It’s 2004 and Lisbon-born Jan Demir, at age thirty, is a very successful businessman content with his jet-setting lifestyle and girlfriend of the moment. Then he travels to Iran to meet a business contact, where he discovers the... Read More

Dog lovers will enjoy this lively book about two seeing eye dogs assigned, successively, to a retired Manhattan professor. Any reader curious about how a blind person partners with their canine companion will also appreciate this... Read More

Four young women find love in the romantic mystique of Paris in this vibrant, wholly unforgettable novel. The year is 1973; the place is Paris. Four young women get lost in misadventures, danger, and fulfillment in a comedic, romantic... Read More

Over the past decade, ’50s and ‘60s pulp fiction novels written for men, known as “men’s adventure stories” or, less graciously, the “armpit slicks,” have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity. Massive collections like The Big... Read More

To embark upon a mythic journey one needs a guide. Martin Shaw, who gave up a lucrative music contract to live in a tent in the wild borderlands of Wales for four years and pursue the study of myth, has an excellent resumé for the job.... Read More

In The Herbal Alchemist’s Handbook, an expert combines the twin arts of alchemy and herbalism to create mystical, magickal (her spelling) “philters, elixirs, oils, incense, and formulas for ritual use.” This straightforwardly... Read More

Good mysteries make the average person who lives a calm, mundane existence think about the unthinkable. These stories keep readers intrigued until the very end, when the horrific events that have occurred are explained by a truth that no... Read More

Romance thievery familial upheaval murder and religious awakening keep the inhabitants of 1830s’ Rochester New York from falling into complacent daily life. Rachel Abner doesn’t intend to fall in love with Michael Dugan a lowly Irish... Read More