SPR’s book reviews of new self-published books
Wayfarers Highway by Peter Petrack
The most interesting element in Wayfarers Highway is […]
Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania by Gloria D. Gonsalves
Danloria: The Secret Forest of Germania by Gloria D. Gonsalves is a book for 4 to 7-year-olds about Stan who goes venturing into the forest and meets a magical collection of plants, mushrooms, and other fauna. In each meeting with the different plant-creatures, we learn about different plant’s properties (such as fern, moss, blackberry, and many others). When Stan falls ill, we then learn the medicinal properties of all these different plants. Gonsalves deftly integrates real facts about plants without seeming too encyclopedic – kids will learn and appreciate the different forms of plant life without even realizing they’re learning![…]
Wine Into Water: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel by Ray Keating
Though Wine into Water and the Stephen Grant series could most certainly be classified as Christian fiction, the book can […]
Paroxysm Effect by Ashleigh Reynolds
Fighting to survive in a world gone mad is a bold premise for any novel, particularly a dystopian one where the author is simultaneously required to world-build and deliver high-intensity action. In Paroxysm Effect, author Ashleigh Reynolds creates a utopian world of peace and prosperity, and then quickly destroys that façade, dropping her main character into a tangled plot of behavior-control chips that have suddenly ceased to function after 5 decades of dominion. The subsequent murder and mayhem makes for fast, voracious reading, and the pacing of this novel rarely lets up.
The story is highly original and shows […]
Tainted by Hate (T. D. Book 3) by Patrice M. Foster
Though this is a book laden […]
Bright Moon Ridge: A Search in China by Linus Treefoot
It’s […]
Must be Relevant to Make Some Money by Dr. Phil Copeland
Must be Relevant to Make Some Money by Dr. Phil Copeland (“The Other Dr. Phil,” as it says on the cover) is a comprehensive guide outlining long-term planning for businesses, focusing on such important facets as leadership, innovation, sustainability, marketing strategy, and effective engagement with consumers.
The book is exhaustive about sound business practices, yet Copeland never completely defines what “relevance” is in terms of business production, even if he begins each chapter with the same sentence: “You must be relevant to make some money.” While relevance obviously means “connected” or “pertinent,” these in themselves are vague and open-ended terms. […]
Not Just Talent: The Millennials Redefining Talent and Human Capital Management by Philipe Bruce
Bruce tackles the dilemma of how to demograph and analyze this new skillset. There are some generalizations that can be made and proven to be true: Generation Y are “digital natives” and have skills that come naturally other generations had […]