Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Sherry Zak Morris. Sherry is Founder of Yoga Vista, Executive Producer and CEO of YogaJP, and Co-Founder of the Yoga Vista Academy,  a school for the Advanced Training of Gentle, Senior and Chair Yoga Teachers.

The life work of Sherry’s vision for promoting Yoga for Healthy Aging is offered on YogaVista.TV. This streaming video library is focused on Gentle, Senior and Chair Yoga with lots of Educational information for those who want to feel forever young!

Author:Steven Dodge

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-9772-1648-9

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest John Briggs, author of JUST FOR KICKS: 600 KNOCK-OUT JOKES, PUNS & RIDDLES ABOUT SPORTS, Mary Dyer, Friend of Freedom, Judy Garland: Little Woman, Big Talent, Pete Seeger, The People's Singer, Leaping Lemmings, and his most recent tome, A Vote for Jesus: A Satire on Campaigning, Corruption & Political Crucifixion

Author: Maggie Kast

Publisher: Orison Books

ISBN: 978-1-949039-08-5

Author:Kenneth WE. Harmon

Publisher:: Eiledon Publishing

ISBN: 978-0-578-59150-6

Authors:Drs. Ray Dorsey, Todd Sherer, Michael S. Okun and Bastiaan R. Bloem

Publisher: PublicAffairs

ISBN: 978-1-5417-2452-5

Author: Charles Souby

ISBN: 978-0578-59169-8

Author: Joseph Finder

Publisher: Dutton

ISBN: 9781101985847

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-9772-1554-3

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Robert Trebor author of The Haircut Who Would Be King.

Robert is an American character actor, perhaps best known for starring as Salmoneus on the cult hits Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. His stage name is a palindrome of his birth given name.

Author: Robert Trebor

Publisher: Palindrome Press

ISBN: 978-0-578-47568-4

Author: Aimee Ginsburg Bikel

Illustrator: Noah Phillips

Publisher: MomentBooks

ISBN: 978-1-942134-61-9

Author: Michael Hageloh

Publisher: Post Hill Press

ISBN: 9781642931709

He is the award-winning author of the novels, What's Wrong with Dorfman?, Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour, Three and a Half Virgins and The Strange Courtship of Abigail Bird.

Author: Michael Niemann

Publisher: Coffeetown Press

ISBN: 978-1-60381-454-1

Author: Randy Smith

Publisher: Rude Cat, LLC (August 29, 2019)

ISBN-10: 0578562456   ISBN-13:978-0578562452

Author:David Steinman

Publisher: Free Planet

ISBN: 9780578525853

Author: Sigrid Macdonald

Publisher: TotalRecall Publications,Inc

ISBN: 9781590952511

Author:Marc Grossberg

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press

ISBN: 978-1-62634-655-0

Author: Norman Becal

Publisher: Barlow Books

ISBN: 978-1-988025-43-8

Author:Victor Cunrui Xiong

Publisher: Pairiti Press

ISBN: 978-986-6286-71-1

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Kevin E. West author of Life In A Word and  7 Deadly Sins: The Actor Overcomes. 

Kevin is a veteran television actor in Hollywood with over 65 plus credits including Guest Starring on Aquarius, Criminal Minds, Bones, Castle, Touch, CSI: Miami, Justified, Leverage, Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives, NCIS, Alias, CSI, Judging Amy and dozens more. He recently wrapped shooting on, The UnHealer, starring Lance Henriksen and Natasha Henstridge. 

Kevin is the founder of The Actors' Network and as such  has been recognized as the top expert opinion leader industry-wide on the ‘business of show business.’ The Actors’ Network is the most endorsed actor's business organization in the U.S., winning consecutive BackStage West "Reader's Choice" awards (06/07). A few of its alumni include Emmy Nominee Masi Oka (Heroes), Chelsey Crisp (Off The Boat), Chris Gorham (Covert Affairs-Ugly Betty) and Maggie Grace (Taken trilogy).

Author:Susan Wakeford Angard

Publisher: Tudor House

ISBN: 978-1-7338984-0-9

Author: EdRucker

Nothing gets criminal defense attorney, Bobby Earl's blood going more than a case with high stakes. In Ed Ruckner's Justice Makes a Killing: A Bobby Earl Novel, it is all or nothing when his client, Kathleen Carlson, a prominent attorney with a prestigious Los Angeles law firm, is accused of killing a guard at a private prison in Haywood, California.

