Svetislav Basara’s "The Cyclist Conspiracy" is a fascinating novel. Beginning with a first-person narrative by Charles the Hideous, ending with a design for an inverted Tower of Babel, and filled with mind-bending philosophical,... Read More

"Leaving Yesler" encounters seventeen year-old Bobby Vincente in the wake of his older brother’s military death. Faced with the challenge of caring for his aging father, this young man from urban Seattle’s housing projects is forced... Read More

In the 1940s Chicago Union Station handled more than 300 trains and 100,000 passengers a day, writes journalism and nature writing teacher at Northern Michigan University James McCommons. He discusses railroading in America, and, while... Read More

Claire Walker didn’t have problems: it was her husband who pushed her away and sent her to an alcohol recovery center against her will. At least she didn’t believe she had problems. If only Brad would look her in the eyes caress her... Read More

The old adage “don’t judge a book by its cover” has never been truer than with this novel. While the juvenile cover art, pedestrian title, and lackluster back cover may be off-putting, "Devil Born Without Horns" truly is an... Read More

A mythical African artifact, a series of diabolical murders, and a torrid love affair all come together like … well, like a hand in a glove … in this romantic mystery set in Atlanta’s entrepreneurial Black community. A weekend... Read More

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull,” this introductory epigraph of "Speechless" is a quotation from Nineteen Eighty-four. What follows is Barry’s assertion that some of Orwell’s predictions... Read More

This book offers an encouraging affirmation that combating stress is literally a function of “mind over matter.” Contrary to some notions that stress is something external to the body, the author maintains that “stress begins in... Read More