NON-FICTION
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR – BOOK EXCERPT : SNARDLER BY JAMES B CARUTHERS
The Catalogues of Epicness, Book 1 Young Adult Humor Date Published: 12/14/2019 Publisher: INtense Publications LLC Xavier Crenshaw discovers his life’s calling when he devises an elaborate prank that goes badly wrong. Enlightened by this experience, Xavier creates “snardling,” which is subtly but crucially different from ordinary pranks. For starters, snardlers never get caught. Crisis comes when Xavier and his two partners snardle the whole school, and the wrong person gets blamed. The team falls apart in the aftermath, until a despondent Xavier receives a secret note requesting a snardle of extraordinary proportions to occur at the unveiling of long-dead poet’s secret diary. Despite his careful planning, Xavier wasn’t ready…
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR : FILL YOUR MIND BEFORE YOU FILL YOUR PLATE BY FAISAL ALSHAWA
Non Fiction / Health & Nutrition Date Published: October 7, 2019 Publisher: Writing Matters (UK) Fill Your Mind Before You Fill Your Plate offers practical advice so you can create and maintain a healthy lifestyle, amidst the fast-paced and stressful world we live in. If you are confused about where to start in your health journey or looking for ways to live a healthy lifestyle consistently, then this book is for you! BOOK EXCERPT : At a Glance Faisal Alshawa is a nutritional expert consulting to athletes and busy working professionals worldwide. His clients are typically successful people who recognise the need to make their health and living a healthier…
VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR – BOOK BLITZ : SEA PLANES DON’T FLY AT NIGHT BY JEFF & CLARE CURTIS
BOOK REVIEW : DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD – POEMS, QUOTES AND ANECDOTES FROM A TO Z BY IRENE LATHAM & CHARLES WATERS
TITLE : Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z AUTHOR : Irene Latham & Charles Waters GENRE : Children’s Non-Fiction, Poetry FBRC RATING : 5 stars PUBLICATION DATE : 4th February 2020 BLURB : How can we make the world a better place? This inspiring resource for middle-grade readers is organized as a dictionary; each entry presents a word related to creating a better world, such as ally, empathy, or respect. For each word, there is a poem, a quote from an inspiring person, a personal anecdote from the authors, and a “try it” prompt for an activity. This second poetic collaboration from Irene Latham and Charles…
BOOK RELEASE BLITZ : ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS – A BIOGRAPHY OF ROCK HUDSON BY MARK GRIFFIN
A Biography of Rock Hudson Biography Paperback Release Date: December 3, 2019 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age. The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the 50’s and 60’s, Rock Hudson reigned supreme as the king of Hollywood. As an Oscar-nominated leading man, Hudson won acclaim for his performances in glossy melodramas, adventure epics and blockbuster bedroom farces. Yet behind the suave and commanding star persona, there was an insecure, deeply conflicted and all too vulnerable human being. Growing up poor in Winnetka, Illinois, Hudson was abandoned by…
BOOK REVIEW : 51st DIRECTIVE BY MICHAEL AGLIOLO
TITLE : 51st Directive AUTHOR : Michael Agliolo GENRE : Adult, Thriller, Action, Crime FBRC RATING : 4 stars BLURB : The deepest parts of the Internet hold the secrets of a world that will never be the same as Homeland Security Presidential Directive 51 overrides every freedom you believed you had when you woke up this morning. A handwritten letter, sent to the FBI unleashes a trail of deceit putting the armed forces of the United States in direct conflict with each other. Discover the power of the 51st Directive through the eyes of FBI agent Erica Brewer as she and Washington D.C. Detective Sam Marco uncovers a secret…
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BOOK REVIEW : THE ORACLE OF CUMAE BY MELISSA HARDY
TITLE : AUTHOR : GENRE : Fiction, Historical, Humor FBRC RATING : 3.5 Stars PUBLISHING DATE : 8 Oct 2019 BLURB: On the day she turns ninety-nine, Mariuccia Umbellino calls for a priest so that she might finally confess to someone the secrets she has been living with for seventy-five years. When she was a girl, a band of men appeared at her family’s farm in the wild Sibylline Mountains with orders from the pope to destroy the nearby shrine of the Oracle of Cumae and to thereby end forever the practice of the Old Religion that had persisted in that region since Roman times. Set in early nineteenth-century Italy,…
BOOK REVIEW : WHY DO THEY HATE US? MAKING PEACE WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD BY STEVE SLOCUM
What set the Muslims apart from the Hebrews, the Christians, and the Quraysh was the strict prohibition against initiating a conflict and the requirement to cease fighting the moment the enemy surrendered. – STEVE SLOCUM (WHY DO THEY HATE US? MAKING PEACE WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD) TITLE : Why do they hate us? Making peace with the Muslim world. AUTHOR : Steve Slocum GENRE : Non-fiction, Religion & Spirituality, Politics FBRC RATING : 4.5 stars BLURB : With Americans still in shock after watching packed airliners slam into the twin towers, George W. Bush asked America, “Why do they hate us?” After 9/11, the world became more fearful, and acts…
BOOK REVIEW : CHASE DARKNESS WITH ME BY BILLY JENSEN
People read and watch and listen to true crime because it restores order from chaos. That’s the answer to give when someone asks you why you like hearing about real-life murder. It’s the comfort of watching everything be put in it’s place after an episode of outright, sickening bedlam. -Billy JENSEN (CHASE DARKNESS WITH ME) TITLE : Chase darkness with me AUTHOR : Billy Jensen GENRE : Non-fiction, True Crime FBRC : 4.5 Stars BLURB : Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pieces? Identify the suspect? Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families…
