Norm Goldman
For over thirty five years Norm Goldman practiced as a Title Attorney and Civil Law Notary in Montreal, Canada.
Norm's site, Bookpleasures.com comprises over 40 international reviewers that come from all walks of life and that review all genres.
Bookpleasures.com has posted over 4500 reviews and over 500 author interviews.
Norm is ranked among the top 500 Amazon.com reviewers.
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Articles by Norm Goldman
November 06, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Otis V. Goodwin III, author of Site 39, Blue Orb and Ethan-Site 39
October 11, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Jeffrey A. Friedberg's Black Road 2012
October 07, 2009
Norm Goldman reviews Muriel L. Crawfords' Smoking:201 Reasons To Quit
September 28, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Tom Marquardt's My Little Black Book To Success
September 26, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Dennis Batchelder's second novel,Soul Intent: a Soul Identity Novel
September 01, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Gemini Adams' Legacy of Love: Realize the Gift in Goodbye
August 20, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Nicholas Winer's The Tethered Goat
August 17, 2009
An interview with Mark Rosendorf Author of The Rasner Effect
August 13, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Heath Daniels Author of Three Kisses
August 13, 2009
Norm Goldman reviews Jimmy Root Jr.'s Distant Thunder
July 21, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews JP O'Donnell's Fatal Gamble: A Novel
July 21, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews JP O'Donnell's Deadly Codes: A Gallagher Novel
July 25, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Ed Chung's Accidental Heroes, Accidental Villains
July 23, 2009
Pursuant to the numerous book reviews and other articles I have composed over the years and the time committed to proofreading these articles, I decided that the moment had arrived into investing in a good proofreading and editorial tool.
After reading a number of evaluations as regards assorted ...
July 14, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews The Dawn of Saudi:In Search of Freedom
July 15, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews You Don´t Have To Die When Your Doctor Says: A practical guide to living with grace and joy in the face of a terminal prognosis
July 14, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Jeremy R. Lent's Requiem of the Human Soul
July 02, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Joseph H. Trimbach and John M. Trimbach's American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent´s True Story About Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement
July 09, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Wayne Harding author of His Edge: Three Women, Three Mentors, One Plane
Review: 30 Minutes With..A Certified Public Accountant: Effective Tax Planning for the MicroBusiness
July 09, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews 30 Minutes With..A Certified Public Accountant: Effective Tax Planning for the MicroBusiness. Norm also provides a link to an interview with Michael Hanley
June 19, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews T.J. Ovesrtake's For Love Of The Car: Memories Of A True Car Guy
June 16, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews M.A.Curtis author of Dominance & Delusion
June 12, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Resumes for Children 17 Years Old And Under Yes, Really!
authored by Donna Kristine Manley
May 30, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Jonathan Chevreau's Findepence Day
May 23, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Bill Kirton's The Darkness
May 19, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Michael C. Donaldson author of Clearance and Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television (Third Edition)
May 10, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Chris Bowen's Our Kids: Building Relationships in the Classroom
May 04, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Jeffery S. Williams Who's To Blame
April 29, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Paul R. Finch's The Passover Papers: Controversy, Myth, Fairy Tales
April 28, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Diana Estill's Deedee Divine´s Totally Skewed Guide To Life
April 24, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Power Up Your Job Search: A Modern Approach to Interview Preparation
April 23, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Sam Moffie's latest novel, No Mad.
April 20, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Ray Melnik's second novel To Your Own Self Be True.
March 26, 2009
Norm Goldman,Publisher & Editor of bookpleasures.com interviews Gayle Nobel, one of the co-authors of It´s All About Attitude: Loving and Living Well with Autism.
March 26, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Jennifer Swanson Author of Penny and Rio: The Mysterious Backyard Meeting
March 15, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Danger and Opportunity: An American Ambassador´s Journey Through The Middle East
March 13, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Homa Pourasgari's debut novel Lemon Curd
March 09, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews R. Allen Downey's Pirate Queen: The Curse
March 05, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Michael Kasenow's The Last Paradise
February 25, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Teisha Bourne's Motif
February 28, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Svetlana Kim's White Pearl and I: A Memoir of a Political Refugee
February 13, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews ITP:FUTURE HOPE
February 10, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews José D. Roncal and José N. Abbo authors of The Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating?
February 06, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews R. L. Wysong author of Living Life As If Thinking Matters, Solving The Big Questions As If Thinking Matters
February 03, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Michael Karpin's Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty
January 28, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Dean Whitney Author of Pinch Hitter
January 20, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Jerry J. Pollock's Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God
January 19, 2009
Norm Goldman reviews Nancy Henderson-James soon to be released At Home Abroad: An American Girl in Africa
January 13, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Mary Paulson's The Swedish Gypsy
January 03, 2009
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Margaret Wright's Bringing Back The Magic
December 13, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews GoneAway Into The land
December 11, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Dr. Bruce Kaler's Turnabout
December 12, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Ellis M. Goodman author of Bear All Burden
November 30, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Frankie Picasso's Midlife Mojo: How to get through the midlife crisis and emerge as your true self
November 17, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Alan Robertson's The Money Belt
November 13, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Kate McLaughlin author of Mommy I'm Still in Here: One Family's Journey with Bipolar Disorder
November 12, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews James Alexander, Author of Recovering Fundamentalist: Understanding and Responding to Christian Absolutism
November 04, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Barrington Bear On Safari
October 31, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures interviews Jackie Mahaney author of Meet Delaney
October 29, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews J.C.Hager's Hunter's Choice
October 28, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews William D. Smith's Becoming A Superhero
October 25, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Diverting the Buddha
October 23, 2008
Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Kelly K. Damron author of Tiny Toes: A Couple's Journey Through Infertility, Prematurity, and Depression
October 21, 2008
Bernard Steele author of Death in Small Doses discusses his book with Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editorof Bookpleasures.com
October 17, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Unleash The Psychic In You: How To Trust Your Intuition for Successful Decision Making
October 08, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures is pleased to have as our guest Linda Mohr, award-winning author of Tatianna-Tales and Teachings of My Feline Friend. Linda is also a Catnip Connection blogger for the Seattle Press-Intelligencer and a professor at Northwood University. In add...
