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It's the beginning of summer, but San Francisco realtor Trevor Davis really doesn't care that much. Because his life has gone to Hell. His wife has divorced him and, of course, has taken custody of their two teenage daughters. And due to the terrors unleashed by the 2008 sub-prime mortgage debacle, he is now more accurately described sd s former realtor, with nothing left of his former once

Fans of retired lawyer and author Michael Simmons will be pleased to learn that his new book, Double Exposure, is published by The Book Guild. Identical twins, that's Sophie and Hannah! They have a bond between them that some would say is psychic. They were known as tearaways in their youth, but they manage to sort themselves out and depart for life as university students. They decide to

How Did I Get Here? is a book that could be an exciting fictional tale, but it isn't. It is, instead, an exciting factual tale. In it, computer, internet and cyber security expert Tony McDowell writes a riveting story of how he did get to where he is in his life. He did not have a very auspicious start in life, his family didn't have much money and was beset with problems in their

Untangling the Webs is a relationship novel with a difference, because author Joy Pearson has brought her readers a novel that is not only about relationships, but also a thriller, too. It tells the stories of women and the men in their lives. There are Alison,  who is an interior designer, who is single, Julia, a married beautician, Phoebe, a widow who is nor without funds, plus Trudie, a

Flight to the Top of the World: the Adventures of Walter Wellman By David L. Bristow University of Nebraska Press, $29.95 (hc); $28.45 (kindle) Reviewed by P.J. Capelotti Walter Wellman is a unique figure in American journalism and exploration, comparable in some respects with Henry Morton Stanley.  However, since Wellman straddled many different fields: journalism, politics, exploration, aviation, technology, and the Polar Regions, he has been a particularly difficult individual to pin down in any one account of his life of writing and adventure.  His five expeditions in search of the North Pole from 1894-1909, along with an attempted stunt flight across the Atlantic in 1910, have long defined his life.  The present volume moves a bit closer to the goal of a full accounting but, in the end, as did Wellman himself so many times, it comes up short by failing to reach its stated goal. The strengths of this biography are also its weaknesses.  First, the revelation of ne...