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Category: Pop Culture / Performing Arts
The Guitar & Amp Sourcebook: An Illustrated Collection of the Axes and Amps that Rocked Our World
Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA; www.ThunderBayBooks.com; 472 page paperback; $24.95 (November 2012) ISBN-10: 1607105659Reviewed by Jim BarnesWith the release of this book, all of us old rock 'n rollers and guitar geeks got a dandy Christmas present. Author Mike Abbott more…
Category: Politics
Fifteen Steps to Corporate Feudalism: How the Rich Convinced America's Middle Class to Eliminate Themselves
One Standard Press, Santa Fe, NM; www,thefifteensteps.com; 232 page paperback; $17.00 (May 2012) ISBN: 978-0-9837112-0-9Reviewed by Jim Barnes, Editor, www.IndependentPublisher.com"In its weakened state the U.S. government has lost the support of the very citizens who depended on more…
Category: Fiction / Pop Culture
No Alternative
Kettle of Letters Press; http://www.facebook.com/noalternative.novel; 329 page paperback; $12.99; (April 2012) ISBN-10: 0985188618Review by Craig Manning “From Sid Vicious to Kurt Cobain, Jim Jones to David Koresh, artists and psychopaths alike were immersed in the cumulative more…
Category: Pop Culture / Agriculture / Medicine
Super-Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana
Timber Press, Portland, OR; www.timberpress.com; 256 page hardcover; $24.95 (September 2012) ISBN-10: 1604692952Review by Jim Barnes, Managing Editor, www.IndependentPublisher.com We all know marijuana is illegal in the United States, and has been since 1937. We also more…
Category: Memoir / Rock Music
Rockin' a Hard Place
Hub City Press, Spartanburg, SC, www.HubCity.org; 220 page paperback, $16.95 (Oct. 2012) ISBN: 978-1891885-99-0Reviewed by Craig Manning Renowned author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson once likened the music business to “a cruel and shallow money trench, a more…
Category: Visionary Fiction
The Shadowy Horses
Sourcebooks Landmark, Naperville, IL; www.sourcebooks.com 448 page paperback; $16.99; Kindle edition; $9.99 (October 2012) ISBN-10: 1402258704Reviewed by Jillian Bergsma My heart lurched. Stopped. Began again. Over the sudden roaring rush of blood that filled my ears I more…
Category: Sports / Recreation / Mountaineering
Freedom Climbers
Rocky Mountain Books, Surrey, BC; rmbooks.com 352 page hardcover; $29.95 (Oct 2011) ISBN-13: 978-1926855608Review by Craig Manning The opening pages of Bernadette McDonald’s masterful Freedom Climbers offer readers a brief detour into more…
Category: Visionary Fiction
A Greater Monster
Bedhead Books, Chicago, IL; daviddavid.net; 384 page paperback; $17.95 (November 2011) ISBN-10: 0983864403Editor's note: Here is a review of A Greater Monster, by David David Katzman. This book is the recipient of the Independent Spirit Award, one more…
Category: Popular Fiction
Oxford Messed Up
Oxford Messed Up by Andrea Kayne Kaufman Grant Place Press, Chicago, IL www.grantplacepress.com 336 page paperback; $14.95 Kindle edition $6.99 ISBN-10: 0984675108Reviewed by Jenn "The Picky Girl" Love is...dirty. And when you're obsessive compulsive and steering more…
Category: Memoir
Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon: Mapping the Wild Heart of Alaska
Epicenter Press Kenmore, WA www.epicenterpress.com 208 page paperback; $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-935347-17-0 (Spring 2012)Well-written memoirs take readers out of their lives and into another person’s world, offering a variety of experiences and insights along with the rare opportunity to more…
Category: Children's Picture Book
Her Majesty's Explorer: a Steampunk Bedtime Story
Coal City Stories Atlanta, GA www.CoalCitySteam.com 34 page softcover Price: 11.95 ISBN-13: 978-0984902804 (February 2012)Reviewed by Jim Barnes - 2/10/12 A steampunk book for kids? Sure, kids love the genre, too, and mechanical protagonists have been clanking through more…
Category: Literary Fiction
Glass
Coffee House Press $15 Trade Paperback Original ISBN: 978-1-56689-273-5 http://www.coffeehousepress.org (Fall 2011)Reviewed by Lisa Guidarini - January 23, 2012"I have taped the lion photograph back up on more…