October 02, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Cynthia Clampitt's Waltzing Australia
September 26, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Heather Summerhayes Cariou SixtyFive Roses
September 25, 2008
Norm Goldman,Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Ed Morawski's Be Safe: Everything You Need To Know About Security To Be Safe
September 18, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Paul S. Damazo author of 80 Proven Ways to become a Millionaire.
September 17, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews David E. Comings, MD, who discusses his recent book Did Man Create God
September 17, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Dan Ronco author of Unholy Domain and PeaceMaker
September 17, 2008
Norm Goldman reviews Shattered Realty a book about child molestation
September 16, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews John Neufeld author of April Fool
September 06, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Hearts
September 05, 2008
Norm Goldman interviews Heather Terrell author of The Map Thief
September 05, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guests, Mayra Calvani and Anne K. Edwards authors of The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing.
Thank you Mayra and Anne for participating in our interview.
Mayra and Anne: It's a pleasure to be here, Norm. Thank yo...
September 03, 2008
Norm Goldman interviews Lynn Price Editorial Director of Behler Publications and author of Donovan´s Paradigm
September 01, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Steve Mayfield's Afterlife Crisis
A Conversation With Robin Reynolds author of Life to the Max: Maxims for a Great Life by a Dog named
August 28, 2008
Interview with Robin Reynolds author of Life to the Max: Maxims for a Great Life by a Dog named Max
August 28, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interview Fletcher Rhoden author of Last Tango With Marlon
August 27, 2008
Interview with Richard Ide Author of 3 Aces
August 25, 2008
Norm Goldman interviews well-known authority on screenwriting, Christina Hamlett
August 20, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, A.K. Kuykendall author of Conspirator's Odyssey: The Evolution of the Patron Saint.
A.K. was born in Georgia and grew up as a military brat in Kailua, Hawaii, and later Jacksonville, North Carolina.
...
August 11, 2008
Author: S.A. OdunsiPublisher: Human Rethink:ISBN: 978-0-615-22173-1
We hear so much these days about the problems of unremitting economic underdevelopment in the so-called Third World as well as in some areas of the developed countries that we have to ask the question, why has it been so elusiv...
August 11, 2008
Authors: Arun & Sunanda Gandhi ISBN: 13: 978-1886940-77-2: 10: 1-886940-77-2:Publishers: Ozark Mountain Publishing
It is wonderful to find a book about Kastur (Kasturba) Gandhi ("Ba" as she was known) wife of the legendary Mahatma Gandhi that debunks many historians who have depicted her as an...
August 07, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews John H. Manfold El Tigre: The Life and Times of El Tigre Viejo
August 07, 2008
Norm Goldman Interviews Mel Harter Author of Some Kind of an Angel
August 04, 2008
Norm Goldman reviews The Sneakiest Pirate authored by 7 year old Dalton James.
August 01, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Jim Leatherwood author of Facing The Future Together: Forming Successful School-Business Partnerships
July 26, 2008
Review: Lang Lang: Playing With Flying Keys
July 24, 2008
Interview with a recovering drug addict
July 22, 2008
Norm Goldman,Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Bob and Melinda Blanchard authors of Changing Your Course: The 5-Step Guide to Getting the Life
July 22, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Tony Perrottet's Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped
July 19, 2008
Author: T.J. EnglishISBN: 979-0-06-114771-5
Between 1952 and 1959 Havana was a city of spectacular growth with dazzling casino and hotel development, tourist resorts, new highways and where the allure of organized gambling, fantastic nightclub acts and sexy beautiful women seduced many to inves...
July 03, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews B.L. Lindstrom author of Considering SomeplacElse
July 01, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Shelley Anderson author of Dealing With Divas: A Survivor´s Kit for the Celebrity Personal Assistants (or Anyone with a Pushy Boss) and personal assistant to Louise L. Hay
June 30, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Yuan-tsung, or YT as her publishers call her, who is the author of Return to the Middle Kingdom: One Family, Three Revolutionaries, and the Birth of Modern China.
Yuan-tsung Chen, in Chinese, means the Fi...
June 25, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Ami Silber's debut novel,Early Bright
June 20, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Corrie Woods author of The Woman´s Field Guide To Exceptional Living
June 17, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publishr & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Steven Pressfield's latest novel, Killing Rommel.
June 11, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest Diane Diekman author of Live Fast Love Hard: The Faron Young Story. Diane is also the author of A Farm in the Hidewood: My South Dakota Home and Navy Greenshirt: A Leader Made, Not Born. Diane Jean Diekman g...
June 10, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Whispers and Moans: Interviews with the men and women of Hong Kong´s sex industry
June 10, 2008
Author: Alan Williams
ISBN: 9781425131517
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Alan Williams author of Archy the Flying Dolphin & The Vampire's Curse.
Good day Alan and thanks for participating in our int...
June 08, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of bookpleasures.com reviews Earl Hick Jr.'s children's book Ready Freddie Getting Ready For Fires. Norm also interviews Earl.
June 06, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Kimberly Raiser's Stranded: Stories From the Edge of Infinity
June 03, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Sam Moffie's latest novel, The Organ Grinder and the Monkey
May 30, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Susan Wallerstein author of Dancing Above the Waves
May 29, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Harry E. Gilleland Jr.'s Poetic Musing of an Old Fat Man
May 28, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures reviews Terry Dwight Coleman's
Don´t Give Up, Don´t Give In: A True Story of the Struggles of a World Record Hymn Singer Terry
May 15, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Steve Martini's recent novel Shadow Of Power
May 09, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Neal Karlen's The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews
May 08, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Michael Merry's The Reluctant Colonel
May 05, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews James Ross author of Lifetime Loser
May 05, 2008
Today, Lily Azerad-Goldman, one of Bookpleasures' reviewers is pleased to have as our guest, novelist Derek Adie Flower author of The Shores of Wisdom, The Tuscany Trilogy, Inquest On IMHOTEP (Beyond The White Walls), Ransomed, and his most recent tome, Farewell Alexandria. Farewell Alexandria is o...
May 05, 2008
Norm Goldman interviews Herbert Lobsenz author of Succession
May 05, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Lindsey Pollak, author of Getting From College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World.
Lindsey is a noted expert on Generation Y career issues, Lindsey's advice has appeared in such med...
May 03, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Ruth Ann Nordin's An Inconvenient Marriage: The Keeping Of Jake Mitchell
April 24, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Michael Dobbs' Churchill´s Triumph: A Novel Of Betrayal.
