accident, is accused of murder...
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11-5-2006
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Does St. Lucia Interest You?
Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com, interviews Roger and Mala Burt, experts on St. Lucia. To read what they have to say CLICK HERE
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5-6-2006
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The Payback by Hilary Hawke
The following review was contributed by
NORM GOLDMAN
The opening scene of Hilary Hawke’s first novel, The Payback, is set in the Newark Airport terminal where Margot notices a young pathetic woman sitting on a worn plaid suitcase and clutching a baby.
As the story unfolds, we learn that the woman’s name is Claudia Lopez and she has just arrived from Santa Cruz, Bolivia with her infant daughter Juliana. Unfortunately, her husband, Antonio, never shows up at the airport to meet her, and...
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1-1-1970
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The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How To Live Like Royalty With A Peasant's Pocketbook by Shel Horowitz
TITLE: The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How To Live Like Royalty With A Peasant’s PocketbookAuthor: Shel HorowitzISBN: 0961466642The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's interview with Shel Horowitz click HERE The term frugal has many meanings, each of which conjures different perspectives. For example, for some of us, if you are thrifty, it automatically follows you are cheap. The nickname “el...
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11-22-2004
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Ladies A Conjecture of Personalities by Feather Schwartz Foster
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM Although first time author Feather Schwartz Foster’s book Ladies A Conjecture of Personalities may be classified as historical fiction, we know from the beginning that we are in for some very fascinating tidbits of information, many based on conjecture others perhaps containing a sliver of truth. Speaking across the years, Foster brings to life brief memoirs of thirty “First Ladies,” who unlike their modern...
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11-4-2004
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Rosslyn A. Ruffin Author of Transitions: Boy Krazy is Interviewed
Author: Rosslyn A. RuffinISBN: 1424109450 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Transitions: Boy Krazy CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Rosslyn A. Ruffin author of Transitions: Boy Krazy.Good day Rosslyn and thanks for participating in our interview.
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8-4-2006
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Blueprints For Success- Networking 150 Ways to Promote Yourself
Author: Bette Daoust, Ph.DISBN: 1883955483The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsThe dictionary defines a blueprint as a detailed plan or program of action. Just as architects need a set of blueprints to guide them in their professional lives, similarly, business people require a map to point them in the right direction in order to achieve success in the world of commerce. One of the essential ingredients on the...
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10-30-2005
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Peace I Ask Thee Oh River
Author: Lyda PhillipsISBN: 0595361722The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Lyda CLICK HERETo effectively deal with difficult topics addressed to a teenage audience such as suicide, sibling grief, guilt, anger, rejection, abnormal behavior, denial, and bullying is no easy feat and it takes a certain amount of boldness and courage on the part of the author to pull it off. This...
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3-24-2006
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Have You Ever Thought Of A Romantic Getaway In The South Pacific?
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com interviews travel expert and author David Stanley on his views pertaining to romantic getaways in the South Pacific.David is the author of Moon Handbooks South Pacific.Read What David had to tell Norm by clicking on HERE.
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12-18-2004
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Over a Barrel: A Simple Guide to the Oil Shortage
Title: Over a Barrel: A Simple Guide to the Oil ShortageAuthor: Tom MastISBN: 0976444003 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsWritten as a wake- up- call, Tom Mast’s highly readable book, Over a Barrel: A Simple Guide to the Oil Shortage, succinctly sums up in ninety pages the present day danger we face pertaining to the misuse of our energy resources. The book’s primary objective, as outlined in the...
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6-28-2005
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The Da Vinci Papers by Kathy Williams
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKOKLEASURES.COM Notwithstanding its lack of good editing and proof reading, The Da Vinci Papers (not to be confused with the Da Vinci Code), authored by Kathy Willliams, is an engrossing tale intertwining the lives of a fictional character Marcus Cassius, with that of Leonardo Da Vinci and Igor Sikorsky. You may ask what do all of these have in common? If you know something about aviation, you will recognize the name of Igor...
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11-4-2004
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Stars In My Eyes Then And Now by Burt Richards
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
To read an interview with Burt Richards conducted by Norm Goldman click HERE
Many of us have fanaticized at one time or another as to how it would feel sitting down with one of our favorite Hollywood celebrities and having a conversation with them.
Actor, writer, and celebrity interviewer, Burt Richards, had the good fortune to devote much of his adult life to meeting and conversing with many well -...
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1-1-1970
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MAMA by Kelly Jones(Author): Ken Kewley (Illustrator)
The following review was contributed by:
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
Kelly Jones has created a delightful toddler’s story seen through the eyes of his big sister, who translates all his wishes that he expresses in one word: “Mama.”
In clear and simple language, we follow the siblings in a day of their activities. Friendly and protective, big sister is far from being jealous of her cute little brother. For example: “I play in the schoolyard ‘til the morning bell rings. Mom picks up my...
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1-1-1970
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Kill All the Lawyers; A Solomon vs. Lord Novel
Author: Paul LevineISBN: 0440242754 Paul Levine’s third Solomon Lord novel, Kill All the Lawyers, opens with Steve Solomon one early morning discovering on his front steps a three hundred pound blue marlin. He hasn’t the foggiest notion as to who is the jokester, until his lady law partner, Victoria Lord shows up.Lord asks Solomon if he had listened to the morning news where a former client of his, psychiatrist William Kreeger had just been released from prison after serving six years for...
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11-1-2006
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Transitions: Boy Krazy
Author: Rosslyn A. RuffinISBN: 1424109450 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Rosslyn A. Ruffin CLICK HERERosslyn A. Ruffin’s debut novel, Transitions: Boy Krazy has been crafted in such a manner that it is as if her readers are eavesdropping on a lengthy discussion among teenagers whose principal focus is on their new friend Mary Tucker and her obsession with her boyfriend...
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8-3-2006
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Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture
Editor: Michael D. AyersISBN: 082047861XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Michael D. Ayers CLICK HEREWriter, researcher, freelance music journalist and Visiting Professor at Manhattan College, Michael D. Ayers has assembled several international experts with impressive credentials who explore the recent phenomenon of the Internet music revolution, wherein there has been a...
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4-26-2006
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Richard E. Sall Author of Straightjacket Is Interviewed
Author: Richard E. Sall, MDISBN: 1419630547 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Straightjacket CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Dr. Richard E. Sall, author of Straightjacket.
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5-31-2006
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Romantic African Safaris With Luxury Thrown In
Norm Goldman, Editor of the travel site, sketchandtravel.com recently interviewed Lesley Bellus an expert on romantic African Safaris. To read what Lesley has to share with us CLICK HERE
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8-9-2006
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CEO by Patricia E. Gitt
The following review was contributed by
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
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Although over one half of the labor force in corporate America is made up of women, there is still a very small percentage that makes it to the top as CEO or President.
It is with this theme in mind, that author Patricia E. Gitt focuses her debut fictional novel, CEO.
Gitt has created a character, Melissa Lyn Horn (known as ML to her colleagues), who becomes...
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1-1-1970
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Interested in Knowing More About Los Cabos Mexico?
Ella Messerli of the Marquis Los Cabos and Director & VP of the Los Cabos Toursim Board is interviewed by Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.com and Bookpleasures.com.To read Norm's Interview, CLICK HERE
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4-18-2006
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Interview With Travel Author Peter Moore, Known As The Iterant Hobo
Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.com as well as Bookpleasures.com interviews Australian born travel author, Peter Moore, who now makes his him in England. Peter has traveled over 92 countries.Read what Peter has to say about his travels and travel writing in general.CLICK HERE
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6-24-2005
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Twilight
Author: Katherine MosbyISBN: 0066212715 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews A sad voice cries out, as we read Katherine Mosby’s palette of poetic words contained in her most recent novel, Twilight, wherein she narrates a tale of an adulterous affair between an American from an affluent family and a Frenchman during pre-World War II.
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6-29-2005
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Interested in Vacationing in Australia
If you are interested in knowing more about vacations in Australia, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com interviews Ruth Grau expert on Australia.To read the Interview CLICK HERE
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5-24-2006
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Sand Of The Arena
Author: James DuffyISBN: 1590131118The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsIt is obvious from reading Sand Of The Arena that author James Duffy has an abiding and deep interest in the history of the gladiators and of the Roman Empire.To his credit, he has no doubt devoted countless hours in researching his debut novel, as poignantly illustrated in the many detailed scenes depicting the lives of the gladiators that...
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2-26-2006
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Shanghai Legacy
Author: Marion CubaISBN: 1591138094 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews“Your mother,” she repeats, dipping her nurse’s cap toward Hannah’s room again, “she is like a melon that will never ripen, Miss Silver,” is what the nurse tells the dying woman’s daughter, Maya.That unripened melon, Maya soon discovers is her mother’s diary dating back to 1938, when approximately twenty thousand European Jews escaped Nazi...
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12-30-2005
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Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity
Edited by Jessica Evans and David Hesmondhagh ISBN: 0335218806The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Among the many courses offered by the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning, Open University, are those entitled Understanding of the Media. The first of the media series is devoted to the study of the celebrity, wherein the textbook that goes along with the course is Understanding Media:...
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1-3-2006
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When You’re Hot You’re Hot How I Laughed My Way Through Menopause by Jan King
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Reading Jan King’s, When You’re Hot You’re Hot How I Laughed My Way Through Menopause, is a little like watching some of the well- known female comedians such as Margaret Cho, Rosanne, Bette Midler, Carol Leifer, Bonnie Hammer, Dawn French or Ellen Degeneres parade on stage and perform their various shticks. Only this time the shtick is about menopause performed by King, who asserts, “I’m officially out of the egg...
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10-28-2004
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A Travel Author & Writer With Eclectic Tastes
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Jeff Greenwald, author and writer with eclectic tastes who wishes to make a difference in the world.Read what Jeff has to say.CLICK HERE
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6-2-2005
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Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method
Author: Gerald M. WeinbergISBN: 093263365X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews With the advent of self-publishing there is a current vogue for writing manualsand writers’ aids. Most usually take the same approach with little variations.However, Gerald M. Weinberg has come up with a creative approach with hisWeinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method. He offers alternatives to yourwriting habits that he...
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3-31-2006
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Adventure Travel in New Zealand
If you are interested in adventure travel in New Zealand, you may wish to read the following interview that Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com conducted with an expert.CLICK HERE to read the INTERVIEW
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8-21-2006
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The Complete James Bond Lifestyle Seminar
Author: Paul KyriaziISBN: 0971618305The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Author, writer and director of several feature films, Paul Kyriazi, is quite anexpert on James Bond, as evidenced from his recent tome, The Complete James BondLifestyle Seminar. Kyriazi promises to put you on the path to turning your lifearound and realize your dreams, provided you follow his twenty-one rules of theJames Bond lifestyle. The...
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1-11-2006
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Shitting Pretty, How to Stay Clean And Healthy While Traveling by Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Dr. Jane Wilson-Howard CLICK HEREThe title of the book may sound somewhat crude, however, if you are a traveler, I am sure you have at one time or another being a victim of “Montezuma’s revenge” or “Tourista.” No doubt most of us are aware that these are common terms used for an awful attack of traveler’s diarrhea. Dr. Jane Wilson-Howarth, a...
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10-28-2004
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The Muse On Writing
Editor: Lea SchizasISBN: 1554043174 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsThe Muse on Writing was published, as Editor Lea Schizas declares in the introduction, “to unravel some writing aspects in a way not presented in other writing books.” To accomplish this feat she has amassed nineteen excellent writers and authors, each of whom have combined their knowledge pertaining to important topics as the writer’s...
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2-27-2006
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St. Petersburg Russia
If you are thinking of travel to St. Petersburg Russia, you may want to read Norm Goldman Editor of Sketchandtravel.com and Bookpleasures.com's interview with an expert on St. Petersburg, Russia.CLICK HERE to read the interview.
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8-7-2006
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Pro Wrestling Kids’ Style
Author: Shawn “Crusher” CrossenISBN: 1879000121 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews: To read Norm's Interview With The Author CLICK HEREIf there is a lesson to be taught at the heart of Shawn “Crusher” Crossen’s first book, Pro Wrestling Kid’s Style, it’s that you can accomplish practically anything, even if you are only fourteen years old, if you set your mind to it.Crossen’s narrative recounts how in the...
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6-16-2005
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African Safari Expert Sarah Fazendin Is Interviewed
If you wish to know more about African Safaris, Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com has recently interviewed Expert Sarah Fazendin. To read what Sarah has to share with us CLICK HERE
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7-10-2006
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A Conversation With Tom Conroy Poet & Author of Coming Down From Over There
Poet: Tom ConroyISBN: 1598009133 Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Tom Conroy poet and author of three collections of poetry: Beyond The Second Traffic Light: Medicine & Magic: Coming Down From Over There.Good day Tom and thanks once again for participating in our interview.Norm:Tom, since we last communicated when you published your first collection of poems, Medicine & Magic, you have now two other collections, Beyond...
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12-13-2006
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All the Guys are Bad Guys
Author: Ned LordISBN: 0977476707The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Author Ned Lord CLICK HERE
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3-24-2006
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A Place Called The Bla-Bla Café
Author: Sandy RossISBN: 0-9777227-0-8The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Sandy Ross has pieced together a truly engaging story of a well-known café located in Los Angeles from the early days of 1971 to mid-1982. It was known as the Bla- Bla Café- a hole-in –the-wall club that was twenty feet by eighty feet on Ventura Blvd in Studio City where musicians, comedians, and other aspiring artists were given...
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8-14-2006
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American Infidel by Don Tjernagel
The following review was contributed by the editor of Bookpleasures.com NORM GOLDMAN Comedian Don Tjernagel, who grew up in Iowa, fell in love with comedy while attending school in Las Vegas. His website refers to him as the “All American Jester.” I would like to think of him as a combination of the risqué comedy of Lenny Bruce and Andy Rooney’s bitching about everything under the sun. Bruce devoted his life to telling the truth, however, if you are familiar with this 1950s comedian, you will...
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10-28-2004
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Accuser of the Brethren
Author: Tee MichaelsISBN: 0967857406 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm’s Interview With the Author Click H
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5-19-2005
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Dog Sledding Safaris In Sweden
If you are interested in knowing more about mushers, mushing and dog sledding safaris in Sweden CLICK HERE to read Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com's interview with an expert.
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6-21-2006
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Losing Innocence
Author: Brian Smith:Publisher: PublishAmericaISBN: 1424100380The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With the Author CLICK HERESometimes the best stories are the simplest ones, and Brian Smith's debut novel, Losing Innocence, would definitely fall within this category. Smith traces the relationship between two individuals, who before having met one another, were caught up in horrendous...
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12-3-2005
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Hands: a novel
Author: M.A. StreetISBN: 0-59538584-2First a confession: I have never been convinced that a person can have magical powers or that miracles exist. However, after reading M.A. Street’s Hands, there may still be some hope for me.What if it were possible to replicate Street’s central character, David, who was born with the power to heal the sick? In addition, he is a brilliant artist that permits him to pursue a vocation that enables him to express every part of himself. In fact, which is...
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2-3-2007
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Happy About Online Networking: The Virtual-ly simple way to build professional relationships
Author: Liz RyanISBN: 1-60005-015-8Over the past several years there has been a great deal of hype as to how the Internet has changed our lives. To a certain extent there is some validity to some of these claims, however, for the most part many of these should be taken with a grain of salt. One topic, however, that has not been fully explored is that of the benefits of online networking-something that I personally can attest to as being beneficial in providing a more efficient, cheaper and...
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2-5-2007
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Panamanian Experts Interviewed on Vacationing in Panama
If you are interested in vacationing in Panama, you may want to check out this interview.Rudy and Patty Ariani, residents of Panama, share their expertise with Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com. To read the interview CLICK HERE
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7-10-2006
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Willie May Medcalf: A Novel of the Old West
Author: Cecil L. MillinerISBN: 1932657355 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Cecil L. Milliner CLICK HERECecil L. Milliner’s novel Willie May Medcalf: A Novel of the Old West takes place in the early nineteenth century centering on Willie May Wooster from Albany, New York, who at the age of seventeen is swept off her feet at her coming out party by t
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9-9-2006
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Urban Tribes by Ethan Watters
The following review was contributed by
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Reading Ethan Watters' Urban Tribes is like watching an investigative report analyzing the characters and groups depicted in sitcoms such as Friends or Seinfeld.
When I watch these shows I often ask myself, do similar groups or relationships actually exist in the real world?
Apparently, they are alive and kicking, and Watters cleverly has named these groups “Urban Tribes,” of which he personally was a...
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1-1-1970
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Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten by Bernadette Gabay Dyer
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Author Bernadette Gabay Dyer offers us a novel about a young man conceived out of a rape between a Black woman and a white man in Jamaica, West Indies.
John Moneague, who is at the center of Dyer’s novel, Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten, recounts his life story from the moment he is born in the back streets of Kingston, Jamaica at the turn of the last century and the subsequent stages of his life.
As he states in his introduction, history will recount...
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1-1-1970
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TOTO OF OZ & THE SURPRISE PARTY by Roger S. Baum
The following review was contributed by
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
The latest in a series of Roger S. Baum's children's book, Toto of Oz & The Surprise Party, is an adaptation from a book authored by this same author entitled, The SillyOZbul of Oz and Toto.
To fully appreciate Toto Of Oz & The Surprise Party, one should be familiar with The Wizard of Oz, that had been created by Roger S. Baum's great grandfather, L. Frank Baum.
The tale is a simple one, wherein Dorothy is invited to...
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1-1-1970
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Media Production
Editor: David Hesmondhalgh ISBN: 0335218849The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Media Production forms part of the series of courses and publications offered by The Op
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1-7-2006
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A Twig Grows In Springdale by Al Michaud
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Why is it that when we reach our 50s and beyond there is a certain longing for the past? Perhaps, this nostalgic craving is due to our desire to slow down time.
Eviatar Zerubavel, a cognitive sociologist at Rutgers University, in his book Social Mindscape, made the following observation: “we all live in remembrance environments and mnemonic communities. These mental landscapes, constructed from shared...