Author:Dr. Judy Stone

Publisher: Mountainside MD PRESS

ISBN: 978-0-9749178-2-5

There have been dozens of books authored by second-generation children of Holocaust survivors that have been trying to make sense of their backgrounds by delving into the horrendous past experiences of their parents.

This has proven to be no easy feat as their parents, uncles and other relatives often erect a wall of silence about their experiences and just want to forget about it. Very often these survivors grumble to their children, it is better that you not know about it or you have no right to ask me about it. They even go so far as castigating their children and mention to them that it is nonsense that they should have a part of their history, since their lives were separate.

Perhaps, this is a way for these parents to cope with the past? Unfortunately, within a few years we will no longer be able to have personal access to these remaining survivors as there are less than 360,00 that remain alive today and about one thousand die each month.

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, Dr. Judy Stone, author of Resilience: One Family's Story of Hope and Triumph over Evil. Judy is the daughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and a physician specializing in infectious diseases. 

She is a Forbes Pharma and Healthcare contributor, the former Molecules to Medicine columnist for Scientific American, and the author of a nationally established textbook, Conducting Clinical Research: A Practical Guide for Physicians, Nurses, Study Coordinators, and Investigators.

Author: Michael Kenneth Smith

ISBN-10: 1098740130: ISBN-13: 978-1098740139

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Kimberly Much is a producer and writer. She started her own independent film and theatre company, Muchmore Productions, LLC in 2013. She has produced and or written numerous short films, commercials, music videos, feature films and Broadway musicals. 

Some of her most notable works include Platypus the Musical, The Middle Distance, Recursion, Video Games: The Movie and Urinetown on the West End. 

Her films and theatrical productions have either won or been nominated in many of the top award shows and film festivals around the world. 

Kimberly recently co-authored with Colette Freedman, The Reluctant Fairy Godmother: and the Absolutely Positively Impossible Good Deed.

Author: Gary D. McGugan

ISBN: 978-1-9995656-0-2

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as out guest Award Winning Actress/Director Garbielle Stone. Garbrielle is the daughter of actress Dee Wallace (over 200 film credits including ET: The Extraterrestrial /CUGO/ Just Add Magic, etc) and Christopher Stone (Dallas/Bionic Woman/The New Lassie).    Gabrielle has recently published Eat, Pray #FML.

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, Dr. Woodrow Wilson author of four novels, three cookbooks, and a STEM ebook aimed at young adults. In addition, Woodrow publishes two on-line magazines weekly: one about cooking and the other presenting science for the general public. He also writes science for a professional audience under contract to the American Institute of Physics.

His most recent novel, Stranded on Mars is a science fiction piece with accurate astronomy and rocket science. He has also published Fish Story, a tale of people kept by dolphins, Dead Astronauts, a space opera exploring an alien ship who occupants have died in transit, and The Utah Flu, a medical mystery about an epidemic that pops up near the old biological weapon facility.

Author:Gary D. McGugan

Publisher: Tellwell Talent

ISBN: 978-1-77370-645-0

Author: Kathalynn TurnerDavis with Genevieve Joy

Publisher: Silver Falcon Press

ISBN: 978-17338407-3-6

For more than twenty years Chriss has been a public safety professional and historian, who has not only walked the beat, but shot the most famous Thompson submachine guns in the world, all while documenting and researching the historic era of the The Roaring Twenties.

Her passion in Prohibition-era gangsters, maritime, and aviation history as well as historical weather has afforded opportunities to write articles for various magazines and journals and assist other authors with historical research. 

A graduate of Grand Valley State University’s Film/Video School, Chriss began working behind the scenes at CNN Headline News but now is out in front of the camera. She has appeared in an episode of the PBS series, History Detectives as well as documentaries on the National Geographic Channel, Travel Channel, Investigation Discovery Channel, and the American Heroes Channel.

