Perhaps the faint bugle trills of “The Garry Owen”—the Seventh Calvary’s battle song—could be heard echoing in the Black Hills far to the east, moments after the disastrous decision of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer to... Read More

During a typical day, Campbell’s characters are killed by circus tigers, transform themselves into gorillas and excavate their amputated limbs from burial plots. Clearly, this is not your typical short story collection. In “The... Read More

Again I conjure up/A brighter dream/And watch these embers/ Slowly ash and frost… Holden grew up during the Depression on the isolated peninsula of Maryland known as the Eastern Shore. It was a place where black poverty and... Read More

With biographical narration and liberal quoting from Twain’s complete writings, Emerson, in essence, co-authors with Samuel Clemens to create this all at once engaging and purified life story. This strategic partnership between... Read More

The following accusation appears in the introduction: “We are, despite being awash in information, just as prey to misinformation, half-truths, gratifying superstitions, pleasing myths, and outright lies as any seventeenth-century... Read More

Those who think that the life of an opera star is filled with fame, honor and wealth will find Eileen Farrell’s memoir an honest and good-humored revelation. Gifted with a phenomenal voice and a mother who had the good sense to... Read More

“Mature women are like fully open flowers—soft, voluminous, responsive to the wind, yielding to the touch,” says Creeden who has selected thirty folktales reflecting issues women face, including childbirth, aging and death. Each... Read More

Libraries as repositories of civilizations? records have existed for five thousand years, since the origination of Sumerian cuneiform writing. This abridgement of the author’s The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to... Read More