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1-1-1970
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The Penultimate Chance Saloon
Author: Simon Brett ISBN: 1592641628The following review of the ARC copy of the book was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsWhat do you do when you are sixty years of age, and after 40 years of marriage your wife dumps you for another man, and to add insult to injury, informs you that their sex life was a bore and you are shallow!Bill Stratton is the center of Simon Brett's hilarious novel The Penultimate Chance Saloon and the...
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12-22-2005
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If You Are Interested in Tanzania, Check This Out
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of the travel site, sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com recently interviewed an expert on Tanzania. To read this interesting interview CLICK HERE
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7-10-2007
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Operation Soul Recovery (From Default To Purpose)
Author: Sheryl J. StevensISBN: 155395442-4 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm`s Interview With the Author CLICK HERE
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4-27-2005
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BOOKPLEASURES NEW URL AND LOOK
IMPORTANT NOTICEBookpleasures has a new URL address and a new lookCLICK HERE FOR THE NEW URL ADDRESS OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
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11-10-2008
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Tearjerker by Daniel Hayes
The following review was contributed by:
Norm Goldman Editor of Bookpleasures
Although, I don’t recommend abducting an editor and keeping him captive for several weeks, that is just what novelist Daniel Hayes’ principal character, Evan Ulmer, accomplishes when he imprisons in his basement editor Robert Partnow who had previously rejected his manuscript.
Tearjerker revolves around three characters, Ulmer, Partnow and Ulmer’s platonic girlfriend, Promise Buckley. The dialogue among...
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1-1-1970
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Becoming Your Own Critique Partner
Authors: Janet Law Walters & Jane ToombsISBN: 1-55410-292-8/978-1-55410-292-1Checking out the Internet as well as various other sources I notice there is a great deal of excellent advice on writing techniques. Unfortunately, many aspiring writers as well as experienced ones either neglect the advice or are unaware of its existence.There are also local critique groups and countless workshops, seminars, and other avenues where writers can learn how to improve their writing skills, however...
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2-25-2007
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It’s Not My Fault –or- Can a Rabbi’s Son Find Happiness as a Tennis Pro?
Author: Daniel I. WaintrupISBN: 097548107X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews When we don’t take ourselves too seriously and we are able to laugh at our faults, weaknesses and gaffes, then perhaps we can call ourselves mature, or to quote Eleanor Roosevelt, “You don’t grow up until you have your first good laugh at yourself.”Daniel I. Waintrup spent fifteen years as tennis pro at one of the most prestigious...
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11-8-2005
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I Love The Night by Dar Hosta (Author) Dar Hosta (Illustrator)
The following review was contributed by:
Lily Azerad-Goldman Artist and Author
Every once in a while, a diamond sparkles on top of the slush pile. I LOVE THE NIGHT authored and illustrated by University of Missouri-Columbia creative writing graduate, Dar Hosta is one of these rare finds.
Her spare writing and little details sparkle with wit and warmth. In a language geared to a young audience, she awakens nightly creatures. Her use of double adjectives:
“ marvelously marvelous -...
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1-1-1970
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Who Gets the Apartment?
Author: Steven RigolosiISBN: 097737873XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsDuring the past few years most of us have watched reality television shows such as Survivor and The Amazing Race. In essence, these shows revolve around contestants teaming up, paring off, and plotting against one another in their quest for victory. First time author, Steven Rigolosi, has now skillfully adapted this reality format to the...
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1-15-2006
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Baby Shark
Author: Robert FateISBN: 0977627691The following review of the advance review copy of the book was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with author Robert Fate CLICK HEREFrom the first chapter of Baby Shark, Robert Fate delivers all the satisfactions of the traditional crime page-turner, as he exposes to his readers the merciless activities of a gang of vicious brutes.Our plot unfolds in Henry Chin’s...
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5-4-2006
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The Lemon Tree
Author: Ilil ArbelPublisher: iUniverseISBN: 0595339824 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews: To read Norm`s interview with the author, Ilil Arbel, Click Here
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5-10-2005
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What is there to do in Maine?
If you are interested in traveling to Maine, read what one expert has to say about this beautiful state.Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com recently conducted an interview with Karen Pendoley the marketing manager of the Maine Office of Tourism.CLICK HERE TO READ WHAT SHE HAS TO SHARE WITH US
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8-9-2006
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A DEADLY EXCHANGE by SHERYL JANE STAFFORD
REVIEWER: LILIANE AZERAD-GOLDMAN If the intention of author Sheryl Jane Stafford’s book, A Deadly Exchange, was to take the reader into pure escape, she has partially succeeded. After a somewhat slow start, the book picks up to the point where you can’t put it down. The plot involving two innocent bystanders caught in a drug cartel web moves swiftly and deadly. The suspense is built on increments leading to a fairy tale “denouement”. Stafford’s emphasis is on plot rather than character. In...
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10-19-2004
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The Future Is Wild by Dougal Dixon: John Adams
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews How wonderful it would be if we could only peek out of our windows and see how the world would be 200 million years from now! What kind of creatures, birds, mammals, flowers, organisms, and humans, would inhabit planet earth? Authors Dougal Dixon and John Adams with the support of several scientists specializing in Geology, Zoology,...
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5-7-2005
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How About A Visit to Namibia
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of the travel site, Sketchandtravel.com and bookpleasures.com recently interviewed an expert on Namibia. To read more about this equisite destination CLICK HERE
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7-10-2007
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Trusting Yourself: How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Live More Happily with Less Effort: by M.J.RYAN
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
“To thine own self be true.” How often have we heard this famous Shakespearean quotation? Did we ever stop and think about it for a moment- probably not.
In modern vernacular this advice would be rephrased as- “trust yourself.” This is particularly good advice when many of us our overwhelmed with our everyday activities and responsibilities.
On any day or night of the week we turn our televisions on and we...
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1-1-1970
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Poncià Vicenzo
Title: Poncià VicenzoAuthor: Conceição EvaristoTranslated by: Paloma Martinez-CruzISBN: 978-0-924047-3 Poncià Vicenzo is the first novel by the Afro-Brazilian poet, Conceição Evaristo. And thanks to Paloma Martinez-Cruz, English readers can now have the opportunity to savor this beautiful novel that is not only an attestation of Evaristo brilliant skills as a poet but also as a novelist.The novel focuses on Poncià Vicenzo, her mother, Maria and her brother Luandi José, all Afro-Brazlians...
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5-14-2007
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A Conversation With Gwen Freeman Author of Murder…Suicide… Whatever: A Fifi Cutter Mystery
Author: Gwen FreemanISBN: 139780977627615 Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Gwen Freeman. Gwen is the author of Murder…Suicide… Whatever: A Fifi Cutter Mystery. Gwen is also an attorney and a fine artist who shows her work in galleries nationwide.Good day Gwen and thanks for participating in our interview. Norm:I notice you wear many hats- attorney, author and artist. How do you manage to...
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11-30-2006
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MONKEY MADE OF SOCKIES
Author: Shannon GrissomISBN: 1-4208-7022-XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews & Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's Reviews To read Norm and Lily's Interview With Shannon Grissom CLICK HERE
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11-17-2005
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Civilization And Its Enemies:The Next Stage of History by Lee Harris
The following review was submitted by: NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES The over-whelming sentiment of Lee Harris’s timely Civilization And Its Enemies The Next Stage of History is pretty much summed up in the Preface when he asserts: “The subject of this book is forgetfulness.” Harris, who could be described as a “philosopher’s philosopher,” convincingly places 9/11 into perspective with carefully crafted arguments reminding the reader that we have learned little from the past. Concepts...
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10-28-2004
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Poet Tom Conroy Interviewed
Author: Tom Conroy ISBN: 1598001094The following interview was conducted by NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Medicine and Magic Click Here: Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Tom Conroy, who is a poet and author of Medicine & Magic.Norm:At what age did you first start wri
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4-21-2006
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Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism In the Service of Jihad.
Author: Matthew LevittISBN: 0300110537 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Matthew Levitt , Senior Fellow and Director of Terrorism Studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and who has served since 2005 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury has placed the hot-button issue of Hamas into perspective with his exhaustive exposé Hamas:...
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7-30-2006
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Beautiful Riviers Maya, Mexico
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.cominterviews 2 experts on Riviera Maya, Mexico.To read about this beautiful area click HERE
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1-21-2005
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Wedded to the Game: The Real Lives of NFL Women
Author: Shannon O'TooleISBN: 0803286252The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Shannon O'Toole CLICK HEREFirst time author and wife of John Morton, an ex- NFL player and now coach,Shannon O’Toole candidly exposes her thoughts and perceptions of what it is liketo be married to a professional football player or coach. O’Toole, who holds a master's degree in sociology, bases much of...
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4-25-2006
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Interested in Knowing More About Tahiti?
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com interviews an expert on Tahiti. To read this fascinating interview CLICK HEREPhoto Courtsey of www.Tahititourisme.com
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8-10-2007
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Miriam The Medium by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM""
Even if you don’t believe in “bube meishes,” (Yiddish for grandmother tales), or psychics and mediums, you can’t help enjoying Rochelle Jewel Shapiro’s first delightful novel Miriam the Medium.
Shapiro narrates a story of a phone psychic, Miriam Kaminsky, who inherited the gift of being able to communicate with the dead and to foretell the future from her Russian born “bubie” (Yiddish for...
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1-1-1970
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A Conversation with King Hurley Author of Mondai Nai
Author: King HurleyISBN: 13: 987-0-9774188-5-5Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, King Hurley, author of Mondai Nai.Good day King and thanks once again for participating in our interview.Norm:Mondai Nai is your second novel, how would you compare the challenges or obstacles you encountered while writing Mondai Nai with your first novel The Interview?
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1-29-2007
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Philippine Fever
Author: Bruce R. CookPublisher: Capital Crime PressISBN: 0977627675The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with the Author CLICK HEREBruce R. Cook’s debut novel, Philippine Fever, is an engrossing and entertaining quick read, although at times a trifle gory. Mystery novels are usually corpse-driven, and this one is no exception with its sleuth of suspects.Set in Manila in the Philippines,...
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2-23-2006
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Idiots 'R Us
Author: Phillip ReedISBN: 141964114XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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9-6-2006
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Mexico's Exotic Last Frontier-Chiapas
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com & Sketchandtravel.com recently interviewed an expert on Chiapas Mexico. This relatively unknown corner of Mexico is a fantastic place to visit! Read more about Chiapas by CLICKING HERE
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7-28-2007
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How Would You Like To Own Your Own Island?
Norm Goldman, Editor & Publisher of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com recently interviewed Chris Krolow, CEO and founder of Private Islands Inc.Chris is an expert on the purchasing and owing of private islands.To read Norm's Interview CLICK HERE
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6-6-2007
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Designed To Kill by Chester D. Campbell
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Have you ever wondered how safe it is when stepping out on the balcony of a high- rise condo building? Did the contractor strictly follow the architect/ engineer’s plans or did he try to cut corners in order to save a couple of dollars?
You say that could not happen, as there are inspectors who make sure that the plans are followed to a tee. What if the inspectors are not doing their job properly?
All of...
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1-1-1970
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Travels With My Lovers by Erica Miner
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
There is something magical about vacation romances that seem to encourage you to let go and revitalize your energy and senses.
Moreover, perhaps the conditions are ideal to create peak emotional moments as love.
First time author Erica Miner’s novella, Travels With My Lovers, has effectively captured these moments with her titillating adventures of an American woman, who frees herself from the shackles of...
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1-1-1970
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Lucifer’s Dictionary of the American Language
Author: Burton h. WolfeISBN: 1419619748 The following review was contibuted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Burton h. Wolfe CLICK HERE
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6-23-2006
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Child of Polygamy
Authors: Dr. Kosi J. Avotri and Nella P. AvotriISBN: 1420873067The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With The Authors CLICK HERESet in the Volta Region of Ghana, Pediatrician Kosi J. Avotri and his wife Nella P. Avotri’s novel, Child of Pologamy makes excellent use of loosely linked tales to help us better understand the mores, customs and traditions of Ghanaians living in this corner of...
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12-17-2005
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Coming Down From Over There
Poet: Tom ConroyISBN: 1598009133 Tom Conroy’s third collection of poems, Coming Down From Over There, once again renews his interaction with nature and his reconnection to humanity. Moreover, his recent book of poems evidence an unremitting, relentless attachment to image of things as they are, or perhaps might be, without delusions.Without doubt, Coming Down From Over There has all the language dynamism of vintage Conroy, particularly his simplicity of imagery when he explores a particular...
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12-12-2006
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Michael D. Ayers Author of Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture Interviewed
Editor: Michael D. AyersISBN: 082047861XThe following interview was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Michael D. Ayers, editor of Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture.Good day Michael and thanks for agreeing to participate in our interview.
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5-17-2006
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The Resiliency Advantage
Author: Al Siebert, PhDISBN: 9781576753293 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews After reading Dr. Al Siebert’s enlightening book, The Resiliency Advantage, I was reminded of the old adage that was often drummed into me by my parents, that our life is not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitudes we bring to life. Thinking positively...
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10-28-2005
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Solomon vs Lord
Author: Paul LevinePublisher: Bantam DellISBN: 0440242738The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsBest selling mystery author and winner of several literary awards, Paul Levine, continues to churn out another one of his zany novels with Solomon vs Lord.Levine is living proof that following the “write about what you know” edict can lead to some very interesting fiction, as he was a newspaper reporter and a trial...
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11-2-2005
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Death Comes Too Soon: A Bridget O’Hern Mystery
Author: Patricia HarringtonISBN: 1413777082The following review of the ARC copy of the book was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read the interview with the author, Patricia Harrington, CLICK HEREPatricia Harrington’s second novel, Death Comes Too Soon: A Bridget O’Hern Mystery, makes superb use of an exciting and unusual plot twist and ending.The story unfolds when Bridget O’Hern, a non-profit management consultant, is invited to...
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12-8-2005
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Starting Your Career As A Freelance Writer by Moira Anderson Allen
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES I remember very vividly when I sold my first article to a major Canadian newspaper. It was in the mid 1960s, when I had just graduated from law school and I decided that the only way to fame, and perhaps jump- start my non-existent law practice, was to write articles on Quebec Civil Law. Fortunately for me, I was in the right place at the right time, and the newspaper was looking for someone to contribute articles...
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3-21-2007
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Sweet & Crazy by Patty Dann
The following review was contributed by the editor of Bookpleasures NORM GOLDMAN
Reading Patty Dann’s latest novel Sweet & Crazy is like being invited into the author’s home and sitting at her kitchen table where she shapes and narrates a beautiful sensitive story focusing on a recent widow, Hanna, her four year old precocious son, Pete, their next door neighbor, Thomas, and Pete’s Asian friend Mazur and his father Omar.
The story is set in a little town, Ash Creek, Ohio, and begins...
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1-1-1970
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Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game
Title: Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad GameAuthor: Allen RosenshineISBN: 13: 978-08253-0539-9 10: 0-8253-0539-XAllen Rosenshine has been named among the one hundred most influential people in advertising in the twentieth century by Advertising Age. In 1985 he became the CEO of BBDO and a year later he was instrumental in creating the world’s largest and most successful marketing communication company, Omnicom Group. Rosenshine in his...
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6-4-2007
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The Handsomest Man in Cuba
Author: Lynette ChiangISBN: 0975581600The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Lynette
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8-10-2005
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47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers
Author: Troy CookPublishers: Capital Crime PressISBN: 0977627667Expanding his literary talents, screenwriter and director Troy Cook has developed his own quirky style as he enters the mystery-comedy arena with his debut novel 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers. The use of wacky humor with mystery is a difficult balancing act that is feat for even the most seasoned writer, nonetheless, Cook manages to cleverly pull it off. The plot is set in the Florida Panhandle as it zeros in on a...
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2-25-2006
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The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business: Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques that Really Work
Author: Tom AntionPublisher: John Wiley & Sons IncISBN: 047171870X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Tom Antion is the kind of Internet guru you would like to meet for a cup of coffee, if you are pondering the thought of creating your own web site or perhaps fine tuning a site that it already up and running. Drawing heavily on his vast business experience, there is little doubt that he is extremely...
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9-22-2005
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Revealing The Covenant: A Medical Thriller by Rusty Van Reeves
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
With his second novel, Revealing The Covenant: A Medical Thriller, Rusty Van Reeves, has crafted an artful narrative concerning the use of embryonic stem cells to cure spinal cord paralysis.
The focus of the story pertains to a group of doctors with one of the largest HMOs in the USA, who are determined to prevent a privately funded research team headed by, Dr. Hans Kilmer, a legend in the field of spinal...
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1-1-1970
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Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews
Author: David Pryce-JonesISBN: 1594031517Having authored nine novels and twelve books of non-fiction, David Pryce-Jones has now turned his attention to France’s dealings with Arabs and Jews with his Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews. This book actually started out as an essay Pryce-Jones contributed to the French magazine Commentaire in May 2005 which has now given rise to this revised and extended version.Pryce-Jones has selected much of his material from culling the archives of the...
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3-9-2007
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Beyond the Second Traffic Light
Author: Tom ConroyISBN: 1598004654The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Poet Tom Conroy CLICK HERE
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5-12-2006
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Win an E-Interview Worth $50US As Well As Considerable Internet Exposure
Win an E-Interview Worth $50US As Well As Considerable Internet ExposureNorm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is offering a complimentary E-Interview worth $50US to authors and/or experts.In addition to having the interview posted on Bookpleasures.com with a slide show of your book's image and your own photo image, the E-Interview will be posted on Americanchronicle.com: Searchwarp.com and links on Authorsden.com, Amazon's Amapedia, Norm's Myspace.com com and other social...
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2-17-2008
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Tax Dodge: A Financial Caper that Changes the Lives of All Involved by Richard Crissman
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
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Shinning a light into the dark corners of the some of the frailties of human nature, Richard Crissman, author of Tax Dodge: A Financial Caper that Changes the Lives of All Involved pens a book wherein his principal protagonist, soap opera mogul Jethro Woods, is obsessed with his burdensome taxes. It is his belief that the taxman should not be permitted...
