Jack Shaw’s tale of the renewal of a California community is compelling for two reasons. First, it demonstrates how sound business principles can be applied to community development. Second, it is an exceptional example of how a... Read More

Management books run the gamut from parables, popularized by Ken Blanchard’s The One Minute Manager, to pontifications by business consultants. T. J. Everett’s book is neither of these; instead, the author uses a fanciful, creative... Read More

A grisly explosion on the outskirts of a city, resulting in human appendages sprayed for hundreds of meters, causes the narrator to remember his childhood friend, M, who disappeared years before. In interconnected vignettes, the book... Read More

Nature’s Compass: The Mystery of Animal Navigation begins, ironically, with a haunting scene from the human world: a September 1621 shipwreck. Ferdinando deVerar and the crew of the Portuguese ship San Antonio made several navigational... Read More

“Americans are being duped” is one of the central messages of We the People: Servants of Deception; Reconsidering Social Reality, a sociology title by Christopher M. Dawson, a retired insurance executive who previously taught at two... Read More

Aaron Hart, patriarch of the prominent Hart family, settled in Quebec in 1760, likely the first Jew to live there. He arrived with the British army as a merchant; nearly two centuries later, in 1938, his great great grandson, Cecil Hart,... Read More

There’s an annual cruise of friends aboard the yacht of famous author Halston Levy, whose series of “police precinct orgy novellas” have made a fortune. He has invited a coterie of published and aspiring writers to join him to sail... Read More

Blending aspects of science fiction, fantasy, and romance, debut author Emily White’s "Elemental" is an incredibly intriguing, if occasionally stunted, start to a series. The novel’s strength mainly comes from its richly creative... Read More