Science fiction and erotica both make their way into this complicated novel. Mark Kingston Levin’s novel 30th Century: Revived combines elements of science fiction, erotica, and a political thriller into a novel that sometimes seems... Read More

Marq de Villiers’s "Hell and Damnation" is a comprehensive guide to all things Hades, not to be left behind on the next trip to the underworld. Broken into four parts, "Hell and Damnation" answers standard journalistic questions to... Read More

When it comes to glaciers, Dr. M Jackson is a linguistic sorcerer, making you fall in love by proxy with the geological memory-keepers. In the early pages of "The Secret Lives of Glaciers", she captures a burst of aurora borealis from a... Read More

Probiotics are the miracle cure of our age, if we take the advertising world at its word. And yet, the conclusive studies and research haven’t nearly caught up with the claims of the marketers. It’s still early, folks. But... Read More

A century of American race relations is seen in "Sacred Ground", civil rights activist and historian Timuel D. Black Jr.’s story as it was related to, and recorded by, Susan Klonsky. Black was born in 1918 in Alabama. His family soon... Read More

Is the legend of the four neophyte climbers who, all in one day, summited Denali unharnessed and unroped, inadequately dressed, using primitive equipment and lugging a fourteen-foot-tall, twenty-five-pound tree trunk up treacherous... Read More

A man of many talents who loved nature, Alexander Milton Ross was a little-known hero of the Underground Railroad. He left his home in Canada to tour plantation fields as an ornithologist, secretly helping slaves escape to freedom.... Read More

The seemingly improbable friendship between Jack Cowdry, author J. Edward Chamberlin’s grandfather and a white rancher and banker, and Crop Eared Wolf, a warrior and Blackfoot chief, is recalled in the warm historical account, "The... Read More