In our world, we have a great deal of confusion stemming from virtually every aspect of life. Society entrances and titillates with many indulgences, gluttony persists, and we falter along an unclear path weather-beaten and shaded by false ideas. How do we ever make sense of this turmoil into which we are born? Author Ron Pieris sees the way to a better course, and, in his book Soul Progression, he tries to show us how to come onto that path and follow it.
Pieris believes that in order to possess true faith, one must first have what he calls “works of faith.” Through his understanding of these conditions and activities—charity, hopefulness, love of fellow man—Pieris elaborates upon what is required in order to achieve a state where the evolution of the soul becomes possible.
This book is ideal for anyone who wishes to change and grow as a person from the inside out. It delivers an understanding for which the world in its present circumstance is desperate. If you seek clarity and a means of recapturing the power of true faith, Peiris’s Soul Progression is a must-read.

Grief is a natural part of our lived experience. Of course, it is helpful to have a means of coping, especially with the loss of a loved one. Diana Higbee Reginato’s While the Wind Blows is an excellent reading for anyone who is struggling with the passing of someone dear.
This beautifully illustrated collection of prose and poetry details the process of grief, from the point of its introduction into one’s life to its acceptance and eventual incorporation into our understanding of what it is to love and then lose. The sequence of the work takes the reader along a journey of healing and will prove helpful for anyone dealing with this harsh emotional climate.
Reginato had the grieving reader in mind when she wrote the work. It seems that Reginato was inspired to create this piece in response to her own loss of someone dear. She must be commended for demonstrating to others through her well-written work that grief, though it floods the mind and body with feelings for some time, will not last forever.

In life, there will always be trial. We learn through our experiences, both negative and positive, to overcome adversity and to embrace joy when they come our way. And life’s course proves that both will come our way. In the spirit of overcoming challenges, Pat Frank writes Beyond Jack Squat.
The book’s protagonist, Jackie O’ Riley, lives in a time of great uncertainty and turmoil, where war and impoverished communities threaten the stability of the American landscape and its people. As he moves across the country in search of himself and his own path, he witnesses the evolution of our society. And always he is motivated by the will to become something greater.
Beyond Jack Squat is an excellent read for anybody who encounters negative forces in his or her life and is inspired to rise against solely by way of an intrinsic desire to succeed and to be “somebody.” In this time of our society’s own global and economic trials, Beyond Jack Squat will prove relevant to any reader whose will to work against and move beyond has not yet been drowned in the sea of life’s turmoil and in the midst of social unrest.

The work of certain artists impress upon our minds. What qualities in an artistic piece make it special or appealing?
There are times when we must turn to the characters who were responsible for the creation of these masterpieces in order to better understand the pieces themselves. One controversial artist whose work is liable to be better understood through glimpsing into his life experiences is Vincent Van Gogh, the painter whose vibrant, colorful paintings will leave an impression with any person to look upon them. And where do we turn to view a portrait of Van Gogh’s life? The answer is Norman Beaupre’s The Boy with the Blue Cap.
Beaupre’s The Boy with the Blue Cap is the vision of this brilliant artist’s life and time painting in Arles as told through the eyes of the son of the region’s Postmaster, who actually knew the subject of the piece. The work itself is fictional but littered with elements of the real, and the story proves enticing and suspenseful as the relationship between the Van Gogh and the Postmaster’s son carries us through this phase of Van Gogh’s life and work.
Beaupre must be commended for giving readers the opportunity to better understand this controversial figure’s complex creative work through an engaging and semi-historical account of Van Gogh’s time in Arles.

Author Lucy Monroe is known for her ability to incorporate action and love into cohesive works with well-developed, suspenseful plots. For those who have been drawn to her works in the past, Watch Over Me, Monroe’s next release in her Goddard Project Agency series, promises not to disappoint.
In addition to her specialty of blending suspense and romance in her books, Monroe, her readers contend, has a knack for creating well-rounded and realistic characters complete with imperfections and complex needs or desires. This expertise is fully realized in Watch Over Me, where action-loving, Alpha-male Myk Chernichenko is reluctantly drawn into an assignment that has him fighting to protect not only his sister, but also the brilliant and remarkably attractive scientist Dr. Lana Erikson. In fact, Lana’s figure, no matter how well hidden by her lab coat, leaves Myk fighting for a little more than just her safety, and his resultant advances make professional life for Lana more complex than she ever expected.
It might be hard for the reader to tell which is more exciting in this story—thwarting a drug kingpin super villain who is hellbent on using Lana’s work for his own gain or Myk’s pursuit of a woman that is so much his opposite and so very determined to resist the temptation of his bad-boy appeal. Let the romance and action unfold as this temptation is fully realized in Monroe’s Watch Over Me.