April 10, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Christina Binkley's Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman, And The Race To Own Las Vegas
April 07, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of the book reviewing and author interviewing site reviews a most interesting book pertaining to the treatment of anxiety disorders
March 30, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Janice Novak's Posture Get It Straight!Look ten years younger, ten pounds thinner & feel bettter than ever! (2nd Edition)
March 28, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Jeffrey Archer's latest novel, A Prisoner of Birth
March 26, 2008
Author: Billy C. Johnson, M.D., Ph.D.
ISBN: 978-0-595-45343-6
When I am people watching in my neighbourhood shopping mall, it never ceases to amaze me as to the number of overweight children that catch my attention.
As Dr. Billy Johnson points out in his exceptional guide,New Prescription...
March 26, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guests Steven Vannoy and Craig Ross authors of Stomp the Elephant in the Office.
In addition to being an author, Steven is a speaker and trainer as well as being the founder of Pathways to Leadership, Inc that fo...
March 25, 2008
Title: Bungi Gungi
Author: CC Mandl
ISBN: 1422511353-2
Bungi Gungi is South African author CC Mandl´s first book and she certainly forges a most unique world of characters replete with even their alter egos or as they are referred to as their Gungi. For a debut author, Mandl´s book is quite a...
March 19, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews New York Times Best-Selling Author Dorothea Benton Frank.
March 19, 2008
How often have we heard students cry that they botched their exams or didn´t do as well as they expected even though they studied so hard?
If you are one of these students or is someone looking for practical guide to improve your study and learning skills, check out Dan Vandon´s Red ...
March 05, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor of Bookpleasures.com interview Michael Mehas author of Stolen Boy.
March 04, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews David Levy's Love + Sex With Robots
March 04, 2008
Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Sue McDaniel,Ph.D author of I.M Heart
March 03, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Alan H. Rolnick author of Landmark Status.
Good day, Alan, and thanks for participating in our interview.
Alan:
Thanks for the opportunity, Norm.
Norm:
How did you get started in writing? Wha...
February 25, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Paul Miller author of A Place To Belong.
...
February 21, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews David Mason author of Marketing Your Small Business for Big Profits
February 21, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Gwen Freeman´s Crazy Fool Kills Five
February 19, 2008
Catherine Johnson author of Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace discusses her book with Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com
February 18, 2008
Norm Goldman interviews Harrine Freeman expert on how to get out of debt.
February 18, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Sandra E. Graham author of Amos Jakey and Nicolina
February 15, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher and Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Kurt L. Kamm's debut novel One Foot In The Black: A Wildland Firefighter´s Story.
February 08, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Alan Gottlieb's debut novel, Ultimate Excursions
February 08, 2008
Ned Lord, Bookpleasures, An Opportunity for Revenge
January 31, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Mary E, Martin author of The Osgood Trilogy
January 31, 2008
Norm Goldman reviews Unlocking the Mystery of Skin Color
January 30, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews Brand Randall's
Blood Harvest
January 26, 2008
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com reviews a very timely book on management authored by José Astorga. Norm's also interviews José Astorga.
January 18, 2008
We are a three-dimensional self and there are significant consequences when we are less than our three-dimensional self.
January 18, 2008
92-year old Ethel Stockton effectively balances the prosaic and the painful aspects of getting on in age with her vivacity and humorous prose conveying an earnest appeal that leaves you leaving wanting more.
January 12, 2008
Title: The Chaparral Murders: Dollar Store Justice
Author: Margaret M. Stoddart ISBN: 978-0-595-44329-1
Margaret M. Stoddart´s The Chaparral Murders chronicles the true story of Rusty Phillips, who was arrested and charged with the 1982 murders of Glenn Roberts and his son Timmy ...
January 04, 2008
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Dodie Cross author of A Broad Abroad in Thailand. Dodie has received several awards for her writing and poetry, among them the prestigious Southern California Writer's Conference First Place Award for "Best N...
December 23, 2007
Title: The Nurse in the Delivery Room Slapped Me…Once
Author: D Anthony
ISBN: 0931761255
With his debut book, The Nurse in the Delivery Room Slapped Me…Once, D Anthony examines what life is all about where he explores such topics as our perspectives, values, simple acts of kindness, the n...
December 16, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Debra Beck author of My Feet Aren't Ugly!: A Girl's Guide to Loving Herself from the Inside Out.
Debra has for the past fifteen years been a devoted mentor for teenage girls. In addition, she has cr...
December 15, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Debra Beck author of My Feet Aren't Ugly!: A Girl's Guide to Loving Herself from the Inside Out.
Debra has for the past fifteen years been a devoted mentor for teenage girls. In addition, she has cr...
December 13, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited t have as our guest, Jane Cook author of Dancing Backward in Paradise. In addition to being an author, Jane has won numerous awards for her work as an actress and has worked in the professional theatre for over a decade. After te...
December 12, 2007
Laura and the Leprechauns:
Author & Illustrator: Amber T. Kingston:
ISBN: 978-0-9795933-0-7
Laura and the Leprechauns is Amber T.Kingston’s first effort as writer and illustrator as she borrows a page from Irish mythology and folklore.
It is a tale of two leprechauns, Maddy and Be-bub, w...
December 12, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is delighted to have as our guest, Joan Davis widow of Stan Davis. Stan was well known as a composer, writer, cinematographer, fine arts photographer, and even a lamenting dieter.
In the 1930s and 40s Stan wrote songs for various c...
December 10, 2007
Author: Janet Kay Jensen ISBN: 978-1-59955-075-6
Nominated in 2007 as a finalist in USA Book News in the Religious Fiction category, Janet Kay Jensen's Don’t You Marry The Mormon Boys narrates the story of two medical students who meet and fall in love while both are attending the University of U...
December 07, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Phyllis Reid author of Anchor in the Spirit as God Beings - More than Mere Human.
Phyllis holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work, an Honor’s Degree in Psychology and a Bachelor’s Degree ...
December 04, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honoured to have as our guest, Candy Harrington. Candy is the Editor of Emerging Horizons and has written several award-winning travel books, the most recent being 101 Accessible Vacations (Nov. 2007).
For the past 14 years Ca...
