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ooks as Legacies - This past week we received the horrible news that my mother is terminal ill. Since then she has been in a rush mode to say and share everything about her with us. Not just about her life and life lesson, but also her recipes, pictures, crafts…it has been a storm of information, heirlooms, and one on one moments. I struggle seeing her newfound need to transfer herself to our memories before she cannot communicate anymore and wonder why we didn’t use our time together to make sure we recorded her legacy in a book. We are used to seeing autobiographies and memoirs, but the small things that we remember by the ones we love are never mentioned. My daughters came with the idea of recording her stories along with her legacies and heirlooms by creating a Legacy book for the family. Can hardly wait to see what that looks like! Have you ever thought about creating your own Legacy Book?
Susan Violante, Managing Editor - First Chapter Plus
Susan’s Reads
FLY TO ME Ellie Hansen All God’s Creatures Publishing (2019) ISBN 9780578447391
...The concept that all life is made from the same love light that makes us, and that our pets souls are always with us, is a concept that many of us who were lucky enough to have experienced the unconditional love of a pet knows and accepts with our eyes closed. The way this message and concept is presented to readers, is through a hardcover picture book formatted into eight short chapters which take readers through the author’s journey of life with her pet, grief, and enlightenment. I loved “Fly to Me” by Ellie Hansen, and find it to be five-star heartwarming, thought provoking beautiful piece of literature to keep, gift and always revisit.
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INDEX
2. Books as Legaciess 4. COVID-19 vs. Writers Isolations 7. 2019 Releases / Interview with Mike Murphy – Author of “Section Roads”
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2018 And Older Past Releases / Time to Escape
13. Inside scoop live interview of the month 16. Reader Views News 18. Foreign Language Books
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NEW 2020 RELEASES igital Books – Life Savers!...I don’t know about you, for many of us not being able to go to a library or bookstore to get new reads is one of the biggest downsides of being home. For me just checking out what is out there and browse different books over coffee has been
my therapy for as long as I can remember. Honestly, I have not really missed any other store as going shopping has never been a fin time for me. You are probably wondering why on earth a book reviewer would go to a bookstore, when we get them on the mail! I sometimes wonder, but there is something about holding, and checking out different reads surrounded by shelves. The aroma of books and coffee cannot be replaced by anything else. So, the other day I made myself an espresso, sat on porch listening to Pandora music, and decided to check out my nook store, and amazon for digital books. Well, it did the trick for one and a half hour I was lost in my bubble, almost no different than when I visited the library or bookstore! I ended up buying a couple of digital books and even found that my favorite Author Richard Bach had come out with a Book two of my favorite title back in 2013! Today I received the paperback as I bought it on the spot! With all the craziness around me , and the cabin fever syndrome, the fact that there were digital books (at better prices than the hard copy) available for me to just click and read something different made the difference in my moment of desperation. This is something we currently can reach out to for our mental health during a pandemic…people in the past didn’t even have that. So today I am grateful for technology, grateful for all the Authors who publish digital, grateful I am living in this Era where digital books, movies, and music can be life savers. How is technology helping you through this pandemic?
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EMBODYING SOUL
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My Spiritual Walk to Healing
sensibility who dares to leap across time and space to unveil the true nature of soul. Rarely
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synopsis A whimsical recollection of letters and recipes from our grandmother from her tiny kitchen in Alexandria, Indiana during the 1960s. Her letters are full of small town stories and retro recipes.
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THE PORCH SWING COOKBOOK
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Read the first chapter synopsis It’s 1960 America, where optimism abounds, music is fun, cars sport chrome wings, and residents are secure, working, and happy. And yet in ‘Milburn Avenue’s’ fictional city of Sylvania, a family business owner clashes with his patriarch father; an out of town cop pursues a factory worker over a homicide; and teenagers grow up in large inner city high schools where social class, money, race, and academic levels are as varied as the city’s neighborhoods.
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MILBURN AVENUE
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synopsis This inspiring ancestral history describes the lives of the Stuart-Medas and Franklin families, who contributed to the stability and human dignity of their people. Leyton Eden Franklin looks at the influences that impacted and shaped his history, including the structures put in place by the British, which kept the family apart from lower-class Guyanese.
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This is the action-packed, real-life story of three young Brits who leave the crowds and high taxes of London, England, in 1975 and make a new life in Granum, Alberta, Western Canada, population 325. It documents the trials and tribula-
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tions of acquiring cheap industrial land, constructing a building, and establishing a nail manufacturing plant, despite knowing almost nothing at all about what was involved.
