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Marathon
Author: William WinokurISBN: 0-9768508-0-XThe following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Marathon," a novel by first-time author William Winokur, depicts the redemption of Marianna Gardner, a hard-driving lawyer who skips her father's funeral in order to win a big case. When, two years later, she suddenly becomes possessed of a desire to reconnect with family, she searches for a long-lost family friend, "Uncle" Ion...
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7-26-2006
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The Sacred Harp: a Tradition and its Music
Author: Buell E. Cobb, Jr.ISBN: 0-8203-2371-3In the early days of the 18th century, the quality of music in the churches ofcolonial New England was less than ideal. Congregational singing wasaccomplished through a method called "lining out," a process in which a songleader would sing a psalm, one line at a time, and the congregation would followsuit. Although the 9th edition of the Puritan Bay Psalm Book - published in 1698 - did include printed music (and was the first edition...
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12-6-2006
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Darcy's Story: 'Pride and Prejudice' told from a whole new perspective
Author: Janet AylmerISBN: 10:0-06-114870-9Jane Austen's novel, "Pride and Prejudice," tells the tale of Elizabeth Bennetand Fitzwilliam Darcy, a pair who spend most of the novel too ensconced in theirpersonal foibles (his pride, her prejudice) to realize that they are meant foreach other. When the light finally dawns, true love and the end of the storyare not far behind.While Elizabeth's painful journey towards self-revelation makes her one of themost compelling characters in...
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12-4-2006
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Me and My Father's Shadow: A Daughter's Quest and Biography of Ted Lewis, The Jazz King
Author: Dawn WilliamsISBN: 0-9770783-1-0Ted Lewis, a clarinetist and showman with a decades-long career, was one of the first Northern bandleaders to try to master jazz. He also secretly fathered an out-of-wedlock daughter. Dawn Williams, the daughter in question, has attempted to combine her own biography with that of her father in her slightly uneven but ultimately rewarding book, "Me and My Father's Shadow."Conceived during a one-night stand and brought up by a single mother,...
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12-18-2006
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T: An Auto-Biography:
Author: Feather Schwartz FosterISBN: (10) 0-9785158-3-8From the moment "T" (that's short for Model-T Ford) rolls off of "Mr.Ford's assembly line" until he gets rescued from a junk heap by his firstowner's great-grandchildren, "'T' An Auto-Biography dishes up a lot ofeducational fun. Not only does Feather Schwartz Foster give a detaileddescription of the appearance and workings of a Model-T Ford, but as thecar passes through time and changes owners, Foster also...
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2-9-2007
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Bradford and the Journey to the Desert of Lop
Author: Dawn Van ZantISBN: 0-9761768-2-3The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsBradford, the title character in Dawn Van Zant's "Bradford and the Journey tothe Desert of Lop," is a boy who watches "Zorro," who owns a shirt declaring theword "warrior" and who wears a necklace that holds "cancer beads," one for everysignificant battle in his deadly struggle with the disease..One night, the...
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6-15-2006
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Silent Lies
Author: M.L. MalcolmISBN: 1-56352-750-2The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Silent Lies" is a historical novel that decidedly deserves the occasionally overused term, "sweeping" and the book's fascinating settings have much to do with this. Placed in the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century and set initially in Hungary - a country not often associated with world war novels - the story is a...
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12-31-2005
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Robin: The Loveable Morgan Horse
Author: Ellen F. FeldISBN: 0-9709002-5-2The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Robin: The Loveable Morgan Horse," fourth in a series by horsewoman Ellen Feld, introduces two new characters: Karen Greene and her "loveable" horse, Robin. Karen, a relative newcomer to horses, experiences a physically and emotionally damaging accident (with another horse) in the first chapter which drags her riding confidence...
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1-19-2006
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The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Piano Chords
Author: Karen BergerISBN: 1-59257-459-9The following reviewi was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsSometimes accomplished pianists don't have loads of extra patience for teaching,well, idiots. Not so Karen Berger, a pianist on the faculty of the BerkshireMusic School. Berger's very enjoyable book, "Pocket Idiot's Guide to PianoChords," thoroughly presents the material necessary for a complete novice beginto playing from a...
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6-15-2006
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Speak Right On: Dred Scott
Author: Mary E. NeighbourISBN: 1 59264 144 XThe following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"Speak Right On" is a fictionalized biography of Dred Scott, theAfrican-American slave at the center of the hotly debated antebellum SupremeCourt decision that will forever bear his name. Scott was a slave who, becausehe had lived in the free North with his Southern master for a time, decidedlater to sue for his freedom on that basis....