December 03, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor and Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Erik Quisling, author of Fables from the Mud which is about to be released. Erik previously authored Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll on the Sunset Strip (Bonus Books, Augu...
December 02, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honoured to have as our guest, Paul Levinson. Paul has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
Paul also has taught in several universities and he is presently Chair o...
December 02, 2007
Author: Anita M. Smith ISBN: 0-9679268-4-X
Several years ago I reviewed It happened in Woodstock which was originally published in 1959 and authored by a Philadelphia debutant, artist, herbalist and author Anita M. Smith. As I mentioned in my review it was a book not only remarkable for i...
November 28, 2007
Author: Paula Buermele ISBN: 1-4327-0353-6
Paula Buermele’s The Dream Catcher Tours provides her readers with a peek into the lives of forty-seven women who together embark on a bus tour of the Great Lakes with Northern Experience Tours.
What ensues is a potent collection of stories ref...
November 28, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Dr. Eduardo Chapunoff, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C. author of Answering Your Questions About Heart Disease & Sex.
Dr. Chapunoff is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Bo...
November 22, 2007
Author: Mathias B. Freese ISBN: 978-1-58736-733-5
Mathias B. Freese is an award- winning essayist and author of The i Tetralogy that I had reviewed and which was the 2007 Allbooks Choice Award.
He has been listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who Among American Teachers, A Directory of Ame...
November 21, 2007
Title: Voice of Conscience Author: Behcet Kaya: ISBN: 978-1-4327-0628-9
The initial setting of Turkish born author Behcet Kaya’s first book, Voice of Conscience tales place in 1962 where readers are transported into the tiny village of Atamkoy in northeast Turkey. It is here where Ramzi Ozc...
November 20, 2007
Author: Paul Mullen ISBN: 978-1-933197-30-2
The world of a 12-year old sixth grade youngster is very often filled with many challenges and is not always a smooth sail, as we learn from Paul Mullen’s debut young adult novel, The Day I Hit a Home Run at Great American Ball Park.
M...
November 20, 2007
Title: Hamster Cheeks Author: Cathy DeLittle: Illustrator: Adam Milicevic: ISBN: 13: 978-1-892633-14-9: 10: 1-892733-14-0
Although it has taken ten years since she last published 10 picture books over a span of 2 years, Cathy DeLittle has done it again with her recent, Hamster Cheeks.
De...
November 18, 2007
Authors: Donald Leslie Slater and Kenny D. Shaw ISBN: 978-1-4327-1398-0
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasrues.com is pleased to have as our guest, Donald L. Slater and Kenny D. Shaw authors of It’s A Brand...
November 13, 2007
Title: Aging Artfully
Author: Amy Gorman ISBN: 0978519205
In Amy Gorman's Aging Artfully, Dr. Gene Cohen, who has conducted long-term research on creativity and the elderly, is quoted as stating "that seniors who participate in arts activities enjoy better health, visit doctors less frequently...
November 13, 2007
Author: Eduardo Chapunoff, M.D.Forward: Arnold A. Lazarus, PH.D ISBN: 978-1-57826-255-7
Author Eduardo Chapunoff, M.D. integrates both his professional experience as a cardiologist with good solid information in his Answering Your Questions About Heart Disease & Sex.
As Dr. Chapunoff me...
November 01, 2007
Author: Ken BroskyISBN: 9781427620545
Ken Brosky’s novel, Grendel casts the reader into the horrifying experience of a successful and wealthy business executive, Tyler Leto, who experiences hell after a one minute stoppage of his heart following a severe heart attack.
Our protagonist is de...
October 30, 2007
Author: Michael Dobbs ISBN: 13:978-1-4022-1044-0: 10:1-4022-1044-2
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, best-selling author Michael Dobbs, author of fifteen novels, his latest being Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill. In addi...
October 22, 2007
Author: Eric Wilder ISBN: 9780615152301
One of the greatest strengths of blogging and the world of blogosphere is that it offers to many a voice and platform that is outside the mainstream media. Moreover, it transcends more traditional communication forms and can work in a variety of setting as...
October 15, 2007
Author: John Keatts ISBN: 978-1-4343-1374-4
New York has been called the Big Apple. Have you ever wondered why?
Licensed New York City tour guide, John Keatts, who has published articles in magazines and newspapers as well as having appeared in Broadway musical productions, cabaret performan...
October 14, 2007
Title: Pirate Spirit: The Adventures of Anne Bonney Author: Jeffery S. Williams
ISBN: 9781583484678
High school English teacher Jeffery S. Williams, who has worked as a journalist and freelance writer, cuts his creative teeth with his debut novel Pirate Spirit: The Adventures of Anne Bonney. The...
October 11, 2007
Title: Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill Author: Michael Dobbs
ISBN: 13:978-1-4022-1044-0: 10:1-4022-1044-2
With his incredible historical novel, Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill, Michael Dobbs plunges readers into the mind, thoughts, feelings, and actions of Winston ...
October 08, 2007
Have you ever wondered what you would consider to be a great romantic inn in Southern Maine?
Prior to our recent trip to Ogunquit, I did in fact ask myself this question and what I came up with was that it should be fairly small, as we would want privacy yet not too much privacy. It should...
October 06, 2007
Author: William Thomas Kinsella ISBN: 1424166888
In A Cross Estate, William Thomas Kinsella weaves together a cast of characters whose internal and external struggles are complex and quite sad in its rendering. It is a world that straddles two eras in the lives of a young college graduate Jack Co...
October 04, 2007
Article: Norm Goldman
Art Work: Lily Azerad-Goldman
Given the fact that the Inn at Weston located in Weston, Vermont has continuously received rave reviews from such publications as The Discerning Traveler, Trip Advisor, The New York Times, The Boston Globe as well as its many guests, you know ...
October 01, 2007
Author: Jason Akley ISBN: 1431704540
Both of Jason Akley’s novellas in his Salted With Sat and The Altar of Silence: Two Novellas feature a cast of twenty something characters who for the most part are trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives.
The first novella, Sa...
October 01, 2007
Author: Jason Akley Illustrator: Bobbi Switzer: ISBN: 1-4327-0341-2
When I picked up Jason Akley’s Sweet Pea and the Bumblebee I couldn’t help wondering about the ambiguity of the book’s target audience, as the language and concepts are certainly not accessible to the 9-12 year old age group, ...
