In "Almost Armageddon", a sexy Soviet assassin known as Venus (for the flytrap, not the planet) patriotically and ideologically justifies her assignment to kill Mikhail Gorbachev during the final days of the Soviet Union by arguing... Read More

America is a nation where “privilege is valued over work” and where the “grotesquely greedy and disturbingly dysfunctional” ruling elite not only rewrite the rules of the game but also “set about corrupting our referees.”... Read More

The first half of "The Potentate of Walking Horse" is a testament to Gary Lendennie’s skill at writing a Western that is both genuine and personal. Lendennie’s story of cowboy Rufus T. Breckenridge, his horse Ballbanger, and Rufus’... Read More

To present the history of the Catholic Church in a single, slim volume is a daunting task, but to do so in an eloquent and entertaining manner is nothing short of a miracle. John Berryman performs just such a marvel in The Church... Read More

“What an elder sees sitting, a young man wouldn’t see even if he climbed a tree.” This bit of wisdom from an ancient, nearly crippled, yet once legendary beauty is the core theme of twenty-year-old Nigerian Chidera Duru’s "The... Read More

With polls showing the “Presidential Election to be as tight as a prom dress,” and the Electoral College on the brink of dissolution by constitutional amendment, the fate of the country comes down to how one “small, dirt-ball... Read More

If judged solely as a work of history, Marge Rieder’s biography of the seventeenth-century Swedish Queen Christina easily merits four stars. However, the author’s use of past-life regression hypnosis upon a thirty-two-year-old... Read More

Without including magic, witches, curses, violence, or villains of any sort, Rajesh Talwar has lovingly crafted a short but big-hearted tale of a princess choosing a suitor in "The Bearded Prince". As with many works for children, The... Read More