"Bad Blood" is a fun, old-style whodunit to engage amateur sleuths. If Nancy Drew and Sam Spade had spawned a child, it would be Alexis J. (Lexie) Smith, a smart-cookie private eye with attitude whose “discreet inquiries” quickly... Read More

Nearly everyone who’s worked in an office—or any workplace, really—is likely to have encountered a colleague who makes the job more challenging than it needs to be. In their insightful guide to navigating professional... Read More

“Muslims are marrying Muslims and the imams in the mosques are pushing for conciliatory changes in the secular law to accommodate Sharia law” writes Mr. Pat. This controversial statement is just one of a number of extremist... Read More

Carolyn Nowlin’s first full-length novel features her own Hammond family ancestors. She begins with Martin Hammond who leaves home—a place without a name—for the New World in January 1635. Sparse details and reproductions of... Read More

After surviving the Great Depression pharmacist Bryant Cunningham and his wife Pearl purchased several plots of land in western Tennessee that would later become the prominent Green Valley Dairy Farm. Ardell Richardson became a partner... Read More

These saints’ stories are anything but saintly. The tales Winstead translates in Chaste Passions are instead gory, horrific accounts of hell’s fury, religious devotion and endless purity. Modern readers may expect these old religious... Read More