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July 04, 2006
The waters near Isla Desolación are dangerous and unpredictable -- littered with shipwrecks and circled by perilous currents. In these waters, blow the panteoneros, the dreaded cemetery winds that can steer an unsuspecting ship into a mariner's nightmare such as the Screaming Sixties. The Screaming .
July 04, 2006
Rarely has a new author captured me as quickly as Tim Lebbon. An award-winning British author, Lebbon is quickly becoming a U.S. favorite as well, and “Fears Unnamed" is a marvelous introduction to his work.Consisting of four novellas, “Fears Unnamed" is an adventure in creativity and ..
July 04, 2006
When I was about twelve years old, my family purchased an ancient (or so it seemed at the time) set of scientific encyclopedias at a moving sale. Much of the information that filled those musty pages was outdated, even archaic, but one section drew my attention again and again. Perhaps a dozen ..
July 03, 2006
Reader Views is talking today with J.D. Tynan, author of mystery/suspense novel “Jill 9." J.D. is speaking with Juanita Watson, Assistant Editor of Reader Views. Juanita: Hi J. D., thanks for talking with us today. Please give your readers an idea of the storyline of “Jill 9."J.D.:Jill 9 is a ..
July 03, 2006
Jill 9 J.D. Tynan A Better Be Write Publisher, LLC (2006) ISBN 0976773295 Reviewed by Joanne Benham for Reader Views (5/06)Jill Wallokowski was the first female meteorologist ever hired at Vancouver, Washington’s Channel 12 news station. She thought Wallokowski was a bit too much of a mouthful ..
July 03, 2006
Sterling Braswell has written a fascinating book about drug use in America. He begins with the history of amphetamines. It has been used almost 100 years. Meth was used in the 1920’s to treat asthma, hay fever and depression. At this time it was legal and did not carry a social stigma. Amphetamines .
July 03, 2006
Magnificamente! That is the way to describe this fantastic little phrasebook. From the very first phrase I looked up (and it wasn’t food or directions), this book showed me its worth. They packed so many useful phrases into this little volume. I just had to keep looking through it to see what it ..
July 03, 2006
Have you ever wondered what goes on in a 16 year old male’s head?Wonder no more. He is thinking about a girl or his ego. With a possible sprinkling of history.In his book, “The World," John Kearns drops you into someone’s mind. And I do mean drop. There is no introduction, no warning, and no ..
July 03, 2006
“Fragments of Reality" is a deep book of fragmented thoughts, random memories, and moments of questions racing through this philosophical mix and match prose. Poetry and essays grace the pages to make the reader stop and consider so many issues of life, some often not even an average thought of a ..
July 03, 2006
“The Traitor’s wife" is the story of Eleanor de Clare, the Granddaughter of King Edward I. The story starts with Eleanor as a young teen married to Hugh le Despenser. The match makes both Eleanor and Hugh very happy but happiness is not enough for Hugh. He pushes and fights to gain more until he ..
July 03, 2006
How good can life get? Well that’s the question we all strive to figure out. “Life Skills – Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology" addresses this question on the emotional, mental, and physical levels. It also spends time on how we can improve the quality of our relationships. “Life ..
July 03, 2006
If a fast paced and exciting mystery is what you yearn for, “Under Cloak of Darkness" will give you everything you desire, and more. I love how author, I. Michael Koontz, has taken his lifelong, passionate interest in Cold War espionage and military history and put together such a well-written and ..
July 03, 2006
From the beginning, this book grabs your attention. We first focus on the story of Jenny. Immediately, we are told that Jenny has a killer watching her from the woods. We soon learn that it is uncertain whether the killer is human or a wild animal. Meanwhile, the story turns to romance and more ..
July 01, 2006
There are not very many authors of poker books that get quoted or referred to as much as David Sklansky is. He has written and collaborated on several books, all good, but this particular book is mentioned the most often. First published in 1987, and due to the continued demand is still being ..
June 30, 2006
Beating Adwords is another one of those books that promises to teach you all the tricks that the so called professional marketeers are using, to make a substantial living using pay per click advertising to sell affiliate products.Predominantly although not exclusively the book focuses on using ..
June 29, 2006
Do you have a stack of books to read but between the job and all the other factors in life you just cannot seem to find time to read? Well consider if you will reading by candle light when the power is out for 4-6 weeks with nothing to do? Consider the aftermath of a large Category Hurricane comes ..
June 28, 2006
he first audio book club organized several years ago was probably built on one principle: that literature should be enjoyed by everyone, even by the legally blind. And now, thanks to technology, audio book clubs are becoming more and more popular. Organizing and joining one has never been so ..
