Fifteen-year-old Amelia (“Lia”) Lenelli writes letters that she keeps in a time capsule which resembles a My Little Pony lunchbox, buried two feet under the soil in her father’s flower garden, in a place...
Playwright and secret agent to Queen Elizabeth I, Christopher Marlowe is back for another adventure. This time, his commission is to travel to Holland and prevent an assassination attempt upon William the Silent, an...
Eleven-year-old Dixie is the youngest child of Evie and Charles Dupree, who live in Perry County, Alabama. She and her brother AJ like to climb trees and do the normal things kids in rural...
Those of you in the US, do you remember the “Got Milk?” advertising campaign in the early 1990s? One very popular commercial featured a history buff who gets a random call from a radio...
Disclaimer: A publicist at Bloomsbury sent this book to me thinking I might enjoy it. She did not ask me to review it, and did not make receipt of the book conditional on any...
Lem is a Trickster, scamming his way through life, using his magical abilities to survive. But in Lem’s sub-culture, magic costs, and the payment is blood. Most of Lem’s ilk, mages, use other people’s...
Book Reviews / Books / Reading
Herodotus, an aspiring author, turns up at Nicolaos and Diotima’s house to ask if Nico would escort him to the land of the Pharaohs. It seems he wants to write about the past, and is traveling...
Juliana Martin is a top Dallas attorney working at her father’s law firm. Their very rich clientele pay handsomely for them to make legal problems go away, though Juliana manages to keep at least arm’s length...
Book Reviews / Books / Fiction
On her blog today, Janet Reid has given us her top ten (plus one) reads of the year, and has invited us to do the same. I could have just commented on her site,...
Olivia Randall is a top New York defense attorney who is drawn to defend a man accused of a triple homicide. But this is no ordinary case. The accused, Jack Harris, is considered a hero,...
