Diane's reviews, blogs and articles have appeared (over the past three decades) in VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), Popular Woodworking, GRIT, The Bookwatch, Children's Bookwatch, and more. She now edits Children's Bookwatch and California Bookwatch for The Midwest Book Review, and her regular column Donovan's Bookshelf in the monthly publication MBR Bookwatch profiles the best in upcoming new releases!
Followers of literary fiction will find Uncle Joe’s Muse a fun, engrossing story of a struggling (yet still-aspiring) rock band filled with misfits who have failed in their roles as husbands and fathers, and are facing yet another failure with their musical careers in Uncle Joe’s Band. Enter twelve-year-old rebel Allison, who shows up on the porch
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The Whisper of a Distant God is recommended for military history readers who may enter the story knowing little about the War of New Mexico, but will depart its pages with a much more thorough grounding in the war’s events. The realistic representations are captured in a blend of letters, diaries, newspaper articles, and both first
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From Timbuktu to Duck and Cover: Improbable Tales from a Career in Foreign Service covers some thirty years working in foreign service and living in over eleven countries, and traverses nations throughout Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and South America. Retired US Ambassador Lewis Lucke’s career was not only “never boring,” but often assumed the
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Historical fiction readers interested in 20th century small-town Kentucky’s struggles with racial strife will find The Sugar Maple Grove a powerful saga of confrontation, uprising, and change. It holds a frightening message for modern times as it outlines the possibility of the kinds of prejudice this nation may be returning to. As such, John E. Espy’s message,
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