Author: Steven Pitt
Publisher: Bridgeross Communications
ISBN: 978-0-9810037-7-1

How fortunate some of us are to be born with the gift of a keen imagination, creativity and reason. Even luckier are those blessed with a good sense of humor enabling them to provide amusing commentary pertaining to a variety of topics. Steve Pitt is one such privileged writer, as exemplified with his My Life and Other Lies

Author: Calvin Barry Schwartz
Publisher: Earthood Media, LLC Publishers
ISBN: 978-0-578-03858-2

Title: Writers And Their Notebooks
Editor: Diana M. Raab
ISBN: 978-1-57003-866-2

Interested in knowing how writers use their notebooks and how important are notebooks to their writing process?

Author: Graham Parke
Publisher: Outskirts Press Inc
ISBN: 978-1-4327-5248-4

Much of the richness of No Hope for Gomez lies in its jocular conversational bantering and some extremely witty and clever writing that contain keen insights into human nature

Author: Steven Nedelton
ISBN: 978-1-934337-56-1
Publisher: Asylett Press

Authors: Kate Lorig RN. DrPH, David Sobel, MD ,Virginia González, MPH, Diana Laurent, MPH,
Marian Minor, RPT.PhD, Contributor: Peg Harrison, MA, MSW, LCSW
Publisher: James Bull
ISBN: 13: 978-1-933503-01-1: 10: 1-933503-01-7

Author: Sam Moffie
Publisher: Mill City Press Inc
ISBN: 978-1936107353

Author: Luther Knight
ISBN: 13: 978-1-58982-582-6: 10:1-58982-582-0
Publisher: American Book Publishing

Author: Joseph J. Sivak M.D.
ISBN: 978-0-615-31489-1
Publisher: Niagara Press

Joseph J. Sivak's When Can I Go home is a exceptional memoir written with abundance of warmth and dramatic power that will keep you continually captivated until its final chapter

If you ever wondered what working as a doorman for the largest hotel in the world is all about, then pick up a copy of Jan Rankin's UNDER THE NEON SKY: A Las Vegas Doorman's Story

Author: JoEllen Heath
Publisher: Xlibris
ISBN: 978-1-4415-1278

Author: Trisha Torrey
ISBN: 978-1934938881
Publisher: Langdon Street Press

A book that is a well-constructed, nonacademic guide that offers us the know-how to help us make sense of our healthcare system

Author: Paula Marshall
Publisher: Yorkshire Publishing
ISBN: 9780881443264

Marshall has put together an excellent inspirational book, devoid of pointless fillers, sharing with us wisdom from leaders who have faced a variety of challenges. Her rational approach to success will surely find a welcome home on the bookshelves of business owners and managers.

Author: Ronald Neal Green
ISBN: 978-1-4327-1259-4
Publisher: OutskirtsPress

In the end, it is the elegant use of language, the fully realized characterizations, and the effective play of tension and conflict that all come together to make this fantasy novel a wonderful read that continuously moves forward with an irresistible force. It is, in all, a rich and dazzling piece of work!

Author: Geoffrey Neil
Publisher: Priorities Intact Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-615-29249-6

Author: Miguel Vargas-Caba
ISBN: 978-0-595-42558-7
Publisher: iUniverse

Author: Miguel Vargas-Caba
ISBN: 978-0-595-42558-7
Publisher: iUniverse

A novel that hurtles the reader toward a chillingly climax

Author: Marilyn Elizabeth Shaff
ISBN: 978-1-4389-5543-8
Publisher: AuthorHouse

Living With Parkinson's Disease serves as a great picker upper and a copy should be given by health professionals to their PD patients; there is no limit to its practical application

Author: Candace Fleming
Illustrator: Ray Fenwick
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books (An Imprint of Random House Children's Books)
ISBN: 978-0-375-84197-2

Even though we may be familiar with the name P.T. Barnum, one of the greatest showmen and founder of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, how many of us can truthfully say we know the real Barnum?

