By Jefferson Flanders
It’s the rare work of historical scholarship that also makes news but Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press) by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev has accomplished just that, provoking headlines around the world with its revelations of Cold War Soviet espionage.
Based both on […]

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As alluded to in my review of Son of a Wanted Man, I’ve lately been revisiting my first childhood and getting a head start on the second while I can still enjoy it by watching a lot of B-western films, mostly rented from Netflix but occasionally showing up on Turner Classic Movies. (If you’re similarly […]

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A Precious Journey Of Love And Faith
Take my advice, skip the review, save yourself some time, just head on over to Amazon and buy this book, it is an absolute cracker of a read!
Oh, you are still reading, I guess that means I’ll have to write the review after all
One of my favorite […]

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Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ullman Bell has distilled […]

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This is a lively and enchanting account of living in Greece, on the island of Rhodes, written by a long-time expatriate. In his first book, Feta Accompli, John Manuel told a rambling story of how he came to fall in love with his wife, Yvonne-Marie – and the country of her birth, of how they […]

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As the editor of a blog for authors and their readers, I have been posting an extended series at PODBRAM (Print On Demand Book Reviews & More) called The Kindle Report. This is a review of Joshua Tallent’s how-to book for uploading a book or manuscript into the Kindle format.
Let’s just jump right into the […]

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Joe Hunter used to be in Special Forces working against the terrorists. He did it for fourteen years and was good at it. Those skills don’t exactly translate well to civilian life so he finds himself working on the edge of things and solving problems that require the answer of gun or fist.
 
His sister in […]

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Bailey Green has returned to Key West to help her elderly friend, Francine Shipton. She will live in a guest cottage at the Eden Palms estate while working as her secretary and gofer on a project to help the homeless on the island. It also gives Bailey a chance to at least work on her […]

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Stone Barrington is back and this time he soon will be in Key West. Having just been dumped by his latest romantic interest the fact that Bill Eggers wants him to go track down the son of a client is a great excuse to get out off New York. Warren Keating needs to finds his […]

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“Classic, deceptively easy to make, and with unisex appeal, cables are considered by many to embody the essence of knitting. The beautiful twists, turns and sways of a cable can be accomplished using just a few simple techniques, and the mittens, hats, and scarves in this book provide the perfect small-scale projects for letting your […]

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I am going to start this review at the end of the book. I love to be non traditional in my reviews!
The very last page of the book contains a short biography of the author. It was the opening sentence of this section that caught my eye, it essentially sums up this fast paced thriller […]

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Down In Flames is a memoir by Ray Parker of his experiences as a World War II aviator. I am a self confessed fan of history, particularly living history. The sanitized versions of events that Historians lay out for us so neatly holds little interest to me. But, History as seen through the eyes of […]

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Who’s Your Daddy?
People say you can’t judge a book by its cover.   Maybe so; but the minute I laid eyes on the cover of Hell Hawks: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler’s Wehrmacht, I had to read the book.  Why?  Because I wanted to find out if these guys really did […]

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This is Nick Caesar’s second excursion into the literary world with Princess Shlilah and the crew of the Gold Rush. This book very much picks up where his first novel Zephir ended.
Princess Shlilah finds herself back on the Earth, a very different Earth from the one she remembers before being kidnapped by the Zephirians many, […]

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Confidence Born Of Strength And Wisdom
Successful Relationship Builder’s Share Networking Strategies
There are countless books that extol the virtues of networking in todays fast paced business world. And indeed there are as many networking strategies as there are books on the subject.
Although Tina Dezsi and Lia Bandola are designated as the authors, in reality they would […]

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It is late October and Sharon McCone is hiding out at the ranch near Tufa Lake located in the high desert country of California near Yosemite. Depression has a tight grip on her mind and soul with her questioning nearly everything in her life. Events in the “Ever Running Man” have taken a huge toll […]

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Fear Glacier is located in the Artic area known as the “Zone.” A stretch of northeastern Alaska bounded by the Artic Ocean, Artic National Wildlife Refuge and the Yukon’s Ivvavik National Park is labeled as the “Zone” and home to the “Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation.” A former military base that was part of the […]

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During the course of the past year and a half or thereabouts, I’ve become happily reacquainted with one of the joys of my childhood, the western. It began when Turner Classic Movies ran a Roy Rogers movie marathon. This in turn prompted me to rent Hopalong Cassidy films from Netflix, and to buy some from […]

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Edward De Bono the author once said that humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.   
If this is true, then “Return of the Dittos” proves conclusively that the fertile brain of its author, Dale Andrew White, continues to work overtime, much to the benefit of his readers.“Return of the Dittos” […]

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Proven Strategies For Creating And Maintaining Healthy Relationships With Married Children
The subject of Mother-in-Law’s is often a thorny one, often the brunt of ribald jokes, and sometimes living breathing monsters in real life. Over the years I have known people that have had some very bad experiences with this sometimes egregious species. However in many […]

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The Death of a Pope
by Pier Paul Read
At first I didn’t recognise the author when this book was sent to me, more fool me, as I have read several of his previous works (fiction & non-fiction) and enjoyed them. This book is no exception to his output. A very taught theological thriller that lacks all […]

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Riding the wave of publicity generated by his true crime thriller the “Specialist” writer Teague Kendall is in Tasmania. The small island off the coast of Australia was home to the serial killer who layed a trail of death from Tasmania to a cave system close to Kendall’s home on Vancover Island, Canada. Luckily, both […]

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His Edge is a delightful semi-biographical work by Wayne Harding. Wayne is an entertaining guy, and talking with him was a genuine pleasure. I have to admit that now that now my wife and I are both in our fifties (oops, only me, Jan is still in her 30’s!). Wayne is a sprightly 87 years […]

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For Dallas Private Investigator Arthur Conan Edwards (Ace) three in the morning is usually not a good time. His sleep is frequently interrupted by the ringing of the phone. Usually it is Jake about a case, but occasionally, it is a client in need that Jake has referred. Of course the call will make Ace […]

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Three Kisses is an interesting excursion into the world of terrorism and espionage. As the author explains at the end of the book the plot itself is entirely fictional as are the characters, although he has drawn on a number of actual reported events and meshed them together.
For the most part this is an entertaining […]

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The Apostate TheoryMr PatIts instantly obvious why this book was not published by a major publisher. They are cowards about this sort of thing, a book that deals with Obama’s apostasy (to Islamists) and Islamists on-going desire to kill as many in the US as possible. This is working on the theory to Islamists everywhere […]

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Although Terminator Salvation has done reasonably well at the box office, it may have suffered somewhat from its dark, pessimistic tone. The fourth film in the Terminator franchise is set in a future world ravaged by a nuclear holocaust. To create that setting, the filmmakers behind the new movie took glimpses of […]

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Designed for working families busy with school and after school activities this book encourages folks to bypass the fast food places and frozen foods section of the grocery store. Instead of paying for convienice, plan ahead for a week, shop once, and make your meals at home. The usual advice seen in many such books […]

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Private Investigator Sid Chance prefers the solitary life at his rustic cabin located somewhere fifty miles east of Nashville. He’d spent three years there after his career as a small town police chief abruptly ended. Before that, he was a park ranger and that career abruptly ended. He has a history of not playing well […]

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Written by lawyer and faculty member of eBay University, Cliff Ennico, this book aims to answer “The 350 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Making Big Money On eBay.” Written in a question and answer format through twenty one chapters the book is designed for those who want to move beyond selling as a hobby to […]

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