Books http://www.akgmag.com/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:00:02 -0600 By MartinaReiszNewberry. Review of Martina Reisz Newberry's newest book, 100 SELECT POEMS PLUS ONE. Review by Michael Wilds, PhD http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review_of_Martina_Reiz_Newberrys_most_recent_book_.htm Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:08:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review_of_Martina_Reiz_Newberrys_most_recent_book_.htm By Miguel O Villegas. The conjoining of the Ortega and Valdez families was inevitable. Their families were prominent, affluent, venerated, and even feared by some. Having Señorita Marta Ortega and Señor Miguel Valdez marry made all the sense in the world, except to the bride. This is Marta’s story. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Family_Honor.htm Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:43:51 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Family_Honor.htm By smbrooksie. (The story of Louis and Marie Hebert) The year is 1617 in Paris, France. This is a story of two people deeply in love. This is the story of Louis and Marie Rollet Hebert. It is a tale of how they decided to leave their busy apothecary shop for the wild and unknown lands of New France. They are believed to be the first family to settle and successfully farm the land in the New World.... The bravery shown by Louis is epic as he learns new ways to survive in the vast wilderness and deep snows of Port Royale (modern day Nova Scotia) surrounded by other incredible people famed in history such as Samuel Champlain who was the royal cartographer or mapmaker for Henri IV and Sieur Jean Poutrincourt, Governor of Port Royale. The facts of history stand firm but little is known on the details and inspirations of those brave men who risked all to forge a new future unknown and waiting for them across the sea. The sacrifices of those women left home while their husbands risked their lives in completely unchartered lands that took two months at sea to sail to. Marie not only stayed home and kept up the apothecary shop while Louis was overseas-but she learned all of the skills necessary for survival in the New World. Their love kept them strong and their dreams alive. This novel is about all that lead Louis and Marie and their family to board that ship on that fateful day in 1617. It is about their dreams and hopes for a future unknown. Of why they were willing to leave their prosperous apothecary shop in Paris for such a brave new destiny! http://www.akgmag.com/article/Le_Point_de_non_retour_or_The_Point_of_No_Return.htm Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:41:37 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Le_Point_de_non_retour_or_The_Point_of_No_Return.htm By Carol G Stratton. The story of one ruined Thanksgiving. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Art_Imitates_Life.htm Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:59:45 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Art_Imitates_Life.htm By Lynda Forman. Banish is a thrilling book by Pamela Lamont - the story of magic and discovery when Jessica discovers hidden items that reveal more than just spells. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Banish__Mirror_Mirror_on_the_Floor.htm Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Banish__Mirror_Mirror_on_the_Floor.htm By Candace L. Bowser. What drew you to writing children’s books? “I was an educator for thirty years and raised two children to love books. After retirement, it just seemed natural to write them. Now my three grandchildren can enjoy my work.” http://www.akgmag.com/article/Rosalinda_Vargas_Childrens_Author_and_more.htm Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Rosalinda_Vargas_Childrens_Author_and_more.htm By PagesbyCrystal. If time belonged to any one individual, it would be the watchmaker. And so begins the tale of 11:11 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Wishing_Year_a_legend_for_most_ages.htm Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Wishing_Year_a_legend_for_most_ages.htm By Candace L. Bowser. Richard Sanders has been able to use his life experiences to delve into the dark world of mystery writing. He uses his experiences to fill the pages of his books with a mysterious and macabre world that draws the reader in until they are lost. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mystery_Writer_Richard_Sanders.htm Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mystery_Writer_Richard_Sanders.htm By stevejonessnr. An idea I had for a book some years ago has reared its head again recently. I would like some opinions/criticisms on the opening. You can email me at steve@theblackcrown.co.uk to let me know what you think if you wish! http://www.akgmag.com/article/Power_Failure.htm Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Power_Failure.htm By stevejonessnr. He dismounted and led his horse under the drooping boughs. There was a small clearing in the middle of the group of trees, and at its centre, a flat slab of stone around six feet square, about as high as his waist. The sky was clear, and a half moon shone bright, its silvery light casting shadows of the willow branches. Garat thought how much like the claws of some great creature they looked, reaching out to grasp the stone. He stepped back under the cover of the trees at the sound of a rustle from the other side of the clearing. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Gates_of_Sparak_Thur.htm Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Gates_of_Sparak_Thur.htm By stevejonessnr. Back in the mists of time, the world began to cool. The surface became solid, cooled further, and then began to shrink. The colossal pressure of the molten core built up until the new crust split asunder in a great circle around the northern pole. Huge crags and spires of obsidian rock, thousands of feet high, were thrown up in a great ring almost a thousand miles across. Carag Cri’eth was formed, “The Black Crown” in the tongue of the latter race of men. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Making_of_the_World.htm Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Making_of_the_World.htm By Nigel Barto. A collection of short stories inspired by the author's journey. http://www.akgmag.com/article/feed_me_by_nigel_barto.htm Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/feed_me_by_nigel_barto.htm By F.W. vom Scheidt . How much money is too much? And how fast is too fast in life? Investment star Paris Smith steps onto the top rungs of the corporate ladder, only to discover he is caught between his need for fulfillment and his need for understanding, between his drive for power and his inability to cope with his growing emptiness where there was once love. When his wife disappears from the core of his life, Smith's loneliness and sense of disconnection threaten to overwhelm him. When he tries to compensate by lo http://www.akgmag.com/article/Coming_for_Money__Chapter_One_Sample.htm Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Coming_for_Money__Chapter_One_Sample.htm By ValsBooks. Einstein the Destroyer, a fun story-activity book was written by Valerie Biamonte and illustrated by Lea Goffinski. The story is for kids ages 5 to 9. There are pages to color, a word search, dot-to-dots, and more! Available at Amazon.com and www.TheWoopsInc.com. Come join Einstein the German Shepherd for this fun-loving story. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Einstein_the_Destroyer.htm Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Einstein_the_Destroyer.htm By ValsBooks. Recent Release on Kindle, Kobo, Apple and Smashwords: Wiretap by Valerie Biamonte. About Wiretap: Amanda Stephens, based in Chicago's suburbs, creates business plans to help companies in trouble. But when murders start happening and her partner goes missing, a homicide detective takes interest - in more ways than one. Soon the murderer is after her. Can Amanda come up with a plan to save herself? http://www.akgmag.com/article/Wiretap_a_murder_mystery.htm Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Wiretap_a_murder_mystery.htm By Ray Montclair . The perfect life turned macabre. Alan D had it all - a beautiful, loving fiancee and a good family, job and life; but when the new neighbors moved in, things started to change. It started off with them simply watching him and his family, but as time progressed, things started to escalate, turning horrifying and vicious. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Neighbors_.htm Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Neighbors_.htm By Speakwithlarry. This book is the creation of a mind shift change. It's geared to take you from the employee to employer mindset. And at the same time teach you to become more familiar with the computer. I created it in a short easy to read format, and walked you through certain procedures step by step. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Your_new_boss_looks_like_this__by_Larry_D_James.htm Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Your_new_boss_looks_like_this__by_Larry_D_James.htm By Candace L. Bowser. The Athyxian Chronicles is a 3 part series by author Kevin C. Davison that the follows a group of unlikely heroes on a vast adventure. Rich in characters and a storyline that draws the reader into the dark and foreboding world of Athyx, the reader instantly develops a bond with the heroes as they try to save their beloved world and stay alive, for each step they take is full of peril and unseen enemies. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Athyxian_Chronicles.htm Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Athyxian_Chronicles.htm By tomtt2. AUTHOR CAPTURES SPIRIT OF SOUTHERN BABY-BOOMERS Book portrays the adventures of growing up before the internet and the iPod. It was a unique time - that time after we had split the atom, but before we were split by an obscure land in Southeast Asia. The sixty-eight million Americans born in the post WWII period between 1946 and 1964 form the largest bubble in birth rates in the nation's... http://www.akgmag.com/article/Cheese_Grits_Stories_to_Nourish_the_Southern_Soul.htm Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Cheese_Grits_Stories_to_Nourish_the_Southern_Soul.htm By David Stanley. Moon Tahiti by David Stanley is a comprehensive guide to all five archipelagos of French Polynesia. The 7th edition has just been published by Avalon Travel of Berkeley, California. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Moon_Tahiti_from_Avalon_Travel.htm Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Moon_Tahiti_from_Avalon_Travel.htm By Michael Quirke . Synopsis Robert McCain life takes a dramatic change when he finds a modern day treasure map that was slipped in his pocket by a desperate beautiful woman. A plane crashes and vanishes deep into the jungle of Central America. It’s cargo of millions in cash and drugs that are all over shadowed by a small yet significant looking statue. Hidden Aztec treasures and Cortez with his band of blood thirsty conquistadors, on their last mission from the King of S http://www.akgmag.com/article/30_Pieces_of_Silver_The_Judas_Payoff.htm Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/30_Pieces_of_Silver_The_Judas_Payoff.htm By Candace L. Bowser. A four hundred year old curse plagues the Bristol family. When