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8-11-2006
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Dead and Berried (A “Gray Whale Inn” mystery)
Author: Karen MacInerneryISBN: 13:978-0-7387-0914-7 Natalie Barnes – the protagonist in Karen MacInernery’s cozy myster, “Dead and Berried” – is a very busy woman. Not only does she run The Gray Whale Inn, a bed-and-breakfast on northwesterly Cranberry Island, but she is also trying to rebuff the advances of a former fiancé while simultaneously investigating possible paranormal activity in her attic. Oh yes, and she also has a murder case to solve. The problem? Natalie’s got quite a few...
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4-19-2007
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The Writer's Quotebook: 500 Authors on Creativity, Craft and the Writing Life
Compiled, arranged and edited by Jim FisherISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3882-2Rutgers University PressDepending on your proximity to the writing life, what section of the bookyou're reading and what percentage of your daily writing quota you'vecompleted, "The Writer's Quotebook" will either fill you with hilarity,dread or inspiration.Quoting 500 different authors - everyone from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola- on subjects as diverse as the talent, dialogue and Hollywood, "TheWriter's...
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2-9-2007
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Echoes of Armageddon, 1914-1918
Author: B. Cory Kilvert, Jr.ISBN# 1-4184-5658-6 Published by Author HouseThe following review was submitted by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsIt would not be an exaggeration to call B. Cory Kilvert, Jr. the Shelby Foote of "The Great War." The attention to detail in Kilvert's book, Echoes of Armageddon, 1914-1918, is so striking, there is sometimes the sense (as was the case with Foote in relation to the Civil War) that Kilvert was not only circling...
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10-6-2005
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Improve Your Piano Playing
Author: Dr. John Meffen Publisher: Allworth Press ISBN: 13-978-1-58115-476-4Improve Your Piano Playing brings its readers quite close to personally accessing an exceptional piano teacher, Dr. John Meffen, who has poured extensive years of teaching, research and performance into his 160-page book in such a personal way as to make the concepts practically jump off the page. Geared largely towards students in the beginning intermediate stages through advanced, Improve Your Piano Playing is...
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5-23-2007
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The Stop and Go Fast Food Nutritional Guide
Author: Steven G. Aldana, Ph.D.ISBN: 10 0-9758828-4-8In creating “The Stop and Go Fast Food Nutritional Guide,” Steven Aldana has sought to fill an important informational gap in the fat-laden “western” diet (so called because of its prevalence among western industrialized nations). Although packaged foods are required to exhibit nutritional information, restaurants are not.Enter Aldana’s book. “Stop and Go” lists the nutritional content (i.e., calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium and fiber)...
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4-15-2007
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Paper Poppies: A Memoir by Marianna Vekhova
ISBN: 978-0-975961-91-9Author: Marrianna Vehovan: Natalia Klukovkina (Translator) The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsA good memoir brings a single life sharply into focus; when that life illuminates a turbulent historical context, the results can be enthralling. Marianna Vekhova's memoir, Paper Poppies, is such a book. Orphaned and hospitalized with spinal tuberculosis during the second world war, four year-old Marianna...
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10-21-2005
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Back Together: Hands-On Healing For Couples
Author: Andrew S. Kirschner, D.O.ISBN: 13:978-0-7624-2403-0The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsWhen you read the opening sentence of Andrew Kirschner's book -- "I hateself-help books" - you realize that "Back Together" is going to be a differenttype of "self-help" book. How so? For one thing, it puts pain right where itusually happens: in a relationship. Kirschner holds that physical pain in...
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8-11-2006
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Elijah’s Cup: A Family’s Journey into the Community and Culture of High-Functioning Autism
Author: Valerie ParadizISBN: 978 1 84310 802 3The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews“Elijah’s Cup” is the mesmerizing account of German scholar and author Valerie Paradiz’s journey into the world of high-functioning autism. Her son Elijah, who seemed fairly normal at birth, begins to have inexplicable seizures as a toddler and subsequently exhibits significant behavioral delays. As the narrative develops, Paradiz begins to...
