The international thriller gets a refreshing face-lift in this engaging page-turner that starts off fast and just accelerates. From the opening pages, "Strong Emergence" grabs attention and keeps it to the end. Nelson Mangione has... Read More

Philosophy guides McRobert’s interpretation of her and her family’s mental and physical conditions in this interesting, worthwhile memoir. Laurie McRobert’s "Surviving Life: A Memoir" is a curious read, chronicling three... Read More

Accessible, helpful definitions and explanations make these scientific answers to health concerns easy to digest. Living a Century or More: A Scientifically Fact-Based Journey to Longevity, by William Cortvriendt, explores a... Read More

Spot-on details shed light on a seldom discussed episode in American foreign policy. If high school history teachers assigned stories like Patrick Lee’s "Kickers", students would learn a lot more about the conflicts that have shaped... Read More

This beautifully described coming-of-age story serves as a rich and fascinating guide through Europe’s cultural landscape. Heavily influenced by the European arts scene, "Solace of Stone" is a coming-of-age story accompanied by the... Read More

Expat recalls his life and times caught between many worlds. In "Expatriate Adventures", Fred Richardson chronicles his life as a child in China from 1926 to 1940, and then as an adult working as an insurance executive in Cuba,... Read More

Unique characters and high drama combine in this well-written, action-packed story of counterterrorism and espionage. In Lydia Crichton’s "Grains of Truth", set in present day, post-9/11 America and Egypt, Julia Grant, a middle-aged... Read More

As wonderful and elegant a saga as Chronicles of Iona: Exile was, Paula de Fougerolle’s sequel is even better. The first volume in the series took its twin protagonists from boyhood to early manhood; the second brings them to their... Read More