It is 1059 A.D., and Edric celebrates his sixteenth birthday by punching his rival square in the nose. Edric is an Anglo-Saxon, and Osbern FitzRichard is a hated Norman, living in Edric’s land because Edward, the King of Engla-Lond,... Read More

What can we learn from a French bulldog about manners? Surprisingly, quite a lot. In a series of email exchanges between Mitchell’s French bulldog, ZsaZsa LaPooch, and her long-time friend and “sister-of-choice,” Forman, the two... Read More

Currently, there are a surprising number of sequential adaptations of prose works, faithful and otherwise, available to readers seeking something other than the super-heroic serial adventures that have dominated the American market for... Read More

In Brenda G. Wright’s debut novel, Angel: A Hustling Diva with a Twist, her protagonist is a woman trained from childhood to be an assassin. Angel has never known a normal existence. She learns to do what those around her, especially... Read More

Uprising on the Rio Jari by C. D. Shelton is the most rousing entry yet in the author’s chronicles of prehistoric Amazonian tribes, a series which includes The Age of Eternal Fire and Journeys in the Primal Forest. Ten years after... Read More

World travel offers abundant opportunities for visitors to explore the history, natural landscape, and culture of other countries. Underlying these attractions lies a complex mix of regional attitudes that are sometimes confusing to a... Read More

Tien Oung Liu: A 20th Century Chinese Profile, by Margaret Liu Wen Tsai, is a warm and inspiring bilingual account of one Chinese businessman’s life. Written by Liu’s daughter, this biography traces Liu’s family background before... Read More

Peggy White Russ’s memoir "Wake Up" is a testament to the power of faith and to the belief that a person must hit bottom before he or she can rise. In it, Russ explores the spiritual “unrest” and “discontentment” that seeped... Read More