Take one ten-year-old budding detective with an inquiring mind and place her in a small town with secrets to spare and you have a mystery story appropriate for elementary— and middle-school—aged children. A year after her mother... Read More

What began as a lighthearted lunchtime counterpoint, for a friend who was using John Gray’s Mars/Venus ideas to guide a relationship, became a gentle corrective to those generalizations that espouse how men are, what women want, and... Read More

Ronald Reagan’s presidential politics and policies continue to exert a strong and, according to the author, negative impact on the economy. Williams, a retired professor of public affairs at the University of Washington and the author... Read More

The author spent twenty-five years, from 1978 to 1993, in the state and national political arena, earning a reputation for skilled crisis management and the vigorous pursuit of justice. This memoir describes the positions he... Read More

“The task of psychoanalysis is not so much to undo forgetting, but to put poetry back into the mind,” writes the author, a novelist, biographer of Sylvia Plath, professor of English at the University of London, and humane reader of... Read More

After a particularly nasty tumble, a business card she’d been saving with the name and phone number of a nun who taught Russian Orthodox religious icon-writing fell from the author’s pocket. Neville decided to call. “I started to... Read More

Was Empress Dowager Cixi, the last reigning Empress of China, a cold-blooded murderer who would do anything to gain a little more power? Or was she a resolute victim of the turmoil that swept China at the beginning of the twentieth... Read More

Don’t be afraid to fail: it’s almost a mantra in business autobiographies. To achieve greatness, one must take risks that sometimes won’t pan out. Too often, though, those same books don’t provide a peek into the mechanics of... Read More