Book Review
Instilling Values in Transcending Generations
by Lee Gooden
“This is a book not so much on morality as the power of morality” writes Tieman H. Dippel Jr. author of "Instilling Values in Transcending Generations". This is the third book in his Language of Conscience Series which includes The...
Book Review
A Democracy of Ghosts
by Lee Gooden
“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, heavy for the vintage.” Steinbeck’s quote is the farmworkers’ equivalent to what brews in "A Democracy of Ghosts", John Griswold’s fictional...
Book Review
Strawberries and Diamonds
by Lee Gooden
In 1913 an upscale jewelry store in Rome Italy is robbed of jewels and diamonds worth millions of dollars. The robbers Gaetano and Guido attempt to smuggle the loot aboard a ship carrying immigrants to America. Fast-forward a hundred...
Book Review
56 Water Street
by Lee Gooden
Since the phenomenal success of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series and Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series there has been an explosion in the popularity of young adult fiction. Successful writers in the genre plant seeds in their...
Book Review
Far Bright Star
by Lee Gooden
Robert Olmstead is the author of the critically acclaimed Coal Black Horse. His latest novel "Far Bright Star" begins in 1916 when Napoleon Childs a war-hardened cavalryman guides a group of untried soldiers into the mountains of Mexico...
Book Review
A Hard-Water World
by Lee Gooden
Two middle-aged guys decide to go ice fishing; they set up their jigs and wait, and wait, but have no luck. Not even ten feet away from them a boy catches fish after fish from his hole. One of the men asks the boy his secret. The boy...
Book Review
The Silent Note
by Lee Gooden
The problem with most romance novels is that they follow the publisher’s outlined formula; planned conflict and resolution do not cause the plastic characters to grow and experience true romance. Many readers are disappointed with the...
Book Review
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by Lee Gooden
Sexual relations have always been a popular subject for humanity to document—from the Neanderthal cave paintings to Etruscan erotic artwork on the walls of Pompeii; from the pornography empires of Larry Flynt and Hugh Hefner to the...