The depraved nature of the two-and-a-half-year siege of a cultured European metropolis further confirms the Nazis’ unmatched penchant for evil. One million citizens died of starvation, bitter cold, relentless shelling. During the war,... Read More

Heart disease is a national crisis, and the most common treatments don’t lower the risk of death in most cases. Rather than despair, Thomas Cowan meets these devastating realities with the firm belief that there must be another... Read More

For a book about nuclear waste cleanup, paradox and irony figure prominently—"Atomic Geography" is an intelligent, probing, and strangely poetic read. Environmental engineer Melvin Adams spent more than two decades working at the... Read More

In his new memoir, "Nobody Rich or Famous", poet Richard Shelton doesn’t so much tug on the heartstrings as play an entire set upon them. Rightly subtitled “a family memoir,” the book mixes social history with lyrical vignettes.... Read More

"The Magical Rooster" tells the story of Tang Yun, who must travel a long way to the capital city to take the Imperial Exam. Distressed by the idea of her son traveling thousands of miles, his mother embroiders a rooster on her son’s... Read More

With crystal, complete sentences of fully developed ideas, Catherine Pierce explores wreckage and destruction, and the sense of surprise one feels after surviving another day of modern existence. The author of two previous collections,... Read More

The legend of Ty Sato continues to grow in "The Amorphous Assassin", book two in Greg R. Fishbone’s intergalactic all-star Galaxy Games series, combining all the best elements of sports and science fiction with an out-of-this-world... Read More

"My Mega Monsterpedia" is a clever and amusing look at everyday fears and annoyances and the monsters that cause them. Aimed at children ages six and up, the book gives children a way to name and then manage their fears while at the same... Read More