Book Excerpt: Nabukko: The Nabukko Trilogy Book 1 by K.R. Gadeken
From the blurb Eff is stranded on an unfamiliar planet. Her memories have been tampered with, leaving her with only snippets of information. With no recollection of how she arrived, why she’s there, or what happened to the rest of her crew, all she can do is try to stay alive. After months of surviving…
BookView Review: Nabukko: The Nabukko Trilogy Book 1 by K.R. Gadeken
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date June 2, 2024 ISBN 979-8990421318 Print length 352 pages Price $25.00 Hardcover, $14.99 Paperback, $3.99 Kindle edition Book excerpt Gadeken’s debut installment in the Nabukko Trilogy explores memory, identity, and survival on a richly imagined alien world. Eff awakens alone on an unfamiliar planet with only fragments of her…
Book Excerpt: Sleeping With the Enemy: What the White House Still Misses on China by Edouard Prisse
From the blurb A Wake-Up Call for the West For decades, Western leaders assumed that deeper economic integration with China would produce stability, openness, and shared prosperity. Instead, those policies helped accelerate China’s wealth accumulation and strategic leverage.In Sleeping With the Enemy: What the White House Still Misses on China, independent political observer Edouard Prisse examines…
Interview with Author Terry Birdgenaw
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Terry Birdgenaw about his writing and recently released novel, Cyborg Contact (The Antunite Chronicles # 4), a charmingly unconventional cli-fi adventure that proves humanity sometimes needs an alien’s perspective to recognize what is worth saving (Read the review here.). TERRY BIRDGENAW, an award-winning author of The…
Cyborg Contact (The Antunite Chronicles # 4) by Terry Birdgenaw
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Cyborg Insect Books Pub date June 4, 2026 ASIN B0GX2ST9HB Price $3.99 Kindle edition Author interview In Birdgenaw’s latest installment in the Antunite Chronicles series, a giant cyborg ant from a distant world crash-lands in Mexico and sets out to save humanity from the environmental mistakes that nearly destroyed…
Interview with Author E.K. Bao
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed E.K. Bao about his writing and recently released novel, HAPPIA, a houghtful, ambitious, and emotionally grounded work of science fiction (Read the review here.). E.K. Bao writes speculative fiction examining institutional power, narrative control, and systemic failures shaping truth and reality. His debut work HAPPIA-MYRIA…
BookView Review: HAPPIA by E.K. Bao
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date June 27, 2026 ASIN B0GXY2TVQH Print length 701 pages Price $6.99 Kindle edition Author interview A fisherman discovers that the monsters he spent years hunting were never monsters at all in Bao’s immersive sci-fi tale. Vertan Zviedal joins the Coalition’s Special Expeditions hoping to escape poverty and build…
Interview with Author Richard Kiehr
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Richard Kiehr about his writing and soon-to-be released novel, The Tell Tale Lie, an ambitious historical thriller with brains, heart, and plenty of surprises (Read the review here.). Steven Wendland has been a gold miner, tree planter, and vacuum cleaner salesman, but spends most…
BookView Review: The Tell Tale Lie by Richard Kiehr
BookView Review rated it: Coming soon Author website Author interview Identity crises, espionage intrigue, archaeological secrets: Kiehr turns a family mystery into a sweeping international thriller. Kiehr’s sweeping historical thriller begins with Treyton Chase, a sharp-tongued Vancouver schoolteacher whose world collapses after discovering, at age fifty-one, that he was adopted. A clue hidden among his…
BookView Review: Bodies of Water by Marylee MacDonald
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date November 3, 2026 Grand Canyon Press ISBN 978-1963361179 Price $2.00 Kindle edition MacDonald explores the currents of loss, memory, and resilience in this compassionate story collection. The stories range from coastal harbors and offshore oil rigs to sacred rivers and drought-stricken reservoirs. While the settings vary widely, the collection…
BookView Review: Sleeping With the Enemy: What the White House Still Misses on China by Edouard Prisse
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date March 25 2026 ISBN 979-8253362686 Print length 130 pages Price $18.99 (USD) Paperback, $4.11 Kindle edition Book excerpt In Sleeping With the Enemy, Prisse explores one of the most consequential geopolitical developments of the modern era: China’s rise as an economic superpower and the role Western policy played in…
