Rona Simmons’ The Other Veterans of World War II: Stories from Behind the Front Lines is reviewed by ARMY Magazine.
“… Sixteen million men and women were mobilized for the fights in Europe and the Pacific. Yet most of them never fired a shot in anger, serving in noncombat positions behind the front lines.
In The Other Veterans […]
Bob Dekle, author of Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts, speaks on Francis L. Wellman, the man who prosecuted the fascinating case from his book.
“As I progressed along, I kept bumping into stories that were so good they could easily form the basis of a stand-alone book rather than a chapter. I […]
“Digital Executive & Author Rob Elder is with WGN Radio’s Rick Kogan to talk about his latest work, Hemingway in Comics. You can purchase Rob’s book here.”
Don’t miss this informative video interview with Jason Prufer, author of Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll on WKYC-TV
Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences website features Problem Plants of Ohio written by faculty members Megan E. Griffiths, Melissa A. Davis and David Ward
“We really did try to write the book without too much fancy botanical terminology,” Griffiths-Ward said. “It’s there, but we’ve really toned it down and tried to write the text in such […]
Don’t miss this great interview with Stephen Peterson, coauthor of The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, with Joe Cronauer on WKYC-TV
Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth by Sam McBride is reviewed by Lembas 40 (Number 193), December 2020: A Publication of Unquendor, The Dutch Tolkien Society
“Readers with varying degrees of familiarity with Tolkien’s legendarium will be able to enjoy Tolkien’s Cosmology as, variously, a sort of clear, very readable overview, refresher course, or even encyclopedia. And I […]
Don’t miss this great interview with Pete Peterson, coauthor of The Turnpike Rivalry: The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns, on the “Savran on Sports” podcast. Starts at 33:40.
The Northwest Indiana Times calls The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York by Virginia A. McConnell “A well-written, intriguing true crime story.”
“A rich young woman running wild, her boyfriend left for dead in a low-rent hotel room and lurid headlines such as “Brooklyn is a modern sodom” might seem […]
Publisher’s Weekly reviews The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
“A close and engrossing look at an obscure 19th-century homicide”
“A good job illuminating race relations and the criminal justice system in post–Civil War Baltimore.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
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