Sometimes you have to follow your heart. Your heart sets the destination and your mind, intellect, ambition, and even your physical body may then follow. Some may call such a thing a mission, others see it as obsession, but no matter its name, James B. Wells, author of Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s […]
“Because: A CIA Coverup and a Son’s Odyssey to Find the Father He Never Knew” by James B. Wells
December 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
“Antebellum Oz” by Joseph Eldredge
December 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
An Antebellum Oz (Choice Press 2025) by Joseph Eldredge is a boldly reimagined The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in which six friends—three free siblings, three enslaved youths—on a Mississippi farm at the beginning of the Civil War find themselves uplifted in a hurricane and set down in Oz. The story is inventive, thought-provoking, and engrossing […]
Dawn Major interviews Chelsea Ragan, author of “Last Days of Paper”
December 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
We were in the middle of a pop quiz in American History when we heard the announcement of “code black” on the intercom. This drill was the first of many to come. The teacher turned off the lights and barricaded the door and we all hid under our desks in silence. The quiet was deafening. […]
“Kate Landry Has a Plan” by Rebekah Millet
December 1, 2025 by 1 Comment
Kate Landry Has a Plan (Bethany House 2025) by Rebekah Millet is a very wonderful, straightforward, Christian romance novel which had me hooked with the first sentence: “A bride’s bouquet arced through the air, targeting me like a deployed missile.” Kate Landry and her sister opened a cafe, Beignets & Books, in the home they […]
“Letters to Little Rock” by Jennifer Horne
November 19, 2025 by 1 Comment
Jennifer Horne’s Letters to Little Rock (Kelsay Books 2024) is a superb book for quite a few reasons, not the least of which is her supple use of demanding and seemingly constraining poetic forms. But the book’s greatest strength lies in a series of implicit questions: how can we remember and honor a beloved parent […]