Synopsis: Health, diet, and fitness have become a multi-billion dollar business. The industry explodes into every corner of the industrialized world. A person canāt ignore the inducements and promotions that exist in every media source on the planet. Yet, the commerce surrounding the business has a unique and curious component. The... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Gather & Make is an award winning, newly published, one-of-a-kind book. The book provides step-by-step instructions for activities that encourage lively engagement with plants. Three easy-to-create, affordable activities are featured for every month of the year. Each activity in Gather & Make is carefully selected to harmonize with the... Continue Reading →
Rating: 5-stars Gather & Make by Genevieve Layman is one of the most interesting garden and nature books that I've read. Here, she discusses things such as the benefits of plants and nature to us humans. Insects like the bees are crucial to plants. There's even a project to make for insects. I... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: EVOKATIONS is a spiritual awakening, a term I've coined to implement the meditative healing of America's very soul. The thoughts and emotions conjured EVOKE figurative pillars of esoteric collaboration where semantics, style, and purpose adjoin feelings within the principal scope one calls the promise of TODAY. Therefore, one... Continue Reading →
ULM: What lead you into the path of writing? I write to remind people of their value and to show these guys that no matter where you are, we can be successful. I speak from my soul. š ULM: Using only three words, how would describe your... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: I believe we have extraordinary stories inside of us. Stories that perhaps we have never told to anyone because they are difficult for us to accept as true. Often they tell of an intervention where someone or something appears in our lives unexpectedly and challenges our... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: In irreverent, laugh-out-loud style, Where Triples Go to Die illuminates the messy intersection of sports, race, and romance in contemporary college life. Black superstar Juke Jackson and white counselor Malcolm Wade, each facing relationship crises at home, forge a bond at school as Wade guides Jacksonās quest to join the legion of African Americans... Continue Reading →
ULM: You mentioned that Miseries, Illusions and Hope is your second book. What was your first book? My first book was A very Resilient Amreeki Dream...a short story. ULM: What led you to writing short stories? I like reading and writing about real life characters. I have a huge collection of autobiographies. I believe... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: My second bookāMiseries, Illusions and Hopeāis a collection of few short stories I wrote in the last few years. Most of them appeared on my blogs on Facebook and Blogger. These stories are about everyday people who are working hard for themselves and their loved ones. I call these people everyday heroes. They may... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: This eye-opening and entertaining first novel paints a vivid picture of the rough-and-tumble of 19th century urban America. Vera St. John is a resourceful girl growing into an unconventional woman. She comes of age through the wild streets of New York City, the quiet rural village of Flatbush, the mob violence of Baltimore, and... Continue Reading →
Review links: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/RXF42ESN6QBLS?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl Blog: http://wp.me/p4n3Np-6fO Twitter: https://twitter.com/urbanliterary/status/890720375327404032 ULM: What led you both into doing this book together? Ravin: The first time I met Hassan it was obvious he possessed a writerās craft. He spoke in parables and was always attentive to the possibilities for extrapolation of the tales spinning in his head. Although... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: A narrative weave of testimonial non-fiction by Judith Ravin and Muhammad Hassan Miraj, Beyond Our Degrees of Separation evokes points of intersection between the United States and Pakistan. Hailing from oxymoronic bureaucracies, the co-authors transcend their respective realms of diplomacy and the military to reaffirm commonalities beyond differences. The alternating narratives trace their real-life... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: 1940 Louisiana. The body of Sister Mary Gretchen is discovered hanging from the balcony in a deserted mansion next to the leper colony on the banks of the Mississippi River. In New Orleans, her sister, Catherine Lyle, doesnāt want to retrieve the nunās body. Itās not because she doesnāt love her older sister, but... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Something isn't right at Madisonville, Idaho's most secluded penitentiary for its hardened criminals, and prisoners keep disappearing. Six college students are sentenced to Madisonville after almost getting away with the perfect crime. After a few short weeks behind bars, the six men awake in a meadow with no recollection of how they got there.... Continue Reading →
ULM: What inspired you to write Reflections of a Soul? JMD: I was told that I couldnāt and that I wouldnāt amount to much by a close relative. So I did it, I wrote a book. ULM: How long have you been writing poems? JMD: Since I was a teenager, 12... Continue Reading →
ULM: What led you to creating the main character, Eddy Trout? During the summer of 2005 I experienced a harmonic convergence of life-changing events. Iād just retired from teaching high school English and, after a long hiatus, I wanted to resume writing fiction. So I journeyed to Canon Beach, Oregon, and... Continue Reading →
COPING WITH ASH by Michael Scott Curnes Inkwater Press, January 26, 2017 (Reviewed and given 5 stars by Danielle Urban) Author Interview ULM: What would you like readers to take from reading your book, Coping with Ash? MSC: Loss and grief are universal human elements but how we cope with these is uniquely individualized.... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Eddy Trout, part-time bartender, and pot-grower had a troubled heart. In this, the second novel of the Eddy Trout Series, Eddy has left his wife and buried his father in a gone-to-seed garden, and now heās running hard toward what he hopes is a new, brighter tomorrow. His sister, Em, has disappeared, and heās... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Inspired by the journey of life, June Marie Davis has developed an anthology that has captured the essence of her soul by discovering the power of words. Words have flowed ever so freely from a mind to create the divine art form of poetry. In this collection, you will feel the sentiments of a... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Ashton Taylor was a hypochondriacājustifiably soāwith multiple and sometimes self-diagnosed issues that turned him into a bit of a misfortune teller. Always knowing he would die young-ish, and anticipating what would otherwise have been an unorganized and messy affair for others, he had thoughtfully left behind a step-by-step post-mortem plan. Choreographing circumstances... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: What happens when a group of everyday women go off in search of the most vital riches they contain...leaving behind notions of who they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to be doing?! Through this creative inner journey, Sharon Ann Rose, M.Div., intimately explores with a circle of women the many facets of... Continue Reading →
Author Interview with Brandon Knightley Me: What inspired you to write your novel, June Rain? On the one hand, I simply woke up one morning with a fragment of a story in my head and started writing. On the other, the book was the emerging expression of questions that I wished I had asked... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Joshua Adams is a Harvard-trained Philadelphia lawyer and managing partner of White & Marks, a prestigious 300-plus-person law firm. The story revolves around a disputed charge of sexual harassment by a former white female associate against a prominent black senior partner. In addition, crafty European interests seek to wrest control of the firm's largest... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: The only symptoms were itching. The prognosis was slightly incredible - a type of cancer that only one in a half million Americans get, and my chances of survival were one-in-ten. That was the beginning of the journey. Along the way were anger and surprise and relief and fear ... a bone marrow transplant... Continue Reading →
Synopsis: Betrayed by his advisors, only the love of two mysterious men can rescue Inea and save his kingdom. After the death of his father, Inea finds himself the unprepared king of a country at war. When his council forsakes him, and heās thrown into the dungeons of his own castle, the young man manages... Continue Reading →
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