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Interview: Ian A. O’Connor – Author of ‘The Wrong Road Home’

Ian A. O’Connor, author of The Wrong Road Home, is a retired USAF colonel who has held several senior military leadership positions in the field of national security management. In his page-turning...

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Book Review: ‘Journey To Munich,’ A Historical Novel by Jacqueline Winspear

In Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear, after a long self-reflecting journey Maisie Dobbs has found a form of peace with her loss. The pain still lingers at the death of her husband and the...

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Interview with Celeste León author of ‘Luck is Just the Beginning’

Celeste León is an award winning author. Her passion for the past ten years has been writing Luck is Just the Beginning, the novel inspired by her father’s life, released by Floricanto Press on...

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Book Review: ‘Children of Earth and Sky,’ Fantasy by Guy Gavriel Kay

There are very few authors who manage to create fictional worlds of depth and beauty but are also able to people them with complex and real characters. In his latest book, Children of Earth and Sky to...

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Book Review: ‘When a Red Bird Flies’ by Karen Evancic

Set in Kentucky, Michigan, and post-war Los Angeles, Karen Evancic’s new novel When a Red Bird Flies takes readers from the Great Depression through 1954 to tell the story of two sisters who live very...

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Book Review: ‘Heavenly Khan’ by Victor Cunrui Xiong

Heavenly Khan by Victor Cunrui Xiong is a historical fiction novel about the rise and reign of the first two emperors of the Tang Dynasty – Li Yuan, and his son Li Shimin, in the 7th Century (using the...

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Book Review: ‘The Secret Language of Stones’ by M.J. Rose

Book cover image: Atria Books- Simon & Schuster, Inc The follow up novel to her previous “Daughters of La Lune” instalment The Witch of Painted Sorrows, M.J. Rose’s new novel The Secret Language of...

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Book Review: ‘A Fine Imitation’ by Amber Brock

Readers who enjoy Gilded Age and War Era fiction authors like Beatriz Williams and Kate Morton, will certainly be drawn to Amber Brock’s A Fine Imitation. Set in the middle of Prohibition-era New York...

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Graphic Novel Review: ‘The Jekyll Island Chronicles: A Machine Age War’ by...

The Jekyll Island Chronicles by Steve Nedvidek, Ed Crowell, and Jack Lowe, published by Top Shelf Productions, shines a bright light on alternate history in the comic medium with its deep...

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Book Review: ‘The Summer Before the War’ by Helen Simonson

In the style of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson reflects the local minutia of a small country village in Sussex right before the outbreak of World War I....

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Book Review: ‘Three Martini Lunch’ by Suzanne Rindell

Suzanne Rindell’s new novel Three Martini Lunch is a tale of love, betrayal and well guarded secrets in 1958 Greenwich Village, New York. The Village. New York City, 1958. A place for poets, writers...

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Book Review: ‘At the Edge of Summer’ by Jessica Brockmole

It is 1911 when fifteen-year-old Claire Ross arrives from Scotland to the Crepet’s home in the French countryside. A refugee of sorts, Claire’s father has died abruptly, leaving her an orphan pining...

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Book Review: ‘The Longest Night’ by Andria Williams

Based on a true event, Andria Williams’ novel The Longest Night narrates the difficulties in the marriage of a young military wife and her husband, whose growing distance from each other competes with...

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Book Review: ‘An Affair With Beauty’ by James Philip Head

An Affair with Beauty – The Mystique of Howard Chandler Christy: The Magic of Youth, is the first book in a trilogy by James Philip Head about the legendary artist Howard Chandler Christy. Howard is...

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Interview: Joan Schweighardt Author of ‘The Last Wife of Attila the Hun’

Joan Schweighardt is the author of six books and several essays and travel articles. She makes her living as a freelancer, writing, editing and ghostwriting for private and corporate clients. She’s...

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Book Review: ‘The Memory of Us,’ A Novel by Camille Di Maio

In The Memory of Us by Camille Di Maio, we are introduced to Julianne Westcott, the only child of a wealthy family. She lives a dream life of money, gowns, and dances, as well as young men wanting to...

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Graphic Novel Review: ‘Thoreau: A Sublime Life’ by Maximilien Le Roy and A. Dan

Mention Henry David Thoreau to many Americans, and if they remember it, it’s most likely as the name of this dry guy they had to read in high school English. For all of the very real impact the man...

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Book Review: The Last Wife of Attila the Hun, by Joan Schweighardt

The Last Wife of Attila the Hun by Joan Schweighardt is an ambitious, superbly researched, excellently written novel based on Germanic legends and the true life of Attila the Hun that will mesmerize...

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Book Review: ‘Orchard: A Novel’ by Jack H. Bailey

The word “union” stems from the idea of joining things or people together, yet in the time period where Orchard: A Novel by Jack H Bailey takes place, the union is what’s causing everything to be torn...

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The Most Anticipated Fall Books of 2016, Part 1

Fall is just around the corner, and with it the much-awaited list of new release books, perfect to snuggle up with in front of a cozy fireplace and a large mug of Swiss Miss (unless of course you live...

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