Abandoned Sacred Places by Lawrence Joffe Abandoned Sacred Places by Lawrence Joffe is a gorgeous collection of photos from around the world, featuring abandoned places of spiritual or religious significance. Some of the most interesting for me were the temples of Asia, though the ‘Chicken Church’ ranked among the most unusual. It really did look […]
Astrid Lindgren by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Astrid Lindgren by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara explores the life of this Sweden author. At a young age, Astrid became enraptured by the magic inherent in books. From a simple square of bound paper with little markings covering them, came faeries, Giants, lands to explore, exotic people to […]
Harriet Tubman by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Vegara’s Harriet Tubman takes a look at one of the Civil War era’s greatest heroines. Born into a life of slavery, Tubman grew up into a hardened, determined woman. Escaping to freedom along a network known as the Underground Railroad, Tubman made it her mission to free as […]
Kathleen O’Neal Gear’s Cries from the Lost Island followed Hal and his friend Robert after they find their friend Cleo murdered, and set out to grant her last request. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra. They set out with archaeologist Dr James Moriarty to visit Egypt in hopes of finding the legendary graves […]
Preston and Child’s novel Old Bones sends the reader delving into the past in search of the infamous Donner Expedition’s Lost Camp. When historian Clive Benton comes in possession of a rare journal he approaches Nora Kelly. He has the perfect pitch for Nora, and the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology. The journal can help […]
Loki by Mohammed Ghassan Farija puts a new spin on the legends and myths of the Norse pantheon. Myth is a culture’s way of encoding important events, among other things. And, as Tolkien notes, sometimes history becomes myth under the weight of time. This story, centred on one of the Norse pantheon’s rather more misunderstood […]
What does Jewish lore have to do with the Germanic folk legend of doppelgangers? Find out in Dead Ringer, fifth in Kat Ross’ Gaslamp Gothic series. Dead Ringer rejoins Harrison Fearing Pell and Jonathan Weston of the American branch of the SPR. The pair are tasked with solving a case involving a ‘mud man’ attacking […]
Linguistics is fascinating, even if it’s not my area of expertise in anthropology. As a writer and poet, I love language and playing with words! Learning words lost to time is fun, and Jones’ A Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities didn’t disappoint. There’s a word for each day of the year, with a bit about how […]
‘If you leave a door half open, you’ll hear the whisper spoken. If you play outside alone soon you won ‘t be going home. If your Windows left unlatched, you’ll hear him tapping at the glass. If your lonely, sad, and blue, the whisper man will come for you.” The Whisper Man by Alex […]
The Man in the Dragon Mask by Amanda Roberts Genre: Historical Fiction One Face Two Men And A Secret That Could Destroy An Empire At the dawn of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor will do anything to ensure the future of his empire. Building the Forbidden City in fulfillment of his father’s dreams is only […]