BookView Review: Kinker: Circusing the Seventies by Dave Letterfly Knoderer
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date October 26, 2024 ISBN 979-8349585203 Print length 492 pages Price $28.00 (USD) Paperback, $6.99 Kindle edition Knoderer chronicles the fading world of the American traveling circus while tracing a young man’s search for purpose, belonging, and self-definition. Leaving behind a troubled home life and a strained relationship with his…
BookView Review: Sweet Potato by Susan Marie Chapman (Author), Natalia Loseva (Illustrator)
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Gourmet Dog LLC Pub date March 23, 2022 ISBN 978-1736805640 Print length 46 pages Ages 3-8 years Price $21.99 (USD) Hardcover, $10.99 Paperback, $3.99 Kindle edition, $0.00 Kindle unlimited Set in the familiar world of Flamingo Park, Chapman’s latest book is a charming picture book about a quirky young…
Interview with Author John Gregg
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed John Gregg about his writing and recently released debut book, Altamara’s Gift, a gritty, heartfelt war novel distinguished by vivid atmosphere and deep affection for its characters (Read the review here.). I am a Vietnam veteran, and I served in the Unites States Army…
BookView Review: Altamara’s Gift by John Gregg
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Pub date April 17, 2025 ISBN 979-8313442310 Price $16.96 Paperback, $6.99 Kindle edition Author interview A gifted left-handed ballplayer and a compassionate Army medic attempt to survive the moral and physical devastation of Vietnam in Gregg’s sprawling debut historical novel. Lefty Altamara grows up in the San Fernando Valley,…
BookView Review: Hydrangeas from Dad by Mary Ellen Connett MacDonald MS
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Balboa Press Pub date November 23, 2025 ISBN 979-8765261705 Price $38.12 (USD) Hardcover, $16.99 Paperback, $3.99 Kindle edition MacDonald blends memoir, grief narrative, and spiritual exploration in Hydrangeas from Dad, a deeply personal account of how the death of her father altered the emotional and philosophical direction of her life. The…
Interview with Author Jake Roaf
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Jake Roaf about his writing and soon-to-be released book, Gains & Grappling: The Hardgainers Bible, an intense, high-energy, performance-focused nutrition guide aimed at fighters, grapplers, hardgainers, and strength athletes exhausted by restrictive dieting and overcomplicated fitness advice (Read the review here.). Jake Roaf is…
BookView Review: Gains & Grappling: The Hardgainers Bible by Jake Roaf
BookView Review rated it: Coming soon Author website Author interview ISSA-Certified Nutrition Coach Roaf’s’ intense debut is a high-energy, performance-focused nutrition guide aimed at fighters, grapplers, hardgainers, and strength athletes exhausted by restrictive dieting and overcomplicated fitness advice. From the opening pages, the book establishes its core philosophy: food is fuel for performance, recovery, and…
BookView Review: The Watchmen by Mike MacCarthy
BookView Review rated it: Buy now Outskirts Press Pub date February 11, 2026 ISBN 978-1977288554 Price $21.95 (USD) Paperback, $9.99 Kindle edition Book excerpt MacCarthy’s gripping thriller follows two men caught in a conspiracy far larger than either realizes. After reform-minded school board candidate Adam Tanner disappears days before a crucial San Diego election, rumors begin to…
Book Excerpt: The Watchmen by Mike MacCarthy
From the blurb Adam Tanner never expected running for a local school board seat to become a fight for his life. For years, parents and grandparents across the country have watched with growing frustration as public education descends into conflict, secrecy, and political power struggles. Adam Tanner decides he has had enough. Determined to bring…
Interview with Author Veronica Puig
Welcome to BookView Interview, a conversation series where BookView talks to authors. Recently, we interviewed Veronica Puig about her writing and recently released picture book, Treehouse Rescue, a tender and uplifting book that celebrates empathy, adaptability, and the quiet heroism found in helping others (Read the review here.). Veronica Puig is the founder of Veca’s Hope Children Foundation, a nonprofit…
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