Well, the title is a little longer than that, but you get the general idea. Fabulous Finds: How Expert Appraiser Lee Drexler Sold Wall Street’s Charging Bull, Found Hidden Treasures and Mingled with the Rich & Famous is a quick little read (under 200 pages) about art appraisal — determining the value of all sorts of art objects for insurance,… Read more
It’s Christmas Eve and Vera Coffey is on the run. What she brings to the little town of American Rapids is certainly not holiday cheer. She has something with her, and the people following her will do anything to get it back. In Pitch Dark, Steven Sidor sets an extremely creepy stage. A small town in the middle of nowhere,… Read more
Now, this is something I don’t usually do: turn the microphone over to someone else, here on my site, but this is an interesting situation. Amy Young from the United States Center for Consumer Finance Education contacted me a while back and offered to provide some information for my website, to help promote the work the Center does, educating consumers… Read more
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Every Step You Take: A Memoir is a look back for Jock Soto at his family and his career, sorting through the influences that made him a unique figure in the ballet world. The writing took great courage, as some of his family history must have been hard to face — some unpleasant truths about his father, in particular, and… Read more
I can’t tell you how excited I was to get Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy. It sat on my To Be Read shelf for a while, as I finished up other commitments, and it taunted me, whispered to me, enticed me the whole time. There are some great authors included in this collection and I couldn’t wait to dig… Read more
Back in August, I reviewed Zombies of the World: A Field Guide to the Undead by Ross Payton. What fun! All the info you need on different species of zombies and tips for surviving a zombie apocalypse. Now, just in time for Halloween, the North American Necrological Institute is offering their zombie related merchandise at special prices! Did you… Read more
The world is going crazy around Tom Crandall in Neil McMahon’s L.A. Mental. His brother, Nick, calls him in a paranoid frenzy, probably drug-induced. When Tom finds him, Nick literally jumps off a cliff. His sister, Erica, has been receiving threats. His brother Paul is involved in a film project with a charismatic figure that he follows with a cult-like… Read more
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Okay, today is Stop #3 on the Kingdom of Childhood Scavenger Hunt! Stop by a different site every day for another snippet from the new novel by Rebecca Coleman. Here is today’s find: My heart palpitated. “Your mother found something out?” “No, I mean, when she was getting with the yoga guy. She probably thought I wasn’t paying attention.” “Oh.”… Read more