Even life in a retirement home can involve intrigue as Janice Harmon discovers when she moves to a beautiful estate near Louisville, Kentucky. Although she is looking forward to a little peace and quiet, she soon finds herself involved... Read More

“People with autism can learn…rules and procedures perfectly, but they get into trouble when the rules have to be adjusted to a context. It is not the rules that they have problems with; it’s those countless exceptions to the... Read More

Aaron Hart, patriarch of the prominent Hart family, settled in Quebec in 1760, likely the first Jew to live there. He arrived with the British army as a merchant; nearly two centuries later, in 1938, his great great grandson, Cecil Hart,... Read More

In the years between 1918 and 1920, influenza swept across the globe, killing at least fifty million people, with more than half a million of them in the United States. What’s particularly striking about the epidemic is the way that it... Read More

The literal translation of the Japanese word banzai is “ten thousand years.” But the Japanese use it like the French use vive or the English “long live.” To think that the Japanese in 1934, amid crumbling relations with America,... Read More

As demand for medicinal herbs continues to grow, transitioning to local cultivation is crucial, believes author Peg Schafer. Not only will growers be able to vouch for the purity of their herbs, but also wild plants will be more... Read More

Wandering ghosts, fiends, shadows of people who disappear when approached … these are the tales Turner has compiled into a chilling collection for anyone interested in ghost stories from the heart of Texas. Coupled with black-and-white... Read More

Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish’s eloquent poem “I Come From There” can evoke emotions ranging from sympathy to rage. Arthur Neslen’s latest book is certain to do the same. A British journalist, Neslen “grew up the child of... Read More