The West provides the legends of the American people, and so the authors have done a service by novelizing the tales they once heard as the grew up in the Dakotas, all the more important because the people chronicled sadly remain... Read More

There’s much good fun to be anticipated when an author offers a sardonic take on an environment he knows well. A reader may wonder, “What’s in store? Satire, irony, dirty secrets…or a nice, hot mix?” White is an attorney, a law... Read More

War has bloodied Israel’s soil for millennia. With The Circle, Edward Schmidt offers those inured to the cruel history and constant reports of violence a different view. Set in the early 1900s, Arach and Rivka Poletsky, and their... Read More

Terry Malloy, a history professor at a Georgia university, is leading a comfortable, respectable life, but one built upon the ugly experience of jungle combat in Vietnam. Malloy’s only child, Ella, at loose ends after the death of her... Read More

Christina Anne Knight says that her book “… is presented in a manner that should be intelligible to an intelligent layperson that has some basic knowledge of physics and cosmology.” That said, readers should be prepared for... Read More

Readers who follow economic news may be dismayed that Paul Christopherson used part of a juvenile rhyme to title such an insightful, intelligent, and important book. In "Pants on Fire", the author’s critique of US economic affairs is... Read More

Ronald Reagan often repeated the aphorism, “There’s nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.” Richard Wilson understands the wisdom behind the late president’s observation, but for Wilson, it is a border... Read More

There’s much to cry about for Dorothy Brainerd Rutherford, the heroine of Mona Figure’s novel, but laughs? Not many. Readers, on the other hand, will be entertained. After her husband vanishes with their life savings, Dorothy spends... Read More