Pennyworth Books

Conflict and conspiracy, designed to destroy the Catholic church. Ex-priest Juan Uriarte is on trial in a London courtroom. He has been charged with involvement in terrorist activities. Uriarte is cleared of all accusations. Kate Ramsey, a young journalist, who covered the trial, is determined to find the truth about Uriarte’s work as an advocate for the poor, the suffering, and the Aids victims in Africa. Kate travels with him to Africa to personally report on his work as a journalist.

“The Death of the Pope” is a theological thriller driven by compassion, conflict, betrayal, and romance. In a series of plot twists Piers Paul Reid builds an intense story around terrorism, blackmail, and the threat of mass murder. Kate Ramsey finds herself involved in an international conspiracy to demoralize the papacy and bring upheaval to the Catholic Church.

The story is taut with tension throughout. The emotional conflict and suspense as…

Joseph Pilates was no wimp. He was a gymnast, boxer, diver, swimmer and circus acrobat. He developed his fitness system by working on wounded soldiers, boxers and wrestlers. Yet, because New York City’s dancing community discovered his studio, and because Pilates is now so popular primarily with women, we think of it as a prim and proper system.

This book’s author is a woman, but not a dancer or overweight cubicle dweller. She’s an accomplished outdoor athlete herself who has found that Pilates helped her develop her skills and abilities. The book cover displays a picture of her scaling a vertical cliff.

She contends that Pilates is the perfect cross-training regime because it: focuses on developing core (abdominal and lower back) strength which is important to all sports; improves breathing, circulation and muscular endurance; develops uniformly strong muscles to counter the way sports tend to overdevelop some muscles groups at the expense…

Joseph Pilates probably didn’t plan for his exercises to appeal mostly to women. He himself was a boxer, gymnast, diver, swimmer and martial artist — hardly a wimp. And pictures of him show that he had a solid, muscular build as well as an upright carriage.

And while he was developing his system and the various pieces of equipment to augment it in an internment camp on the Isle of Man during World War I, he worked with other male internees and male wounded British soldiers.

When he set up his studio in New York City in the 1920s, a dance company was based in the same building. They were the first people in America to appreciate his techniques, and soon he was famous in that field — with George Ballanchine and Martha Graham sending him injured dancers to rehabilitate.

After it became more generally known in recent years, women in particular seem…

The Soldiers of Halla by D.J. MacHale is the tenth and final installment in the Pendragon series by the best-selling author and award-winning producer. Speculations about the plot of Soldiers of Halla have come out since late last year to predict the outcome of the monumental final book.

In the previous Pendragon series, D.J. MacHale has always included surprising twists with his characters, and with the last book he promises it to be a “killer finale.” Since the rise of fantasy novels and the increased popularity because of the Harry Potter series and similar books, a lot of authors such as D.J. MacHale also went that way and have become successful.

The Soldiers of Halla includes the same characters as with the previous nine Pendragon adventures, spearheaded by the protagonist Bobby Pendragon and his two best friends, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde. The story of The Story of Halla is filled with…

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds is the fourth installment in the One Million A.D. anthology. It, however, departs from the storyline of One Million A. D. a little. So those who failed to read One Million A. D., not to fear; picking up House of Suns will not require that you read every book before it.

Reynolds presents yet another different take on sci-fi as introduces us to Abigail Gentian. More than a thousand years prior to our time, Abigail created one thousand clones (or shatterlings) of herself-both male and female-and have assigned them to different parts of the universe. Their task is to gather information and to help out the young civilizations. Every 200, 000 years, they meet up for a thousand-day celebration to exchange information and to relax. The story focuses on two of the shatterlings-Campion and Purslane-who are involved in a relationship frowned upon by the Gentian…

Lydia Phillips has written an incredible fiction novel, 揘o Glass House.?I really enjoyed all of the twists and turns that she wrote into her plot. The story is mainly about the intertwined lives of ten key people. These characters are either friends or relatives. Over the years their relationships have evolved or disintegrated. Events that are currently taking place force change into their lives. Some of the changes are positive; the other ones are forced due to betrayals.

As the characters adapt to their new situations, they experience some tremendous emotional growth. Ms. Phillips left no stone unturned; in this story she includes tons of infidelity including statutory rape and homosexuality, temptations, and racial issues. What is really scary is how, on the surface, the characters seem so normal. But underneath it all, they have their bad habits. The perfect husband with the wife and two children is gay. The sister…

Molly and Jack Campbell have the perfect son. Four year old Joey is kind, caring, and smart; everything you could hope for in a child. Adopted when he was only a few weeks old, he couldn’t be loved any more than their fullblooded offspring might be. But when word comes that his adoption papers were forged and he must be returned to his biological parents, the Campbell’s world comes crashing in.

I honestly think this novel broke my heart more than any other Kingsbury novel I have ever read. Joey抯 father is a convicted felon, imprisoned for domestic abuse almost immediately after Joey抯 conception. Knowing that she would always take her violent husband back, Wendy forged the father抯 signature to keep the baby safe. But when Rip is released from prison, she tells him the truth. Incensed at the loss of his son, Rip takes immediate action to get him back,…