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3-28-2006
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Does Christianity Squash Women? A Christian Looks at Womanhood
Author: Rebecca JonesISBN: 978-0-8054-3091-2The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsIn light of the plethora of books detailing the inner workings of global fundamentalism, Rebecca Jones' book, "Does Christianity Squash Women," is also worth considering. Although evidently geared towards Christian women (each chapter contains open-ended discussion questions), Jones' scholarly, measured and readable style can be a...
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12-9-2005
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The Rune of Zachary Zimbalist" and "The Legend of Zamiel Zimbalist"
Author: Pamela KeyesISBN: 1-59092-131-3ISBN: 1-59092-062-7The following review was contribute by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews.Pamela Keyes doesn't waste any time getting her story, "The Rune of Zachary Zimbalist" moving. The first sentence of the book has five-year old Zachary sensing his new house's magical power. Three paragraphs later, he is in the midst of a brief conversation between a talking cat and a ghost girl who says Zachary is to be her...
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5-23-2005
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Jane Austen in Scarsdale: or Love, Death and the SATs
Author: Paula Marantz CohenISBN: 0-312-32502-9The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsThere's something about Jane Austen's novels that makes the suddenly addictedreader cry out: "What? She only wrote six?" The unsuspecting will instantlycrave more of her witticisms, her lovely command of the English language, herhilarious but believable characterizations and her entertaining plot points thatalways lead to a...
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7-26-2006
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Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
Author: Valerie ParadizISBN: 0-7382-0917-1The following review was conributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsJacob and Wilhelm Grimm were prolific German scholars, yet the work they are best known for, the one that will eternally bear their name was not actually authored by them. The genesis of the Grimm's "Children's and Household Fairy Tales," is the fascinating subject of Valerie Paradiz's new book, Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm...
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10-30-2005
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TV a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
Author: Jake AustenISBN: 1-55652-572-9The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsAccording to author Jake Austen, televised rock music is in some ways an impossible combination . . . and one that he absolutely adores. Rock music is essentially "wild, raw, and dangerous" but when Bo Didley first performed it on the Ed Sullivan show in 1955, television and rock music began a long partnership which proved, according to...
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12-31-2005
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel
Author: Tom MonteleoneISBN: 1-59257-172-7 Novelist Tom Montelone is such an entertaining writer that it is quite possible readers without writerly aspirations would enjoy his “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel.” Monteleone is that funny! In the chapter dealing with plot, he claims that writers who allow their antagonists to triumph at story
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4-28-2007
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Writing Home
Author: Cindy La FerleISBN: 0-923568-63-8 The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews One of author Cindy La Ferle’s prized possessions is a card which reads, “The sacred is in the ordinary. It is found in one’s daily life – in friends, family, and neighbors; in one’s own backyard.” These words summate the theme of her enchanting collection of essays, “Writing Home.” Culled from previously published essays and newspaper...
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7-25-2005
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Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined
Authors: Andrea J. Buchanan & Amy HudockISBN: 1-58005-158-8The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsOnline “Literary Mama” is not exactly your mother’s parenting magazine. The writing in this “edgy” journal is often, according to its mission statement, “too long, too complex, too ambiguous, too deep, too raw, too irreverent, too ironic, [or] too body-conscious” to be included in the average parenting journal.“Literary Mama” is...
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3-28-2006
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The Beginner’s Guide Pastels: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Beginner’s Guide Pastels: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials Author: Angela GairISBN: 1 85368 604 2Publishers: New Holland Publishers and distributed by Sterling PublishingThe subtitle to “Beginner’s Guide Pastels” isn’t exaggerating when it utilizes the phrase “complete step-by-step guide.” Angela Gair’s elegant but straightforward prose gives as many details as a beginning pastel artist could wish for, making the beautiful...
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3-24-2007
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The Gold Coast Cure: The Five-Week Health & Body Makeover
Authors: Andrew Larson, M.D. and Ivy Ingram Larson ISBN: 0-7573-0235-1The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsBecause The Gold Coast Cure claims to create a “health and body makeover” in five short weeks, a quick scan at the title may give the impression that the book is just another faddish weight loss book. Not so. Definitely not so. Although it claims to have the power to slim the strict follower of the plan, much of the books...
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10-28-2005
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The Prince's Diary by Renee Ting
Author: Renee Ting: Illustrated by Elizabeth O. DulembaISBN 1-885008-27-9The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews What was Cinderella's handsome prince doing while his future lady was toiling away at her work and wishing for a way to the ball? The Prince's Diary, a sweet new picture book from Renee Ting and Elizabeth O. Dulemba, answers that question.The book gives a charming and humorous flip side to the famous fairy...