the matriarch of the family dies, the Mirror is passed to her granddaughter Adrianna Bristol. When Adrianna learns the real reason behind the curse, she will stop at nothing to set her family free. There is only one obstacle in her way, which is....the Mirror. http://www.akgmag.com/article/the_Mirror.htm Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/the_Mirror.htm By Candace L. Bowser. What would you do if you awoke from a horrifying and brutal attack with no memory of who you were? When Jaden Gibbons awoke in a dark alley, she couldn't remember who she was or how she had gotten there. A tragedy that befalls her a year later begins to unravel her true identity. When the entire truth is finally revealed, who will survive the aftermath? http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mantis_Pray_for_Death.htm Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mantis_Pray_for_Death.htm By Denise Krochta. When the author discovered her son was a drug addict her life and that of her family changed dramatically. After a long time of distraction, loss of focus, and declining health, she decided to develop a plan to improve her life. This plan is the cornerstone of this book. It is a plan that allowed her to make better choices for herself despite the often poor choices of those around her. Although this plan is a simple one, it is not easy. With work, serenity can be ours. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Sweat_A_Practical_Plan_for_Keeping_Your_Heart_Intact_While_Loving_an_Addict.htm Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Sweat_A_Practical_Plan_for_Keeping_Your_Heart_Intact_While_Loving_an_Addict.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. A gentle story of Virginia's Appalachian Mountains, David Baldacci's "Wish You Well" is the story of two siblings, Lou and Oz, whose father was killed in a car wreck which left their mother in a coma. Sent into the Virginia mountains to live with their great grand-mother's farm house with no gas or electricity, they learn to love the land which had won the heart of their father and his grandmother. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Wish_You_Well.htm Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Wish_You_Well.htm By Francine Silverman. Non-fiction ebooks provide valuable information on a variety of subjects. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Non_fiction_Ebooks_Save_Radio_Guests_Time_and_Trouble.htm Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Non_fiction_Ebooks_Save_Radio_Guests_Time_and_Trouble.htm By Antonio F. Vianna. Book 3 of a series. As this novel opens Anne is awakened from a horrifying nightmare. She wonders if the dream is a predictor of events to come. All the while, her enemies, some old and some new, are intent to have their own way ... vampires who set in motion seemingly irreversible measures to do away with her. Paul has become the X-factor. http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Vampire_Who_Loved.htm Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/The_Vampire_Who_Loved.htm By Debbi Mack. IDENTITY CRISIS introduces attorney Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae. A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Sam's client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Identity_Crisis.htm Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Identity_Crisis.htm By Kathy Carlton Willis Comm.. Jennifer Kennedy Dean shares insight on how weakness can be celebrated rather than complained about in this excerpt from her latest release, Set Apart. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Celebrating_Weakness.htm Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Celebrating_Weakness.htm By Kathy Carlton Willis Comm.. Jennifer Kennedy Dean shares an excerpt from her Bible Study and recent release Set Apart. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mercy_in_Motion.htm Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Mercy_in_Motion.htm By Kathy Carlton Willis Comm.. Jennifer Kennedy Dean shares insight on grace and holiness. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Under_Grace.htm Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Under_Grace.htm By Gerard Hernan. Hispanics are not alone. A real Rich Latino comes to the rescue. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Si_Podemos___Yes__we_can.htm Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Si_Podemos___Yes__we_can.htm By Aedon Young. Mara Roy, the protagonist of "Mara Roams", was always hopeful that she would have an encounter with magical beings. Her preferred methods of protection are detailed in this top 10 list. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Top_10_Defences_Against_the_Faerie_Realm.htm Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Top_10_Defences_Against_the_Faerie_Realm.htm By Tracy Ahrens. "Cloud Jumpers" encourages children ages 2 to 8 to look up at clouds and imagine shapes in them. Within this fluffy world live the Cloud Jumpers who are "looking back at you." http://www.akgmag.com/article/Cloud_Jumpers.htm Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Cloud_Jumpers.htm By Tracy Ahrens. "What if the Moon …" offers a poetic text to expand a child’s imagination while teaching about colors and shapes. For example, the moon transforms into a grape, an orange and a chocolate chip cookie. A "Moon’s Activity, Seek & Find" page provides added fun. This book is for children ages 2 to 8. http://www.akgmag.com/article/What_if_the_Moon____.htm Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/What_if_the_Moon____.htm By Tracy Ahrens. Angie and Cecil Bellephant of Kankakee offer the first book about losing a child, Titus, to a rare congenital birth defect called Potter’s Syndrome,otherwise known as Bilateral Renal Agenesis (the absence of kidneys). Titus also had Branchio-oto-renal (BOR), a dominant genetic condition that can result in kidney anomalies. Resources are provided for further information about Potter’s and BOR. