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Wonderful 'Nathan Burgoine talks about Detours by Jeffrey A Ricker I bumped into Jeffrey Ricker for the first time when I read his short story "At the End of the Leash." It was a charming story, a gentle piece with a sweet romance potentially botched by the... Read more »	Romance and international intrigue abound! Brenda Scott talks about Promise Keeper by Mary Fremont Schoenecker Promise Keeper is the third installment in Mary Fremont Schoenecker’s Maine Shore Chronicles series and, like books one and two, features Tante Margaret, Chronicles’ thoroughly lovable clairvoyant.... Read more »
A Book For All Ages Charles A. Ray talks about Wallace in Underland by Charles A. Ray Wallace in Underland is a book that appeals to all age groups. The user friendly language makes the book unique. Dialogue and illustrations add value to this work. It is a fact that we do not have to... Read more »	the science of skilled storytelling Virginia Campbell talks about Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks With some books, you can sense in advance that you are in for a reader's treat, that you will be taken outside your normal reading zone and sent on an involving and entertaining journey through... Read more »
A Sweet Halloween Picture Book Loren Rhoads talks about Vampire Boy's Good Night by Lisa Brown This is a sweet little book with a story reminiscent of A Very Brave Witch, except this time it's a witch and a vampire who discover that children are nothing to be afraid of. The text is... Read more »	A Sweet Halloween Picture Book Loren Rhoads talks about Vampire Boy's Good Night by Lisa Brown This is a sweet little book with a story reminiscent of A Very Brave Witch, except this time it's a witch and a vampire who discover that children are nothing to be afraid of. The text is... Read more »
"Miss New India" by Bharati Mukherjee Luke Sherwood talks about Miss New India by Bharati Mukherjee “Miss New India” contains the story of Anjali (Angie) Bose, who grows from sheltered nineteen-year-old in a backwater India town into a sadder but wiser young woman with growing skills and ambition.... Read more »	Review by Justin Hoffman "Maestro" is a Divine Leader by Unlocking Your Destiny" Rachel Madorsky talks about Maestro: Unveiling Karma and Reincarnation by Rachel Madorsky Maestro by Rachel Madorsky shows the reader many ways to change their destiny. The engaging tales captivate and enlighten. Several people come to Rachel for help, and find it. She opens a door to... Read more »
Review "Traveling through our DNA' by Joyce White Rachel Madorsky talks about Maestro: Unveiling Karma and Reincarnation by Rachel Madorsky As a student of life, I find the title “Maestro” very interesting. The word Maestro is a title of extreme respect given to a master musician or a master in an artistic field, usually someone who... Read more »	Book Review former member talks about Felicity & Barbara Pym by Harrison Solow "Reading the book now and it is indeed the book generations of serious writers pursuing either a literary career or an academic literary life will need to read to evolve the form and its delivery,... Read more »

An "Affair" to Remember with DOMESTIC AFFAIRS by Eileen Goudge Karen Haney talks about DOMESTIC AFFAIRS by Eileen Goudge For Eileen Goudge to write a novel better than Woman in Red is something I never saw coming until I opened to the first page of this remarkable book. Nevertheless, in Domestic Affairs, Goudge has... Read more »	A Minimalist Epic Erik Vatne talks about Cartographies of Silence by Erik Vatne It seems that there are two types of poetry written these days: the over-taught confessional poetry that demands one's inner experiences be laid bare or the dense experimental poetry ensconced within... Read more »
Review of A Single Hurt Color by Andrew Demcak Andrew Demcak talks about A Single Hurt Color by Andrew Demcak Demcak weaves pop culture references into poems like Trinidad and Duhamel. He has a talent for writing lines that will be remembered long after you place A Single Hurt Color on your shelf. It is a... Read more »	Serendipitous Price Ping Pong Matthew Michael Hanlon talks about The Marriage of True Minds by Stephen Evans I found The Marriage of True Minds (and Stephen Evans, himself) through RedRoom.com. I'd enjoyed his blog posts, both here and off-site, and when I saw his post from earlier in the week about the... Read more »
New Scientist Jeff Biggers talks about Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland by Jeff Biggers New Scientist, February 2010 "Biggers is a cultural historian and it is the social strip-mining that angers him most. But seldom have the environmental and social landscapes been so well described in... Read more »	A beautiful book Jana McBurney-Lin talks about Rooftops of Tehran by Seraji Mahbod My daughter reads very little outside her college curriculum. So I'm choosy about what I pass onto her. This past summer, I fell in love with Rooftops of Tehran...and so did she. Read more »
Review from Pam Tate from the Book Worm Book Club heather caudill talks about Eternity's Deception by heather caudill Recently a pre-release copy of Eternity's Deception was sent to Pam Tate with the Book Worm Book Club in Tuscon Arizona. I have posted her review of the second book in the series. Again thank you so... Read more »	Hatred is the key Graham Sclater talks about Hatred is the key by Graham Sclater American book review by Patty Inglish May 2010 Hatred is the Key - American/English Holocaust August 2, 1812 Hatred is the Key by author Graham Sclater Tabitha Books ISBN 978-0956397713 Published in... Read more »
Saffron Dreams eliza scott talks about Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah Arissa is born in an affluent family in Pakistan. She moves to New York when she marries Faizan who works in a restaurant in the World Trade Center. Arissa is very happy with her life, her husband... Read more »	Caribbean Dreams of Love Bess McBride talks about Caribbean Dreams of Love by Bess McBride "This is such a heart warming book! It tells a story of a woman who gets another shot in love and romance. The story catches my interest from the start and keeps me going till the end. It's just hard... Read more »