September 19, 2007
Title: The Pact Beneath the Bridge Author: Valbona Kociu ISBN: 1432701029
Albanian author Valbona Kociu’s short story The Pact Beneath the Bridge has a quality that could effortlessly be considered poetic with its brevity as well as the associated compression and unencumbered intensity of i...
September 16, 2007
Author: Chris Roerden ISBN: 1-933523131
In the opening pages of Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Turning Up D.O.A. Chris Roerden makes it crystal clear that she doesn’t consider herself a book doctor. Roerden states that the term book doctor ...
September 10, 2007
Author: Sheri Hood: Illustrator: M. Faith Shaheen ISBN: 13:978-0-9793823-0-7: 10: 0-9793823-0-0
One of the most striking characteristics of Sheri Hoods’ children’s book The Fearful Fairy is the delicate manner in which it integrates large ideas into story form for the early school crowd.
...
September 10, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Michael Schuessler author of The Holy G-Rail. Michael is also a photographer, painter and student of the Kabbalah.
According to Michael, his book, The Holy G-Rail provides a comprehensive guide to fi...
September 06, 2007
Authors: Lisa Adams and John Heath ISBN: 10: 140221054X: 13:9781402210549
In Why We Read What We Read: A Delighfully Opinionated Journey Through Contemporary Bestsellers, Lisa Adams and John Heath set out to explore the current state of the American psyche by closely examining the bestselli...
September 06, 2007
Author: Charles Jacobs ISBN: 10, 13: 0-9793636-0-8: 978-0-9793636-0-3
How often do retirees hear “your stories are great; you should write them down and publish them?” The most likely reply is I wouldn’t know where to begin or it just seems too difficult to wade through the endless steps ...
September 05, 2007
Author: Louise Lewis ISBN: 978-0-595-42971-4
There is, for many of us, a terrifying time in our lives where we find ourselves in a situation that we believe is hopeless.
Fortunately, in certan instances something magic happens where we seem to be connected to a spiritual power that guides...
September 05, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Sketchandtravel.com is pleased to have as our guest, Maruska Adye who is an expert on Botswana. Maruska works for the tour operating company Expert Africa.
Good day Maruska and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm:
Maruska, please tell o...
August 30, 2007
Author: Alexandra Addison Wrage ISBN: 13: 978-0-275-99649-9:10:0-275-99649-2""'
According to Alexandra Addison Wrage, author of Bribery and Extortion: Undermining Business, Governments and Security, there exists several good academic studies on the history and economic theory of bribery and s...
August 26, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com, is honored to have as our guest Tom Miller, who has been called by the San Francisco Chronicle, “one of our best non-fiction writers.”
Tom has authored The Panama Hat Trail, Trading With the Enemy, Jack Ruby’s Kitchen Sink, which wo...
August 24, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Irene Spencer author of Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist’s Wife.
Good day Irene and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm:
Could you tell our readers how you became the wife of a...
August 24, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Michael Levy. Michael calls himself the Professional Optimist and he is the author of The Inspiring Story of Little Goody Two Shoes, Live Alchemy, Worry Causes Wrinkles, Invest With a Genius, Ultra-Violet H...
August 24, 2007
Author: Peter A. Balaskas Publisher: Bards and Sages: ISBN: 9780615147437
“The eyes of the demon have returned! I cannot believe it. I thought they were finally eradicated from my life, and they had been for many years.”
It is with these chilling words that Peter A. Balaskas begins his...
August 24, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Lynn Voedisch, who was a journalist with the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times before she freelanced for the Chicago Tribune and national magazines. Lynn is also the author of Excited Light, a magical re...
August 22, 2007
Author: Rima Rudner ISBN: 1419663130
Today Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Rima Rudner, author of Choose to be Happy: A Guide to Total Happiness
Good day Rima and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm:
Rim...
August 19, 2007
Author:Joanna Lynn (as vetted by Sheila Bicknell, Nutrionist-Dietitian)Illustrator:Valerie Maynard:ISBN:142511143-2
Anyone looking to gain a basic knowledge about food will be well nourished by Joanna Lynn’s Let’s Fuss about Food: Part 1: Our Core and More. Lynn informs us at the on...
August 19, 2007
Author: Norman Ober ISBN: 13: 978-1-933918-11-2 10: 1-933918-11-X
Over the past several years there has been a spate of books pertaining to the paranormal which has spawned a cottage industry of books ranging from ghosts, premonitions, telepathy, channeling, clairvoyance, remote viewing,...
August 18, 2007
Author: Elise Blackwell Publisher: Toby: ISBN:13 978 159264 1994
Elise Blackwell’s most recent novel, Grub, is an updating of the British author, George Gissing’s New Grub Street which was published in 1891. As was the case of Gissing’s satire, Blackwell’s theme focuses on today’s literary w...
August 13, 2007
Authors: Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin Publishers: SOURCEBOOKS INC ISBN: 13:978-1-4022-0829-4: 10: 1-4022-0829-4
The introduction to Tom and Michael Philbin’s The Killer Book of True Crime: Incredible Stories, Facts and Trivia from the World of Murder to Mayhem states that the book’s object...
August 11, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Sketchandtravel.com is excited to have as our guest, Jonathan Reap, Director of Communications for Tahiti Tourisme and an expert on Tahiti. Jonathan is here today to tell us about Tahiti.
Good day Jonathan and thank you for participating in our intervie...
August 10, 2007
Review: After The Rain:Author: John Beowulf: ISBN: 1425129064
The periodic small-mindedness and nastiness of academia is illuminated through John Beowulf’s fictitious tale of a Ph.D candidate, John Stevic, of the Department of Microbiology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. S...
August 09, 2007
Author: JV Love ISBN: 10: 1595941657: ISBN: 13:9781595941657
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, JV Love author of The End of Sorrow: A Novel of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII.
Norm:
Good day JV and thanks for participating in o...
August 08, 2007
Review of: A Father’s Abuse…A Doctor’s Love: The Powerful Story of a Tortured Boy Who Prevailed With the Help of a Very Special Doctor.
Author: Louis Panesi ISBN: 9780979216602
Writing a story about your personal experiences with your Psychiatrist and sharing your family secrets with the world...
August 08, 2007
Author: Jacqueline G. Randolph ISBN: 1596821027
Two principle historical settings, the Spanish Inquisition and a nuclear accident that occurred in Spain in 1966 provide the impetus for a compelling novel in Jacqueline G. Randolph’s third book in her Deception Series.
