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How to Protect Your Family's Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets

K. Gabriel Heiser
Phylius Press (2007)
ISBN 0979080118
Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (4/07)

The question of how to protect your family assets is timely. It is an important consideration faced by the majority of American citizens. As a result of longer life expectancy, rising medical costs, and complicated governmental programs, more and more people are forced to spend all their money before they ever qualify to take advantage of Medicaid benefits. Heiser’s book is a godsend as it guides the reader through the complex issues relating to Medicaid benefits, qualifications, and application strategies.

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America: Culture Shock

Ian C. Dawkins Moore
Airleaf Publishing (2006)
ISBN 1600021034
Reviewed by William Phenn for Reader Views (3/07)

Ian Moore is a well-traveled and exceptional individual. Born in London, England to Jamaican and English parents; Ian received his own culture shock as a young man. As a way to deal with it, he traveled Europe, the Middle East and West Africa. After extensively traveling the world, Mr. Moore elected to settle in Oakland, California in 1981 where he presently resides.

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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

Leonard Koren
Stone Bridge Press (2006)
ISBN 1880656124
Reviewed by Patty Inglish for Reader Views (4/07)

The Japanese tea ceremony is popular in global literature, movies, and theater to the point of what seems a small cult following. Westerners wonder at its significance and find it mystic. “Wabi-Sabi” by Leonard Koren provides us with a glimpse of its underlying importance that can be taken as a symbol for the whole of the wabi-sabi aesthetic. To clearly define wabi-sabi in words is to destroy it. However, this book succeeds in preserving wabi-sabi’s identity as a way of existence of all things in eternal transition.

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Pirate’s Prize

Lena Nelson Dooley
Barbour Publishing (2005)
ISBN 1593106092
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (4/07)

Angelina never dreamed that a seemingly boring voyage on her father's ship, the "Angelina Star," would be a voyage which would change her life forever. Visiting her grandparents was a special treat for Angelina as we learn in the prologue, for visiting them meant traveling from her new home in Florida back to Spain where they resided. But to Angelina, the trip was worth it for she loved them very much and enjoyed being so close to her mother's family.

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Points of Origin

Darden North
Ponder House Press (2006)
ISBN 0977112616
Reviewed by Susan Pettrone for Reader Views (4/07)

Sher Foxworth has it all, he's a star football player, popular kid, the son of a wealthy, successful plastic surgeon and a young man who, as they say, "has the world on a string with a down pull"…then his life changes in a heartbeat. His father is accused of medical malpractice in the unfortunate death of a young woman Flowers Ridley, whose mother, Charity, has high hopes of her as a pageant queen. Spurred on by a lawyer with dollar signs in his eyes and a greedy sister, Faith, Charity is relentless in her search for justice. The fact that Charity is honestly grieving for her lost daughter is lost on her relentless sister who sees no closure for Charity but unending funds to support her daughter's hopes of future pageant crowns.

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Life Blood

Penny Rudolph
Poisoned Pen Press (2007)
ISBN 1590583469
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (3/07)

Rachel Chavez lives in an apartment over the parking garage she inherited from her grandfather in downtown Los Angeles. Her customers are local businesses, not private individuals. During the night she hears a tapping noise but doesn’t investigate. The next morning she sees an unfamiliar van parked in the garage and she checks it out. Inside she sees a cage and with something in it.

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Charlie Ford Meets Secret Agent Man

J.D. Tynan
A Better Be Write Publisher (2007)
ISBN 0977197158
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (4/07)

Thanks to author J.D. Tynan, I was actually able to enjoy a flight across the United States because I had this book in my hands. By the way, this flight was full of traveling junior high school kids... and I don't like kids.

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Con Ed

Matthew Klein
Warner Books (2007)
ISBN 0446579556
Reviewed by Kylee J. Yeaman for Reader Views (3/07)

“Con Ed” by Matthew Klein is about a man named Kip Largo. Kip is in his mid 50's and was released from prison less than a year ago. Kip was imprisoned for a white collar crime. After he was released Kip tried to stay on the straight and narrow. Through no real fault of his own, Kip is dragged back into the world of cons.

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The Rumor of Heaven

C.J. Chanler
iUniverse (2006)
ISBN 0595416578
Reviewed by Joe Graham for Reader Views (4/07)

If you have ever been to Galveston, Texas, or any seaside resort with great homes and admired those homes and wondered what it would be like to grow up in such a home, “The Rumor of Heaven” may have some answers to that question. “The Rumor of Heaven” is the story of Lillie Rutherford who was born in 1855 in Galveston which made her BOI (Born on the Island).

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Issy’s Infatuation

Shelley Munro
Ellora’s Cave (2007)
ISBN 9781419907609
Reviewed by Anne Boling for Reader Views (4/07)

Isabel (Issy) Deans’ goal is to become a member of New Zealand’s women’s Rugby team, the Black Ferns. When Tyler Jameson takes the position he is surprised that his friend’s little sister has grown up. She’s not the gangly little girl he remembers. Seeing him again rekindles the desire Issy has long kept hidden.

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