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John H. Manhold
The Flat on Malabar Hill, ISBN 9781440146428, iUniverse, Paperback, 254 pages, $16.95 by Chitra Kallay.
The story follows the closely interwoven lives of the members of three generations of an Indian family through a number of years of life. Shanti and Vinod, are the well-to-do mother and father of two totally different sons. [...]
Book Review
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John H. Manhold
I Promised You Daisies, ISBN 9780982060537, Paperback 302 pages, $15.00, is the second volume in a trilogy entitled Imperfectly Ordinary by Robert A. Benjamin.
This volume is an interesting, autobiography/memoir of a man who might be described as an unusual type of workaholic. To explain the classification of unusual: the usual workaholic concentrates [...]
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John H. Manhold
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt, 2nd Edition, ISBN # 9781607720003, Hardcover, 467 pages, by Rulka Langer is a powerful recounting of the Siege of Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of World War II. It provides an intimate look at the horrors experienced by a woman who participated in, and survived, the attack [...]
The Olympic Charioteer, ISBN 9780595367825, iUniverse, 398 pages, Paperback by Helena P. Schrader.
This is a well researched novel of the very early days of Grecian history and the events leading up to formulation of the first non-aggression pact ever recorded between two adjacent warring factions. It deals fundamentally with three protagonists and the inter-involvement of [...]
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John H. Manhold
Straight Down the Middle, ISBN 9780811863599, Chronicle Books, 253 pages, paperback, $23.95 by Josh Karp is a ménage of introspective observations, golfing tips and oddball bits of Eastern philosophy delivered by equally unusual pundits.
The author is a journalist with the usual family responsibilities (a suburban inhabitant with a wife and four children, [...]
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John H. Manhold
Confucius Jade, ISBN 9780981929132, Dudley Court Press, 348 pages, Paperback, $14.95, by Frederick Fisher.
My review copy of this book is a recent edition of the original story published several years ago by Times International in Singapore. It is a fascinating account of discovery of a one of a kind boulder of jade [...]
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John H. Manhold
Guardian ISBN 9780984070886, 4RV Publishing LLC, Paperback, 158 pages, $15.50, by Katie Hines.
A pledge made to his dying mother leads the young Drew Newman, along with his friends and family members, on a sometimes terrifying adventure. He must find a magical book that holds the secret to his destiny, but before he [...]
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John H. Manhold
Anjan ISBN 9780984187072, FireFly, an imprint of RoseHeart Publishing, 213 pages, Paperback, $12.95, U.S./9.95 U.K./14.95 Canada, authored by Larus Einarsson.
Larus Einarsson is a talented grandfather who lives in Iceland with his wife and three grandchildren and has produced this, the first of what is projected to be a series. It is a [...]
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John H. Manhold
Her Mother’s Diary, ISBN 9781604943597, Wheatmark, Paperback, 232 pages, $18.95 by David Curry Kahn.
The protagonist is a teen-age girl left homeless upon death of both parents and the passing of her grandmother. The homeless state is the result of a quirky ownership clause in which the ranch, in a particularly remote [...]
Book Review
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John H. Manhold
Personali Trees, ISBN 9781844091911, Findhorn Press, Hardcover, 112 pages, $14.95 by Joan Klostermann-Ketels is an allegorical tale that really belongs to another, more gentle, time. In fact, the book was not published in America, but by a Press in Scotland, where even today, people occasionally “take time to smell the roses”.
The book [...]