Deception’s Lega...
August 03, 2007
Author: Ronald Williams Jr. ISBN: 1-4241-7189-X
As a follow up to his Deep Inside LiteBlue, Ronald Williams Jr. has written Thinking Inside The LiteBlue Box where Williams presents concrete suggestions as to how to improve the United States Postal Service or as he says in his introduction “this b...
August 03, 2007
Author: Ronald Williams Jr. ISBN: 1424128560-0
It certainly takes a great deal of moxy to publish a book criticizing your employer, and that is exactly what Ronald Williams Jr. has done with Deep Inside Liteblue.
Williams is a veteran federal employee of the United States Postal Se...
August 02, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Annette Hoggs-Jackson author of Poems from the Heart. Annette believes she receives her writing inspiration from God and in 2007 she received the Baltimore Newsome Award.
Good day Annette and thanks for...
August 02, 2007
Author: Ann Harper Reed ISBN: 9780615141947
Inspired by a true event, Ann Harper Reed with her Element of Blank sets out to take readers into the horrendous life of a battered woman, Sally, who was imprisoned in an environment of terror. Accurately and painfully describing common characteristics ...
July 29, 2007
Author: Dennis Batchelder ISBN: 978-0-9798056-0-8:Publisher: NetLeaves
To understand the nuances of Dennis Batchelder’s debut novel, Soul Identity: a novel, it wouldn’t hurt to be familiar with some of the computer lingo mentioned in the text, however, it is not absolutely essential to enjoy th...
July 28, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of the travel site SKETCHANDTRAVEL.COM is excited to have as our guest, Carl Lee-McLellan who is an expert on Chiapas, Mexico. Carl is here today to share his expertise and experiences concerning Chiapas.
Good day Carl and thanks for participating in ou...
July 23, 2007
Title: Spiritual Warfare Author: Jed McKenna: Publisher: Wisefool Press: ISBN: 978-0-9714352-2-3
How does one go about inciting change in people’s behavior? Probably, you either have to explore the underlying issues that influence their actions, thus providing them with an awakening of the psycho...
July 19, 2007
Author: Marjorie Gosa Shivers
ISBN: 0-9744066-2-7
Marjorie Gosa Shivers’ second novel Once Is Never Enough focuses on Lester Miller, a homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department who is just going through a divorce and is in the process of changing jobs. Lester has accepted a position wi...
July 18, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.com & Bookpleasures.com is delighted to have as a guest, Fran Capo. Fran is quite a “cool person,” as she is an eight-time author, humorist, voiceover artist, comedienne, adventurer, actress, freelance writer and keynote motivational speaker. She also ...
July 13, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman Editor of SKETCHANDTRAVEL.COM has a special treat in store.
Norm's guest is Patric Douglas, who was one of the first American tour guides permitted back into Vietnam. He has also conducted exciting tours through China, Bali, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America...
July 11, 2007
TOday, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of SKETCHANDTRAVEL.COM
is excited to have as our guest, Claudia Luck of the Namibia Tourism Board who is here today to tell us all about Namibia.
Good day Claudia and thank you for participating in our interview.
Norm:
Please tell us w...
July 10, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of SKETCHANDTRAVEL.COM is excited to have as his guest, Marc Harris a representative of Tanzania Odyssey. March is here today to tell us all about Tanzania.
Good day Marc and thank you for participating in our interview.
Norm:
Please tell us whe...
July 08, 2007
Author: Troy Cook ISBN: 9780977627646
Troy Cook former feature film writer and director and winner of several awards for his first novel 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers which was selected by Library Journal as one of the best debuts of the year delivers another great read with his T...
July 05, 2007
Title: The Room Author: Ray Melnik: ISBN:1589615425
Harry Ladd, the protagonist of Ray Melnik’s first novel, The Room, has had a rough go of it. During his childhood he and his brother Malcolm had been on the receiving end of their father’s abuse. To escape these angry outbursts, the two ...
July 03, 2007
Title: Foot Ways: Author:Dr.Lynn Veach Sadler: ISBN:9780615145631
In Foot Ways, native North Carolinian, poet, author and former college president, Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler, showcases her mastery of the novella form.
Dividing her novella into five short stories, Sadler paints different ch...
July 03, 2007
Author: Yvonne Perry ISBN: 1-933449-41-1: 978-1-933449-41-8
With her generously subtitled book, Right To Recover: Winning the Political and Religious Wars over Stem Cell Research in America, freelance writer and author, Yvonne Perry has provided us in considerable detail sound arguments why ...
July 02, 2007
Author: Cathy Bueti ISBN: 10: 1596240369: 13:978-159240360
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Cathy Bueti author of Breastless in the City:A Young Woman's Story of Love, Loss, and Breast Cancer.
Good day Cathy and thanks for pa...
July 01, 2007
Author: Peter C. ConradISBN: 13:978-1-894864-64-010: 1-894864-64-6
Inspired by true events that were garnered from extensive research, Peter Conrad’s Canadian Wartime Prison Escapes: Courage & Daring Behind Enemy Lines shares with us the hair raising accounts of several courageous Canadia...
June 30, 2007
Author: Renny Shapiro ISBN:1-4208-5288-4
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest, Renny Shapiro author of EASTBOUND: Our Flight- Our Mission
Good day Renny and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm:
Please tell our rea...
June 27, 2007
Author: Dr. David Yourtee ISBN: 9780978114510
To say that the 217 page The Final Human doesn’t read like a “quickie” book is huge understatement. However, I have to confess that I was forewarned when its author Dr. David Yourtee stated in his email to me requesting a review: “Up front this ...
June 26, 2007
Article: Norm GoldmanArt Work: Lily Azerad-Goldman
More than 400 years ago the first settlers from England and Scotland landed in York Maine settling at the mouth of the York River and for the most part they were farmers, fishermen, and merchants who supported themselves through maritime commerc...
June 24, 2007
Title: Chasing the Wind Author: Helena P. Schrader
ISBN: 978059444717
Although many of the characters portrayed in Helena Schrader’s Chasing the Wind are fictional, the facts of her story are based on actual events that occurred during the Battle of Britain in 1940 between Britain’s Roy...
