New England Books and Authors

photo: emkellythrillers.com 396 pages, published by Great Blue Hill Publishing, ©2024 In the town of Stoughton, Massachusetts , Colton Baker is ready for his first day as a detective. That first day will include a call to investigate a dead body at the train station. It will turn out to be the first of many victims of a serial killer, and it's just one of the tasks Baker is faced with in E.M. Kelly's "Murder by Symbols". Victims and Their Clues Throughout the book, the new detective takes on challenges at work and at home. The body at the train station becomes another case file added to a pile Baker was hoping to whittle down in his new position. It's not going to get any easier for him as more victims are found around town. The victims have coins over their eyes, coins from the time of the American Revolution. What is the significance of the coins, and do they have any connection with the symbols tattooed to the victims' foreheads? Speaking of the tattoos, th...

383 pages; published by Homeopathy Educator Press, ©2024 Today, people are looking for quick fixes and finding or creating the next best thing. Sometimes these fad chasers can be successful, sometimes they're not, and sometimes those successes might be short-lived. The health sector is crammed with exercise equipment and diets that promise to help people lose weight, get healthy, and stay healthy. From qualities that range from being protein-rich to being made with all-natural ingredients, the market is flooded with food and books that claim to be able to help people lose weight and feel better about themselves. While new and exciting products and fads are coming and going, Abby Beale is trying something that has been tried hundreds of times for hundreds of years. Her book, "Homeopathy Primer" , offers a comprehensive look at the history of homeopathy and how it can be used to help treat everyday afflictions and become a part of people's daily tasks of staying healt...

265 pages; Published by Thomas Dunne Books , ©2017 Everyone is chasing happiness. People are looking everywhere for something to lift their spirits. In today's world, people seem to have access to more, more possessions, more gadgets to make life easier, more toys that allow them to become oblivious to what is happening around them. But are all of these things making their life better or their moods happier? Sanjiv Chopra and Gina Vild don't seem to think so, and they want to help people do something about that. Chopra and Vild have collaborated on a book that seeks to help people on their journey to happiness. Their book, "The Two Most Important Days", combines empirical and anecdotal evidence to support methods you can use to feel happier and navigate your way through bad days and life's setbacks. Some of these methods are ages old and time-tested. Some of these methods are new and may seem a little odd at first. TTMID looks at the most common ways people try to...