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11-26-2005
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The Beginner’s Guide to Acrylics: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Beginner’s Guide to Acrylics: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Techniques and Materials Author: Angela GairPublishers: New Holland Publishers and distributed by Sterling PublishingISBN: 1 85368 3191Although painting with quick-drying acrylic paints may at first seem to be a relatively simple process, one glance through Angela Gair’s “Beginner’s Guide to Acrylics” makes the reader realize the myriad of unique possibilities found within this versatile...
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4-18-2007
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Step-By-Step Art School: Acrylics
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Step-By-Step Art School: Acrylics Author: Wendy ClousePublished by Hamyln, a division of Octopus Publishing GroupISBN: 0 600 61407 7 “Step-By-Step Art School: Acrylics” is a solid introduction to acrylic painting for the serious – or seriously aspiring – artist. As a beginning collage artist interested in the possibilities of mixed media work, I found the well-illustrate
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4-15-2007
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The People of the Sea
Author: Scott MarcanoISBN: 0-7414-2730-3The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"The People of the Sea," a face-paced novel by screenwriter Scott Mar
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1-19-2006
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The Annotated ‘Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Annotated and edited by David M. ShapardPublished by Anchor Books, a division of Random HouseISBN: 9780-307-27810-4 “Pride and Prejudice” is such a delightful romantic comedy that Jane Austen afficionados never tire of savoring its literary delights. The character-transforming romance between the sparkling Elizabeth Bennet and the aloof but ultimately heroic Fitzwilliam Darcy and the book’s intriguing and often hilarious cast of secondary players have made “Pride and Prejudice” one of the...
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4-20-2007
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Those Who Dare: Real People, Real Courage . . . and what we learn from them
Author: Katherine MartinISBN: 1-57731-453-0The following review was contributed Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews.Can courage be defined? Webster's terse attempt - "The quality of being brave; fearlessness; valor" - doesn't to do justice to the amazing subjects of Katherine Martin's book, Those Who Dare: Real People, Real Courage . . . and what we learn from them. These people not only robustly flesh out Webster's definition, but give full meaning to...
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5-23-2005
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The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power is Destroying the Church
Author: Gregory A. BoydISBN: 13: 978-0-310-26730-0Should American evangelicals be attempting to "take America back for God" through political means? Evangelical pastor Gregory Boyd doesn't think so. In the months preceding the 2004 election, when he was being pressured to "shepherd" his congregation into "correct" voting, he did something quite the opposite: he began a sermon series entitled "The Cross and the Sword," which outlined the...
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12-18-2006
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Speaking of Radio: Chuck Schaden's Conversations with the Stars of the Golden Age of Radio
Author: Chuck SchadenISBN: 0-9743180-0-0"You wouldn't go to a theater on Sunday unless the manager promised to stop thepicture and let you hear the Jack Benny program." -Phil Harris to Chuck Schaden"You're bringing back memories I thought I had forgotten. Thank you." -DonWilson to Chuck Schaden"Man, you got a book there, I tell ya!" -Phil Harris to Chuck SchadenThe 19th century had its sheet music and the 1950's had television. Sandwichedbetween these two...
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12-4-2006
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Mother’s Speak . . . For Love of Family
Author: Rosalie Fuscaldo Gaziano ISBN: 1-930754-73-6The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews When I learned that Ms. Gaziano had been awarded “National Mother of the Year 2002” by National Mothers, Inc., in part because she had raised five incredibly successful sons, I thou
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7-27-2005
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Comrades in Courage
Author: B. Cory Kilvert, Jr.ISBN: 1-4196-5780-1Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon In his latest book, “Comrades in Courage,” B. Cory Kilvert again proves himself to be the Shelby Foote of World War One, or, as it was known at the time, The Great War. Kilvert has an enormous personal library of books devoted to this conflict and a great passion to convey its details, experience and meaning to his readers.
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7-27-2007
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Heirloom Baking With the Brass Sisters
Authors: Marilynn Brass and Sheila BrassPhotography by Andy RyanISBN: 1-57912-588-3Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Heirloom Baking With the Brass Sisters is an interesting combination of nostalgia, Americana and delicious recipes. The Brass sisters are expert bakers who also have a penchant for old, discarded hand-written recipes; their delightful new book is a combination of these plus many of their own favorite family recipes.Oversized (so it easily lies flat while in use)...
