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1 | Genre | Book title | Book Description (75 words or less) | First name | Last name | Age/interest level | Number of pages | # of books offering for review (paperback or hardcover) | Also offering e-book, Kindle and/or pdf fomats for review | URL for Amazon or other online site where book is listed | Reviewer's eMail | Link to posted review (on Amazon or other online site) | Date Reviewer Contacted Author | ||
2 | Inspirational | TALES2INSPIRE | Are 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' type stories, your cup of tea? If so, you are in for a treat. Each of the twelve Tales2Inspire® anthologies is filled with dynamic, contest winning true stories, crafted to perfection. As an added bonus, each story contains original photographs to add to your reading pleasure while authenticating their veracity, as some seem nearly unbelievable. | tales2Inspire@optimum.net | Lois W. | Stern | 10-adult | 124-128 | 3 | E-book, Kindle, PDF | https://thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-tales2inspire-collection-of-books.html | ||||
3 | Mainstream | YOGA COCAINE | Vacillating between a desire to get high and a yearning for a substance-free life, Jessica finds herself alternating between cocaine and yoga, dependence and freedom. An addict who once disappeared into crack dens, she now seeks solace at yoga studios. As she attempts to create a path to recovery “on the mat” and in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, she grapples with one unanswerable question: “Is recovery worth it?" | daralyse@daralyselyons.com | Daralyse | Lyons | Adult | 240 | 10 | ||||||
4 | Self-Help | PARENTING FROM YOUR SOUL | Parenting from Your Soul helps parents be the best parents they can be. The book helps us navigate the sometimes difficult, and often confusing, journey of parenting where the best choices are unclear. Parenting is a work-in-progress, minute-to-minute practice of learning forgiveness, compassion and acceptance. With this book, you can try out concepts that will help you parent wisely to raise joyful, healthy children while creating more happiness for yourself along the way! | info@parentingfromyoursoul.com | Jeanmarie | Wilson | Parents and significant adults | yes | https://amzn.to/2Qcfd2L | ||||||
5 | Teen reads Fantasy | SAND DANCER | In a desert kingdom where fire magic is a sin, a half-starved peasant girl must disguise herself as a nobleman’s son to find her father’s killer. | publisher@uproarbooks.com | Trudie | Skies | |||||||||
6 | Kid lit | EVERYDAY SUPERHEROES: WOMEN IN STEM CAREERS | Twenty-six women working in STEM share their diverse stories of real-life STEM superheroes, from an environmental lawyer to a robotics engineer. Readers explore six superpowers important to STEM fields: curiosity, observation, problem-solving, collaboration, data collection, and communication. | ErinEDU365@gmail.com | Erin and Joshua | Twamley and Sneideman | |||||||||
7 | Historical fiction | ARTIST ON CAMPAIGN | When lad-about-town ON CAMPAIGN, Ralph Oughtred gets a commission to paint the Duke of Wellington’s generals, he thinks his dreams will come true – to be rich, or at least out of debt, and marry his mistress. But he hadn’t reckoned with the war, Spanish bandits, or the generals themselves. Literary, historical and funny, this is a stylish evocation of the history and manners of an era and an entertainment of the highest order. | cmiley22@gmail.com | Caroline | Miley | |||||||||
8 | Teen reads Fantasy | ONCE UPON AND EVER AFTER | After years of training, the prince is finally ready for his quest to rescue a princess. But can he find a princess who needs to be rescued and what happens if he can't? | carolinelthornton@outlook.com | Caroline | Thornton | |||||||||
9 | Fantasy | NUMBER EIGHT CRISPY CHICKEN | Immigration minister, Peter Ruddick, is enroute to remote Pulcherrima, the site of his latest privately-run, fast-food chain-inspired detention centre. But chaos ensues when Peter misses his connecting flight and finds himself confined to Turgrael airport, without a lounge in sight. Stranded with nothing but crispy chicken burgers to eat and nobody but a bleeding-heart liberal for company, Peter’s misunderstandings of Turgistani language and culture | sarahneofield@gmail.com | Sarah | Neofield | |||||||||
