Interview: Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited by Marc Schuster
Tired of California examines the efforts of the Beach Boys to reinvent themselves in the early 1970s as they recorded their critically acclaimed Holland album. Smashwords Shelf Unbound: Your new book Tired of California: The Beach Boys’ Holland Revisited explores the album recorded in the Netherlands. What inspired you to tackle this particular work? Marc […]
Interview: Surfing With Sartre An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning by Aaron James
Author, Aaron James, begs to differ with Jean-Paul Sartre, who once declared waterskiing to be “the ideal limit of aquatic sports.” Penguin Random Housepenguinrandomhouse.com Shelf Unbound: Sartre famously said in his seminal work No Exit that ‘hell is other people’ yet surfing tends to be made up of communities- it seems a disconnect, please speak […]
Review: The Swim: A story about friendship and the longest swim in the world by Jens F. Colting
Timid, 14-year-old Tiny undertakes a life-saving swim sparked by an unlikely friendship with Goliath. Bonding over their imperfections, they form a deep friendship, quickly becoming inseparable. Goliath, 12 years old, studious and clever, is wheelchair bound and his health is rapidly deteriorating. The only thing that can save him is an expensive, experimental treatment, and […]
Review: Lovepain by Curtis Smith
www.braddockavenue books.com Although Lovepain is by no means a suspense novel, Curtis Smith proves throughout to be a master of the suspended moment and a connoisseur of unresolved tension. The novel centers on a cuckold named Eli whose precocious young son, Mark, is as obsessed with birds as he is the disappearance of his mother. […]
Excerpt: Stolen Obsession by Marlene M. Bell
About the Book: http://www.marlenembell.com “Debut author Bell delivers a great, slow-building romance, gently examining her characters’ painful pasts.” — Kirkus Reviews People die, but legends live on. New York antiquities appraiser Annalisse Drury recently lost her best friend to murder. The killer’s identity may be linked to her friend’s expensive missing bracelet—a 500-year-old artifact that carries […]
Excerpt: Mastering the Power of Your Emotions Second Edition by Elisha O. Ogbonna
About the Book: http://www.elishaogbonna.com Mastering the Power of Your Emotions has a simple but undeniable premise: Emotions are at the centre of everything we do. If you can control your emotions, you can control your life. But as straightforward as this sounds, most people are not the masters of their emotions. This is evident by […]
Excerpt: Ones Such as These by Al Fonner
About the Book: In a time when truth is like a wisp of smoke in the wind, two lives hang in the balance. Jenna, a 32-year old professional woman, wasn’t planning a family; but a cruel act of fate puts her on a sharp learning curve that threatens to alter her life forever. Faced with […]
Excerpt: Beheaded by Dina M. Jones
About the Book: Christians and Non-Christians, at some point in their lives, have heard about the book of Revelation. Sometimes referred to as the “End of the World,” and the “Apocalypse.” While some have read the words, there are those who do not completely understand the meaning and most importantly, what it could mean to […]
Excerpt: An Angel’s Feather by Astrid Brown
About the Book: http://www.astridestella.info My journey and development into becoming a psychic/medium. About my philosophy and psychic experiences Read an Excerpt: Featured in June/July Issue: Summer Reads “If you believe there is a greater power and after we die we go on to live eternally how do you view your life? I feel this makes […]
Excerpt: Intrinsic by Jerry Collins
About the Book: www.intrinsicthenovel.com An epic fantasy novel with sorcery, superpowers, ancient history, and demonic wars across time, this is the first book in a series from debut author Jerry Collins. In a world where nothing is as it seems comes a woman with the power to possess the souls and wills of men, to […]