Book Review
The Cuban Exodus of 1994
by Joe Taylor
This is a work that honors the strength and resourcefulness of Cuban refugees who risked everything in their quests for freedom. Antonio Gordon’s comprehensive "The Cuban Exodus of 1994" details how many Cubans, desperate over the...
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No Place to Hide
by Joe Taylor
This account of a deadly Vietnam battle serves the truth, and is a long overdue and thorough narrative. Bill Sly’s new book, "No Place to Hide", comes forward to tell a little-known story of the Vietnam War—a unit’s ill-fated...
Book Review
Why Debate
by Joe Taylor
This collection of essays belong in the hands of all those looking to persuade a thinking public. Shawn Briscoe’s collection of essays "Why Debate" is a compelling argument for the inclusion of debate and forensics programs in American...
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The Great American Songbook
by Joe Taylor
A small triumph, a growing awareness, a pleasant irony: these stories draw forth satisfaction. The nine stories in Sam Allingham’s Great American Songbook are a brilliant array of forms, character and relationship types, prose styles,...
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...And Then I Met the Getty Kouros
by Joe Taylor
Yaghoubian writes of the importance of attitude and deep involvement in meeting life’s challenges. Engineer Jack Yaghoubian’s … And Then I Met the Getty Kouros is, like his life’s work, both durable and artfully assembled,...
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Abe Lincoln On Acid
by Joe Taylor
Honest Abe has been revived and sent on a psychedelic trip in this entertaining work of alternate history. After a long coma curtailed Lincoln’s stint with the Dillinger gang in Abe Lincoln: Public Enemy No. 1, Brian Anthony and Bill...
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Reaching beyond Faith
by Joe Taylor
This is a necessary exegetical resource for those who wish to understand the Koran in a pluralistic context. In his refreshing and insightful Reaching Beyond Faith, Ibn Farabi treads the waters between blind faith in and a deep...
Book Review
Man of the Sun
by Joe Taylor
An American airman and a young Jewish boy flee from the Nazis as Allied forces prepare to invade at Normandy in this richly detailed adventure. Mike Render’s "Man of the Sun" is a briskly paced novel that pits a heroic American airman...