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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens​ By Jack Weatherford​ [/b] “Let us reward our female offspring” Genghis Khan, the Secret History of the Mongols [/i]​ Dr. Weatherford was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He’s the eldest of seven children and his father was an Army Sergeant so moves were com...

The Dragon Republic R.F. Kuang [/b] Ms. Kuang was born in Guangzhou China on May 29th, 1996, but she grew up in Dallas Texas after her family moved there in 2000. She graduated from Greenhill school in 2013 and attended Georgetown University as part of the debate team. She was in China during a gap...

She Who Hears All Whispers By DaVaun Sanders [/b] It's been a while since I've reviewed anything by Mr. Sanders. In this review series grand tradition of full disclosure, I know Mr. Sanders. We've worked together, being part of the same training class in 2014 where he was dubbed Mr. Radio for havin...

The Dread Wyrm By Miles Cameron [/b] The Dread Wyrm is book III in the Traitor Son Cycle by Miles Cameron. We've already reviewed The Red Knight and The Fell Sword, books I and II in the series. Before I start I want to slap up a spoiler warning, at this point there is no way for me to review the b...

Conan Omnibus I: Birth of the Legend By Kurt Busiek [/b] Odds are pretty good that you don't need me to tell you who the character Conan the Barbarian is. Created in 1932 by Robert Howard, Conan and his imitators have stalked through fantasy for 87 years now. If we're going to be honest Conan and t...

Sidebar VIII What is a Primary History Source? Last Friday we tackled A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States. The book was one of, if not the oldest works that has been reviewed in this series. The questions of what is the value of a work that was written over 160 years and how should you approach ...

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States Slavery in the Years Before The American Civil War By Frederick Law Olmsted [/b] “Oh! No sir. I'd rather be free! Oh, yes, sir, I'd like it better to be free; I would that master.” A Louisiana Slave page 482 [/i] Frederick Law Olmsted was an accomplished man. ...

Captain America Theater of War and Captain America Living Legend [/b] “We all have duties Emilia, sacrifices we have to make for the things we love... But I guess that's how we know we love them.” ~Captain Steve Rogers, Prisoners of Duty [/i] Welcome to our first double feature, readers. So rather ...

Ratification The People Debate the Constitution 1787-1788 By Dr. Pauline Maier [/b] Pauline Alice Maier was born Pauline Rubbelke in St. Paul Minnesota in the year 1938. Her father was a firefighter and her mother was a homemaker, and Pauline was one of five siblings. She attended Radcliffe College...

GI Joe Classic Vol II By Larry Hama [/b] “I've made my peace with the weasel. Kwinn will not harm you while he lives that—I—Promise.” Kwinn page 210. [/i] So when my patrons voted for GI Joe as part of America month (this is going to be an interesting month in my red text…) , I admit I had to ask m...

China's World War II 1937-1945 Forgotten Ally By Rana Mitter Rana Mitter Ph.D. was born Shantashil Rajyeswar Mitter in 1969 inside the UK to Bengali parents. Incidentally, his father was a respected historian of Indian art. He attended King's College in Cambridge and when he was 18 made the at the ...

Elephant Company by Vicki Constantine Croke “The more I saw of men... The more I liked my elephants.” James Williams page 257 [/i] Vicki Constantine Croke has been writing about and following animals for more than two decades now. She has worked on nature documentaries for Disney and the A&E channe...

Shanghai 1937 Stalingrad on the Yangtze by Peter Harmsen [/b] Peter Harmsen attended Aarhus University (the largest and second oldest research university in Denmark) from 1989 to 1993 where he graduated with a Masters of Science in politics and studied Russian. Later, he attended the National Taiwa...

Code Name: Lise The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII Most Highly Decorated Spy By Larry Loftis [/b] “Gentlemen you must take your pick of the counts. I can only die once.” Odette Sansom to Nazi Court, page 173 [/i] Larry Loftis is an American author. He attended the University of Florida whe...

Ninefox Gambit By Yoon Ha Lee [/b] Yoon Ha Lee was born in Houston, Texas on January 1979. His family moved back and forth between the United States and the Republic of Korea while he was growing up, and he attended high school at Seoul Foreign School, an English international school. He graduated ...

Champion of Mars by Guy Haley [/b] Guy Haley was born in 1973 in Halifax, United Kingdom. Before becoming an author, he was the editor for a number of science-fiction and fantasy magazines such as White Dwarf, SFX, and Death Ray. He’s written over twenty novels and short stories; and is a prolific ...

Caine's Law By Matthew Stover [/b] “What if you could take back the worst thing you ever did?” Caine page 24 [/i] Hey folks, our regular editor Dr. Allen couldn’t make it this week so we have special guest editor, please welcome Mr. Davis, science teacher, trained in marine biology and the wranglin...

The Fell Sword By Miles Cameron [/b] It was only in March that I covered The Red Knight, the first novel in The Traitor Son Cycle. So I don't think we need to retread ground on who Miles Cameron is or on the subject of Orbit books. So let me just say that The Fell Sword was published in 2013 and mo...

GI Joe: Classics Vol I By Larry Hama [/b] So imagine you're a Hasbro executive in the early 1980s and Kenner, a rival toy company just handed your company the profit beating of its life with it's Star Wars action figures. I mean the company isn't in any real danger but this is eating into your mark...

Bloody Rose By Nicholas Eames [/b] I reviewed Mr. Eames first work Kings of the Wyld just last year in December, so I'm not going to rehash too much here. Kings of the Wyld was Mr. Eames first novel and he knocked it right out of the park, delivering us a world where adventuring heroes, called merc...

Lord of Light Roger Zelazny [/b] Roger Zelazny was born in 1937 in Cleveland Ohio, he was the only child of Joseph Zelazny and Josephine Sweet. Joseph Zelazny immigrated from Poland and worked as a pattern maker for a typewriter company, Josephine was a homemaker. Mr. Zelazny started reading early ...

Lamplighter By D. M Cornish [/b] Lamplighter is the second novel in the Monster Blood Tattoo series by D.M Cornish. It was originally slated for publication in 2007 but for reasons I was unable to uncover was pushed back to 2008. Once published it was nominated for the 2008 Aurealis Award for Best ...

Heaven Sword & Dragon Sabre Vol I By Louis Cha/Jin Yong and Wing Shing Ma [/b] Louis Cha who used the pen name Jin Yong was born in 1924 in Haining, Zhejiang in the Republic of China. He was born with the name of Zha Liangyong of the Zha clan of Haining and could claim a number of known scholars an...

The Tiger's Daughter​ By K Arsenault Rivera​ [/b] ​ K Arsenault Rivera was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and moved to New York when she was three years old. She grew up in New York and remains there to this day living with her partner. The Tiger's Daughter is her first novel, published by in 2017 b...

Wayward Volume II: Ties that bind By Jim Zub art by Steve Cummings [/b] I discussed volume one way back in 2017 so while there will be a link at the bottom of the review let me cover the basics right here. Jim Zub is a Canadian comic book writer who broke into the industry when he created the comic...