Defying Her Billionaire Protector – Angela Bissell

Posted on February 9, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) Marietta Vincenti might be a paraplegic, but she values her independence. So naturally her Italian temper takes full form when her brother’s best friend – private security tycoon Nicolas Cesar---decides to swoop in and take her to his Mediterranean Island in order to protect her from a stalker. The battle-hardened and…

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Taste of Persia: A Cook’s Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan – Naomi Duguid

Posted on February 6, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) I usually browse the internet to find recipes, since cookbooks just take up too much needed shelf space. Needless to say, it takes a lot for me to buy an actual cookbook. However, there is one that I highly recommend. Taste of Persia is actually a lot more than your usual cookbook. It…

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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories – Kathleen Collins

Posted on February 2, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “His white face floats in a sea of black protest. It is a time that calls forth the most picturesque of metaphors, for we are swimming along in the underbelly of America..there where it is soft and prickly, where you may rub your nose against the grainy sands of illusion and…

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The Helper – M. N. Snow

Posted on January 31, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Helper takes you on a journey where friendship, relationships and the desire to help others means more than anything. Three friends with three secrets have the power to heal people, meaning they are givers. John Sloan is a marine and loses this generous ability to heal. Since being a healer…

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Holding Out for a Zero-Heather Wardell

Posted on January 26, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) “I’m doing the right thing, not feeding myself. It’s the only thing I can do, so I will do it. Gloria can somehow have the energy I don’t take in, and it will help her stay alive.” Twenty years ago, 14-year old Valerie  was in a hurry to get ready for…

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The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel – Steven Pressfield

Posted on January 22, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) How does a struggling writer make it in the big city? The Knowledge: A Too Close To True Novel is part crime novel, part self-realization story taken from some real-life experiences of author, Steven Pressfield. It pictures life of a struggling writer in crime- ridden New York City in the early…

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Pearl, MD: The Way West – Marie Bartlett

Posted on January 19, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Jeyran Main) The Way West, the second in the Pearl MD series, begins right where we were left off and is just as captivating. Pearl is a physician in the nineteenth-century. This was when women were not welcome to have a profession. African Americans were also treated poorly. Healing them as patients was…

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Olympic Collision: The Story of Mary Decker and Zola Budd- Kyle Keiderling

Posted on January 15, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) One momentous day. And two lives were forever linked. At the 1984 summer games in Los Angeles, a raucous crowd of ninety thousand saw their favorite in the women’s three-thousand-meter race, Mary Decker, go down. An audience of two billion around the world witnessed the mishap and listened to the instantaneous…

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Beyond the Carousel – Bette Lee Crosby

Posted on January 10, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Ishita RC) A family tragedy that spans over twenty years, and a detective who believes that justice has a higher power than law and is determined to make things right. “Life is like a carousel; what goes around, comes around. “ I am deliberately keeping the synopsis brief; the book is truly a…

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The Girl from Rostov- Shitij Sharma

Posted on January 7, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Everything adds up. Every second, every lie, every breath. In the end, it all catches up with you.” "Even if you have little to do with it. Family, for instance. “ That’s what young Maya had to learn. Too many unanswered questions haunted her into adulthood. With the death of her…

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