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Western Canadian writers capture Commonwealth book awards

Two Canadian authors, Marina Endicott and Joan Thomas, have won awards with the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Endicott won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award, for Canada and the Caribbean, for her novel Good to a Fault. The nov [...]

Posted On : Mar, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

This accessible, all-encompassing guide will help you to achieve success and confidence, a sense of well-being, and an inner strength that you never dreamed possible. How? Through positive thinking -- a form of thought that involves looking [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008

You already know about their it features some of the best baseball writers on the internets doing what they do. You already know about their baseball annual: it's more of the tremendous writing you can find on their , only different a [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

The US vs. Them - A Book Review

In a work that is well focussed, Peter Scoblic has written an intriguing historical review of the second half of the Twentieth Century on into the recently passed Bush regime. In U.S. vs. THEM, the writing narrows on to a main theme of how [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Laugh Your Way To A Better Marriage By Mark Gungor

This book is based upon Mark Gungor's highly successful seminar, Laugh Your Way To A Better Marriage. However, it is best to get one thing straight to begin with: Mark is a very funny guy, but, as he admits, this book is not at all about la [...]

Posted On : Mar, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Clover Stroud's travel books: Stealing Water and Keyguide Br...

Born in Northern Ireland to an English army father, Ecott moved to Johannesburg as a child. After his father’s attempts to set up a security business ended in bankruptcy, the family lived on the proceeds of his mother’s shop. H [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

Guardian book club Candour

How can we know that any piece of autobiographical writing is truthful? Where most reviewers and many readers of Diana Athill's Somewhere Towards the End have talked of its "honesty" or "candour", they have been making a [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Classic book review: Possession

This book review originally ran on Nov. 16, 1990.] The winner of England’s most prestigious literary prize is Possession by A. S. Byatt. It’s a Shakespearean detective story loaded with 1,700 lines of verse – pretty good v [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review Inhuman Remains Primavera Blackstone Mystery ser...

Her mind still filled with thoughts of Oz, her dead ex-husband, Primavera Blackstone is in Spain with son Tom when their peace is breached with the arrival of her elderly but formidable Aunt Adrienne. All is not well in Auntieâ€& [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review: The Society of S: A Novel by Susan Hubbard

"If you ever want to hide from the world, live in a small city, where everyone seems anonymous."That's the advice of twelve-year-old Ariella Montero, who lives with her father in Saratoga Springs, New York, in a house haunted more [...]

Posted On : Feb, 19 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review The Blood Pit

Never has DI Wesley Peterson witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. The victim, Charles Marrick, has been murdered, his body drained of blood. Described by those who knew him as 'evil', it seems that Wesley isn't going to have any shortage o [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review Truth Heals What You Hide Can Hurt You by Debora...

There are many different types of alternative medicine, many here in the Western Hemisphere view them with doubt and suspicion. Occasionally even using terms like barbaric and quackery. Yet if we look at the history of our modern medi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Getting at Truth Abraham Verghese, 'Cutting for Stone'

IF YOU DIDN'T already know that Abraham Verghese was a physician as well as a writer, then you might get that distinct impression reading his first novel, "Cutting for Stone." Following a pair of twins from their birth at a miss [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

American Rust: A Novel by Philipp Meyer - Book Review

Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation—as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love—that arise from its loss. From [...]