What if Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw came from a wealthy family and became a stockbroker? That might be overstating it a bit, but chick lit does meet finance in J.R. Shine’s difficult-to-put-down novel The Stockbroker: Insider... Read More

In "A Life Worth Dreaming About", Nicholas Dettmann sets forth an appealing, if not unfamiliar, scenario. Through some sort of “divine intervention,” a man is allowed to go back in time and “fix” some of the mistakes he has made,... Read More

Accountant Tony Rawlins has never had much luck with women, and the pattern shows no sign of changing anytime soon. It seems that every woman who crosses his path complicates his life in one way or another, and Fatal Females explores... Read More

For Héctor, leaving behind the impoverished confines of Puerto Isadore, Mexico, to create a better life for himself and his family in the United States is an abiding dream. He sees America as “The Great Opportunity” and embarks on a... Read More

When a parent or grandparent dies, there’s often a residual feeling of regret. “Why didn’t I take time to ask more about her life?” or, “I should’ve listened more carefully to Dad’s stories.” Jesse Cozean doesn’t have... Read More

In the realm of popular entertainment, there are subjects, often related to sport, that show up over and over, capturing our interest in nearly every iteration. American baseball is one; another is boxing. From On the Waterfront to Rocky... Read More

This is the second edition of the second book in Maria Liberati’s Basic Art of Italian Cooking series: The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions. This book focuses on cooking for celebrations, and its first... Read More

"She Looks Just Like You", Amie Klempnauer Miller’s memoir detailing the birth and early years of her daughter, Hannah, contains many expected travails from a new mother’s world. Miller writes of a complicated birth, hours of... Read More