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The Art of Nameology: Uncovering the Meaning Behind a Name

Norma J. Watts
Champion Press LTD (2006)
ISBN 1932783539
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (9/06)

From the first sentence to the last, “The Art of Nameology: Uncovering the Meaning Behind a Name,” author Norma J. Watts opens a new window on personality types, how our names are a part of who we are, and what we ultimately become as people because of these names. With each letter in a name being assigned a number and the numbers being converted for a single “power number,” we readily see how our names hold a meaning all their own. Through easy-to-understand instruction in converting names to numbers, explanations of power numbers and intensity numbers, as well as name compatibility, the author clearly explains the process of finding the meaning of any name.

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The Healing Power of Love

Gloria Lintermans & Marilyn Stolzman
Champion Press (2006)
ISBN 1932783512
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (9/06)

“The Healing Power of Love” was written to help widows and widowers to move on from their grief into whole, loving relationships. The book is written in a way that imparts warmth and compassion. Each chapter is written about a couple and how either one or both of them transcended the loss of a spouse and entered into the new relationship.

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The Healing Power of Grief

Gloria Lintermans and Marilyn Stoltzman
Champion Press LTD (2006)
ISBN 1932783482
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (9/06)

It is a fact of life for everyone that, at one time or another, we will lose someone close to us. We cannot bypass this experience nor can someone take the pain from us, but we can learn more through the author’s personal story of how we can make this heart-wrenching journey a little less confusing and how we can come to terms with this reality of life…namely death.

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It’s What We Do Together That Counts: The BIC Alliance Story

Earl Heard
BIC Publishing (2005)
ISBN 0976831007
Reviewed by Mary Simmons for Reader Views (9/06)

In this book about faith and the road to success, author Earl Heard, the founder and CEO of the BIC Alliance, tells how he and his network of family, friends and colleagues were able to build what is described as one of America’s largest multi-industrial, multi-departmental strategic marketing firms. Throughout the book, Heard maintains that hard work is the key to overcoming any difficult situation. Anyone taking on a business venture must stick with it through the hard times and remember the important role others will play in their success or failure. He encourages everyone to be grateful and kind to those who are traveling with them on their journey.

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The Complete Book of Unusual Names

Daniel David
Champion Press LTD (2006)
ISBN 1932783296
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (9/06)

When you find you are expecting one of the first things that comes to mind is “what will we name this bundle of joy?!?” Author Daniel David shows some seemingly simple words and how we can use them to create an unusual name for our little one.

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Milky Way Marmalade

Michael Di Certo
Zumaya Publications (2003)
ISBN 1894942213
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (9/06)

This fantastic tale of Caffrey Quark and his journey across time and space is one of those books that will leave you spellbound until you finally turn the last page and find out as Quark found out, what the one thing that brought meaning to his life really was about! Quark has endless musical connections throughout this book and they only serve to further develop his character through their use. It is amazing how the mere mention of a song within this book can conjure up so many images for the reader that mere words would fall short of doing. Music is after all the universal language and we see throughout “Milky Way Marmalade” language put to fantastic use by the author!

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Phoenix

Ken Rand
Zumaya Publications (2005)
ISBN 1894869966
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (9/06)

Phoenix is a desert colony planet which is inhabited by two groups of people. The day that teacher Anna Devlin discovers that she is pregnant, there is a violent uprising by the Familia faction. She and her husband try to escape outside of the dome. He dies and she loses her baby. Anna is severely injured and loses an eye as a result of the damage from an explosion. Anna now has nothing, no exosuit, food, water, equipment, nanosystems or implants. In her state of shock, she also loses much of her sanity. Anna learns to survive in the horrible desert heat. She also learns to kill for food. No longer able to rely on nanopods to control her pain and hunger, she discovers a plant based product called sapbalm. She is able to use it to numb her pain both internally and externally.

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Trust In the Wind

Vicki M. Taylor
Mundania Press (2006)
ISBN 1594262047
Reviewed by Audrey Hauser for Reader Views (9/06)

Vicki Taylor starts her story “Trust in the Wind” with three women folding clothes in the laundry room of their apartment complex in a bad part of Tampa. An unruly group is assembling outside and it looks as though there could be trouble. The older woman, Sadie, tells the other two to lock the door behind her when she leaves and be very careful on their way back to their apartments. Sheila, the 30s something widow of a firefighter is trying to talk 21-year-old Joanne into coming over to her place that evening when the crowd outside begins to pound on the window.

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Basho’s Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages

Matsuo Basho, translated by Hiroaki Sato
Stone Bridge Press (1996)
ISBN 1880656205
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (9/06)

Matsuo Basho (1644-94) was a famous Japanese haiku poet. In 1689, he took a 1,233 mile journey across Japan. His travels lasted five months. He was joined by his friend Kawai Sora. Basho wrote about this trip. He titled it, “Oku No Hosomichi,” which translates to “Narrow Road to the Interior.” This story is considered to be a masterpiece of Japanese literature. He took four years to write it and revise it.

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The Dead Hour

Denise Mina
Little, Brown and Company (2006)
ISBN 0316735949
Reviewed by Rebecka Vigus for Reader Views (8/06)

Paddy Meehan works the police beat on the graveyard shift at the Scottish Daily News in Glasgow. She lives at home with her parents, two brothers and a sister. Hers is the only income for the five of them. Times have been tough. Factories have shut down and many are out of work. Paddy is not tall and rather wide in the hip. She has spiky hair and wears second-hand clothes. She, like others at the paper, is chasing that one journalistic piece that will bring her national recognition and a larger income. That’s how she happens on a domestic disturbance in the Bearsden area. There is she is given fifty quid to overlook the call.

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