Well it’s that time of year, the holiday season. Our December/January issue #3 features Melissa Manchester’s 21st album The Fellas (interviewed by Sheryl Aronson of Arting Around); power drummer and pianist Virgil Donati’s latest CD The Dawn of Time; and we take a look at the evolving career of Parisian […]
Tag: book reviews
AGENDA’s First Monthly Print Issue Is Available!
Agenda magazine is pleased to announce a much-awaited new print magazine! First, the Special Edition annuals, then the Fitness Couture Collector’s Issue . . . all Agenda magazine. We have downsized from 232 pages to a 114-page monthly glossy, published through KL Publishing Group, and presented to you this October just in time […]
WAKING UP JOY by Tina Ann Forkner
Joy, the main character and first person narrator of this comedic romance mystery, set in the fictional town of Spavinaw Junction, Oklahoma, is accused of trying to hang herself when she falls from the roof of the old Talley house where she has lived all of her life. Joy is […]
THE EAGLE TREE by Ned Hayes
This is literary fiction complete with conflict, plot, rising action, crisis, climax, falling action, etc. Set in Olympia, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, the main character and first person narrator is fourteen-year-old March Peter Wong, a brilliant, teenager whose favorite activity is climbing trees. March, the name by which he […]
ABOUT THE NIGHT by Anat Talshir
Five stars for this well written premier novel of forbidden love between an Arab and a Jew. Lila was a Jew born and raised in Istanbul. Later an adult, she moved to Jerusalem. Elias Riani was an Arab, whose family has lived in Jerusalem for over a hundred years. In 1947 Elias […]
A BLOODSMOOR ROMANCE by Joyce Carol Oates
Published in 1982, A Bloodsmoor Romance by Joyce Carol Oates is a gothic romance novel set in Bloodsmoor, Pennsylvania, in the years 1879-1899. It is the story of five Pennsylvania sisters, told by an omniscient narrator identified only as “a maiden lady of advanced years.” The novel opens with considerable […]