10 | Historical fiction | NOVEMBER TO JULY | Eleanor Simons has been serving as a nurse in the Great War. When the fighting stops, she faces bleak prospects. Her fiancé, a fighter pilot, is dead. In Paris, where she now lives, a conference of delegates from around the globe is meeting to remake the maps of Europe, Asia and Africa. Their effort to create a peaceful world is doomed; but through it, Eleanor faces the challenge of shaping a better future for herself. | marilynoser@gmail.com | Marilyn | Oser | |||||||||
11 | Teen Reads | I AM ME: Teen Artists and Writers Speak Out On Being Yourself | This book pairs award winning poetry and art to empower young teens to shake off the negative power of the media and peers to realize it is okay to be themselves. This anthology is a fresh voice that lets teens know that you don’t have to achieve “perfection" to be “perfect.” Created from over 100,000 submissions of art and poetry. | tiffani@poeticpower.com | Tom | Worthen, Ph.D. | |||||||||
12 | Self-help | WOULD YOU RATHER BE IN THE COFFIN THAN GIVE THE EULOGY? | Your career prospects may depend on your ability to speak in public. Authors, sports stars, actors and business people may also be asked to ‘give a talk’ about their success, which can be an intimidating prospect. This step-by-step guide gives you practical advice for giving many types of speeches, with examples that show you what to do, what not to do - and what can go hilariously wrong! (Some things are only learned by experience). | jannev@mweb.co.za | Jan | Nicholson | |||||||||
13 | Kid lit | Women in STEM Careers | Twenty-six women working in STEM share their diverse stories of real-life STEM superheroes, from an environmental lawyer to a robotics engineer. Readers explore six superpowers important to STEM fields: curiosity, observation, problem-solving, collaboration, data collection, and communication. | ErinEDU365@gmail.com | Erin and Joshua | Twamley and Sneideman | |||||||||
14 | Mainstream Fiction | THE RED DIRT HYMNBOOK | Ruby now realizes she made a big mistake when she ran away to marry a traveling preacher. But she can't just call home, because in 1979 the closest thing to a cell phone was a CB radio. Besides, Dad is still angry at her for "running off with the dang-fool Jesus Circus." | okroxie@gmail.com | Roxie | Faulker Kirk | https://www.amazon.com/s?k=THE+RED+DIRT+HYMNBOOK&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss | ||||||||
15 | Environmental Business | SOLAR DIVIDENDS: How Solar Energy Can Generate a Basic Income for Everyone on Earth | Puts forth a bold original plan for solving global poverty and global warming with a single program. In brief: we set up every person on the planet with a big section of solar panels, sell the electricity the panels generate, and deliver the money as solar dividends to the person as their basic income, for the rest of their life. The book provides compelling reasons and a detailed blueprint for this inspiring program. | stayton.robert@gmail.com | Robert | Stayton | |||||||||
16 | Fantasy | SAVE HIM | Military scientist Rydel Scott has discovered time travel...he also believes he has been chosen to go back in time on a rogue mission to save Christ from the cross. | WMH@williammhayes.com | William | M. Hayes | |||||||||
17 | Self-help | JIFFY BODY, THE 10-MINUTE SYSTEM TO AVOID JOINT AND MUSCLE PAIN | Jiffy Body: The 10 Minute System to Avoid Joint and Muscle Pain is a must read for anyone who wants to avoid or reduce aches, pains, stiffness and swelling. | bartlettpo@gmail.com | Bart | Potter | |||||||||
18 | Sci-fi | A PREDATOR AND A PSYCHOPATH: A Dark and Twisted Psychological Thriller | Drawing inspiration from real cases, and with well-researched, realistic characters, A Predator and A Psychopath is not for the soft-hearted. | authorjaykerk@gmail.com | Jay | Kerk | |||||||||
