Review of Frozen Tears (Paperback)

Set in the wilderness of remote Alaska, this book offers all the elements for a good read-- love, loss, triumph over adversity, and the feel of a rich adventure in America's last frontier. Highly recommended.


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In Alaska's stunning but brutal interior, where white and Native cultures clash, Kale Weaver struggles to survive a devastating tragedy that becomes the genesis for her allegiance to wolves and the circumstances making her target of a primitive superstition. Aided by her best friend, a worn-out helicopter pilot, and the bond shared with a wolf shaman, she then struggles against what follows: the bigotry and rejection imposed on her and her half-breed son,until she is challenged by the ultimate ordeal. Whatever the risks, she must fulfill a wish for her young son that she had never imagined for him. But above all, Kale's page-turning journey shows that love can triumph over life's most dire challenges and painful losses.

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Review of Beneath the Plastic (Paperback)

Beneath the Plastic was a very good book that kept me interested till the end.I usually read before bedtime and regularly had to cut myself off from reading too late.It wasn't a super long book though so I didn't lose too much beauty sleep.Anyway, there were so many funny one liners that relate to people in mine and probably your own lives you can't help but laugh out-loud. I thought this story would make a good movie and, although not altogether like "Fight Club," it exudes the same kind of clever and quick witted observations.Bottom line - Beneath the Plastic is worth the read and will at least keep you from falling asleep.Ha! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Rather than fixing his unsatisfying life, Charlie has created multiple lives, each seperate from the others. But when Charlie finds a life he wants, a life with a single mother and her son, Charlie slows enough for the rest of his lives to catch up.Specifically, his life as a member of The Brotherhood of Panhandlers, an anarchist group of homeless men led by a mad man, Cleveland, who is willing to destroy Charlie, and everyone close to him to get what he wants.

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Review of Road Trips, Broken Hearts & Other Debris of Growing Up (Paperback)

What it must be like to travel with the author.Adventure seems to follow her where ever she goes.Simple trips turn into massive ordeals with humorous consequences.I highly recommend you take this book on your travels to help you make your own life more dramatic.

Her stories of friends and family are just as entertaining!What a collection of characters.Little Jordan Finnerty with his nose-picking adventures is by far my favorite.

Melissa Schad is definitely an author to watch.Kind of like Candace Bushnell meets Erma Bombeck.I believe this is her first novel and I am looking forward to many more!!

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This book captures the hilarious highs and lows of friendship and love, family and fiascos. Whether stealing motorhomes and picking up hitchhikers, accidentally going to Vegas with the wrong guy, being the most terrible bridesmaid ever, or gaining ten pounds on her honeymoon, Melissa finds the humor in every madcap adventure she has.

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Review of Dave Dangerous and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Paperback)

I have been reading this book (Dave Dangerous and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) as a chapter book to my kid's. I got so interested in it I ended up all night reading it for myself. The author has a quirky sense of humor that really reminds me of the old Monty Python shows. The book is definitely targeting younger people but the authors wry sense of wit and engaging writing style makes it enjoyable for adults as well. If you are reading to your kids at night like I do, this is a great book for the older ones that are getting more interested in chapter books.

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Dave Dangerous, a 12-year-old soccer crazy Scottish schoolboy and gifted amateur detective, goes on summer vacation to San Diego with his parents. Upon overhearing a conversation about a kidnapping, Dave determines to find the victims.Joining forces with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (whose real names are John, Paul, George and Ringo) and Samantha, the most annoying girl in the world and niece to the missing persons, Dave embarks on a hilarious adventure where he has to, amongst other things, help win the most important soccer game of the year between two Goblin tribes, outwit an Ogre who has delusions of being an actor, survive a trek through the desert and ultimately save the world. Who say's vacations aren't fun?

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Review of Bed & Breakfast...Without The Breakfast (Paperback)

This is a great book that you can read in a couple of hours.It tells you everything you need to know to develop and profit from a short term furnished rental. You can set it up in your own home or invest in a rental property.
There are instructions regarding how to set it up; furnish it; advertise; and develop customers. It also includes the forms you need for bookkeeping; tracking expenses; and tracking customers. This book has many helpful hints that will guide you through a variety of situations. I highly recommend this book if you are looking to make extra money.The perfect "at home" business.


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This book is a guide to making extra money by renting out part of your own home as a short-term or vacation rental.When times are tough, we can all use extra income.The book includes the basic how-to, from evaluating the possibilities, creating it, marketing, rental contracts, organizing income and expenses, tracking business and tips to make it successful.It takes only a couple hours a week once you have it set up.It is packed with information, quick and easy to read and start making that extra income.

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Review of Deceptions and Betrayals (Paperback)

Despite the title of this brief memoir, the story of Marty Wurtz's life is more a story of triumph--so much so that she might have titled the book Deceptions, Betrayals, and Triumphs. While Wurtz glosses over a lot of material in the course of this 50-year review of key events in her life, her ability to overcome the chief "deceptions and betrayals" is the glue that holds everything together in this encouraging narrative.

Wurtz has had a lot to triumph over: a selfish and controlling father, an abusive first husband, and manipulative in-laws in her second marriage (although her husband this time was, as Wurtz puts it, "her prince").Throughout, Wurtz fashions a narrative that resonates with the endurance of one individual over adversity.

