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Review: Boardroom M by Gretchen Kirkpatrick

A slow-burning thriller peppered with bursts of violence and brilliant turns of phrase, Boardroom M is the whip-smart opening salvo of author Gretchen Kirkpatrick’s Agents and Assets series.

Misha is a CIA operative whose foundations are shaken after an attempt on her life, sending her spiraling into the heart of a conspiracy to bring down the CIA that criss-crosses the world. Relying on a handful of temporary allies and other tradecraft experts, as well as the tangled histories that accompany them, she must juggle multiple mysteries to keep herself alive, and save the ones she loves. Rich with plot twists […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-13T09:21:34+02:00July 22nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Spy Thriller Book Reviews, Thriller Book Reviews|

Review: Blood Feud: A Legends of Ansu Novel by J.W. Webb

Steeped in shadowy secrets, buried powers, and richly drawn villains, Blood Feud is the fantastic first book in a new trilogy of the Legends of Ansu saga by J.W. Webb. The lives of three unlikely heroes are thrown together to face a dark evil rising up from the past in this fast-paced and well-penned adventure.

Jaran Saerk is not a Northman to be trifled with – one of the most fearsome warriors under Imperial Shen’s command with a short temper and a mastery of death-dealing. However, the whispered words of a dying man rip Jaran more than 25 years into […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-10T02:24:22+02:00July 10th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Demon Heart 3: Year of the Witch by David Crane

Naoko Kitamura returns for a final showdown of good and evil in Demon Heart: Year of the Witch, the epic conclusion to author David Crane’s captivating series. Balancing her halves of light and darkness, this supernatural warrior careens through agonizing emotions and deadly battlegrounds, dragging loyal readers into the fray.

Building on the momentum of the first two books, this closing chapter is another international roller coaster of dark conspiracies, shadowy meetings, and brutal violence. The Katana agents are once more tasked with saving the world, and old favorites like Razor, Hammer, and Aero are as reliable and indestructible as […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-12T01:55:45+02:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Urban Fantasy Book Reviews|

Review: Regaining Paradise by Paul Corson

Author Paul Corson boldly outlines a path toward enlightenment and spiritual liberation in Regaining Paradise: Forming a New Worldview, Knowing God, and Journeying into Eternity. Part theoretical textbook, part spiritual manifesto, and part scientific storytelling, this is a mind-bending book by a clearly passionate thinker.

Proposing the presence of a causative force in the universe – one whose influence doesn’t upset modern evolutionary models – the author begins to explore our individual consciousness, ways to attain different energetic levels, and the underlying doubts and fears that define human nature. At times, the narrative veers into the realm of self-help, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-07-07T08:12:11+02:00July 6th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Spirituality Book Reviews|

Review: Entanglement by C.T. Au-Yang

Two very different minds collide in romance and conversation, exploring the deep themes of love, intellect, purpose and the future in Entanglement by C.T. Au-Yang. Self-described as a unique dissection of love and attraction, this unusual narrative depicts the classic tale of boy meets girl, but their strange connection is unlike any other.

Andrew is an intellectual, an introvert, and an observer – a researcher who has chosen to explore civilizations from the past and present to develop a model about Civilization DNA. He is also performing some personal experiments, namely stacking neural-enhancing supplements and acetylcholine, claiming to be acetylcholinergic, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-12T03:22:49+02:00July 5th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Visionary Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Once You Know by Madeleine Van Hecke

Once You Know is a gripping work of women’s fiction written by Madeleine Van Hecke whose message is as stark as it is unrelenting: once you know, there’s no going back to the way things once were.

Colleen Moretti is a devout and devoted housewife and mother to her eight-old-daughter, Izzy, and her older daughter, Rachel, who’s just finishing her first year of college back home in Chicago. Colleen’s life is turned upside down when her husband, Derek, announces that work operations are shutting down in Arizona, with him being called back to the office in Chicago. Anxious over having […]

Marta Cheng2020-08-12T01:52:50+02:00July 2nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews, Women's Fiction Book Reviews|

Review: Take Back Control of Your Mind by Glenn N. Levine MD, FACC, FAHA

Author Glenn N. Levine has produced a remarkably clear, intuitive and insightful roadmap for cognitive control and emotional stability in Take Back Control of Your Mind: A Guide to Understanding, Taming, and Controlling Your Thoughts and Emotions, and Thereby Achieving True Happiness and Inner Peace. Reflective of the length of its title, the book is packed with wisdom and applicable strategies for the average person wrestling with their inner demons and struggles, even if those battles are happening unconsciously.

Many self-help books seem to miss the mark, often rehashing old proverbs and anecdotes with updated examples, but often lacking […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-11T09:52:15+02:00July 1st, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Self-Help Book Reviews|

Review: Whole Mind Facilitation by Eric Meade

In Whole Mind Facilitation: How to Lead Workshops that Change People, Organizations, and the World, award-winning writer Eric Meade provides innovative and intellectually sound strategies for workshop leadership.

Meade’s thesis is simple, using the model of a house in which there are two rooms, with a basement. The rooms are Intuition and Thought, and the basement is Emotion. Meade states that to get from thought – one’s ideas and factual material regarding an issue – to intuition – one’s ability to create new ideas around that issue, one must pass through “the basement” – embracing personal motivation and insight, […]

SPR2020-08-11T03:12:08+02:00June 27th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Business Book Reviews, Leadership Book Reviews|