Book Review
The Guptas
by Gary Presley
Immigration can bring out the best and worst in people, a fact fully illustrated in "The Guptas". The saga begins in the late 1800s in India when Gani Gupta loses his father. Not yet a teenager and counted on to support his family, Gani...
Book Review
Leaving the Military
by Gary Presley
Packed with a regimen of facts, recommendations, and practice exercises, "Leaving the Military" seeks to provide separating service members with the “rules of engagement” necessary to secure a civilian corporate career. With nine...
Book Review
The Wayward Son and Other Tales
by Gary Presley
Imagine yourself a Jew in Auschwitz. Such is the horror facing Shmuel Myritz, who turns away from family and culture to become Karol Marik in pre-war Warsaw. “The war ended but not the memories,” writes Benjamin Ordover in “The...
Book Review
The Ruin
by Gary Presley
Kenneth Fenter’s "The Ruin" is part coming-of-age novel, part Robinson Crusoe, part history lesson, and wholly deserving of an audience of both adults and teenagers. The novel follows Clifton Kelly, as an eighth-grade farm boy living...
Book Review
Backazimuth
by Gary Presley
Mike Smith’s first novel, "Backazimuth", is a tidy thriller set in the Arabian Desert. Bill Slade, West Point graduate and combat engineer, is a reformed drunk, with bottle-fueled misadventures scattered along the tracks of a nearly...
Book Review
It's All Trouble
by Gary Presley
Buying a lemon—a car plagued by mechanical problems from the day it’s driven off the dealer’s lot—is an all-too-common experience. Samson Kamara, a science teacher-turned-writer, has imagined that situation into a short novel,...
Book Review
The Concept of Labor in Islam
by Gary Presley
Muslims make up the second-largest religious group in the world, yet while many in the Western world have a passing familiarity with the Bible, it is a rare person who knows the basic tenets of Islam or how the Qur’an delineates life...
Book Review
Was I Betrayed by Man?
by Gary Presley
"Was I Betrayed by Man?" is an evangelical book with an Apocryphal theme in which the author moves beyond accepted Christian theology to reexamine end-time prophecy. Simply put, Cook believes that a majority of Christians are misreading...
