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Reviewed by: Hollywood Book Reviews

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In the crowded thriller genre, it can be difficult to make a name for yourself.  However, with engaging characters and a thrilling, science-based plot, author Geoffrey T. Hudson is doing just that with his new novel, The String Theory.  Having muddled through science courses back in the day, I made sure to quickly brush up on string theory…

Reviewed by:  Suzanne Gattis, Pacific Book Review

Packed with both mystery and romance, conspiracy and emotion, with story lines centered on the polar opposites of horses and the Mexican drug cartel, this award-winning romantic mystery novel is a thrill throughout to read.  Bev Pettersen’s Horses and Heroin, while based off the classic tale with the male detective lead and the romantic love interest, is filled with just enough  twists and turns to set it apart from…

Reviewed by: Claire Rudy Foster, Pacific Book Review 

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Writer John Le Carre said, “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” He could have been describing the adventures of James and Ian Lawrence in Bryan Devore’s latest thriller The Price of Innocence. Plunged into an underworld of saboteurs, spies, and sex traffickers, the Lawrence brothers…

Reviewed by:  Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review

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Rhythmically floating to the flutter of fairies’ wings, this poetic book dances on the minds of young recipients of bedtime storytelling, creating both a visual and loving embrace. Letting Grow, also implying “Letting Go” tells of the imagination of a girl, Julia, just a baby in the arms of her mother, drifting off into the…

Reviewed by:  Jason Lulos, Pacific Book Review

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“It was a peculiar anomaly:  stimulating adventure, yet dreary drudgery.” Such is the author's oppositional description of life on an aircraft carrier during World War II. The book is comprehensive, nearly ponderous at over 700 pages.  But the book contains over 300 photographs (some of them incredible and even artistic).  It is the photographs…

Reviewed by:  Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book Review

Rhythmically floating to the flutter of fairies’ wings, this poetic book dances on the minds of young recipients of bedtime storytelling, creating both a visual and loving embrace. Letting Grow, also implying “Letting Go” tells of the imagination of a girl, Julia, just a baby in the arms of her mother, drifting off into the semi-conscious part of sleep; dreaming of fairies flying through…

Reviewed by:  Juliet Farmer, Hollywood Book Reviews

If you received the cryptic message, “You are needed,” how might you respond? In the mind of author Michael Dadich, six teens heed that call, in the process entering a world in which the fate of Earth and Azimuth, some 200 light years from Earth, hang in the balance.  Taking a page from the age-old battle of good against evil, The Silver Sphere offers an alternate world in which the devil goes by…

Reviewed by:  S. Marie Vernon, Hollywood Book Reviews

Meet Anael, a beautiful and super intelligent angel, who is bored stiff with the perfection of Heaven.  After busting out of the good place, she heads straight to hell to find some excitement.  Nicknamed “the-angel-that-was” by those she encounters, Anael is a not-so welcomed newcomer to some, while becoming quickly cherished by others.  Possessing a scientific mind and photographic memory, it seems her greatest…

Reviewed by:  Gary Sorkin, Pacific Book 

American born author Louge’, courageously researched and wrote EXPOSED:  BATTERED WOMEN SHELTERS, writing about her experiences firsthand, as initially a woman in need of a shelter first dealing with her own situation; later, once emerging from her setbacks.  Louge' took it upon herself to expose the inadequacies and abuses which are embedded in the hierarchy of the management of woman’s shelters.  To this end, she had to…

Reviewed by:  S. Marie Vernon, Pacific Book Review

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Author, Dorothea S. McArthur, PhD, has 34 years of training and practice as a clinical psychologist.  She has also trained other graduate students to become psychologists.  In her book, Defining Moments she draws from this experience, her training and case studies to create a dynamic resource…

Reviewed by:  S. Marie Vernon, Pacific Book Review

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Author, Wisdom J.O.Y. Makano is a poet and a philosopher.  He has worked a lifetime studying ancient sources of knowledge, the wisdom of the sages, religious text, philosophy, and other esoteric volumes.   His extensive research and wealth of knowledge has now culminated into his first book, The Best Kept Secrets of Personal…

Reviewed by:  Brandon Nolta, Pacific Book Review

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There are all sorts of pithy quotes and Facebook memes about the nature of friendship, but more than anything, true friendship endures. It survives war and time and loss, and for those people lucky enough to experience it, as Joseph Donohue clearly was, it’s a life-changing force. In his memoir Frank and Me at Mundung-Ni, Donohue…

Reviewed by: Lisa Brown-Gilbert, Pacific Book Review

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As an avid reader of science fiction and its sub – genres, I personally find that there is nothing quite like coming to the end of a well-written, completely enjoyable science fiction story and wanting for more.  Spectra by author Joanne Elder is exactly the type of sci- fi story that I am talking about. This is a completely…

Reviewed by:  Suzanne Gattis, Pacific Book Review

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Sometimes it is only when you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders that you really see what it is you want and what it is you are missing out of life.  Such is the epiphany that Rachel Lyons comes to in the ever-suspenseful Severed Threads.  Kaylin McFarren’s novel takes the reader through twists and turns as the story…

Reviewed by: Jason Lulos, Pacific Book Review

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Run Your Own Corporation by Garrett Sutton is an extremely well written introductory course on the life of a corporation.  Despite your political biases which may inform whether or not you consider a corporation to be a person, Sutton explains that the concept of a corporation as a separate “being” is essential for the…

Reviewed by:  S. Marie Vernon, Pacific Book Review

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In 2020, I Want a Woman President by author, Lolu Adebayo, is a little book with a big message.  It’s a book about women in leadership; it’s about women in politics; and ultimately it’s about our nation electing a woman President - It’s about a nation evolving and accepting that many women are capable and qualified to…

Reviewed by:  S Marie Vernon, Pacific Book Review

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Reviewed by:  James F. Sadler, Pacific Book Review

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