Author:Michael Merry

Publisher: PulishNation LLC

ISBN: 978-0-359-66389-7

She has spoken at writers' conferences nationwide and has trained hundreds of authors on all things book- and publishing-related.  A bibliophile all her life, she is thrilled to have found a career niche that lets her read for a living, while also helping authors take their writing from good to great!  For book coaching and writing advice.

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest, W. Clark Boutwell.  Walt graduated from Northwestern University Medical School at twenty-three, he trained in Philadelphia to become a Neonatologist, a specialist in the care of critically ill newborn infants, a career he continues to pursue.

For the last twenty years, he has volunteered at mission hospitals from South America to Africa to India, which provides him a vivid palette from which to paint his stories of a future America. He is a member of the Libertarian Futurists of America, National Association of Book Entrepreneurs, the American College of Pediatricians, and a believer. He lives with his wife of over forty years in rural Alabama.

Walt is the author of three books: Outland Exile: Exiles’ Escape and Malila of the Scorch: in a series called Old Men and Infidels.

Author: William Ian Grubman

Publisher: Dupapier Press

ISBN: 978-1-7326100-2

Author: Kenneth Foard McCallion

Publisher: Bryant Park Press

ISBN: 978-0997929232

Author:Hugo Meunier

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing

ISBN: 9781773631325

Author: Mark Guillerman

Publisher: Outskirts Press Inc

ISBN: 978-1-9772-0593-3

Revenge is the driving force that dominates Mark Guillerman's stirring debut novel, Flow Like a River, set in 1923 in the town of Gary, Texas.

Author: Rick Pullen

Publisher: Blair House

ISBN: 9780999491003

Author:Rick Pullen

Publisher: kȍehlerbooks

ISBN: 978-1-63393-724-6

Author: Roger Higgins

Publisher: Solas House Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-60952-137-0

Author:Lloyd Zane Remick

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

ISBN: 978-194735-389-3

Author: Yancey Williams

Publisher: YPress

ISBN: 978-0-9860316-9-4

Author: William H. Coles

ISBN: 978-0-9961903-3-6

In McDowell: A Novel, Award-Winning author William H. Coles explores the life-altering consequences of Dr. Hiram McDowell who rises to the pinnacle of his profession only to see his life turned completely upside down owing to his many indiscretions.

Author: Laurie Stevens

Publisher: FYD Media, LLC

ISBN: 978-0-9970068-0-3

Author:Michael J. Merry

Publisher: PublishNation LLC

ISBN: 978-0-359-21164-7

In 1925 Percy Harrison Fawcett, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Artillery along with his son Jack and a friend Raleigh Rimmel vanished while on an expedition exploring the forests of Mato Grosso in north-eastern Brazil. What interested Fawcett was the possible solving of a mystery concerning a mythical city called, “Z.” Apparently, in 1753 João da Silva Guimarães wrote that he had discovered the ruins of a City, which he described in detail without providing its exact location. Fawcett believed that this might be his “Z.”

Author: Deborah Gaal

In The Dream Stitcher, Deborah Gaal stretches the limits of our imagination when she recounts the story of Goldye Finkelstein who possessed the power to sew dreams into reality. Goldye is also the reincarnation of Queen Mathilda of Flanders who was Queen of England and Duchess of Normandy by marriage to William the Conqueror who lived in the eleventh century.

Author: Rob Levinson

Publisher: Black Leper Books

ISBN: 978-1-77302-279-6

Author:Theresa Barta

The focus of Greed on Trial is to bring to light how greedy and corrupt health insurance companies, medical groups as well as health management companies mistreat and impede medical doctors from providing the best possible care to their patients.

Bookpleasures.com once again welcomes as our guest, Michael Pronko. Michael is a professor of American Literature and Culture at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo. 

He has written about Japanese culture, art, jazz, and politics for Newsweek in Japan, The Japan Times, Artscape Japan and many other publications for over twenty years.

Michael has appeared on several television broadcasts and he has an award-winning publication of essays about life in Japan.

Recently, Michael has published The Moving Blade: A Tokyo Mystery which is part of the Detective Hiroshi series.

