All Blog Posts Tagged 'history' (94)

Find out what happens when a group of Canadian college students visits Wounded Knee in 1973 - http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/05/going-native.html

Congratulations to the author, Empire is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist!

Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

By S.C. Gwynne

Scribner, 371 pgs

978-1-4165-9105-4

Rating: You Should Really Read This Book!

The Comanches were elemental; earth, air, fire and water. They had no use for a sophisticated civil society, no…

A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

By Glynis Ridley

Crown Publishing Group, Random House 291 pgs

978-0-307-46353-1

Rating: 4 - Read This Book!

Jeanne Baret was an 18th century woman, lover, wife, mother, herb woman, botanist, sailor, adventurer, administrator and sometime cross-dresser. Think about that for a minute. Baret was born a French peasant in 1740, a woman who typically would never travel more…

By Gerald Duff

moon city press, 315 pgs

978-0-913785-34-8

Rating: 4

Gerald Duff has mad skills. Blue Sabine is lyrical, it reads like poetry but in a good way. This is the story of the Holt family as they relocate from Louisiana to Texas after the Civil War and unto the present day, told by the voices of its women, who have always been the strength of Texas. Everybody knows that, right?

Don't come to Blue…

a tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Bee Keepers, Wine Makers, and Brewers Who Built New York

By Robin Shulman

Crown Publishers (Random House), 335 pgs

978-0-307-71905-8

Rating: 4

"Go on bite the big apple..." Richards and Jagger warned us. I always took…

By Samantha Sotto

Broadway Paperbacks (Random House), 296 pgs

978-0-307-71988-1

Rating: 2.5

Shelley and Max meet on a tour of very personal and specific alternative European history. Shelley is a recent American transplant to London, trying to escape the death of her father and her mother's consuming grief, and Max is a tour guide from AD 79. Time travel and immortality are trendy in popular culture and this is yet another addition to the cannon, although…

New book uses science, history to show gods to be a product of human invention

Dr. Reginald J. Exton, a NASA scientist for five decades, shares clearly and succinctly the evidence that points to the human origin of religions in Make the…

     Lily’s Daughter is a well written, deeply engaging memoir of, as she was known then, Zsuzsa Osvath’s childhood in Hungary. The period is 1940 to 1957, a period overshadowed by two European disasters, and one failed revolution. The first disaster was WWII and the second Stalin. The…

I am just beginning to learn how to market my first novel, A Founder for All. I am pretty excited about the novel and have already begun selling copies. I'm not breaking any sales records, but it is great knowing people are beginning to read my book. Thanks to those who have already written reviews of it. I hope others who read my book will also post reviews.



Yes, I did say my "first" novel. I am already into writing my draft…

Be sure to read Dan LaFave's new exciting book "The Supernatural, Texas, And The Old West which is available in paperback and Kindle version at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/The-Supernatural-Texas-And-West/dp/1482035332

This interesting and intriguing book explores the real paranormal/supernatural world and how it possibly mixes with historical…

It depends on the novel, of course.  But if it’s a good, carefully crafted novel, the answer is: All of it.

Which is not to say, everything written actually happened.  It’s commonly understood that “a novel” means fiction. 

But the way I see it, even the fiction has to be true to the period in which the story takes place.  That means metaphors and similes appropriate to the time.  Dialog that reflects the period (can you imagine an 1800s teenager…

Peace in Gaza. Shocking. Stunning and Beautiful. This is the most powerful story of our time. Prepare to be touched to your core.

Three souls wander the very place where twenty years earlier the world was ending. An alternate history twenty-years from today. Peace dwells in Gaza City. In this history three participants of the Gaza…

Please welcome my special guest, Jack L. Brody, author of the latest suspense thriller, The Moroni Deception. I had the opportunity to read it and you can find my review in Blogcritics. In this interview, Brody talks about the history behind the book and how difficult it was to dwell in Mormon controversy, among…

Jack L. Brody’s The Moroni Deception is an exciting page-turner in the tradition of The DaVinci Code, one that will be relished by fans of suspense thrillers.

The presidential election is just around the corner and it looks as though charismatic Republican candidate and Utah senator Brockston Ratchford is going to win. The fact that his wife has been…

I bet she never heard that before. In this case, it is true. Best-selling Amish author Sarah Price has joined the Authors of One with...Story Eleven: The Power of Faith (http://goo.gl/zPxzm)

You can read the full post on my official blog - http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2012/08/sarah-price-is-priceless.html

About Every Good-Bye Ain’t Gone:

With the passionate lyricism of a Maya Angelou and the sharply edged wit of a young Lillian Hellman, award-winning journalist Itabari Njeri creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of the extraordinary family in which she grew up., Njeri’s memoir is improbable, complex, grandly…