More remarkable is Wurtz's ability to do what only a handful of writers have attempted, and at which fewer have succeeded: to write engagingly about oneself in the third person. Charles Dickens accomplished as much in David Copperfield and Great Expectations, as did Laura Ingalls Wilder in her Little House books.What makes this feat so hard to achieve is the difficulty in gaining the distance from one's own experience required to write in a point of view that is so predominantly objective. The level of accomplishment in Deceptions and Betrayals is such that one does not realize, at first, that one is even reading a memoir.

Best of all, Deceptions and Betrayals does have the obligatory happily-ever-after ending, and because Wurtz writes with such skill about the trials she has had to overcome, we end up feeling as if our own problems seem a little less, while our own ability to face them seems a little more.This, perhaps, is why the "triumph-over-adverse-circumstances" theme, from David Copperfield to Little House, to Angela's Ashes and beyond, continues to attract such talent, and such appeal.


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This is not your average run of the mill autobiography, far from it!Deceptions and Betrayals is a touching and inspiring story with astounding events and triumphs.Marty shares her story of survival with wry wit and humor.Beginning during World War II and touching on the Vietnam era, Deceptions and Betrayals spans over sixty years of highs and lows, tears and laughter.This autobiography reads like a carefully crafted novel, finding grace in straightforward honesty.

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Review of Carnival of Freaks: The One Man Plan to Save America (Paperback)

Carnival Of Freaks: The One-Man Plan to Save America is an entertaining and thought provoking exploration into the mind of the author, US House candidate Alexander Fry.This is a very well researched and well written exposition on Mr. Fry's views of the social and political imperitives facing America.Whether you may agree or disagree with his stand on the issues, you definitely know where he stands.While some may say that this One Man's plan may not save America, it will certainly entertain and inspire all Americans who read it.

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Tired of corrupt politics?Tired of lawyers running the country?Tired of career politicians?Tired of not feeling represented in Congress?Tired of political extremism?Tired of money influencing elected officials?Tired of government waste? You are not alone. In Carnival of Freaks, congressional candidate Alexander Fry shines a clinical light on America's most controversial issues. Nary a stone is left unturned as Fry examines the twenty-first century political landscape, offering opinions and proposing solutions based on experience and fact.God, religion, abortion, Social Security, campaign finance, stem-cell research, the environment, energy, the Middle East, homeland security, gerrymandering, Iraq, unions, corporate compensation, guns, cloning, evolution, referendums, homosexuality, separation of church and state, immigration, pornography, the media and more. It's all going on inside the Carnival of Freaks.

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Review of Death in December (Paperback)

Once I started, I couldn't put it down! I enjoyed the characters and the many references to our Catholic faith. I was surprized by the "villian", which doesn't happen very often.

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Emily Sinclair is a happily married school principal who begins to get curious about the death of church member, Donna. As Emily looks into the Donna's life, she discovers that many people had reason to want her dead. In fact, her death must have been on many people's Christmas wish list.

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Review of Sex Kill: Lust crimes that shocked a generation! (Paperback)

One month ago, my wife and some of the other women in the neighborhood decided to clean out the attics and hold a combined garage sale. Towards the end of the sale when most of the other wives have left a creepy guy in a white van shows up and starts to look at everything --- a bit too long, around 35 minutes.He is interested in every item and asks questions like, "do you have more of these (coins, comics, books, baseball card, dvds, etc.) for sale in the house?" Then he tells Lynn (the woman who was holding the sale) that he was a plumber/electrician/carpenter and he was will to work cheap and he noticed a section of shingles on Lynn's roof that appeared to be loose and could lead to water damage.At this time my wife slipped away to call me (only four houses away.)When she was gone, he asked to see the attic and when Lynn refused he asked to use the bathroom.This is when I showed up.Before I confronted him, I walked up to his van and took the plate number.This caused him to drop his act and with out another word he drove away.

Five days ago I received SEX KILL in the mail.One of the chapters was about a man who answered classified ads early in the morning in order to rape housewives who are still in their robes and pajamas.The account was terrifying and struck accord with me. I reported the garage sale incident and the plate number to the police who did have a previous report of a man passing out home improvement flyers door-to-door who tried to force his way into a home. When they retrieved a flyer, they discovered that the phone number on it was bogus and the investigation turned cold.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the abhorrent nature of the pervert/rapist/killer as cautionary tales, yet not to fall into the same traps as so many other unfortunate victims. But I would also offer this warning: SEX KILL is a hard and brutal read that accurately reflects a hard and brutal world.

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Inside the twisted mind of the sex killer, lust and murder are inextricably linked.He needs to control, terrorize and degrade his victims.Too often, violation becomes torture and murder- and sometimes, the unholy desecration of the deceased.Here, from the detective and police magazines of the 1950s, is a casebook of the most infamous sex fiends ever to stain the true crime annals of the first half of the 20th century.Nightmare figures, many of whom continue to haunt our popular culture and motion pictures:Ed Gein, sex butcher and necrophile who inspired Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO; Leopold and Loeb, collegiate thrill killers captured in the classic film COMPULSION; and the Lipstick Killer, whose scrawled plea, “Stop me before I kill more” was the basis for Fritz Lang's WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS.Less well-known but equally malignant are such monster men as Earle Nelson, the Gorilla Killer; John Green, the “walking dead man” turned strangler-rapist; and the Ax-Man who stalked Chicago.

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