19 | Historical fiction | THE OPIUM LORD'S DAUGHTER | The Opium Lord’s Daughter features true events and characters within a world populated by rogue drug traders, imperialist government officials, religious zealots, and scrappy survivors. It’s a coming-of-age story filled with romance, adventure, and tragedy; an expedition through the destruction of a culture, underscoring the hold and havoc drug empires perpetually exert. | rwang@opiumwar-story.com | Robert | Wang | |||||||||
20 | Historical fiction | AVENGING ANGEL: LOVE AND DEATH IN OLD BROOKLYN | An African-American woman, struggling to overcome the trauma of a racially motivated childhood rape, stalks the streets, dangling her spider's web before potential predators. Eventually, while searching for salvation as a fearless champion of endangered women, she tests her capacity to risk being loved. a tale of revenge, survival and redemption, wrapped around an unlikely and stormy dark romance, and set within the context of some unfortunately timeless issues: Violence Against Women, and Racism. | DrCSIsaacs@aol.com | Charles | S. Isaacs | |||||||||
21 | Memoir | SENSITIVE | A bold and straight-shooting memoir about my lifelong struggles with chemical sensitivities, wrapped around timely and important manifesto about the need to avoid toxic products and environments. Additional themes: IRS whistleblower claim, triumph over family trauma, and sexual bias/assault in corrupt and patriarchal systems. | pookiesekmet@gmail.com | Pookie | Sekmet | |||||||||
22 | Kid Lit | WE GO TO BO | A story with characters, action, and humor, using words no longer than two letters to make it easier for children to learn how to read | lwbaum@hotmail.com | Larry | Baum | |||||||||
23 | Kid Lit | BO, GO UP! | A story with characters, action, and humor, using words no longer than two letters to make it easier for children to learn how to read. | lwbaum@hotmail.com | Larry | Baum | |||||||||
24 | Mainstream | JUSTICE GONE | A homeless vet is beaten to death by police. Protests erupt. 3 cops are gunned down. A multi-state manhunt. And the trial of the decade. A new kind of legal thriller. | nlomb269@gmail.com | N. Lombardi Jr | ||||||||||
25 | Sci-fi | TABOO TECH | Lacie Leigh Collier, left on her own when her entire family disappears, is joined by her AI companion, Embers. The two set off to find a star ship big enough to accommodate Embers... Well, it's a lot more complicated than that! There are ships, aliens, AIs, and danger. | Pagadan@aol.com | Joy | V. Smith | |||||||||
26 | Environmental | JESUS AND MAGDALENE | Jesus returns to earth and meets activist Magdalene who is fighting for a better world. | joomcerqueira@gmail.com | João | Cerqueira | |||||||||
27 | Other | ALEXA’S A SPY AND OTHER THINGS TO BE TICKED | Alexa’s a Spy and Other Things to Worry About is part comical call to arms and part tongue-in-cheek tirade about the hazards of modern life: intrusive technology, uncivil discourse, clutter, spammers, scammers and so on. It’s a good-natured rant about what brings us down during the day and keeps us up through the night. Too much stuff, too much noise, too much technology. Not enough patience, not enough kindness, not enough…chocolate? | drosby@vastbb.net | Dorothy | Rosby | |||||||||
28 | Memoir | GENDERQUEER: A STORY FROM A DIFFERENT CLOSET | Coming-out story of a male-bodied girl-gendered hetero genderqueer, entertaining true-life drama that will particularly appeal to anyone exploring gender/orientation issues. Akin to Leslie Feinberg's STONE BUTCH BLUES, Daphne Scholinski's THE LAST TIME I WORE A DRESS, and Jennifer Boylan's SHE'S NOT THERE but uniquely different. Nearly all other "trans" memoirs are by people who feel they were "born in the wrong body". This one isn't. | ahunter3@earthlink.net | Allan | Hunter | |||||||||
