29 Aug
A Full House – But Empty
Angus Munro
Memoir
iUniverse
268 pages
Filled with anecdotes, lessons learned, and an inspirational message for everyone who believes that hard work breeds success, this moving autobiography shares the remarkable story of Angus Munro.
Munro is just three when he suffers from appendicitis and spends several weeks in a Vancouver hospital as his family [...]
27 Aug
Dear God, Let Me Lose Fat, Amen
Dr. J.R. Paine and Professor S.N. Gupta, Ph.D.
Health; Nonfiction
BookSurge Publishing
62 pages
Our mission, through the creation of the “Dear God, Let Me Lose Fat, Amen” book is to entice, encourage, educate and convince 100 million obese and overweight Americans that there is zero health benefit in converting the divinely designed [...]
18 Aug
I’m Watching You
Mary Burton
Romantic Suspense
Zebra Books
232 pages
Lindsay’s cell phone, perched on her nightstand, rang just after midnight. She jerked awake. Accustomed to being awaken in the middle of the night, she sat up and grabbed the receiver. “Hello?”
No answer.
She shoved back her hair and glanced at the clock on the bedside table. Sam had [...]
14 Aug
What’s Wrong With Mormons?
B. Jay Gladwell
Nonfiction/Religion
Cold Tree Press
232 pages
About the Book:
What’s Wrong Wrong With Mormons? was written as a result of the falsehoods and misinformation that continues to be perpetuated by those who are less than honest. The author, B. Jay Gladwell, invites the reader to come and reason together. Using a conversational style, he [...]
11 Aug
Hermetica: Myths, Legends, Poems
Paul Kiritsis
Literary Collection
iUniverse
306 pages
About the Book:
Hermetica: Myths, Legends, Poems (September, 2007) is a homeric journey into the night where the world of dreams and symbols has sculpted our mythological past.
Using the language of alchemy, astrology and magic this tome seeks to reconstruct the lost bonds between old myths contained in the [...]
11 Aug
The 99th Monkey
Eliezer Sobel
Memoir
Santa Monica Press
288 pages
About the Book:
The 99th Monkey is the story of one man’s utter failure to get enlightened, despite over 30 years of trying. Eliezer Sobel invites readers along on what is both a hilarious and astounding journey through the spiritual, New Age and Human Potential movements of the last 35 [...]
10 Aug
The Face of Death
Cody McFadyen
Crime Thriller
Bantam
464 pages
About the Book:
“I want to talk to Smoky Barrett or I’ll kill myself.”The girl is sixteen, at the scene of a grisly triple homicide, and has a gun to her head. She claims “The Stranger” killed her adoptive family, that he’s been following her all her life, killing everyone [...]
8 Aug
Copper Fire
Suzanne Woods Fisher
Historical Fiction
Vintage Inspirations
296 pages
I’ll never forget that summer night. Our last vestige of normalcy. One evening we sat down to dinner, and by the time we finished, our lives would never be the same.
It was a beastly hot night in early July, 1945. We were celebrating [...]
7 Aug
Sam’s Quest for the Crimson Crystal
Ben Furman
Young Adult fantasy adventure
CHAPTER 9 EXCERPT, THE BATTLE:
Sam felt a sudden chill — Drogon had arrived! The wing beats of a massive charger wasp tore the air as it dropped through the ceiling opening to the floor. Peering over the arm of the throne, Sam was riveted by [...]
6 Aug
Read Well, Think Well: Build Your Child’s Reading, Comprehension, and Critical Thinking Skills
Hal W. Lanse, Ph. D.
Nonfiction; Education
Adams Media, Inc.
240 pages
Determining a book’s “rightness” is a little like Goldilocks’ adventures in the home of the three bears. Was the porridge too hot, too cool, or just right? Is the book too hard, too [...]
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