Pennyworth Books

Grotesque – what a superb and apt title for this book, tells the story of two half Japanese sisters, one, impossibly beautiful and of course, hugely attractive to men, while the other, the opposite in almost every conceivable way. Their contemporaries tease them that they must have had different fathers. Could that be the truth of it?

The book is set in Japan, China, and Switzerland, and each section I found equally interesting and believable.

This is a story about sibling rivalry, sibling hatred even, that festers and slowly draws the reader in until you are compelled to discover more. The beautiful one, Yuriko, grows up and becomes a prostitute. Why shouldn’t she? She constantly needs men and what better profession could there be?

The story is told in the first person, but by four different people, so there is some repetition of events here, but because the viewpoints are different, the facts…

In her book Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love,?Loss and Renewal, Beth Witrogen McLeod explores the process of finding meaning in human suffering. The author?frames caregiving as a?rite of passage;a journey toward heightened compassion and connection with one;s true self. The book is a melange of personal experience and practical advice;from both McLeod and other professionals in the fields of?aging, finance, medicine and spirituality. Caregiving offers hope and inspiration by delving into the core issues of life and death, exploring such topics as:Family caregiving: how to approach it and how it affects the family dynamic?Women;s roles as natural caregivers?How to access medical and financial resources?Spousal caregiving: coming to terms with the loss of intimacy, partnership and identity.

Dealing with the solitude, frustration, isolation, guilt, resentment and depression associated with caregiving?Grieving and accepting death Beth Witrogen McLeod explores caregiving with wisdom and soulfulness, calling on her experience providing care?for her aging parents;…

James Patterson and Maxine Paetro pair once more for a big summer splash called SWIMSUIT. Kim McDaniels is a gorgeous swimsuit model who is on a shoot in Hawaii when she suddenly turns up missing. Her parents rush to the islands after receiving a disturbing phone call that someone has their beloved daughter. Upon arriving in Hawaii and getting little to no information to satisfy them about how the authorities are looking for Kim, they are befriended by Ben Hawkins. Ben is a writer for the LA Times who was a cop at one time. He has been sent to Hawaii to cover the case of the missing, assumed kidnapped, model. Kim’s parents are so intent on finding her, that they aren’t careful when following leads and find themselves in the hands of the maniac who we find out really didn’t kidnap Kim, but rather murdered her.

It is when we…