Reeves Gilmore’s memoir "Adventures of a (Mostly) First Class Guy" is a sassy account of a man’s life. The voice in this memoir is unique and fresh: this book is pure fun. This memoir structured around the places he has been... Read More

Fast-paced romantic thriller "Storm of Love" offers many delightful moments but is plagued by many unbelievable coincidences. Readers who are interested in sumptuous parties family lore and exotic locales may enjoy hearing about the... Read More

If Jimmy Culver the thirty-something hero of Eddie Gresham’s frighteningly macabre fantasy novel "Footfalls" were to choose a favourite song it definitely wouldn’t be Lay Your Head on My Pillow. Jimmy’s bed pillow has been his... Read More

On July 9, 1993, Jimmy Scott’s arms and back ached from lifting fifty-pound sandbags all day. He and scores of other volunteers had been working against time and the rising waters of the Mississippi River to secure the levee that... Read More

“Within a year after the nation’s political center had moved to Washington.” begins History of the Smithsonian, “when roads were still little more than paths through the trees, government buildings stood half-built, private... Read More

In her classic 1965 essay, “The Imagination of Disaster,” Susan Sontag provided not only a taxonomy of the then newly emerging genre of science fiction films, but also described their philosophical foundations. She observed that the... Read More

Colonel Robert Slane led a charmed life one might say. But it wasn’t the kind where everything’s nice and easy; his great good fortune was to live through a series of horrors in which other people died in vast numbers. Slane joined... Read More

One child in 150 is diagnosed with autism. Many parents report being concerned that their children may be affected when they are still infants, and yet most doctors insist that a diagnosis cannot be made before the age of two. Osnat... Read More