by Ann Harrison Many times, I’ve often wondered why a book that I’ve read, and loved from the first page, wasn’t on the bestsellers’ list. However there are books that are listed as bestsellers that I weren’t too thrilled with,…
Recovery expert, therapist and self-help author Holli Kenley will be giving a talk at the Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ, on February 11, 2016. The event, organized by the AAUW, is scheduled to be held at 11 am at the…
C 2013 by Robert T. Branco From the ages of 12 to 19, the author attended a school for the blind. He tells about life in the “cottages,” academics, sports, field trips, vocational training, and more. He had good and…
by Loving Healing Press The 2015–2016 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents poetry mentor Sherry Quan Lee reading along with program participants Isela Xitlali Gómez (nonfiction) and Lynda McDonnell (fiction). The reading is scheduled for January 29,…
War is hell – we keep hearing this reaction to the word “war”, particularly from those who have witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. Yet, as Benjamin Ginsberg’s The Worth of War (Prometheus Books, 2014) explores, war is a much…
This is a work of nonfiction plus some speculation. It’s largely about drones and their very rapid miniaturization, their present and coming use in law enforcement and war, and a potential future in which spy and communication equipment will literally…
by Leonore H. Dvorkin This second novel from the talented Tony Medeiros is a Cinderella story with a twist. The well-to-do narrator, Joseph Perry, has big dreams for Carolyn Laplante, the intriguing young housecleaner he observes at a café one…
Summary by Leonore H. Dvorkin, editor of Campbell’s Rambles Campbell’s Rambles is the story of how the author obtained her first guide dog, Campbell, from The Seeing Eye™ in Morristown, New Jersey: what motivated her, the extensive training she had,…
by Leonore H. Dvorkin Set primarily in Tennessee and Virginia from 1924 to 1976, Red Eyes is the adventure-filled life story of Jim Taylor: lawman, lover, family man, churchgoer—and murderer. After Jim’s beloved sister Annie is raped and murdered at…
Quite early in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, as readers catch with the stream of the protagonist’s mental realm, the eponymous heroine’s thoughts read: “… it being her experience that the religious ecstasy made people callous (so did causes); dulled their…