Lush narrative, intellectual conversation, and emotional introspection help us experience an exotic locale through the eyes of its people. In a weighty tome that spans more than one hundred years from 1800 to 1918, the drive to succeed... Read More

What Klaber does so well throughout is keep front and center the hinge upon which this story swings: Lobdell’s ambiguity about her gendered and sexual self. Only the train was late the day Lucy Ann Lobdell left home in order to live... Read More

Borneo’s last colonial rulers are portrayed as a lusty lot in this exposé of a little-known story set in a remote, exotic land. The “White Rajahs,” who ruled Sarawak on the north shore of Borneo, were a colorful and randy lot, as... Read More

This World War II novel blends a seeking of justice with an exposé on the Nazi mind-set. Drafted against his will into the Nazi Waffen-SS, Adalbert Lallier fought for three years against Yugoslav partisans and Red Army forces. In the... Read More

With masterful control of language enhanced by rich descriptions, this book should be savored like a fine wine or a smooth sonata. Filled with period detail and humorous anecdotes, Margaret Zee’s "A Palace in Peking" features the... Read More

"Duty, Honor, Money" is a damn fine war story that does honor to the grunts. "Duty, Honor, Money" may just be THE Afghan war novel. Written by a retired marine major general, it is a gritty, authentic tale of men in combat, as well as an... Read More

Meticulously researched, sweeping Civil War epic paints a picture of nineteenth-century America as anything but simple black and white. "Run Down the Wind", a romantic historical novel by Laurence Eubank, is a coming-of-age story that... Read More

Lincoln, emancipated at last from the nineteenth century, finds a job more honest than the presidency: “String Bean” is a thug with morals. In 1976, while they were students at Emerson College, Brian Anthony and Bill Walker made a... Read More