Who can deny interest in a title like "Love and the Erotic in Art"? And for those who obey the urge to look inside, this book rewards with plenty of nourishment for the senses and the mind. One of sixteen in the Guide to Imagery series,... Read More
A diabolical genius and his band of terrorist thugs have taken over the G8 Summit in Colorado, threatening to kill world leaders one-by-one if their demands are not met. The complex is wired with explosives, an attempted rescue by US... Read More
By turns strange, moving, shocking, and illuminating, Paraíso Portátil offers an unflinching look at life for immigrants and their struggle to find better lives in America. In this bilingual collection of short stories and poems, the... Read More
While sailing in the Bahamas on what was to be his last drug run, Charley chains himself to the mast of his sinking ship and leaves behind an incomplete logbook, mysterious DNA embedded in a brick of cocaine, and pre-addressed envelopes... Read More
Ever since the tsunami, things have been getting stranger and stranger for reporter Shogo Kosaka. From the moment he meets teenage psychic Shinji Inamura in the storm and begins investigating a young boy’s death, a mysterious web of... Read More
In "White Masks", Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury takes up the gauntlet laid down by José Saramago in the last great novel of the twentieth century, Blindness. As a character in Saramago’s novel notes, the world has not exactly gone... Read More
Haunting. Disturbing. Very nearly true. "A Jew Must Die", by Jacques Chessex, is a fictionalized account of the horrific murder of Arthur Bloch, a Jewish livestock dealer in the Swiss village of Payerne. When Bloch is coaxed from Market... Read More
In this twist on the traditional doppelganger tale, a downtrodden woman is given the opportunity of a lifetime—a frightening encounter with her other self. Unhappy and struggling, Susanne has never known a world of opportunity,... Read More