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Review: Newton’s Cradle by Robert Valdin

Newton's Cradle by Robert Valdin

Humanity’s desperation for survival clashes with its fatal hunger for power in Newton’s Cradle by Robert Valdin. What begins as a corporate and international espionage story over power generator prototypes and mineral contracts becomes a fascinating and existential thriller about the fate of the human race, and the steep price such salvation will demand.

Terence and Duncan want to save the world by mitigating the use of non-renewable fuels, but Terence soon discovers that Duncan hasn’t been entirely forthright, and may already have the ultimate solution in hand. Pitting these allies against one another, yet also unifying them in a […]

2020-08-24T08:29:05+02:00August 23rd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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Review: The Albatross: Contact by Connor Mackay

The Albatross: Contact by Connor Mackay

Author Connor Mackay makes an impressive debut with his epic space adventure, The Albatross: Contact. With precise language, unforgettable characters, and a twisted plot that feels primed for the big screen, this knockout of a novel wrestles masterfully with alien forces and some of humanity’s darkest demons.

Forged in the crucible of war, Will is one barfight or drunken night from ending his painful stint on Earth, perhaps even at his own hand, but when an opportunity to escape to the stars presents itself, he and his ride-or-die vet pal Frank decide to join a much grander battlefield. There […]

2020-08-20T02:53:42+02:00August 19th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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Review: This Book Is The Longest Sentence Ever Written And Then Published by Dave Cowen

This Book Is The Longest Sentence Ever Written And Then Published by Dave Cowen

Author Dave Cowen releases an epic text upon the world in This Book Is The Longest Sentence Ever Written And Then Published. An ambitious, self-reflective, and impressive achievement, this book is a stream-of-consciousness sprawl that is both addictive and admirable, exploring the writer’s insecurities, goals, personal history, and philosophy, without ever dropping a full stop.

Setting out on a seemingly mad and quixotic quest to write the longest sentence ever written, the author is determined to dethrone the endless sentences of James Joyce, Jose Saramago, and Jonathan Rotter – though Lucy Ellmann may have outdone him with the thousand-page Ducks, […]

2020-08-18T03:25:51+02:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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Review: Surviving the Darkness by Robert Nicholls

Surviving the Darkness by Robert Nicholls

Having recovered from a battle with “the black dog,” as depression is sometimes known, author Robert Nicholls shares the discoveries gained in that difficult process in Surviving the Darkness: Lessons Learned from a Battle with Depression and Anxiety.

Nicholls was a successful business owner, a specialist in business law, and former prosecutor, who had made significant headway in life as a husband, father, and professional. In pursuing his ambitions, he began to neglect all aspects of life except his work – he took less time for recreation, became chronically tired, gained weight, became fearful about social connections, and began […]

2020-08-18T02:40:42+02:00August 16th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , |
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Review: The Art of Understanding Your Building’s Personality by Wayne P. Saya

The Art of Understanding Your Building’s Personality by Wayne P. Saya

Based on his career in the field of building engineering, author Wayne P. Saya leads us through the inner workings of the commercial real estate industry and the buildings that characterize that industry, introducing his personal philosophy of such structures as comparable to human bodies, in The Art of Understanding Your Building’s Personality: Discover How Buildings Are People Too!

Early in his facilities engineering career, Saya was called on to oversee work on an air-handling unit, and realized that the building in question “was having difficulty breathing.” He soon coined the term “Building Personality Profiling.” In 1992, the author had […]

2020-08-11T09:16:21+02:00August 11th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|
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Review: Lost Scrolls of Archimedes by Tom Roberts

Lost Scrolls of Archimedes by Tom Roberts

A young dreamer is thrown into a life-altering adventure to protect ancient knowledge in Lost Scrolls of Archimedes, the first in the new Lost Artifacts series from author Tom Roberts. Boasting a brilliant blend of historical reference and fictional mystery, this is a feast for the senses for readers who love a free-wheeling escape into the past.

The all-powerful Oracles demand that Hippolytus secure the fabled scrolls of Archimedes, but the scholar’s desire to decode them himself draws enemies in from all sides. The old man entrusts the treasure to his young assistant, Marcus Bassus, who holds his own […]

2020-08-17T08:31:48+02:00July 26th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: , , |
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Review: Blood Feud: A Legends of Ansu Novel by J.W. Webb

Blood Feud 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 […]

2020-08-10T02:24:22+02:00July 10th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: |
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Review: Regaining Paradise by Paul Corson

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, […]

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