Category: Books

Author Jayel Gibson promotes female friendly fantasy fiction in award winning new Ancient Mirrors Tale, "Damselflies." Spanning two generations, "Damselflies" sweeps readers into a tangled web of twisted legends and broken promises, desire and deception, fear and fallacy, and the endless struggle to control the minds of humankind.

From television's Bionic Woman to movie and book heroine Hermione Granger and gaming-sensation Halo3's Commander Miranda Keyes, the leading ladies of fantasy fiction are realizing a new wave of capable and strong women.

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"Our Gods Wear Spandex," traces the histories of both American comic books and the superheroes who came to define them. It reveals the deep and abiding religious, occult and magical roots of legendary characters like Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and Wolverine. Ultimately, this work argues that these fantastic characters are not mere entertainment, but also serve as de facto deities for our modern technological society.

Was Superman's arch nemesis Lex Luthor based on Aleister Crowley? Can Captain Marvel be linked to the Norse god Thor?

Did you know that ghosts are as common as foul balls at many major league baseball stadiums? But don't feel bad about the Sox and haunted Fenway. If you're a baseball team, and you've got to have a ghost, you could do much worse than the Babe. After all, he could come in handy at batting practice.

The Curse of the Bambino may be a distant memory for Red Sox fans, but who says the ghosts of Fenway didn't call this year's shots? According to the baseball insiders interviewed for the new book Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends & Eerie Events, Fenway Park is still haunted by the ghosts of the Babe, legendary team owner Tom Yawkey, and former PA announcer Sherm Feller.

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Matsuzaka Jack-O-Lantern at McCoy Stadium.

A medium claims to have written a book with the help of a ghost. Her story combines a supernatural thriller with actual events from the hard rock underground in the 1980's and 1990's. The book features various exciting characters such as vampires, angels and demons and deities from various pagan mythologies.

Lily Strange, a clairsentient medium, has released her first novel, Eternal Death I: Lost Beneath the Surface. Ms. Strange claims that she wrote the supernatural thriller in cooperation with a spirit that she befriended in the latter part of 2005.

For anyone wanting to know what it was really like or for those who lived through the "Flower Power" era, "The Other Side of This Life" offers a candid street-level perspective of life in mid 1960's America.

The Other Side of This Life, by G.C Glasser simply and eloquently presents a harsh and uncompromising perspective of the Viet Nam era military and San Francisco street life during the mid 1960s.

New books share a young woman's journey and celebration to find peace of mind, body and soul. After 32 years of physical and mental abuse, deep depression, drug abuse, homelessness, and four suicide attempts, a young woman discovers the power and beauty of her mind and soul to find peace, and heal a broken spirit.

Why? and Windows of the Moment are companion books written by Shaheer Sehyogi and represent a testament to the inner strength and power of the human spirit to overcome insurmountable odds.

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Crazee Comics of New Jersey has announced the upcoming release of three "crazy" new titles. We've got pictures!

Crazee Comics announced yesterday it has developed several children stories to be published in 2008. The decision to release the titles as individual picture books or as a collective has not yet been reached. The first in the series of Children books will be Doodie's Adventures; a spin-off from the critically acclaimed and fan favorite series "There's An Alien in my Toilet". The main character, Doodie, is a child on his home world Uranus who must do battle with the Diabolical Egomaniac Overlord Nemesis Pooh-Pooh in order to save the universe. He believes himself to be a superhero, although we know better.

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This new cookbook offers holiday meals from many traditions, and includes offerings for everyone from the strictest vegan to the most devout meat eater.

A unique collection of healthy recipes and menus catering to diverse "flexitarian" palates is being published just in time for the upcoming holiday season. Myra Kornfeld, author, chef and teacher, believes that holiday meals should be richly nourishing as well as an indulgent celebrations of life. The Healthy Hedonist Holidays: A Year of Multi-Cultural, Vegetarian-Friendly Holiday Feasts serves up fifteen healthy and festive menus and an international smörgåsbord of naturally satisfying recipes.

"Jesus Drank, Judas Repented and God Divorced His Bride" by Steve Brown takes a deeper look at some commonly held beliefs. Based on intensive research and accompanied by hundreds of footnotes, the book challenges common assumptions that most Christians take for granted.

Most religious books are "sugar coated" and non-controversial. But, the Bible isn't that way. Neither is Jesus Drank, Judas Repented and God Divorced His Bride. If you do an objective study of the contents of the Bible, you'll discover that God can be quite a difficult God. While much of Christ's popularity came from the miracles he performed, those in power took notice because of his understanding of Hebrew law (Old Testament) and his outspoken intolerance for arrogance and self-righteousness among the "religious" crowd.

Innovations like Google, TiVo, iTunes and GPS-equipped phones can be handy, but they also force users to forfeit some privacy, a University of Iowa professor warns in his new book, "iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era."

Author Mark Andrejevic, associate professor of communication studies in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, says that the data trail left by technology users allows public and private monitoring agencies to track users' locations, preferences and life events for purposes including consumer marketing, targeting groups of voters for campaigns, background checks and government surveillance.