In "Red, White, and Dead Again", New Mexican native and former private eye Jeffrey A. Friedberg delivers a compelling sequel to Red, White, and Dead, his first thriller featuring Jack Vance, a skilled detective and fighter. Forced into... Read More

“There is hardly anything so elusive,” writes the celebrated Irish poet Eavan Boland, “as the way in which a poetic inheritance is sifted and re-arranged from one generation to the next.” This collection of essays tracks and... Read More

Harvard psychologist Myra White has written an exceptionally engaging book that tells the stories of sixty people who became “superstars” and serves as a guide for successfully launching or changing a career. Building off the “road... Read More

In Laughing and Crying About Anesthesia: A Memoir of Risk and Safety, Dr. Gerald Zeitlin, an anesthesiologist for over fifty years, writes a wryly amusing history about this branch of modern medicine. Zeitlin began his studies in England... Read More

It seems that sugar and artificial sweeteners are currently considered by some nutritionists and other food experts to be part of an unholy trinity, along with fat and salt. The rising obesity problem, which is sending diabetes rates... Read More

It isn’t that Arthur Plotnik has a problem with praise–he thinks that’s just fine. Rather, it is the manner in which praise is expressed that rankles this writer. He is simply tired of hearing everything that is any good preceded... Read More

People looking for basic information about how to get out of debt and start saving will find that Building Wealth and Eliminating Debt has something for the whole family. Especially noteworthy is the chapter on youth consumer debt.... Read More

Author Andre Bruneau has certainly lived an interesting life: he was a high-powered commercial real estate developer, a singer and songwriter, race horse owner, and world traveler. Unfortunately, his uneven and unfocused autobiography... Read More