Hank Rattler and the Secret of the Cave of Kings
Twelve-year-old Hank Rattler lives alone in his empty house in the countryside. Mrs. Plunkett lives next door and cares for him in the absence of his parents. Hank and his classmates, Ruby Basher and Sam Benedetto, win their Grade 8 Science Fair, and the prize is summer camp in the Rocky Mountains. Meeting up at […]
BANKHAUS
Neil Giarratana Anulka Lorenzini is Head of Wealth Management at Bankhaus Finsler, a private bank in Zurich. Lorenzini’s clients represent, in part, a world of hidden, ill-gotten money. Her secret contempt for this dark side of the banking business is stronger than her attempts to remain outwardly who she actually is: a respected banker. She […]
Hunger Hijack
Hunger Hijack by David Sherer, MD Dr. David Sherer provides compelling evidence for a paradigm shift on how we understand the complex interplay between hypothalamic inflammation and the hormones of hunger and fullness. — Ronald Kotler MD FACP FCCP FAASM Prof of Clinical Medicine, U of PA Preventable diseases are skyrocketing. Even our brains are […]
Fear/Less
Why Your Lifelong Fears Are Probably Groundless Wojciech Janicki, Editor Our social environment operates based on imaginary orders to organize us – a set of beliefs that don’t stem from the world of science but from a collective, often informal, social contract. These beliefs and convictions define what is proper and reasonable and what is […]
Smash Hit
Race, Crime, and Culture in Boxing Films David Curcio Cinema emerged alongside the rules that ushered in boxing’s modern age and the “squared circle” proved the ideal stage for cinematic display. The public had its first taste of the new medium in 1894 through a heavyweight bout, recognized today as the world’s first feature film. […]
The Eight Sources of Power
A Tale of Leading with Purpose by David C. Bauman The book is a historically-based story that follows Tao and his four classmates as they join the Siam Leadership Academy in Ayutthaya, the capital of Siam (modern day Thailand). In 1687, Ayutthaya is more populous than London and full of foreign and local intrigue. The […]
The Most Dangerous Business Book You’ll Ever Read
From the Foreword by Phillip C. “Dr. Phil” McGraw, PhD “The Most Dangerous Business Book You’ll Ever Read. Now that is a provocative title and I’ll bet it made you ask yourself a lot of questions. Dangerous for whom? In what way? Will the results be dangerous? All valid questions that I can respond to […]
Chantz
Qwyrk can’t get a break. Spring is springing, but she’s stuck breaking up drunken faery fights as Beltane approaches. She really wants to take things to the next level with her possibly-probably-girlfriend Holly, but she keeps coming down with a chronic case of chickening out. And now, her best human friend, Jilly Pleeth, has had […]
Whispers of Betrayal
Adela Edgecombe Since every human personality is at root mysterious, all families present us with an abundance of mysteries, the chief of which is often how marriages ever happened in the first place. In her family memoir, Adela Edgecombe tackles that mystery head-on, uncovering a web of circumstances peculiar to place and time. The place […]
Jerry’s Last Mission
Jerry Yellin The book captures the emotional turmoil of WW II enemy combatants whose lives change when their youngest children marry each other. Jerry Yellin was a WW II P-51 fighter pilot who returned to the United States from the Battle of Iwo Jima and 19 missions over Japan with a loathing of the Japanese. […]
