What poetic form has proven more resilient and adaptable than the sonnet? The author’s fourth book—and second collection of sonnets—demonstrates that much remains to be done within the familiar confines of fourteen lines of iambic... Read More

Young mothers who feel that American culture is sending them “all the wrong messages about motherhood” will find a dose of camaraderie from this book. The author aims, humorously, to dispel tired suburban-mom myths, combining one... Read More

Hundreds of books seem to be published each year on the topic of parenting. Or rather, on many subtopics, ranging from normal and dysfunctional development, the different stages of childhood and teenage years, books about physical,... Read More

Grisly murders are nothing new to the back streets of Washington, D.C., but when the severed head of a man with mob connections is found impaled on a parking meter outside Georgetown’s hottest nightspot, the city explodes with macabre... Read More

Comic books, graphic novels, and pulp fiction have experienced a true resurgence in the last few decades. This novel is a quintessential example of the force behind this genre. The Wraith, a masked vigilante who kills with cold-blooded... Read More

In the middle of a late spring night in 1959, three eleven-year-old boys “escape” out a window of their second-story dorm room at Perkins School for the Blind. Then they steal a dinghy from the school’s boathouse on the Charles... Read More

The self-hypnosis diet is not a diet, insist the authors (who are behavioral nutrition experts) from the outset. They call it a way to modify behavior through self-hypnosis so that their readers can eat anything they want and keep their... Read More

Nothing less than an extraordinarily documented tapestry of history, whodunit, who ignored it, and why it matters, this examination of everyday toxins is a revealing and compelling read. The author challenges conventional views of... Read More