reviews

An Intense Blend of Isolation and Insanity Author: Stephen King Paul Sheldon is a popular hack novelist with a long string of trashy romances under his belt and a disproportionate disappointment in his own profitable sell-out. All that is about to change with the penning of his gritty new novel, Fast Cars. A celebratory drink (or five), a curvy mountain road in a sporty car, and a pending snowstorm are about to rewrite both his celebration and his priorities. Annie Wilkes, Paul’s little known number one fan, has her own set of issues, but when she finds a blasted car skidded [...]

Catch Me In My Dreams Author: Tricia Sullivan When the American Library Association (ALA) annual conference hit town, and a work gig (and gasp, the presentation I had to do along with it) got me some tickets, I swooped on all the free goodies that the publishers were endorsing and handing out. Tricia Sullivan’s Sweet Dreams was one such freebie, only given away on the last day and forcing me to make a return, mid-week trip just to grab a copy. What tantalized me was the concept along with the tripy cover art. A promising sci-fi mélange featuring one of [...]

America's hero... Author:  Erica Armstrong Dunbar She’s obviously a household name, but there’s a lot about Harriet Tubman that I didn’t know.  While she’s acclaimed as one of the primary forces behind the Underground Railroad, she was also a sought-after orator, abolitionist, suffragist, business woman and nursing home founder.  She even devised military strategy for the Union forces during the Civil War.  Hers was a remarkable life packed with courage and intrigue and award-winning historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar captures it all in She Came to Slay. Harriet Tubman, circa 1870. Starting with her life as a enslaved youngster [...]