Self-Published Book Review of the Week: The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays

joanofarc_coverThe Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays
by Carolyn Gage

 

“As Carolyn Gage is one of the best lesbian playwrights in America, the book is an intellectual banquet… the reader will get the education of a lifetime.”– Lambda Book Report, Los Angeles

 

 

 The explosive, underground classic The Second Coming of Joan of Arc is back in print at last! For two decades, Carolyn Gage’s revolutionary play about a cross-dressing, teenaged, runaway lesbian Joan of Arc has been rousing women to resistance—inspiring them to walk out of patriarchal institutions and fight for a feminist vision.

This new collection includes six other powerful Gage plays:

The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman

The greatest actress of the 19th century, a lesbian butch, makes a riotous last stand.

Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter

A lesbian butch stakes her claim to a place in men’s history the only way she can.

Cookin with Typhoid Mary

History’s most notorious typhoid carrier tells her side of the story.

The Parmachene Belle

The Maine hunting guide who loved Annie Oakley offers a lesson on fly fishing.

Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist

Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism in a fight-to-the-death.

Artemisia and Hildegard

Two of the most powerful women artists in history square off on a volatile panel about strategies for survival.

For more information or to order this book, visit the author’s webpage.

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Self-Published Book Review of the Week: Stepping Into Joy

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by Randall Green

This self-published Twelve-Step Programs book was recently reviewed on bookpleasures.com.

In Stepping Into Joy, Dr. Randall Green bears his own soul in order to make clear the path he and countless others have taken to achieve authentic joy. In these pages you will discover a refreshing approach to our endless quest for spiritual fulfillment. Using the Twelve Steps of Recovery as the core solution to mankind’s “quiet desperation”, Dr. Green adds the spices of real-life stories, pithy slogans, humorous anecdotes, and a few “old Kentucky sayings” just for the fun of it. Building on the premise that addiction is a physical disease with a spiritual solution, the Twelve Steps are offered as “guides to progress” in the journey to spiritual wholeness. Although Randy Green is unashamedly committed to his Christian faith, the spiritual principles he extrapolates are non-partisan in application. This is not a book on religion. It is not a book for or against religion. This is a book about true spirituality and how to experience it amid the real stressors and challenges of today’s post-modern culture. Regardless of the addictions, compulsive behaviors, or attachments that may plague our lives, we will be led closer and closer to the joy we all seek as we commit ourselves to living out these twelve spiritual principles one day at a time.

Read the full review here.

Self Published Book Review of the Week: Sammy the Panda’s World of Colors and Shapes

spwcs_coverSammy the Panda’s World of Colors and Shapes
by Haliyma Barrow
Illustrated by Danielle MacIndoe

READING LEVEL: ages 4-6

RATING: 5 stars

REVIEWED BY: Wayne Walker

Little Sammy Panda is sad. His cousins Milly and Tilly have misplaced the different colored shapes of his favorite toy set, “The Ship of Shapes.” His Mommy seems to know what will cheer him up, so she helps him look for the one gold star, the two green triangles, the three orange circles, and so forth. Will they find them all? And will Sammy be happy again?

What a neat idea! My wife and I homeschooled our children, and when they were little we were always looking for fun and colorful tools to help them learn their numbers, colors, and shapes. Whether you plan to homeschool your toddlers or prepare them for traditional school, this book is a great resource for accomplishing that very purpose. With striking full-color illustrations on every page that youngsters should find appealing, this is probably one of those books that they will ask to be read to them over and over. Parents who are interested in developing bilingualism will appreciate the added benefit that the text at each opening is in both English and Spanish. I give this book two thumbs up!

Visit the author’s website: www.sammythepanda.com