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Gawain and the Green Knight by Stefan Emunds

Gawain and the Green Knight by Stefan Emunds Gawain and the Green Knight is a retelling of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” – a classic 14th-century Arthurian tale told in verse. In the story, Gawain is challenged to a duel by the Green Knight if he agrees to receive a blow in a year and a day. The Green Knight is beheaded, and Gawain goes on a quest, which tests his honor via a number of dangers and temptations.

It’s a tall order for a young fantasy author to take on a project that also has a translation by J. R. R. Tolkien and many others, as […]

James Grimsby2017-02-17T11:01:14+02:00February 17th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews|

Is it Well with your Soul? (Healing Series Book 1) by Dr. Thabi Molete

Is it Well with your Soul? (Healing Series Book 1) How can we conquer physical and mental pain and find spiritual peace? This self-help guide, by Southern African educator/Methodist minister Dr. Thabi Molete is dedicated to “all women whose lives have been touched by pain.”

Organized in 10 chapters, each beginning with a prayer and ending with a “reflection exercise,” Is it Well with your Soul? describes a journey that begins with a purpose and a path. We all have resources of body, mind and spirit, and we can utilize these resources in the battle to rise above spiritual desolation.

“Pain,” Molete states, “is inevitable, but misery is optional.” Pain […]

Barbara Scott2018-05-09T10:20:34+02:00February 16th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Non-Fiction Book Reviews, Self-Help Book Reviews, Spirituality Book Reviews|

From Canaanites to Israelites by Rudolph C. Evans

From Canaanites to Israelites by Rudolph C. Evans From Canaanites to Israelites: The Journey of Ancient Near East History from Realism to Idealism by Rudolph C. Evans is an overview of the Canaanites contributions to theology, as well as their cultural and historical achievements. The Canaanites have gotten short shrift in the historical narrative, and Evans aims to alter that perception in this comprehensive work of scholarship.

Beginning a prospective work of history with “It is my belief that…” perhaps makes it less persuasive than just outlining the facts, but the research in the book is solid and thorough. Evans describes his book as a “Nietzschean interpretation of […]

Henry Baum2017-02-08T08:41:50+02:00February 8th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: History Book Reviews|

The Game Changer by Dave Dröge

The Game Changer by Dave Dröge follows the life of flamboyant Henk van Wijnen-Swarttouw, a high-powered businessman whose life is rapidly falling apart. His wife left him, his daughter is an eccentric embarrassment, his business is collapsing, and he might be headed to jail. With everything disintegrating around him, he wants to try to come to terms with at least one difficulty in his life: his activist – and exhibitionist – daughter. In doing so, he may be in danger of unraveling even further.

The novel is an ambitious and multi-layered story about art, business, environmentalism, and family, with the […]

Henry Baum2017-02-08T09:06:54+02:00February 8th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: International Fiction Book Reviews|

The Amazing Adventures of 4¢ Ned (Coinworld: Book One) by Benjamin Laskin

The Amazing Adventures of 4¢ Ned The Amazing Adventures of 4¢ Ned (Coinworld: Book One) by Benjamin Laskin is an amusing and highly imaginative novel told from the perspective of a nickel coin – you read that correctly – named Ned who’s had the misfortune of being stamped with 4¢ instead of 5. This makes him an outcast among other coins, but hot property for collectors. As coins are ever-changing, Ned learns that he has a troubling destiny, so he teams up with a ragtag group of coins to make sure the inhabitants of Coinworld never lose value.

The premise of the book is just crazy […]

Henry Baum2021-11-29T05:56:47+02:00February 2nd, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Humor|

The Last Prophecy by E.J. Dawson

The Last Prophecy by E. J. Dawson A stormy night brings a shadowy figure to Professor Nicholas Holloran’s office, and with her comes an offer he cannot refuse. Blackmailed into accompanying the beautiful Captain Salisbury on an expedition, this unlikely pair and their even more unlikely crew set off after a legend even more old and dead than the Mostadic monk who lead them there: Shaifalway – the Well of Youth. Unfathomable adventures across the fathoms continue in the second novel of The Last Prophecy series.

Well-drawn and entertaining, The Last Prophecy is a steampunk adventure novella that takes the dignified intrigue and high-flying exploits that come […]

James Grimsby2017-02-01T06:40:14+02:00February 1st, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Action and Adventure Book Reviews|

Fair Weather People by Roshni Hemraj Mudliar

Fair-Weather People by Roshni Hemraj Mudliar Fair Weather People by Roshni Hemraj Mudliar is a work of fiction about weathering bad people and bad events in one’s life – especially when it comes to earning money. The book begins with a short expose of people most of us know all too well: people who are there for you when you’re doing well, but turn their back when things turn south. Mudliar’s focus is fair-weather people in the workplace. After the introduction, the book then tells the story of a man named Henry, an immigrant, who struggles with difficulties both in the workplace and in his adopted […]

Henry Baum2017-10-09T06:50:49+02:00January 20th, 2017|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Contemporary Fiction Book Reviews, Social Science Book Reviews|

Molding My Destiny by Patrice M. Foster

Molding My Destiny by Patrice Foster The most powerful stories are those torn from personal experience, and in Molding My Destiny by Patrice M. Foster, readers are presented with a heartbreaking account of an impossible childhood. Parental support and love seem nonexistent, and selfishness is the crucible in which the author is formed. From the mean streets of Jamaica, witnessing the immorality and cruelty of her father, to the feeling of abandonment on American shores, this book is a painful saga of experience that would be too great for many people to overcome.