June 27, 2006
Reader Views is happy to be talking with Todd A. Hemming, author of “College Predator: Missing College Students." Todd is being interviewed by Juanita Watson, Assistant Editor for Reader Views.Juanita: Thanks for talking with us today Todd. Please tell your readers about the storyline of your new ..
June 27, 2006
College Predator Missing College Students Todd A. Hemming Outskirts Press (2006) ISBN 1598004751 Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (6/06)A predator is loose and nobody has a clue how to catch him. Nobody until a schizophrenic, middle aged loser teams up with a childhood friend and his ..
June 27, 2006
Today Reader Views is talking with Annie Rogers, author of “A Circle of Dreams," the second novel in the Demontagne saga that began with “A Dream Across Time." Annie is speaking with Juanita Watson, Assistant Editor of Reader Views.Juanita: Welcome Annie…..or more correctly, welcome Roger and Mala ..
June 27, 2006
A Circle of Dreams Annie Rogers Bivens and Jensen Publishing (2006) ISBN 0977018318 Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/06)It was such a pleasure to read this sequel to “A Dream Across Time." The husband and wife writing team that composes Annie Rogers have done a wonderful job writing ..
June 27, 2006
Reader Views is excited to be talking with Case Wagenvoord about his deeply satirical political book called “Open Letters to George W. Bush." Case is talking with Juanita Watson, Assistant Editor of Reader Views.Juanita: Thanks for talking with us today Case. Please give us an idea of the content ..
June 26, 2006
The ReviewThis work of 271 pages includes twelve chapters, and an Appendix with booklist. Chapter offerings include suggestions for parents on the nuts and bolts of how to mentor children with examples and specific how-to covered in the chapter titled ‘The Mark of the Mentoring Mom.’ Life ..
June 26, 2006
Open Letters to George W. Bush Case Wagenvoord iUniverse (2005) ISBN 0595361978 Reviewed by Joanne Benham for Reader Views (6/06)This book is a tongue-in-cheek satire of government and big business, told through a series of letters to President Bush from a fictional character called Belacqua ..
June 25, 2006
When you write, you likely find yourself wrestling with questions. I certainly do, everything from the proper form of abbreviations to the placement of apostrophes. Ideally, you want to get past those questions quickly, so you can focus on the message, not the writing.Among the tools that helps us ..
June 23, 2006
Author: Burton h. Wolfe ISBN: 1419619748Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, author, journalist and humorist, Burton h. Wolfe.Burton is the author of The Hippies, Hitler and the Nazis, Pileup on Death Row, The Devil and Dr. Noxin, The Devil’s Avenger. He .
June 22, 2006
One of the most fun business books I have ever read is; Blown to Bits: How the New Economy of Information Transforms Strategy by Philip Evans and I suggest if you want to better understand innovation, barriers to entry and disruptive technologies that you buy this book and read it over thoroughly.I .
June 22, 2006
The Lord Had Something Better in Mind by Barbara Robinson Publish America, 1413706800, $19.95Magnolia Roussel is a determined community college student and hard worker, wanting only to be as good as the boy her mother Myrtle always wanted but never had. Each spring sees her on the family strawberry .
June 22, 2006
We Met Online! Stories of Married Catholics Who Met Their Spouses On the Internet by by Anthony J. Buono and Stephen Weisenbach, eds. As Written Publishing, 1413464653, $21.99Is Internet “dating" good for the soul? It's not something I've done personally, yet I know people who have tried it, ..
June 21, 2006
The fascination over The Prince has for hundreds of years been a widely read book and the author of; What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness; Stanley Bings, sheds some light on the subject using comical comments to show it correlation to business and indeed there are many ..
June 21, 2006
Jon Michlethwait did an excellent job of writing the Future Perfect; The Hidden Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization. This book was good for many reasons and as a futurist myself I was excited to read it and look at the world from his perspective and then stated; Our destiny has been ..
June 21, 2006
Creating new customers is not so difficult in business, but keeping them is and getting them to send you endless referrals very much depends on your ability to deliver great customer service. In Carl Sewell’s book; Customers For Life; How to Turn That One Time Buyer Into A Lifelong Customer; you ..
June 21, 2006
The Cobra Event by Richard Preston is a worthwhile book to read indeed, but it will scare the be-Jesus out of you also. This is quite a heavy book to read and if you are an intellectual type of person, then it should frighten you.Having also read the book; Germs and many other similar books and ..
June 05, 2006
Lady Chatterly is young, beautiful, and highly sexual and needs satisfaction.The book “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” is about one Lady Chatterly and the unhappy state of her married life she is married to a wealthy mine owner Sir Clifford Chatterly.War wounds he had received made him paralyzed and ..
