“I was in Ambercromby’s army at Ticonderoga,” quips Thomas Dordrecht, hero of Jonathan Carriel’s historical mystery. “I can stomach a corpse.” That is fortunate for the young apprentice because corpses abound in 1762 New... Read More

Of those who have read Amy Chau’s The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, many find themselves intrigued, yet also appalled, at what this one parent has done to “further” the potential success of her children. In America’s Answer to... Read More

Harvey Adjovitz Edwards’s new novel, "The Road Show Saga", follows the paths of two young men, Jay and Denny, friends since their Depression-era childhood. Edwards relates their stories from their younger years on neighboring farms in... Read More

It is never a question of whether the incautious hero of Jeff Westmont’s contemporary political thriller, "Countdown to Jihad", will survive his many near-death confrontations, but of what classic mistakes the villain of the moment... Read More

The reformer George William Curtis said, “It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.” The same could be said of James Wassick’s new novel, "Notorious". This is a fast-paced read,... Read More

Modern Maven: Blanche Lazzell (1878—1956) didn’t have the problem others did with merging the two distinctly different facets of her identity. The quiet girl, who was partially deaf and enormously proud of the traditional values she... Read More

The richest and possibly brightest teen alive in the year 2024 Thayne Davidson Miller III has only the butler for a friend the “gentlemen’s gentleman” who raised him. The family’s business empire makes tight security necessary... Read More

Each year, 195,000 book titles make it into print. Authors are often disheartened when they discover the publicity machine they imagined, one that takes their title from obscurity to bestseller seemingly overnight, fails to materialize.... Read More