A professional young widow who has recently emerged from an abusive arranged marriage finds her life changed by unexpected sympathy for a man reviled for killing a loved one. Esam Bassey is a skilled pediatric surgery resident who... Read More

New Yorkers and Californians who see the American Midwest and Plains states as hopelessly unprogressive refer to the regions as Flyover Country; they dismiss heartlanders based on broad generalizations but rarely acquaint themselves with... Read More

Risa Williams, who holds a master’s in psychology, and Ezra Werb, with a degree in film studies, have come up with a horoscope for anyone who believes in good movies. Surely everyone has a favorite movie or two, and that, claim the... Read More

Tax laws change regularly, which means that taxpayers may not know as much as they think they do. Even some tax preparers fail to keep abreast of year-to-year changes enough to adequately advise their clients. Consequently, taxpayers run... Read More

P is a bus driver in Miami. He’s got a wife, and two kids, and two big-screen TVs, and two cars, and an addiction. Smoke cigarettes, and you might get cancer. Shoot heroin, and you might O.D. Drink, don’t drive. But what’s the... Read More

This book provides fascinating insight into the notorious Chung Moo Doe (a.k.a. Chung Moo Quan Oom Yung Doe etc.) martial arts cult founded by John C. Kim (a.k.a. Chull Kim Jack Park or “Iron” Kim). Although the group was exposed in... Read More

The Dragons of the Storm is the second book of George Robert Minkoffs projected trilogy about the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in the first decade of the seventeenth century. As in the first volume, The Weight of Smoke,... Read More

Ready to play the Saint Saens Piano Concerto #2 with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Dawn Bailiff stepped onstage, bowed with the conductor to the sound of applause, sat at the piano, and began to play. But what was happening? Her hands... Read More