Many of the statistics are well known and have been bantered around as evidence of a variety of problems. Nevertheless they remain shocking: one third of all black men in their twenties are either in jail, on parole, or on probation;... Read More

Today’s “snow birds”—older Northerners who frequent Florida’s sun-drenched shores and lush interiors during the brutal winter months—might never care to wonder how this enigmatic state truly began to attract visitors.... Read More

In 1830, in Lancashire, England, prophet John Wroe obtained from his congregation seven women, purportedly virgins, to provide him comfort and household assistance. Jane Rogers’ fictionalized account of the ensuing events is woven from... Read More

Proving the old adage true that it’s better to know some of the questions than all of the answers, this stimulating book by writer and National Public Radio talk-radio host Schmookler presents a fictional Internet discussion on the... Read More

“Three thousand miles across the ocean, in Paris, negotiators at the conference table dealt the Iroquois a blow more fatal than any they had ever suffered on the battlefield.” So begins the life of a new nation. The American... Read More

The Greek word for drugs is pharmakon which means both remedy and poison. That double meaning for substances that can harm and cure, give pleasure and pain, has haunted man’s history with drugs. A Brief History of Drugs is a shortened... Read More

Billed as musings on the “mystery and wonder of the game” of golf, this tape offers sometimes poignant, sometimes sentimental tales from the Great Game. There are at least eighteen stories, none more than ten minutes long. A... Read More

In the first of what is to be a series of mysteries with young Swedish immigrant Hilda Johansson as heroine, Agatha Award winner Dams’ (The Body in the Transcript) new novel is more reminiscent of Nancy Drew than of most contemporary... Read More