As E. A. Rappaport’s "The Lesser Evil" opens, Toth, a talented young wizard, seeks to persuade the stodgy Wizard’s Council to recognize his new discovery—a method of animating dead skeletons—as a valid new “school” of magic.... Read More

“Sentimentality is a sin in this business,” Israeli Mossad agent Aaron Plaistot tells himself as he worries over the possibility of a colleague’s death in Donal Greaves’s exciting thriller, "A Wolf on the Fold". Plaistot has... Read More

“What is really best in any book is translatable—any real insight or broad human sentiment,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, nineteenth-century American writer. Readers seeking such insights will find "Modern Azerbaijanian Prose",... Read More

For the past several decades, America has been at war—not a war of bullets and politics, but a war of economics that takes just as deadly a toll on its citizens. Though unlikely soldiers, financial analysts could hold the key to... Read More

“Dumb cowards live longer than smart heroes,” quips reluctant spy Hal Schroeder as his early Cold War mission to Romania starts to go sour. The main character and first-person narrator of John Knoerle’s American Spy Trilogy is,... Read More

On the bookstore shelves today, there are many historical thrillers and science-fiction thrillers, with too many subcategories to mention. Chris Monaghan’s "The Collection" marries the historical and scientific into one eventful,... Read More

This second volume in Giancarlo Gabbrielli’s series about an Italian family, the Lanzis, takes place just after the end of World War II, as those who had fled to the countryside seeking shelter from the violence return home to rebuild... Read More

Terry Dillon, author of the well-received nonfiction account Light Me a Candle, tries his hand at fiction in his novel The King’s Beacon. Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Aire Valley of Yorkshire, England, Dillon’s story... Read More