For a guy who deals out luck in the high-stakes blackjack pits of Las Vegas casinos, most of Jude Helms’s personal fortune is bad. Lately he has lost two jobs, the first after seventeen years at the Monaco, and the next after only four... Read More

Lots of girls dream of having a pony sometime in their tweens, but none, as far as this reviewer knew, grow up to desire to act and be treated like ponies in their most private lives. Now, that’s where an erotic S/M novel like the... Read More

More than eighty prints executed over fifty years (from 1956 through 2006) tell the story of engraver Rosemary Kilbourn’s fascination with, and reverence for, both the practice of looking closely and the natural world that mostly... Read More

Betting on horse races is a huge industry in the United States. Frederic Donner’s Zen and the Successful Horseplayer: How to Win and Find Calmness in Horse Wagering is an entertaining introduction to this popular form of gambling.... Read More

There were few places as glamorous as Cannes, France, in the early twentieth century, and few women as lovely and mysterious as a Russian princess. For Princess Samaroff’s young daughter, Sonja, meeting American Norman Carey was... Read More

Vlad Van Rosenthal removes the air of mystery surrounding various scientific theories in "From the Big Bang to the Big Crunch and Everything in Between". A physician, amateur scientist, and award-winning Soviet Union historian, his... Read More

Civil War fiction from a Southern perspective will always find legions of readers among history buffs and battle reenactors. However, such novels risk obscuring the unsavory aspects of Southern culture in favor of continuing reverence... Read More

Combining poetry, prose, and pictures, Robert Camara invites readers to receive his ideas about humanity and the interconnectedness of life. With the publication of The Truth in the Ruins of Pleasure & Desire, Camara proposes... Read More