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Immortal Poe -
Jack Schick (430)    
The answer will most likely be "Yes", if you stop anyone, on any street in any town in the United States, or on any university campus anywhere in the world, and ask them if they have ever heard of Edgar Allan Poe. Now, over 200 years after his birth, he is one of, if not the best know American... ( added 3 days 7 hours ago.) |
Message From The Missing Piece -
 - Joyce Dunn (290)   
Joyce Dunn
Let me introduce myself. My name is Perfecta. Jenny thinks I'm her missing piece, and keeps desperately looking for me. She is so positive that she is badly flawed without me that she tries to fool people into thinking I'm not missing, that Perfecta is really a part of her. Don't you find it... ( added 16 days 6 hours ago.) |
Word "Platonic" Swings Other Way -
- John Sammon (4,227)   
John Sammon
Most words that began free of sexual meaning and evolved in modern times to a sexual connotation, for example, the words "gay," and "slut," started out innocently enough. Gay used to mean a happy person, and slut meant a woman with soiled clothing, not necessarily one who committed adultery.
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Emergent Christianity and Its Place Amongst the Flow of Judaeo-Christian History -
Christofer French (104) 
Christofer French
I once studied the Bible quite intensely for a game show in the 70's. This was after I was a minister, and after my formal biblical studies. This experience - speed reading through the Bible about 4 or 5 times - gave me a startling "subjective" experience. I saw Biblical history more as a FILM, a... ( added 9 days 3 hours ago.) |
Review: Claws of the Dragon -
ngoldman (5,636)    
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Author: JoEllen Heath: Publisher: Xlibris: ISBN: 978-1-4415-1278
In Claws of the Dragon , the second novel of a trilogy, JoEllen Heath offers a multi- layered yarn that embraces a family secret, duplicity and deception, four magnificent jewels, ancient mysteries, Asian and Hawaiian... ( added 20 hours 47 minutes ago.) |
Review: You Bet Your Life! The 10 Mistakes Every Patient Makes -
ngoldman (5,636)
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Author: Trisha Torrey
ISBN: 978-1934938881
Publisher: Langdon Street Press
Prodded by her own terrifying experience with her encounter with her health system in the USA, when, over five years ago, she was misdiagnosed with cancer, Trisha Torrey has taken matters into her own hands and... ( added 7 days 3 hours ago.) |
The Duty of Love: A Novel Review -
ngoldman (5,636)
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Author: Ronald Neal Green ISBN: 978-1-4327-1259-4 Publisher: OutskirtsPress
What really shines in Ronald Neal Green's The Duty of Love: A Novel is its adept mix of fantasy and inspirational philosophical reflections that somehow manage to hold together, achieving an intense narrative drive.... ( added 8 days 9 hours ago.) |
Another Day Gone Sonnet -
The poet cj Lee (7)
I sat upon my bed, stretch and yawn.
Signifying the end of another day gone.
I awaken each day to breakfast at dawn.
Ready myself for a day so long.
Tastes richer than chocolate.
Aspirations richer than gold.
Ambitions never too late.
To satisfy the riches of the... ( added 14 days 20 hours ago.) |
Meet Bill Clem, Prolific Author of Fiction -
ngoldman (5,636)
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Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Bill Clem, RN. Bill is the author of The Hospital (2010), Replica, Immortal, Medicine Cup, Microbe, Bliss, Diencephalon, They All Fall Down, Presidential Donor, Skin Deep, and A Brief Interval . As a... ( added 15 days 9 hours ago.) |
Dire Means Reviewed -
ngoldman (5,636)
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Author: Geoffrey Neil Publisher: Priorities Intact Publishing ISBN: 978-0-615-29249-6
Here is an unusual twist on a murder mystery. We know the killers, we know how they murder, and we wonder how these murderers will be brought to justice or will they? Moreover, it is not your typical novel... ( added 19 days 2 hours ago.) |
Barrington Bayley on Machine Consciousness - The Rod of Light -
- Robert Gibson (117) 
Robert Gibson
Barrington Bayley is the only author I know to have tackled the philosophical problems of machine consciousness seriously. And after using that word "serious" I hasten to add that his novels are magnificent entertainment.
In "Soul of a Robot" the conclusion was reached, that machine... ( added 20 days 4 hours ago.) |
Johnny Oops Steps Into A Virtual Reality World -
Arthur Levine (10)
It had been a long painful time in the making, but Johnny finally discovered that he could no longer live in the now. He was being pushed inexorably into a new virtual reality world of the future. Not a world of his making, but delivered all shiny and new by some Game Master who must have... ( added 5 days 20 hours ago.) |
New book: Historic shipwrecks of the Dominican Republic and Haiti (Caribbean) -
Jan Pavlik (24) 
This unique book of its sort is a must for everybody who is interested not only in historical shipwrecks around the Hispaniola Island (actual Dominican Republic and Haiti), but also in pirate history.