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1-1-1970
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The Mouse That Roared
Author: Dwayne Murray, Sr.ISBN: 0976985500 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Dwayne Murray Sr. CLICK HEREDwayne Murray. Sr.’s debut novel The Mouse That Roared recounts the story of Sandra Lyte, a fine-looking young woman from
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7-19-2006
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The Carny Kid Survival of a Young Thief
Author: Kenneth KahnISBN: 0976111500 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With The Author CLICK HERE
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7-14-2005
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Ellie Boatman Author of Unbridled Injustice Interviewed
Author: Ellie Boatman ISBN: 1598000586 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Click to View Norm's Review of Unbridled InjusticeToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Ellie Boatman, author of Unbridled Injustice.Good day Ellie and thanks for agreeing to participate in our interview.
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1-10-2006
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The World’s Best Sex Writing 2005
Editor: Mitzi Szereto ISBN: 1560257725The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Sorry to disappoint many of you, The World’s Best Sex Writing 2005, edited by Mitzi Szereto, is not a compilation of an exposé of steamy sex stories. However, the twenty-five contributions that have been gleaned from such well-known publications and Internet sites as the New York magazine, Newsweek.com, Salon.com, The Sunday Telegraph...
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12-24-2005
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Authors of Child of Polygamy, Dr. Kosi J. Avotri & Nella P. Avotri Interviewed
Authors: Dr. Kosi J. Avotri and Nella P. Avotri ISBN: 1420873067The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's review of the book CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Dr. Kosi J. Avotri and Nella P. Avotri, authors of Child of Polygamy.
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12-18-2005
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Visual Verse: Art In Nature With Symbiotic Verse
Author: John ParkinsonISBN: 978-1-933538-37-2 Award winning photographer, John Parkinson has turned his attention in his recent book, Visual Verse: Art In Nature With Symbiotic Verse to putting together a glorious collection of photo images that have been paired with quotations from some of the greatest poets.Relying on photo images and words for its integrity and success, Parkinson has effectivelyconveyed to his readers the magnificence of American landscapes. Moreover, he has succeeded in...
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11-5-2006
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FutureHype: The Myths Of Technology Change
Author: Bob SeidenstickerISBN: 1576753700 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews In an age where there is considerable hype about the wonders of modern technology, Bob Seidensticker prods us to take a step back and put everything into a more realistic perspective or as he most aptly states, we should vaccinate ourselves against hype. Seidensticker’s principal theme in FutureHype: The Myths Of Technology...
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5-23-2006
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Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom In The 21st Century by Alexander Sanger
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
If there is one thing that will surely stir up emotions is a heated debate between pro-life and pro-choice advocates. The debate invariably brings in political, legal, religious, moral, medical and sociological factors that often times only confuse those who are the spectators.
Alexander Sanger is the recently retired president of Planned Parenthood of New York City and grandson of the renowned planning...
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1-1-1970
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Go Away Just For The Health Of It
Author: Mel Borins M.D.ISBN: 0969056516 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's interview with Dr. Borins CLICK HEREToronto physician, world traveller, photographer and travel writer, Mel Borins, has been actively involved in incorporating into his family practice various complementary systems of healing including the need for v
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7-24-2005
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Gift Of The Bambino
Title: Gift Of The BambinoAuthor: Jerry AmernicISBN: 031231759XGenre: Fiction- Sports The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures-CLICK TO VIEW>> Norm Goldman's Reviews
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10-21-2004
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Troy Cook, Author of 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers Is Interviewed
Author: Troy CookPublishers: Capital Crime PressISBN: 0977627667 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's review of the book CLICK HEREToday Norm Goldman Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Troy Cook author of 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers.Good day Troy and thanks for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:
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2-25-2006
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Insight Guide Arizona & The Grand Canyon (1ST Edition) by John Gatusso, Editor
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
When you combine the première publishers of visual travel guides, Insight Guides, together with the creativity and talents of Discovery Channel, the results can be extraordinary.
This is particularly in evidence when you read the 1st edition of Insight Guides Arizona & The Grand Canyon.
This guide scores very high points for its comprehensiveness providing an invaluable aid for the armchair as well as the...
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1-1-1970
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The Devil’s Halo
Author: Chris FoxPublisher: Hutchinson (The Random House Group Limited)ISBN: 0091794994The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with the Author CLICK HEREThe possibility of a terrorist attack haunts all of us. However, have you ever thought about the prospect of some of America’s European allies deciding one day that they had enough of American dominance and hegemony, particularly in...
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11-1-2005
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The National Truth
Author: Steve TrotterISBN: 0-595-32637-4 The following review was contrbuted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Steve Trotter’s debut novel, The National Truth, set in Montréal, Canada, centers around a former rock musician, Dave Taylor, who decides to give up the world of music and return to his former occupation-tabloid journalism. A Former staff writer and associate editor of supermarket tabloids, Trotter is very much at home in penning...
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11-29-2004
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The Last Juror by John Grisham
The following review was submitted by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
You have to admit that the mere mention of the name John Grisham seems to invoke a love or hate reaction among bibliophiles. You either vigorously defend his writing style or you dismiss it as “schlock” writing.
Candidly, I have to admit that I am always seduced when Grisham publishes a new book, and very rarely I have been disappointed.
His latest foray, The Last Juror, although perhaps not as exciting...
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1-1-1970
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Outside Looking In
Author: Pete Mitchell Alias StratmasterISBN: 184667-011-XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Outside Looking In ends with the words “Remember, Keep on rocking, it’s the only way to survive, especially-if you’re-OUTSIDE LOOKING IN.”
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7-24-2006
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I Can Hardly Wait
Author: Judith K. OlsenISBN: 1598009990 According to recent studies and surveys conducted in the USA, children who are overweight have reached epidemic levels. It appears that the number of overweight children between the ages of 6 and 17 has doubled in the last two to three decades and one in five is now overweight. With this in mind, how do you engage and tactfully inform young readers about the health and social ramifications of being overweight? Moreover, how do you present information...
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12-1-2006
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Yahoo! To The Max An Extreme Searcher Guide
Author: Randolph HockISBN: 0910965692 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsIn 1994 Yahoo was started by two Stanford University graduate students, David Filo and Jerry Yang. It was at the time when the Internet was just beginning to take off and there were an increasing number of web sites available to Internet buffs.These two enterprising students developed a collection of selected sites arranged in...
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7-11-2005
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Insight Guides California
Project Editor: Martha Ellen Zenfell: Editorial Director: Brian BellISBN: 981234943XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Collaborating with the brilliance of one of the best well-known travel information providers, Discovery Channel, and calling upon the expertise of travel writers and local residents, Insight Guides California, has delivered to its readers an indispensable companion for anyone intending to...
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10-27-2005
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Passion Saving: The Path to Plentiful Free Time and Soul-Satisfying Work
Author: Rob BennettASIN: B000K90200 Rob Bennett, author of Passion Saving: The Path to Plentiful Free Time and Soul-Satisfying Work takes issue with the conventional approach to saving or as he terms it, “sacrifice saving.” He adopts an approach to looking at money management in a way that will motivate you to save and receive short term benefits rather than to wait until you retire to reap the benefits of saving.According to Bennett, the most common and widely accepted approach to saving...
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12-29-2006
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12th & McGraw by Forrest Haskell
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
Today, with the advent of self-published books there has been a proliferation of the personal narrative. It seems that everyone wants to join the bandwagon and recount his or her life story.
The early chapters of 12th & McGraw, authored by Forrest Haskell Jr., gets off to a great start and succeeds in immediately hooking the reader.
Forrest Haskell Jr. grew up in a tough Detroit neighborhood in the 40s...
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1-1-1970
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Lyda Phillips Author of Peace I Ask Thee Oh River Is Interviewed
Author: Lyda PhillipsISBN: 0595361722 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's review of Peace I Ask Thee Oh River CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Lyda Phillips author of Peace I Ask Thee Oh River.Good day Lyda and thank you for participating in our interview.Norm:When did your passion for writing begin? What kept you...
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3-24-2006
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Bend in the River
Author: Cecil L. MillinerISBN: 1932657339 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. Here are more of Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Cecil L. Milliner CLICK HERE Cecil L. Milliner’s previous book, Willie May Medcalf, recounted the story of a brave and determined young woman who overcomes a life of poverty and a husband who thought nothing of beating her and thei
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9-18-2006
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The Only Pure Thing
Author: Patrick HydeISBN: 931761-61-1 The following review of the Advanced Review Copy was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews With The Only Pure Thing, veteran D.C. criminal lawyer Patrick Hyde marks his debut into the world of legal thrillers as he weaves a tale of suspense ending with a captivating twist.Stuart Clay, who is a member of the prestigious law firm of Mitchell & Strong, has been assigned as public defender to...
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8-8-2006
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Unbridled Injustice
Author: Ellie Boatman ISBN: 1598000586The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with the author, CLICK HEREIt was Charles Dickens who stated in his famous novel Oliver Twist, “the law is an ass,” and perhaps in some instances we would have to agree with him. However, what is even more alarming is when judges are bigger asses when they exhibit judicial bias or they abuse their wide...
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1-6-2006
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The Cinquefoil Connection
AUTHOR: Recy DunnPUBLISHER: Authorhouse ( 1ST Books)ISBN: 1414074808 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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12-7-2004
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The Fearless Flight Kit: The Remedy for a Fearful Flyer by Captain Ron Nielsen and Tim Piering
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
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It is difficult to imagine that there are millions of people who suffer from “aviophobia”-the fear of flying. These unfortunate souls will do almost anything to avoid taking a flight, even if it means driving for days to their destination or spending endless hours on a train.
I can remember an incident recounted to me by someone who...
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1-1-1970
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Weekend Adventures in San Francisco & Northern California
Author: Carole Terwilliger MyersPublisher: Carousel PressISBN: 0917120191The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Carole T. Myers Click Here Carole Terwilliger Myers, author of the 8th Edition of Weekend Adventures in San Francisco & Northern California,
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6-1-2005
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Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love by Dr. Helen Fisher
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES To read an interview conducted by Norm with Dr. Fisher click HERE From time immemorial philosophers, poets, writers, and probably anyone else who could voice an opinion have pondered over the question, what is romantic love? In fact, if you ask someone to describe its attributes, you would probably be informed that once you experience romantic love it is difficult to control. For those of us who have been fortunate...
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9-13-2007
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Free by Paul Vincent
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
To read an interview with the author,Paul Vincent, click HERE
British author Paul Vincent’s latest novel, Free, centers around a story of a young man, Sal, who falls madly in love with a dark haired woman with blond eyebrows, Gabrielle, at a pavement café in Northern Spain.
After a brief courtship, the two decide on marriage, which shortly takes place, after both move from their homes in England to the...
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1-1-1970
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Ned Lord Author of All the Guys are Bad Guys is Interviewed
Author: Ned LordISBN: 0977476707The following interview was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of All the Guys are Bad Guys CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Ned Lord, author of All the Guys are Bad Guys.Good day, Ned, and thank you for participating in our interview.Norm:Ned, please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and...
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3-25-2006
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Author of The Newspaper Boy, Leon Newton Interviewed
Author: Leon Newton ISBN: 0741423936The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Review of The Newspaper Boy CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Leon Newton, author of The Newspaper Boy.Good day Leon and that you for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:Please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional background.
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12-13-2005
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You Can`t Cheat An Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work..and Why They`re More Common Than Ever
Author: James WalshISBN: 1563431696: Publisher: Silver Lake PublishingThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews In 1903 Charles Ponzi arrived in the USA with the aim of becoming as wealthy as Rockefeller. His modus operandi was based on the principle of robbing Peter to Pay Paul.James Walsh, in his informative book, You Can`t Cheat An Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid...
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4-20-2005
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story Of Survival In The Arctic by Jennifer Niven
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Not many of us have ever heard of an island that is generally barren, frozen and rocky through most of the year located in the Arctic Ocean between the East Siberian Sea and the Chukotsk Sea-Wrangel Island. In 1921, a Canadian explorer, Vihjalmur Stefansson, sent four young men, only one an actual British subject, and one Eskimo woman, Ada Blackjack, to Wrangel Island. The objective was to claim the island for...
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10-28-2004
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The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Transforming the Emotional and Financial Future of Your Aging Parents
Author: Daniel TaylorISBN: 0143037641 We hear so much about caring for aging parents these days that at times it feels that children are in a no win situation. Care-giving involves making difficult decisions which should be handled with as much thought and discussion as possible. Thanks to Daniel Taylor, a 20 year veteran of the financial services industry, an attorney, and president of his own North Carolina-based advisory firm, for showing us an intelligent way in dealing with the...
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11-23-2006
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A Caribbean Tale
Author: Rudy GurleyISBN: 1427605351If there is one element that sets apart interesting personal narratives from those that are downright boring, it is the narrator’s ability to take on the role analogous to that of an actor in a drama who vividly and effectively shares his or her experiences with the reader. These experiences can be built around one single remarkable event or it may be of a general tale comprising several events in one’s life. What is vital is that the author must clearly...
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9-23-2006
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The Deep Blue Alibi: A Solomon vs Lord Novel
Author: Paul LevineISBN: 0440242746The following review of the advanced review copy was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsSteve Solomon is the kind of a lawyer you would like to have on your side whenyou believe you are in serious trouble with the law. Solomon believes that ifthe facts don’t fit the law, bend the facts. On the other hand, his law partner,Victoria Lord, brings a certain amount of ethical respectability to...
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1-10-2006
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Mondai Nai
Author: King HurleyISBN: 13: 987-0-9774188-5-5It is not very often where we are fortunate to have the opportunity to read a North American author pen a fascinating novel set in the modern-day land of the rising sun. No doubt, this is no easy feat, particularly when the author endeavors to vividly capture the intricacies of the culture and traditions of the Japanese.King Hurley’s second novel, Mondai Nai is very much up to the task, as we follow the adventures of an American exchange student,...
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1-27-2007
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Manhook
Author: Ken RatcliffeISBN: 1-4196-0807-xThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Readers who may have been badly bruised by the bitter and painful experiences of the Internet start-ups in the late 1990s will recognize the landscape in Ken Ratcliffe's debut novel, Manhook.Our principal protagonist, Bob Lutz, ditches his job as a salesman for a computer company,when he is enticed by an offer to become CEO of an...
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9-21-2005
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Caves: Exploring Hidden Realms by Michael Ray Taylor
The following review was contributed by Norm Goldman, Editor of BookpleasuresMany of us have probably been very fascinated with caves since we were small children. However, we probably never had the actual experience of exploring caves nor will we ever undertake such a voyage to many of our planet’s uncharted regions. Perhaps, the wisest and safest way to satisfy our curiosity pertaining to the study of caves, or as it is called, Speleology, is to seek out a good reference text. National...
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10-11-2004
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Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers
Author: Shel HorowitzISBN: 13:978-0-96146666-3: 10:9614666-3-4Whenever I interview self-published authors I generally pose the question how do they intend to market their books? I am quite dumbfounded that the majority of these authors are so naive and many confess to me that they don’t even know where to start.Fortunately with the many books devoted to book marketing as well as the countless Internet sites, there is help at hand, however it is essential that authors devote adequate time to...
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4-21-2007
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The Fine Artist’s Guide To Marketing And Self Promotion by Julius Vitali
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
As I am married to an artist, I can well appreciate the immense difficulties artists face when they are endeavoring to sell their art- work.
It is with this in mind that I decided to read and review Julius Vitali’s updated edition of The Fine Artist’s Guide To Marketing And Self Promotion.
Vitali’s question in his introduction- how do fine artists create a reputation and career that will ultimately allow...
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1-1-1970
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Theater Voices: Conversations On The Stage
Author: Steve CapraPublisher: Scarecrow Press, IncISBN: 0810850478The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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4-18-2005
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Hero Island
Poet (Author) Stephen B. WileyISBN: 0976625105Publisher: OasisThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpl
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5-16-2005
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Black Monday A Stan Turner Mystery
Author: William MancheeISBN: 1932475087Publication Release: August 2005The following review of the Advanced Reading Copy was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Author and attorney William Manchee has given readers another in his Stan Turner mystery series, wherein Stan and his faithful law partner, Paula Waters, team up to represent clients involved in a series of crimes, two of which are inter-related.All of the cases kick off on...
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6-27-2005
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Why The Jews Rejected Jesus
Author: David KlinghofferISBN: 0385510217 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsGiven the sharp differences of opinions pertaining to the interpretations of the Old and New Testaments, there are bound to be strong reactions from some readers of the Jewish and Christian faiths to David Klinghoffer’s Why The Jews Rejected Jesus.After all, as Klinghoffer states, the disputation has been going on for centuries,...
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7-5-2005
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King Hurley Author of The Interview Interviewed
Author: King HurleyISBN: 0977418804Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, King Hurley, author of The Interview.Good day King and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm:Just out of curiosity, how did you get your name of “King?”King: I was blessed to receive the name, King, from my wife, Carole King. My pen name reflects my official last name.Norm:Please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional background. King:
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10-5-2006
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The Last Schoonerman: The Remarkable Life of Captain Lou Kennedy
Author: Joe RussellISBN: 0-9789350-0-4That it was possible during the middle of the twentieth century to profitably haul cargo between the Caribbean, Canada and the northeast USA with sailing ships similar to those used in the 1850s will probably come as quite a surprise to many of us today.This was how the legendary Lou Kenedy, who owned and skippered ten vessels, earned his living from the age of twenty-one during the height of the Depression until he retired and sold his last schooner in...
