Music and the Armenian Diaspora
Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, on a high-stakes project. I actually liked…
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The Stick Soldiers
This collection of poems is not light reading but it is necessary reading if we are to heal the wounds of war and shorten the divide in our country.
The Long Emancipation
As discussed by the scholar Ira Berlin in his monograph The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States, the struggle for freedom is, at its core, about…
Pigeon-Blood Red
This first novel by attorney Ed Duncan wastes no time proving it belongs in its thriller genre. With likeable, unsavory characters and a fast-paced plot, Pigeon-Blood Red does not disappoint.
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Matterhorn. An obelisk-shaped mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy rising nearly 14,700 feet. Also, a near perfect mountain to climb if you’re willing to challenge…
Frottage & Even As We Speak: Two Novellas
Ingeniously crafted and each uniquely their own, the two novellas in Mona Houghton's Frottage & Even As We Speak transport and transfix the reader through the emotional turmoil and change of their characters. Winner of the 2012 Gold Award (Book of the Year in Literary Fiction).
God Help the Child
The reality and impact of child abuse rests uneasily, front and center, with the interwoven themes of love and transformation. Meticulously crafted, God Help the Child is a journey of souls and hearts, a must-read book.
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time gives readers a history of people's stories - their stories of what it was like to live through the fall of the Soviet Union and what has been carved in its wake.
A Confederacy of Dunces
I just finished reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, for the second time. The first time was 30 years ago and I think I appreciated it more…