Book Review
Then I Came Home
by Joe Taylor
A Vietnam veteran tells the hard story of how he turned fear into gratitude and anger into the motivation to help himself and others. Sam Gaylord’s memoir, "Then I Came Home", is a story of hard luck and redemption. Gaylord reflects on...
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Twelve American Wars
by Joe Taylor
One by one, Windchy harshly evaluates all the US wars and the personalities that shaped them. “Rough tough, we’re the stuff. We want to fight and we can’t get enough. Whoopee!” The war cry of Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough...
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The Clever Mill Horse
by Joe Taylor
Filled with danger, science, and suspense, this story rings true with historical and natural detail. With "The Clever Mill Horse", Jodi Lew-Smith presents a kaleidoscopic glimpse of early America through the struggle of a young woman to...
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Mekong Mud Dogs
by Joe Taylor
Eaton captures the danger, emotions, and political landscapes of the Vietnam War in this extraordinary story of heroism. No one exemplified the utter danger and downright dirty work of the Vietnam War more than the combat infantryman. Ed...
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The Man Who Walked Out Of Isabelle
by Joe Taylor
Bourg’s debut is an accomplishment, a sensuous and bawdy celebration of rugged survivors in a threatening world. J. C. Bourg’s first novel, "The Man Who Walked Out Of Isabelle", is a compelling study of a remarkable character whose...
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The Roof Walkers
by Joe Taylor
With a unique narrative approach, Keith Henderson recreates the birth of Canada. "The Roof Walkers" by Keith Henderson, an epistolary novel about the birth of Canada, is historical fiction at its best. It not only illuminates a point in...
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Abe Lincoln: Public Enemy No. 1
by Joe Taylor
Lincoln, emancipated at last from the nineteenth century, finds a job more honest than the presidency: “String Bean” is a thug with morals. In 1976, while they were students at Emerson College, Brian Anthony and Bill Walker made a...
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Where They Bury You
by Joe Taylor
Heroes fall in a fictionalized account of how the West was swindled. With "Where They Bury You", Steven W. Kohlhagen inserts a “what-could-have-been” amendment to the official American story of the Southwest in the 1860s....