In Zeruya Shalev’s searing contemporary novel "Pain", an Israeli woman who survived a terror attack is forced to address the wounds that will not heal. Ten years ago, Iris survived a bus bombing. Scraped off of molten pavement, she... Read More

An exciting new voice in crime fiction emerges with "Zen and the Art of Murder", the first novel in Oliver Bottini’s Black Forest Investigation series. The book opens with a badly beaten monk wandering the snow-covered German... Read More

Sarah Cole’s fascinating literary investigation "Inventing Tomorrow" shows how H. G. Wells’s work is relevant and meaningful today. Beginning by juxtaposing Virginia Woolf’s heady novels with H. G. Wells’s brash journalistic... Read More

Born in 1859 into wealth and political power—his father was a Supreme Court justice; he served in Congress—George Shiras III’s long life spanned the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the New Deal. James H. McCommons’s engaging... Read More

Deborah Goodrich Royce’s gripping and relatable literary suspense novel "Finding Mrs. Ford" unravels the decades-old secret behind an otherwise perfect life. In 1979, Susan, who feels hopelessly square, meets and is drawn to Annie, a... Read More

"A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga" is a memoir that’s broad in scope yet sharp in its depiction of apartheid South Africa. Joan Bismillah’s sophisticated memoir "A Chameleon from the Land of the Quagga" covers a strenuous time... Read More

Brian Hart Hoffman’s third volume of recipes from "Bake from Scratch" magazine continues the well-designed, inspirational format of the cookbook series with another 600+ recipes that dig into the details of baking everything from the... Read More

Holly Ringland’s piquant debut, "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart", is alternately airy and precise. It occupies a space somewhere between a fairy tale and a modern tragedy. Alice is born by the seaside. She drinks salt air and spends... Read More