Author: Steven C. Cunningham, M.D,
Illustrator: Valeska M. Populoh
Translator: Myriam Gorosope, Ph.D
ISBN: 978-0-9721241-6-4
Publisher: Three Conditions Press

Thanks to the efforts of authors like Dr. Steven C. Cunningham, the joys of poetry coupled with paleontology can painlessly be introduced to children

Author: Jeffrey B. Allen
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing (October 1, 2009)
ISBN-10: 160860859X
ISBN-13: 978-1608608591

Author: Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs (Circa)
ISBN: 978-1-84533-523-6
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley

If you are looking for a reference text that makes our complex world easy to comprehend and contributes enormously to answering many of our questions, pick up a copy of Snapshot: The Visual Almanac For Our World Today authored by Circa (Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs)

Cynthia Rogers Parks, Author of Houses Interviewed By Norm Goldman

Author: Cynthia Rogers Parks
ISBN: 978-0-615-32893-5
Publisher: Leigh Walker Books

Author: Cynthia Rogers Parks
ISBN: 978-0-615-32893-5
Publisher: Leigh Walker Books

Author: Frank Romano
Publisher: World Audience Inc
ISBN: 978-1-934209-43-1

From the very first pages of Frank Romano's Storm Over Morocco, this autobiographical memoir and travelogue of one man's spiritual search rivets you with drama, and rarely lets up over the next 341 pages

Author: Kyra E. Hicks
ISBN: 978-0-9824796-5-0

How often do we have the opportunity to participate in a journey researching one of the best-known African-American quilters, Harriet Powers, who was born near Athens Georgia into slavery in 1837 and died in 1910? When Kyra E. Hicks, a quilter herself, began compiling a simple annotated bibliography of references to Harriet Powers, she hadn't a clue as to what “goodies” she would discover and that her findings would eventually culminate in a fascinating tome, This I Accomplish: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt and Other Pieces

Author: A MusicTale by Kit Eakle:
Illustrators: Jean Eakle with Aubyn Eakle
Publisher: MusicKit
ISBN: 0-9713194-0-5

Author: Brad J. King
Publisher: Abundant Health Systems
ISBN: 978-098106420-8

Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Broadway Books (An imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House)
ISBN: 978-0-307-58992-7

This book is indeed a weighty tome with much to digest, but one that will contribute immensely to the debate that all of us must partake

Author: Joyce Fetzer Schutten
ISBN: 978-1-60743-418-4
Publisher: Judson Books

In reading these essays we are fortunate to be beneficiaries of skillfully woven narratives that are deeply readable and thoughtful

Author: J.B.Bergstad
ISBN: 978-0-615-28406-4

Editor: Elizabeth Sanchez
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 978-1-4389-9012-5

Reading these essays makes you feel that you are eavesdropping on real conversations in perhaps a café setting. For anyone contemplating going into broadcast journalism, this is a must read

Author: Eileen C. Moore
Publisher: Cool Titles
ISBN: 978-1-935700-0-3

As a competent jurist, Moore has presented sound documentation with a wide selection of movies and Supreme Court decisions over the decades. And alongside, Moore mixes in a few good history lessons concerning the plight of African Americans after the abolition of slavery

Author: William J. Weiner, M.D. Lisa M. Shulman, M.D. Anthony E. Lang, M.D., F.R.C.P
ISBN: 10: 0-8018-8546-9: 13: 978-0-8018-8546-4
Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press

Author: Frank McKinney
ISBN: 13: 978-0-7573-1383-7: (Hard Cover): 10-0-7573-1383-3 (Hard Cover)
Publisher: Heath Communications Inc

What I found particularly noteworthy about this part real estate investment principles, part psychology and part philosophy book is that I personally have witnessed during my thirty-five years as a title attorney the application of many of the principles McKinney enunciates in the book

Authors: Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster
ISBN: 978-0-385-73767-8: 978-0-385-73768-5: 978-0-385-73769-2
Publisher: Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

Author: Larry Klayman
Publisher: New Chapter Publisher
ISBN: 978-0-9792112-2-6

Klayman states: " if I ever wrote a book about all of this, would anyone believe me." And after reading this bare all book, I could only shake my head and say to myself, did all of this actually take place!

Publisher: Sports Illustrated; Pop edition
ISBN: 10: 1603200908: ISBN: -13: 978-1603200905

Author: Dr. Madan Kataria

ISBN: 81-87529-01-6 (New Revised Edition)

Many scientists are convinced that laughter is the best medicine for both preventing and treating some diseases. But what is happening today? It seems as if we have forgotten how to laugh. Humor and jokes don't always work. Furthermore, there are few events in our lives that can really make us laugh

Author: Joseph Tibman
Publisher: Brick Tower Press
ISBN: 978-188328371-1

Author: Muriel L. Crawford
Publisher: Dillon & Parker Publishing LLC
ISBN: 978-0-9819590-0-9

Author: Craig M. Cortello
ISBN: 978-09789900-1-5

A wake up call to those who wish to down size or eliminate music education

Author: Tom Marquardt
ISBN: 978-1-60462-535-6
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises

As we no doubt are aware, business principles can sometimes be very difficult to grasp, however, this author has effectively cut all the fat from the bone as he reminds his readers that anyone can bring about change, or as he states, "Learn from your past, work today, formulate action plans for tomorrow. Live by it!"

