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Requiem of Insanity...A Non-Fictional Fairy Tale
Debra Ulrich
As an original letter she wrote to herself, Debra Ulrich describes the experiences she had as a mother attempting to eradicate an attention deficit disorder and manic/depressive illnes In this non-fictional novel she is Sara Rachael Hope, a princess who becomes a queen that lives a dream-like existence.
Loving Joe Gallucci: Love and Life with Hepatitis C
Kate Genovese
Based on a true love story that takes place over a period of thirty years. It chronicles the courtship and marriage of Meg and Jim Romano as they struggle with certain aspects of their lives and eventually face a life-threatening disease.
Joy and Evolution
Robert L. Peck
This is a hard-hitting book describing how everyone can find access to personal inner powers, joy and evolution, as well as how institutional science and religion have suppressed those powers. The reader will discover startling proofs of these claims based upon modern research including key re-translations of ancient Western and Eastern documents such as The Gospel of Thomas, the Sermon on the Mount, the Rig Veda and the Hathayogapradapika. Joy and Evolution describes startling connections between science and religion which have never before been questioned and answered with the clarity that this book provides.
Therefore I Am: A Book for African-American Men
Frederick Covington
Therefore I Am shares the favorite inspirational quotes and eye-opening experiences of everyday African American men, and ultimately empowers you to find your own inner strength.
Welcome To My World, Part One
Pamala Thomas
This is a collection of heartfelt poetry and songs I have written. It has been released by Publish America. I have a second collection that will be a much larger collection being released soon. My book is under the pen name of Levi's Lace.
Who Do You Say I Am
C.L. Mareydt
Who Do You Say I Am is based on the scripture from Matt. 16:15. It is an envisionary journey thru prayer. Communicating to God brings communion with God. You will be delighted and enjoy each page, all the while seeing your own prayers becoming more inspirational and enjoyable. A must read for all spiritually minded. This is not only who God is, but who each one of us are too.
Little Gifts
Paula Brewer
Shrouded in the tragedies of her childhood, "Little Gifts" is the tale of one woman?s struggle to find her place in a world that no longer makes sense.
God's Eternal Love
Tammy Winslett
Offers a collection of thoughts positing one's faith as a means by which one might overcome even the most daunting of obstacles. This book relates to scriptural interpretation with a series of expressions addressing the subject matter from many different angles.
Trash Talk
Lillian Brummet
People are constantly bombarded with negative information about the environment and our resources. Feeling powerless because we cannot afford to donate cash or time to a cause, we begin to feel overwhelmed by the immense environmental problems our world faces. The book's focus is on changing people's mindset to a more open, hopeful and proactive one. Not by finger-pointing at corporations and governments, but by starting in our own homes, at our own desks. Trash Talk embarks on frugal and conscious living techniques for the individual via reuse of 'waste' materials and reducing consumption of resources.
So You Think You're Saved? Be Very Sure!
Rosemary Wright
This book puts to rest fallacies that have been handed down over the years using the word of God, the Holy Bible as its reference. For example, people believe that children fathered by the same man by different women are half-sisters/ brothers, when in reality they are sisters and brothers because of the man's seed. Also people believe if someone commits suicide that person goes to heaven. Not so! The Bible speaks about this!!! It is included in this book.
Through the narrator’s reflections we accumulate an unusually exact understanding of his aims and character. His life is not pretty and he may waver and wobble but he is grounded in honesty. He waves illusion away and sees life with a directness and acceptance that is refreshing and, rightly apprehended, renewing.
Reviewed by Bob Williams at The Compulsive Reader
About a Girl
by Tony Nesca
Screamin’ Skull Press
2004, ISBN 0-7795-0073-3, 161 pages, $17.00
A reader may order from:
Tony Nesca, 504 Brock Street, Winnipeg MB_R3N 021, Canada
In Ulysses Leopold Bloom reflects that it would be a puzzle to traverse Dublin in any manner without passing a pub. It would seem to be true also of Winnipeg as Tony Nesca presents it.
The unnamed narrator encounters a young woman on a bus. She is part Native and part black and suits him so well that he gives up the idea of showing up for work even though he assumes that this will cost him his job. He and the woman go on a drinking spree that takes them and us to taverns, strip bars, and rock and roll clubs. On their way they encounter a lively assortment of Winnipeg denizens. We are in the dimly lighted world of decidedly raffish and down-at-the-heels musicians, writers, and rejecters of polite and orderly society. Various degrees of drunkenness and the use of marijuana and other drugs are almost universal. Fights are frequent and the bouncer is the magister ludi.
To this Nesca brings a largely unpunctuated and lyric flow of observation and thought. There is no plot in the accepted sense of the term although there is a progression in the relationship of the narrator and the young woman who ends up in the narrator’s apartment. In place of plot we have a studiedly precise description of a gritty life-style. It is a sufficient answer to pretensions and falsity in the dominant culture, sick with its material glut and fast food ethics. Through the narrator’s reflections we accumulate an unusually exact understanding of his aims and character. His life is not pretty and he may waver and wobble but he is grounded in honesty. He waves illusion away and sees life with a directness and acceptance that is refreshing and, rightly apprehended, renewing.
The flavor of the book is not reproducible in a short account like this one, but Nesca has written poetry (Emma Strunk and other chapbooks) and was once a rock musician. There is a constant poetic tone and musical sense in About a Girl. There are also some shrewd observations of great penetration. When the narrator attacks the notion that everything has a equal value, he expresses it in this way: “you can like whatever the ***** you want but don’t be telling me that Britney Spears is just as valid as Tom Waits.” About the shortcomings of his own social milieu he observes in disgust: “all that’s needed to stir things up is a bit of violence how we ever crawled down from the trees is a mystery to me.”
Tony Nesca, born in Italy in 1965, has spent years in Italy and in Canada of which he has been a permanent resident since he was fifteen. He was a member of a rock band until he became dedicated to writing. There is little or no resistance to identifying his experience with that of the narrator in About a Girl. If this be true, he sold copies of his books from his backpack on the streets of Winnipeg.
About the Reviewer: Bob Williams is retired and lives in a small town with his wife, dogs and a cat. He has been collecting books all his life, and has done freelance writing, mostly on classical music. His principal interests are James Joyce, Jane Austen and Homer. His book Joyce Country, a guide to persons and places, can be accessed at: http://www.grand-teton.com/service/Persons_Places
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