The eventful third book in the Honor Bound series "Righting Time" extends the adventures of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers into a future both strange and familiar. Time travel is controlled by refined psychically able people from... Read More
A young woman either experiences a psychotic breakdown or actually turns into a bird of prey— it’s up to readers to believe or not in Bill Van Patten’s opening Kafka-esque tale in this, his first short story collection. VanPatten,... Read More
A good romantic novel is not the massed-produced formulaic massively consumed quickie book commonly known as a “Bodice Ripper.” A romantic novel is more than thin plot lines designed to get the main characters from one sexual... Read More
Shelley Todorovitch presents a unique perspective on a serious health issue. Her husband Jim has type 1 diabetes and has encountered various health-related problems. "We Did It!" is a first person account of the trials and joys they... Read More
This book, though great fun, varies in substance from stretches of solid science to supermarket tabloid alien-probe conspiracy. Gloriously incorrect, "The Return of Planet-X" (perfect name for a 1970s/1980s midnight horror movie) is... Read More
Fido feels like having fun, so he starts a playful game of hide-and-seek around the colorful farmhouse scenes in Palmer’s book, "A Clue For You". Two playmates chase each other through the yard, giving clues to small readers in the... Read More
“Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science,” wrote Henry Beston in this 1928 classic, which chronicles the austere year he spent contemplating the natural world from a small cabin on the outermost beach of Cape Cod. Although... Read More
“I fear that the Gospel has been humiliated in our time,” Marsh writes. In this critique of the American evangelical movement, the author argues that the “self-serving and pious chatter” of Christians has compromised the... Read More