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4-3-2007
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Celebrity Anecdotes- Volume 1
Author: J. Julian PaynePublisher: Anecdotage PressISBN: 0973622105 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews It would probably be very difficult to write a dull book about the witty quotes, anecdotes, and tidbits pertaining to some of the most well-known celebrities, whom many of us read or hear about in the print or the television media.Celebrity Anecdotes- Volume 1 does not disappoint, providing us with many
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11-3-2005
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Live Your Dreams: Let Reality Catch Up
Author: Roger Ellerton ISBN: 1412047099The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview with the Author Roger Ellerton, CLICK HERETomes pertaining to the quest for success and how to improve your lives are to publishing what sitcoms are to television. There certainly is no lack of them, wherein it seems that every week some author touts that he or she has the magic formula. The trick is to separate...
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12-16-2005
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DEAD RED (Advanced Review Copy) by Nelson Andreu
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Former Miami homicide detective Nelson Andreu’s debut novel, Dead Red, delivers many of the elements readers come to expect of the traditional page-turner mystery-ruthless killers, an aura of corruption, a love story, diamond and drug traffickers, a murder made to look like a suicide, and foreign intrigue.
What is unique about this mystery novel is that Andreu strikes the right balance between the narration...
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1-1-1970
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White Rainbows And Other Romantic Tales
Author: Konstantin Paustovsky, Translated by Mark ScottPublishers: Edwin Mellen PressISBN: 0773460446 (To be released in late fall 2005)The following review of an ARC copy of the book was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Mark Scott CLICK HERE Surely no one would dispute that Pushkin and Chekov are two of the most popular Russian authors. However, how many of us in the West have ever heard of...
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7-24-2005
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Retribution City of God Series by Randall Ingermanson
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN Editor of Bookpleasures.com
Retribution City of God Series is Randall Ingermanson’s third historical fiction in his time travel series.
As a result of a bungled physics experiment, Israeli scientist Ari Kazan and his wife Rivka, find themselves back in time during the era of the Jerusalem Church, 57 A.D.
Jerusalem is seething with a great deal of tension, wherein on the one hand you have the harsh treatment of the Jews at the...
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1-1-1970
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A Search of African-American Life, Achievement and Culture
Author: John C. CothranISBN: 0963400207 (Hardback) 0963400215 (Paperback)The following review of the ARC copy of the book was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsJohn C. Cothran, author of A Search of African-American Life, Achievement and Culture, candidly states in the Introduction to his book, that as an African American growing up in the USA, he was unaware of significant accomplishments of African Americans.The author indicated...
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7-3-2005
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What Did the Royal Stuarts Ever Do for the U.S.A? A Disrespectful History
Authors: Richard Crissman: C.T.M. von Jaeger-DougallPublisher: iUniverse, IncISBN: 0595329500 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsIt never dawned on me, when I was studying the history of England many moons ago, events may have turned out differently in the USA had the House of Stuart or Stewart claimed the North American colonies. Perhaps, the American Revolution may never have happened, as is the...
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6-22-2005
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The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Up to now the preponderant view held by many historians is that Dutch contribution to American history and particularly to that of New York has been one of irrelevancy. As we no doubt realize, the winners write history, and unfortunately, whatever the losers may have contributed, it seems to be lost or forgotten in the shuffle.
Fortunately, during the past thirty years and thanks to the translation of many...
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1-1-1970
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Meet Seven Year Old Dalton James Author of The Sneakiest Pirates
Click Here To Purchase The Sneakiest PiratesToday, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, seven year- old and first time author Dalton James author of The Sneakiest Pirates.Good day Dalton and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm:Dalton, why are you interested in pirates and writing about them?
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8-5-2008
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The Seventh Survivor
Author: Lori Lacefield ISBN: 0977627683 The following review of the ARC copy was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Lori Lacefield CLICK HEREWhat do you do when you are nominated to a very prestigious charitable foundation and you soon discover that the directors are quite creative and innovative when raising funds, although their methods are not exactly within the boundaries of the law and...
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5-7-2006
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Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon..and Beyond by Beverly Gray
The following review was contributed by
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
One of the advantages of an “unauthorized” biography is that it should offer a more creative and exciting challenges to the biographer and a much greater illumination to the reader.
There is always the danger when a biography is authorized that a conflict of interest may arise and the truth may be compromised.
Beverly Gray’s unauthorized biography Ron Howard From Mayberry to the Moon..and Beyond is a...
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1-1-1970
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The Diary of Melanie Martin: How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and The Leaning Tower Of Pizza by Carol Weston
The following review was contributed by:
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
To read an interview with Carol Weston click
HERE
The whimsical jacket of the book The Diary of Melanie Martin: How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo, and The Leaning Tower Of Pizza illustrated by Marci Roth, informs the reader that Melanie has embarked with her family on an exciting trip to Italy.
What’s more, the reader is given the opportunity to peek into Melanie’s diary without any guilt feelings.
Author Carol...
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1-1-1970
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hackoff.com
Author: Tom EvslinISBN: 0977464601The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Tom Evslin CLICK HEREPositioning his novel somewhere between the world of a dot.com thriller and something analogous to a Detective Colombo television episode, Tom Evslin’s hackoff.com falls effortlessly into the recent wave of fiction narratives that depict the euphoria of the boom and bust of the stock...
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7-27-2006
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A Conversation with Frank Ridgley Author of Den Helder
Author: Frank RidgleyISBN: 1598006436Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Frank Ridgley, author of Den Helder.Good day Frank and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm:Frank, please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional background. Frank: I am married with three children – two boys now in college and a soon-to-be-teenage girl at home. My father was career Air Force so I had the opportunity to move around in my...
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1-19-2007
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Straightjacket
Author: Richard E. Sall, MDISBN: 1419630547 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Dr. Richard E. Sall CLICK HERERichard E. Sall’s Straightjacket follows thirty days in the life of Dr. Joe Grady, a resident surgeon at Detroit General Hospital, who is obliged to complete ten major surgical cases w
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5-31-2006
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Spirituality Simplified
Author: Jeff MaziarekISBN: 0974484105The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Jeff Maziarek CLICK HEREJeff Maziarek, author of Spirituality Simplified asserts in his introduction that the principal impetus for his writing his book was to create a spiritual growth book that would be accessible to mainstream readers. Moreover, it would include “the best of the best” content gleaned...
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5-3-2006
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The Last Alchemist Count Cagliostro, Master Of Magic In The Age Of Reason by Iain McCalman
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
On the back cover of historian Iain McCalman’s latest book, The Last Alchemist Count Cagliostro, Master Of Magic In The Age Of Reason, it states, “depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan.”
This just about sums up an intriguing historical novel pertaining to one of the most charismatic and interesting characters of the late 18th century, Giuseppe Balzamo or better known...
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1-1-1970
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Funny Letters From Famous People
Title: Funny Letters From Famous PeopleAuthor (Editor): Charles OsgoodISBN: 0767911768Genre- General Non-Fiction This review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures-CLICK TO VIEW>> Norm Goldman's ReviewsThere is always something audacious about reading other people’s letters. You have the feeling that you are secretly looking into the soul and mind of the letter writer without his or her knowledge. Unfortunately, in today’s age of emails, television, and every other...
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10-18-2004
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The Complete Writer’s Journal
Complied and Edited by: Pat McGrath Avery, Joyce Faulkner, Carolyn Howard-JohnsonISBN: (13) 978-0-9743758-9-2
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6-13-2006
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How New York Became American, 1890-1924
Author: Angela M. BlakePublisher: The Johns Hopkins University PressISBN: 0-8018-8293-1How New York Became American, 1890-1924 was originally Angela M. Blake’s doctoral dissertation, which is very much in evidence when you consider that there are sixty-five pages devoted to reference notes and sources. Blake refers to herself as an interdisciplinary and cultural historian and as she mentions in her Essay on Primary Sources that appears at the back of her book, cultural historians ask...
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2-16-2007
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Hadrian's Wall by William Dietrich
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, historian, and author, William Dietrich, recent poignant novel is set in Northern England in 367 A.D, where Hadrian’s Wall, which incidentally is the title of the book, once stood. Today, it is a world heritage site in recognition of this magnificent Roman civil engineering project. Built of stone, it was wide enough to permit centurions to march three abreast along most of its...
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11-4-2004
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River Rising
Author: Athol DicksonISBN: 076420162X The following review of the ARC copy of the book was contributed by:NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews The year is 1927 during the great Mississippi flood when Athol Dickson's latest novel, River Rising, unfolds. Rev. Hale Poser arrives early one morning, poling a boat you stand in called a pirogue into the stilt village of Pilotville, Louisiana. A recent discovery of a manila envelope in the attic of an old...
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12-11-2005
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Interview With Martha Morning Todd-Author of Losing Hope
Author: Martha Morning ToddPublisher iUniverse IncISBN: 0595335500 The following interview with the author Martha Morning Todd was contributed by: Norm Goldman Editor of Bookpleasures.comTo read Norm's review of Losing Hope
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5-30-2005
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All Eyes Skyward by Dan Spencer
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES To read Norm's interview with author Dan Spencer, click: HEREReaders looking to find how it felt to be living in Berlin at the time of the Airlift of 1948-9 will not be disappointed with Dan Spencer’s, All Eyes Skyward. For those of you who may not be aware, post Second World War Germany had been divided into three sectors comprising the Allied section controlled by the USA, England and France and the remaining part...
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10-12-2004
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Cashing In With Content
Author: David Meerman Scott ISBN: 0910965714Publisher: CyberAge Books The following review was contributed by NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With David Meerman Scott
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8-21-2005
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The Mourning Sexton
Author: Michael BaronPublisher: DoubledayISBN: 0385513267 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW
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4-23-2005
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Facing Your Fifties: A Man’s Reference Guide to Mid-Life Health by Gordon Ehlers:M.D. and Jeff Miller
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Many of us men who have reached our fifties or about to attain the big “five O” have been told that it is all- downhill from here on end!
How often do we begin reading our morning newspaper by first turning to the obituaries? As heart disease and cancer are the principal killers of the male species when they attain their fifties, we cringe at the thought of perhaps spotting the name of one of our buddies,...
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1-1-1970
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We Are the New Auroras
Author: Adam Daniel MezeiISBN: 0595380697The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Adam Daniel Mezei CLICK HEREAs a loyal Canadian, I am delighted to see that within the last several yearsthere have been quite a few Canadian authors who are making their mark in theinternational literary scene. Just looking over the undergraduate calendar of myold alma mater, I noticed that there...
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4-13-2006
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Interview With Shawn Crossen Author Of Pro Wrestling Kids' Style
Author: Shawn “Crusher” CrossenISBN: 1879000121 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews: To read Norm's Review Of The Book Click HereToday Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Shawn “Crusher” Crossen, author of Pro Wrestling Kid’s Style.
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6-16-2005
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Yak Butter Blues
Title: Yak Butter BluesAuthor: Brandon Wilson:ISBN: 0977053660The following review was contributed by:NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews After reading author Brandon Wilson’s email requesting a review of his book Yak Butter Blues, wherein he recounts how he and his wife, Cheryl, travelled 40 days from early October to the end of November in 1992 over 1000 kilometers travelling along the ancient pilgrimage route across Tibet, my first reaction...
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11-25-2004
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Trial & Error: A Solomon vs. Lord Novel
Author: Paul LevineISBN: 9780440242765Paul Levine’s latest in his Solomon vs Lord series, Trial & Error, pretty much follows the same formula as his three other novels in the series where the lives of three individuals are intricately intertwined-Steve Solomon, the unconventional and quirky trial attorney, his live-in girlfriend, the straight-laced Victoria Lord, who practices law by the book, and Steve’s nephew Bobby, who has physical and emotional problems, who lives with Steve and...
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6-3-2007
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Chasing the Wind
Author: Helena P. SchraderISBN: 978059444717 Although many of the characters portrayed in Helena Schrader’s Chasing the Wind are fictional, the facts of her story are based on actual events that occurred during the Battle of Britain in 1940 between Britain’s Royal Air Force and German’s Luftwaffe. As a result, Schrader has made an important contribution to our understanding of the mind-sets and skills of the British and German pilots during these harrowing battles.As Schrader mentions in her...
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6-23-2007
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Medicine and Magic
Author: Tom ConroyISBN: 1598001094The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Tom Conroy CLICK HEREThomas Conroy's impressive debut collection of poetry Medicine and Magic demonstrates a fine sense of poetic craft exhibiting diversity in tone with tightly focused themes.
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4-21-2006
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Crosses: A Christian Executive Story As Told By Angels
Author: Clayton Dunham, Ph.DISBN: 1598002007 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. Here are More of Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Clayton Dunham, PH.D CLICK HERECrosses: A Christian Executive Story As Told By Angels, the debut novel of Clayton Dunham, follows the nightmarish ordeals of a Chief Information Officer (CIO), Peter Stone, as recounted by his guardian angel, Ardama. As the novel unfolds, we learn that Stone...
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9-13-2006
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The Ransom of the Jews: The Story of the Extraordinary Secret Bargain Between Romania and Israel
Author: Radu IoanidPublisher: Ivan R. DeeISBN: 1566635624 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Between 1948 until 1989, the State of Israel had clandestinely engaged in one of the longest and most expensive ransom pacts in history, wherein Romania permitted most its 370,000 Jews, who had survived the Holocaust, to immigrate to Israel in exchange for hard currency and various other considerations.Born...
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5-29-2005
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You Are Traveling With JohnnyJet.com by Erick Lebow: John E. DiScala
The following review was submitted by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
With the thousands of Internet travel guidebooks to choose from it is very difficult to separate the good from the mediocre. You can literally devote days trying to figure out which guide will reveal the most useful information pertaining to the best air-fares, hotels, cars, lodging, student travel, medical resources, romantic vacations, unique lodging, National Parks, hideaways, things to do and see, shopping,...
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1-1-1970
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No Time To Mourn: The True Story of a Jewish Partisan Fighter
Author: Leon Kahn as told to Marjorie MorrisISBN: 1553800117There have been thousands of books written about the Holocaust but few describe the plight of the Jewish partisans who escaped to the forests bravely defending themselves against their Nazi hunters. Unfortunately, the majority of these Jewish partisans never survived to recount the horrid experiences they endured at the hands of the Germans and their collaborators.It is estimated that there were approximately twenty-five thousand...
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2-7-2007
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Blue Springs
Author: Peter RennebohmISBN: 0878392270The following review of the ARC copy of Blue Springs was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview with Peter Rennebohm CLICK HERE
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8-4-2005
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UNTO US A CHILD by DONALD T. PHILLIPS
Good day Donald and thanks for agreeing to the interview. Norm- when you were first approached to write the book by one of the grandchildren of the Albert family, what was your immediate reaction? Did you believe the grandchild was telling the truth or perhaps exaggerating? Donald- my immediate reaction was actually disinterest. From what I heard initially, I did not think it would make a good enough story for a full-length book. Also, I was not too interested in another story about problems...
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12-10-2005
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Hotel Stories: Legendary Hideaways Of The World
Author: Francisca Matteoli Publisher: Assouline ISBN: 2843233429The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW
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4-26-2005
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Scams & Swindles: How to Recognize and Avoid Internet Era Rip-Offs
Author: The Silver Lake EditorsPublishers: Silver Lake PublishingISBN: 1563437864 The following review was submitted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews There is a well-known wise saying, Caveat Emptor, which is the Latin for Buyer Beware.
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5-19-2006
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The Newspaper Boy
Author: Leon Newton ISBN: 0741423936The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With the Author CLICK HEREThe Newspaper Boy by Leon Newton takes a hard look at bigotry and its consequences through the eyes of a young Irish lad growing up in New York’s Lower East Side during the early part of the last century. The story unfolds as we we learn about the poverty of the O'Connor family, the wayward...
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12-13-2005
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Big and Little Jake A Novel
Author: Norman EdelsteinISBN: 1598004425The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews It is often said that many of us have in us a book that needs to be written. Perhaps, it is the one that keeps up awake a night that is rooted in our own personal experiences or those of others. Eighty-one year old Norman Edelstein is one of the many who realized his dreams and put pen to paper. The result is Big and Little Jake a...
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8-13-2006
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Sai Sankalap Author of The Kashmir Affair Is Interviewed By Norm Goldman
Author:Sai SankalapISBN: 0595361161The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Review Of The Book Click HereGood day Sai and thank you for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:When did your passion for writing begin and what inspired you to write The Kashmir Affair?Sai: Thank you Norm for warm wishes and inviting me to the interview. Since my childhood, I had an inkling to write short
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9-21-2005
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What The Shadow Told Me
Author: Kurtis DavidsonISBN: 1597660027Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press The following review was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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6-13-2005
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Insight Guides San Francisco
Editors: John Wilcock: Martha Ellen Zenfel: Brian Bell:ISBN: 088729149XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews There are many books written in the travel literature genre pertaining to San Francisco, but few cover as much territory as Insight Guide San Francisco.Just by glancing through the table of contents, you notice that what is important to the editors was not where to eat or stay, although this is briefly...
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11-5-2005
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Phase One After Zero
Author: Vladimir ChernozemskyISBN: 1932656030 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews One of the challenges fiction authors face is trying to capture absurd news headlines and weave them into an exciting story without boring the reader.
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8-29-2005
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Illicit
Author: Moisés NaimISBN: 0385513925 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews The 1990s witnessed a new breed of creative and ruthless criminal entrepreneurs that embraced open markets and freer politics on a grand scale. Sealants that once safeguarded borders now have melted away due to changes in politics, technology and economics. As a result, traffickers in illicit goods and services have benefited more than...
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12-27-2005
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The Creationist Chronicles (The Declaration of MAN) by Innominate Son of Man
The following review was contributed by: TAMI BRADY
The Creationist Chronicles relates the basic dogma of
Creationists. Creationists believe in a dually male and female creator and hold the first forty-nine verses in the book of Moses (Genesis) as its testament. The remaining books of the Bible as well as the Torah, Quran, and other holy books are described as being the Tree of Knowledge.
The author states that although man should learn from the Tree of Knowledge, man should not...
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1-1-1970
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Insight Guides Florida by Emily Hatchwell (Project Editor):Brian Bell (Editorial Director)
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
There are a vast number of guide- books devoted to Florida. Some are very helpful others you might as well save your money, as the information contained is nothing more than what you would usually receive from the travel department for the State of Florida.
