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Book Review: ‘Characters on the Green’ by J. Peter Hoyer
Characters on the Green by J. Peter Hoyer is a humorous look at the people encountered by the author during his decades-long love affair with the game of golf. Hoyer indeed met some real characters –...
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Book Review: ‘Becoming Relentless: In Pursuit of Your Life Passions, Fitness...
If you ever wondered what it takes to be a champion, look no further. Egan Inoue is a champion not only in one but in three sports, and he has won eleven world championship titles. From being...
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Book Review: ‘The Ultimate Business Tune Up: A Simple Yet Powerful Business...
Here’s an unsettling statistic: 80 percent of all new enterprises fail within five years. So much for the American dream. The reasons for failure may not be clear to those who fail, but to business...
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Book Review: ‘Mangrove Lightning’ by Randy Wayne White
What would you think if I told you there was a story starring a character who was part Indiana Jones, part James Bond, and part Jacques Cousteau, plus the story itself was a mix of Magnum P.I. and...
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Book Review: ‘Transforming Memories: Sharing Spontaneous Writing Using Loaded...
It’s well known that journaling can be therapeutic, a way to liberate trapped memories and emotions. In Transforming Memories: Sharing Spontaneous Writing Using Loaded Words (Bull Publishing, April...
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Book Review: ‘Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly’ by Adrian...
Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly is the sixth novel by Adrian McKinty featuring Sean Duffy, a Catholic police detective in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. Duffy is a brilliant...
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Book Review: ‘The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices...
As we become increasingly dependent on technology in every single part of our lives, what are we gaining and losing as a society? That’s the question posed by Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever in The...
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Book Review: ‘A Girl Like You: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel’ by...
In Michelle’s Cox’s debut novel A Girl Like You, teenage Henrietta Von Harmon enters the workforce in 1930s Chicago. Soon after, when her boss is murdered, she will find herself working undercover for...
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Book Review: ‘Losing My Misery’ by Bobby Long
Bobby Long is a British blues singer who writes powerful lyrics and also writes evoccative poetry. Losing My Misery is his second book of peoms, following 2012’s Losing My Brotherhood. Courtesy of...
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Book Review: ‘A Debt of Survival’ by L.F. Falconer
I love a gripping horror story, so when presented with the opportunity to read A Debt of Survival, by L.F. Falconer, I jumped on it! Falconer takes readers on thrilling ride in this complex,...
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Book Review: ‘Classics: Why and How We Can Encourage Children to Read Them’...
Drawing on many years of experience as a teacher and program developer, Fiza Pathan provides a great guideline as to how parents and educators can introduce children to reading the classics, and...
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Book Review: ‘Convicting Avery: The Bizarre Laws and Broken System behind...
Probably no state legislative or Congressional session now goes by without some quipster referring to the hoary aphorism suggesting it’s best not to watch laws being made. In Convicting Avery: The...
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Book Review: ‘Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone’ by Phaedra Patrick
Fans of Phaedra Patrick’s debut novel, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, will be delighted with her next heartfelt novel, Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone. Ms. Patrick has created a signature theme...
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Book Review: ‘American War’ by Omar El Akkad
With American War, published by Penguin Random House April 4 2017, former journalist Omar El Akkad has given us a stunning portrayal of how a terrorist is created. Set in a dystopian future, the last...
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Book Review: ‘History of a Disappearance: The Story of a Forgotten Polish...
Plenty of beasts populate European folklore and fairy tales. There’s dragons and griffins, wolves and bears, and, of course, Beauty’s beast. But according to Polish photojournalist Filip Springer’s new...
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Book Review: ‘Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers,’ by...
Problem solving is a hot topic in the world of work, all the way from entry-level to the C-suite. Recruiters polled by the National Association of Colleges and Employers ranked problem-solving as one...
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Interview with Nat Greene, author of ‘Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great...
I had the chance to talk problems and solutions with Nat Greene, the author of the new book, Stop Guessing: the 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers. As a global problem solving expert, Greene has been...
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Book Review: ‘Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions...
If you tend to make snap decisions that come back to haunt you, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn has a solution. She’s the author of Problem Solved: A Powerful System for Making Complex Decisions with Confidence...
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Book Review: ‘No Time to Say Goodbye’ by Bill Adler, Jr.
No Time to Say Goodbye, by Bill Adler Jr. is a cleverly written sci-fi adventure, full of mystery and intrigue that left me considering all the different possibilities of time travel and life in the...
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Book Review: ‘Upside: Profiting From the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead,’...
There’s enormous power to be had in counting people, as recent events such as the election have shown. But demographics drive far more than politics. Population shifts, from fertility rates to...
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