Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini & Rebecca Paley

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology | Authors: Leah Remini & Rebecca Paley | Rating: 10/11 | For most Americans, Scientology ranks among other pseudo-mythical cultural oddities, like The Illuminati, the Lunar Landing or reports of alien abductions.  Tom Cruise jumping up and down in an ecstatic (and, let’s face it; creepy) declaration of love for Katie Holmes on Oprah Winfrey’s […]

Photofantasm Soundgarden: Nudedragons To King Animal By Jaye & Mike English

Photofantasm Soundgarden: Nudedragons to King Animal | Authors: Jaye & Mike English | Rating: 11/11 | Fact: Nostalgia, particularly that of the rock n roll kind, can be a sad sack of a thing. We’re talking downright, put-it-out-of-its-misery pitiful (looking at you The Doors of the 21st Century and Jackson Unity Tour just to name a few) particularly if there’s just not […]

Parentology by Dalton Conley

Parentology | Author: Dalton Conley | Rating: 10/11 | Photo Credit: Stephen P. Hudner | With the ever-changing research on parenting, and what approach truly produces the most well-rounded, well-adjusted and successful adults, it is easy to get overwhelmed. Between books claiming attachment parenting is the only way, to philosophies that advocate for sleep training, to the eternal debate on when […]

Housebreaking By Dan Pope

Housebreaking | Author: Dan Pope | Rating: 8/11 The second novel by award-winning author Dan Pope, Housebreaking is a masterfully crafted portrait of modern suburban life, American Beauty-esque in the way that it reveals the layers upon layers of dysfunction that go on behind closed doors of your everyday community. When Benjamin Mandelbaum finds himself living with his elderly father as his […]

Follow Your Gut by Rob Knight with Brendan Butler

Follow Your Gut | Author: Rob Knight (with Brendan Butler) | Rating: 10/11 Have you ever wondered why two seemingly similar people can be predisposed to such different conditions? Do you know someone that can’t seem to avoid being attacked by mosquitoes the moment that they step outside? Why do some people have food sensitivities, even when their parents do […]

White Plague by James Abel

White Plague (A Joe Rush Novel) | Author: James Abel | Rating: 7/11 | Equal parts military fiction, high seas adventure and biomedical horror, White Plague is the exciting tale of Marine Joe Rush, a military doctor, bio-terrorism specialist, weapons aficionado and all-around expert in diffusing impossible situations. When Rush is called in to rescue an US submarine on a […]

We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

We Are Not Ourselves | Author: Matthew Thomas | Rating: 8/11 | We Are Not Ourselves is a deftly woven novel spanning multiple decades, generations and telling the tale of Eileen Leary’s ascension from the child of an immigrant family to the woman she aspires to become. Eileen’s tale is both heartwarming and heartbreaking – at times, simultaneously – as […]