Advising Chiang's Army: An American Soldier's World War II Experience in China by Stephen L. Wilson gives us a different view of World War II and China at that time. We all know what happened to China and the innocent people living there, but we...

Aunt Phil’s Trunk Volume 5: Bringing Alaska’s History Alive by Laurel Downing Bill is a continuation of a historical look at Alaska’s past. In this book we take a look at the years 1960 through to 1984, brought alive in a series of photographs and...

As someone who reads every book on the Titanic they can find, I was certain this book would not give me any new information or reveal anything I had not read before. I was quickly proven wrong. An Unsinkable Titanic looks at the sinking of...

A Fauxtographer's Yankee Stadium Memoir is a non-fiction photographic essay written by Arnie "Tokyo" Rosenthal. The author grew up loving baseball, and his first trip to Yankee Stadium at the age of six was a profound experience. As a young man, he got the opportunity...

Aunt Susy’s Boarding House by Joy Swan is a story of a girl growing up in Maine. Celia Tainter tells the stories in the book, often referencing the role her Grandpa and Grandma played while she was growing up. The book is a story about...

Apparition Atlas: The Ghost Hunter's Travel Guide to Haunted America by Daniel Diehl and Mark P. Donnelly is really a reference guide to haunted buildings around the USA, arranged alphabetically by state. They have very cleverly included a "scare scale" represented by skull emoticons, ranging...

Anne Frank: Anne Frank 80 Years by Ronald Wilfred Jansen is a collection of photographs portraying the life and times of Anne Frank. Starting with her home till 1931, the photographs recount her escape and the first house where she lived in Amsterdam. The swimming...

I am so glad that I read Axiom: A Jar for Tog. Long having been interested in history and mythology and the way the two intersect, I viewed William Fleck's approach to the mysteries of the pyramids with hopeful curiosity, as I am always game...

What is it that makes a great writer? A great work of literature? When asked this question, perhaps the first name that comes to mind is Shakespeare. But he was not the only great and it might be argued by Shakespearean scholars that perhaps his...

A Treasure More Than Gold by Ritt Jordan is an account of how the author was enticed into the “thrill of the chase,” somewhere in the Rocky Mountains north of Santa Fe, NM. An ancient cast bronze, and a hidden treasure chest. To find it,...