Book Review
War to Make Peace
Irish writer F.J.P. O’Connell has compiled an impressive amount of information in his ambitious War to Make Peace: Machen Frieden , and for that he deserves respect and praise. Here, in one volume, is almost all of the who, what,...
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Tego Arcana Dei
"Tego Arcana Dei" does not start out as or even truly hint at being a work of science fiction until some forty pages into the book. Once author Andrew Man’s protagonist, James Pollack, discovers he can use “astral travel” to jump...
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True Power
"True Power" validates almost every good lesson for life espoused by mothers and fathers for years, including the founding father’s famous dictum of “early to bed, early to rise.” Caleb Young’s ambitious undertaking is a...
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The Legend of Alexandros
As with many heroes in fantasy epics, Alexandros has an envy-causing body, and, of course, a “massive sword” which he is called upon repeatedly to wield in a righteous vendetta against a great evil. There is nothing actually wrong...
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The Days of Lamech
Everything Jon Saboe has tossed into the salad bowl that is "The Days of Lamech" can be found somewhere else on the literary grocer’s shelf, yet somehow he blends these old and familiar ingredients to make a tasty new dish. That such...
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Crimes of Humanity
Never invest in a private gold mine in Africa. And never, ever, work in a gold mine in a war zone. These are two of the many lessons readers should take away from Lynn D. Fausett’s memoir about his adventures in Liberia during the late...
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The Eyes of Wonder
In "The Eyes of Wonder", poet Tina Emiliani offers much more than mere words: her pages are bursting with emotion, authenticity bleeds from the heart, soul, and memory of seventy years of life in her native Italy. The seventy-two poems...
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Nuclear Silk Road
It takes an odd sort of courage to state that the tragic Chernobyl accident of 1986 “turned out to be a blessing for Korea.” But that is what nuclear engineer and author Dr. Kim Byung-koo does in this book about his country’s rise...