Category: Books

"A Freed Woman's Dance" is an inspiring, tell-all memoir of courage, strength and in the end - resilience.

A Freed Woman's Dance is an inspiring, tell-all memoir of courage, strength and in the end - resilience. Out of her personal and compelling story of neglect and abuse, Author Doris Cope has found her way to healing and embarked on a journey to help other childhood sexual abuse survivors find voice, freedom and empowerment.

A new book seeks to raise money for children affected by strife around the world. "The Trouble with the Alphabet: Through the Eyes of Innocence" is written and illustrated by Caryn West, a commercial artist with a passion for humanitarian initiatives. The book addresses the plight of hundreds of millions of children who suffer under a variety of afflictions - AIDS, poverty, hunger, war, rape, genocide, and child labor to name a few.

Since 2003, in the Darfur region of Sudan, over 400,000 people have been killed and over 2 million have been displaced, many of them children. In Oman, the fine for using child labor is only $1,300. It is estimated that approximately one out of every ten children die before they reach age five in Djibouti. In the Second Lebanon War, over 1/3 of the casualties were children. The average murder rate in Jamaica is four murders a day, of which 119 were children in one year. When a region is thrown into chaos, it is always the children who are most vulnerable.

Oceanview Publishing announces the forthcoming release of Spirit Horses by Alan S. Evans. Spirit Horses will be available nationwide on April 1, 2009.

In Spirit Horses, author Alan S. Evans introduces Shane Carson. In the hills of Tennessee, Shane Carson, a gifted, nationally-recognized horseman, is living the good life with his wife and children by his side. When a mysterious mustang shows up on his farm, Shane doesn't know how - or why - the horse appeared, but the horse's distinctive brand identifies her. She is one of the Spirit Horses, a rare, wild herd that runs free on the Shoshone reservation in Wyoming. Watched over for centuries in the tribe's ancestral valleys, these exquisite horses, according to belief, provide a link to the afterlife.

"The Dharma King" is a novel that ties a personal spiritual journey to the Tibetan crisis.

The dramatic landscapes of the Himalayas and Tibet have long made travelers' pulses pound, whether they were caught up in this year's Olympics in Beijing (and the accompanying Tibetan drama), dreaming of a high mountain trek, or fascinated by Buddhism's roots in the mysterious monasteries of the region.

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New book reveals over 200 never-published photos of the Beatles at work in the recording studio.

A new book reveals over 200 never-published photos of the Beatles in the recording studio. In February 1967, Life magazine photographer Henry Grossman spent an evening with the Beatles while they worked on their ground-breaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in London's famous Abbey Road recording studio. Though he took more than 250 photos that evening, only a handful of the images were ever published. The remainder have spent the last four decades safely tucked away in Mr. Grossman's archive. The entire collection has finally been published in a new limited-edition book, Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Day in the Life of Sgt. Pepper.

Sony/Tri-Star Pictures former business affairs executive Eric Mitchell is latest Hollywood player to pick up joint development interest, with filmmaker Armand Mastroianni, in new epic fantasy, "The Goddess Prophecies."

One of the chief architects behind the financing of The Chronicles of Narnia, Eric Mitchell is the latest player to enter the Hollywood pool of development interest in the epic fantasy, The Goddess Prophecies, by author D.R. Whitney.

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A new book called "The Truth," by award-winning author Stephen Hawley Martin, draws upon research by impeccable mainstream sources to overturn the widely-held belief that awareness and mind are products of the brain.

An answer to a puzzle that's a lot like "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" has been found according to the author of a new book entitled The Truth.

A new book from a University of Illinois at Chicago scholar examines the progression of obsessive behavior from its religious and secular origins to its present status as a medical and cultural phenomenon.

Obsession: A History by Lennard Davis, University of Illinois professor of English, offers a narrative featuring wide-ranging perspectives on the history of compulsive behaviors.

First-time author Laura Faeth reveals mystical experiences and spiritual transformation wrapped in electric guitars and solo riffs.

Colorado-based author Laura Faeth recounts the healing power of music in her new release, I Found All the Parts: Healing the Soul Through Rock 'n' Roll. According to Faeth, rock 'n' roll makes spiritual transformation possible.

"The Aerospace Assault on Planet Earth" explores correlation between space launches and environmental disasters and suggests tornadoes, tsunamis and El Nino are more than coincidences.

Once again, environmental issues are a hot button topic for the election year. Politicians are rushing to the dealerships to buy hybrid cars, Barack Obama has gone on record criticizing Detroit for continuing to create gas guzzling vehicles, and the coal lobbyists are desperately trying to convince the American public that instead of alternative fuels, we should turn to technology to solve the world's environmental issues. One new book suggests that technology, instead of being our savior, is actually the cause of our problems.