However, it is not very often when you come across a travel guide- book that recognizes that it is not only sufficient to list and describe lodging,...
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1-1-1970
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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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Love by Tony Morrison
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN, Editor of Bookpleasures
Reading Pulitzer and Nobel prize- winner, Toni Morrison’s most recent novel, Love, was like trying to put together a giant jigsaw puzzle. You never know where you are going to find the next piece, and when you do find it, how will it fit in. Sometimes, however, the pieces are not exactly what you had expected. Somewhat like having your eyes out of focus and not quite sure as to what you are seeing.
In fact,...
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1-1-1970
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Critical Reading
Authors: Amy Wall and Regina WallISBN: 1592573401 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews How often have we heard the statement that someone is a prolific reader or that he or she is well-read?At first this may impress us, however, when you think about it, you have to ask how much these individuals retain and what are they getting out of their reading? As Amy Wall and Regina Wall point out in The Complete...
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6-7-2006
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INTERVIEW WITH SHANNON GRISSOM AUTHOR OF MONKEYS MADE OF SOCKIES
AUTHOR: SHANNON GRISSOMISBN: 1-4208-7022-X The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews & Lily Azerad-Goldman: CLICK TO VIEW Lily Azerad-Goldman's Reviews
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11-17-2005
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Some Day Never Comes
Author: Kerry LePageISBN: 978-1-4343-2855-0When Kerry LePage looked back on his life that has spanned fifty plus years, he sincerely felt he had something to pass unto anyone who would listen to him. What's more, he believed that now was the right time to do it or as my own father used to tell me, do it now, tomorrow never comes. As LePage points out in his introduction, what motivated him to write Some Day Never Comes was that the only memories he has of most of his relatives are their...
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4-20-2007
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The One Minute Assassin
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Troy CookISBN: 9780977627646Troy Cook former feature film writer and director and winner of several awards for his first novel 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers which was selected by Library Journal as one of the best debuts of the year delivers another great read with his The One Minute Assassin.Cook’s novel is a whirlwind story of political intrigue mixed in with two clumsy assassins, an ex-football player, Dennis Nalen also known as...
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7-11-2007
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A Pretext For War by James Bamford
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKOKLEASURES.COM Since the war on Iraq, we have been bombarded with all kinds of theories as to its moral and legal rationality. Some of these hot button issues that have been expanded upon in book length books deserve merit with their well thought out arguments and research that supports them, even if you don’t necessarily agree with their authors. Some, however, fall within the category of “schlock” literature, where the...
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10-28-2004
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The Fool’s Path: A Tale From The Lothemian Legacy
Author: Nancy J. Attwell ISBN: 193314212XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Nancy Attwell CLICK HEREThe Fool’s Path: A Tale From The Lothemian Legacy is an ambitious debut novel in the first of a trilogy from Canadian born Nancy J. Attwell, who shows a wonderful amount of promise as an up-and-coming novelist of historical fiction.When I interviewed Attwell she stated that some of...
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11-18-2005
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Voices of America: St. Petersburg An Oral History
Compiled by Scott Taylor HartzellPublishers: Arcadia Publishing and imprint of Tempus Publishing IncISBN: 0-7385-1425-X The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Prior to 1888, St Petersburg, Florida was a tiny fishing village where deer, bear, raccoons, panthers, wildcats, gators and rattlesnakes roamed the area. Not exactly what we would imagine if we traveled to the sunshine city today.In 1880 a Rus
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6-6-2006
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The Room
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Ray MelnikISBN: 1589615425Harry Ladd, the protagonist of Ray Melnik’s first novel, The Room, has had a rough go of it. During his childhood he and his brother Malcolm had been on the receiving end of their father’s abuse. To escape these angry outbursts, the two youngsters would find refuge in their mother’s bedroom closest.Deeply affected by the cruel behavior of his father as well as his mother’s reluctance to intervene, Malcolm left home...
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7-5-2007
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The Education Mirage:How Teachers Succeed and Why The System Fails by Professor (Emeritus) Ira Jay Winn
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN Editor of Bookpleasures.
In all probability, the topic of teaching and education elicits such an array of responses that we are sometimes at a loss to logically understand why the system very often contributes to apathetic and uninterested students.
Professor (Emeritus)Ira Jay Winn, author of The Education Mirage: How Teachers Succeed and Why the System Fails, deftly weaves together his thoughts, suggestions and solutions...
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1-1-1970
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Sarah, Come Home
Author: Cecil L. MillinerISBN: 1932657398The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. Here are more of Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Cecil L. Milliner CLICK HEREWith Sarah, Come Home, Cecil L. Milliner picks up the reins where he last left off in the first novel Willie May Medcalf
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9-18-2006
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The Latest Travel Articles and Interviews With Travel Experts
Norm, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com has been very busy these past few months. Here are some of the most recent travel articles, water colors and interviews that Norm and his artist wife Lily have contributed to their travel site sketchandtravel.com. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLES AND VIEW LILY'S ART WORK.
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7-25-2006
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Cyrus Bull Tells How To Become A Billionaire: Money, Love and Revenge Stirred With A Barbed Spoon by Richard Crissman
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
To read Norm's interview with Cyrus Bull, click
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Mea culpa, when I initially flipped through Richard Crissman’s latest book, Cyrus Bull Tells How To Become A Billionaire: Money, Love and Revenge Stirred With A Barbed Spoon, I cheated a little. I immediately turned to the appendix, wherein the author’s principal protagonist, Cyrus Bull, enumerates the seven principles of how he became a Billionaire....
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1-1-1970
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The Cattle
Author: Greg M. SarwaISBN: 0976620200The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Greg CLICK HEREIf you have any preconceptions about the recently enacted Real ID Act in theUSA, I heartily suggest you read Greg M. Sarwa’s debut novel, The Cattle.Although the narrative is a work of fiction, it certainly reflects some of thereality transpiring in the USA as a result of 9/11.The USA...
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4-6-2006
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Den Helder
Author: Frank RidgleyISBN: 1598006436 Marine Biologist and former U.S. Merchant Marine Officer, Frank Ridgley, turns his hand to writing fiction with his debut novel, Den Helder. This is a novel focusing on the universal topic in our lives, what would I do without the person I love in my life or the meaning of life without the person I love?Our story unfolds when our principle character, Antonio (Tony) Kirkland, who recently was accredited as a merchant marine, accepts his first assignment...
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1-19-2007
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Schlepping Through The Alps: My Search For Austria’s Jewish Past With Its Last Wandering Shepherd
Author: Sam AppleISBN: 0345477731Sam Apple, author of Schlepping Through The Alps: My Search For Austria’s Jewish Past With Its Last Wandering Shepherd, first encounters Yiddish folk-singer Hans Breuer at a concert and slide show in New York. Breuer, as Apple points out, is not just your ordinary run-of-the mill Yiddish folk-singer, rather he is truly a wandering Jew and as he reveals in his book, “If you ever happen to be hiking the Alps and you see a man singing Yiddish songs as he watches...
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9-30-2006
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Letter Perfect The Marvelous History Of Our Alphabet From A to Z by David Sacks
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES.COM
Prior to reading David Sacks’ reference book, Letter Perfect The Marvelous History Of Our Alphabet From A to Z, it never dawned on me just how intriguing are the letters of our alphabet.
As Sacks points out, these twenty- six letters all have personalities of their own.
Combining his knowledge of history, linguistics, geography, literature, phonetics and other disciplines, readers are taken on a wonderful...
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1-1-1970
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Foot Ways
PURCHASE FROM AMAZON Author: Lynn Veach Sadler, Ph.DISBN: 9780615145631In Foot Ways, native North Carolinian, poet, author and former college president, Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, showcases her mastery of the novella form.Dividing her novella into five short stories, Sadler paints different character portraits that are relayed to the reader via first-person narratives with a little sadness thrown in. All are carefully constructed and are loosely interconnected in some way or another to a certain...
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6-23-2007
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Hammond World Almanac 2006 World Atlas
Publisher: Hammond World Atlas CorporationISBN: 0843709375 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews The Hammond World Atlas Corporation has teamed up with the bestselling World Almanac and Book of Facts in putting together a superb and educational publication, Hammond World Almanac 2006 World Atlas.You can probably call this Almanac the bible for world class cartography and data with its 200 pages of facts and...
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6-1-2006
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How To Be A Gardener by Alan Titchmarsh (Author): Jonathan Buckley (Photographer)
The following review was submitted by: NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Peeking out of my widow on an early Montreal spring morning I was depressed and horrified to notice snow on the ground! Although, where I live, you never know when winter ends and spring arrives; it still came as a shock! In all probability, this would drive some to go for a swig of cognac in order to alleviate their winter blues, however, I decided to think positively and I began planning my garden. Every spring I...
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10-11-2004
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Israel Travel: Author and Travel Writer Tom Thumb Interviewed
Norm Goldman, Editor of the travel site, Sketchandtravel.com and the book reviewing site Bookpleasures.com interviews travel writer and author Tom Thumb concerning his travels to Israel.To read the interview CLICK HERE
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12-29-2005
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Molly Lake
Author: Samuel EndicottISBN: 0741424207 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With the Author Click Here
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7-12-2005
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Celebrate Your Life: The Art of Celebrating Every Day
Author: Melissa GaltISBN: 978-0-9790103-0-9The shelves of bookstores cry out with the weight of countless books about how to lead a fulfilling and rewarding life that would probably sink a ship and any author who turns another one of these self-help tomes loose on readers had better have a good angle amid all the rivalry. Fortunately for the countless readers who devour these books, Melissa Galt has just such a hook with her Celebrate Your Life: The Art of Celebrating Every Day. This compact...
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5-19-2007
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Thinking Of A Trip To Greece & The Greek Islands?
Norm Goldman, Editor of sketchandtravel.com interviews Tom Savvides, expert on Greece and co-owner of National Travel Service Inc located in Livingston, New Jersey. Tom passes on some excellent tips pertaining to Greece and the Greek Islands.To read Norm's interview with Tom Click INTERVIEW
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1-5-2005
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Corsino by Cole Kivlin
The following interview was conducted by Bookpleasures with Cole Kivlin, author of Corsino.
Thank you Cole for consenting to be interviewed by Bookpleasures.
To read the review click HERE
INTERVIEW
Norm-Why did you want to publish a story about yourself and your lost family?
Cole-Actually, it wasn’t entirely my idea. After I returned from the initial trip to find my family, my wife and one of my daughters kept prodding me to write my story. The daughter even threatened to write...
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1-1-1970
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Rand McNally The Road Atlas ‘05
Title: Rand McNally The Road Atlas ‘05Publisher: Rand McNally & CompanyISBN: 0528845403 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures-CLICK TO VIEW>> Norm Goldman's ReviewsAs my wife and I are a unique team, artist and travel writer respectively, we a
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10-20-2004
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Inside Monster Garage by Ken Vose (Writer)
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN Editor of Bookpleasures.
“Mea Culpa”- I have to confess, I never watched the Discovery Channel’s television series, Monster Garage. Then again, for that matter, I have refrained these days from watching television altogether!
Monster Garage, as I have been informed by several television mavens, is one of the hottest realty shows, and after reading the fan book Inside Monster Garage,written by Ken Vose, I can fully understand why...
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1-1-1970
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Robert Fate Author of Baby Shark Interviewed
Author: Robert Fate ISBN: 0977627691 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's review of Baby Shark CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Robert Fate, author of Baby Shark.Good day Robert and thank you for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:Robert, please tell our readers a little bit about...
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5-5-2006
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. FriedmanISBN: 0374292884 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman’s latest book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, is no less ambitious than his previous works. According to Friedman the world is flat and when you think of
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10-10-2005
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Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul: A Woman’s Guide to Promoting Herself, Her Business, Her Product, or Her Cause with Integrity and Spirit by Susan Harrow
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN, EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Though Susan Harrow’s primer, Sell Yourself Without Selling Your Soul: A Woman’s Guide to Promoting Herself, Her Business, Her Product, or Her Cause with Integrity and Spirit , claims to be the first and only marketing and publicity book for women, however, beyond doubt, it could have easily been addressed to men.
Although the book’s subject matter is very extensive, Harrow has done an amazing job of...
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1-1-1970
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The Sitting Swing
Author: Irene Watson ISBN: 1891386492The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With The Author CLICK HEREExploring the cause and effect of addictions is a tricky proposition, as it is a term that is often tossed around in such a manner that most of us assume we clearly understand it. However, after reading Irene Watson’s The Sitting Swing, you realize that it can connote
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11-22-2005
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1000 Places To See Before You Die
Author: Patricia SchultzISBN: 0761104844 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsHave you ever wondered what travel means to you? This is a question I have often posed to the many travel writers I have interviewed over the past few years and for most the reply was that travel takes you out of your ordinary routine, where “ordinary” people from all walks of life can engage with each other. In reality, it is an...
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1-1-2006
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Anti-Semitisim and Corruption At The United Nations- Author of THE UN GANG Pedro A. Sanjuan Interviewed
AUTHOR: Pedro A. Sanjuan ISBN: 0385513194 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Pedro A. Sanjuan's Book CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Pedro Sanjuan, author of THE UN GANG: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism, and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat.Good day Pedro and thank...
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11-16-2005
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A Circle of Dreams
Author: Annie RogersISBN: 0977018318The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with the authors CLICK HERE
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5-15-2006
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Conversation With Robert Fate Author of Baby Shark's BEAUMONT BLUES
Author: Robert FateISBN: 13: 978-0-9776276-2-2Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Robert Fate, author of Baby Shark’s BEAUMONT BLUES.Good day Robert and thanks once again for participating in our interview.Norm:Robert, since we last communicated you have authored a second novel, Baby Shark’s BEAUMONT BLUES and I understand you are working on a third one. How do you get your inspiration to keep on writing? How long does it take you...
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12-20-2006
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Whistler’s Gold: The Secret At Nizhoni Toh
Author: Wayne WintertonISBN: 1599267527The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Wayne Winterton CLICK HEREWayne Winterton’s Whistler’s Gold: The Secret At Nizhoni Toh takes as its backdrop a great deal of culture, tradition, geography, environment and history of the Navajo- Native Americans that reside in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Winterton has lived and worked on the Navajo...
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4-24-2006
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Insight Guides New England (8th Edition) by Susan Gordon, Editor
The following review was contributed by""
NORM GOLDMAN
As a travel writer focusing on the New England States, I am always on the look out for informative and well-written guides concerning these interesting states.
A well- researched book can provide an excellent window into a particular geographical area’s history, culture, attractions, and its people.
Not surprisingly, Insight Guides New England guidebook effectively synthesizes an understanding of the culture, history,...
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1-1-1970
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The Kashmir Affair
Author:Sai SankalapISBN: 0595361161The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's interview with the author Click HereSai Sankalap’s debut novel, The Kashmir Affair, weaves the story of a young Indian actor, Joshua Borendhi, who immigrates to the USA in order to further his acting career. From the onset, Joshua is portrayed as somewhat of a mysterious character, who conceals his past, as he barely...
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9-19-2005
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Interested In Knowing More About Alaska As A Travel Destination?
If you are interested in knowing more about Alaska as a travel destination, you may want to read what Nancy T. Reynolds, co-author of Going Places Family Getaways In The Pacific Northwest had to tell Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.comCLICK HERE
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1-21-2005
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Canadian Wartime Prison Escapes: Courage & Daring Behind Enemy Lines
Author: Peter C. ConradISBN: 13:978-1-894864-64-0 10: 1-894864-64-6Inspired by true events that were garnered from extensive research, Peter Conrad’s Canadian Wartime Prison Escapes: Courage & Daring Behind Enemy Lines shares with us the hair raising accounts of several courageous Canadian soldiers and airmen who during World Wars I and II were either captured by the enemy and escaped or made their way back after getting caught behind enemy lines. The tales of these escapees are...
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6-30-2007
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The Interview
Author: King HurleyISBN: 0977418804King Hurley’s debut novel, The Interview focuses on Michael King, the CEO of a public company, Peak Pharmaceuticals. Hurley is not exactly ecstatic about his job as he states, “the life of a CEO slugging it out in the public arena was neither glamorous nor fun, but you can count on it aging the hell out of you.”Peak Pharmaceuticals is quite successful with yearly sales in the range of five hundred million, however, shareholders are always clamoring for more,...
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10-5-2006
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Dark Friday
Author: Jeffrey LeeverISBN: 9780977627639In his most recent novel, Dark Friday, Jeffrey Leever drops his readers into Jasonville, Indiana, a small-town of 2500 located in the middle of nowhere. You would even think, as most of the locals do, that it would be the safest place on earth! Unfortunately, your belief would be quickly shattered when you learn that on one rainy Friday evening five teen-age girls were brutally murdered and there were also two other attempted murders as well as an...
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6-13-2007
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Golem
Author: Greg VilkISBN: 0977218902The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsWhen I picked up Greg Vilk's debut novel Golem, I immediately had a vivid recollection of my first encounter with
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11-20-2005
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Silent Battlefields
Author: Hugh Rosen ISBN: 0595347738The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Hugh Rosen, CLICK HEREHugh Rosen has created an emotionally charged read with his debut novel Silent Battlefields. At the heart of the novel and the central peg on which Rosen hangs his carefully crafted novel is a narrative involving two families that are woven together in a provocative and complex...
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3-31-2006
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Game Face by Dr. James D. Chlovechok
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Have you ever wondered how some athletes seem to have a personality transformation the minute they put on their uniforms?
It is as if mentally, spiritually and emotionally their psyche has been modified to such an extent that they seem to have a marked edge over their opponents.
Suppose we were offered a drug that could easily accomplish this feat. Would we take it not knowing its side effects?
With this in...
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1-1-1970
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The Oldest Europeans
Author: J.F. del GiorgioISBN: 9806898001 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interesting Interview With Dr. J.F. del Giorgio CLICK HEREJ. F. del Giorgio’s The Oldest Europeans opening chapter cites the well-known French comic strip, Asterix, wherein we are reminded as to how the Romans were unable to defeat a rebellious, ever-quarreling, and wild people. Apparently, these individuals lived by...
