Goldie: Book Review

by E-NewsCast Team
March 14th, 2010

Written in collaboration between two authors, Goldie proves to be a full and rich story with a realistic action-packed pace and a style that gives a definite sense of being there. Orphaned with young siblings to look after, Goldie endeavors to save what is left of her family and their land by continuing her fatherÂ’s boot-legging ventures with the Mafia. With difficult decisions to be made between love and the life she desires, Goldie then stumbles upon scandalous secrets and narrowly escapes the mistake of a lifetime. This is an empowering story of people rising above hardships and incredible torment. Convictions in friendship, despite differences that are socially frowned upon, bring a sense of righteousness and honor into the characters of the book.Only strong, centered people could survive this era and the bookÂ’s heroic characters fall into this category – the kind …

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Review: A Circle of Dreams

by E-NewsCast Team
March 13th, 2010

Author: Annie Rogers ISBN: 0977018318

With A Circle of Dreams Annie Rogers continues the saga of the Demontagne-Diamant families for what turns out to be a showdown between the world of the dead, the spirit of Anne-Cecile Diamant, who lived in St. Lucia over two hundred years ago, and the world of the living, the cross-cultured descendents of her lost son Philippe.

Our narrative picks up where the author’s debut novel, A Dream Across Time left off. The story opens with Andre and Jamie Demontagne on their way home from Martinique with their new born son, Philippe. During the car ride to their Jumeaux Estate in St. Lucia, Jamie becomes terribly upset when she hears the crying and moaning of a woman in the wind, bringing back memories of an unpleasant past experience when she was lost in the forest pursuing a woman’s cry.

The couple manages to arrive home safe and

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Fun Works – AchieveMax(r) Top Ten Book Review

by E-NewsCast Team
March 12th, 2010

Fun Works: Creating Places Where People Love to Work by Leslie Yerkes

Books on this subject have been around for decades. I have many of them on my own bookshelves and have seldom referred to any of them in the spirit of research, study or bench marking. I’m afraid you’d hear similar remarks from the average CEO, manager, leader, supervisor, HR specialist, etc. However, the business world and its challenges are changing, and I think it’s time we revisit this subject of having fun at work. What better time to do so as experts all agree that we are rapidly approaching an era of difficulty in attracting and retaining talent at a time when potential employees have so many choices.

Another interesting trend has emerged recently as more and more organizations are seriously pursuing the status of “Employer of Choice.” I can attest to the fact that this pursuit is not grounded

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Review of The Broken Fountain

by E-NewsCast Team
March 11th, 2010

The Broken Fountain by Thomas Belmonte is a powerful book thatshows greatly the struggle and life of the poor class. It givesa strong sense of urban life through the story of a Neapolitanneighborhood. It goes beyond that, though. There is much morethan a gritty street and rundown buildings. There is much morethan the poor people walking by and emotion filled families.There is an underlying theme of humanity, of justice andinjustice, that the reader can not help but be touched by. The imagery is strong and brings the book to life. The readergets a true sense of what it is like to be in the neighborhood.The description of buildings and people captivate the minds andbring a world of humanity into light. Whether it be in thestreets or the homes themselves, the reader feels that they havesome experience now in this awkward world even if they are sodistant from its location. The setting …

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The No B.S. Way to Succeed in Your Direct Marketing Business

by E-NewsCast Team
March 10th, 2010

The new year brought two new books by direct marketing master Dan Kennedy. Dan Kennedy is the author of famous (among direct marketers) “No B.S. Marketing Letter”, a monthly newsletter designed to help marketers market better. Kennedy is known for his blunt, no-holds-barred approach in his marketing discussions. Thus, his writing is concise and to the point. His two new offerings are no different: No B.S. Direct Marketing and No B.S. Wealth Attraction for Entrepreneurs pick up right where the last three books by Kennedy in this series left off. (The other three books are No B.S. Sales Success, No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, and No B.S. Business Success; all five are well worth owning.)

Kennedy takes a slightly different approach in these two books than he did in his previous three. In these two, he only writes about one-third to one-half of the

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