Book Description (from back cover) After Flodden is a modern take on the lyrical ballads of old, centring on a courageous young woman’s refusal to give up her search for justice, as well as a gripping portrayal of the... Read More »
Book Review This is the second book in a series which I have had the privilege to read and review. Both books can stand alone but also follow on, one from the other. The writing is again good and... Read More »
Book Description Dead Reckoning is an historical adventure of piracy, love and revenge in the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century. Leo is born in Spanish Panama in 1659. When he is twelve years old he witnesses the violent rape... Read More »
Book Description Jumping Off The Page uses ephemera as a portal to fascinating and seldom explored aspects of history and pop culture. Each of the three chapters of this eBook begins with a piece of ephemera–America’s cultural flotsam. The... Read More »
Book Description (from Amazon) A women’s Brokeback Mountain. The year was filled with memorable historical events: the Dreyfus Affair divided France; Booker T. Washington gave his Atlanta address; the United States expanded the effects of the Monroe Doctrine in... Read More »
Book Description This is a book about the life and times of N. Gopinathan Nair, also known as Janayugom Gopi, a journalist who is remembered, among many other things, for developing the Janayugom as the definitive voice of the... Read More »
Book Description (from author) Ten months before Blackhawk Down, US Marines launched its first major offensive against Mogadishu’s militias. Top US military strategists for Operation Restore Hope recognized the critical importance of identifying Somali clan leaders responsible for the... Read More »
Book Description (from Author) This is an illustrated children’s book, a fiction inspired by a true, almost unbelievable incident from Europe’s contemporary History. Action begins in Hope, a small beautiful country right ‘on the edge of the earth’. Hope... Read More »
Book Description The year is 1838. Mariana Givens, a young woman of twenty, has been sent to India to find a suitable husband. Travelling as a translator, she joins the entourage of Lord Auckland, the British Governor-General, as he... Read More »
Book Description A devastating introspective into Native American culture and ceremony, spirituality ,humanity and society at large revealing the causes and effects of colonialism and manifest destiny as seen through the eyes of the displaced descendants of these once... Read More »
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