June 05, 2006
The Conscious, Unconscious, & Super-Conscious Mind By Gurdip Hari Jasmine Publishing House (2005) Reviewed by Irene Watson for Reader Views (3/06)Gurdip Hari, in the beginning of his book, explains in understandable terms the conscious, unconscious, and the super-conscious aspect of the mind. He ..
June 05, 2006
The Anvil Stone (Macsen’s Treasure, Book 3) By Kathleen Cunningham Guler Bardsong Press (2006) Reviewed by Sondra Fowler for Reader Views (3/06)“The Anvil Stone" is an unusual take on the age old Arthurian tale. We are taken on a side trip of sorts. We meet the characters of Uther and Merlin the ..
June 05, 2006
Reader Views is very happy to talk with Kathleen Cunningham Guler, award-winning author of the popular Macsen’s Treasure series. She has just finished her third book in the series, titled “The Anvil Stone."Juanita: Thank you for talking with us today Kathleen. Give us an idea of the storyline in ..
June 05, 2006
The Price of Pride By Donna MacQuigg Five Star Publishing (2006) Reviewed by Kelli Glesige for Reader Views (3/06)“The Price of Pride" is an enjoyable and entertaining western romance that takes place in the Territory of New Mexico in the year 1892. The deaths of Zachary Farrell and his young ..
June 04, 2006
Robert Langdon in his first adventure is awakened by an urgent telephone call from Maximilian Kohler the head of CERN. One of his top physicists Leonardo Vetra was murdered and he needed for the Harvard symbologist to make the trip to Geneva immediately. A fax with a picture of the dead scientist ..
June 03, 2006
Author: Gunnar Jensen ISBN: 3833443553Here is a question I don’t believe many of us will have the answer to by the end of this review: “What if you were to accept whatever comes to you, instead of always wanting certain things to happen in certain ways." (As my mother used to say, “Man plans and ..
June 02, 2006
A Journey into the Heroic Environment: A Personal Guide to Creating a Work Environment Built on Shared Values, 3rd EditionRob Lebow (SelectBooks, New York 2004 1590790618) $21.95REVIEWED BY SHARIF KHANLiving in what Alan Greenspan called an era of “infectious greed" with corporate titans facing ..
June 01, 2006
I admire a book that is bold and imaginative -- one where the only taboo is taboo itself. I admire a book like Elizabeth Lynn's “A Different Light", which is all of those things and more.This isn't my usual everyday taste in reading material. At 183 pages, it was a little slim for my liking; ..
June 01, 2006
Title: . Passed Down Through 4 GenerationsTasty Read … Recommended … 5 starsThe Review BEVERAGE recipes offered on the pages of Passed Down Through 4 Generations include Alcoholic and Non-Alcoholic. This reviewer found CHEF TELL’S CREAMY HOLIDAY EGG NOG to be especially tasty. CHEF TELL’S PECAN ..
June 01, 2006
Publisher: Hammond World Atlas CorporationISBN: 0843709375The 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 ..
June 01, 2006
The novel “Northanger Abbey" is one of the earlier works of Jane Austen, which was published only after her death. “Northanger Abbey" is considered to be a satire on the Gothic novels of that time, which were of a high popularity in 18-19th centuries in England. Particularly it’s considered to be a .
June 01, 2006
“The Transcendence of the Ego" is a short work by Jean Paul Sartre, written in 1937 and which presents us a phenomenological study of human consciousness. This work marked Sartre’s break from the teachings of Edmund Husserl. custom essaysHe rejects the idea of regarding the ego as a part of our ..
May 31, 2006
Author: Richard E. Sall, MDISBN: 1419630547Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Dr. Richard E. Sall, author of Straightjacket.Good day Dr. Sall and thanks for agreeing to participate in our interview.Norm:What inspired you to write Straightjacket? How ..
May 31, 2006
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of the book reviewing and interviewing site Bookpleasures is excited to have as our guest, Amy Friedman, acclaimed writer who wrote Tell Me a Story for Universal Press Syndicate. Good day Amy and thank your for agreeing to participate in our interview.Good day, Norm, and .
May 31, 2006
When I first published my first novel, The Ebony Tree, I'll never forget how I found out later that my then, 23 year-old niece ran through the house and screamed with laughter, after she read the book. Now mind you, my niece had always been an avid reader of white romance novels since her early ..
May 30, 2006
This is Edward Lefevre's story of the legendary speculator Jesse Livermore - and Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is full of trading wisdom.Although written 83 years ago, its wisdom and insight are timeless, being often featured as one of the top ten investment books of all time - and this is a ..
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