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5-15-2006
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Pieces of Pie Surviving Love
Author: Pie DumasISBN: 0976560801The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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7-18-2005
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The Good Works of Ayela Linde
Author: Charlotte ForbesISBN: 1559708077The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Charlotte Forbes CLICK HEREO.Henry Award winner, Charlotte Forbes, has put together a brilliant collection of sixteen stories focusing on the life of Ayela Linde, the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker, Felidia Garzon.All of the stories are arranged chronologically from the time Ayela
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8-11-2006
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How to Promote Your Music Successfully on the Internet
Author: David NevuePublisher: Midnight Raid Productions The following review was contributed by NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With David Nevue CLICK HERE David Nevue is an independent musician (pianist and composer) who has been promoting his music on the Internet since 1995.In his debut foray into the world of writing non-fiction, Nevue draws upon his extensive background and experience of marketing music on the...
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6-14-2006
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Coca Finds a Shell by Angelo Segarra
The following review was contributed by:ANDREA WREN A simple children's book with unusual illustrations, Coca Finds a Shell is the story of a small girl who discovers an empty shell and wonders what creature can live in it. She then searches to find an inhabitant until a crab comes to use it as a home. It is a story for very young children to be read and explored with their parent or guardian. Although the sentiment is touching and the author clearly wants to depict a tale of a child's awe...
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10-19-2004
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Retire Dollar $mart
Author: Jim MillerPublisher: TraffordISBN: 1412030005 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With The Author CLICK HERE
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6-12-2005
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All the Pope’s Men: The Inside Story Of How The Vatican Really Works by John A. Allen, Jr.,
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Recognized as a maven when it comes to the intricacies of the workings of the Vatican, John A. Allen, Jr., Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, has written an excellent reference text that will go a long way in helping us to be better informed about its thoughts, how it reacts and why, and its perspective of the world.
Due to the complexity of the subject matter, Allen, in order to lay a...
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1-1-1970
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Nile Cruise and Beyond
Author: Brigitte FoulkeISBN: 1413786375In her Prologue, Brigitte Foulke author of Nile Cruise and Beyond mentions that her son calls her a lunatic, because he could not imagine that her story actually happened to her. However, as she states, her friends believe her story to be true, but many don’t understand why she can’t wipe out those eight years and move on like nothing happened. From its title to its conclusion, Brigitte Foulke’s Nile Cruise and Beyond is intended as a chronicle of...
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1-24-2007
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A Foreign Policy
Author: Richard Graham-YoollPublisher: Medallion PressISBN: 193281549XThe following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With the Author CLICK HEREA Foreign Policy
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8-18-2005
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Baby Shark’s BEAUMONT BLUES
Author: Robert FateISBN: 13: 978-0-9776276-2-2 The “wise guys” that populate Robert Fate's second novel, Baby Shark's BEAUMONT BLUES, are not exactly the kind you would want to bring home to mother’s family dinner, as the P.I. team of Kristin Van Dijk and Otis Millett soon discover.Kristin and Otis were first introduced to us in Fate's debut novel Baby Shark when their client, Henry Chin, hired them to help find the men who killed Chin's son and Kristin's father. Since then Kristin has gone...
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12-12-2006
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The Broker
Author: John GrishamPublisher: DoubledayISBN: 0385510454 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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1-21-2005
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MalaMala: Pathway To An African Eden
Title: MalaMala: Pathway To An African EdenAuthors: Amanda Lumry & Jamie ThomISBN: #0966225716
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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11-27-2004
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With Love From Spain: Melanie Martin by Carol Weston
The following review was contributed by:
LILY AZERAD-GOLDMAN
To read an interview with Carol Weston click
HERE
Spring break couldn’t be more fun than with the Martin family.
Carol Weston’s latest in a series of diaries With love from Spain, Melanie Martin, once again creates characters that have become our believable invisible friends.
Melanie is now a big girl of eleven and her brother Matt the brat is seven.
Melanie’s diary candidly describes her family’s whirlwind activities,...
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1-1-1970
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Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents
Author: Marty EssenISBN: 0977859975 Some travelers love cruises, while others enjoy romantic getaways to far away places. And there are the rare few who wish to observe and interact with wildlife. Marty and Deb Essen fall into this latter category. This daring couple decided one day they would like to trek the world in search of rare spiders, venomous insects, snakes and other animals that ordinary people would have nightmares about. Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents...
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12-13-2006
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A Father’s Abuse…A Doctor’s Love: The Powerful Story of a Tortured Boy Who Prevailed With the Help of a Very Special Doctor
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Louis PanesiISBN: 9780979216602Writing a story about your personal experiences with your Psychiatrist and sharing your family secrets with the world takes a great deal of courage. And that is exactly what Louis Panesi did when he published A Father’s Abuse…A Doctor’s Love: The Powerful Story of a Tortured Boy Who Prevailed With the Help of a Very Special Doctor. Panesi was the victim of his father and grandfather’s verbal abuse where subtly...
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8-10-2007
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Blow The House Down
Author: Robert BaerISBN: 1400098351 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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6-10-2006
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Ocean Cruising & Cruise Ships 2004 by Douglas Ward
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
If you have ever taken a cruise you know how frustrating it can be just deciding which cruise to take? There are probably hundreds of books on the topic, not to mention the endless number of newspaper, magazine and Internet articles.
Now along comes a guide that probably could be called the bible of ocean cruising information, as its level of detail and rigorous research is unbelievable!
The Berlitz Ocean...
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1-1-1970
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Self-Promotion For The Creative Person by Lee Silber
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES One of the major difficulties that creative persons as artists and musicians have is promoting themselves. In fact, I would have to go so far as to say that many of these individuals are clueless when it comes to marketing, networking, creating a niche image, selling, gaining publicity and the benefits of the Internet. They may even be bogged down by stringent guidelines or the “what will people think and say”...
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3-21-2007
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Shuttle Rising: To Rendezvous With A Rumor
Author: Charles Boyle: ISBN: 0965721450The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With the Author CLICK HERECharles Boyle's absorbing tale, Shuttle Rising: To Rendezvous With A Rumor makesexcellent use of his profound knowledge of space research and technologyresulting in some very imaginative plot twists. Boyle's writing has appeared inScience and Omni magazines and he has served as space...
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12-5-2005
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Are You Interested in Participating In An Express Author Interview Service?
Express Author Interview Service & Author Video ServiceIf you are interested in quickly promoting your book via an e-interview or your own video, you may be interested in the following service that is now provided by Bookpleasures.com.Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com has interviewed over 400 authors and experts over the past few years. Due to an o
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6-24-2007
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Interview With Alain de Botton-Author of The Art Of Travel
TITLE: The Art Of TravelAuthor: Alain de BottonISBN: 037420827The following interview was conducted by NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Today Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com are very honored to have as our guest, travel author Alain de Botton, who recently published The Art of Travel.Good day Alain and thank you for accepting our invitation to be interviewed.Norm: Before we deal specifically with your beautiful book, The Art of...
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11-27-2004
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Dreams My Lamp unto the Darkness
Author: Walt Stover, M.A.ISBN: 9781567768569Walt Stover’s Dreams My Lamp unto the Darkness is an accessible must-read exploration of the mystical world of dreams and how they may be applied to improve your everyday living. Stover has pulled together an impressive array of findings that are based on his more than 15,000 dreams that began in 1978 and that he documented in his own journal. In fact, his work with precognitive stock market dreams has been favorably referred to in several...
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4-9-2007
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Brian Smith Author of Losing Innocence Interviewed
Author: Brian Smith:Publisher: PublishAmericaISBN: 1424100380 The following interview was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Review of Losing Innocence CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Brian Smith, author of Losing Innocence.Good day Brian and thank you for participating in our interview.Norm:Why do you write and why did you feel...
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12-3-2005
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What If…….?
Author: Gunnar Jensen:ISBN: 3833443553The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Gunnar Jensen CLICK HERE
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6-3-2006
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The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full Time Living
Author: Peter BowermanISBN: 0967059860Peter Bowerman, whose first two books, The Well-Fed Writer and the Well-Fed Writer: Back for Seconds have been the recipient of several awards. Bowerman has now put together another excellent book, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full Time Living. What is quite noteworthy about all these books is that they have been self-published, thus providing concrete evidence, as Bowerman states in his introduction that he is living proof...
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11-11-2006
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Alice In Corporate Wonderland: Down The Long Hallway
Author: R.T. Talasek, PH.DISBN: 1413796818 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews Lewis Caroll’s classic tale of Alice Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1865 and is still a favorite among young readers. Most of us will remember this children’s story as a tale filled with satire references to the author’s friends and to the lessons that British schoolchildren
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6-8-2006
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Making History: How to remember, record, interpret and share the events of your life
Author: Kim PearsonISBN: 10: 1881849031When our children, relatives and friends broach the subject of writing our memoirs, most of us manage to provide a broad array of negative responses from who cares about our lives to even if I wanted to write my memoirs, how would I go about it as I don't have a clue. To help us overcome our lack of enthusiasm, Kim Pearson has come up with a most unique resource, Making History: How to remember, record, interpret and share the events of your...
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6-21-2007
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Poison Pen
Author: Sheila LoweISBN: 13:978-0977627608Sheila Lowe's first venture into the world of mystery writing is set in California where forensic handwriting expert Claudia Rose is on a quest to find out the cause of death of her friend, Lindsey Alexander. Did Lindsey commit suicide or was she a murder victim after her
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12-7-2006
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A Conversation with "Mr.Broadway" and Author of Let's Put On a Show-Stewart F. Lane
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Stewart F. Lane. It is little wonder that Stewart has been called "Mr. Broadway!"As a three time Tony Award Winner Producer he has been involved in one capacity or another as writer, director or producer in such well-known productions as: Legally Blond, Princesses the Musical, The Two and Only, Fiddler on the Roof, Thoroughly Modern...
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6-1-2007
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Zone Mind, Zone Body:How to break through to new levels of fitness and performance-by doing less!
Author : Roy PalmerISBN: 1-905823-06-1Until I read Roy Palmer’s Zone Mind, Zone Body, How to break through to new levels of fitness and performance-by doing less, I was clueless as to what athletes mean when they describe their performances as being in The Zone. What is this unique and mystical place where their performances are exceptional and consistent and furthermore how do we go about reaching it? To answer these questions I turned to Palmer’s Zone Mind, Zone Body and I was not...
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2-24-2007
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Interview: Kenneth Kahn Author of The Carny Kid
Author: Kenneth KahnISBN: 0976111500 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Review of the Book CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as ourguest, Kenneth Kahn, author of The Carny Kid Survival of a Young Thief.
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7-28-2005
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The Permission Seeker’s Guide Through The Legal Jungle: Clearing Copyrights, Trademarks and Other Rights for Entertainment and Media Productions
Author: Joy R. ButlerISBN: 9780967294018If you are involved in media be it radio, television, film, newspaper, magazines, or the Internet, it would be very difficult not to be concerned about the possibility of being sued. Moreover, if you try to wade through the thousands of laws, doctrine and jurisprudence to try to make sense of the complex legal issues involving the media, you would probably come to the same conclusion as Will Rodgers did when he quipped “the minute you read something you...
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4-22-2007
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Goodbye Evilwood: The Murders In Tinseltown
Author: Vladimir ChernozemskyISBN: 1932656049In Goodbye Evilwood: The Murders In Tinseltown, Vladimir Chernozemsky offers us a glimpse of the sleazy and sordid side of Hollywood with his tale of the murder of a ballerina. This is a semi-true story as Chernozemsky mentions in his Preface, names and a few places have been changed, some more than others, however the main facts are established history, his own experiences and those of his Hollywood friends and acquaintances. The novel opens with...
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9-28-2006
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The Hungry Heart: A Woman’s Fast For Justice
Author: Zoe Ann NicholsonPublisher: Lune Soleil Press, Newport Beach, California:ISBN: 0972392831 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's interview w
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1-18-2005
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T.S. Bogorad Author of The Importance of Civility Interviewed
Author: T.S. BogoradISBN: 1-4259-5893-1: 1-4259-5894-XThe following interview with T.S. Bogorad was conducted by NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's review of the Importance of Civility CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Terry: Bogorad, author of The Importance of Civility.Good day Terry: and thanks for participating
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9-5-2006
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Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria
Author: Kyra E. HicksIllustrator: Lee Edward FodiISBN: 10: 1933285597: 13-1933285597Martha Ann’s Quilt for Queen Victoria is a wonderful children’s picture book that begs to be read aloud.It is quite a feat to master the skill of employing just the right words that do not aim too high or too low and this is exactly what Kyra E. Hicks has accomplished as she effectively reaches her intended young audience. Her economical narrative presents the right amount of detail that keeps her readers...
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1-12-2007
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Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920
Author: Prof. Ruth L. BohanISBN: 9780271027029The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews American poet, journalist and essayist, Walt Whitman has long been regarded asone of the most outstanding Western poets in the past one hundred and fiftyyears. Whitman was born in New York, the son of a Quaker carpenter and he isbest known for L
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6-26-2006
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Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine
Author: Oleg I. Reznik M.D.ISBN: 1-932690-16-6Publisher: Loving Healing Press(Review of Advanced Review Copy-Publisher’s Uncorrected Proof) The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews A gutsy” exposé of the state of the health care system serves as a timely reminder that much is needed in the manner in which physicians and patients interact in the dispensing and receiving of effective medical care in the USA.
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10-10-2005
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Double Daggers
Author: James R. CliffordISBN: 0897542177 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With James R. Clifford CLICK HEREJames R. Clifford has been graced with a fertile imagination as evidenced with his new novel Double Daggers that focuses on one of the rarest of silver coins known as the Double Dagger Denarius or the Eids of March coin that celebrates the most legendary murder of...
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8-6-2006
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Maccabee
Author: David C. CarsonISBN: 1432701657Every year on the 25th of the month Kislev of the Hebrew Calendar (between the end of November and the end of December according to the Gregorian calendar) Jews from around the world celebrate the Festival of Lights or as it is more commonly known, Chanukah. The holiday commemorates the victory of the Maccabees and the rededication of the temple. It also commemorates the miracle of the oil that burned for eight days. For those of you who are not familiar...
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5-5-2007
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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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Guerrilla Travel Tactics
Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson and Theo Brandt-SarifPublisher: American Management AssociationISBN: 08144-7170-6This review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews : To read Norm's interview with the author click HERE
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12-9-2004
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Boomerang by Lue Christian
INTERVIEW WITH LUE CHRISTIAN AUTHOR OF BOOMERANG
Good day Lue and thanks for accepting Bookpleasures invitation to be interviewed.
Norm
Lue, please tell our readers something about yourself and your writing experience.
Lue
I'm retired after thirty years as an administrative assistant. I live with my husband, Shannon, a retired civil engineer, in Central California with our two cats, Suma and Omar. We have four daughers, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. In...
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1-1-1970
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Charlie Valentine Author of Better Days Ahead Interviewed
Title: Better Days AheadAuthor: Charlie ValentineISBN: 0977218708 The following interview was conducted by Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com.To read Norm's Review of Better Days Ahead CLICK HERE: To read all of Norm's Reviews
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7-11-2006
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Mobsters & Rumrunners of Canada: Crossing the Line
Author: Gord SteinkePublisher: Folklore PublishingISBN: 13:978-1-894864-11-4 10: 1-894864-11-5 In his introduction to Mobsters & Rumrunners of Canada: Crossing the Line Gord Steinke points out that “probation was a miserable failure. The so called ‘Noble Experiment,’ which was meant to reduce crime and poverty and improve people’s health” turned out to be a complete disaster. In fact, prohibition spawned a whole new crew of criminals who specialized in bootlegging and much of...
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5-31-2007
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THE UN GANG:A MEMOIR OF INCOMPETENCE, CORRUPTION, ESPIONAGE, ANTI-SEMITISM, AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AT THE UN SECRETARIAT
AUTHOR: Pedro A. SanjuanISBN: 0385513194The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Pedro A. Sanjuan CLICK HEREIn 1984 Pedro Sanjuan was appointed by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to the UN Secretariat. During the next 10 years what Sanjuan discovered pertaining to the inner working of the Secretariat, as well as other United Nations agencies, was mind boggling. It is quite...
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11-11-2005
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FLOWERtripping: A Traveler’s Guide to What’s Blooming When
Author: Kate SavoryISBN: 0-9779216-03Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Finally, a much-needed addition to travel literature has been published for travelers who wish to design their trips focusing on the world of flowers such as a violet festival in France or perhaps wildflowers in Namqualand, South Africa.Based on her many years of researching flower books, guidebooks, tour itineraries, and related subjects on the Internet, Kate Savory, author of FLOWERtripping: A Traveler’s...
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7-30-2007
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Nancy J. Attwell, Author of The Fools' Path: A Tale From The Lothemian Legacy Is Interviewed.
Author: Nancy J. Attwell ISBN: 193314212XThe following interview was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Review CLICK HEREToday Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Nancy J. Attwell, author of The Fools’ Path: A Tale From The Lothemian Legacy.Good day Nancy and thank you for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:Nancy, how did your book come about? What was your main reason...
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11-18-2005
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Free by Paul Vincent
INTERVIEW WITH PAUL VINCENT AUTHOR OF FREE CONDUCTED BY NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
To read the review of Free click HERE
Good day Paul and thank you for accepting Bookpleasures' invitation to be interviewed:
NORM
Could you tell us about yourself, your writing experiences and how you became a writer?
PAUL
As a child I went to a British school that was set up by King Edward VI and is still run as a charity for poorer kids. Almost as an act of whimsy the school bought a...
