This debut novel defies genres while delivering humor and oddball characters. In "The Facades", fabulist author Eric Lundgren has created an imaginary urban environment that... Read More

With British humor, this professor cites cutting-edge twin studies to investigate causes of differences. The nature vs. nurture pendulum has swung toward genetic... Read More

Kosher cuisine has a reputation for being too heavy, too salty, too meaty, and having too many unhealthy ingredients. While that may have been true in your bubbe’s... Read More

At present, a group of ravens resides in the famed Tower of London, protectors—so the story goes—of the Royal Crown. Legend also has it that, should these ravens ever depart... Read More

Eclipse was the greatest racing thoroughbred of eighteenth-century England, having never been defeated in any of his races and raising the bar for the horseracing industry. The... Read More

“Essentially we are incapable of accepting that much of life is inexplicable. And so we use myth, art and religion as devices to explain and cope with reality.” Thus does... Read More

In the ancient Roman Empire, the halls of power were twisted places where no one could be trusted, and betrayal and death lurked just around the corner. In "The Philosopher... Read More

"Any Day Now" attests to the fact that some commune-dwelling hippies actually grew up on streets “with no sidewalks” and went to “brand-new” schools. Their “fathers... Read More

Given the well-documented deeds of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and Putin, a casual geo-political history buff might get the mistaken idea... Read More

Wrenching and raw, "The Warsaw Anagrams" by Richard Zimler is an historical suspense novel as unique as it is compelling. The book’s narrator is the ibbur (Hebrew for... Read More

Eoin Colfer makes his crime fiction debut with a bang. Daniel McEvoy, formerly in the Irish army’s peacekeeping corps in Lebanon, possibly still shell-shocked, and definitely... Read More

"Street Knowledge", by artist and author King Adz, is a groundbreaking, encyclopedic insider’s guide to the world’s fantastically diverse urban landscapes and the arts... Read More