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August 15, 2016
New Review- Leaving Triscuit by Will Pollock
The bond between pets and owners is a magnetic force which seems to defy all logic. Author Will
Pollock intuitively taps into the metaphysical reality of the unseen communication between himself and his lovable rat terrier,
Triscuit, and shares his enlightenment with those who find it a challenge to be separated from their pet for any length of time.
Leaving Triscuit divulges the universal feelings of guilt and anxiety experienced by pet owners, and more importantly, addresses the emotions of the beloved pet and how to allay any perception of owner abandonment.
It is difficult not to engage with the personality of Triscuit.
Pollock shares plenty of anecdotes, pictures, and even video links of this once neglected dog turned center-stage ham.
Getting to know Triscuit sets the stage for understanding where a dog has been in life and making sense of why a dog behaves the way it does.
The author shares his personal journey of how he and Triscuit crossed paths, the trials, and errors of their separations and the spiritual communication that must be acknowledged and practiced in developing a stress-free relationship with pets.
Beginning with the “What to do…?” when your pet jumps into your suitcase while you are packing to go away without your furry companion,
Pollock discusses the significance of focusing on effective images in conveying reassurance and love.
Other tips include allowing a pet to be involved as part of the process before you leave and establishing a routine to pave the way for less discomfort.
Finally, sending positive thoughts across the miles is not to be underestimated.
While not an exact science, it is difficult to dispute the effectiveness of this technique for which examples are described.
It is clear the audience for this book is anyone who has a relationship with a pet; however, there is ironically much wisdom in how to communicate and connect with other “people” here too if you read between the lines.
Leaving Triscuit provides a roadmap for solidifying ties with man’s best friend and with Triscuit’s best friend.
A very loving tribute.
Pollock intuitively taps into the metaphysical reality of the unseen communication between himself and his lovable rat terrier,
Triscuit, and shares his enlightenment with those who find it a challenge to be separated from their pet for any length of time.
Leaving Triscuit divulges the universal feelings of guilt and anxiety experienced by pet owners, and more importantly, addresses the emotions of the beloved pet and how to allay any perception of owner abandonment.
It is difficult not to engage with the personality of Triscuit.
Pollock shares plenty of anecdotes, pictures, and even video links of this once neglected dog turned center-stage ham.
Getting to know Triscuit sets the stage for understanding where a dog has been in life and making sense of why a dog behaves the way it does.
The author shares his personal journey of how he and Triscuit crossed paths, the trials, and errors of their separations and the spiritual communication that must be acknowledged and practiced in developing a stress-free relationship with pets.
Beginning with the “What to do…?” when your pet jumps into your suitcase while you are packing to go away without your furry companion,
Pollock discusses the significance of focusing on effective images in conveying reassurance and love.
Other tips include allowing a pet to be involved as part of the process before you leave and establishing a routine to pave the way for less discomfort.
Finally, sending positive thoughts across the miles is not to be underestimated.
While not an exact science, it is difficult to dispute the effectiveness of this technique for which examples are described.
It is clear the audience for this book is anyone who has a relationship with a pet; however, there is ironically much wisdom in how to communicate and connect with other “people” here too if you read between the lines.
Leaving Triscuit provides a roadmap for solidifying ties with man’s best friend and with Triscuit’s best friend.
A very loving tribute.
July 3, 2016
New Review - Learning to Stutter by Sherm Davis
Abandonment, illness, handicaps, and death leave indelible scars for those who seem the most vulnerable, especially adults (thirty-somethings) who have their lives ahead of them.
For Ilene Halberstam, experiencing the intense and unexpected loss of her endearing husband, Brian, sends her into a pit of grief that is almost insurmountable.
For Kenneth Kocher (“KK”), a successful computer programmer, attempts to shed the weight of insecurities anchored in stuttering which exacerbates his ability to confidently communicate and impedes his pursuit of healthy relationships.
