It’s not every day that a typewriter is the hero of a novel. But for a writer with a good imagination, anything is possible. Author Allie Millington puts hers to work with great skill in Olivetti.

The typewriter belongs to Beatrice Brindle, who has used it to record her feelings after a bout with cancer. But her husband Felix and their four children retain scars from the trauma. One of the boys, Ernest, has withdrawn into himself to the point that he rarely speaks. Felix hides in his career...

Did you know that George Washington considered Daniel Boone a bandit? That during World War II the Japanese occupied part of Alaska? Or that Hawaii lived under martial law for three years? Have you ever heard of the National Screw Thread Commission? All these facts are part of Daniel Immerwahr’s fascinating history of American colonialism.

In How to Hide an Empire, the author recounts the circumstances which led Europeans to conquer not only the land they own today, but many territories beyond...

Today it’s my privilege to feature author B.D. Lawrence. He’s a member of Brave Authors, a collaboration of Christian fiction writers.

B.D. is best known for his crime and detective novels. But recently he and two other Brave Authors have produced Every Captive Freed, a collection of three novellas about human trafficking. His novella Sarah's Story features a girl rescued from the brutality of street life. In an effort at redemption, she reaches out to others caught in the same trap.

Streams of...