June 22, 2007
Title:Making History: How to remember, record, interpret and share the events of your life Author: Kim Pearson ISBN: 978-1-932279-75-7
When our children, relatives and friends broach the subject of writing our memoirs, most of us manage to provide a broad array of negative responses from wh...
June 21, 2007
Article: Norm Goldman
Water Colors: Lily Azerad-Goldman
Okay-you are probably not the first and surely won’t be the last to discover The Inn at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield, Vermont now that Bride & Groom, Business Travel Guide, Cooking Light, Historic Preservation, Modern Bride, Outside ...
June 18, 2007
Title: Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad Game
Author: Allen Rosenshine ISBN: 13: 978-08253-0539-9: 10: 0-8253-0539-X
Today, Norm Goldman Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is excited to have as our guest Allen Rosenshine author of Funny Bus...
June 14, 2007
Author: Jeffrey Leever ISBN: 9780977627639
In his most recent novel, Dark Friday, Jeffrey Leever drops his readers into Jasonville, Indiana, a small-town of 2500 located in the middle of nowhere. You would even think, as most of the locals do, that it would be the safest place on earth! U...
June 08, 2007
A Traveler’s Guide: America’s Living History: The Early Years Authors: Suzanne & Craig Sheumaker ...
June 04, 2007
Author: Renny Shapiro ISBN: 1-4208-5288-4
Have you ever dreamed of flying yourself around the world in a small Cessna aircraft? No need for courage, you can experience this incredible voyage traveling vicariously through the pages of Eastbound, Our Flight/Our Mission authored by Renny Shapir...
June 04, 2007
Title: Funny Business: Moguls, Mobsters, Megastars, and the Mad, Mad World of the Ad GameAuthor: Allen Rosenshine ISBN: 13: 978-08253-0539-9: 10: 0-8253-0539-X
Allen Rosenshine has been named among the one hundred most influential people in advertising in the twentieth century by Advertising Ag...
June 02, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Stewart F. Lane.
It is little wonder that Stewart has been called "Mr. Broadway!"
As a three time Tony Award Winner Producer he has been involved in one capacity or ...
May 31, 2007
Title: Mobsters & Rumrunners of Canada: Crossing the LineAuthor: Gord Steinke
Publisher: Folklore Publishing ISBN: 13:978-1-894864-11-4 10: 1-894864-11-5
In his introduction to Mobsters & Rumrunners of Canada: Crossing the Line Gord Steinke points out that “probation was a miserable...
Is It Possible to Hold Hostage An Entire Company's Executive Team And Demand $100 Million as Ransom?
May 31, 2007
Author: Joseph FinderISBN: 13-978-0-312-34748-2: 10: 0-312-34748-0
The premise of New York Times best selling author Joseph Finder’s Power Play focuses on the kidnap-for-ransom of a major corporation’s entire top leadership by a gang of thugs that takes place in a lodge in a remote area ...
May 28, 2007
Author: Alan Draven ISBN: 978-0-595-43204-2
Alan Draven’s debut novel Bitternest: A Novel will no doubt cause the adrenaline to flow with its chilling and macabre scenes where the inhabitants of Bitternest, a fictional town in Louisiana, face the risk of not only succumbing to the deathly...
May 28, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor& Publisher of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Joshua Kurlantzick author of Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World. Josh is a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Special Correspondent...
May 28, 2007
Title: Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide…and why it matters ISBN: 10:0670066044: 13:978-0670066049
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May 26, 2007
Author: Bob Prosen ISBN: 0977684806
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Bob Prosen author of Kiss Theory Good Bye: Five Proven Ways to Get Extraordinary Results in Any Company. (Gold Pen Publishing). Bob's book has recently risen to the nu...
May 21, 2007
Author: Joshua Kurlantzick Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 978-0-300-11703-5
If you are wondering how China has been able to effectively exert their soft power around the world, Joshua Kurlantzick’s Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World is a good plac...
May 20, 2007
The shelves of bookstores cry out with the weight of countless books about how to lead a fulfilling and rewarding life that would probably sink a ship and any author who turns another one of these self-help tomes loose on readers had better have a good angle amid all the rivalry.
Fortunate...
May 17, 2007
Author: Joseph Finder ISBN: 0312347472
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest New York Times best selling author, Joseph Finder. Joe is the author of six works of fiction[actually, 8 including KILLER INSTINCT] and two nonfiction books. [actually, one...
May 13, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Academy Award and Emmy Award Nominated filmmaker Lionel Chetwynd.
Since the 1970s Lionel has been involved in one capacity or another with over sixty films, many of them for television. Amo...
May 13, 2007
Title: You Can`t Cheat An Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work..and Why They`re More Common Than Ever
Author: James Walsh ISBN: 1563431696: Publisher: Silver Lake Publishing
In 1903 Charles Ponzi arrived in the USA with the aim of becoming as wealthy as Rockefeller. Hi...
May 12, 2007
Title: Martha Ann's Quilt For Queen Victoria ISBN-10: 1933285591 ISBN-13: 978-1933285597
Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria is a wonderful children's picture book that begs to be read aloud.
It is quite a feat to master the skill of employing just the right words that do not aim too h...
May 11, 2007
Author: David Pryce-Jones ISBN: 1594031517
Having authored nine novels and twelve books of non-fiction, David Pryce-Jones has now turned his attention to France's dealings with Arabs and Jews with his Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews. This book actually started out as an essay Pryce-...
May 10, 2007
Author: King HurleyISBN: 13: 987-0-9774188-5-5
It is not very often where we are fortunate to have the opportunity to read a North American author pen a fascinating novel set in the modern-day land of the rising sun. No doubt, this is no easy feat, particularly when the author endeavor...
May 08, 2007
Article by: Norm Goldman, Editor Sketchandtravel.com
Love, Virginia, according to Keith Smith owner of the Royal Oaks Cabins, is located in western Virginia, atop the Blue Ridge Mountains, between the cities of Waynesboro and Charlottesville. Love is 16 miles south of Shenandoah National Park & I...
May 05, 2007
Title: Maccabee Author: David C. CarsonISBN: 1432701657
Every year on the 25th of the month Kislev of the Hebrew Calendar (between the end of November and the end of December according to the Gregorian calendar) Jews from around the world celebrate the Festival of Lights or as it is more comm...
