A Fort Made of Books

The Eye of the Forest by P. B. Kerr Recommended Ages: 12+ Book Five of "Children of the Lamp" continues the series' ABC-or...

Ring of Fire by P. D. Baccalario Recommended Ages: 12+ Translated from the Italian by Leah D. Janeczko, this book is the first of four i...

Back here , I shared a recipe my Mom sent me for a dip that goes well with Townhouse crackers. Over Thanksgiving weekend, I sneaked a peak a...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë Recommended Ages: 13+ Published in 1848, the year before her death at age 29, this was the se...

One day not too many weeks ago, I treated myself to a meal at Mike Duffy's Pub and Grill and a movie at the AMC theater in Clayton, Miss...

I've been reading a lot of Victorian novels in the last few years. Slowly it is has dawned on me that the subject matter of most Victori...

The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung Recommended Ages: 12+ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle encouraged his brother-in-law Ernest William Hornung...