2005
Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
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In Borges and the Eternal Orangutans, the theme is that there is no such thing as a coincidence. The narrator—a meek translator ...Read Review
Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman’s Passage in the American West
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Jean Rio Baker found the message delivered by the missionaries from the Church of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) refreshing and in many ways the ...Read Review
You Come To Yokum
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You Come to Yokum asks the question: how would a normal teenage farm boy view a mother who was a suffragist? In a ...Read Review
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
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Helen’s memoirs are a gift to Hermione, her only remaining child, written with the intention of justifying her seemingly selfish decisions. At ...Read Review
Angel and Apostle
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At the close of The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne speaks of the angel and apostle as a woman of beauty and purity who ...Read Review
The Fiercer Heart: A Novel of Love and Obsession
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In 1841, Lt. Philip Kearney returns to America from his service overseas to discover that Diana Bullitt, the southern belle he’d spent three ...Read Review
The Painted Kiss
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In 1944, Emilie Flöge lives with her niece in their family’s country house at Kammer am Attersee, having fled their Vienna apartment ...Read Review
River Rising
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With her car stuck in the mud on the outskirts of Fertile, Missouri, April Asbury slogs through pouring rain, scoots under a barbed-wire ...Read Review
Mandrakes from the Holy Land
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In 1906, Beatrice Campbell-Bennett, a young Englishwoman on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group, travels to Palestine to paint the flowers of the Holy ...Read Review
The Traitor
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The British Free Corps, one of the most curious of the often absurd “volunteer” non-German units of the Waffen SS, was a failed ...Read Review