Pennyworth Books

Tiger’s Christmas Miracle

Life changed dramatically for Tiger when Johnny, his younger brother, Johnny, was born. Tiger’s mother died while giving birth to Johnny. Oxygen deprivation at his birth left Johnny listless and with a weakened immune system. Johnny was susceptible to every virus that came along.

During Johnny’s third year the family moved to the state of Michigan where, the Commander, the boys’ father, was transferred to serve as a Navy officer on loan to the U. S. Air Force on special assignment.

Maccagnone colorfully describes northern Michigan winters near Lake Huron, the weather, children’s games, ice fishing, skating, and the uniqueness of small town living in a wilderness cabin steeped in snow.

The characters are so genuine and real I felt that the book was biographical.
Mrs. Pennington, a local farmer’s wife, took care of the boys during the day. She also took on the role of tutor as she home schooled the…

Whenever someone thinks of Sherlock Holmes, a sort of cliche comes to mind. He is a consummate example of the great detective, more than just an icon, but a template for all detectives in literature. With his trademark deerstalker hat, hooded duster, and smoking pipe, Holmes comes full with a sophisticated elocution and a highly intelligent, though often inarticulate, sidekick. This is a formula that has successfully been emulated time and time again from Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. These characters are very intriguing and well drawn out in their own right, but there is something more to Holmes, as deliciously characterized by the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This character is raw, elemental, and, to put it best, strange.

The stories of Sherlock Holmes, whose plots are equally unusual but ingenious, are divulged in the first person by his esteemed partner, Dr. John Watson. It can…

The Secrets of Medical Decision Making

By Oleg I. Reznik, M.D.

Loving Healing Press (2006)

Reviewed by Kelli Glesige for Reader Views (2/06)

If you want to know why doctors make some of the recommendations they do, then here is the book for you. Speaking as both a physician and a patient, Reznik helps us to understand what motivates our physicians and why they often say the things they do. The Secrets of Medical Decision Making?is a book we can all benefit from reading because we all need health care at some time, or we are put in the situation of needing to make medical decisions for another. Oleg I. Reznik, M.D. has a goal of making us conscious and informed in the medical decisions we must make; by doing so we could have a much better health care system than we currently have.

Reznik calls our current health care system The Health Care Machine…