Mark Ellsberry
iUniverse, 329 pages, (paperback) $19.95, 9781475990164
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
The Dinosaur's Descendants is a sci-fi tale in which the actions of a time-traveling, prehistoric reptilian creature push the world toward global war. Conveniently, the U.S. National Security Agency happens...
Hidden Account of the Romanovs
John Browne
iUniverse, 827 pages, (paperback) $38.95, 9781475978322
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
John Browne’s historical fiction novel, Hidden Account of the Romanovs, begins in 2003, when British Royal Bank employee Peregrine Coulter receives the unusual assignment of uncovering any possible heirs...
The Spring Rain
Quinn Graw
iUniverse, 85 pages, (paperback) $9.95, 9781475988659
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
The Spring Rain: A Seasonal Collection of Poems by Quinn Graw is organized into four sections: “Faith in God,” “Family and Friends,” “Odds and Ends of Poetic Rhyme,” and “Seasonal Poems.” Graw lives in Alberta,...
Flight 17's Voice Recorder
J.F. Cronin
iUniverse, 191 pages, (paperback) $14.95, 9780595289851
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
A mentally challenged pilot isn't what passengers would prefer at the cockpit's helm during a commercial flight. The airline industry's tendency to turn a blind eye to such problems is central to this thought-provoking,...
A Long Walk to Knowing
Anne Fisher
iUniverse, 251 pages, (paperback) $16.95, 9781475909821
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
Anne Fisher pays tribute to the Occupy Movement with this enthusiastic but flawed story of a rugged individualist who sacrifices her dreams of earning her doctorate to escape into the wilderness.
This dystopian...
Soldiers and Ghosts: How Josh Simmons Spent His Summer
Phil Gutierrez
iUniverse, 277 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 9781475970814
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
America’s Civil War has long fascinated authors. Since some of the best writings about the war are from such esteemed authors as Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce and Stephen Crane, it is a challenge for contemporary...
Amid the Ashes and the Dust
Clay Mitchell
iUniverse, 340 pages, (paperback) $20.95, 9781475988079
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
In this novel of faith and family, Tyler Morgan is forced to reassess his religious beliefs after a series of tragedies that began when his football career – and college scholarship – was derailed by a...
The Boy Who Became an Early-Childhood Educator: Reflections, Memories and Future Thoughts about Our Field
Manuel Kichi Wong, M.Ed
iUniverse, 178 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 9781475984842
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
While providing licensed child care in his home, Manuel Kichi Wong kept a journal to reflect upon the sometimes achingly long days spent watching half a dozen infants and toddlers. His entries,...
Duty, Honor, Money
iUniverse, 226 pages, (paperback) $15.95, 9781469780511
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
In Duty, Honor, Money, former Marine J.F. Cronin delivers a blistering novel about the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, depicting a military mission subverted by politics and corruption, both Afghan and American.
Lieutenant...
India Marching: Reflections from a Nationalistic Perspective
Dr. Sat D. Sharma
iUniverse, 441 pages, (paperback) $28.95, 9781475914221
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
India Marching is a passionately argued work of revisionist history. The author, an internist who has published widely in medical journals, wants to write the “real history” of the struggle for India’s...
Easterland
Patrick Henry Prentice
iUniverse, 332 pages, (paperback) $19.95, 9781475988338
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
What if Jesus Christ returned to the earth through the magic of science, and he turned out to just be this guy, you know? Emmy-award winning writer Patrick Henry Prentice’s tackles this question...
Too Big to Succeed: Profiteering in American Medicine
Russell J. Andrews, MD, DEd
iUniverse, 175 pages, (paperback) $16.95, 9781475971286
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
Too Big to Succeed exposes the way profiteering has driven costs in American medicine to unsustainable levels while eroding the quality of care. With an insider’s eye, the author, a neurosurgeon,...
Understanding Change: A Personal and professional Management Strategy
Dr. Albert de Goias
iUniverse, 251 pages, (paperback) $21.95, 9781475970289
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
In this self-help volume, a psychiatrist with a penchant for philosophy and a fascination with physics diagnoses "existential pain" and provides a prescription to alleviate it based on developing...
The Journey Home
Willy Nywening
iUniverse, 294 pages, (paperback) $18.95, 9781475988291
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
Willy Nywening’s novel The Journey Home features the trinity of loss, survival and rebirth. Set in rural Canada, the story follows Martha and her younger brother, Jamie, whose lives swirl out of control...
Love Doesn't Die
Angela Brent-Harris
iUniverse, 56 pages, (paperback) $9.95, 9781475934526
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
Angela Brent-Harris grew up in Jamaica in a warm and loving home. Love Doesn't Die is a tribute to her father, Yorke Devere Brent-Harris. A jazz aficionado and eternal optimist, he is sympathetically...
Confronting Death
Edited by Alfred G. Killilea and Dylan D. Lynch
iUniverse, 284 pages, (paperback) $21.95, 9781475969771
(Reviewed: September, 2013)
In Confronting Death, University of Rhode Island professor Alfred G. Killilea teams with a former student to collect 18 undergraduate essays written for his course on...
