“A big black witch and a little red devil, / Are planning a regular Hallowe’en revel. / Come at 8 o’clock up my dark walk / Wear a costume and don’t dare talk.” That’s the homemade invite sent more than eighty years ago to... Read More

Something unprecedented happened in 1800. The leader of a nation was booted out of office—peacefully. Without bloodshed, power in the United States of America was transferred from the defeated incumbent, John Adams, to the sitting vice... Read More

Though the coyotes that so magically appear and disappear to the startled residents of this small community near Albuquerque, looming like silent totems, are not quite trespassers, a few locals bluster in letters to the newspaper that... Read More

Like lifting the hood of one of the many new cars that the now-closed Cadillac plant in Detroit, Michigan rolled out over the years, opening this book gives readers a look at the inner workings of the people who built the cars that... Read More

Take a quick getaway to another time and place merely by opening a book. Billed as “inspirational folklore” "Broken Gourds" by Beresford McLean transports the reader to Albion a rural Jamaican village in the early 1900s. Sumptuous... Read More

While teacher’s fatigue has yet to acquire the bloody cachet of “going postal,” it does add a complicit shadow pathology to this novel, in both its protagonist and its author. JP Griffith, young, lovelorn, and divorced, takes off... Read More

Mary, a literate fugitive slave living amongst other blacks in the territory of Rhode Island, has decided to keep a journal. Each entry begins with the day, date, and description of the weather followed by a synopsis of her thoughts and... Read More

“When man’s after money, nature is always changed”, says Dr. David Johnson, the man responsible for unleashing an Alaskan Grizzly bear on the Appalachian Trail in this combination love letter, cautionary tale, and fable. “We’ve... Read More