Category: Nonfiction
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My New Book
About CKD: Chronic Kidney Disease I’ll try to publish several chapters to my blog before going on to publication (this book is not yet completed) Coming up So I grew up in Berkeley and Albuquerque, mostly. My mom was a book buyer and librarian, and is now retired and living in California. My stepdad died…
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Ranked #6 on Amazon List!
White Fences Black Stars My new book, White Fences Black Stars, is now available, click here to read a sample or purchase on Amazon. Here are its current rankings:
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An excerpt from my new book…
White Fences Black Stars A historical fiction of the Negro Leagues Playing in CubaHeath was working out his considerable biceps with dumbbells made with coffee cans and sand. Gooch and Wilkinson were each jumping rope. It was late July in Chicago, and our trio was visiting a park that “colored people” were “allowed” to frequent.Heath…
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci My rating: 5 of 5 stars So there are a lot of books I’ve given 4-5 Stars to, but this book deserves ten stars. Baldacci has created a story that already existed, likely in many lives, but he unearthed it with great care, as Stephen…
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Stephen King Book Review
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft I really enjoyed Stephen King’s book, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, because it’s a good primer on becoming a better writer. But I also liked it because the author manages to be straightforward about the odds against a person not among the elite few literary geniuses…
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Getting Lucky
at the library today So I was reading the new David Baldacci, but I kept thinking it was a John Grisham; either way, it’s one of the better books I’ve read in a long while. The book is called A Calamity of Souls. I got halfway through the book when it became due. Since it…
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‘Spare’
Spare, by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is a triumphant and engrossing volume, and is apparently outdoing other autobiographies and memoirs by a country mile.
Brendan Shea's Positive Press 