Killers don’t get more cold-blooded than the murderer Lee Beck draws in his grim psychological thriller, "From a Dark Place". Beck explores the psychology of the serial killer, offering a portrait of a psychopath that is at least as... Read More

Hotel kitchen veteran Paul Hanson’s Sear Me Hear Me, Cookin’ and Grillin’ is jam-packed with more than 250 crowd-pleasing recipes that feature vibrant flavors while using fresh, natural ingredients that limit sodium. Hansen, who... Read More

"Trust" is the story of Sophia, a twenty-five-year-old Brazilian widow who tries to alleviate her loneliness in the United Kingdom. She meets two men, a mild-mannered steel industry tycoon and an overbearing, powerful banker. These... Read More

Readers who might expect a doctor’s writing to be dry and stodgy will be pleasantly surprised by Ashraf A. Hilmy’s impassioned and brutally honest personal assessment of America’s health-care challenge. Most of what is written for... Read More

As British scholar Lord Acton declared, “Power tends to corrupt.” Elizabeth Emberton’s debut novel, The Cracked Chessboard, illustrates quite clearly how the thirst for influence sullies ambitious officials from the Mercia Region... Read More

Randi Ward’s memoir "Because I Believed in Me" would make a wonderful, upbeat, and uplifting Lifetime Network-esque movie. This tale of a retired English teacher from Atlanta being “reborn” and having “the greatest experience of... Read More

Robert Joseph Foley’s The Consequences of Playing God: Tales from Lingor High School is a sly, masterful, acrid, and wrenching collection of short stories. Comparisons to the work of, say, Flannery O’Connor and Sherwood Anderson seem... Read More

A comprehensive, entertaining primer that focuses equally on water conservation and on how children learn and can act on their knowledge and interests. Former teacher Kaye provides a multitude of conservation approaches, including a... Read More