For Donny Schwartz, a personable and talented ex-actor, walking a tightrope of a balancing act between living his own life and addressing the obligations of caring for his ill parents begins to fray some edges.
Author Sherm Davis takes the reader to ground zero of facing life through the eyes of lifelong stutterers and is able to magnify these figuratively across the inner workings of all of his characters.
He spares no detail in holding readers’ hands through every breath, every pause, and every calculated syllable a fearful speaker must understand and practice.
The reader can feel each painstaking word and inwardly applauds each uttered sentence of his characters.
The writer takes the same care in developing even minor characters with their fragile reactions to their evolving worlds and gives equal billing to them.
An elderly grandmother, Lottie Kocher, contends with life and death in a nursing home; a divorced older woman left to raise three children, Janet Halberstam moves on with her life after her husband cheats on her; a frustrated husband and father, Jonathan Kocher, desperately trying to save his marriage and do right by his son, seeks dramatic change in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Learning to Shutter captures the isolation of the human heart in its darkest spaces and reveals that it is the most universal fears and inadequacies that bring people together.
Davis threads some of life’s most challenging emotions through a host of characters and exposes a rich yet raw realism to what all humans face on many levels: loneliness, insecurity, and isolation.
A touching self-journey, “learning to stutter” translates to facing your fears head-on before moving forward on varied roads to recovery, compassion, and love.
For Ilene Halberstam, experiencing the intense and unexpected loss of her endearing husband, Brian, sends her into a pit of grief that is almost insurmountable.
For Kenneth Kocher (“KK”), a successful computer programmer, attempts to shed the weight of insecurities anchored in stuttering which exacerbates his ability to confidently communicate and impedes his pursuit of healthy relationships.
For Donny Schwartz, a personable and talented ex-actor, walking a tightrope of a balancing act between living his own life and addressing the obligations of caring for his ill parents begins to fray some edges.
Author Sherm Davis takes the reader to ground zero of facing life through the eyes of lifelong stutterers and is able to magnify these figuratively across the inner workings of all of his characters.
He spares no detail in holding readers’ hands through every breath, every pause, and every calculated syllable a fearful speaker must understand and practice.
The reader can feel each painstaking word and inwardly applauds each uttered sentence of his characters.
The writer takes the same care in developing even minor characters with their fragile reactions to their evolving worlds and gives equal billing to them.
An elderly grandmother, Lottie Kocher, contends with life and death in a nursing home; a divorced older woman left to raise three children, Janet Halberstam moves on with her life after her husband cheats on her; a frustrated husband and father, Jonathan Kocher, desperately trying to save his marriage and do right by his son, seeks dramatic change in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Learning to Shutter captures the isolation of the human heart in its darkest spaces and reveals that it is the most universal fears and inadequacies that bring people together.
Davis threads some of life’s most challenging emotions through a host of characters and exposes a rich yet raw realism to what all humans face on many levels: loneliness, insecurity, and isolation.
A touching self-journey, “learning to stutter” translates to facing your fears head-on before moving forward on varied roads to recovery, compassion, and love.
March 2, 2016
A story right out of today’s headlines
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November 9, 2015
Shielded Past by Patti Morelli
Shielded Past is riveting and full of suspense. So many questions need to be answered. We find out about Kate’s life in foster care after being abandoned by her mother. We meet Annie Collins, her best friend since their high school days.
Kate meets her ideal man and they purchase their dream home. This home was restored to its magnificent grandeur by her husband Gregg, and it is here that the intrigue begins. There is a light that shines every evening from the adjacent abandoned Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, and with this, the suspense commences. We journey with Kate and Annie as they seek answers to the source of the light.
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Kate meets her ideal man and they purchase their dream home. This home was restored to its magnificent grandeur by her husband Gregg, and it is here that the intrigue begins. There is a light that shines every evening from the adjacent abandoned Marlboro Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey, and with this, the suspense commences. We journey with Kate and Annie as they seek answers to the source of the light.