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1-1-1970
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Truth and Fiction In The Da Vinci Code
Author: Bart D. EhrmanISBN: 0195181409Publisher: Oxford University Press The present review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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12-30-2004
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The i Tetralogy
Author: Mathias B. FreesePublisher: Hats Off BooksISBN: 1-58736-404-2The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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7-29-2005
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A Woman's Guide To Revenge
Authors: Greg & Ann ClouthierISBN: 1590790715 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsFacing the brutal reality of a cheating mate, some wives become very imaginative and creative when it comes to catching the scoundrel. These innovative strategies are revealed in a series of short case studies that have been put together by private investigators Greg and Ann Clouthier in A Woman's Guide To Revenge.Drawing...
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9-17-2005
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Thinking Inside The LiteBlue Box
Author: Ronald Williams Jr.ISBN: 1-4241-7189-X Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon As a follow up to his Deep Inside LiteBlue, Ronald Williams Jr. has written Thinking Inside The LiteBlue Box where Williams presents concrete suggestions as to how to improve the United States Postal Service or as he says in his introduction “this book is packed with olive branches and verbal spears from a courtside warrior. It’s about flipping the script or turning the pyramid upside down and putting...
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8-2-2007
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Lou Panesi Shares Some Interesting Thoughts About His Book A Father's Abuse
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Louis PanesiISBN: 9780979216602Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Louis Panesi author of A Father’s Abuse…A Doctor’s Love: The Powerful Story of a Tortured Boy Who Prevailed With the Help of a Very Special Doctor
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8-8-2007
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Power Play
Author: Joseph FinderISBN: 13-978-0-312-34748-2 10: 0-312-34748-0The premise of New York Times best selling author Joseph Finder’s Power Play focuses on the kidnap-for-ransom of a major corporation’s entire top leadership by a gang of thugs that takes place in a lodge in a remote area of British Columbia. Our story unfolds when our primary protagonist, Jake Landry, a junior executive with Hammond Aerospace Corporation and someone who is not exactly embraced by the managerial inner...
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5-31-2007
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Phoenix
Author: Richard Satterlie, Ph.DISBN: 1593745702 The following review of the ARC copy was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Richard Satterlie CLICK HERE The world of Richard Satterlie’s Phoenix
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5-27-2006
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A Conversation with Travel Author Troy Corley
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com & Sketchandtravel.com is pleased to have as our guest travel writer and author Troy Corley.Troy is the author and publisher of Let's Go Buggy: The Ultimate Family Guide to Insect Zoos and Butterfly Houses. She has also authored and published Free L.A. (Los Angeles), and is editor of Free O.C. (Orange County) by Robert Stock and the upcoming Free San Francisco and Free N.Y.C (New York City).
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1-6-2007
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The Importance of Civility
Author: T.S. BogoradISBN: 1-4259-5893-1: 1-4259-5894-XThe following reviewing of the ARC copy has been contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with T.S. Bogorad CLICK HERE
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9-5-2006
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Wealth on any Income:12 Steps to Freedom by Rennie Gabriel
The following review was contributed by: CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON Wealth on Any Income. Catchy, huh? For retired people. For young people like my grandson starting life as an enlistee on skimpy soldier’s pay. For people who have experienced reverses (and that includes lots of us since our stock market is still treating many who invested in the 80s and 90s most unkindly). And for the Author Rennie Gabriel who was considering bankruptcy before he brought himself from the brink to a very, very...
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10-19-2004
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Interview with Maggie Anton Author of Rashi's Daughters
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Rashii's Daughters Volume 1 Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Rashii Daughters Volume 2Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guestMaggie Anton, Author of Rashi’s Daughters.
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9-11-2005
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The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book: Your Guide to Successful Authorship
Author: Patricia L. FryIBSN: 0977357600Patricia L. Fry, author of The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book: Your Guide to Successful Authorship, describes herself as “give me the facts, ma'am sort of author with targeted how-to-books.”She has rightfully been regarded as a maven when it comes to counseling authors in the art of publishing and selling their books. This much-deserved status is the result of havin
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11-19-2006
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Murder…Suicide…Whatever…: A Fifi Cutter Mystery
Author: Gwen FreemanISBN: 139780977627615 With Murder…Suicide…Whatever…: A Fifi Cutter Mystery, Gwen Freeman, author, attorney, and artist has delivered a deceptively goofy thriller filled with dead-pan one-liners and punchy humor that would be the envy of many a stand-up comic. Freeman’s concocted plot zeros in on Fifi Cutter and her half brother Bosco Dorff who unannounced shows up one day on her doorstep. Fifi is highly suspicious of Bosco’s motives and doesn’t think highly of her free...
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11-30-2006
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The Fine Print of Self-Publishing: The Contracts & Services of 48 Major Self-Publishing Companies-Analyzed, Ranked & Exposed
Author: Mark LevineISBN: 1-933538-56-2 Many of us have a story to tell, perhaps, it is a work of fiction or non-fiction, one that may be entertaining, useful, informative, or inspirational. However, the foremost difficulty we encounter is locating a publisher who will make our dreams come true. As pointed out in Mark Levine’s The Fine Print of Self-Publishing: The Contracts & Services of 48 Major Self-Publishing Companies-Analyzed, Ranked & Exposed, until recently there only existed...
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10-2-2006
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Woodward And Bernstein: Life In The Shadow Of Watergate
Author: Alicia ShepardPublisher: John Wiley and Sons, IncISBN: 0471737615 That Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have contributed dramatically to changing the face of journalism is by now a matter of historical record. However, very few of us were aware of their symbiotic relationship- what exactly made them tick before and after they became famous. That was until Alicia C. Shepard came along with her masterful narrative of the lives of these two icons, Woodward And Bernstein: Life In The...
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11-9-2006
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The Science of Leadership
Authors: Victoria DePaul and Thomas Michael PowellISBN: 978-0-9794508-0-8After having worked in Corporate America for twenty-four years and with broad experience in Human Resource Management, Victoria DePaul is able to draw on her career in tackling the problems of dysfunctional business organizations. De Paul has teamed up with Thomas Michael Powell, who was for twenty years CEO of a nationwide and executive leadership, labor force and personal development company, to put together The...
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5-2-2007
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Caribbean Escapes
Publisher: Glenn D Harris: Editorial Director: Dale LeathermanISBN: 0976717204The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Interview With Glenn and Dale CLICK HEREAssemble some of the finest travel writers in the business, give their creativity free rein, mix in some stunning photos contributed by some outstanding photographers et voilà you have succeeded in publishi
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12-16-2005
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Goodbye Gutenberg
Author: Written and designed by Valerie KirschenbaumPublishers: Global Renaissance Society, LLCISBN: 0974575038 The following review was contributed by:
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12-16-2004
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Moon Handbooks Alberta: Including Banff, Jasper, and the Canadian Rockies by Andrew Hempstead
The following review was contributed by:
NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES
Recently, as I was searching the Internet for travel guidebooks that uniquely deal with Alberta, Canada, I was surprised to discover that my choices were very limited.
However, I did notice a travel-guide book now in its fifth edition, published by Avalon Travel, authored by Andrew Hempstead, entitled Moon Handbooks Alberta: Including Banff, Jasper, and the Canadian Rockies.
Hempstead is very well versed in...
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1-1-1970
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Bitternest: A Novel
Author: Alan DravenISBN: 978-0-595-43204-2Alan Draven’s debut novel Bitternest: A Novel will no doubt cause the adrenaline to flow with its chilling and macabre scenes where the inhabitants of Bitternest, a fictional town in Louisiana, face the risk of not only succumbing to the deathly avian influenza (H5N1 virus) but also to the real possibility of being decimated by creatures that are half-vampires and half humans. Apparently, a sizeable slice of the population that had contacted the virus...
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5-28-2007
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Killer Instinct
Click Here To Purchase Killer InstinctFrom Amazon After The Rain Author: Joseph FinderISBN: 0312347472Killer Instinct, the 6th work of fiction from Joseph Finder tells a chilling story about a young sales executive trapped in the rat race of the corporate world where to survive you must have the killer instinct.As the novel opens, we find Jason Stedman, who works for an electronics company in Framingham, Ma., conversing on his cellular phone with his wife Kate. Unfortunately, his car runs...
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3-24-2006
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If This Is Heaven, I am Going to Be a Good Boy: The Tommy Leonard Story
Author: Kathleen Cleary ISBN: 0595356982The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview with Author Kathleen Cleary CLICK HEREProbably many of us have a favorite bartender, however, I doubt if we have met one comparable and memorable to the legendary Tommy Leonard of the now defunct Eliot Lounge that was located on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.Nine years...
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10-25-2005
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Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World
Author: Joshua KurlantzickPublisher: Yale University PressISBN: 978-0-300-11703-5 If you are wondering how China has been able to effectively exert their soft power around the world, Joshua Kurlantzick’s Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World is a good place to start. Kurlantzick is a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Special Correspondent at the New Republic, and Senior Correspondent at the American Prospect. Many of his articles...
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5-21-2007
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Wave Me Goodbye by Jura MacLean Sherwood
First time novelist Jura MacLean Sherwood has written a very moving and powerful story concerning the plight of two hundred and forty one children evacuees from Britain in 1940, who were on their way to Canada. Although the story is a work of fiction, it is based on records of a British Government program called the Children’s Overseas Reception Board (CORB): a scheme devised to save the children of Britain by sending them to the Dominions of Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa....
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11-4-2004
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Sell Your Book on Amazon
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Brent SampsonISBN: 1-432701967Although I have contributed several hundred reviews to Amazon and I am even classified as one of their top one thousand reviewers, I never investigated how Amazon provides its authors with some terrific tools that would facilitate the promotion and selling of their books.However, when I came across Brent Samson's Sell Your Book on Amazon, I realized how Amazon makes it possible to reach a worldwide audience...
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4-7-2007
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Interview With David Nevue Author of How To Promote Your Music Successfully On The Internet
Author: David NevuePublisher: Midnight Raid Productions The following interview was conducted by NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of How To Promote Your Music Successfully On The Internet CLICK HERE Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of the book reviewing and author interviewing site, Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, independent
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6-14-2006
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Great Wedding Tips From Well-Known Wedding Experts- Denise and Alan Fields
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com interviews well-known wedding experts Denise and Alan Fields. The Fields are consumer advocates and the authors of BRIDAL BARGAINS and the BRIDAL PASSPORT WEDDING PLANNER. Both are in bookstores nationwide or you can order online at WINDSORPEAK.COM. The Fields have been featured on the Today Show, Oprah and DATELINE NBC. To read Norm's interview click HERE
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1-3-2005
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The Right Way To Write, Publish And Sell Your Book: Your Complete Guide to Successful Authorship (Second Edition)
Author: Patricia L. FryISBN: 978-0-9773576-2-8 When it comes to writing for publications, Patricia Fry’s credentials are impeccable. For over twenty years, Fry has contributed hundreds of articles to over 260 different magazines on a wide variety of topics and approximately 800 of these have been devoted to writing and publishing- no doubt making her a guru on the topic.In addition, Fry has published 25 books, and in 1983 she was far ahead of her time in establishing her own publishing...
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11-8-2007
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Shadow of the Cross
Author: Carolyn GarriottISBN: 09778831-0-8 In her first novel Shadow of the Cross, Carolyn Garriott well-understood the principle that it‘s not only the story that is of great consequence, but rather the manner in which you recount it. How often have we read a novel that contained some very fascinating information, yet the way it was presented was bland and unexciting and after reading the first fifty pages we chucked it aside? However, in the Shadow of the Cross Garriott shines with not...
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4-4-2007
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Do You Want To Know How To Keep Fit While Traveling Or Even On A Romantic Getaway?
Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and sketchandtravel.com interviews Jim Kaese, an elite amateur triathlete, entrepreneurial businessman, and endurance sport coach.Author of The Athletic-Minded Traveler: Where to Work Out and Stay When Fitness Is a Priority, Jim visited America’s top 78 travel destinations to find the very best hotel/fitness-venue combinations.To read Norm's interview click HERE
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1-3-2005
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Interview With Judy Allen, Author Of Your Stress Free Wedding Planner
If you are interested in know more about what wedding planners do and how to separate the good from the bad ones, read what Judy Allen, well-known event and wedding planner has to say. Judy is the author of Your Stress Free Wedding Planner (Sourcebooks, Inc.), as well as five professional books on event planning (John Wiley and Sons)Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com and Sketchandtravel.com recently interviewed Judy.To read more CLICK HERE
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4-14-2005
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Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl Author: John FeinsteinISBN: 978-0-375-84247-4John Feinstein’s background as a sports journalist for the Washington Post, as well as a contributor to Sports Illustrated and the National Sports Daily, comes in quite handy in creating a lively and fascinating novel, Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl. The novel focuses on two teenage reporters who stumble across a scandalous cover up on the eve of the Super Bowl involving an...
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9-10-2007
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The Fearful Fairy
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Fearful Fairy Author: Sheri Hood: Illustrator: M. Faith ShaheenISBN: 13:978-0-9793823-0-7: 10: 0-9793823-0-0One of the most striking characteristics of Sheri Hoods’ children’s book The Fearful Fairy is the delicate manner in which it integrates large ideas into story form for the early school crowd. As in most picture books, this one likewise functions on more than one level. The obvious story, which begs to be read aloud with its delightful descriptive...
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9-9-2007
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Kokopelli & the Butterfly by Michael Sterns: Joseph V. Cioffi (Line Drawings): Gayle Deal (Special Effects)
The following review was contributed by:
Lily Azerad-Goldman
Recently, I had the good fortune to attend a book reading of a children's book entitled KOKOPELLI & THE BUTTERFLY.
In this case, the story -teller was the author himself, Michael Sterns, whose animated reading of his book mesmerized adults and children alike.
First Nation's legendary character, KOKOPELLI, carries the torch of love, friendship and compassion from town to town until he is invited to view the prized...
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1-1-1970
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Bruce R. Cook Author of Philippine Fever is Interviewed
Author: Bruce R. CookPublisher: Capital Crime PressISBN: 0977627675The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's review of the book CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Bruce R. Cook, author of Philippine Fever.Good day Bruce and thanks for participating in our interview.
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2-25-2006
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Spiritual Warfare
Author: Jed McKennaPublisher: Wisefool PressISBN: 978-0-9714352-2-3How does one go about inciting change in people’s behavior? Probably, you either have to explore the underlying issues that influence their actions, thus providing them with an awakening of the psychological elements at work, or you can focus on the surface of a particular issue, thereby giving them the necessary gear to effect change. Both of these methods are adopted by Jed McKenna in his latest tome Spiritual Warfare which...
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7-25-2007
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Blood From Stones by Douglas Farah
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Disturbing is an understatement when I try to come to grips with the American intelligence community’s failure to understand the complex financial workings of al Qaeda pre and post 9/11. Award-wining investigative reporter for the Washington Post as well as other publications, David Farah delivers an outstanding exposé in his book Blood From Stones of just how extensive this financial network spreads itself...
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10-28-2004
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Jason Akley Discusses His Children's Book Sweet Pea and the Bumblebee
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Sweet Pea and the Bumblebee Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Publisher of Bookpleasures.com once again welcomes Jason Akley, author of Sweet Pea and the Bumblebee.Good day Jason and thanks once again for participating in our interview.Norm:When you wrote Sweet Pea and the Bumblebee who was your intended audience?Jason:My intention was to write a children's story for adults, especially parents. I wanted to write something thought-provoking for parents to read...
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9-29-2007
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A Conversation With Melissa Galt Author of Celebrate Your Life! The Art of Celebrating Every Day
Author: Melissa GaltISBN: 978-0-9790103-0-9Today Norm Goldman, Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest Melissa Galt author of Celebrate Your Life! The Art of Celebrating Every Day.Melissa began her professional career in hospitality purchasing with a degree from Cornell University and she later returned to school for a degree in interior design. She now operates a successful business as an independent...
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5-19-2007
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A Conversation With M.A. Street Author of Hands: a novel.
Author: M.A. StreetISBN: 0-59538584-2Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, M.A. Street, author of Hands: a novel. Good day Mike and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm: Please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional background.Mike: I’ve been writing for quite a while. I’ve always had to work during that time, of course, had a family, that sort of thing, so there have been times when I’ve been...
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2-3-2007
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Travel With Others Without Wishing They'd Stayed Home by Nadine Nardi Davidson
Have you ever traveled with someone and thought to yourself
if I had only known?
You probably paid little attention to the different
categories of personality traits that describe most
travelers such as: enthusiast, adventurer, sportsman,
relaxer, beach bum, comfort seeker, culturist, shopper and
discoverer.
Author Nadine Nardi Davidson has authored a very unique book entitled Travel With Others Without Wishing They’d Stayed Home that will help you identify the different types of...
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1-1-1970
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James R. Clifford Author of Double Daggers Interviewed
Author: James R. CliffordISBN: 0897542177 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Double Daggers CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, James R. Clifford, author of Double Daggers.Good day Jamie and thanks for participating in our interview.
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8-9-2006
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Greg M. Sarwa Author of The Cattle Is Interviewed
Author: Greg M. Sarwa ISBN: 0976620200 The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of The Cattle CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Greg M. Sarwa, author of The Cattle.Good day Greg and thanks for
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4-6-2006
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A Conversation With Behcet Kaya Author of Voice of Conscience
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Voice of Conscience Author: Behcet KayaISBN: 978-1-4327-0628-9 Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Behcet Kaya, author of Voice of Conscience. Good day Behcet and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm:Behcet, please tell our readers a little bit about your personal and professional background.
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11-21-2007
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The Wayfarers
Author: Stuart F. TowerISBN: 1932211020 Between 1881 and 1914, about 50, 000 Jews left Eastern Europe and the Settlement of the Pale in
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11-21-2006
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Hamster Cheeks
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Hamster Cheeks Author: Cathy DeLittleIllustrator: Adam MilicevicISBN: 13: 978-1-892633-14-9: 10: 1-892733-14-0 Although it has taken ten years since she last published 10 picture books over a span of 2 years, Cathy DeLittle has done it again with her recent, Hamster Cheeks.DeLittle has fine-tuned a story that emanates from her vivid imagination and humorous insights that have been inspired from the antics of her young son Dominic. Turning the pages of this...
