Book Reviews And Comments By Rick O

This is the story of a very stoic group of people living in the Washington Territory of the Pacific Northwest during the mid 1800s. Megan...

This novel by Peter Heller has more of a survival/adventure flavor than other apocalyptic novels. There have been many plague driven post...

Ellen Marie Wiseman’s riveting debut novel allows the reader to peer into the life of a German teenager and her family in World War II to...

One of my favorite writers, John Varley, writes a “been there, done that” book. What I mean is that there are only so many ways you can p...

J.D. Salinger published this reputed American classic in 1951, which was probably the most censored book in high schools and libraries un...

This satirical novel is the story of Huck Finn and his adventures down the Mississippi River on a raft trying to escape his drunken fathe...

On 1/10/1776, Thomas Paine published a 48 page pamphlet titled Common Sense , which was an argument for freedom from British rule. In 18...

Walter Van Tilburg Clark wrote this classic western in 1940 that challenges previous westerns by tearing down the usual cliches. This nov...

Nathaniel Hawthorne gives the reader a lesson in descriptive writing in this 1851 American Gothic novel. The purpose of descriptive writi...

It's conceivable that comments from one of my favorite historical fiction writers, Newt Gingrich, could have derailed Mitt Romney's ...