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Giant_Hero.htm Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Giant_Hero.htm By Elizabeth Fournier. All Men Are Cremated Equal: My 77 Blind Dates, by mortician Elizabeth Fournier, is a laugh-out-loud memoir that captures the experience of being single, female and fast approaching 40, still longing to find The One. Freshly on the rebound, Fournier makes a list of the ten qualities she is looking for in a man and forwards the list to her vast social network. She then ventures on 77 blind dates, letting her friends act as matchmakers in the Portland and San Francisco Bay Area. http://www.akgmag.com/article/All_Men_Are_Cremated_Equal__My_77_Blind_Dates.htm Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/All_Men_Are_Cremated_Equal__My_77_Blind_Dates.htm By Andrew Lubin. Andrew Lubin is establishing himself as one of the finest Operation Iraqi Freedom historians David Danelo; award-winning author of Blood Stripes; A Grunts View of the war in Iraq http://www.akgmag.com/article/Charlie_Battery__A_Marine_Artillery_Battery_in_Iraq.htm Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Charlie_Battery__A_Marine_Artillery_Battery_in_Iraq.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Part of an upcoming Stephanie Plum novel series, One For The Money is a witty and exceptionally funny story of Stephanie Plum—a bounty hunter with a huge attitude who really is not afraid of much of anything. In her young twenties, she lives only five miles from her parents she spends as many nights as possible for supper, along with the live-in eccentric Grandma Mazur who keeps the reader in stitches throughout the entire book. http://www.akgmag.com/article/One_for_the_Money_by_Janet_Evanovich.htm Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/One_for_the_Money_by_Janet_Evanovich.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Three novels in one volume by author Kim Vogel Sawyer, the Sommerfeld Trilogy is about a Kansas Mennonite community involving three women—Marie Koeppler, her daughter Beth Quinn, and Trina Muller—who each has a different outlook on life with three different personalities and personal goals. But the big question is, how do these work into the lifestyle of the Mennonite belief system? http://www.akgmag.com/article/Sommerfeld_Trilogy__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Sommerfeld_Trilogy__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. A fiction book written of an actual historical event with real characters, Love to Water My Soul by Jane Kirkpatrick is a spell-binding story which involves the life of a very young white child rescued by the Wadduka tribe, Oregon's Paiute people, after she falls off the traveling wagon train without notice around 1866. The female child Asiam is the author Jane Kirkpatrick's mother-in-law's actual great-grandmother, who was rescued and lived most of her life among the Indian tribe until running http://www.akgmag.com/article/Love_to_Water_My_Soul__by_Jane_Kirkpatrick.htm Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Love_to_Water_My_Soul__by_Jane_Kirkpatrick.htm By Nancy L. Young-Houser. Big dreams after college in Boston take Mennonite Thomas Ollenburger along many paths, far away from his Kansas prairie roots and religious upbringing. Once graduated, he is torn between remaining in the big city with a woman who has no faith in God or returning to his Kansas roots where there are not jobs. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Where_the_Heart_Leads__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Where_the_Heart_Leads__by_Kim_Vogel_Sawyer.htm By Lynda Forman. Into Thin Air is the story of those who survived a trip to the summit of Mount Everest and the story of those who perished in their attempt. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Book_Review__Into_Thin_Air.htm Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Book_Review__Into_Thin_Air.htm By Kenneth Whitehead. Part of an ongoing series of articles that draws upon the lessons in classical literature to find the value they can offer to modern business people living and working in the 21st century. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Learning_Business_from_Literature__Sun_Tzu_s_.htm Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Learning_Business_from_Literature__Sun_Tzu_s_.htm By Lynda Forman. Running for exercise can become running for enjoyment with the strategies in Chi Running by Danny Dreyer. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review:_Chi_Running_by_Danny_Dreyer.htm Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review:_Chi_Running_by_Danny_Dreyer.htm By Lynda Forman. Jack Kerouac´s The Dharma Bums is a fascinating look into the practice of Buddhism, the quest for enlightenment, and what the reality of both may be. http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review:_The_Dharma_Bums_by_Jack_Kerouac.htm Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Review:_The_Dharma_Bums_by_Jack_Kerouac.htm By Lynda Forman. With the popularity of the Twilight series, it begs the question - what do these books have to teach those who read them? Is this a craze or a sign of a deeper question? http://www.akgmag.com/article/Is_the__Twilight__Craze_Here_to_Stay.htm Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.akgmag.com/article/Is_the__Twilight__Craze_Here_to_Stay.htm