Month: July 2020

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Non-Fiction: Your Career Survival Guide by Christy Noel

July 31, 2020 admin 0

“My goal was to deliver a step-by-step playbook filled with straight talk to help professionals navigate their careers during this pandemic and in the foreseeable future.” — Christy Noel As the worldwide spread of coronavirus continues to sweep the country and take millions of jobs with it, workers are left wondering how to find a job and keep their career on track in this new economy and new work environment. Career expert, Los Angeles-based Christy […]

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Fiction: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

July 28, 2020 Linda L. Richards 0

In Rodham (Random), Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife, Sisterland) imagines an alternate history where Hillary says no to Bill Clinton’s proposal of marriage and gets on with the life Sittenfeld might have us believe the one-time presidential nominee was meant for. So much has been written about Hillary Rodham Clinton that it’s easy to forget anything but the pictures that have been built. The disappointed presidential hopeful. The corporate grasper. The wronged wife. But if we […]

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Cricket Media to Digitally Distribute Britannica Content for Kids

July 28, 2020 admin 0

  Britannica is a leader in the educational space, and they’ve created something extremely special with their Britannica Kids content.” — Bob Sanregret, VP Sales, Cricket Media Cricket Media, publisher of high-quality magazines for children, has announced a partnership with the Britannica Group that allows Cricket Media to distribute content from its Britannica Kids collection through Cricket’s Digital Asset Management (“DAM”) system . The addition of Britannica Kids to Cricket’s digital library will allow licensees, […]

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Fiction: Paradise Earth by Amy Barker

July 28, 2020 admin 0

Set across the beautiful and rugged coastline of Australia’s Tasman Peninsula, and approaching the 25th anniversary of the Port Arthur massacre, Paradise Earth’s uncontained wilderness propels its characters beyond a traumatic past towards a meaningful future. An award-winning novelist, Amy Barker plumbed Paradise Earth for over a decade, returning time and again to an island’s struggle to find purpose in the wake of Australia’s worst post-colonial mass murder. Paradise Earth became an examination of how […]

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Fiction: Crossings by Alex Landrigan

July 24, 2020 Tony Buchsbaum 0

Over the years, there have been a good number of books that delight with messing with your mind. Think: House of Blue Leaves. Think: The Dictionary of the Khazars. Think: Cloud Atlas. And now there’s Crossings, a new mind-bender from Alex Landragin. I love books like this, but — also — I’ve never read a book like this. It’s an intelligent tale, ingeniously told. It’s not so much a puzzle for the reader, but it […]

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Non-Fiction: Democracy, If We Can Keep It by Ellis Cose

July 24, 2020 admin 0

DEMOCRACY, IF WE CAN KEEP IT “makes an air-tight case in defense of truth, free speech, and civic activism’s importance to democratic society. This book could not arrive at a more pivotal moment.”” — Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Federal agents storm through American cities, arresting leftists they call enemies of the state as other government officials celebrate the abuse. Yet this is not Portland, Oregon, in 2020. One hundred years ago, in the wake […]

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This Just In… Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain by Arthur Hoyle

July 23, 2020 News Editor 0

Mavericks, Mystics, and Misfits: Americans Against the Grain takes readers on a journey across American history, from the colonial period to the present, through the life stories of exceptional men and women who have responded in unconventional ways to the challenges and circumstances of their time and place. The journey begins in Puritan New England, where the country’s roots were planted. It then visits America’s war of independence, before following the path of westward migration. […]

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This Just In… The Professor and I by Nana Ofori-Atta Oguntola

July 22, 2020 News Editor 0

The autobiography of Professor Dr. Christopher B. Lynch is the remarkable story of a man’s ability to rise above his circumstances to become the best he is capable of being. Born in Sierra Leone to a Reverend Minister and a seamstress, Christopher arrived in the United Kingdom as a teenager on a boat from Sierra Leone with £52 in his pocket. Greeted at Liverpool docks by the unexpected cold weather, this was even more bearable […]

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SF/F: Path of the Ghost Warrior by Karl R. Krueger

July 22, 2020 admin 0

The Gates of Avalon: Path of the Ghost Warrior  by Karl R. Krueger creates a world disappearing thousands of centuries before our time. “The old ones” have left behind five great artifacts. These artifacts act as seemingly harmless gates until the mighty warriors of Asgaard fall in a night, as the gates unleash blood and flames. The empire knows that the darkness has swallowed them and they do not stand a chance against this new […]

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Biography: Girl, Wasted by Brittany Taltos

July 22, 2020 admin 0

Brittany Taltos, who appeared on Jersey Shore and The Bachelor Pad, releases her memoir, Girl, Wasted. The book exposes the grainy details of her alcohol addiction. Girl, Wasted reveals specifics behind Taltos’ experiences with reality television. She describes alcohol’s influence on her decision-making throughout filming. In the chapter, “A Drunken Situation,” she discusses the truth behind her alcohol-fueled hookups with Mike the Situation. The following chapter, “Bachelor Pad Blackout,” examines her relationship with alcohol throughout […]