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The Essential Rules of Love

The Essential Rules of Love distills love and relationships into their component parts, including psychological, chemical, neuroscientific, and evolutionary factors from both a functional and pragmatic approach. Musical and literary references sprinkled throughout add a flavor not often seen in books of this genre. The book begins with an examination ...

The Faithful Dog: A Civil War Novel

Author Terry Lee Caruthers’ novel, The Faithful Dog, is based on a true event that was published in an 1862 newspaper. Through her exhaustive research, Caruthers was able to recreate a moving and heartwarming narrative of the life of Lieutenant Louis Pfeif and his dog as a member of the Fifty-Eight Illinois Regiment ...

The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song

The Fat Lady's Low, Sad Song by Brian Kaufman takes you inside the minor league baseball world that grinds on, chewing up young hopefuls with major league dreams. Kaufman tells the story of a couch potato, Parker Westfall, a washed-up minor league baseball player that suddenly gets a call from the Indie League team, the Fort Collins Miners in ...

THE FEARLESS MORAL INVENTORY OF ELSIE FINCH

The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch by A. Lynn Byk is a three-generational narrative. It may be hard to believe that this is fiction and not a fictionalized memoir because it is a trying story for Elsie to tell. However, since authors tend to write based on what they know or experience, perhaps emotions and ...

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple is a heartfelt story of two extremely different individuals who have one thing in common; death is staring them in the face. Siple pairs a one-hundred-year-old, Mr. McBride with a young boy one-tenth his age to face death together. McBride, still melancholy from the recent death of his wife, Jenny ...

The Followers: "Holy Hell" and the Disciples of Narcissistic Leaders

The Followers: "Holy Hell" and the Disciples of Narcissistic Leaders by Radhia Gleis, is not a memoir but the author’s hindsight as background into her thesis concerning cults. It is a cautionary tale based on personal experience void of dramatic license and exaggeration. It is a courageous book, soberly told.

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The Graveyard Girl and the Boneyard Boy

In Martin Matthews’ young adult novel, “The Graveyard Girl And The Boneyard Boy,”  he treats readers to a compelling and eminently likable cast of characters. He displays a writing style that draws you in from the very first paragraph. Matthews is a great storyteller who spins an exciting, stirring, ...

THE HANDLER

Jeffery S. Stephens, author of The Handler. A Nick ReaganThriller is a master of intrigue and espionage. Stephen's novel is so in sync with today's war on terrorism that the author includes a disclaimer that "most of the details are sheer fabrication." Details of terrorist activities are the product of his imagination ...

The Isotoner Ordeal

The Isotoner Ordeal by Christopher Leibig creates a dark, complex story about a defense lawyer who doggedly defends clients accused of various crimes, even murder. He can commiserate with the accused because he was once himself an accused murderer. His name is David Stillman, and the story opens with him sitting in his favorite bar, Ragtime, ...

 

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