John Staughton, Senior Reviewer

A rugged coming-of-age story set against the cultural battlefield of America’s pioneering past, Rivers of the North by Jeffrey W. Tenney offers an unfiltered glimpse at a hard-scrabble era of survival. After the shocking murder of his grandfather, sixteen-year-old Quincy Sutton leaves Illinois with a group of Mormons seeking a safe haven in Minnesota. Drawn in by youthful infatuation and the possibility of reuniting with his long-absent father, Quincy embarks on a harrowing journey of self-discovery on the expanding American frontier, but crooked lawyers, murderous schemes, religious divides, and the savagery of the “civilized” stand in his way. Mixing historical […]

A mind-opening guide for personal evolution through cognitive revolution, The Modern Know-it-All: A Handbook to Achieving an Infallible Worldview by Brandon Wolfe is an original and far-reaching work of self-help, pulling back the curtain on our artificial world, which keeps the average person pliable, apathetic, and consequently powerless. Encouraging readers to discard outmoded ideas about intelligence in exchange for an emotional, philosophical, and intellectual upgrade, the book acts as a manual to deconstruct inherent biases and subjective ideologies. Though the book has a distinct political bent by bluntly detailing how religion, nationalism, and traditionally conservative belief systems must be abandoned […]

A soul-stirring novel about the weight of womanhood in our wicked world, A Blood Witch (The Haunted Women Book 2) by Joseph Stone is a truly sinister and chilling read. In this macabre sequel to A Perfect Night, which follows after the untimely death of her beloved aunt Aurora, Fran relocates to New York City, where she delves into the darkness of her family’s witchy history, and discovers a potential path to freedom from the monster haunting her bloodline, as Daedrian’s centuries-long campaign of emotional torture and possession continues for another generation of young Tarantino women unlucky enough to […]