“It’s difficult for my small brain to understand all of this,” the main character, James Pollack, complains to one of his numerous sexual partners in Andrew Man’s second book in the Tego Arcana Dei series. Many readers will... Read More

The “glory seekers” of 1861, as David C. Reavis calls his ancestors and others who answered the call to the colors, soon learned that war was anything but glorious. In "Upon These Steps", Reavis chronicles the experiences of two... Read More

Shakespeare’s MacBeth and the character who slew him, Malcolm, were based on real people. In his novel "Saints and Heroes", Andrew Schultz brings his king slayer to life in a far less heroic but much more accurate manner than... Read More

“There are saints in Baghdad, but none of them are journalists,” Jack Wolfe quips to his fellow reporters while on assignment in Iraq in 2003. That sentence by a key character, along with the admonition from one Iraqi to another to... Read More

For the millions of Americans who lost their jobs and saw their severance and pension plans gutted while the CEOs whose mistakes tanked their companies got rich, Jim Lively’s "The Puzzle Aesthetic" will be an angry yet therapeutic... Read More

New parents, especially new fathers, should be as smitten with their toddlers as author Michael Fertik freely admits to being when he explains that this tale was inspired by the antics of his own little boy. The adventure of Squeezy the... Read More

“Dumb cowards live longer than smart heroes,” quips reluctant spy Hal Schroeder as his early Cold War mission to Romania starts to go sour. The main character and first-person narrator of John Knoerle’s American Spy Trilogy is,... Read More

“Myths are unreal renditions of social situations of the past,” writes Amit Sarkar in his memoir, "Façade of Myths". “They are like potent fantasies that tend to lend credence to absurdity.” Amit Sarkar grew up in a culture and... Read More