THUNDER IN THE MOUNTAINS: A Portrait of American Gun Culture by Craig K. Collins In his gripping memoir, debut author Craig K. Collins invites readers to consider guns from a perspective that’s rarely heard—someone who has experienced first-hand their lure, their importance to a way of life, and their capacity to wreak devastation. “I grew… Read more »
Bestselling Novelist James Shipman Signs Two-Book Deal with Lake Union Publishing. Amazon bestselling novelist James Shipman has just signed a two-book deal with Lake Union Publishing, an Amazon imprint. Lake Union will re-publish Shipman’s Constantinopolis in March, 2015 and his next novel, Going Home, in July, 2015. “I’m excited to be working with Lake Union… Read more »
CRYSTAL FALLS by Brad Walseth “When it came right down to it, I was surprised to discover it really wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be to kill Jesse Ray Hawkins.” So admits sensitive outcast Nate “Preacher” LaPointe at the beginning of Brad Walseth’s latest novel, Crystal Falls, (Satalyte Publishing, 2014; softcover $18.00;… Read more »
SAVORING THE SOUTH, Memories of Edna Lewis, The Grande Dame of Southern Cooking with Recipes by Angela Mulloy The culinary legacy of Edna Lewis, known throughout the country as the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking, is celebrated in SAVORING THE SOUTH: Memories of Edna Lewis, the Grande Dame of Southern Cooking with Recipes (Infinity Publishing,… Read more »
Neal F. Thompson’s Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991 (Charlevoix Books; print $22.95, Kindle $9.99) offers readers an original and insightful account of America’s Cold War experience by exposing and demolishing the propaganda surrounding the conventional wisdom about the events of the Cold War era. Cold War orthodoxy provides Americans with every reason… Read more »
