How can one not like characters who are “encumbered by education and no fortune,” or who, when asked if they are drunk, describe their condition as being “a little short of the high mark of sobriety”? Such are but two of the many... Read More

"Falling for the Devil", by Britt Holmström, explores the dark era of early seventeenth-century Scotland. Readers are taken along on one woman’s internal journey as she struggles with religious faith and doubt. The book raises complex... Read More

“Is there something in our nature, the Poles and Jews living in this damned country, that makes [us] prone to brave and noble gestures that achieve nothing but our own death and destruction?” So asks David, the hero of Alexander... Read More

"Tom" is a fictionalized account of Christie Moore’s grandfather. It focuses on his experiences as a British soldier in World War I and how the war reverberates throughout his life. The fact that tragic battlefield experiences plague... Read More

“There be allus summat as’ll come along to spoil things.” In Thistles in the Corn, by Anne Armstrong, the idea that happiness and good fortune never last is as true for farmer Ephraim Stower’s corn crop as it is for Will Smythe,... Read More

"The Golden Fox" by Frank R. Kowalski is a sprawling frontier epic set in the American Northwest beginning in the 1860s. It explores the elements that divide and unite humanity across cultural lines. The story opens with John Stafford at... Read More

During the Vietnam War, “43C” referred to the amputee ward at Brooke General Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. W. Tom Gleeson, a US Army infantry sergeant assigned to search-and-destroy missions in Vietnam’s highlands, was... Read More

It is 1059 A.D., and Edric celebrates his sixteenth birthday by punching his rival square in the nose. Edric is an Anglo-Saxon, and Osbern FitzRichard is a hated Norman, living in Edric’s land because Edward, the King of Engla-Lond,... Read More