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7-27-2007
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The Year the Music Changed: The Letters of Achsa McEachern-Isaacs and Elivis Presley
Author: Diane ThomasISBN: 1-59264-122-9The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsDiane Thomas' "The Year the Music Changed" is an emotionally moving novel that explores the issues of individuality, personal gift, loneliness and race all within the context of that favorite haunt of literary writers: the American South. But the South of this novel isn't the decayed Confederacy of Harper Lee and William Faulkner. Though...
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6-1-2006
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The Decorated Journal: Creating Beautifully Expressive Journal Pages
Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Gwen DiehnISBN: 1-57990-651-6On the surface, The Decorated Journal appears to be a beautifully photographed how-to book for making creatively expressive personal journals with a wide variety of materials and methods, possibly a companion book to Gwen Dien’s previous work, The Decorated Page.Not only does The Decorated Journal stand on its own – quite independent of its predecessor – but upon closer inspection one can discover much more than...
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8-10-2007
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Major Voices: 19th Century American Women’s Poetry
Selected and introduced by Shira Wolosky Publisher: The Toby Press ISBN: 1 59264 040 0“Major Voices: 19th Century American Women’s Poetry” showcases the work of 10 female American poets – most of them quite notable in their own time but rarely considered or anthologized since. Observing 19th century America through the lense of its female poets is an intriguing experience: many of the poems included here delineate the social issues of the time in a powerfully immediate – and of course,...
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5-14-2007
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Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music
Author: Bill C. MaloneISBN: 0-8203-2551-1The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsWhen it comes to tracing the roots of American music, there's just no place likethe South: jazz, rhythm & blues, rock & roll, gospel - most music that comeswith a "made in America" stamp originated south of the Mason-Dixon line. Whilethe world obviously owes a huge musical debt to African-Americans for theircontributions in the...
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6-7-2006
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Public Worship, Private Faith: Sacred Harp and American Folk Song
Author: John BealleISBN: 0-8203-1921-XThe following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsThe fundamental question of “Public Worship, Private Faith” is this: if Sacred Harp (shape-note) singing was born out of a music reform movement led by educated clergy, why is it now associated with American folksong? To answer this question, Bealle delves very deeply and intricately into the history of sacred singing in America; if the reader doesn’t...
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3-28-2006
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The Art of Writing Great Lyrics
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Art of Writing Great Lyrics Author: Pamela Phillips OlandISBN: 1-58115-093-8It is sometimes implied that people who are talented in a particular field don’t have the time necessary to teach or write a book in their area of specialization – i.e., they’re too busy with their successful careers to do so.Not so with prolific lyricist Pamela Phillips Oland, author of The Art of Writing Great Lyrics. Combining an extremely accessible and encouraging...
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9-10-2007
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The Weight of Smoke
Author: George Robert MinkoffPublisher: McPherson & Co.ISBN: 0929701801Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon The Weight of Smoke is the first in a trilogy of novels by George Robert Minkoff which fictionalize Captain John Smith’s action-packed and (possibly) self-aggrandizing memoir of life on the high seas – and practically everywhere else. “Weight of Smoke” deals primarily with Smith’s experiences at the founding of Jamestown, although the narrative contains many flashbacks...
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7-27-2007
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Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems From Emerging Writers
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Best New Poets 2007Edited by Eric PankeyJeb Livingood, Series EditorISBN: 13:978-0-9766296-1-0University of Virginia Press After reading through the biography section of “Best New Poets 2006,” one comes to realize that the adjectives “new” and “emerging” are mere technicalities in this instance. Although none of the poets included here have published a full-length book of poetry,
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3-20-2007
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My Father’s War
Author: Paul West ISBN: 0-929701-75-5 The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews For writer Paul West, the connections between the two world wars of the last century transcend the likes of a train car at Compiegne and a Bavarian private named Adolph Hitler. West’s connections are personal, powerful memories of a one-eyed father, maimed in the “Great War,” playing war games with his son while Nazi planes regularly bombed a...
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8-11-2005
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MY SUMMER WITH ERNEST HEMINGWAY: By Kathryn Atwood
No, this isn’t a confession of something decades old. Yes, we were on the same planet for a couple of years, but I was toddling around the sidewalks of Berwyn, Illinois in diapers when Ernest Hemingway shot himself in Ketchum, Idaho. My summer with him was this past one, the summer that just recently breezed – or rather, whipped – through our muggy streets.It’s not that I was completely unaware of Hemingway before last summer. For the past three years The Hemingway Foundation has hired me...
