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Review: The Bulls of War (Chronicles of the Andervold Thrones Book 1) by E.M. Thomas

★★★★½ The Bulls of War (Chronicles of the Andervold Thrones Book I) by E.M. Thomas

The Bulls of War, the first installment of E.M. Thomas’s sword-wielding epic Chronicles of the Andervold Thrones, follows friends Tyghus and Kyrus The Younger, as they find themselves falling onto the bloody blade of a war of empires and emotions. Vast in its conception, saga-like in its imagining, the dramatic realization of the battle will pull readers into its dense, murderous clutches as the two leaders must face a feat of endurance to test even the strongest of men.

While the genre of epic historical fiction serves somewhat to describe author Thomas’s writing, the description of this book as […]

2016-09-23T03:51:03+02:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |

Review: CBT Worksheets for Teenage Social Anxiety by Dr. James Manning & Dr. Nicola Ridgeway

CBT Worksheets for Teenage Social Anxiety: A CBT Workbook to Help You Record Your Progress Using CBT for Social Anxiety by Dr. James Manning & Dr. Nicola Ridgeway

“CBT” or “cognitive-behavioral therapy” is an action-oriented psychological therapeutic approach that is commonly used in combating anxiety and depression, as well as its many other forms, by slowly working with the individual to learn better coping techniques and to overcome unhealthy or unproductive habits. It is considered highly effective in most cases and has since become one of the most standard and prescribed methods of coping with those issues.

This book is a guide and a set of worksheets that tackle the particular area of teenage social anxiety using this approach, and is one of a series produced by Dr. […]

2019-02-11T09:39:39+02:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |

Review: The Secret of Excalibur (The Excalibur Saga Book 1) by Sahara Foley

★★★★ The Secret of Excalibur by Sahara Foley

It’s the 1980s. His name is Arthur Merlin, and he’s on a quest for Excalibur.

When an accident goes very, very awry, one young man walks away better than ever before. He can control things with his mind, teleport, and more. When the US government wants this young man found, he makes his way to London to find out more, with the assistance of a secret branch of the MIs. But what exactly is Excalibur, and how dangerous is it in the wrong hands? Find out in The Secret of Excalibur by Sahara Foley.

The legend of King Arthur […]

2016-10-27T07:02:38+02:00September 21st, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , |

Review: How To Reverse World Recession by Dr. Niaz Ahmed Khan

★★★ reverse recession

How To Reverse World Recession by Dr. Niaz Ahmed Khan is an ambitious and unique vision of the future.

For readers who are experienced or interested in tax law, banking, governmental activities, economics, poverty conditions, and a dozen other major issues affecting the world today, this bold new book from Dr. Niaz Ahmed Khan will be nothing short of fascinating. It is a comprehensive outline of where the world currently stands, and an unexpectedly radical proposal of where our global society could be.

The proposed plan for a new economic system would revolutionize everything that we currently accept in […]

Review: Warlocks of Evergreen (The Evergreen Journals Book 1) by T.I. Dunsterville

★★★★½ Warlocks of Evergreen: The Evergreen Journals Book I by T.I. Dunsterville

The world of Evergreen is everything its name implies, and more. A living world – a truly living, sentient planet – of beauty and magic.

But there is more to this planet that meets the eye. Settlers begin to experience changes, and lose their interest in leaving as the other races of the strange and beautiful land begin to commune, and even form families together. The planet plunges into war as Paul Rider, a half-human born from colonist and native, starts a great cleansing of non-human species. It falls to sisters Dasimbe and Cierva, as well as their friends, […]

2016-10-13T07:56:22+02:00September 19th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Taken By Storm (The Taken Book 1) by Anna Argent

★★★★★ Taken By Storm by Anna Argent

Isa Telwyn would say she’s pretty normal – in her twenties, working as a small-town librarian in Oklahoma. She might have fantastic dreams of impossible, wondrous places, sure, but at her heart, she’s just your average girl – right?

When a storm sweeps into her sleepy town, a stunningly gorgeous man carved out of dreams and bound by honor, comes to deliver news to Isa: she is the born leader of a far-off people, hidden away in human society in secret for protection from a great threat. Torn between two worlds, Isa must act quickly and decisively with the […]

2020-02-21T07:15:27+02:00September 12th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: The Girl Who Could Read Hearts by Sherry Maysonave

★★★★ The Girl Who Could Read Hearts by Sherry Maysonave

Six-year-old Kate Kindrick possesses a rare “seventh sense” passed down through generations of her father’s family: the unique ability to see inside of people’s hearts. A heart might look like “a Grand Canyon disaster, full of oozing painful craters and gorges” or be “covered with gray-green storm clouds, all dotted with icy pockets.” The Kindricks also have prophetic dreams and sensations that inexplicably link them together from miles apart. Kate’s intuitive gift is magically linked to an angel doll called Etta Ebella, gifted to Kate by her beloved grandmother, Mer.

But when the prized doll is marred in a […]

2016-10-13T06:17:55+02:00September 9th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: |

Review: Unbarred Innovation by Mayur Ramgir

★★★★ Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries by Mayur Ramgir

Mayur Ramgir is an entrepreneur – founder of the up-and-coming Zonopact, and the single creator and developer of the CLINTRA software. Holding an MS in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech, as well as and other degrees and learning from from University of Sussex, University of Mumbai, MIT, and University of Oxford, it’s safe to say that he is well-versed in the concepts of innovation, and self-created success.

In his new book, Unbarred Innovation: A Pathway to Greatest Discoveries, Ramgir attempts to tell the stories of the great innovators of our time, and how they may have […]

2018-05-09T10:20:52+02:00September 8th, 2016|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: , , |
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