Book Reviews
Secrets of GlenMary Farm
E.S. Burton
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
Secrets of GlenMary Farm is an apt title for this complex, layered novel, for around every turn, there is a puzzle.
As the story begins, Janice Harmon has decided that it’s time for a change in her life and moves to GlenMary Farm, a breathtaking estate in Kentucky that serves as a home for both […]
Human Trafficking: Modern-Day Slavery
Bright Mills
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
There’s no shortage of news stories or books detailing the scourge of human trafficking. Bright Mills adds his voice with Human Trafficking: Modern-Day Slavery, a large-size book with photographs that accompany the text.
After a brief introduction that describes the problem, Mills devotes two-dozen pages to victims’ stories, a nation-by-nation rundown of the types of […]
Lost From the Ottawa
Larry Plamondon
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
A life lived in resistance to authority is the theme of Lost from the Ottawa, written by Pun Plamondon, a man of many identities: wayward youth, union organizer, dope fiend, activist, journalist, philanderer, printer, radical, roadie for Kiss, bodyguard for Bob Seger, alcoholic and finally, after discovering his Ottawa Indian roots and finding sobriety, tribal […]
Irreplaceable
Katy Bennett
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
Because her Scripture-based advice book Irreplaceable is aimed at women, author Katy Bennett uses several extended feminine metaphors. The reader has a “necklace” of personal qualities, a “handbag” of assets, and puts on the “lip gloss” of the word of God before venturing out each day. Her central message: “You are unique, you are irreplaceable” […]
The Missing Piece in Leadership: How to Create the Future You Want
Doug Krug
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
Doug Krug is a business and leadership consultant who has held faculty positions in various government agencies, served as part of the MBA Program at Johns Hopkins University, and worked with several governors’ cabinets, the FBI and the Coast Guard, as well as on numerous corporate executive teams.
In his new book, Krug posits that […]
Angels at Sunset
Tom Mach
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
Pioneering women suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and the dynamic Alice Paul are given their cursory due in today’s history books. But their actions vividly spring to life in the deft storytelling of author Tom Mach’s novel, Angels at Sunset. The women’s fight for equal rights in the 19th and early 20th centuries, […]
The Crystal Cave
Ernesto Zollo
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
The Crystal Cave is a young adult adventure novel about a boy who fights off an evil witch with the help of magical beings.
While picnicking in a park with his parents, 11-year-old Sam and his dog Spot wander off into a cave. Though Spot is uneasy, Sam can’t resist going deeper inside and soon […]
Bill the COBOLER
William A. Kennedy
(Reviewed: March, 2012)
William A. Kennedy began a career in Information Technology, or IT, in the early 1970s after returning from serving as a Marine in Vietnam. One of the main computer programming languages used at the time was Common Business Oriented Language, or COBOL–hence, the book’s title. Kennedy’s career spanned a period of incredible computing technological leaps, […]
A Sheepish Man
Mark Segal
(Reviewed: February, 2012)
In the waning months of World War II, Robert Thornton White, a middle-aged, decorated fighter pilot from the previous world war, finds himself helping to train a new generation of pilots even as his own anti-war sentiment grows stronger by the day. He feels powerless as he watches his only child, also a pilot, rush […]
God at Work in Our Dreams
Faria Mutsambiwa
(Reviewed: February, 2012)
From the dawn of time, many have believed that dreams contain a certain prophetic power. From Australian aborigines to Egyptian pharaohs to Hopi Native American shamans, true vision didn’t occur during the waking hours of day, but during the seemingly silent darkness of sleep. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Judeo-Christian tradition where […]