BOOK REVIEW By John H. Manhold Saint Nick by Fred Tribuzzo ISBN 9781608440146, Dog Ear Publishing, Paperback, 73 pages, $10.95 Fred Tribuzzo has written a short Christmas story utilizing the Dickens’s Christmas Carol method of the wayward protagonist being taken in hand by the ghosts of past, present, and future. The main differences in his [...]
Book Review by John H. Manhold Silverstein & Me by Marv Gold ISBN -13 9781597091510, Red Hen Press, paperback, 190 pages, $19.95 Marv Gold, a writer and multiple award- winning film maker, has set forth a most interesting memoir about Shel Silverstein, with whom he grew up. For those readers unacquainted with the name, Silverstein [...]
Book Review by John H. Manhold The Cuban Chronicles by Wanda St. Hilaire, ISBN 9781440132940, iUniverse, Paperback, 202 pages, including a short glossary, $18.95. Wanda St. Hilaire travels endlessly to experience the lifestyles of other cultures. In this book, she recounts her experiences in a return to Cuba. The trip is the result of having [...]
Book Review by Janice L. Semmel Down in Flames by Ray Parker From the day Ray Parker retrieved the Teletype news bulletin announcing the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, his life changed as he decided at the age of 18 to forego college and his staff job at the Los Angeles Examiner [...]
Book Review by John H. Manhold The Shopkeeper by James D. Best is a western with an unusual protagonist. ISBN 9781587369223, Wheatmark, 223 pages, Paperback, $18.95 The story opens with Steve Dancy, a New Yorker, playing whist in Pickhandle Gulch, Nevada with three of the town’s more enlightened citizens. Steve’s purported reason for touring the [...]
Book Review By John H. Manhold Take the E Out of ego & Go by Jerry & Donna Govan ISBN 9780981942919 Go Power Publishing, 178 Pages, Paperback, $14.95 A book by a born entrepreneur and his wife. The narrative emphasizes the need to overcome the importance of self (the E in ego) in making decisions [...]
Book Review By John H. Manhold What Were They Thinking by Kyle Garlett ISBN 9780061699924, Harper Collins, 231 pages, Hardcover, $24.95. Garlett has followed his ‘Worst Call Ever’ with another interesting list of serious bloopers. Many of the incidents are well known and remembered not only by sports fans, but others as well, because of [...]
Book Review By John H. Manhold Defending College Heights by Stuart Nachbar ISBN 9780595496310, iUniverse, 217 pages, $15.95, is a mystery novel A decorated Iraq War army veteran and recruiting officer is murdered on the campus of a small engineering school in the Hudson River Valley. His mother is devastated by the loss of her [...]
Book Review By John H. Manhold CANNIBALISM, HEADHUNTING and Human Sacrifice in North America by George Franklin Feldman ISBN978-0-911469-33-2, Alan C. Hood & Co., Inc., 249 page Paperback including 27 pages of Endnotes, an excellent Bibliography and 11 pages of Index. The author begins by noting that the practices of cannibalism, headhunting and human sacrifice [...]
Book Review By John H. Manhold Down In Flames, by Ray Parker ISBN9780964092433, Mill City Press, 157 pages, Paperback, $14.95 One of the early TV script writers for Art Linkletter, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope and other popular show people of the time. This memoir of Parker’s experiences leading up to, and in, World War II, [...]
