Joaquin Bridger isn’t much to look at. In fact, most townspeople try to avoid looking at the bedraggled homeless man standing on the street corner in a catatonic stupor. Few... Read More

The elegant cover of "Big City Gems" beguiles with a vintage photograph of fashionable women strolling in a metropolis—an image perfectly suited to Marvin Goldman’s second... Read More

Author Jane M. Hogg writes with a straightforward and precise style perfect for nonfiction. "Beware the Mandarins" goes beyond the standard memoir, detailing a period of... Read More

Axel Hooley’s life has been far from simple. Of unknown parentage, he is found as a baby by an Amish couple who raise the mysterious child until he turns sixteen, when they... Read More

Ernie Hasler’s thriller, "Conspiracy of Wolves", tackles corruption at its deepest level. The protagonist, Douglas Hamilton, grew up in a Scottish coal-mining family. During a... Read More

Those whose downtown Los Angeles touchstone is Frank Gehry’s aluminum-clad, tornado-like Disney Concert Hall may have trouble conjuring what the area was like thirty years... Read More

Remember your friend from high school who cleared his throat loudly every ten seconds? You may have thought he was doing it on purpose; maybe it seemed like he was looking for... Read More

As conspiracy-theory adventures go, Hotse Langeraar’s "Federal" is pretty good. Subtitled A Stephen Vinson Financial Thriller on the cover and A Mystery Novel on the title... Read More

Retired vascular surgeon David B. Welsh has stepped far from the operating room with his new novel, "The Shakarchi File". In a topical story involving the Department of Homeland... Read More

Lowell T. Christensen is not a powerful motivation guru like Anthony Robbins or a best-selling author with a “work less, make millions” message like Timothy Ferris or even... Read More

Modern society trusts science. We look to the scientific method for solutions to problems ranging from individualized medical treatment to international space exploration. But... Read More

Science fiction fans have to love a bad guy who likes the thought of being worshipped. Such is the character of Lozerick, who, like his father and grandfather before him, is one... Read More