Book Cover A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms  reminded me why I first fell in love with Westeros. George R.R. Martin strips away the sweeping politics and dragons of Game of Thrones  to give us something purer—an old-fashioned, deeply human adventure about honor, friendship, and the quiet weight of doing what’s right in a crooked world. Ser Duncan the Tall and young Egg make an unlikely but irresistible pair: one earnest and towering, the other small and sharp as a dagger, both

Cover At first, I wasn’t sure what to make of its odd, dreamlike tone or where it was going, but by the end, I found it strangely moving. Beneath the surreal imagery and mythic strangeness lies a tender story about loneliness, loyalty, and the quiet, saving power of friendship. Gaiman captures the disorienting wonder of childhood as remembered by an adult—how the small world of a child can brush up against the infinite, leaving a mark that never quite fades. I almost set it a

If you need a feel-good read, this is it. From beginning to end, you’ll learn about one man’s muddled middle-aged journey from a hum-drum, but simple, life, to finding his voice, his place, and a real family. Cheers. Ray Niblock

Having just earned my parachutist badge from the U.S. Army Infantry Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, I was primed to finish my last year at New Mexico Military Institute as Regimental Commander of the Corps of Cadets, Class of 1985–86. Some say I might have peaked that year. I don’t disagree, though I’ve lived a productive, meaningful life since. At 59 and some change, I posted that old photo of me in recognition of the No Kings Day demonstrations happening across th

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Iceland It’s a strange and humbling thing to feel torn between duty and desire—not in life only, but in art. My readers know me as the...

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