Author: Kevin Lockette PT
Publisher: Landgon Street Press
ISBN: 978-1934938294

Lockette has done an excellent job of laying out the information clearly and concisely

Author: Dennis Batchelder
ISBN: 978-0-9798056-2-2
Publisher: NetLeaves

Not only is this novel powerful and compulsively entertaining, but also thought provoking, as it involves the reader totally while at the same time presenting it in an economic style that doesn't overwhelm

Authors: Kenny Gallo & Matthew Randazzo V
Publisher: Phoenix Books
ISBN: 13: 978-1-59777-615-8:  10: 1-59777-615-7

This one will either astonish you or repulse you

Author: Henri Broch (Translated from the French by Bart K. Holland)
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9246-2
Publisher: The John Hopkins University Press

Editor: Kelly Knauer: Designer: Ellen Fanning: Picture Editor: Patricia Cadley:
Research/Writing Matthew P. Wagner, Matthew McCann Fenton Copy Editor: Bruce Christopher Carr
Time Inc. Home Entertainment: Richard Fraiman Publisher:
ISBN: 10: 1-60330-083-5: 13: 978-1-60320-083-7

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could travel the earth and beyond and experience some of the greatest discoveries in the fields of geography, paleontology, astronomy and archaeology? Time Great Discoveries: Explorations that Changed History has now made this all possible from the comfort of our homes where we can explore the past, the planet earth, life on earth and the solar system.

Author: Valerie Farber
Publisher: Falcon Books
ISBN: 976-0-9816058-0-7

American born author Valerie Farber, who now makes her home in Hashmonaim Israel, has penned an absorbing novel that you can easily get lost in. She has accomplished this feat not just by weaving her City of Refuge: A Biblical Novel of the Ancient Past expertly, but also by constructing a time and place in such a way that we believe every detail of the landscape is real

Author: Gemini Adams
ISBN: 976-0615193755
Publisher: Live Consciously Publishing

Bringing together her own personal insights, experiences, interviews with survivors, and research, Adams provides her readers with a road map as to how to create a legacy of love or a parting gift that will keep your survivors connected to you

Author: Scott C. Fox
Publisher: Amacom American Management Association
ISBN: 13: 978-0-8144-1462-0: 10:0-8144-1462-1

Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: Other Press
ISBN: 978-1-59051-341-5

Authors: Dick Francis & Felix Francis
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 978-0-399-15591-8

Even if you are not a race- horse enthusiast, you are still going to love Dick and Felix Francis's latest tome, Even Money

Author: Nicolas Winer
ISBN: 978-1-84923-126-8
Publisher: YouWriteOn.com

Author: Jimmy Root Jr.
ISBN: 13: 978-1-58982-553-6: 10: 1-58982-553-5

Author: Larry Samuel
ISBN: 13: 978-0-8144-1362-3: 10:0-8144-1362-5
Publishers: Amacom

Author: Ray Parker
ISBN: 978-0964092433
Publisher: Mill City Publishing

Parker has given us a small piece of his war time experiences, but this morsel is quite gripping, although at times tragic, when we read about the thousands of Allied soldiers who lost their lives fighting the Nazis

Author: Hal Niedzviecki
ISBN: 978-0-87286-499-3
Publisher: City Lights Books

If you are one of those people aged nine to ninety who are addicted to reality TV or Internet social networking and have no idea why you are attracted to it, you may want to pick up a copy of Hal Niedzviecki's The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching Ourselves And Our Neighbors.

Author: Joseph Finder
Publisher: St Martin's Press
ISBN: 978-0-312-37908-7

If you never read a Joseph Finder mystery novel, this is a great one which to start. Finder has penned an array of novels including his New York Times bestseller Power Play that are not only uniformly riveting and well written but also different from one another in their choice of surroundings and characters.

Author: Janet Lowe
ISBN: 978-0-470-39854-8
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

There is quite a bit of territory covered in this tome and probably there are certain sections that would even warrant a book in itself

Author: JP O'Donnell
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc
ISBN: 978-0-595-51411-3

When I began reading JP O'Donnell's second novel, Deadly Codes: A Gallagher Novel I was wondering if this thriller would be a repeat performance to his debut novel Fatal Gamble: A Novel. After reading a few chapters, it didn't take me long to realize that here is an author who has natural talent and is certainly not a one time phenomenon.