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June 9, 2015
Going Below the Water's Edge by Ronald S. Fehribach
In order for us to go to the unknown, we must first try GOING BELOW THE WATER’S EDGE.
Have we been someone before? Is there a cycle to life that passes personality and society’s characteristics through the generations, much like our physical characteristics are passed by various chemical configurations?
What about many major religions that base their belief on reincarnation or past lives, and often times their leadership on someone’s presupposed link to the past? What about all those individuals claiming to have been someone before? What is the possibility that you have been someone before, and if so who? How does one find out about one’s own possibilities and one’s impact on today’s existence?
Many feel that meditation is the way to enter this world of deep inner knowledge and to bring awareness of this past cycle. Hypnosis has also been used to offer an abundance of examples to illustrate the possibility of our having been here before. To get past our immediate existence and regress through our birth to a world of spirits from the past is indeed an adventure, if such a world even exists.
Author Ronald S. Fehribach invites you and me in a journey into an unseen world by GOING BELOW THE WATER’S EDGE.
ORDER A COPY NOW!
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Have we been someone before? Is there a cycle to life that passes personality and society’s characteristics through the generations, much like our physical characteristics are passed by various chemical configurations?
What about many major religions that base their belief on reincarnation or past lives, and often times their leadership on someone’s presupposed link to the past? What about all those individuals claiming to have been someone before? What is the possibility that you have been someone before, and if so who? How does one find out about one’s own possibilities and one’s impact on today’s existence?
Many feel that meditation is the way to enter this world of deep inner knowledge and to bring awareness of this past cycle. Hypnosis has also been used to offer an abundance of examples to illustrate the possibility of our having been here before. To get past our immediate existence and regress through our birth to a world of spirits from the past is indeed an adventure, if such a world even exists.
Author Ronald S. Fehribach invites you and me in a journey into an unseen world by GOING BELOW THE WATER’S EDGE.
ORDER A COPY NOW!
http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Prod...
April 17, 2015
Facade by J Kahele - Excerpt
Frustrated, Ally flicks the switch and…nothing. Damn it! No lights, the ramifications of a storm that rampaged through Chicago late last night, waking her from a sound sleep. Mother Nature can be so bitchy sometimes.
The lack of lighting and energy places a damper on her normal grooming ritual. Without the use of her straight iron, her hair sticks out in all the wrong directions. She struggles to brush her hair into submission, but her wayward hair is not cooperating. Why can’t I have normal hair! Exasperated after many attempts, she reaches for her only option to tame the unmanageable mane—a rubber band.
Grabbing her backpack, she moseys out of the door.
The sun beams brightly, bringing an instant smile to Ally’s face as she steps outside. It is 78 degrees in Chicago, a perfect midsummer day.
Placing her headphones in her ears, she proceeds down the sidewalk.
In her senior year of high school, she applied to the local college and qualified for the work-to-school scholarship through a company called Curchet Networking. The scholarship requires her to be enrolled at college full time and work a minimum of thirty hours.
The office is located downtown, only a short distance from her home, so she decides to walk to work, saving a few dollars on gas.
The ballad ‘All of Me’ streams through her headphones, placing her in a state of silent bliss. She closes her eyes, allowing the melodic voice of John Legend and the magical stream of the piano to encompass her completely.
Oblivious to her whereabouts, she carelessly walks into the busy street. It is not until she hears the screeching of car brakes that she realizes she has wandered in front of a car. Her instincts kick in and she jumps backwards. Her hasty maneuver causes the back of her foot to collide with the edge of the curb and she ungracefully stumbles backwards towards the ground. Her cell phone flies from her hand, soaring into the air as it detaches from her headphones and her tailbone slams down hard as she lands on the concrete. That’s going to leave a bruise!
The gears of the transmission grind as the driver slams the car into park too quickly. Rubbing her aching tailbone, Ally searches for her cell phone. Lucky for her, it landed on the grass and is still intact, bringing a smile to her face.
“Are you out of your mind, you nearly got yourself killed!” a man yells.
