by Laura Di Giovine | Feb 28, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
If you’ve been looking for a fast-paced thriller to read, The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille fits the bill. Plus, the vivid descriptions of Miami and Cuba will keep you warm on these cold winter nights! Captain Daniel “Mac” MacCormick is a thirty-five-year-old Army...
by Philip Rafferty | Sep 5, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Shortly after WWII, a cameraman for the Nazis, one who worked directly with the famed Leni Riefenstahl, moves his family to Bolivia. Hans Ertl, the patriarch, has not put his camera away, and instead is filming a documentary about a lost city in the Bolivian forest...
by Philip Rafferty | Dec 15, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals, Science & Technology
How a path traveled by one becomes the path traveled by a few, and to later emerge as a recognized trail, is the heart of the matter in On Trails by Robert Moor. As a thru-hiker of the Appalachian Trail, Moor writes a strong and compelling hybrid, mixing memoir and...
by Howard Leighton | Dec 6, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
There are some of us who read to learn, understand, and broaden our knowledge about events, history, science, people, etc. Some seek pleasure in escaping our world and wish to enter into that of others, whether good, pleasant, sad, or troubling. If you seek any of the...
by Philip Rafferty | Nov 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Road to Jonestown, the new book by bestselling author, Jeff Guinn, opens in November of 1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana. On that fateful day, 900 people collectively took their lives in one of the most infamous, mass ritualistic suicides in modern history. They did...