Click to Buy Small Displacements Review by Donna Meredith When I was given Vanessa Furse Jackson’s short story collection Small Displacements, I almost sent it back. I’m glad I didn’t. I don’t often warm up to short stories the way I do to novels, perhaps because I don’t get to spend enough time […]
Archives for March 2011
Velva Jean Learns to Drive, by Jennifer Niven
March 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Velva Jean Learns to Drive, by Jennifer Niven Review by Philip K. Jason Jennifer Niven has fashioned a delightful and probing fiction set in the remote Appalachian communities of North Carolina. We first encounter the title character, Velva Jean Hart, in 1933. She is a ten year old whose mind is […]
Sweet Read: The Peach Keeper, by Sarah Addison Allen
March 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen does it again! Fans of Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen, and The Girl Who Chased the Moon will not be disappointed with Allen’s latest magical novel, The Peach Keeper, due to hit shelves March 22. In trademark style, Allen masterfully weaves a […]
Patricia O’Sullivan
March 20, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Patricia O’Sullivan holds advanced degrees in theology and in history and teaches at the University of Mississippi. She writes historical novels about colonial America including Hope of Israel, a top 100 semifinalist in the 2008 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and the forthcoming, Legend of the Dead. Click to Buy
The Queen of Palmyra, by Minrose Gwin
March 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin Review by Rhett DeVane Minrose Gwin’s novel The Queen of Palmyra beautifully captures the delicate tipping point between Florence Forrest’s tormented childhood and young adulthood. At a time when eleven-year-old Flo should be giggling with friends, she is forced instead into the dark […]
Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope (Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2010) Review by Allen Mendenhall DNA technology has revolutionized our criminal justice system. The acceptance and widespread use of post-conviction DNA testing for imprisoned individuals has led to exonerations all across America. Organizations such as […]