David Buzan's In the Wrath of Legends unfolds in the early 20th century in Oregon. This tale follows the harrowing adventures of Chenoa Winterhawk, a brave Nez Perce U.S. Army Indian Scout. As the daughter of a renowned Civil War hero, Chenoa tries to balance...

The Galloping Snapper Confesses Everything: Tales of a Traveling Airbrush, Book 3, is Dave Letterfly Knoderer’s breathtaking memoir of life on the American circus and carnival circuits. When we meet Knoderer, he is grieving; he sells his six-pony liberty act and hits the road in...

In his memoir Kinker Circusing the Seventies, Dave Letterfly Knoderer describes growing up under his minister father’s authority, until a summer drummer’s job with a small circus gives him a different future to pursue. The book follows his attempt to make circus work permanent after...

Therein Lies the Pearl by Catherine Hughes is one of those historical novels that I devour with great pleasure. Set in Normandy and England in the eleventh century, in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest in 1066, it focuses not so much on...

In Michael W. Cook’s Faith in Flux, Cook takes a hard look at what happens when people begin censoring themselves long before anyone openly demands silence. Using Saint Augustine’s attempt to redirect Alypius after public entertainment disrupted his studies, the book follows a larger argument...

Vietnam's Modern Day Boat People by Shira Sebban follows Vietnamese asylum seekers returned from Australia after arriving by sea, beginning with Tran Thi Thanh Loan, a Catholic mother facing prison in Vietnam after officials sent her family back. Sebban enters the case through a newspaper...