Tea, reading, and conversation go so perfectly well together in literature and real life that teatime has become just another term for get together. And if that sounds a contrivance,…
departures
Linda Benninghoff’s departures (March Street Press, North Carolina, 2004) is a chapbook of 19 poems, along with some images, that are themed on the feelings connected with the act of…
E-Mails From Hell
The Internet is our day’s most precious technological gift, both for communication and for wasting our precious time. David Earthman’s latest humor book E-Mails From Hell (Synergy Book, 2007) takes…
Sleep Before Evening
In her debut novel Sleep Before Evening (Bewrite Books, 2007), Magdalena Ball probes into the psychic maze of teenage delinquency. The book shows the angst of the heroine Marianne Cotton,…
Mindful of Madness
Ida-Rose Mead’s humorous fantasy Mindful of Madness (Outskirts Press, Colorado, 2007) has all the idiosyncrasies of a literary work that results from out-of-the-box thinking of a creative writer. In both…
Langenscheidt Pocket Phrasebook of Italian
If you are planning a trip to Italy for the first or perhaps second time, one thing you’d need is a good guide. In the form of Langenscheidt Pocket Phrasebook…
Berlitz Scandinavian Phrase Book and Dictionary
Berlitz is a landmark organization in teaching foreign languages. It publishes glossy, easy to follow, and easy to carry language course books and phrase books, all carrying the Berlitz motto…
Your Boy
Vicki Courtney’s Your Boy (B&H Publishing Group, 2006) is one of the books that have a specified target audience: Christian mothers. The book aims at educating moms on raising a…
Dinner with Da Vinci
The name of da Vinci has reached an acme of attention with Dan Brown’s pop buster The Da Vinci Code. Now used in a radically different mode, it shows up…
Pacifist Chicken And Other Largely Humorous Stories of Small Hopes
Andrea Kampic has extended the title of her debutant book of humor Pacifist Chicken (Blue Agave Press, California, 2006) to specify that the stories are largely humorous but also include…
A Boy From Lawrence
Sally A. Connolly has collected and edited the writings of her late husband Dr. Eugene F. Connolly in the form of a book titled A Boy From Lawrence (TypeStyles Desktop…