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FICTION - SCIFI synopsis Moon Luck is the story of 30 astronauts living on the moon. It follows them as they grow plants on the moon, explore mineral ores, carry out experiments, and develop animosities as well as close relationships. When one members dies, the story follows the trail to discover the actual perpetrator, leaving us with the question: Is it murder if it happens on the moon?
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nterview with Mike Murphey Sheri Hoyte
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is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Following his retirement from the newspaper business, he and his wife Nancy entered in a seventeen-year partnership with the late Dave Henderson, allstar centerfielder for the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners. Their company produced the A’s and Mariners adult baseball Fantasy Camps.
They also have a partnership with the Roy Hobbs adult baseball organization in Fort Myers, Florida. Mike loves fiction, cats, baseball and sailing. He splits his time between Spokane, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona, where he enjoys life as a writer and old-man baseball player.
Section Roads is your debut novel, but you’ve been writing for many years, including a career as a journalist. What called you to dive into the world of fiction? Section Roads is actually the fourth novel I’ve written, but the first to be published. I suspect every newspaper reporter aspires to write a novel and I was certainly no different. While I was working, though, I found all sorts of excuses not to sit down and write on my own time. I made fits and starts but couldn’t seem to sustain anything beyond short stories. As one more excuse, I convinced myself I did not have the novelist gene. When I turned sixty, I decided to find out once and for all. I vowed I would write 500 words a day—good, bad or indifferent—no matter what. Eventually, that became a novel—although not a very good one. But I’d developed the discipline to do the work. From there, I dedicated myself to learning the craft of fiction.! What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your book? I learned that every novel that wants to be funny needs a Slartybartfarst. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the works of Douglas Adams, Slartybartfarst is an off-the-wall character in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. My Slartybartfarst is Weard Ward, who came out of nowhere. One day I was writing, and he just showed up. At first, he was just this guy at the side of a road, but he worked his way into being a central plot element. A number of reviewers have said Weard is their favorite character. Read the full interview with Mike Murphey here!
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Ambitious and sophisticated, Cooperative Lives is a diverse and gorgeous tapestry of character studies and is a pure delight to read. — Wendy Hinman
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appenstance, serendipity and luck dominate as the lives of characters crash against one another like pinballs in Patrick Finegan’s Cooperative Lives.
A novel that perfectly captures the unscripted events and coincidence of real life, where you can do your utmost best,
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and it’s never quite good enough... A powerful, chic and
evocative read, Cooperative Lives proves a superb début for Finegan and a must-read for discerning readers of topnotch literary fiction. — BookViral Reviews
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What lies beneath the façade of a storied Manhattan residential complex? The cream of New York’s elite lives in a co-op overlooking Central Park – quietly until a bus sideswipes a neighbor. This triggers a series of increasingly bizarre investigations that expose the inhabitants to unrelenting media scrutiny. Winner of nearly twenty respected book awards, Cooperative Lives “is a fascinating slice-oflife that rings true even as it attempts the fantastic.” – Michael Radon, US Review of Books
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author Patrick T. Finegan Patrick Finegan was born during the latter half of the Eisenhower Administration and graduated during the Carter and Reagan Administrations from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago Law School and Graduate School of Business. He worked thirty-some years in law, finance, consulting and risk management. He has a wife and grown daughter and has lived in the New York metropolitan area his entire professional life – most of it in the same residential cooperative..
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MEDICINE AND MIRACLES IN THE HIGH DESERT
his book is sorely needed at this moment in America, when divisive voices incessantly warn us of the other, the foreigner, those who “are not like us... Mystery
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Erica M. Elliott, M.D
own society—a lesson on which our future may depend. — Larry Dossey, MD
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This is the true story of a young Anglo woman, Erica Elliott,
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through with a strong drive to realize her life path.
Beautifully written. Elliott is an exciting new
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who comes to the Navajo Reservation in 1971 as a newly minted schoolteacher, knowing nothing about her students or their culture. After several blunders and misunderstandings, and beset by loneliness and despair, Erica makes a determined effort to overcome the barriers of language and culture. From the moment she begins learning the Navajo language, the people open their hearts and homes to her, inviting her into a mystical world that most people don’t know exists, a world that profoundly impacts the rest of her life. Years later she returns as a medical doctor to serve the Navajo People. This book is a page-turner that you won’t be able to put down.
