Clark's Eye on Books

The Chester ChroniclesAuthor:  Kermit MoyerISBN: 978-1-57962-194-0, Pages: 232,   $26.00 Publication Date: February 1, 2010, Cloth, Fiction, Published by:  ThePermanent Press Writing about your life, which you know best, can be in many forms.  Autobiographies are done without embellishment, but when you fictionalize your life you get the opportunity for a ‘do-over’ to correct your mistakes.  KermitMoyer, in “The Chester Chronicles”, has createdChester Patterson, a mirror image or doppelganger,…See More

The Bread Machine BibleAuthor: Anne SheasbyISBN: 978-1-84483-795-3, Pages: 176, $19.95, Publication Date: 2009, Hardcover, Cookbook, Published by: Sterling Publishing Co.,Inc.“The Bread Machine Bible” by Anne Sheasby is a must-have for your dining pleasure at home. With over 100 recipes of basic to exotic breads for the expert or novice, she has combined them into a comprehensive and well-illustrated guide for making bread.Bakeries in many of the communities have been combined into supermarkets…See More

The Glass of TimeAuthor: Michael CoxISBN: 978-0-393-33716-7, Pages: 592, $14.95, Publication Date: October 5, 2009, Paperback, Fiction, Published by: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.Author Michael Cox has left a legacy for the world to read. He died in March, 2009. “The Meaning of Night” published in 2005 is followed by his sequel, “The Glass of Time”. They both stand alone. Reading the first novel embellishes relationships, but character development is handled with clarity in his subsequent…See More

Heaven’s KeepAuthor: William Kent KruegerISBN: 978-1-4165-5676-3, Pages: 321, $25.00, Publication Date: September, 2009, Hard-Cover Fiction, Published by: Atria Books, a Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc.William Kent Krueger is an award-winning author of eight previous Cork O’Connor mysteries, including “Red Knife” and “Thunder Bay”. “Heaven’s Keep” is a tale of suspense and Cork‘s relentless determination to find out what happened when his wife’s charter plane vanishes from radar over the…See More