Author:Michael Pronko

Publisher: Raked Gravel Press 2018

ISBN: 978-1-9422410-16-4

With his recent tome, The Moving Blade: A Tokyo Mystery Michael Pronko has given his readers a great deal to chew on and digest. He has crafted a yarn that includes a well-respected American diplomat and expert on Japanese American relations, a corrupt member of Japan's bicameral legislature or as it is referred to as The National Diet, the transporting of nuclear waste as a result of the powerful earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, and the international agreement between the USA and Japan known as the Status of Forces Agreement or SOFA which governs facilities and areas granted to the USA as well as the status of US armed forces in Japan. And thrown in for good measure are a few murders that seem to be interlinked.

Author: Omarosa Manigault Newman

Publisher: Gallery Books

ISBN: 978-1-9821-0970-7

Curiosity got the better of me when I picked up a copy of Omarosa Manigault Newman's Unhinged:An Insider's Account of the Trump White House.

Author: Cristopher DeRose

Publisher: BearManor Media

ISBN: 9781629333182

As a book reviewer and author interviewer, I always enjoy picking the brains of authors to find out what makes them tick. When Cristopher DeRose's The Complete Scribes of Speculative Fiction: A Collection of Interviews came to my attention, I could not resist requesting a copy.

Author:Paul Levine

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer

ISBN: 978-1503951716

If you enjoy reading offbeat legal thrillers, Paul Levine's latest tome Bum Deal is likely to be your cup of tea. Once again Levine's principal characters comprise a second-string professional football player, Jake Lassiter who was hit in the head once too often and his two colleagues Steve Solomon and his fiancée,Victoria Lord.

Author: Jesse McKinnell

Publisher: Shine Box Publishing

ISBN: 9780692101858

Dead Cats and Other Reflections on Parenthood is a first novel by short-story writer Jesse McKinnell. As McKinnell states in the Acknowledgements, love of music and a sick sense of humor drives most of the narrative of the book which he thanks his dad for passing this onto him.

Author:Ronny Herman de Jong

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 14, 2015)

ISBN-10: 1519299583: ISBN-13: 978-1519299581

Ronny Herman de Jong's Rising from the Shadow of the Sun: A Story of Love, Survival and Joy blends historical fact with a vivid personal journal that was given to the author in 1985 by her mother, Jeannette (Netty) Louwerse after her grandparents had died in 1985. The narrative is set during World War II in Java, which at the time was a part of the Dutch East Indies.

Author:Yoav Limor: Photo Journalist, Ziv Koren

Publisher: Gefin Publishing House

ISBN: 972-2-538-0247

What exactly is the Israeli Defense Force (IDF)?

Bookpleasures.com welcomes as our guest Kathryn Berla. Kathryn enjoys writing in a variety of genres including light fantasy, contemporary literary fiction, and even horror. She writes for all ages: children, middle grade, young adult, and adult.

She’s the author of the young adult novels: 12 HOURS IN PARADISE, DREAM ME, THE HOUSE AT 758, an  GOING PLACES, which received VOYA Magazine’s Perfect Ten rating.

A JOURNEY OF ORDINARY PROPORTIONS  is her middle grade novel for adults. And although ORANGE DOG, a children’s picture book, exists only in her heart, it holds a special place there.

THE KITTY COMMITTEE is her first novel written strictly for adult readers.

Author:Ehud Diskin

Publisher: GREENLEAF BOOK GROUP PRESS

ISBN: 978-1-626634-516-4

Ehud Diskin, author of Lone Wolf in Jerusalem, uses the voice of David Gabinsky, a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II, to narrate his well-researched, 370-page novel.

Author:Kristen Wolf

Publisher: Pixeltry

ISBN: 978-0-9996103-0-5

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With her most recent richly textured and emotionally absorbing novel, Escapement Kristen Wolf illustrates her awesome ability to impart a distinctive voice to each of her women characters leading readers to an understanding of the dilemmas and ambiguities of their respective relationships through their complex psychological, sexual and philosophical mazes. Along with intense characters, Wolf intertwines music as an important theme of the narrative, which is no small undertaking, particularly when you strive, as she has masterly done, to accurately convey the emotions music conjures and the powerful persistent impact it has pertaining to her characters' lives.

Author: Mark A. Cymrot

Publisher: Twelve Tables Press

ISBN: 978-1-946074-19-5

Author: Vicki Salloum

Publisher: Moonshine Cove Publishing