"Mission to the Stars" begins with a bang that is more like a whimper. In 2055, the spaceship StarDancer, piloted by the Bindls, a husband and wife team, is about to achieve FTL—faster-than-light speed—for the first time in the... Read More

The author, a World War II veteran who served as a member of the military police, is quite honest when he describes his day-to-day experiences as “mundane.” Milton Cook’s memoir reports on just about every little detail and duty,... Read More

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary. —Stephen Hawking “I don’t see a water glass as half empty or half full. I see the potential of what the water can do to make life better” Stephen Knapp writes in... Read More

"The Lace Reader" accomplishes the rare feat of combining an interesting premise with a gripping storyline that keeps readers guessing until the end. Set against the background of Salem’s Puritan and lace-making past the novel also... Read More

“This is a book not so much on morality as the power of morality” writes Tieman H. Dippel Jr. author of "Instilling Values in Transcending Generations". This is the third book in his Language of Conscience Series which includes The... Read More

In an early poem David Huerta describes his own work and the context in which he writes: “Under a leaden sky words and syllables / were dancing in my throat.” Huerta one of Mexico’s leading poets (and the son of another famous... Read More

If a prospective reader had “seen the movie”— no, there isn’t one—or even heard someone talk about this book on TV, they might be likely to have a close look at it in a bookstore. But as things are, a book about a figure in... Read More

What starts out as a grisly case of serial killing quickly turns personal for Li Yan, head of the Beijing serious crime squad. As the bodies pile up, clues prove nearly impossible to collect, and the clues that do surface seem... Read More