The Texas-Mexico border makes for a thrilling, violent setting for this gritty novel of drug cartels, police dedication, and family. If you live in the American Southwest,... Read More

A search for identity through storytelling and an adoption of parental values bring an air of universality to the story of this young narrator. In a mash-up of film noir, fairy... Read More

The constant presence of the past adds intrigue to this part travelogue, part detective novel, set in Italy. Posing as an American buyer of antiquities to help the Italian... Read More

“The whole father-son thing” drifts into focus in memoir of killer’s son. Cloudbreak, California is Kelly Daniels’ memoir of drifting through a series of adventures in... Read More

Here is written a review of a book narrow, but deep, and although described as essays, actually containing a group of creative short stories, each a one-sentence wrap-up of a... Read More

One can know everything about a language and nothing about a culture. So it is with French academic Dr. Alexandre Lautens, who travels to India to study the dialect Telugu in... Read More

Henning Mankell is best known as a crime writer. The Shadow Girls is a novel about a different sort of crime: the treatment of desperate immigrants in the country where they... Read More

This book is about the evolution of a scientist, the science of evolution, and the evolution of science itself. Rudolf A. Raff, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana... Read More

With a tsunami about to overrun their home, the islanders of East Pukapuka stand with hands linked, facing the end that their gods have created for them. But one small girl... Read More

“Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn’t live very long,” observes the narrator of Heading Out to Wonderful, a lyrical... Read More

“When the last transit season occurred the intellectual world was awakening from the slumber of ages, and that wondrous scientific activity which has led to our present... Read More

“The real problem is that we live in a society where the male is both the opponent and, at the same time, the referee.” So observes Safia, a smart and funny young Egyptian... Read More