Night Witch in Berlin is a backward-forward, coming-of-age love story, overlaid with memories of the horrors of World War II. It captures the tenuous and politically charged moment in time between a post-war and a pre-cold war told through the eyes of Kira, a Russian female fighter pilot, a Nachthexen, or night witch. The history of these …
by David Monagan Jaywalking without Being Ticketed Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2005 Jaywalking with the Irish by David Monagan, is like a properly drawn draught of Guinness. The flavours and aromas of a bygone Ireland still linger and instill the modern society with its underlying richness, and permeate Jaywalking from the …
by Joanna Brady Schmida Many readers today are acculturated to the faster pace of a story’s development. A mindful prolific reader will appreciate Brady’s lyrically lush language. The rhythmically paced slow build lulls the reader into the tempo of the time, the late 1800s in Key West. Set against the Key’s historical backdrop, Brady’s masterful …
by Richard Berenholtz Promethean Panorama’s New York, seen through the bird’s-eye of an architectural photographer, elevates the city’s horizons to vibrant painterly panoramas and inspiring new heights. As a native New Yorker, underwhelmed by every and anything, Skylines of New York overwhelms with a seductive majesty; it is the must-have cocktail table bookend to Berenholtz’s …
Are you looking for a journey through lilting language and lush landscapes of the mind? Janette Byron Stone’s Please Write brings a new perspective to the Vietnam War through the distant eyes of a young woman’s coming of age. For America, Nam was a war that took place on the other side of the world; …