Philosophy guides McRobert’s interpretation of her and her family’s mental and physical conditions in this interesting, worthwhile memoir. Laurie McRobert’s "Surviving Life: A Memoir" is a curious read, chronicling three... Read More

Accessible, helpful definitions and explanations make these scientific answers to health concerns easy to digest. Living a Century or More: A Scientifically Fact-Based Journey to Longevity, by William Cortvriendt, explores a... Read More

Spot-on details shed light on a seldom discussed episode in American foreign policy. If high school history teachers assigned stories like Patrick Lee’s "Kickers", students would learn a lot more about the conflicts that have shaped... Read More

This beautifully described coming-of-age story serves as a rich and fascinating guide through Europe’s cultural landscape. Heavily influenced by the European arts scene, "Solace of Stone" is a coming-of-age story accompanied by the... Read More

Expat recalls his life and times caught between many worlds. In "Expatriate Adventures", Fred Richardson chronicles his life as a child in China from 1926 to 1940, and then as an adult working as an insurance executive in Cuba,... Read More

Unique characters and high drama combine in this well-written, action-packed story of counterterrorism and espionage. In Lydia Crichton’s "Grains of Truth", set in present day, post-9/11 America and Egypt, Julia Grant, a middle-aged... Read More

As wonderful and elegant a saga as Chronicles of Iona: Exile was, Paula de Fougerolle’s sequel is even better. The first volume in the series took its twin protagonists from boyhood to early manhood; the second brings them to their... Read More

"Past the Last Island", by Kathleen Flanagan Rollins, is a fascinating return to the beginning of society and a poignant reminder of the power of love. In vivid detail, Rollins depicts a place and time in which modern humans perish, a... Read More