A YA generation ship story done well.


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Nothing compares to you. Rest In Peace, Sinéad Marie Bernadette, aka Shuhada' Sadaqat.


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All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O'Donoghue was fascinating. Maeve finds old tarot cards. Things quickly start to go wrong ( Read more... )

The Unicorn in the Barn by Jacqueline K. Ogburn

A boy, our narrator, discovers a girl putting up "No Trespassing" signs on his family's land -- he tells her that her mother had not bought that part. Then he goes up into a treehouse and sees a unicorn, limping.

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I read my first "Light Novel" and am not impressed.


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Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook by Daniel Ogden

A heavy book. It includes hundreds of translated passages from ancient sources about magic. They range all over.

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The life and Presidency of Woodrow Wilson has been the subject of a number of very thorough and well-considered scholarly biographies in recent times, with the most notable probably being those by John Milton Cooper Jr in 2009 and Scott Berg in 2013. Patricia O'Toole continues this pattern with her 2018 work The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the ( Read more... )

We live at a time when it is in fashion to slash and burn the reputations of antebellum historical figures and perhaps no one is more deserving of such treatment than Andrew Jackson, the war-hawk 7th President, a man for whom violence was the answer to most problems and the man who left behind the legacy of the trail of tears. In his June 2017 work ( Read more... )

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy

Action! Adventure! Rescuing nobles from the horrors of the French Revolution in melodramatic style!

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The Return of Sir Percival: Guinevere's Prayer by S. Alexander O'Keefe

A tale of adventure, honor, and peril as Percival returns from a quest to find the Holy Grail -- and what he finds in Britain is King Arthur dead, the Round Table broken, and the Queen nowhere to be found.

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