Almost 400 described shipwrecks in this book, lot of them laden with unimaginable treasures... ( added 6 days 4 hours ago.) |
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: A Review -
Inger Fountain (326)  
Inger Fountain
Percy Jackson is like and young teenager living in New York, except for the fact that his father is the Greek God, Poseidon. Being the son of the lord of the ocean and of earthquakes has some great advantages, like the ability to manipulate and control water. The downside of this is that since he... ( added 16 days 13 hours ago.) |
Take a Number at the DMV -
Marcia Calhoun Forecki (28) 
Marcia Calhoun Forecki
The box suspended from the ceiling of the DMV glowed a digital green. A pattern of small rectangles formed the number 64. I watched intently, waiting to see the rectangles rearrange themselves into 165.
"Next."
I leapt to the counter in two steps; before the clerk's voice had risen to the... ( added 79 days 23 hours ago.) |
The Best Books To Buy For Gifts This Christmas –Classics To Controversial and Fiction To Facts -
- Connor Davidson (8,139)   
Connor Davidson
I've complied a list of books that I think would make great gifts for readers this Christmas. I've organised them by category and chosen only five books for each. I have found it very difficult to write this since my self-imposed limit of five has made it incredibly restrictive. However, I like... ( added 63 days 1 hour ago.) |
A Caring Gesture -
Marcia Calhoun Forecki (28)
Marcia Calhoun Forecki
This one is new. Her touch is lighter and she hesitates before she lifts the blanket to look at what is left of me. I can not see her, of course. I haven't seen any of the others, but I can identify them by their touch, their breathing, and the words they whisper without realizing it. Certainly... ( added 102 days 2 hours ago.) |
The Humbled -
Michael Ramzy (1,053)   
Michael Ramzy
John lives in a very small house on a side street in a mid-size American city. He lives a very unassuming life, by himself, and spends most of his time working on his little garden and his house. He has a vehicle made in America, although to be fair it wasn't so much a buy-American thing as it... ( added 1 year 61 days ago.) |
The Wasp and Me -
Gregory Lewis (1,391)  
Gregory Lewis
I think I must be getting lonely. I have a new pet wasp in my bedroom; I call her Hudson, after W.H. Hudson, who wrote a 1905 essay titled Wasps, extolling them as one of the more intelligent insect genus. In the case of Hudson (my wasp) I think it belongs to genus polistes, species fuscatus... ( added 1 year 122 days ago.) |
Heavenly Comfort: Charles Spurgeon and Isaiah 61 -
- Jean Purcell (3,187) 
Jean Purcell
Charles H. Spurgeon wrote a powerful little book. He called it The
Mourner's Comforter . The title paired a seemingly depressive word, mourner , with a highly soothing one, comforter .
On the Internet, mourner and comforter searches point to
death and funerals or bed comforters and hotel... ( added 1 year 231 days ago.) |
James Morrow on Witches, Frankenstein, Cyberpunk, and More -
- Bill Ectric (1,151) 
Bill Ectric
As teenagers, James Morrow and his friends made short 8mm movies based on Coleridge and Poe stories. Morrow went on to earn a master's degree from Harvard University , then published his first novel, The Wine of Violence , in 1981. His latest, The Philosopher's Apprentice , prompted the Library... ( added 1 year 274 days ago.) |
You're Wearing That? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation -
Lauren Davis (53)
If youre a woman, youre also a daughter. You have a mother. These
are two distinct roles that play out over a lifetime. So what happens
when you become a mother to a daughter? You probably have a new
appreciation for some of the things your mom has said to you over the
years because suddenly... ( added 2 years 70 days ago.) |
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Life, Death And The Mystery of the Broken Mirror -
Marty RicKard (2,724) 
Marty RicKard
My seven-year-old tiptoed into my study, her hands behind her back. Please dont be angry," she sobbed. Whats wrong, Susan?" She showed her hands. I gasped. She held the antique mirror I had given Carol two years before the accident. The mirror was cracked. A thin line curved across the surface... ( added 2 years 78 days ago.) |
Metafiction and the 4th Wall -
Bill Ectric (1,151)
Bill Ectric
Most "new" concepts are not really new. They come and go in various incarnations, ever growing in our mass consciousness, until they reach the critical mass known as "everyone is talking about it." Two such concepts are metafiction in literature and its TV & film equivalent, "breaking the fourth... ( added 4 years 223 days ago.) |
Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner's Guide -
James Duncan (22)
Book Review of Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner's Guide. (National Cancer Institute. 2004. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Health
Making Health Communication Programs Work: A Planner's Guide is a workbook designed to assist health and wellness professionals in... ( added 4 years 226 days ago.) |
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