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Review: Galactic Exploration by Peter Cawdron

 

Dec 26 2012in Book Reviews, Features by tbmarkinsonTags: ,
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Peter Cawdron’s Galactic Exploration contains four novellas: Serengeti, Trixie & Me, Savannah, and War. All of the stories are loosely connected and deal with the exploration of the Milky Way. Like Christopher Columbus, the intrepid explorers set out in three ships, of course they are space ships. Unlike Columbus and his crews, every crew member [...]

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Review: The Puddingstone Well by William Westhoven

 

Dec 20 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Lela MichaelTags: ,
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Glancing at the cover of this book we know right off the bat something is up with that well. There are too many historical writings about fountains of youth to count, not to mention the legendary island of Avalon and utopian villages such as Shangri-La. In The Puddingstone Well, the second novel from William Westhoven, [...]

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Review: Travels With A Road Dog: Hitchhiking the Roads of the Americas By R.K.

 

Dec 17 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko No Comments »

Rajam, named after a distant Indian friend, decides, on a whim of teenage wanderlust to leave it all behind in her small Alabama town and take to the road to follow the hippy festival trail across the country and beyond. Giving away all her “stuff” she takes off to the famous Rainbow gathering and falls [...]

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Review: Colt O’Brien Grows Up by George M. Cole

 

Dec 13 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko No Comments »

The book, a sequel to Colt O’Brien Sees The Light centers around Colt O’Brien, a student who takes an internship as an IT helpdesk assistant as part of his college studies, and follows his career in IT and his personal life as he discovers more about life. An unusual format is used as emails between [...]

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Review: Saving Grace by Ann Grant

 

Dec 12 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Elaine L. Orr No Comments »

If you heard that Saving Grace by Ann Grant was the story of a perfectionist who tanks after a debilitating fall and ends up leaving her husband and kids, you might think you didn’t want to read that story.  You’d be making a big mistake.  With humor, insight into the human spirit and, well, grace, [...]

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Review: Points To Ponder: Pathways to Self-Discovery by John D. Mosley

 

Dec 7 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko No Comments »

This book is the ponderings on life by pharmacist John D Mosley, a thinker who has written several of these monologue style works on his opinions about life, with handy points to remember at the end of each section. Written in the Kahlil Gibran style, the book is separated into several themes, including how to [...]

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Review: 5 Core Methods Of Innovation by Sanjeev Sharma

 

Dec 5 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko No Comments »

Did you know bees can smell bombs? Or that it could soon be possible to fly from the US to Japan in 30 minutes? Would you like to know exactly how your Kindle works? How could a tree be related to a laptop? Did you know there is a handshake invented to combat Swine Flu? [...]

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Review: You Are Not A Planet And Other Stories by Sean Manseau

 

Dec 3 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Catherine Tosko 1 Comment »

It is not often that I pick up a book of short stories with a song in my heart because the genre is just so damn difficult to get right – and when a writer succeeds he then has to stand against the greats such as H.P. Lovecraft, Saki, Angela Carter, Roald Dahl. Why do [...]

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Review: Hannah Singer, Celestial Advocate by Peter G.

 

Nov 29 2012in Book Reviews, Features by Avery Hurt No Comments »

In life, Hanna Singer, protagonist of this unique fantasy, was a rare individual: a medieval atheist. After she dies, she finds out just how wrong she was. As it turns out, the Christian villagers who had tried so hard to convert her didn’t have it quite right either. In the afterlife, Hannah becomes a Celestial [...]

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Review: Spitting Image by M. K. Mattias

 

Nov 28 2012in Book Reviews, Features by tbmarkinsonTags: ,
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In the novel Spitting Image, by M. K. Mattias, the main character can’t stay out of trouble. Simone Darling is terrified of flying. After her father plunged to his death when he fell out of a helicopter, Simone never wants to step foot onto a plane. Also, she’s afraid of America, especially Miami. Her fear [...]

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