The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace

On December 17, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Travel, by Wilfried F. Voss

The Unconquered tells the extraordinary tale of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet’s last uncontacted indigenous tribes.

Selling on Ebay versus selling on Amazon

On November 8, 2011, in Annabelle Charbit, Business, Guest Writers, Making Money from Home, by AnnabelleRC

Ebay and Amazon are the two leading online retailers, selling everything from books to DVDs, technology, household goods and furniture. You can furnish every room in your home using just these two sites, without ever having to leave the comfort of your chair.

Book Sales Are Nothing to Write Home About: What is going on?

On November 7, 2011, in Guest Writers, Reader Views, Writing & Publishing, by Wilfried F. Voss

Every day I get at least two emails from authors expressing concern that their books aren’t selling. They’ve done everything right: marketing, publicity, social media, blogging, website, signings, promotion, promotion, and more promotion but it just isn’t happening.

State of Wonder – A Novel by Ann Patchett

On June 2, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Ann Patchett has dazzled readers with her award-winning books, including The Magician’s Assistant and the New York Times bestselling Bel Canto. Now she raises the bar with State of Wonder, a provocative and ambitious novel set deep in the Amazon jungle.

Kindle Edition: World and Town – A Novel by Gish Jen

On November 6, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Wilfried F. Voss

Cherished novelists are often those who combine humor with humanism, a feat Jen performs with particular aplomb as she choreographs telling cultural collisions. Her fourth sparkling yet deeply inquisitive novel portrays Hattie Kong, a retired high-school biology teacher who grew up in China, the daughter of an American missionary and a Chinese father descended from Confucius.

Kindle Edition: Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory by William R. Forstchen and Newt Gingrich

On November 3, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Wilfried F. Voss

Writing team Gingrich and Forstchen follow up the success of To Try Men’s Souls (2009) with another novelization of a seminal episode in the history of Revolutionary-era America. Once again, George Washington provides both the narrative focal point and the moral core of the story, as he and his fledgling Continental Army struggle to survive the bitter winter of 1777 at Valley Forge.

Kindle Edition: How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu

On November 3, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Wilfried F. Voss

Early on in How to Read the Air–the second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears–Jonas Woldemariam and his soon-to-be wife Angela attend a party, where they tell casual, false stories about Angela’s absent father and arrive, all of a sudden, at the fulcrum of this elegant and unusual novel.

Kindle Edition: Zora and Me – A Novel by Victoria Bond

On November 2, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Wilfried F. Voss

Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston. Whether she’s telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a riveting storyteller.

Kindle Edition: Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

On November 1, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Wilfried F. Voss

Born and raised in the Mount Hope section of Providence, Rhode Island, journalist Liam Mulligan won’t simply report on the rash of arsons killing lifelong friends and loved ones in his old neighborhood. He wants to know more and launches an investigation, discovering a heavy-handed plot to own Mount Hope in order to redevelop it.

Kindle Edition – The Twisted Sisterhood: Unraveling the Dark Legacy of Female Friendships by Kelly Valen

On October 31, 2010, in Amazon Kindle, by Wilfried F. Voss

In The Twisted Sisterhood, Kelly Valen picks up where her arresting New York Times essay about a painful sorority encounter left off. She pulls back the curtain on female relationships, revealing the troubling findings from her unique survey of more than three thousand women from all walks of life.