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11-20-2007
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Locked Inn
Click Here To Purchased From Amazon Locked In Author: Mike EspositoISBN: 1930754981Publisher: Durban House Publishing CompanyIn his debut novel, Mike Esposito pulls his readers into a Tampa, Florida hospital, compelling them to follow the horrendous tomfoolery of three greedy and devious doctors and a slimy attorney that will make you think twice before undergoing surgery, particularly neurosurgery.The principal protagonist, neuroradiologist John Armstrong, is having a barrel full of domestic...
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8-28-2007
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Meet Perry E. Zenon author of Hearts
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Perry E. Zenon author of Hearts.
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9-6-2008
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The Artist’s Model And Other Love Stories by Guy de Maupassant: Mark Scott (Translator)
The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN EDITOR OF BOOKPLEASURES Considered to be one of France’s greatest short story writers, Guy de Maupassant had written over three hundred short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse, during a period of ten years of his forty-three year lifespan. Author and lecturer, Mark Scott, is a specialist in Russian literature, and he has been very much intrigued with Maupassant’s profound influence over such Russian literary...
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10-19-2004
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Right To Recover: Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America
Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Yvonne PerryISBN: 1-933449-41-1 978-1-933449-41-8With her generously subtitled book, Right To Recover: Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America, freelance writer and author, Yvonne Perry has provided us in considerable detail sound arguments why President George W. Bush was wrong in vetoing a bill which would provide federal funds for stem cell research.This accessible and must-read book is essential for...
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7-2-2007
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Interview with Richard Graham-Yooll Author of A Foreign Policy
Author: Richard Graham-YoollPublisher: Medallion PressISBN: 193281549X The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of the book CLICK HERE
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8-18-2005
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The Pact Beneath the Bridge
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Pact Beneath the Bridge Title: The Pact Beneath the BridgeAuthor: Valbona KociuISBN: 1432701029Albanian author Valbona Kociu’s short story The Pact Beneath the Bridge has a quality that could effortlessly be considered poetic with its brevity as well as the associated compression and unencumbered intensity of its language. At its heart, the first person narrative focuses on a life-altering event involving twenty-nine year old Steven Won, whose life is...
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9-13-2007
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Better Days Ahead
Title: Better Days AheadAuthor: Charlie ValentineISBN: 0977218708 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Charlie Valentine CLICK HERECharlie Valentine’s ambitious debut novel Better Days Ahead is a testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit to survive; no matter how bleak and difficult life may be there is very often a silver lining ahead.Valentine creatively mixes time,...
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7-10-2006
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Meet William D. Smith Author of Becoming A Superhero: Adventures of An American Superhero
Click Here To Purchase Becoming A Superhero: Adventures of An American Superhero Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, William D. Smith’s Becoming A Superhero: Adventures of An American Superhero. William is in his forth-eighth year of teaching, first as an elementary teacher and subsequently as a teacher of prospective teachers. He is presently an adjunct instructor a
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10-28-2008
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John Parkinson Author of Visual Verse: Art in Nature With Symbiotic Verse Interviewed
Author: John ParkinsonISBN: 978-1-933538-37-2 Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest nationally published photographer, John Parkinson, author of Visual Verse: Art in Nature With Symbiotic Verse. John is an award- winning landscape photographer.Good day John and thank you for participating in our interview.Norm:
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11-6-2006
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Putting It On Paper - The Ground Rules for Creating Promotional Pieces that Sell Books by Dawn Josephson
The Following Review Was Contributed by: S.V.SWAMY PUTTING IT ON PAPER - THE GROUND RULES FOR CREATING PROMOTIONAL PIECES THAT SELL BOOKS by DAWN JOSEPHSON is clear in its target group - authors who need to promote their books and who lack the resources to engage capable people like Dawn to do the job. The need to promote the book is of course very well known and accepted. Once the need is accepted, the choices are clear: either engage a competent Author Services Outfit or do it yourself....
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10-19-2004
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Hunter’s Choice: A Matt Hunter Adventure
Click Here To Purchase Hunter's Choice Author: J. C. HagerISBN: 978-0-9797546-5-4 In his debut novel, Hunter’s Choice: A Matt Hunter Adventure, J.C. Hager has employed his expertise as a hunter to offer us quite a yarn that could probably easily make a great movie. Our narrative unfolds when a Cessna 310 crashes in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. On board the aircraft are two passengers and the p
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10-30-2008
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April Fool
Click Here To Purchase April Fool Author: John NeufeldISBN: 978-0-9800377-3-9 George Willett, the lonely complex, yet oddly empathetic protagonist of John Neufeld’s recent novel April Fool, seems to have one compelling obsession, the desire to have one last fling before he kicks the bucket. Although he claims to love his wife Peg, he never considers leaving her. All he ever wanted was one final romantic fling, “an attachment that would last as long as summer sunsets on inland waters.”
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9-1-2008
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The Rising Shore: Roanoke
Author: Deborah HomsherISBN: 13: 978-0-9790-51560-9 10: 0-9790-5160-6 Inspired by true events concerning the first British attempt to establish a foothold in North America, Deborah Homsher’s The Rising Shore:Roanoke presents a novel with compelling fictionalized details that probably surpass the actual facts that she briefly outlines in the book’s postscript. The tale focuses on the 1587 Roanoke voyage that was commissioned by Sir Walter Raleigh in order to establish a permanent...
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2-23-2007
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The Devil And The Disappearing Sea: A True Story About The Aral Sea Catastrophe by Rob Ferguson
The following review was contributed by
NORM GOLDMAN
It is difficult to imagine that at one time the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth largest inland water body, after the Caspian Sea, Lake Superior and Lake Victoria, will, according to some experts, be gone by 2020.
The Aral Sea is located in Central Asia in the lowlands of Turan, near the ancient Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara.
What is noteworthy is that at one time it had abundant resources of fish, a very active...
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1-1-1970
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Chris Fox Author of The Devil's Halo is Interviewed by Bookpleasures.com
Author: Chris Fox Publisher: Hutchinson (The Random House Group Limited)ISBN: 0091794994The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of the book CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.co is pleased to have as our guest, Chris Fox, author of The Devil’s Halo.Good day Chris and thank you for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:Please tell our readers a little bit about...
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11-1-2005
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Everything’s Coming Up Sock Monkeys: Art, History and Business of The American Sock Monkey
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Everything’s Coming Up Sock Monkeys: Art, History and Business of The American Sock Monkey Author: Bonnie Kraus ConnellyISBN: 978-0-9790323-01: 0-9790323-0-X160 pages of “cool” illustrations are the focus of Bonnie Kraus Connelly’s coffee-table book Everything’s Coming Up Sock Monkeys: Art, History and Business of The American Sock Monkey. Without doubt these images convey why this truly American folk art toy with its never-ending smile is, as the front...
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3-28-2007
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Gunnar Jensen Author of What If..? Interviewed
Author: Gunnar Jensen:ISBN: 3833443553The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of What If...? CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest
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6-3-2006
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3d Toons Creative 3D Design For Cartoonists and Animators
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon 3d Toons Creative 3D Design For Cartoonists and Animators Authors: Steve & Raf AnzovinISBN: 0764129511The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews 3d Toons Creative 3D Design For Cartoonists and Animators is a powerhouse of information that focuses on artistic choices in explaining to its readers how 3D cartoonists reach their goals. As mentioned in the inside flap
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3-28-2006
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A Conversation With Judith K. Olsen Author of I Can Hardly Wait
Author: Judith K. OlsenISBN: 1598009990 Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Judith K. Olsen, author of I Can Hardly Wait.Good day Judith and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm:Why did you feel compelled to write I Can Hardly Wait? Why do you think this is an important book at this time?Judith:I Can Hardly Wait deals with the issue of juvenile obesity, body image, and decision making.
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12-1-2006
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Musician Dan Goldman, One of Bookpleasures's Reviewers, Featured on WNYC Public Radio New York
Photo: Amy KoshOne of Bookpleasures' reviewers, musician Dan Goldman was recently featured on WNYC Public Radio New York. To listen to Dan's music CLICK HEREHere is what one musican had to say about Dan's Music:" It's sweet, wistful, wry, engaging, ingratiating,imaginative -- and BEAUTIFUL -- all at once. No question about it: He has a great, great voice, and he's the Real Deal. And I would think that for him,the sky's the limit; I certainly hope so."
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8-15-2008
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In The Depths Of A Diva: Volume l
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon In The Depths Of A Diva: Volume lAuthor: Linda Marjorie CharlesISBN: 978-1-4259-9403-7Linda Marjorie Charles’s poetry debut, In The Depths Of A Diva: Volume I reads like a personal diary where she invites her readers to have a peek into her life from ages twelve to twenty-two. What is remarkable about her vignettes is the maturity and intelligence she exhibits from her pre-teen days and onwards into her early adulthood. Every word, every image, every line...
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5-3-2007
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Irene Watson Author of The Sitting Swing Is Interviewed
Author: Irene Watson ISBN: 1891386492The following interview was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of The Sitting Swing CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Irene Watson, author of The Sitting Swing.Good day Irene and thank you for agreeing to participate in our interview.
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11-22-2005
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Create Your Retirement by Barbara M. Walker
One of the questions I constantly received from many individuals when I announced my retirement was-what are you going to do?
This, no doubt, is one of the key considerations before anyone decides to take the plunge.
Educator Barbara M. Walker has put together a neat slim guidebook entitled Create Your Retirement that provides the reader with 55 valuable ways to reply to the question-what you are going to do in your retirement?
Walker divides her advice into 5 principal sections...
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1-1-1970
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Elaine’s Amazing Stink by Valerie Hardin
The Following review was contributed by: Molly MartinElaine is an unhappy little girl skunk. She has lost her stink and believes no one will be her friend. When Betty, Mick and Jay learn Elaine’s problem they have an idea. The story ends on a happy note when the little skunks tackle the problem of Elaine’s Amazing Stink. Elaine’s Amazing Stink is a delightful little book of 10 pages with text and enchanting illustrations. The little tale is sure to delight children ages 3-8. I believe this...
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10-11-2004
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FINDING THE RIGHT SPOT - When Kids Can't Live With Their Parents by Janice Levy(author):Whitney Martin (Illustrator)
The following review was submitted by: S.V.SWAMY 'Finding the Right Spot - When Kids Can't Live With Their Parents', with text by Janice Levy and illustrated by Whitney Martin is a small book for young children, of suggested age 6-12 and the adults who need to take care of them. Written from the perspective of a child, who is in the care of a foster aunt, and illustrated vividly, the book is a good read, filled with deep psychological insights. It is touching and moving. It is also highly...
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10-19-2004
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Conspiracy Of Fools: A True Story
Author: Kurt EichenwaldPublisher: Broadway Books (A division of Random House)ISBN: 0767911784 The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews
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5-21-2005
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A conversation with Carolyn Garrett Author of Shadow of the Cross
Author: Carolyn GarriottISBN: 09778831-0-8Today, Norm Goldman, Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Carolyn Garriott, author of Shadow of the CrossGood day Carolyn and thanks for participating in our interview.
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4-4-2007
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Talking to Richard by Gary Sherbell
Reviewed by Paul Lappen Steven Goren is an Administrative Law Judge in the Subway Division of the New York court system. He is the person who decides how much of a fine must be paid by people who jump the turnstiles or smoke on the subway platform. He has grown to loathe Richard Rankin, famous defense lawyer. Rankin does whatever he can to get his clients acquitted, usually by painting them as political victims or by playing the race card. One night, sitting in a bar, Goren hears, and is very...
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10-19-2004
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A Prisoner of Birth
Click Here To Purchase A Prisoner of Birth Author: Jeffrey ArcherISBN: 13-978-0-312-37929-2: 10:0-312-37929-3 In A Prisoner of Birth Jeffrey Archer offers up another multilayered thriller that includes a bevy of crimes emanating from a wrongful murder conviction. Among the transgressions are: the escape from Belmarsh prison that is a high-security establishment in so
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3-28-2008
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Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers. by Beverly Gray
The following review was contributed by:
CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON
Those who love all things Hollywood, Kitsch and Nostalgic are going to love Beverly Gray’s biography of Roger Corman. She has a knack for anecdote and has chosen a subject well suited to her talents. It is a fun book. Fascinating. Even sorta educational if you happen to collect trivia. Here are some examples:
Did you know that, in addition to 400 feature films, Corman mentored the likes of Frances Ford Coppola and Martin...
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1-1-1970
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A Rare and Deadly Issue by Marlena Thompson
The following review was contributed by: CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening A Whodunit in the Best of Traditions Mystery Readers May Find a New Sleuth to Love Look out world! Jenny Maguire may be the new sleuth extraordinaire. She has a slot of her own. This side of Nancy Drew. That side of Miss Jane Marple. The woman who dreamed her up is Marlena Thompson. She may well have written the first book in a series that will match Agatha Christy’s run on...
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10-19-2004
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Waiting: The True Confessions Of A Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
Have you ever wondered why people sometimes demand so much from waiters and waitresses and at the same time have very little regard for many of these individuals?
Debra Ginsbergwaited on tables for twenty years to support her other career as a freelance writer and editor.
Waiting: The True Confessions Of A WaitressGinsberg tells it “like it is” and engages her readers with a story format of her experiences and memoirs.
Some of these tales may not be too pretty, such as having to clean up...
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1-1-1970
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An Opportunity for Revenge
Title: An Opportunity for RevengeAuthor: Ned LordISBN: 0-9774767-1-5 From the opening pages of Ned Lord’s second novel, An Opportunity for Revenge, readers can be certain that they will be in for quite a riveting ride when Andy Bowers, the narrator and central character escapes a killer’s bullet. However, his officer administrator, Fran Wills was not as lucky in being at the wrong place at the wrong time. It all happened as both were getting out of Andy’s car when someone first shot at Fran...
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2-4-2008
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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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The Sneakiest Pirates
Click Here To Purchase The Sneakiest Pirates Author: Dalton JamesPublisher: Outskirts PressISBN: 978-1-4327-2477-1 How do you begin to review a book that was authored and illustrated by a seven-year old? This was the dilemma I was faced with when I picked up a copy of Dalton James’s first book, The Sneakiest Pirates. Dalton, as mentioned in the book’s press release, is a first grader
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8-5-2008
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The Jesus Thief by J.K. Lankford
We have to commend J.R. Lankford for having a creative imagination, when she thought of writing a book of the cloning of Jesus Christ!
Who would have thought about the possibility of stealing two threads from The Shroud of Turin, extract blood from it, culture the cells found in the blood, extract unfertilized eggs from a donor, remove the nucleus from the eggs, replace each nucleus with a cultured Shroud cell to produce “fertilized eggs,” grow the eggs in a suitable culture, and...
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1-1-1970
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The Drawing Breakthrough Book: A Shortcut to Artistic Excellence
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Drawing Breakthrough Book: A Shortcut to Artistic Excellence Author: John HastingsISBN: 9780974941820Publisher: Draw 3 Lines PublishingI have always been envious of people who are able to draw and paint, particularly that some members of my own family are prolific artists.Unfortunately, none of their creativity has rubbed off on me. No matter how many times I have attempted to draw, my artwork ends up as a disaster! Probably I should be classified as...
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7-31-2007
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A Conversation With Brigitte Foulke Author of Nile Cruise and Beyond
Author: Brigitte FoulkeISBN: 1413786375Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Brigitte Foulke, author of Nile Cruise and Beyond.Good day Brigitte and thanks for participating in our interview.Norm:Brigitte, why did you feel compelled to write this book? What was your main reason for writing your book? What are your hopes for this book? Brigitte:My friends who knew the story and / or had been involved in it had repeatedly
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1-24-2007
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Meet Zach Samuels author of Confessions of a Crack Head
Click Here To Purchase Confessions of a Crack Head Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Zach Samuels author of Confessions of a Crack Head.Good day Zach and thanks for participating in our interview.
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7-24-2008
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Manners That Sell: Adding the Polish that Builds Profits by Lydia Ramsey
The following review was contributed by: ROGER E. HERMAN For anyone working in a business environment where making the right impression is important, this book is a worthwhile read. Sales professionals, managers and executives, and practically anyone in contact with others in a “white collar” environment will benefit from this handbook. I would particularly recommend this publication for graduates—both college and high school—entering the job market. Following the advice in these pages will...
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11-6-2004
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The Big Investment Lie: What your financial advisor doesn’t want you to know
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Big Investment Lie: What your financial advisor doesn't want you to know Author: Michael EdesessISBN: 10 1-57675-407-3: 13: 978-1-57675-407-8Economist and mathematician Michael Edesess author of The Big Investment Lie: What your financial advisor doesn't want you to know lambastes investment advisors and money managers and says that they are profiting from a big lie-promising that they can beat the market and do better than you can in investing your hard...
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4-23-2007
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Interview With Peter Rennebohm Author of Blue Springs
Author: Peter RennebohmISBN: 0878392270The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsTo read Norm's Review of the book CLICK HEREToday, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Peter Rennebohm
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8-4-2005
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Churchmouse Tales by Violet Toler
The Following review was contributed by: Molly Martin Finger Puppet illustrations with a chapter on how to use them and patterns for making the moppets are all included in this engaging work produced by long time children’s advocate Violet Toler. Charles Quincy Churchmouse, is the top mouse so to speak and is included in each of Toler’s scripts. Toler includes suggestions for choice of puppeteers as well as how to make puppets. A nice collection of story scripts are included. Scripts are...
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10-11-2004
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Rashi’s Daughters:Book One Joheved
Author: Maggie AntonISBN: 0976305054Publisher: Banot PressYou Can Purchase This Book From Amazon The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures &CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's
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8-29-2005
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Displeasures of the Table Memoir as Caricature by Martha Ronk
The following review was contributed by CAROLYN HOWARD- JOHNSON Displeasures of the Table by Martha Ronk is a sort of mingling of peanut butter sandwiches and nostalgia. It is often a sort of examination of how a train of thought moves along a fragmented track, how one image connects us to another event. Reading Ms. Ronk is like discovering we have found a kindred spirit when we notice she can follow us when we go off on a tangent in mid-conversation and she can figure out what the hell we're...
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10-19-2004
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