Author: JP O'Donnell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-0-595-51409-0

JP O'Donnell's debut mystery novel, Fatal Gamble: A Novel has been classified as a “mystery” but really it is so much more where we have a series of murders interwoven with a political machination.

Authors: Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan
Publisher: St Martin'Griffin
ISBN: 13: 978-0-312-37768-7: 10:0-312-37768-1

Musicians, managers, bookers, labels, promoters, recording engineers, music teachers, music-video directors, filmmakers and anyone else who works with music are extremely lucky that Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan have chosen to share their many years of know-how in the music business in order to reveal how you can spread your music to the world.

Author: Ed Chung
ISBN: 978-0-576-02448-7

 From the very first chapter, this fictional account of one family’s life in China, Hong Kong, USA and Canada grabs you, and over the course of 309 pages, it hardly ever lets up

Periscope® Book Light

As a prolific book reviewer and one whose sight is not exactly perfect, especially when I am reading in a dark room, the Periscope® Book Light is just what the doctor ordered. Over the years I tried all kinds of gadgets and very often these were usually relegated to the trash can. Was this going to happen to the Persicope® Book Light?

Author: David Elliott
ISBN: 978-0473-15016-7
Publisher: Primary Press

Author: David Elliott
ISBN: 978-0473-15016-7
Publisher: Primary Press

At a time when some of Elliott approaches are still easily brushed aside by those who have never tried them, this compelling read is a valuable contribution to the growing body of works calling for the inclusion in conventional medicine of many of his suggestions. This is an amazing book that should not be underestimated.

Author: Homa Pourasgari
Publisher: Linbrook Press
ISBN: 976-0-9779780-1-4

Until you read this powerfully compelling book, you are not likely to truly understand the hardships many Saudi women endure at the hands of radical Muslims.

Author: Michael T. Hanley
Publisher: Legwork Team Publisher:
ISBN: 978-0-5780-1999-4

Author: Michael T. Hanley
Publisher: Legwork Team Publisher:
ISBN: 978-0-5780-1999-4

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Title: Roots of the 1969 Woodstock Festival: The Backstory to”Woodstock.”
Editors: Weston Blelock and Julia Blelock
ISBN: 978-0-9679268-5-8

Author: Ridley Pearson
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
ISBN: 13: 978-0399155727

Be careful, it is easily to become an addict of New York Timers best-selling author Ridley Pearson, although I have to admit that it took me a few chapters to get into his latest novel, Killer Summer

Authors: Joseph H. Trimbach and John M. Trimbach
Publishers: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 978-0-9795855-0-0

John and Joseph Trimbach may have positioned themselves with contributing one of the most important texts pertaining to the controversies surrounding the topic

Author: Greg Dawson
Publisher: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 978-1-60598-045-4

Rarely am I able to read a book in one sitting, however Greg Dawson’s Hiding in the Spotlight was the exception. 
In Hiding in the Spotlight Dawson narrates the story of his mother, Zhanna Arshanskaya, who was a Holocaust survivor and an extraordinary pianist.

Author: Anna David
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 978-0-06-166918-7         

Author: Stephanie Blake:
Translator: Whitney Stahlberg
ISBN: 978-0-375-85688-4
Publisher: Random House

Author: T.J. Overstake
ISBN: 978-1-4327-3594-4
Publisher: Outskirts Press

T.J. Overstake, author of For Love Of The Car: Memories Of A True Car Guy is a “car nut” who informs us that some of the cars he has owned are memorable for his discovery of them, others repairing them, some for the pleasure of driving them or simply the joy of owning them and then there are his interesting tales concerning the manner in which he purchased and sold them. Each however comes with its own unique tale that he spins within the one hundred and fifty three pages of the book.

Author: Donna Kristine Manley
Publisher: Christiana Press

ISBN:  0-9777835-0-2

Manley’s approach works very well. Resumes for Children 17 Years Old And Under Yes, Really! is definitely a wholly accessible and creditable manual, and moreover, it offers rich opportunities for you and you child to explore the many options wherein a resumé would play a vital role.   

Author: Randy Charles Epping
Publisher: Vintage Books (A Division Of Random House, Inc)
ISBN: 978-0-307-38790-5

If you have never taken a course in elementary economics or even if you have and you want to refresh your memory, Randy Charles Epping’s The 21ST-Century Economy: A Beginner’s Guide is just the right prescription.

Author: Sandy Mason
Publisher: Booksurge
ISBN:978-1-4392-3384-9

A promising author

Author: Michael Dobbs
ISBN: 13:978-1-4022-1044-0:  10:1-4022-1044-2