“A man with a strange, unbelievable past; a man who gives few clues to his identity. If the scant information about him is to be believed, Simon Ark is close to two thousand years old.” Now there’s a tail spinner of a character description. In...

That a picture is worth a thousand words is a truism that cannot be denied. In Americana: A Photographic Journey, Mathew Tekulsky has gathered 125 images from across America. Each photo has a story to tell. For example, the photograph of Nathan’s Original at Coney...

Holocaust Memories: Annihilation and Survival in Slovakia by Paul Davidovits is one in the Series Holocaust Survivor Memoirs World War II. Paul starts his memoir by explaining that he and his mother had to flee their home in Slovakia in 1944. The only item his...

Poteet Victory by J. Robert Keating is a non-fiction biography about the acclaimed modern artist of the same name. Born in Oklahoma with the given name of Robert Poteet, the culture, tribal history, and immense influence his paternal Choctaw-Cherokee grandmother, Willie Victory, had on his...

One More Season: The Birth of Football's Spread Offense by Lorin Fife pays tribute to how a high school football coach changed the face of a game that became America’s national pastime. Puking on the football field during a match was embarrassing enough, but that...

The Girl I Never Knew: Who Killed Melissa Witt? is a work of non-fiction in the true crime and thriller subgenres by LaDonna Humphrey. As the title suggests, the work focuses on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Melissa Witt, and the answers to...

Neel Burton kept my interest in Stoic Stories, even though I spent years studying for my master’s certificate in Ancient And Classical History. Neel taught me more in his book than I learned in my years of study. Not only does Neel explain the philosophy...

Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by J. Simon Harris, is a take on an old classic. Here we follow Dante from a dark forest where he cannot escape, surrounded by beasts; his only way out is through hell. He is guided by the poet Virgil...

Numerous conspiracy theories have been advanced around the politics of the United States of America for many years. This has been strongly motivated by the tight grip on political opinions maintained by both the Democrats and the Republicans. With each of the parties’ members claiming...

Southwestern Adventure: In the Footsteps of First Peoples: Mogollon, Hohokam, Salado and Sinagua is illustrated by the author Michael Royea and is part history, part travel guide. Recommended sites include Salinas Pueblo and Quarai Mission Ruins. The next attractions are the Three Rivers Petroglyph site...