Most letters to the editor are not written and argued in a scholarly fashion. This isn’t the case with those that Dr Alex Caemmerer Jr. has sent over the years to publications such as the New York Times, Newsweek and Psychiatric News. Sacred cows make a better grade of hamburger on Caemmerer’s grill, as the […]

In Geoff Thomas’ slim novel, robots have taken over Earth, and the last few human survivors are running out of resources. All military personnel, they embark on a risky plan to reach the Moon and Mars colonies, despite the complete loss of communication between the planets.

Meanwhile, the robots are planning the final annihilation, and […]

Freya and the Fenris-Wolf is the second installment in Peter L. Ward’s trilogy about several Viking and Saxon teens who stand up to the Norse gods and monsters in 8th-century northern Europe.

Readers will likely enjoy the story more if they have read the first volume, Vimp the Viking’s Epic Voyage; however, in the first […]

In this conclusion to Peter L. Ward’s fantasy trilogy, a group of teenage Vikings are determined to get along in the Saxon village they now call home. This is no easy task, given the hostility and mistrust between the villagers and the newcomers.

One night, Eric Bignose discovers a terrifying creature in the forest. After […]

Until retirement, Shelby Yastrow spent his career as a general counsel and vice president for McDonald’s Corp. in Chicago, which is where he sets this engrossing legal thriller. Yastrow’s legal knowledge is apparent as he leads readers through a strange and complex probate case that showcases various lawyerly motivations.

Phil Ogden is an attorney who […]

For as long as Beulah Andrews-Greyling can remember, pets have been valued members of her family. In Feathers & Furs, the South African author shares her memories of those animals, stretching back to her early childhood.

She begins with a chapter on Tiekie, a talking budgie she describes as “the most remarkable pet we ever […]

This little book provides 200+ money-saving household hints and suggestions for organizing your life, including tips and strategies for time management, clutter control, home repair, kitchen and laundry short-cuts, beauty advice, and a simple personal filing system. It is a miscellany of information, some useful and some less so, put together in a disjointed (albeit […]

Part memoir, part sales handbook and part motivational tool, this slim, scattered tome provides little to anchor it to any genre.

Stanley Bird Snyder’s Selling is Joy is divided up into numerous brief chapters (no table of contents is included) covering a time period from his first job in sales at the Ward Leonard Electric […]

When author Jon Kasey left Lagos in Nigeria for university in Germany, the 27-year-old expected only to be fully absorbed in his studies toward a degree in communication technology. Instead, while holed up in the library of the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, his life was upended by a flirtatious “designer blonde.” After rejecting her […]

Kevin Severns’ book on sausage-making couldn’t be timelier. This neat little primer taps into two hot restaurant trends: the farm-to-table craze and the popular appetizer platters of Italian cured and preserved meats known as salumi. Both trends embrace the use of fresh, locally sourced ingredients in a finished dish. Sausage-making fits the bill nicely.

Severns […]