(reviewed by JD Jung) “She’s pregnant with a domestic worker’s son, who has matric but whose skill is drug peddling. How did she get herself into this?” Her parents want to control the situation, but Farhana doesn’t know what she wants. “Why an Indian girl? He could easily have found a good Zulu girl. Indians…
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Fierce Girls is a military science fiction thriller about Kelly Cassidy. She is a retired police officer who was the senior weapons trainer at the New York Police Academy for many years. After the death of her husband, she teaches her son and three daughters to be marksmen. The story begins…
(Reviewed by JD Jung) “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson The Supreme Court didn’t agree. Chief Justice John Marshall considered corporations to have…
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(reviewed by JD Jung) “The past is never gone. Revenge exposes your morality. Youth haunts middle age like the devil rules hell.” D Hunter changed careers from bodyguard/ security in Brooklyn to owning a successful talent management company in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, he cannot escape his past, as working in security puts one in contact…
(by JD Jung) Robert Hellenga I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Hellenga last month. He was one of my favorite authors who wrote with emotion, warmth and sensuality. Robert shared his love of Italy as well as the complexities of the human condition. I was first introduced to his work…
(Reviewed by Heidi A. Swan) I was intrigued by this book because the author, Christopher Kimball Bigelow, and I share two things in common: we were both raised in the Mormon Church during the same era and used drugs in our youth (although I was far less involved in both of these than Bigelow). The…
(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) Say Something is a short book of poetry providing an autobiographical window into the author’s life. Jeremy Clarke believes that every person’s journey in life should be heard and told. The inspiration comes from within his soul as does the desire to encourage others to speak their truth, to heal and…
(reviewed by JD Jung) “I don’t even think I want to flee anymore. I thought that was what I wanted, but I think more so I wanted to disappear. I wanted to become so unburdened that I would actually become invisible. And at the same time, I wanted desperately to be seen. “ Yes, Linda…
