“We are here because the Puerto Rican and black community asked for us. Well, they got what they asked for. We will make ourselves known loud and clear to the pushers. God... Read More

For thousands of years, history has repeated the names Odysseus, Achilles, Paris, and Hector, recounting their glorious deeds in the annals of time. Women in these epics are... Read More

Sarah Ann Thirkell was born in 1837 in Yorkshire, England. She grew up in that damp and foggy place in a family near the bottom of the English class system; she came to yearn... Read More

Battered women often feel trapped in their marriages. Carol James’ "Katie", a Western romance set in both Dodge City and Denver following the Civil War, follows one such woman... Read More

With its abundance of historical detail, "Bid Whist at Midnight" should be required reading for anyone studying the American civil rights movement. Marva Washington’s first... Read More

The struggle between good and evil has long fascinated humankind. With "Devils or Angels", Dan Roberson enters the fray, confronting questions about absolute evil and absolute... Read More

Sara Alessa Giustino, the central character in J.K. Scott’s "Tracking Terra", tells David, possibly a former lover, what it’s like to be ageless: “My life’s purpose is... Read More

The Mediterranean archipelago of Malta has been strategically important for a succession of powers, from the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans to the Spanish, French, and English.... Read More

"Making a Rose after the Diaspora" is an engaging autobiography that offers a first-hand account of how one Jewish woman’s life was shaped by her childhood experience escaping... Read More

“It’s amazing the number of people who still contact me and tell me about the positive influence my father had on them. They know what his life was all about. I wish that... Read More

Shakespeare’s MacBeth and the character who slew him, Malcolm, were based on real people. In his novel "Saints and Heroes", Andrew Schultz brings his king slayer to life in a... Read More

Grandmothers are supposed to wield rolling pins and trays of cookies, not pistols, knives, and nooses. Yet the grandmother in "Lefties", by Karmel Arbelaitz, is on a mission... Read More