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9-12-2007
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Cover to Cover: Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Cover to Cover: Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals & AlbumsAuthor: Shereen LaPlantz ISBN: 0-937274-87-9 There are a couple of things which set "Cover to Cover" apart from other bookmaking titles. One is that the finished products in "Cover to Cover" are intrinsically works of art as opposed to books created for secondary purposes, such as the majority of those found in books like Marie Browning’s...
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12-17-2007
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Composition
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Complete Idiot's Guide To Music CompositionAuthor: Michael Miller ISBN: 1-59257-403-3 The first bullet point on the cover of "The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Composition" states that reading the book will "hel
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12-22-2007
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Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels Author: Deidre Le FayeISBN: 0 7112 2278 9 Although the themes in the novels of Jane Austen are absolutely ageless, her novels were set in a distinct time and place and it is the details of these settings – though not absolutely integral to her themes of true love and integrity – that can be occasionally confusing for modern readers. What was a barouche box? A phaeton & ponies? Austen’s contemporaries knew...
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12-15-2007
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Charlie’s Notes: A Memoir
Author: Cherie Kerr ISBN: 09648882-7-0 This review was contributed by Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews Cherie Kerr's memoir of her father Carluchi (Charlie) DePietro is "a true American story" in every sense of the phrase. It is a book about the aspirations of turn-of-the-century European immigrants, it is a book about the hopes and dreams of their children, and it is a book about the American love affair with popular music and the...
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7-8-2005
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music TheoryAuthor: Michael Miller ISBN: 1-59257-437-8 One might postulate that any study of theory is only as meaningful as the action it precedes. A basic knowledge of notes, clefs and rhythm, for instance, usually enables the beginning piano student to play simple songs. The music theory provided in Michael Miller’s "The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory" is pointed in a decidedly compositional direction. It is...
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12-11-2007
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The House That George Built: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The House That George Built: With a Little Help From Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty Author: Wilfrid SheedISBN: 978-1-4000-6105-1There are several ways in which to write a book on the subject of classic American popular song. One would be to collect a set of interviews when most of the main players – or their associates and progeny – are still alive. That’s the route Max Wilk took in 1974 with They’re Playing Our Song.Another way would be to...
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9-4-2007
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CRACKED AT BIRTH: One Madcap Mom’s Thoughts on Motherhood, Marriage, & Burnt Meatloaf
Author: Kathryn S. MahoneyPublisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, Inc.ISBN: 1-932279-19-9The following review was contributed by: Jennifer Brown & Click Here To View Jennifer Brown's ReviewsSome lives were just made to be made fun of. Some lives are so wacky, so silly, so undeniably cracked up, you just can’t help but chuckle. Kathryn S. Mahoney is living one of those lives.Kathryn Mahoney, who thinks she was CRACKED AT BIRTH, takes time to sit back and good naturedly marvel at the...
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9-14-2005
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Stardust Melodies: A Biography of 12 of America's Most Popular Songs
Author: Will FriedwaldISBN: 1556525575The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood: Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews"How potent cheap music is." -Noel CowardI believe that Will Friedwald included the Noel Coward line about the potency ofcheap music in the introduction to his "Stardust Melodies" simply to see thosetwo words - potent and music - in the same sentence. There is nothing "cheap"about the popular songs featured in his book,...
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6-3-2006
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Mr. Darcy’s Diary
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Mr. Darcy’s Diary Author: Amanda GrangeISBN 10:1-4022-0876-6 Mr. Darcy is almost a secondary character in the story that made him one of the most beloved heroes in all of Jane Austen’s novels. Although Pride and Prejudice utilizes the device of omniscient narrator, the reader spends most of the book inside the sparkling head of Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy’s ultimate destiny; it rarely gets inside of Darcy’s.Novelist Amanda Grange has sought to remed
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10-22-2007
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Becoming Jane Austen
Click Here To Purchase Becoming Jane Austen Author: Jon SpenceISBN: 13 978-1-84725-046-9After reading Jane Austen's hilarious and poignant novels, where true loveand virtue always win the day, her basic biographical facts appear quitepale in comparison. Born into the large family of a country clergyman,Austen had an education considered sufficient for her time, experienced aflirtation in her early twenties which came to nothing, lived in genteelpoverty most of her life, had one economically...
