Book Reviews

Leslie Peters' 'Finding Time to Lead' is an effective new guidebook that takes the mystery out of leading — and offers seven key steps to top-shelf leadership.

'Love and Death in the Sunshine State' by Cutter Wood is a sad but tough story that takes readers to the heart of a True Crime story.

'Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter' from the team of Marcus Sedgwick and Thomas Taylor is a graphic novel where monster-hunting adventure is as fun for kids as it is adults!

'Magic and Miracles: 100 Years of Moving Imaging Science and Technology' comes from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and is a highly recommended (4 star) hard cover reference book is full of visual technology history. 

Leadership expert and former Air Force pilot Ken Pasch has written a riveting, practical new book about keeping any organization flying high. It's called 'On Course: Become a Great Leader and Soar.'

Readers will find 'Wickwythe Hall' by Judithe Little hard to put down.

Lynda Shrager's, 'Age In Place' is a terrific step-by-step guide to helping parents age in their homes — safely.

In 'Beautiful Days,' Joyce Carol Oates turns ordinary tales into cautionary ones

'Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen' by Rodolphe and Annie Goetzinger - a ghost story provides an empathetic look at the "Let Them Eat Cake" queen.

Lustiger learns to disrespect the government's futile gestures, which mostly exacerbate a burning sense among those immigrants and children of immigrants of being belittled, disrespected, and neglected. Instead she comes to a sense of collective responsibility, a focus on 'us' rather than 'them.'