Detail about everyday living in the early 1900s highlights this story of an African American family. The intriguing novel "Blackberry Women" by Ella O Williams evokes thought and emotion in equal share as a first-generation freeborn... Read More
In "Our Lord Was Baptized, You Know", Marta Sutton Weeks, an Episcopal priest, shares her life story of faith and service. The book begins with a fictionalized scene from the author’s childhood, when she and some other children attempt... Read More
Swede Anna Fransén, author of twelve previous books, relates a harrowing story of domestic abuse at the hands of her alcoholic husband in her memoir "Torture". Using the pseudonym “Petra,” the author depicts herself as a naïve... Read More
Frank White a troubled dental technician in the Navy is at the center of Ron Pettit’s novel "Kiddie Cruise". This character has a history of rebellion and his current assignment (barracks detail) is a punishment for past clashes with... Read More
Batou’s book is one of longing, for a lost civilization, a dispersed people, an ancient beauty still moldering under the remains of Baghdad. These poems might easily be characterized as extended lament. Batou approaches them from... Read More
The hero of Ron Albert’s Rush to Judgement, ex-Marine Sgt. -E5 Damian Jude (“DJ” to friends and enemies) is a hardboiled PI of the old school. He’d be right at home trading clues, chewing on bullets, boozing and bragging about... Read More
Katharine Hepburn once said “ If you survive long enough you’re revered—rather like an old building.“ The iconic actress certainly did survive—and then some—living to the age of 96 a fiercely independent outspoken dynamo and... Read More
In early 1984 Georgia resident Darlene Wofford’s comfortable middle-class life was ripped apart. In January her 10-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool. Shortly afterwards she was abducted viciously beaten and raped by two... Read More