May 04, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Bookpleasures.com is honored to have as our guest, Christopher Null. Chris is the author of Five Stars! How To Become A Film Critic, The World’s Greatest Job.
In addition, Chris is Editor-in-Chief of Mobile magazine, as well as being founder and Editor-in-Chief...
May 04, 2007
Today, Norm Goldman, Editor of Sketchandtravel.com and Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, author William A.Gordon.
William has authored: The Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book: Shot On This Site: Four Dead In Ohio: and The Quotable Writer.
Good day William and thank yo...
May 04, 2007
Article by: Norm GoldmanWatercolors By: Lily Azerad-Goldman
When a mansion that was once considered to be the finest examples of 19th century architecture in the Santa Clara Valley of California has been reincarnated into a first class conference center and one of Northern California's premier...
May 03, 2007
Article By: Norm Goldman Paintings by: Lily Azerad-Goldman
When describing Hotel Valencia, it is quite difficult to draw parallels with any other in the area of San Jose, California or elsewhere.
This truly gem of a hotel opened in June 2003 and is smack in the middle of the largest mixed-u...
May 03, 2007
Article by: Norm Goldman Paintings by: Lily Azerad-Goldman
Prior to our visit to Belgrade Lakes, Maine, I had done some homework pertaining to one of Maine's best kept secrets and it was quite a revelation when I discovered that for many years well-known artists and writers had vacationed at thi...
May 03, 2007
Author: Linda Marjorie CharlesISBN: 978-1-4259-9403-7
Linda Marjorie Charles’s poetry debut, In The Depths Of A Diva: Volume I reads like a personal diary where she invites her readers to have a peek into her life from ages twelve to twenty-two. What is remarkable about her vignettes is the ma...
May 03, 2007
Article by: Norm Goldman Paintings by: Lily Azerad-Goldman
It is always a wonderful surprise to discover a small village with a population of approximately seven hundred where the only B&B turns out to be not only in an extraordinary location but is also a work of ingenious creativity. Such was ...
May 02, 2007
Review of The Science of Leadership
Authors: Victoria DePaul and Thomas Michael Powell
ISBN: 978-0-9794508-0-8
After having worked in Corporate America for twenty-four years and with broad experience in Human Resource Management, Victoria DePaul is able to draw on her career in tackling the p...
May 02, 2007
Title: Pathologies of Public America: The Triumph of Ignorance and BlissISBN: 1595264523
American scholar James Polk and author of Pathologies of Public America: The Triumph of Ignorance and Bliss draws heavily on his vast amount of research to build a strong argument that Americans are more inte...
April 30, 2007
Every year hundreds of business books are published, however very often they are superficial-containing a great deal of hype but little substance. In many cases the author lacks expertise and the end result is a book filled with clichés, generalizations, and oversimplifications.
It is a given th...
April 24, 2007
Author: Michael Edesess ISBN: 10 1-57675-407-3: 13: 978-1-57675-407-8
Economist and mathematician Michael Edesess author of The Big Investment Lie: What your financial advisor doesn't want you to know lambastes investment advisors and money managers and says that they are profiting from a big l...
April 23, 2007
Author: Shel Horowitz ISBN: 13:978-0-96146666-3: 10:9614666-3-4
Whenever I interview self-published authors I generally pose the question how do they intend to market their books? I am quite dumbfounded that the majority of these authors are so naive and many confess to me that they don’t even ...
April 22, 2007
Title: The Permission Seeker’s Guide Through The Legal Jungle: Clearing Copyrights, Trademarks and Other Rights for Entertainment and Media Productions Author: Joy R. Butler ISBN: 9780967294018
If you are involved in media be it radio, television, film, newspaper, magazines, or the Internet, i...
April 20, 2007
Author: Kerry LePage ISBN: 978-1-4343-2855-0
When Kerry LePage looked back on his life that has spanned fifty plus years, he sincerely felt he had something to pass unto anyone who would listen to him. What's more, he believed that now was the right time to do it or as my own father used to tel...
April 12, 2007
Title: The Parent Care Conversation: Six Strategies for Transforming the Emotional and Financial Future of Your Aging Parents Author: Daniel Taylor ISBN: 0143037641
We hear so much about caring for aging parents these days that at times it feels that children are in a no win situation...
April 10, 2007
Author: Bonnie Kraus Connelly ISBN: 978-0-9790323-01:
160 pages of “cool" illustrations are the focus of Bonnie Kraus Connelly’s coffee-table book Everything’s Coming Up Sock Monkeys: Art, History and Business of The American Sock Monkey. Without doubt these images convey why this truly America...
April 10, 2007
Author: Leon Kahn as told to Marjorie Morris ISBN: 1553800117
There have been thousands of books written about the Holocaust but few describe the plight of the Jewish partisans who escaped to the forests bravely defending themselves against their Nazi hunters. Unfortunately, the majority of these...
April 08, 2007
Author: Brent Sampson ISBN: 1-432701967
Although I have contributed several hundred reviews to Amazon and I am even classified as one of their top one thousand reviewers, I never investigated how Amazon provides its authors with some terrific tools that would facilitate the promotion and sellin...
April 05, 2007
For the past several years I have been reviewing books for my own site BOOKPLEASURES.COM.
As editor of Bookpleasures.com, I would like to make a few comments about book reviewing and what to expect, particularly from Bookpleasures.com.
Today, with the advent of the Internet, there has been a p...
April 05, 2007
Author: Walt Stover, M.A. ISBN: 9781567768569
Walt Stover’s Dreams My Lamp unto the Darkness is an accessible must-read exploration of the mystical world of dreams and how they may be applied to improve your everyday living.
Stover has pulled together an impressive array of findings that ar...
April 05, 2007
Author: Carolyn GarriottISBN: 09778831-0-8
In her first novel Shadow of the Cross, Carolyn Garriott well-understood the principle that it‘s not only the story that is of great consequence, but rather the manner in which you recount it. How often have we read a novel that contained some very fasci...
November 30, 1999
Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1-594678-66-9
Today, Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest, Judy Azar LeBlanc, award winning author of Many Faces to Many Places-A Story. Judy’s book won the 2006 USA Best Book Award in the Spiritual Category.
No...
Articles by Norm Goldman From Other Sources
May 12, 2008
published in Bookpleasures.com
January 19, 2008
published in Meet Ethel Stockton Author of Old is a 4-Letter Word