The “glory seekers” of 1861, as David C. Reavis calls his ancestors and others who answered the call to the colors, soon learned that war was anything but glorious. In "Upon These Steps", Reavis chronicles the experiences of two... Read More

"Past the Last Island", by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins, is a fascinating return to the beginning of society and a poignant reminder of the power of love. In vivid detail, Rollins depicts a place and time in which modern humans perish, a... Read More

“A piece of human history has emerged in this cave that could fill a gap in information about ancient civilizations and rewrite history.” Allan Cline, a dedicated archaeologist, has penetrated an ancient African paradise. What he and... Read More

Espionage has been part of the human experience at least since the Trojan War. It wasn’t until 1953, however, that the debut of Ian Fleming’s iconic Secret Agent 007 suddenly turned many a young man’s daydreams to the glitz,... Read More

“There are saints in Baghdad, but none of them are journalists,” Jack Wolfe quips to his fellow reporters while on assignment in Iraq in 2003. That sentence by a key character, along with the admonition from one Iraqi to another to... Read More

The enduring lesson of all wars, reinforced in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan, is that tours of duty do not end with the return home. Indeed, as Stuart Nicholls shows in this compelling fictional memoir, home may no... Read More

The author of "An Essay by a Modern Humanist" claims to be a modern humanist, scholar, and practitioner of humanism, a system of thought based in science and observation and conflicted with the models of medieval philosophies dictated by... Read More

Thousands of tales are told about people who are lucky enough to find a genie bottle, but very few take the side of the genie. Naturally, a genie would rather be free, even if it means losing his or her magical abilities. Such is the... Read More