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The first in a brand new suspense series, the future bodes very well for this new character. In fact, it should not take long for readers to become attached to Nick Sayler, Private Detective. In essence, he is a bit of an odd – yet, cool – combination of other detectives readers have seen in [...]
June 16, 2013Read More
It’s an absolute thrill when readers get introduced to a heroine that is beyond strong. From Kinsey Millhone to Eve Dallas, the hard-hitting women always please, and there is never enough of them. However, with this debut author’s first novel, she has definitely followed in the footsteps of the great female writers with their determined [...]
June 13, 2013Read More
Man Up! Tales of My Delusional Self-Confidence by Ross Mathews Foreword by Gwyneth Paltrow Afterword by Chelsea Handler Grand Central Publishing Hardcover, $25.00 238 pages ISBN: 978-1-455-50180-9 Book Review by Kam Williams “This is how I define ‘man up’: you are what you are and the sooner you stop hating what makes you unique, and [...]
June 11, 2013Read More
Soul Recovery 12 Keys to Healing Addiction by Ester Nicholson Foreword by Michael Bernard Beckwith Paperback, $15.95 192 pages ISBN: 978-1401943110 Book Review by Kam Williams “This is a book about recovery—my recovery—from addiction to drugs, specifically cocaine. But… my addictions didn’t stop there. I was addicted to… drugs, love, men, food, you name it—if [...]
June 1, 2013Read More
Raising the Bar by Gabrielle Douglas Zondervan Publishing Hardcover, $19.99 140 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978-0-310-74070-4 Book Review by Kam Williams “Gabrielle Douglas is the first African-American and first woman of color from any nation to win an Olympic gold medal in the individual gymnastics all-around competition… That is a big accomplishment for a 4’11” 16 [...]
May 27, 2013Read More
Join us on an epic journey older than civilization itself. 12,000 years ago, a being the size of Mars made the wrong choice, and destroyed all life on a planet, including a sentient life form. Its chosen restitution was to be born as a human: a small, ephemeral planet-dweller, living life after life until it [...]
May 21, 2013Read More
Pizza City: The Ultimate Guide to New York’s Favorite Food by Peter Genovese Rutgers University Press Paperback, $22.95 200 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978-0-8135-5868-4 Book Review by Kam Williams “I love pizza. Who doesn’t? The idea of this book started to form after I completed a six-month journey into true pizza obsessiveness… From the beginning, I [...]
May 16, 2013Read More
Mimi’s Village and How Basic Health Care Transformed It by Katie Smith Milway Illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes Kids Can Press Hardcover, $18.95 32 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978-1-55453-722-8 Book Review by Kam Williams “Mimi’s fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care, especially among infants and children, is poor [...]
May 15, 2013Read More
I now understand I agitate myself to success upsetting my teapot of what I got to unsettle my complacency so I stir the pot inside my inane sanity perturbing my urbane insanity… To incite a riot in my visionary veins of keen-wittedness to stop being the fink overthinking my dreams are out of my reach [...]
May 13, 2013Read More
The Motherhood Diaries: A Humorous Look at Motherhood in the New Millennium by Reshonda Tate Billingsley Strebor Books Paperback, $15.00 220 pages ISBN: 978-1-59309-499-7 Book Review by Kam Williams “Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve kept a diary… Instead of writing out all the shenanigans of my life on paper, I [now] share [...]
May 6, 2013Read More