When Amadi defiantly tells his mother, “I’m an Igbo man of Nigeria…I’ll be a trader. I don’t need to read to do business,” the shakiness of claiming manhood when still a foot shorter than his mother jumps out at the reader... Read More

“In coffeehouses, literary schools and styles were born and discarded, and new directions in painting, music and architecture emerged.” Novelist, sportsman, and anti-Nazi journalist Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979) presents... Read More

The subtitle of Veronica Dunbar’s debut implies that most modern fiction concentrates to her dislike on “abject misery.” In this novella and the three accompanying short stories the stress is on the heartwarming. Despite conflicts... Read More

A systematically designed absurdism rolls over modern Paris in James Earle McCracken’s eminently readable debut novel. At the surreal center is a thirty-year-old American named Michael Whyte who is way out of his element. The first... Read More

The title poem of this collection immerses the reader in the Southern California milieu that the poet knows well. Details include endless miles of highway fast food restaurants cinnamon rolls “strollers and serapes” and crude... Read More

Contradicting current medical theories this book advocates lifelong hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women. Its arguments however fall far short. Co-authors Walters a woman who has been on HRT for more than thirty years and Crandall... Read More

Haemalogist Andrew Ryan of Britain’s National Health Service is a champion for patients who believes in holding the government to its lofty campaign promises of access to the best grade of care. The first fifty pages of this hospital... Read More

You fell in love. You got married. Now what? If you’re a Christian then God might be waiting for what He wants for your marriage—for you to establish His order in your house. In this thoughtful compassionate volume Nelson encourages... Read More