“The womb is an animal that longs to generate children. When it remains barren too long after puberty, it is distressed and sorely disturbed, and straying about in the body … it … provokes all manner of diseases.” This statement... Read More

This is a book about mercy, hope, giving thanks, possibility, the search for meaning and the discovery of the simple silver moon. Urrea is off on a wandering quest: at first he’s running away, but then he slows down, looks around,... Read More

The innocent world of music boxes is turned upside down in Larry Karp’s mystery The Music Box Murders. The story is an engaging romp through Dr. Thomas Purdue’s vacation as he buys a rigid notation music box, loses it, and becomes... Read More

Hobbyist-turned-professionals, Shannon and the Torlen sisters fully understand the needs of the beginning crafter. Certainly more craft-than art-oriented, Stained Glass Mosaics presents twenty-five simple projects, ranging from interior... Read More

Excluding our current disagreement with Iraq, this is entirely possible—war with North Korea. Antal, now serving in the Pentagon, was formerly a battalion commander in Korea, the site of this excellent, exciting and frightening novel... Read More

These twelve stories are narrated by the human detritus that forms the Polish American community in Superior, Wisconsin. In this small community, the characters make cameo appearances in each other’s lives. This is a dying community,... Read More

In his third novel, Shalev has composed a story that moves with the awesome and natural authority of a river. A master of his craft, Shalev spins words into swirling eddies, lulls sentences past grassy embankments and hurls entire... Read More

“The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are,” Alexander Graham Bell once said. MacLeod was not “contented” with an ordinary biography of this famous inventor for ages eight... Read More