A proud woman who was a child star is the last to understand the wounds her industry inflicted on her in the complex, haunting novel "The Case for Brandi Belden". A former child star grapples with the fallout from her past in William... Read More

"Immortality Bytes" is a humorous dystopian novel about the eternal tug-of-war between man and machine, wealth and poverty, and logic and emotion. Undeserving people fight for control of an immortality machine in Daniel Lawrence... Read More

Marked by good humor, "Dancing with the Dragon" is a keen businessman’s memoir about daunting, emotionally draining challenges within the world of high-power international business and politics. Patrick Jenevein recalls lessons that he... Read More

Alternative Schools in British Columbia, 1960–1975 is a comprehensive and cogent history of a movement that prompted progressive changes in Canadian education. Harley Rothstein reviews the birth, decline, and legacy of the alternative... Read More

Young lovers run up against the limits of their abilities to control their own destinies in Johannes Anyuru’s melancholy novel "Ixelles". Ruth should know a lie when she hears one: she lies for a living, helping brands and politicians... Read More

Tragedy strikes a dysfunctional Turkish German family in Fatma Aydemir’s searing novel "Djinns". Hüseyin worked hard his entire life so he could bring his family back to his homeland in style. He dies only a week after accomplishing... Read More

A troubled prosecutor reconsiders her definition of justice in Simone Buchholz’s thriller "The Kitchen". During a sweltering Hamburg summer, garbage bags filled with body parts keep turning up in the bay. Riley, the public prosecutor,... Read More

Evan Rail follows the trail of a clever and creative fraudster in "The Absinthe Forger", an engrossing true crime story. The word “absinthe” alone is enough to conjure images of tortured artists, fin de siècle decadence, and... Read More