Fallen Skies is the story of a changing world; a lost generation. Much darker than many of Philippa Gregory’s other fiction novels, the novel is set in a time when many men did not come home, and many of those who did were, in some way, irreparably damaged. About Fallen Skies by Philippa Gregory Enter ...
Baltimore may be known as “The City That Reads,” but Las Cruces may be home to the largest per-capita sales of used books anywhere in the area. Options for new books are restricted to the local Hastings and the newly-built Barnes and Noble, but older books can be found at perhaps a dozen stores in ...
There are so many books being published these days. It is easy to miss some of the better ones that have been around for awhile because they seem to get forgotten in the hype of the mega-favorites of the moment. I’m the type of reader who prefers reading everything an author wrote. Some years ago ...
Hannibal was among the greats of ancient military history, the equal of Caesar and surpassed only by Scipio and Alexander. It is a tragedy that a novel as poor as this bears his name. Ross Leckie’s first mistake is to try and compress Hannibal’s expansive career into a work of less than 300 pages. This ...