With her cell and earphones securely in her hand, she turns to face him.
“I’m—” She stops mid-sentence, frozen, as she gazes upon him. Mary, sweet mother of Jesus!
Attractive is not a strong enough term to describe this heavenly creature that stands before her. Deliciously gorgeous, insanely beautiful, scorching hot—sexy as hell, is more like it.
To Read More Go Here: http://j.mp/1FS7KG6
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The lack of lighting and energy places a damper on her normal grooming ritual. Without the use of her straight iron, her hair sticks out in all the wrong directions. She struggles to brush her hair into submission, but her wayward hair is not cooperating. Why can’t I have normal hair! Exasperated after many attempts, she reaches for her only option to tame the unmanageable mane—a rubber band.
Grabbing her backpack, she moseys out of the door.
The sun beams brightly, bringing an instant smile to Ally’s face as she steps outside. It is 78 degrees in Chicago, a perfect midsummer day.
Placing her headphones in her ears, she proceeds down the sidewalk.
In her senior year of high school, she applied to the local college and qualified for the work-to-school scholarship through a company called Curchet Networking. The scholarship requires her to be enrolled at college full time and work a minimum of thirty hours.
The office is located downtown, only a short distance from her home, so she decides to walk to work, saving a few dollars on gas.
The ballad ‘All of Me’ streams through her headphones, placing her in a state of silent bliss. She closes her eyes, allowing the melodic voice of John Legend and the magical stream of the piano to encompass her completely.
Oblivious to her whereabouts, she carelessly walks into the busy street. It is not until she hears the screeching of car brakes that she realizes she has wandered in front of a car. Her instincts kick in and she jumps backwards. Her hasty maneuver causes the back of her foot to collide with the edge of the curb and she ungracefully stumbles backwards towards the ground. Her cell phone flies from her hand, soaring into the air as it detaches from her headphones and her tailbone slams down hard as she lands on the concrete. That’s going to leave a bruise!
The gears of the transmission grind as the driver slams the car into park too quickly. Rubbing her aching tailbone, Ally searches for her cell phone. Lucky for her, it landed on the grass and is still intact, bringing a smile to her face.
“Are you out of your mind, you nearly got yourself killed!” a man yells.
With her cell and earphones securely in her hand, she turns to face him.
“I’m—” She stops mid-sentence, frozen, as she gazes upon him. Mary, sweet mother of Jesus!
Attractive is not a strong enough term to describe this heavenly creature that stands before her. Deliciously gorgeous, insanely beautiful, scorching hot—sexy as hell, is more like it.
To Read More Go Here: http://j.mp/1FS7KG6
99c on Amazon Today! Grab a Copy
March 24, 2015
The Tramp by Sarah Wathen - Excerpt
“Don’t go to the river, just stay around here and find another kid or something,” Grandma Pearl shouted through the screen door, reading his mind.
How does she do that? It was a skill John wanted to learn. He stuffed his hands in his pockets and turned his head in the opposite direction, to the neighbors’ house up the road. He knew the McBride family that lived there through stories and vague memories of holiday weekends, but he couldn’t remember anyone by name. There were always plenty of kids around at family gatherings, but the house seemed pretty quiet just then. He looked at the rambling ranch house, wishing he didn’t feel so weird and abandoned, when a glinting light over the white picket fence caught his eye.
Is that water from a hose? No—it was spraying crazy in all directions, like a…
like a Wet Willy?
John had seen one in a commercial once. Focused on the place, he
could discern faint music blaring from a radio. “Lucy in the sky-y with
di-a-monds…”
Then, he heard a loud whoop and the maniacal, high-pitched laugh of
a pixie.
“What the f—mmmph?” John sometimes bleeped himself. Even
alone, a pottymouth just seemed too wrong. Even though pottymouths
felt so good to think.
