Accessible layout and focus on hearty homestyle dishes help you spice up your repertoire of Southwestern cuisine. Sonoran, New Mexican, Tex-Mex: Southwestern cuisine includes many variations, conjuring fiery, rustic comfort foods. Drawn... Read More

Family dysfunction meets the beauty of a Greek island in a story about family, control, and the damage done. Judy Marks’s new book, "The Cat and the Lizard", is a complex story about a family, a collection of assorted friends, and a... Read More

Gorgeous descriptions and reflective exposition moderate the dramatic pace of this exciting international story of one family’s secretive past. Scott Driscoll’s debut, "Better You Go Home", evokes the cautious world of mid-1990s... Read More

User-friendly book gives families realistic ways to shop and eat healthier. Dietitian Julie Feldman shares relatively pain-free ways to fundamentally change a family’s diet through simple shopping choices in "Grocery Makeover", her... Read More

“You’ll be rotten by the sixth grade,” Marist Brother Demian tells third-grader Jason Kelly when the child balks at participating in a sexual encounter with his teacher. For Jason, “from that moment onward, he would hear, even in... Read More

Istvan Hornyak’s Death and Transfiguration: A Tragic Drama in Five Acts is an operatic, intriguing, somewhat misguided, and turgid retelling of the tale of Faust. According to legend, Dr. Henry Faust is a sagacious, peerless scholar... Read More

In recent years, fast food has been blamed for the unhealthy diets of Americans. Lisa Tillinger Johansen adopts a different perspective in her provocative book: She believes that the 50 percent of Americans who eat fast food are not... Read More

In her memoir "No Time to Cry", Vera Leinvebers relates the harrowing tale of her childhood during World War II and its aftermath. Her tale is difficult and agonizingly sad, but beautifully told in prose that borders on the poetic.... Read More