Book Review
Hanging Hill
When the body of Lorne Wood, a popular teenage girl, is found alongside a towpath in a quiet middle-class community, the neighbors are understandably disturbed. But it gets worse. The corpse is found partially covered with a tarp, a...
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Wyatt
Wyatt is a thief. While he’s had a long and successful career, due in large part to the meticulousness with which he plans his capers, advances in technology are making it harder for him to earn a living without getting caught. When...
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Sunset Tai Chi
Sunset Tai Chi is a worthy follow-up to Rones and Silver’s Sunrise Tai Chi: Simplified Tai Chi for Health and Longevity, a Living Now Book Award Winner. While internal (“soft”) styles like tai chi, taijiquan, and qigong have been...
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Jiangan
"Jiangan" substantiates that old adage about not judging books by their covers. Seriously, who’s excited by the image of a bespectacled, white guy with a goofy countenance garbed in traditional Chinese silks, holding a bamboo stick in...
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Remote Control
Taking office at the age of fifty, Sadayoshi Kaneda becomes the youngest prime minister in Japanese history. The old guard isn’t exactly thrilled about this turn of events, but to the people he is wildly popular. In a plot undoubtedly...
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Set the Night on Fire
Lila Hilliard is an ordinary person. A thirty-something financial planner with a burgeoning career and less than stellar social life, she has few friends and no known enemies. When her father and twin brother perish in a mysterious fire...
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The Fallen
A diabolical genius and his band of terrorist thugs have taken over the G8 Summit in Colorado, threatening to kill world leaders one-by-one if their demands are not met. The complex is wired with explosives, an attempted rescue by US...
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The Adderall Diaries
Once one has mastered the rules of an artistic discipline, it becomes possible for a gifted few to transcend them. In "The Adderall Diaries", author Stephen Elliott shatters the strictures of conventional writing to create a poignant...