Book Review By John H. Manhold The CONSPIRACY, An Innocent Priest, ISBN 9781440239653, iUniverse, 323 pages, Hardcover by Monsignor William McCarthy. This is the true story of a man who has been grossly wronged, and of his day-to-day and even hour-to-hour feelings in this situation of a wrongful distortion of facts that literally has destroyed [...]
Book Review By John H. Manhold 27 POWERS OF PERSUASION, ISBN 9780735204515, Prentice Hall Press, Paperback, 204 pages, $25.00 by CHRIS ST. HILAIRE with LYNETTE PADWA – An Advance Review copy. This volume opens with an introduction to The Art and Craft of Persuasion, and follows with 27 chapters explaining the strategies the authors have [...]
Book Review by John H. Manhold The Kennedy Detail ISBN 9781439192962, Gallery Books Division of Simon & Schuster, Soft Cover, 404 pages by Gerald Blaine with Lisa McCubbin. For the first time, a member of the Secret Service assigned to guard President Kennedy, provides details “to set the record straight.” The book begins with a [...]
Book Review by 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 [...]
Book Review By 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: [...]
Book Review by 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 [...]
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 [...]
Book Review by 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 [...]
Book Review by 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 [...]
Book Review by 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 [...]
