In The Serpent and the Eagle: Book One in the Tenochtitlan Trilogy, author Edward Rickford takes us back in time 400 years. It is 1519, and Captain Hernandez Cortes has just landed on the Yucatan Peninsula at the start of what will be his conquest...

Light of the North Star: The Descent is a short work of mythological fiction penned by author Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya, which forms the first book of a new series. Written in the form of an epic poem, this modern-day retelling takes its influences from both western...

At the heart of Roberta George’s intriguing novel, The Day’s Heat, are layers of thought-provoking events--events that will make us re-evaluate the concept of integration and where it fits into the socio-political spectrum of our lives, most notably among people of color. It challenges interracial...

Adaptively Radiant is a work of cultural and mysterious fiction penned by author Joseph E Henning. Whilst on a summer vacation in Japan, our central character Justin meets his cousin Kaito and begins to bond with distant relations. They share a great-grandfather, and soon the...

I have just finished reading The Opium Lord’s Daughter by Robert Wang, which tells the story of the family of Lord Lee Shao Lin, his daughter Su-Mei and his number one son Lee da Ping during the time of the Opium Wars between Britain and...

The fascinating book Uber You Tales of God, Love, Money and Sex certainly lives up to its title. Written by a part-time Uber driver, it chronicles conversations or events, which the author freely admits have been dramatized to some extent, that have taken place during...

In When the Haboob Sings by Nejoud Al-Yagout, Dunya Khair had always noticed the cultural injustices around her but never dared to question them. When her conscience can take it no longer, she dares to speak out for the rights of women and others in...

Abraham's Other Children: The Arabs by Heidi Tawfik is a historical novel divided into three sections, namely 1800 BC-300 AD Origins, 300 AD-450 AD The Age of Ignorance and Beyond, and 450 AD- 632 AD Culmination. It encompasses over twenty-five centuries of history that is...

The adventure begins with Harriet escaping the clutches of the sadistic, savage Indians that had killed her family, as well as the other seven ladies that were taken with her. She escapes, runs for her life and comes to a cliff with a river at...

The Dung Beetles of Liberia by Daniel V Meier is the story of a young college undergraduate at Cornell who drops out of school to take a job flying planes in Liberia. He leaves behind his astonished family and his almost-fiancée in a bid to...