John McNamara is a tenacious man. He held his own through fatherhood decades in the workplace and service in the Korean War but the supreme challenge of his life began with the words “‘Your blood work shows the possibility of... Read More

This book, though great fun, varies in substance from stretches of solid science to supermarket tabloid alien-probe conspiracy. Gloriously incorrect, "The Return of Planet-X" (perfect name for a 1970s/1980s midnight horror movie) is... Read More

Two deserted women forge a lifelong bond based on disappointment and subverted ambitions in a maternity ward when faced childbirth without their betraying men. Their daughters the dual protagonists react quite differently to neurotic... Read More

This respected advertising and fashion executive turned author reaches beyond workaday creativity with "Lucky 7" a subtle literary collection of small-frame classy tributes to women on pedestals. The lost art of the indirect voice is... Read More

The Emancipation Proclamation, the law that freed the slaves in the United States, was signed in 1863, but the dastardly institution lived on in the South Pacific until the late 1880s, driven by displaced southern slave owners and U.S.... Read More

A key member of the Florida governor’s inner circle undertakes a bevy of self-serving illegal acts launching a chain of events which causes suffering of innocents discord and even death across an ocean and over many years. The trouble... Read More

The most onerous obstacle to achieving a retirement lifestyle above the level of cat food subsistence is the belief that debt is acceptable. Robert Lamoreaux, an experienced estate lawyer and financial planner knows what he’s up... Read More

As a boy, Thomas Brooks unconsciously began to build his skills as a uniter. When an economic situation forced his (adoptive) mother Joan to make moves between neighborhoods on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Brooks journeyed miles on... Read More