Fast-paced thriller with unique cultural voice pairs personal stakes with international tension. Ben Sheldon’s novel "Rendezvous in Baghdad" is a slim volume that tells the story of Sami Yusuf, who is on a quest to restore honor to his... Read More

Retired vascular surgeon David B. Welsh has stepped far from the operating room with his new novel, "The Shakarchi File". In a topical story involving the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and a group of Middle Eastern terrorists... Read More

"A Good Man" is the story of a young couple in love. What makes the romance unusual is the exceptionally slow progression of their intimate encounters, which play out over fourteen years against a backdrop of blossoming careers. Cassie... Read More

“I was in Ambercromby’s army at Ticonderoga,” quips Thomas Dordrecht, hero of Jonathan Carriel’s historical mystery. “I can stomach a corpse.” That is fortunate for the young apprentice because corpses abound in 1762 New... Read More

Tree nymphs and a banshee are joined by anthropomorphic lizards, flowers, and monkeys in David Frankel’s unusual book, Dragons & Dreams and Other Stories. Dragons & Dreams and Other Stories is a compilation of three individual... Read More

With Kung Fu and magic, a young Chinese man finds his destiny and saves China from an evil despot in this debut mythological fantasy book by Lambert Cheung. A group of warriors called the Endeavor of Light, who worship the deity known as... Read More

Among the picturesque national parks of the American Southwest, an ancient evil force is wreaking havoc. Slaughtered ravens and a possessed bear are only the beginning of this clever adventure by William Hill. After a spiritual moment of... Read More

Predators lurking in the fields and back alleys of childhood, along with the injustices of maturing in an imperfect world, may not rank high on most readers’ preferred entertainment list. But the social contribution of works such as... Read More