Feeling less weird, and more curious, John tramped up the road to find
out what the fmmmph was going on at the McBrides’s. As he neared the
yard and looked through the wooden fencing, he could see a skinny girl,
about his age, sporting a bright yellow and white striped bathing suit, and
clomping around in red rain galoshes. John couldn’t see much point in the
boots; he watched her dive with complete abandon onto a flooded Slip-n-
Slide, and the water sloshed out the tops of her shoes when she rose to her
feet. Then, as she bounded over to dance a kind of stomping polka under
the lunatic rain of the plastic-haired sprinkler, he understood. Obviously,
one needed boots for such a dance.
To Read More Go Here: http://www.amazon.com/Tramp-Bound-Chr...
Website: http://sarahwathen.com/
How does she do that? It was a skill John wanted to learn. He stuffed his hands in his pockets and turned his head in the opposite direction, to the neighbors’ house up the road. He knew the McBride family that lived there through stories and vague memories of holiday weekends, but he couldn’t remember anyone by name. There were always plenty of kids around at family gatherings, but the house seemed pretty quiet just then. He looked at the rambling ranch house, wishing he didn’t feel so weird and abandoned, when a glinting light over the white picket fence caught his eye.
Is that water from a hose? No—it was spraying crazy in all directions, like a…
like a Wet Willy?
John had seen one in a commercial once. Focused on the place, he
could discern faint music blaring from a radio. “Lucy in the sky-y with
di-a-monds…”
Then, he heard a loud whoop and the maniacal, high-pitched laugh of
a pixie.
“What the f—mmmph?” John sometimes bleeped himself. Even
alone, a pottymouth just seemed too wrong. Even though pottymouths
felt so good to think.
Feeling less weird, and more curious, John tramped up the road to find
out what the fmmmph was going on at the McBrides’s. As he neared the
yard and looked through the wooden fencing, he could see a skinny girl,
about his age, sporting a bright yellow and white striped bathing suit, and
clomping around in red rain galoshes. John couldn’t see much point in the
boots; he watched her dive with complete abandon onto a flooded Slip-n-
Slide, and the water sloshed out the tops of her shoes when she rose to her
feet. Then, as she bounded over to dance a kind of stomping polka under
the lunatic rain of the plastic-haired sprinkler, he understood. Obviously,
one needed boots for such a dance.
To Read More Go Here: http://www.amazon.com/Tramp-Bound-Chr...
Website: http://sarahwathen.com/
January 22, 2015
The Shepherd and the Princess by Gary L. Smith
Book Excerpt
Never underestimate the power of a dream. I am not talking about those ethereal events that occur in your mind while you are sleeping. I mean those great and noble things you’ve always wanted to accomplish with your life but never mustered the courage to do...
To Read More Go Here: http://www.eloquentreview.com/
Never underestimate the power of a dream. I am not talking about those ethereal events that occur in your mind while you are sleeping. I mean those great and noble things you’ve always wanted to accomplish with your life but never mustered the courage to do...
To Read More Go Here: http://www.eloquentreview.com/
January 21, 2015
Little Acts of Kindness
I Have the Power is the story of an African child, born in a remote area in Zambia. It follows the life of Nkandu Beltz and the challenges of being born a girl in a Southern African country. It describes the realization she reached in her life that she has the power to make a difference and that no one can suppress her integrity simply because she was born a girl. This is her journey as a philanthropist, social change-maker and Young Social Pioneer in her new home country, Australia. The book will inspire you to strive for greatness and unlock your potential to change the world by performing little acts of kindness and challenging your beliefs on leadership.
Get The Book Here: http://www.ihavethepowerbook.com/
Get The Book Here: http://www.ihavethepowerbook.com/
January 8, 2015
I Have the Power
Welcome to the tear-jerking and uplifting life story of a social change-maker and humanitarian: Nkandu Beltz. In her first published book, I Have The Power, Nkandu shares her entire story from being born a ‘girl child’ in Zambia through to her life here in Australia today.
To Read More Go Here: http://www.eloquentreview.com/book-of...
To Read More Go Here: http://www.eloquentreview.com/book-of...
