by Site Owner | May 8, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Lighthouse Keepers in Early Florida By Joanna Brady St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99, 335 pages In the early 1800s in Florida, lighthouses were normally manned by men, sometimes a man and his wife, or occasionally by a family, but the man was always in...
by Site Owner | Aug 27, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Philosophy
By Joseph Campbell New World Library, $14.95, 166 pages Renowned mythologist, author and speaker Joseph Campbell, who died in 1987, left a large volume of unreleased work, articles, notes, letters, and diaries, including audio- and videotaped lectures. All these works...
by Site Owner | Jul 25, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
By Ted Sanders Graywolf Press, $15.00, 272 pages Author Ted Sanders is an instructor at the University of Illinois and Parkland College in Urbana-Champaign. No Animals We Could Name: Stories is a collection of his stories and vignettes. The pieces have no conclusions...
by Site Owner | Jul 18, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
By Tracy Kiely Minotaur, $24.99, 293 pages With Murder Most Persuasive, author Tracy Kiely claims a tie-in to the works of Jane Austen. In fact, the only tie-ins to be found are in part of the title, “Most Persuasive”, frequent quoting of Jane Austen’s works by the...
by Site Owner | Jul 9, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), New Age
By Judy Carroll & Helene Kaye Wild Flower Press, $17.95, 320 pages In the non-fiction book, The Zeta Message, the content is wholly anecdotal, being the story of aliens known as “Zetas” or “Grays,” those with small bodies, large heads and huge eyes who are known...