Girl power through the lens of history. Part of The Thinking Girl’s Treasury of Dastardly Dames, West African Njinga reveals her intellectual might as she wars with the Portuguese invaders over the lucrative slave trade. Fascinating... Read More

Myukis, or Voldoya, as he is familiarly known, was a Russian-American artist of some talent who might have been famous had he really lived. This imaginative, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating novel was inspired by Daniel Marcus’s... Read More

On the bookstore shelves today, there are many historical thrillers and science-fiction thrillers, with too many subcategories to mention. Chris Monaghan’s "The Collection" marries the historical and scientific into one eventful,... Read More

The charming and, at times, hilarious preface and opening chapters aside, Dr. Stanley M. Bierman’s Napoleon’s Penis does not quite live up to the promise of its title and subtitle. A collection of thirty-seven essays culled from a... Read More

Twenty-One Days Later chronicles Tony Baccarini’s three-week stay at Kenilworth Clinic, a psychiatric institution in Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the poems revolve around staff, fellow patients, the author’s treatment for bipolar... Read More