This plainspoken and quirky collection is imbued with a wit as comfortable as an evening with Garrison Keillor. Reading Patrick Irelan’s collection of fifteen short stories is like sitting in the town diner listening to a local tell... Read More

A spy-thriller hero who’s just an ordinary guy brings depth and believability to this conspiracy-theory novel. What if the real leader of al-Qaeda were a Saudi prince who used bin Laden to unleash a terror war just to drive up the... Read More

Sarah Ann Thirkell was born in 1837 in Yorkshire, England. She grew up in that damp and foggy place in a family near the bottom of the English class system; she came to yearn for a life free of subservience to the whims of the ruling... Read More

Jens Jensen (1860-1951) is considered one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, known for his contributions to both the prairie style of landscape architecture and the land conservation movement. Perhaps best remembered... Read More

The tiny West Indies island of Tobago is a “political football” that changed hands forty times in four centuries. According to one of its former governors, Tobago fell into a state of “squalor and depravity,” so much so that he... Read More

“No one has any right to hate a Jew, Christian or Muslim just because of his/her religion,” lectures Ahmed Shendy Yousef in this collection of what are essentially Friday prayer sermons and short essays on Islam and how it relates to... Read More

In "A Life Worth Dreaming About", Nicholas Dettmann sets forth an appealing, if not unfamiliar, scenario. Through some sort of “divine intervention,” a man is allowed to go back in time and “fix” some of the mistakes he has made,... Read More

All good novels take on a life of their own, and "Other Life Forms" is no exception. The title could refer to new life that forms in the wake of emotional loss or to different kinds of life, be they virtual or actual. The story belabors... Read More