Pennyworth Books

TONY AND THE PIZZA CHAMPIONS is written by Tony Gemignani who is a real world class pizza tosser. He has a team and they have won the world pizza-tossing championships eight times in Italy. Tony and his brother own Pyzano’s Pizzaria which is located in Northern California and they have also written a cookbook called CHRONICLE’S PIZZA COOKBOOK. If this doesn’t qualify Gemignani as an author of a book on pizza then I don’t know what would!

The story is boldly illustrated by Matthew Trueman with bright colors and friendly looking characters. Readers will enjoy the invitation to read the about the dough-flying fun as the characters of Tony and his team travel to Italy to compete in the international Pizza Lovers competition. The story is interesting to young and old alike as we see what goes on in this competition. The almost acrobatic art form of pizza tossing comes in…

Maybe you hadn’t heard but Mao’s grandson is now a general in the Chinese Military, which begs the question; is China going to go back or forward? Many military analysts wonder, as do I. Today, China now has five times as many jet fighters as India, and almost as many as the USA, soon they will surpass us. Meanwhile, they also have as many ships in there Navy as the United States and are building many new aircraft carriers.

What is going on behind closed doors, secret meetings, and amongst the upper echelon of both the US leadership and Chinese military leadership and political centralized government is something few know. But if you are wondering the dangers that are involved all the way around, I’d like to recommend a spy novel, and political fictional thriller. The book is called;

“The Altman Code,” a Covert One Series Novel by Robert Ludlum and Gayle Lynds;…

Another dazzling marketing book is about to be released by the big guns of internet marketing Andrew X and Dylan Loh. They are known for their unbeatable style and selling copies of their ebooks within days of their launch. Every marketing guru was astonished when they released their one of their e-books “Clickbank Profit Machine”. It was one of the most safe guarded secrets before.

They are again back with Project Covert Persuasion, an e-book which took over 12 months to create so as to ensure every single step and strategies are revealed highly transparent and crystal clear. They revealed it in two methods:

1. Persuasion in daily Life.
2. Persuasion in Internet Marketing.

The trial copy which I got from them just shocked me as the steps revealed are just rock solid and absolute easy to implement. I never expected that there exists such a scheme for Internet marketing. I bet that…

The story, ‘ten things I hate about me’ begins with an issue of racial discrimination with the lebenese-muslim background people. Jamilah Tawfeek- well, that’s her real name, has hidden her true self of lesbian Muslim identity from everyone at her school. She has tried her best to prevent everyone from discovering her real self. So, here she is now, as Jamie with her hair dyed and wearing lenses. Her father is quite strict with her about her life and her regulations. Now her life is turning out into a mess.

The most happening guy in her batch now suddenly seems interested in her. There also Timothy, who she can’t stop thinking about. With her dad hovering over her with his strict curfew rules, she thinks she won’t be able to handle it anymore now and therefore opens up to her e-mail friend John. In very less time, she has confided in…

The Everlasting

by Jamie S. Rich

Oni Press Inc. (2006)

ISBN 1932664548

Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views (9/06)

Jamie Rich somehow delves deep within the mind and soul of his main character, Lance Scott, and reveals a realistic view of man’s mind and how it works. While I’m certain the book wasn’t intended to open the window to a whole gender’s way of thinking, it certainly happened upon it, even if only by mistake, with the end results being a quick smack to the forehead as you realize you know this guy in real life!

Lance Scott is a typical 20-something man. What he has isn’t enough, what he had was great but now gone and what he chases after isn’t always what he wants once he gets it. A mixture of reality meeting fantasy, this outstanding novel encompasses the life and desires of Lance Scott who is searching for a comfort…

The title of this inspirational historical romance comes from Copper Springs, the arid town in Arizona to which a German refugee of Jewish descent and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance has been sent to escape the Nazis. The Reverend Robert Gordon waits there to greet Louisa. He is a friend of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a martyr of the Christian faith who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Gordon抯 son William, a deaf child whom his father worries may be retarded, also meets Louisa and plays a critical role in the novel.

It turns out that William not only is not retarded but highly intelligent. Part of the action of the novel surrounds Louisa抯 attempts to get William to learn how to speak. Louisa, inspired by faith, brings healing to both father and son, both of whom were wounded by the mother, an ambitious woman who left her husband and…

Recommended by a friend in my graduate program in Portland, Ryszard Kapuscinski’s Imperium stands apart as an amazing piece of journalistic history of the former Soviet Union. For those interested in the realities of the different republics of the Soviet Union from the late 1930s to the early 1990s, this is one of the best books I have had the pleasure of reading.

Imperium starts out with Kapuscinski’s childhood memories of traveling through the various republics, then his revisiting them in the 1960s and 1970s, and ends with him in the final days of the USSR while the major transitions in policy and people were taking place.

The book covers the height and decline of the Soviet Union, with keen observations and a feeling of haunting cold from years of executions, persecution, and bread lines. There is so much tragic history, yet so little evidence of it now remains, due to the burning…