by Site Owner | Apr 5, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, War & Military
By Denis Avey, Rob Broomby Da Capo Press, $25.00, 264 pages Just outside of Auschwitz III in 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW camp. While Avey was deprived of proper food, hard labor, and uncomfortable living conditions, he constantly heard about the...
by Site Owner | Apr 4, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Michael Stein Permanent Press, $28.00, 206 pages Based on a true story of an art-world rivalry and courtroom drama, Michael Stein’s The Rape of the Muse is a novel every aspiring artist should read. Stein tells the story of Rand Taber, a painter with painter’s...
by Site Owner | Apr 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor
By Barney Stinson with Matt Kuhn Touchstone, $13.00, 142 pages Ever wondered just how How I Met Your Mother’s Barney Stinson gets all of his women? Ever seen Barney use a play and ask yourself “How can I do that?” Your answer is here, dear reader, in The Playbook....
by Site Owner | Apr 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
Edited by Luis Ortiz Nonstop Press, $13.95, 175 pages Why New Yorkers Smoke is a collection of short stories that asks, “What is there to fear in New York City?” and while it answers that question in a number of ways, most intriguing about the stories are the...
by Site Owner | Feb 20, 2012 | Historical Fiction
by Sharyn McCrumb St. Martin’s Press, $24.99, 312 pages In post-Civil War North Carolina, Laura Foster steals her father’s horse to elope to Tennessee. Three months later, her body turns up in a shallow grave and Tom Dula, the man she was rumored to be eloping...