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"I don't know what to say" and "I don't know what to do" are common responses to a life-threatening diagnosis. Voices of Cancer is here to help. Every cancer story is different, but there is one commonality: both patients and the people supporting them often struggle to properly articulate their wants and needs through particularly challenging and… Continue reading Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need by Lynda Wolters
Is there a secret formula for writing a successful romance novel? Backed by research and professional expertise, The Romance Novel Formula provides everything you need to take you from idea to first draft of your breakout romance novel. Join best-selling romance author and academic researcher, Alicia Leigh, as you discover: How to take your love interests… Continue reading The Romance Novel Formula by A.K. Leigh
Learn life-changing insights from hundreds of bestsellers – by reading just one book. Discover 750+ ways to improve your life – according to hundreds of bestselling books. As a busy CEO, Ayesha hated her lengthy commutes – until she turned them into her own mobile library. Soon, she was completing over 70 audiobooks each year… Continue reading Cheat Sheets for Life by Ayesha S. Ratnayake
When Louis R. Vitullo started as a "beat cop" with the Chicago Police Department in 1951 he couldn't have guessed the impact he would make on the history of forensics. As Sergeant and then Chief Microanalyst of the crime lab, he oversaw some of Chicago's most notorious cases, which allowed him to address flaws in… Continue reading The Power of Truth: The Life of Louis R. Vitullo and the Legacy of the Rape Kit by Tristin Engels, PsyD
Mike Hayes has lived a lifetime of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. He has been held at gunpoint and threatened with execution. He's jumped out of a building rigged to explode, helped amputate a teammate's leg, and made countless split-second life-and-death decisions. He's written countless emails to his family, telling them how much he loves them, just in… Continue reading Never Enough by Mike Hayes
Let’s Talk About Cats: Conversations on Feline Behaviour features 16 unique in-depth conversations with devoted feline experts, each chapter answering a question about our cats. An abundance of catty conversation points which provide many useful takeaways for cat owners to improve their own every-day connection with their cats.This book, the first of its kind, presents… Continue reading Let’s Talk About Cats: Conversations on Feline Behaviour by Anita Kelsey
Music can play an important part in our lives yet how many of us appreciate the effect it has on our brains, bodies, and moods, or understand how we can use music as a medicine? Music has the power to reduce everyday symptoms, such as stress, insomnia, pain, depression, and even snoring, as well as… Continue reading Music as Medicine Particularly in Parkinson’s Disease by Daphne Bryan PhD
Listening to a Radio Moscow broadcast on holiday on Jura, Glasgow schoolboy Robert Harvie finds errors in the programme which he reports to the Russians. Then, as a student, the Soviets give him a grant, and so Robert is inadvertently compromised. His first job takes him to Ghana, and soon he has murder on his… Continue reading Caught in a Cold War Trap by Miller Caldwell
Librarian Heather Brown discovers the fascinating life of Alice Bailey - a long forgotten occultist. Back in 1931, Alice is preparing to give a speech at a Swiss summer school. But how can she stave the tide of hatred and greed set to bring the world to its knees? Soon after, Alice is put on Hitler's… Continue reading The Unlikely Occultist: A Biographical Novel of Alice A. Bailey by Isobel Blackthorn
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in July 2010. It is a very enlightening guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and may just change your mind about Western… Continue reading Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine for Women’s Health by Dr. Kathleen Albertson
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in July 2010. It is an unforgettable memoir. Enjoy! Ms. Kersh shares her memories, including those of the historical figures who inspired… Continue reading Suitcase Full of Dreams by Hoy Kersh
Bar Jonah liked to break his victims. To create a fissure in their being that would last a lifetime so that when the thin-membrane scar of the crevasse was ruptured, the hydra would re-emerge and consume them once again from the inside out. At least with one victim however, he not only broke him, he… Continue reading Eat the Evidence (Book One of the Bar Jonah Trilogy) by John E. Espy, Ph.D.
For America, the period of 1800 to 1920 was an unparalleled time of broad expansion and growth driven by extraordinary factors unlike almost any other in history. It was a period of empire building and empire builders. The risks are high, but then too, the opportunities and rewards were high as well. The men in… Continue reading Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders, Vol. 1 by Philip F. Anschutz
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in November 2009. While fans knew Chris as the sweaty, swaggering Motivational Speaker and the hyperkinetic Chippendales stripper, his family knew him… Continue reading The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley, Jr.
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in June 2010. This story interested me because at the time my mother was diagnosed with dementia and my mother loved cats… Continue reading Making Rounds with Oscar by David Dosa
I started my book review blog in 2009 and I have read so many outstanding books that I wanted to share them again with my followers on #SegueSaturday. I first posted this review in April 2009. It is an inspiring memoir of the late Byron Nease, who originated the role of Raoul in the Canadian production of… Continue reading Behind the Mask…No More by Byron Nease
What does hate look like? Hate looks like the bullet hole in the door frame leading into the prayer room at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin—a vestige of the carnage that took place there on August 5, 2012, when a troubled man with a distorted view of what America should look like executed peaceful people… Continue reading The Gift of Our Wounds: A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness after Hate by Arno Michaelis, Pardeep Kaleka
Florence understood instinctively that beauty, as well as money, was power; and she had both in abundance. Florence Gould was an intelligent, conniving, self-centered, savvy business woman, but most of all she was a survivor. She survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire as a child, a major flood in France, World War I and… Continue reading A Dangerous Woman: The Life of Florence Gould by Susan Ronald
Peace is permanent happiness. Dr. Ojikutu's guide advises us that we have two lines: our spiritual line and our physical line, and we have to simultaneously nourish them in order to achieve our goals of peace and permanent happiness. She goes on to describe ways to balance our lines and to help balance our children's lives… Continue reading Permanent Happiness: The Only Way to Find Peace, Joy and your Life-Given Purpose by Iyabo Ojikutu
What is stuff made of? Mr. Graybill gives a humorous, easy-to-follow, history lesson in the study of matter. He includes an extensive vocabulary of science terms from various theories, elements, and compounds to the explanation of wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, and the Bohr model. There are also profiles of various philosophers and scientists including Hermes Trismegistus, Galileo Galilei,… Continue reading STUFF: The Fortunes, Foibles, and Fiascos of Those Who Sought to Understand Matter by George Graybill