Book Review
Circle of Shadows
Keith Heim’s eminently entertaining debut novel, "Circle of Shadows" is an evocative story about a fifteen-year-old runaway struggling to build a new life in mid-1940s Morehead, a small town in Alabama. Strand by strand, the young farm...
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Beamish Boy
An accomplished poet, photographer, and owner of The Owl Press in California, Albert Flynn DeSilver grew up “with bats in the belfry” in his 1900 Dutch colonial clocktower home in New Canaan, Connecticut. While his architect father...
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Journeys of Entrepreneurs
During his three decades as a banker, stockbroker, and commercial insurance agent and auditor, Lee Rice met hundreds of business entrepreneurs. In his highly readable "Journeys of Entrepreneurs", he profiles sixteen of the most...
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A New Leash on Life
Erna Mueller’s "A New Leash on Life" began its life as an award winning screenplay that was later adapted into a novel which won first place in the 2009 Good Read Fiction competition at a Woman’s Write. As a novel "A New Leash on...
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Storm Frost
British author Pauline Sabin Moore’s historical romance, "Storm Frost", will be more readily received by dedicated followers of British Anglo Saxon history and literature than by general readers looking for happily-ever-after love and...
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A Station Agent's Story
Although promoted on its back cover as an autobiography, Henry Lee Hill’s A Station Agent’s Story is more of a ranting memoir. Hill aims to expose the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for treating its...
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Honest Sid
Ronald Probstein’s engaging memoir of his gambler father is likely to find favor with a large audience. Tightly edited and concisely written, the book commemorates Probstein’s parents against the backdrop of Depression-Era New York...
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Cameo
Cameo the Assassin, a historical novel from Dawn McCullough-White, is an engaging, fast-paced romp about highwaymen, assassins, Lockenwood vampires, their victims, and their evaders in an age when “who knew there were so many vampires...