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4-9-2008
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Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane AustenAuthor: Sybil G. Brinton ISBN 10:1-4022-0888-X It seems that there is a new Jane Austen sequel being published every week and for Jane Austen fans, this is a wonderful opportunity to once again inhabit in the elegant but hilarious world of Austen’s Regency period romantic comedies. "Old Friends and New Fancies," written in 1913 by Sybil G. Brinton stands out from the...
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12-11-2007
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Guerilla Marketing in 30 Days
Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson and Al LautenslagerISBN: 193253129-7The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood “The marketing mindset . . . should be focused daily on the following question: How am I building awareness with my prospects and clients through our marketing?” The source of this quote, Guerrilla
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4-14-2005
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Suite Francaise
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Irene NemirovskyISBN: 1400096278
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7-4-2007
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Memoirs From Normandy: Childhood, War, and Life’s Adventures
Author: Armand IdracISBN: 0-9743158-5-0 The following Review was contributed by by Kathryn Atwood: Armand Idrac’s Memoirs From Normandy: Childhood, War and Life’s Adventures is appealing on many levels. It first caught my eye because of my intense interest in World War II history; the prospect of reading a French child’s perspective of the Normandy invasion was too much to resist. The chapter covering the invasion doesn’t disappoint. The particulars of one of the greatest...
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4-14-2005
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It Stops With Me: Memoir Of A Canuck Girl
Author: Charleen TouchettePublishers: TouchArt Books: Santa FeISBN# 0974654507The follow review was contributed by Kathryn Atwood: There are a number of motivations to write a memoir: proximity to fame, a story that speaks to or is representative of an entire generation, or a life that simply has a fascinating angle. In many ways, Charleen Touchette’s book, It Stops With Me: Memoir Of A Canuck Girl falls into both of the last two catagories. Like many “baby...
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2-23-2005
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How Children Become Violent
Author: Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D.Publisher: Acanthus PublishingISBN: 1-933631-48-1It seems that hardly a month goes by in which Americans don’t hear of violence involving children. Sometimes, children assault or kill adults. Often, adults assault and kill children. And far too often, children assault and kill other children. Repeatedly, we gather in our lunchrooms, on our subways or in our churches and ask each other: Why did this happen? What is this world coming to? What can we do to...
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11-14-2006
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The Chase for Beauty
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Chase for Beauty Author: Robert MendelsonISBN: 978-1-60037-278-0 Everything in life was good up until that point. His medical career was a success and his family were happy and secure. That is until a so-called friend of his daughter Karen, killed her one night on their back porch while her parents were sleeping upstairs. The Chase for Beauty chronicles
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1-28-2008
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The Departed
Author: Kathryn Mackel ISBN: 0785262296 The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERETo read Dian's interview with the author CLICK HERE
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9-23-2005
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We Are the New Auroras
Author: Adam Daniel MezeiISBN: 0595380697The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Interview With Adam Daniel Mezei CLICK HEREAs a loyal Canadian, I am delighted to see that within the last several yearsthere have been quite a few Canadian authors who are making their mark in theinternational literary scene. Just looking over the undergraduate calendar of myold alma mater, I noticed that there...
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4-13-2006
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Interview with Kathyrn Mackel Author of The Departed
Author: Kathryn Mackel: ISBN: 0785262296The following interview was conducted by: E.Dian Moore & To read more about Dian Moore’s reviews click HERETo read the review of the book CLICK HERE
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9-23-2005
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Award Winning Author, Cheryl Kaye Tardif is Interviewed
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Canadian award winning mystery author Cheryl Kaye Tardif. Cheryl has authored three novels and her most recent novel, The River, was released in September 2005; her two previous novels being, Whale Song and Divine Intervention. In 2004, Tardif was nominated for the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award. In addition, Cheryl has been extensively interviewed by the media and she has been featured in The...
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11-24-2005
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Hugh Rosen Author of Silent Battlefields Interviewed
Author: Hugh Rosen ISBN: 0595347738The following interview was conducted by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's Reviews To read Norm's Review of Silent Battlefields CLICK HERE Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of the book reviewing and author interviewing site, Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Hugh Rosen, professor emeritus at Drexel University and author of his first work of fiction, Silent Battlefields.
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3-31-2006
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