Book Review
The "Tell Me a Story" Book
The “Tell Me a Story“ Book from S. Steele is not a storybook. It is, however, a book aimed at creating storytellers. This slim volume offers a dozen extremely short tales that are in themselves charming, yet intentionally...
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Writing and Reading the Declaration of Independence
Few documents in American or even world history were as successful in stirring the soul as the Declaration of Independence. Retired nuclear physicist, David Hopp, is one for whom Thomas Jefferson’s words continue to resonate, and in...
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The Ruling Elite
For those whose exposure to the story of America is limited to sanitized high school textbooks and obligatory college freshman survey courses, the tale of greed, corruption, manipulation, malfeasance, and mass murder woven by Deanna...
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Outpost Berlin
In the early 1960s, Harold Schwartz was stationed with the US military in West Berlin. Outpost Berlin: Cold War 1961-1964 is written with the kind of black humor known to people who are familiar with potentially hostile environments....
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Mobsters
There is the hint of a decent story buried just beneath the surface of Nelson Rodriguez’s spare crime novella, the title of which is either Mobster or "Mobsters", depending on whether you trust the front or the back cover, the title...
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The Red Dawn
In July of 1814, two armies met in bloody battle at Lundy’s Lane, just across the Niagara River from New York in Canada. By midnight more than one in four of the 6,000 American, Canadian, and British soldiers were casualties. Although...
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Bible Discovered
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” is what a newspaper editor tells a young reporter in the classic John Ford western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence. That is what generations of archaeologists, anthropologists,...
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Mary and the Goddess of Ephesus
Building a novel around the mother of Jesus is a brave, bold, and difficult undertaking, one sure to create controversy in some camps. A former seminarian, Melanie Bacon is to be applauded for her courage, as well as her ability to bring...