29 | Historical fiction | THE DEVIL'S BOOKKEEPERS 1: THE NOOSE | Love, courage and unrelenting terror as an engineer risks everything to save his wife from the Nazi noose. It brings to life shocking events the author's parents miraculously survived in the Lodz Ghetto, Poland. Gold Medal Historical Fiction, Best Book of the Year (Florida Writers Association) "Emotionally riveting account of life inside a Holocaust ghetto... You cannot read this story and remain unaffected." | mark2newhouse.net | Mark | H. Newhouse | |||||||||
30 | Teen reads | TEEN ARTISTS AND WRITERS SPEAK OUT ON BEING YOURSELF | This book pairs award winning poetry and art to empower young teens to shake off the negative power of the media and peers to realize it is okay to be themselves. This anthology is a fresh voice that lets teens know that you don’t have to achieve “perfection" to be “perfect.” Created from over 100,000 submissions of art and poetry. | Tiffani@poeticpower.com | Tom | Worthen, Ph.D. | |||||||||
31 | Mainstream | MISSING PEACE | The McKay family's idyllic life in Iowa is about to implode. A mysterious rosary found by soldier John McKay in war-torn Iraq foreshadows an obscure prophecy. As the rosary’s mystique grows globally, his sister, Janey McKay, is threatened when a radical extremist group escalates the stakes by expanding their fight to the U.S. heartland. But can terror destroy a faith that launches miracles? | katzap@aol.com | N. K. | Holt | |||||||||
32 | Historical fiction | SOMETHING IN MADNESS (Dark Horse Trilogy, Book 3) | Reconstruction, one of the darkest and least understood periods in American history and the roots of America’s racial divide. In the story... Abolitionist Durksen Hurst and three black friends return home to a devastated Mississippi, the sole survivors of a Union colored cavalry regiment. But instead of peace, they find unregenerate Confederates who reject emancipation still in charge and Black Codes being used to force freedmen into brutal servitude. | ed.protzel@att.net | Ed | Protzel | |||||||||
33 | Poetry | LEAVE IT RAW | The debut poetry collection by Brooklyn, New York writer, Shakira Croce. The poems explore the nuances of sexuality, marriage, motherhood, the arts, and ambition, speaking to relationships’ potential to hurt and heal. Each story offers bits of experience that provide an intimate glimpse of the intricacies of life. | Shakira@ShakiraCroce.com | Shakira | Croce | |||||||||
34 | Kid Lit | To the Rescue: A Math Measuring Story | This is a math story about spoon heroes who help people measure ingredients for things like chocolate cakes. When their town is hit by a tornado, they help dispense the exact amount of medicines needed. They fly to the rescue as requested. This book also has worksheets and activity cards. | wilhcarm@gmail.com | Caroline | Wilheim | |||||||||
35 | Sci-fi | ZERO MIRRORS | In a society where your garment is your shelter and dancing is illegal, a young woman must Sashay through time to save her land from a Plant Plague arriving from the future. Along with being thoughtful and hilarious, this time travel story deals with gender identity, ageism, and family leadership. A key theme is the nature of human movement, from dancing to fleeing to slipping through time. | hcturk.hcturk@gmail.com | H. C. | Turk | |||||||||
36 | Memoir | RISING FROM THE SHADOW OF THE SUN | A secret camp diary, written by a courageous young mother with two little girls at the risk of torture and death, reveals the horrors of life in a Japanese death camp for women and children on the Island of Java during WWII in the Pacific. Her husband, a pilot with the MLD, escapes Japanese submarines and joins the Allies. Japanese War Crimes Files from NARA show crimes and intended crimes prevented by the atom bombs. | ronnyhermandejong@gmail.com | Ronny | Herman deJong | |||||||||
37 | Kid Lit | FRANKY THE FEARLESS FLAMINGO | Franky is back with his 4th book in the Franky the Flamingo series. Franky the Fearless Flamingo rescues the helpless wherever he does go. In this tale of strength and compassion, a mean crab owes a debt as his ration. The little sea turtle that he hurt, he later helps with kindness, his new passion.The crab learned to use his strength for good to help someone in need, just because he could. | wandalu64@gmail.com | Wanda | Luthman | |||||||||
