Cynthia Conrad

Memoir “Virtual Insanity” Provides a Minds-Eye View of Schizophrenia

Lara McKenzie has known terror and trauma most of us will never experience in our lifetimes. She has been stalked by wealthy and powerful men. Monitored by various intelligence agencies. Unwittingly microchipped. Tortured with electromagnetic weaponry. Her mind has been invaded incessantly by interrogators and military commanders. She’s been tricked…

Cynthia ConradJanuary 13, 2022

Miscellany

Evolution Number Nine: Form and Concept in “Scribblings of My Soul”

Poetry has a long tradition of what is called “constrained writing.” After all, many poetic forms depend on very specific meter, rhyme schemes, number of lines, and even points of repetition. In the case of Preethi Saravanakumar’s latest volume of poetry, Scribblings of My Soul, however, that constraint starts with…

Cynthia ConradDecember 15, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Annotated Print Collection Provides Window to a Bygone Japan from the Last Great Ukiyo-e Artist

In browsing through the color reproductions in Hiroshige: The 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō Fujikei by Cristina Berna and Eric Thomsen, the reader is struck by the harmonious palette of blues, grays, peaches and pale yellows, and by the strict composition of each wood print — a bijin (or "beautiful…

Cynthia ConradDecember 8, 2021

Fiction Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

Two Teens Find Themselves the Unwilling Subjects of Experiment in “Secrets of the Building”

Grief can gut you completely. Anyone who has experienced trauma that's resulted from the loss of someone close to them knows how deeply true this is. Some find their memories of the event so unbearable that they’d do anything to escape them. What if there was a way to do…

Cynthia ConradOctober 4, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

“Maud & Addie” Tells an Endearing Tale of Two Sisters and Their Survival at Sea

A forgotten chore, a dose of laudanum and a dream of pirate treasure converge with disastrous consequences and life-changing adventure in the middle-grade historical fiction novel, Maud & Addie (Regal House Publishing) by Maureen Buchanan Jones. The year is 1910. The location is Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. Two sisters from…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 29, 2021

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

“Good Grief” Guides the Bereavement Journey, and There’s No Right or Wrong Way

“If you love you will grieve, and that’s just a given,” wrote psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison, one of the several insightful quotes that pepper the gentle bereavement guidebook, Good Grief: A Journey From Lost to Love (Soft Touch Publishing) by Valerie D. Swinton and Fred J. Kirby Jr. Grief may…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 28, 2021

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

All Aboard “Death on the Railway” for Forbidden Lust and Grisly Killings

Twenty-one-year-old Angelo Russo is ill-prepared for the “real world” after the death of his parents in a car accident. While he, along with his older sister, Carina, has inherited the family home, he’s running out of funds fast. But that becomes the very least of his problems when Carina seduces…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 28, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

Learning Numbers Can Be Silly Fun With “Flooky Dooky & Friends Count to 10”

Learning to count can be loads of fun, especially with a silly picture book to guide the way. Flooky Dooky & Friends Count to 10 (Barnes & Noble Press) by Hooman Altafi is one such book. Populated by all manner of wacky-looking doodle-y creatures, it’s an imaginative take on a…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 16, 2021

Miscellany

Poems of Angst and Reflection, Despair and Epiphany in “Speaks for Itself”

By the time we've reached a certain point in our lives, most of us have accumulated one or more past experiences that haunt us or create obstacles to moving forward. They follow us around and linger on the edges of every new experience, trying to convince us that any parallels…

Cynthia ConradAugust 31, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

Astro Needs to Find His Spaceship and Complete His Mission, But He Can’t Do It Without Your Help!

Astro the astronaut is lost and alone, adrift in space with no way to get home. Luckily for him, though, by opening the pages of The Lost Astronaut by Diana Escobar, you can gain some measure of control over Astro’s world and help him find his spaceship. The Lost Astronaut…

Cynthia ConradAugust 16, 2021

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Speculative Thriller “Azalea Bluff” Explores the Human Costs of UFO Cover-Ups

"Artist's impression of Die Glocke" by WeskerX incorporated into this artwork under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. "Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury at his best and reading like a great episode of The X-Files, this is science fiction writing of the highest order." —Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author of The Rising…

Cynthia ConradJuly 30, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

An Eager Little Cat Learns How to Make Friends in “Hello Whimsy!”

All the little cat wants to do is make friends. But she’s not quite going about it the right way. She starts out fine enough, with a positive attitude and high spirits. She stays open-minded about who might make a good friend. There’s something to admire about everyone, it seems.…

Cynthia ConradJuly 14, 2021

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

“Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn” Uses Dance to Engage Young Readers

Princess Naomi is beyond annoyed with her little sister, Princess Miranda. First, Miranda spilled the last of the milk, leaving Naomi without any left for her breakfast cereal. Then, she started singing Naomi’s least favorite song at the top of her lungs. Aaaaagh! Naomi gets so irritated that she storms…

Cynthia ConradJuly 12, 2021

Business Listicles Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

5 Books to Help You Better Engage and Motivate Your Employees

Engagement and motivation. Two factors that can make or break so much — retention, productivity, performance, innovation, speed to market, sales growth — and in so many industries. And yet, all too often these two factors are relegated to HR and addressed with meaningless team activities (Pajama Fridays, anyone?) and…

Cynthia ConradJuly 9, 2021

Fiction

A Teen Crosses the Country to Start Anew in the Coming-of-Age “Ryder Stephens”

A 13-year-old runaway finds a new home and faces her traumatic past in Ryder Stephens (SBC Publishing House) by Veronica Ventura, a moving story of loss, love and healing. It’s the day after Christmas, and Ryder has lost everything — her mother is dead, her father has chosen a Vegas…

Cynthia ConradJuly 7, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Serving Girl Forges a New Life for Herself as a Noblewoman in Historical Novel “Irina”

1378, Poland. Irina Kwasniewska, a farmer's daughter and servant girl to a wealthy merchant family, is about to lose almost everything dear to her — and begin an unexpected new life. Pregnant by her benefactor's son, Berek, and turned out of her family's household for it, Irina arrives back at…

Cynthia ConradJune 14, 2021

Cynthia Conrad

Memoir “Virtual Insanity” Provides a Minds-Eye View of Schizophrenia

Evolution Number Nine: Form and Concept in “Scribblings of My Soul”

Annotated Print Collection Provides Window to a Bygone Japan from the Last Great Ukiyo-e Artist

Two Teens Find Themselves the Unwilling Subjects of Experiment in “Secrets of the Building”

“Maud & Addie” Tells an Endearing Tale of Two Sisters and Their Survival at Sea

“Good Grief” Guides the Bereavement Journey, and There’s No Right or Wrong Way

All Aboard “Death on the Railway” for Forbidden Lust and Grisly Killings

Learning Numbers Can Be Silly Fun With “Flooky Dooky & Friends Count to 10”

Poems of Angst and Reflection, Despair and Epiphany in “Speaks for Itself”

Astro Needs to Find His Spaceship and Complete His Mission, But He Can’t Do It Without Your Help!

Speculative Thriller “Azalea Bluff” Explores the Human Costs of UFO Cover-Ups

An Eager Little Cat Learns How to Make Friends in “Hello Whimsy!”

“Princess Naomi Helps a Unicorn” Uses Dance to Engage Young Readers

5 Books to Help You Better Engage and Motivate Your Employees

A Teen Crosses the Country to Start Anew in the Coming-of-Age “Ryder Stephens”

Serving Girl Forges a New Life for Herself as a Noblewoman in Historical Novel “Irina”

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