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author Erica Elliott, M.D Erica Elliott, M.D., specializes in both family practice and environmental medicine, with a busy private practice in Santa Fe. Dr. Elliott is also an author and public speaker. She has given weeklong workshops at both Omega and Esalen Institutes and is co-author of the book, “Prescriptions for a Healthy House.” Dr. Elliott is often referred to as “The Medical Detective” since she attracts people from all parts of the country and even abroad who have mysterious and puzzling medical problems that have not responded to mainstream medical care. Dr. Elliott is often referred to as “The Medical Detective” since she attracts people from all parts of the country and even abroad who have mysterious and puzzling medical problems that have not responded to mainstream medical care. For more information visit Erica’s website https://www.medicineandmiraclesinthehighdesert.com/
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enefits is, underneath it all, a story about family—not exactly a nuclear family, not even
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people (and a few ghosts) brought together by the pull of love and the push of circumstance. At the center is Ben
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synopsis Ben Schmidt survived the prostate cancer at the heart of Jim Arnold’s acclaimed novel “Benediction,” but will he and handsome partner Jake Brosseau now survive the maelstrom of midlife crises they now face? From the parade of men who (sometimes) want them,
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Schmidt, a cancer survivor trying to save his relationship
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with sobriety, caring for a child, and trying to make enough money to (literally) keep the lights on. Ben’s path to selfdiscovery is as windy as the streets of San Francisco. But
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in Benefits, author Jim Arnold paints an unexpected family portrait unlike any you’ve ever seen. — Wayne Hoffman
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author of Hard and An Older Man.
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to children and parents who (usually) need them, Ben and Jake and crew must fight to master the challenges that make their contemporary San Francisco lives ever more precarious.
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evising a Review Strategy.
Reviewing books is a much easier task if you have a plan of attack before even opening the book. It provides a specific direction to take your review in. There are a lot of different ways to create a reviewing strategy, and not everybody likes to plan out their reviews. I don’t think there is one answer that works for everybody and it takes some experimenting to find what works for you. Here is a look into how I approach reviews! I look at five main areas of a novel: the characters, setting, plot, pacing, and writing. I try to divide my notes into sections with these categories in mind, though they sometimes end up jumbled anyway. As I’m reading, I jot down anything that catches my eye and quotations that I like. Once I’m finished, I assign a rating of one through five to each category, then average them together to find the overall rating of the book. I usually end up with a decimal, and that gets rounded up or down as is appropriate. After I find the overall rating, it’s time to start writing the review itself. I’ve always used notes, but it’s only been in the past few months that I’ve begun using outlines. I use the term outline loosely here. I do my best writing when I have a question I need to answer, so I pose questions to myself about the book, and then organize the answers to those questions into paragraphs. My reviews don’t really start to look like reviews until I’m revising them. If you’re working with a word limit, I find it easier to write as much as you can and then start cutting it down. Cutting things in the revision process works better for me than adding them. Reviews should always cover both strengths and weaknesses. No book is completely perfect, and no book is completely terrible. Even in stories I don’t particularly like, there’s usually at least one aspect of them that I enjoyed, whether it be setting, a specific character, or the author’s writing style. If you want a wellrounded review, it’s important to highlight both these negative and positive aspects. features, that’s right, a castle that moves. Home to an odd wizard, his apprentice, and a fire demon, join protagonist Sophie as she befriends this unusual cast while the castle wanders around the kingdom. Another wonderful children’s book, this is a great story to share with your children.. As a reader, I want a review to be engaging and informative. Tell me exactly what you thought about the book without too much dancing around the bush. I value bluntness in the reviews I read, so I try to incorporate it into my own. This goes for both written reviews and recorded ones. I love listening to podcasted and filmed reviews. While I only work with written ones, there’s a lot to learn in experiencing them across different mediums. If you want to improve in writing your own reviews, I suggest trying to read or listen to as many different reviewers from as many different sources as you can! It can take time to find a strategy you’re comfortable with, but that’s okay. It’s all part of the process. .
Skyler Boudreau BookReviewer for Reader Views and Blogger at Sky View Book Reviews
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FICTION - THRILLER/CRIME synopsis When Max Duncan takes a call from his longtime friend and mentor Michael Darrington, he has no idea that he will soon be dragged out of retirement and thrown headlong into the mysterious underbelly of offshore banking. And it isn’t long before he is not only fighting to keep himself alive, but all those around him as his faceless adversary launches a relentless and escalating war against him.
