Southern Strategies: Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal altered the relationship between the federal government and the states, while offering jobs and a degree of security for downtrodden people. In the South, the New Deal’s legacy was... Read More

“We New Englanders,” Hawthorne remarked only partly in jest to Rebecca Harding Davis, “begin to enjoy ourselves—when we are dead.” Hawthorne’s death came prematurely in 1864, many speculated as a result of his grief over the... Read More

Sandwiched between The Confessions of Saint Augustine (AD 398 and A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (AD 2007) are thousands of memoirs. Both intimate and intriguing, these personal stories represent a form of... Read More

“Look at her pictures…Anna in that slinky green dress, with her wild bangs, dangly blue earrings, with her cat’s eyes and pouty pink lips, radiating the absolute certainty that she can see just what you want—and show you how to... Read More

The eventful third book in the Honor Bound series "Righting Time" extends the adventures of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers into a future both strange and familiar. Time travel is controlled by refined psychically able people from... Read More

A young woman either experiences a psychotic breakdown or actually turns into a bird of prey— it’s up to readers to believe or not in Bill Van Patten’s opening Kafka-esque tale in this, his first short story collection. VanPatten,... Read More

A good romantic novel is not the massed-produced formulaic massively consumed quickie book commonly known as a “Bodice Ripper.” A romantic novel is more than thin plot lines designed to get the main characters from one sexual... Read More

Shelley Todorovitch presents a unique perspective on a serious health issue. Her husband Jim has type 1 diabetes and has encountered various health-related problems. "We Did It!" is a first person account of the trials and joys they... Read More