Book Review
Rattlesnakes, Ghosts, and Murderers
by Maria Siano
Misunderstandings and disease result in much heartbreak for the McKenna family. Set in the 1890s in the American West, Volume 1 in this series from Len Francis Monahan focuses on ranch owner Henry McKenna and Colter Barnett, or more...
Book Review
Black Art
by Maria Siano
British actress Helen Valentine wants to know where she came from. Specifically, she wants to know about her grandmother, who disappeared in the early 1940s. Author V. T. Davy is an amateur historian, and he gives Arty Shaw, his hero in...
Book Review
Spies and Lies
by Maria Siano
David Pearl’s job is anything but boring. Employed by the CIA until his job is outsourced, Pearl starts his own security firm, but he is struggling to keep it afloat. When he is hired by the Greek Embassy in Washington, DC to guard...
Book Review
The Color of Hate
by Maria Siano
"The Color of Hate" chronicles the marriage of Doris and Shaun McDaniel and takes a thought-provoking look at both private and public race-related struggles. Doris and Shaun have a financially comfortable lifestyle in Atlanta. Both work...
Book Review
Authentic Educational Leadership in Schools
by Maria Siano
In this extensive analysis of the Australian education system, Ross H. Millikan, a former lecturer and sub-dean in education at the University of Melbourne, proposes sweeping changes for school districts. Millikan calls on educators to...
Book Review
Seeing through Death into Life
by Maria Siano
In this insightful memoir, Verona Rylander openly shares the personal heartbreak of losing her husband to cancer. A painter, sculptor, and jewelry maker, but primarily a homemaker through the first three decades of her marriage, Rylander...
Book Review
A Private History of Happiness
by Maria Siano
Happiness may seem elusive because we are not looking for it in the right places. That is George Myerson’s premise in this inspiring compilation of ninety-nine excerpts about moments of joy described in personal writings in journals,...
Book Review
A Finger Lakes Feast
by Maria Siano
These more than one hundred recipes from Kate Harvey and her father, Karl Zinsmeister (along with photos by son/brother, Noah), focus on crops from the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York. The family shows its appreciation for the...