Jake Hines has just been promoted to Chief of Detectives in Rutherford, Minnesota, (a disguised Rochester, home of the Mayo Clinic and IBM). It is not a big city with big city crime, but it’s trying hard. The mystery starts out with... Read More

In the rich autumn of Reynolds Price’s voluminous career, or on page 514 under the June, 1990 entry of his own 42 years of journal keeping now published as Learning a Trade: A Craftsman’s Notebooks, 1955-1997, he notes with... Read More

Allen Tate and Cleanth Brooks were both born in Kentucky near the turn of the century, both attended Nashville’s Vanderbilt University, and both were active participants at a time when reading and teaching poetry at the college level... Read More

Finding Fran traces the lives of two women with apparently similar backgrounds who proceed to follow strikingly different paths. Author Lois W. Banner, a professor of history and gender studies is one of these women while the other is... Read More

The title of this book is enough to probably send it flying off the shelves and into the hidden corners of people’s lives where no one thinks they’re peeking and reading. While many readers and voters acted disgusted with the... Read More

What kept millions of Eastern European Jews from emigrating in the late 1930s, even in 1940 or 1941, while there was still a chance to save their lives? A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother’s Holocaust Letters offers some insights and... Read More

Sanctuary is a fictionalized work carrying a great deal of information on Quantum Consciousness evaluation techniques that identify and remove subtle energy imbalances. The story is told by an unnamed male observer who knows Dr. Max... Read More

Paying tribute to Walter Williams, dean of the world’s first School of Journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times said Williams “found journalism a trade and helped to make it a... Read More