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Review: Unleash Your Inner Goddess by Christine Rizzo

Unleash Your Inner Goddess by Christine Rizzo

A life coach who has walked the walk, Christine Rizzo speaks strongly and sincerely to women about discovering, developing, and manifesting their best qualities in Unleash Your Inner Goddess: Start Living the Life You Deserve.

After an introductory affirmative “Let’s do this!” Rizzo states that in order to achieve our goals, we have to know what they are. Each of us holds largely unexamined beliefs inculcated into our thinking by repetition on the part of people we trusted, but beliefs are really just “sentences” – remnants of childhood lodged in the subconscious mind, which can control our lives. We […]

SPR2021-01-19T04:21:27+02:00December 14th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Abandoned Not Broken by Rob Johnson

Abandoned Not Broken by Rob Johnson

An adopted child finds inspiration and determination from family, friends and mentors and grows into manhood successful, well-liked and respected, in the moving memoir, Abandoned Not Broken: The Passion and Perspective to Discover Your Purpose.

Robert Dunckley was the third child of a single mother. His father disappeared not long after the seemingly happy partnership with his mother, and a caring great-grandmother stepped in with financial support. With her oversight, the little boy was taken in by his loving babysitter, Pat Johnson, who soon adopted him, giving him her surname and two older siblings.

Through trying circumstances, young Robert […]

SPR2021-01-13T10:24:38+02:00December 7th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews, Religious Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews|

It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay

This interwoven tale of family, resilience, betrayal, and the moral evolution of a nation is powerful and stirring, but also subtle and humble in its storytelling. The novel is a striking meditation on America of the past and present, particularly when it comes to exploring ideas of disability, justice, and the small choices we make that change who we become. It’s hard not to draw comparisons to Faulkner, both in the deep colloquial writing style, and a memorable narrator somehow separated from the rest of the world. With breath-catching flashes of poetic grace, unexpected descriptive beauty, and a meaning-laden flow […]

SPR2020-12-04T05:50:59+02:00December 4th, 2020|Categories: Editorial Reviews|

Review: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Lois Ann Nicolai

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times by Lois Ann Nicolai

In the vibrant chronicle, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: A Memoir of One Citizen Activist, author and activist Lois Ann Nicolai demonstrates how an apparently “ordinary” person can have a profound impact on the world at any age.

Nicolai was raised on a farm in rural America, imbuing her with a sense that all of us have a mission to perform. She married and had six children, feeling that raising them well was her personal purpose, but at age forty-six, she suddenly and unexpectedly became a widow. Dealing with grief and the need to forge a new life for herself, […]

SPR2022-03-04T02:18:13+02:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Memoir Book Reviews|

An Interview with Mharlyn Merritt: Author of The Actor

Mharlyn Merritt Mharlyn Merritt has an MFA in Creative Writing, with a concentration in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she served as an editorial fiction reader for The Literary Review. Mharlyn’s interests include the intertextuality between literature and film (especially Classic Hollywood cinema/Film Noir) and its impact on contemporary culture. Mharlyn is also a renowned Jazz vocalist and the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Jazz Performance. She lives and writes in her hometown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Tell us about your book.

The Actor is a homage to Classic Hollywood with a nod to film noir and screwball comedies. It’s also a […]

SPR2020-11-13T08:36:19+02:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

An Interview with T.K. Wolf: Author of Fatal Decision

T.K. Wolf T. K. Wolf is a former Army brat who now lives in Green Camp, Ohio. In addition to trips to the gun range and local bookshop, he enjoys spending time with his Golden Retriever and German Shepherd, Charlotte and Artemis. Fatal Decision is his debut novel.

Tell us about your book.

Fatal Decision is a thriller and suspense novel with a strong female protagonist at the helm. Sam Harker is a ruthless assassin with a unique motivation which makes her instantly sympathetic to a vast majority of readers, both male and female. While my plot line is perhaps not entirely […]

SPR2020-11-10T08:05:08+02:00November 10th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|

Review: 6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks by Mirza Barlas, MBA

6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks by Mirza Barlas, MBA

Successful entrepreneur Mirza Barlas shares his affirmative philosophy with parables, positive reminders, and “specks of gold” to maintain happiness and sustain achievement in 6 Mega Life-Transforming Hacks: Maximize Your Life Satisfaction, Experiences, and Results.

Barlas begins with a brief illustrative vignette from his own life: after attaining great success as an expert in the field of business transformation while still in his twenties, he found he was not happy. To become happy, he realized, required that, as Thomas Aquinas asserted, he would know what he ought to believe, desire, and do. Based on this personal revelation, he began a […]

SPR2020-11-18T04:42:02+02:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

An Interview with Kaylin McFarren: Author of Soul Seeker

Kaylin McFarren My real name is Linda Yoshida but I write under the pen name of Kaylin McFarren — my grandmother’s name, a writer who was never published.

Kaylin McFarren has received 50 national literary awards, in addition to a prestigious RWA Golden Heart Award nomination for Flaherty’s Crossing – a book she and her oldest daughter, New York Times/USA Today best-selling author Kristina McMorris, co-wrote in 2008.

Prior to embarking on her writing journey and developing the popular Threads psychological thriller series, she poured her passion for creativity into her work as the director of a fine art gallery in the […]

SPR2020-11-10T07:53:07+02:00November 7th, 2020|Categories: Interviews|