A sharp and intricate thriller, "The Con Company" considers ambition against a backdrop of scheming. Set in contemporary Budapest, Gábor Domokos’s vivid thriller "The Con Company" concerns a heist involving a forged manuscript and a... Read More
Verse by Verse: Volume One is a sprawling, inventive work of spiritual commentary and biblical interpretation. Benjamin McGreevy’s exegetical book Verse by Verse: Volume One analyzes the first eleven chapters of Genesis, one verse at a... Read More
Health issues often reflect problems in people’s thought environments, suggests the holistic health guide "The Disease of Belief", which encourages looking within to find the root causes of illnesses and physical pain. Physician Kevin... Read More
A tale of family discord set in the context of centuries of Serbian upheavals, Gail Sidonie Šobat’s magic-infused feminist novel "Songs From This and That Country" is wrenching yet hopeful. In the fourteenth century, Sudbina, the... Read More
In the vivid historical novel "Dancing on the Brink of the World", a man comes into his own in a place teeming with frontier potential and multicultural influences. In Marianne T. Rafter’s intriguing historical novel "Dancing on the... Read More
A Vestal virgin defends her honor to save her life in Victoria Alvear’s "The Cleansing", a riveting novel set in an ancient Rome. At a time when the “truth no longer matters” and misogyny, violence, and superstition reign,... Read More
A sheltered, orphaned heiress begins to question the secrets in her estate’s basement in Isabelle Schuler’s riveting mystery novel "The House of Barbary". Bern’s citizens marked Beatrice as strange in her childhood. Cut out of her... Read More
A passionate couple from different sides of the Soviet divide avoids discussing their inevitable rifts in Yelena Moskovich’s sultry, wrenching novel-in-verse, "Nadezhda in the Dark". During a “black-milk,” mournful winter, as... Read More