Clarence Jordan is a poor, illiterate African-American man living in the tiny southern town of Calhoun, Mississippi, just barely providing for his family by doing odd jobs. One of his regular customers is Jacob Briar, last in the line of... Read More

For those whose only experience with Jamaica is a cruise ship stop at Ocho Rios and an excursion to swim with dolphins or zip line in the jungle, Darren Hogarth’s "Whatever Sticks Most" will fill in many of the missing details. His is... Read More

What George MacDonald Fraser and his Flashman character did for Victoria’s England, M. D. Eyre and his similarly cowardly, selfish, oversexed rogue, Tabnit Gisgo, does for Alexander the Great’s world empire. Written with tongue... Read More

The intensity of the narrative dies when Myrtle the kangaroo dies, but David Macfarlane resolutely soldiers on down his “wayward path to paradise” to the bittersweet conclusion in "My Wayward Path to Paradise". This attitude... Read More

In The Legend of Alexandros: Titans of Chaos, two cataclysmic events change the course of the lives of three Titans: One event puts them in stasis in the Underworld for hundreds of years, and the other brings them back. In the... Read More

Why can’t we all just get along? Well, sometimes we can, according to Thomas Glick in Creative Mediation, his book of solutions for sticky legal situations. Glick worked for years as a lawyer in Florida, growing increasingly frustrated... Read More

“Iona is not a place one visits on a whim,” says a burly Scottish warlord to the Irish abbot who plans to colonize the isle. “Beset by vile storms” and surrounded by even viler barbarian Picts, the rocky, windswept... Read More

As her mother often told her, “Never ignore a good impulse.” Pat Haley showcases this commonsense advice in "Cooking with Feeling". Alongside easy everyday recipes, Haley includes an essay with each chapter. Part historical overview... Read More