John Ford: Poet in the Desert, a poetic biography of John Ford, is written by Joseph Malham. John Ford was a famous director of many Westerns such as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and She Wears Yellow. He also explored the different aspects of...

I selected John H. Kampmann, Master Builder: San Antonio's German Influence in the 19th Century, by Maggie Valentine, because I was intrigued by the book's description. I had simply assumed that the architecture of San Antonio, up until the last hundred years or so of...

Author Thomas Hagedorn begins his narrative in 1783. Just after the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States had so many debts that it was unable to give back pay to Army officers and enlisted men who had fought during the war, let alone...

A Man Down was written by Sgt. Clyde Hoch and is the biography of several military heroes. The names may not be familiar to most readers but each of the men lost his life while serving in the military. Ray Ira Haas and the author...

Lovingly crafted memoirs, when offered with honesty and true devotion, have a particular warmth and charm seldom found in any other kind of writing. Grandfather’s Uncle by Philip McQuillan is no exception. There is such a naturally conversational singularity of purpose in McQuillan’s writing that...

Laura Cottam Sajbel’s novel, Buoyant, subtitled How Water and Willpower Helped Wella to Channel Aaron and Hayley Peirsol, is an inspiring story about a mother who discovered the healing powers of exercise and in the process, raised two champion swimmers. This is Wella Hartig’s life...

Literary Legends of the British Isles, The Lives and Burial Places of 50 Great Writers, by Michael Thomas Barry, is a wonderful look at great writers of the late medieval and early modern periods, and the 19th and 20th centuries. Little known information about their...

Would You Do What They Did?: Great Christian Leaders from Our Past, written by William Dean Hamilton, is a collection of four creative nonfiction stories sharing the lives of four individuals who made significant contributions to the history of Christianity. The first individual highlighted in...

In her debut novel, author Katherine Ann Lee takes readers on a journey through time in From Dust to Dust and a Lifetime in Between, a story that takes place in 1920s Church Stretton, England. Inspired by her beloved Nana, Mary Eileen Cooke – Mollie...

Pro Bono: The 18-Year Defense of Caril Ann Fugate by Jeff McArthur gives the facts of Caril’s story after she was taken into custody the day she made a run from her boyfriend, Charles Starkweather, on the side of the interstate in Wyoming. Caril is...