by Site Owner | Mar 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
by Jim Perkins Self Published, $7.99, 184 pages Do not let its plain cover deter you. The Red Jacket is a straightforward, almost charming novel about a young man growing up in the 1960s. Sixteen-year-old Francis grapples with the usual problems: he resents being the...
by Site Owner | Mar 5, 2012 | Science Fiction
By B.B. Griffith, Griffith Publishing, 503 pages We always learn something when we read a book, and this reviewer learned a very important lesson while reading B.B. Griffith’s Blue Fall – never underestimate a first-time author. From the very beginning, Blue...
by Site Owner | Feb 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Reference
by Nancy Ragno Writer’s Digest Books, $14.00, 216 pages No longer is the simple misspelled word the monarch of errors in writing. After a couple decades of being spell check-oholics, people have made the misused word the new champion of writing mistakes. Have...
by Site Owner | Feb 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
by Dr. Nicholas La Bianca Xlibris, $19.99, 254 pages Remnants of Italy’s archaic feudal system remained when Mussolini became prime minister in 1922. By traditional standards, the author’s family was considered a lower middleclass family of landowners in their small...
by Site Owner | Feb 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
by Joseph S. Nicholas PublishAmerica, $25.95, 392 pages Northern Deception is a modern mystery novel set in the fictionalized town of Century, Montana. Century finds itself the center of attention during the state governor’s race, with one of its local (and...
