Lisa Boalt Richardson, certified tea specialist has gifted the world a beautiful new coffee table book about tea and all it's customs all throughout the world. Lisa takes the reader from country to country and exploring native teas and treats that accompany them. Her inspiration was the sense of

Something You Forgot…Along the Way, Stories of Wisdom and Learning (Ichimannendo Publishing) by K. Takamori one of Japans’ best selling authors have something for everyone. “Something You Forgot” is a collection of short stories, both fictional and non fiction which depending on your moo

A sexy novel about sex—and sex alone—has reenergized him, just when his fans were giving up hope Martin Amis’s new novel, The Pregnant Widow, is—nakedly, brazenly, devotedly—about sex. This makes it almost unique in the Amis canon. It’s not a Gulag novel that turns out to b

It had never occurred to me that there wasn’t enough attention given on the female perspective of growing up in the streets until I read Anthony Whyte’s first published fiction novel, “Ghetto Girls”, from Augustus Publishing. Everyone’s seen Director John Singleton’s “Boyz N The Ho

There’s something magical about page-turners. Is it the orchestra of their words, the way they flow like musical notes off the sheet and sing their way into your heart? Or could it be the vision that penetrates through your mind as your own movie begins to take shape as the description of scen

Fantasies are exaggerated wishes that come true through our passionate actions. No, it doesn’t say that in the dictionary however, the words that Monica S. Martinez use in her erotic anthology entitled “Dulce De Leche” say so – in English, pero…with a spice of Spanglish, of course! In this

Written by Jasmine Clemente Memoirs are impelling to read because they are based on someone's life – a true story – but the only discrepancy I have with that, is that it's only one person's version of how things went down and as we all know, there's always two sides to a story. However, t

Clutter. It annoys us out of the corners of our eyes, irks us at some subconscious level, and overwhelms us in volume. Twitter, radio, television, blogs…it's easy to get lost in the compost pile of the media. So the $64,000 question for experts and authors is, "How do we cut through thi

To change the failing national education system, teachers must learn how to turn theory into practice in their classrooms by Bobbi DePorter Nearly all educational professionals are clear that they'd like to see students more interested and involved in learning, higher academic achievement, low

  By Jasmine Clemente     1) WHAT INSPIRED THE IDEA TO WRITE ABOUT AN INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIP?   I believe there are a lot of misconceptions about interracial dating, so I wanted to write a novel about a relationship between a black woman and a white man that I'd like t