38 | Teen Historical Fiction | ALINA: A SONG FOR THE TELLING | In this coming-of-age novel set in the 12th century, Alina, an aspiring musician from Provence, and her brother embark on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to pray for their father’s soul and to escape from their aunt and uncle’s strictures. Their journey east takes them through the Byzantine Empire all the way to Jerusalem, where Alina is embroiled in political intrigue, theft, and murder, and finds her voice. | malvevonhassell@optonline.net | Malve | von Hassell | |||||||||
39 | Travel | WHEREVER THE ROAD LEADS, A Memoir of Love, Travel and a Van | Newlyweds (an artist and an engineer) meet the rigors of international travel and the ups and downs of married life in a Volkswagen microbus that continually needs repair. Travel experiences are mixed with details of van-life chores, marketing and cooking on the road, mechanical problems, people encountered along the way, and intimate moments of love and discord. A delightful memoir about a two-year, 40,000-mile journey in a world before the internet or cell phones. Is he capable of solving an ancient murder without placing humankind in danger? | klangslattery@outlook.com | K. | Lang Slattery | |||||||||
40 | Mystery Sci-fi | TEMPLAR SECRETS | A SOCIETY WILLING TO KILL FOR ITS SECRETS - The Knights Templar get their name from Solomon’s Temple Hiram built, 2.000 years earlier. But they end up being eliminated. Or are they? A select few remain on the run, clinging onto their glorious past (and… the holiest of relics they hid). In the present, George joins the Freemasons. Can he decipher Freemasonry’s hidden clues in time? Is he capable of solving an ancient murder without placing humankind in danger? | aeconomu@cytanet.com.cy | Andreas | Economou | |||||||||
41 | Mainstream Women's fiction | THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS | After many tumultuous years, Christine is finally satisfied with her life. But the man responsible for her difficult past reenters her life. Will Christine be up to the challenge? | Kursmani@verizon.net | Idelle | Kursman | |||||||||
42 | Travel | ADVENTURE BY CHICKEN BUS An Unschooling Odyssey through Central America | Embarking on a homeschooling field trip to Central America is stressful enough, but add in perilous bridge crossings, trips to the hospital, and a lack of women’s underwear, and you have the makings of an Adventure by Chicken Bus…a tale of one family, buckling under a mountain of debt, who sells all worldly possessions and hits the road. | lostrin@gmail.com | Janet | LoSole | |||||||||
43 | Mystery Other | BURIED SECRETS | A mysterious disappearance. A dark family secret…In his last breath, Ella’s grandfather reveals a secret that hints at something sinister in the family. Ella embarks on a dangerous quest for truth. Chasing clues in a faraway land she soon discovers who can be trusted and who has something to hide. One secret leads to another as a dark reality emerges. Can Ella expose the ugly truth before it’s too late? | krissybaccaro@gmail.com | Krissy | Baccaro | |||||||||
44 | Memoir | STANDING ON PRINCIPAL - A Devoted Educator's Fight Against a Corrupt System | Standing on Principal melds the fictional Fatal Attraction with the real life Duke Lacrosse and Penn State scandals. A first hand, well documented account of a rogue system that underestimated the tenacious character of its accused as he refused to be intimidated by a political machine. It's a real story -- it will scare the hell out of everybody. | fvetro@gmail.com | Frank | Vetro | |||||||||
45 | Romance | LOVE AND HATE | Many times in life we make choices, not based on logic but what we are feeling at that particular moment without realizing its effect that will have on others. Alia's life is changed unexpectedly because of the choice she made. How is she going to bring her life on track again? Will love conquer hate or is that an impossible task? | vidishachandna@gmail.com | Vidisha | Chandna Dua | |||||||||