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MAX DUNCAN The Devil’s Backbone author Dale Bronstein
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FICTION - FANTASY/CONTEMPORARY synopsis The dream is back and Ben is terrified. His pregnant wife, Anne, is locked in a coma and Ben is the only person who can save her. His dreams contain clues but they make no sense. The Well House is an exciting, unique and thoughtful story of a man’s fight against unbelievable odds to save his wife. The Well House is a multi-layered tale that takes you on an amazing journey.
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synopsis Christopher Lee and Bozzie Bear are so nervous about the first day of school; what will it be like? Will the teacher be nice? Will school really be fun? Will they really make new friends and have fun learning? Join Christopher Lee and friends as they learn that school will always be fun if you have respect and consideration for others.
CHRISTOPHER LEE AND BOZZIE BEAR’S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
author Gretchen Napolitano
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INNOCENT WAR - REVISED EDITION
Behind An Immigrant’s Past Book 1 author Susan Violante
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nnocent War is a resonating novel that transports readers to a place and time uniquely tied to Italy. It is a great book for Italian Americans to read as it stands as a tribute, not just to Violante’s father, but to all children of wars.
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ino’s daughter Susan Violante has written a heartwarming story of his taped memoirs that will give the reader a unique perspective on the horrors of World War II in Italy and which gave her a deeper understanding of herself and her family. — The Italian Tribune
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Based on the taped memoirs Susan Violante received from her Italian Immigrant father, Nino; Innocent War’s story ( Hollywood Book Festival 2009 Honoralbe Mention) is a boy’s adventure showing a child’s point of view through the war’s hardships, dangers, and tragedies of WWII, combined with his own humor, innocence, and awakening as he grows up. WWII through and Italian 10 year old boy’s eyes!
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Born and raised in Venezuela from Italian immigrants, author Susan Violante completed a BA degree in Political and Administrative Cs. before moving to the US. Although she built a career as a Business Analyst/Accountant since 1987, she also kept herself active as a Freelance writer. In 2010 Violante finally retired from Accounting and leaped to the publishing industry. She currently works as the Editorial Assistant for Reader Views and First Chapter Plus, while dedicating the remainder of her time to her own writing. She is also the host of Internet I Have Something To Say LIVE and Italian Austinite online radio shows.
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FICTION - JUVENILE/EARLY READER
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powerful lesson from Mother Nature... As a school owner and educator, I would recommend this book to teachers and parents alike... — Christine Watson Owner, Director, and Teacher of Be The Change Academy, Round Rock Texas
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ntertains you while teaching positive messages about nature and showing some of the culture, and geography from Venezuela. Great Book!
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— Maria Juliana Leal-Belloso
Published by Creative with Words in 1996, the learning of Nature and Geography of faraway lands through the story of Tuma comes alive in its picture book format. Tuma is a little princess from a Tribe on the tropical Caribbean coast of Venezuela. Her father is the tribe’s King and guardian of their magical stone. Tuma always listened to her friend’s Loro (the parrot) stories about the Magical stone that bared her name. Both of them were intrigued about the purpose of such beautiful gem, so one day Tuma and Loro ventured to faraway lands in search of the meaning of the magical stone...
Retired Pre-school Teacher from Venezuela
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ISBN 9780985430801 copyright date 2014, 2015 BISAC category Fiction genre Juvenile/early Reader binding Tradeback number of pages 40 price $15.95 distributor Ingram, Baker and Taylor countries book sold US, Canada, All through Amazon buy online Amazon.com
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author Susan Violante Born and raised in Venezuela from Italian immigrants, Author Susan Violante completed a BA degree in Political and Administrative Cs. before moving to the US. Although she built a career as a Business Analyst / Accountant since 1987, she also kept herself active as a Freelance writer. Violante finally retired from Accounting and leaped to the publishing Industry; she currently works as the Managing Editor for Reader Views, First Chapter Plus, through her Literary Publicity Company and her publishing through I have Something to Say Press while on her time off with her family and dog, and reading, cooking and knitting when by herself.
For more information visit Susan’s website www.susanviolante.com
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synopsis Basato sulle registrazioni che l’autrice Susan Violante ha ricevuto dal padre Nino, “L’innocenza di una Guerra” racconta le difficoltà, i pericoli e le tragedie del secondo conflitto mondiale dal punto di vista di un bambino che, nonostante tutto, riesce a non perdere il senso dell’umorismo e l’innocenza tipica della sua età.
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L’INNOCHENZA DI UNA GUERRA
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ASIN B00JPXXVCM publisher I Have Something To Say Press © 2014 distributor Amazon binding Ebook pages 188 price $5.99
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