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For the millions of American’s who are born into poverty each year, our nation bleeds a darker red, white, and blue than the rest of us can fathom. The social constructs that push us from baby to student to graduate to career are disintegrated like sandcastles on a beach by the tide. Impoverished children don’t [...]
The other morning there was an article on the front page of the New York Times decrying the sad state of American education (this is news?). Among the quoted federal administrators, state administrators, county and district administrators (all obviously immediately available for this sort of thing), one superintendent rued the fact that he must fire [...]
I was first acquainted with the fiction juggernaut Christopher Leibig through his superb political roller-coaster ride “Saving Saddam”, which revolved around the high concept idea of a plot to indict one of Saddam Hussein’s body doubles in his place. Leibig’s new novel, “Montanamo”, takes that concept and multiplies it several times over. Each subplot is [...]
Like a knitting or mosaic master, K. Lynch weaves many different lives and times into a cohesive masterpiece of drama. While the trilogy does span from the time of the French Revolution to the present day, and in the beginning it seems to jump quickly in and out of lives and story lines, Lynch ties [...]
Reviewing books is often disappointing and so it’s always a pleasure to review one that is rewarding instead. Dayna Rubin’s book fools you a bit (no, not the old cliché that you can’t tell a book from its cover, although the cover photo stirred up some old memories of happy days in the woods) with [...]
Quick. Raise your hand if you knew that a dolphin was a whale. Not a lot of hands up, are there? Not even mine. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I learned while reading The Adventures of the Thundering Whales. I remember wishing I had a child to read the book to. Then I [...]
The Kingdom of the Sarianne teeters on the brink. While its tyrant king plays out his petty vendettas, rebellion foments on the edges of his domain. Politics and power struggles gamble civilization on the tides of war. Yet war is not the greatest threat to civilization. A far older enemy rises. The dragons are waking [...]
Reynolds, D.B. – Vampires in America #1 – Raphael Malibu, California–home to rock-and-roll gods and movie stars, the beautiful, the rich … and vampires. Powerful and charismatic, Raphael is a Vampire Lord, one of the few who hold the power of life and death over every vampire in existence. Thousands call him Master and have [...]
There’s something out there: a juggernaut of evil bearing down to crush the Republic— unless one lone Jedi, shunned and reviled, can stop it. Revan: hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians—and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan [...]
Nicholas, Erin – Hotblooded Overview: Her mama always said the women in their family were hotblooded… And it s been causing Brooke Donovan trouble her whole life. But it wasn t until her mother took on the most powerful man in Honey Creek, Texas, that Brooke truly realized the daughter of the town whore didn [...]