46 | Romance | LOVE WILL FIND YOU | Trisha was full of life and hope when she graduated but soon got frustrated with life for not giving her what she wanted. Her life is turned around when she finds a job of her dreams and falls in love only to have her heart broken, again. What will she do now? Will she ever find love again? | vidishachandna@gmail.com | Vidisha | Chandna Dua | |||||||||
47 | Romance | LIFE’S NOT OVER YET | Life can be magical as well as painful. At any moment your entire life can change for better or for worse. The best way to enjoy the magic or survive the pain is to surround yourselves with the people who love you. Trisha was at the point in her life where everything was coming into place as she had planned and then a personal tragedy ruins everything. What is she going to do now? Give up on her dreams and resign herself to her fate or take one day at a time and start rebuilding her life again. | vidishachandna@gmail.com | Vidisha | Chandna Dua | |||||||||
48 | Poetry | MY DAWN IS ONLY FIVE HOURS AWAY | Dion Anja's first poetry collection explores the various shades of life from a young-adult woman's point of view such as love, death, nature, anger, and fairies. All of the poems have been written in the chaotic atmosphere of the pandemic and this ephemeral state of existence urged Dion to self-publish. | dionyrtal@gmail.com | Dion | Anja | |||||||||
49 | Poetry | TOWARD A PEEPING SUNRISE | This poetry chapbook, sparkles with its progression from “Waking,” with its touch of surrealism, to “The Mellow Season” (a glowing autumn depicted in rhyme) to the final “Eternity.” Carole dines with poet Zukofsky, waits to sail with Renoir, and pulls out all poetic stops with “That This Blue Exists…” (This prize-winner poem uses fourteen book titles.) Ekphrastic and narrative poems intrigue with down-to-earth topics: sickness, health, escape from danger, a childhood Christmas memory. | carolemertz@cox.ne | Carole | Mertz | Adult | 24 | 5 | ||||||
50 | Self help | The YOU Revolution; the Journey of a Better Being | The book is based on a 10 week lifestyle/health enhancement program I created and have been teaching since 2014. It is the marriage of the course content covering every aspect of physical, mental and emotional well-being and the stories of my personal wellness journey | michelle@beterbeings.net | Michelle | Zellner | 18 and over | 258 | 3 | yes | https://ammzn.to/2s2d8pb | ||||
51 | The Discovery of Troy and Its Lost History | bernardijones@hotmail.com | Bernard | Jones | |||||||||||
52 | Non-fiction | WORDS WHISPERING IN WATER - Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina | A readable, engaging tale of activist Sandy Rosenthal's battle to expose the culprit in the catastrophic levee failures and flooding of New Orleans during hurricane Katrina. | sandy@levess.org | Sandy | Rosenthal | |||||||||
53 | Other | 100 MENTALLY CHALLENGING EIGHT-LETTER WORD SEARCH PUZZLES A BOOK FOR ADULTS Word Search Puzzle Book for Adults, Men, Women and Seniors with Large Print - Difficulty Level Hard | This carefully crafted book of word-search puzzles will test your brain-capacity to its limit. Each puzzle is a 17x17 grid of randomly placed letters in which 20 unique eight-letter words are hidden, ranging from moderately hard to extremely difficult. Although all these words are found in the English dictionary, most are not-so-common in everyday usage. | adnan_yousaf@ymail.com | Adam | Y. | |||||||||
54 | Poetry | LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW FANTASY & OTHER POEMS Fantasy & Other Poems | Imagines a world where poets are featured guests on late night talk shows and creates a unique late night talk show experience in verse. Poems are grouped as segments on a show - The Opening Monologue, The House Band, The First Guest and The Non-Sequitur Comedian. Weaving pop-culture, history, fairy-tales, and personal experience with a mix of poetic forms and flavors. | jennifer@dotsonpoet.com | Jennifer | Dotson | Ag. 18+ | 86 | Yes | Yes | https://tinyurl.com/y4ok8axm | ||||
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