BOOK REVIEW LISTINGS

Where Madness Lies

Every Family has a Secret.
Where Madness Lies is at once a tragedy of well-meaning actions that lead to devastating consequences, and a story of redemption and the healing power of truth.
Rigmor, a young Jewish woman, is sent to a reputed premier psychiatric institution. But
the tide of eugenics, and the Nazi's campaign to ...

Where the Hurt Is

“Where the Hurt Is,” by Chris Kelsey is a novel about a small town police chief, Emmett Hardy who struggles to find justice for a very disturbing murder of a young African American woman. The story takes place during the late sixties in Burr, Oklahoma, a mostly white town just east of the Texas state line.

Chief ...

Whispers from Her Deathbed

This book is a posthumous collection of poems in which we hear Janavi Held enter into an intimate dialogue with time, nature, pain, and her own mortality, as she withers away from a mysterious chronic illness. Baring her soul in these honest and brave poetic narratives, Janavi chronicles the musings of a youthful and exuberant spirit longing to dance, ...

White Oaks

White Oaks by Jill Hand is a dark somewhat whimsical story about what happens when siblings try to accommodate their aging father’s 90^th birthday wish. Good old dad, Blanton Toombs Trapnell,  is not just the run of the mill nonagenarian he is worth billions. There is going to be a big birthday celebration ...

Why We Revolt

Why We Revolt by Victor Montori is an account of the issues and problems our nation faces in the healthcare system. Montori brings to light so many of the flaws, hindrances and absolute atrocities in the healthcare system. This book not only looks at the patient side of the issues but also the healthcare workers and providers. Dr. Montori has honed ...

Wild Salvation

Johnson is accused of assaulting a white woman, a deadly charge for a black man in 1876. Knowing he’ll be lynched if he stays in St. Andrews, Indiana, Johnson flees to the grassy plains of Kansas looking for the freedom unavailable to him back East. What Johnson doesn’t know is that the woman’s father is a powerful businessman determined ...

Woman in Red: Magdalene Speaks

Krishna Rose’s Woman in Red - Magdalene Speaks is a well-researched and believable work of fiction that will challenge believers and atheists with an equally rich interpretive of gospel, history, and culture of two thousand years ago. Wonderfully fresh and readable -  it reads with considerable intellectual force about one of ...