Gloria Oren
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Writers and Authors – Jo Linsdell
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Mary Jo Nickum
Mom’s Story: a Child Learns About MS
Chalet Publishers, 2009, 74 pages, $9.95
ISBN: 978-098408365-7
Fiction
“I found Mom sitting on the floor and I rushed
to her as she started to get up.”
Amy, the youngest child of three children was
worried, scared, and puzzled about what was
happening to her mother. First she had fallen,
then she dropped a plate [...]
Penny C. Sansevieri
Red Hot Internet Publicity: an insider’s guide to marketing
your book on the Internet
Cosimo Books, 2009, 275 pages, $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-60520-724-7
(Nonfiction, publicity, marketing)
“Nowadays, it’s no longer a matter of whether you can
get published, it’s a matter of getting you book noticed.”
Sansevieri covers everything an author needs to plan a
successful publicity campaign. Red Hot Internet Publicity
covers [...]
Robert Allan Hafetz
Not Remembered, Never Forgotten: An Adoptees Search for His Birthfamily
Gateway Press, Inc., 2005, 117 pages, $20.00
ISBN: 0-9770202-0-7
(Nonfiction, Memoir)
“Searching involves the risk that the truth might be painful,
and many adoptees refuse to search because what they
might discover could be devastating.”
There are many similarities between my adoption experience
and Robert’s, and even more differences. It was [...]
Rosalie Hollingsworth
Destruction of Innocence: A True Story of Child Abduction
iUniverse, 2009, 266 pages, $20.95
ISBN: 978–1–4401–2502–7 (pbk)
(Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir)
“My mind kept centering on the race to find my missing
daughter, Triana. I wondered if this search would ever end. I
had first lost her when she was one-year-old, and it took me
eight months to find her. This time she [...]
Sandy Brewer
Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey
Peach Tree House, 2007, 224 pages, $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-9796554-4-9
(Self-help, Memoir, Inspirational)
“Every moment is a choice, and every choice reverberates . . .
Every moment presents an opportunity to ‘pay it forward’.”
Abuse is not a chosen lifestyle for the child placed there by
the abuser. Sandy Brewer relates the trauma of rejection and
abuse [...]
Micah’s Child
Lang Buchanan
Dragonon Inc., Mason, OH, 2006
504 pages
$17.95
ISBN: 0-9763398-5-4
“I walked to the back of the room to turn out the lights
on that half of my portable classroom and saw a twice-folded,
handwritten note. Usually, I would have just thrown it away
but not this time. The unrecognized scribble said, “It’s
started again with my Dad. I have hinted [...]
H. Peter Nennhaus
Quo Vadis, Israel?
Outskirts Press Inc., 2008, 113 pages, $11.95
ISBN: 978 -1- 4327- 1459 – 8
Current Events, Jewish
“Within the turmoil of fears, fury, self-righteous fervor and demonization, nobody in Israel worth his salt would willingly embark on a campaign of atonement.”
As I began reading Nennhaus’s book I had no idea where it would lead. [...]
Shireen Jeejeebhoy
Lifeliner: The Judy Taylor Story
iUniverse, 2007, 186 pages, #16.95
ISBN: 978-0-44544-8
Nonfiction, Biography
“This is my third date with the knife,” she jokes as she sees the surgical resident come in to prep her on the afternoon of October 21. “You ought to put a zipper in. It’d be much easier to unzip me when you want [...]
Joshua Coleman is a down-to-earth individual, both as a parent and as a psychotherapist. His writing is clear and understandable to any parent reader in search of help in the hurtful area of adult children who still live at home yet remain disrespectful of their parents.
… this is a wonderful book, a major eye-opener, (providing)insight [...]
Too Much Stuff: De-Cluttering Your Heart and Home
by Kathryn Porter
Christian Living/Practical Life/General
Beacon Hill Press
2006
$13.99
Too Much Stuff is definitely an eye-opener. A how-to book that doesn’t feel like one.
From the minute I started reading her book I was overcome by a sense of get-to-it now. So since it is tax preparation time and my most despised [...]
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