Book Review
The Great Promise
Frederick L. Coxen’s life was changed when he stumbled upon his late grandfather’s journal from World War I. Coxen did more than just transcribe the worn, weathered diary and annotate it with maps and a historical narrative to create...
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The Soldier's Oath
A mysterious hooded enemy, garbed in “unfamiliar uniforms,” is ravaging the land, raping, looting, killing, and burning everything in their path. “Who are these guys?” asks a puzzled defender of the crown in Christopher Lewis’...
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The Price of Honesty
Part confession and part cautionary tale, Serb mafioso Robert Yugovich’s tell-all book of his life in crime is at times more rationalization than revelation. Although currently serving prison time, Yugovich is not particularly contrite...
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The Legends of Azariah
Two soldiers and a priest walk into a mysterious land in Earl R. Joseph’s fantasy The Legends of Azariah: Magnificent Armor. While the author sends his heroic trio on a search for knowledge, the book project would have benefited from a...
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The Memoir of a Nazarene
To write a fictionalized autobiography of Jesus is to risk offending some readers. Edward J. Murray is to be commended for his courage, if not his style, in writing The Memoir of a Nazarene: Jay Levi. To have Jesus, or, as he is known in...
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If Two Are Dead
“I was in Ambercromby’s army at Ticonderoga,” quips Thomas Dordrecht, hero of Jonathan Carriel’s historical mystery. “I can stomach a corpse.” That is fortunate for the young apprentice because corpses abound in 1762 New...
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Very Bad Neighbor
Bulla and Rudy may not be the evil next-door neighbors from hell, but they are definitely unpleasant people. If William Terry Rutherford was indeed bullied by such a pathological pair in what he claims is “a contemporary fact-based...
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Casino Run
Even following the tragic loss of his first wife and love of his life, it is comforting and uplifting to know that Forrest Haskell still believes he has “already hit life’s jackpot.” His memoir of three fun-filled days at a casino...