Years ago, Archibald Morgan made a deal with the devil: he helped Hermann Goering hide his memoirs and twenty-five million dollars in gold. Today that deal has come back to haunt both him and Flora, the Romany woman who helped him do it... Read More

Too old to be considered children, too young to have a strong handle on adulthood, the characters that populate Stalking Bret Easton Ellis are self-destructive, depressed, depressing, self-indulgent, and mostly blind to their own damage.... Read More

For forty years Jay Hoyland tried to forget those days in Vietnam that changed him so profoundly. But when an old soldier asked for his help with a bureaucratic problem, something made him unearth his diaries and letters and read the... Read More

“Prescription drug use has become the third-largest killer of Americans behind heart disease and cancer,” author Gwen Olsen writes. “More than 180,000 people die annually from the effects of legal drugs.” This sobering fact is at... Read More

“Spare a pint and gain a friend, perhaps forever.” In other words, giving a suitable quantity of blood freely and hospitably to an in-need vampire might help a reader who is truly hoping to take a walk on the wild side. Esoteric... Read More

Almost any modern work on archaeology, geology, science, medicine or even Egyptian or Chinese history will present some intriguing fact (be it the germ theory of disease, the operation of volcanoes, the interpretation of hieroglyphs or... Read More

“The secret of enduring is not to harden oneself against loss but to soften oneself in acceptance.” Enduring, the latest novel by Donald Harington, depicts 121 years of American history through the life of a very old woman. Panoramic... Read More

Eleven-year-old Kofi was in trouble. Again. Although he loved his parents “like crazy,” they were way too crazy about school. Didn’t they realize that Kofi was an up-and-coming football (soccer) champion, and that after he finished... Read More