Grisly murders are nothing new to the back streets of Washington, D.C., but when the severed head of a man with mob connections is found impaled on a parking meter outside Georgetown’s hottest nightspot, the city explodes with macabre... Read More

“Oy pioneer! Not everyone can be a feminist professorial pioneer involved with science fiction,” proclaims the protagonist, Dr. Sondra Lear, in this otherworldly satire. Whether on a Fulbright scholarship in Europe or seemingly the... Read More

A mere five years after the end of World War II, the United Sates stood on the verge of another world war. This new war was fraught with the possible use of the atom bomb not only by the Americans but possibly by the Russians had they... Read More

In this vibrant literary collection of short essays and poems, sacred hushes fill in pregnant days, women anguish at night, parents travel through the dissonance that occurs when the raw invasion of life head-butts doting smiles, the... Read More

The author entices readers into her cookbook with New England’s bold flavors and honest food. You can almost smell the mincemeat pie, Indian pudding, and gingerbread, and taste the roasted venison and corn chowder. Hopley pays homage... Read More

Did they make it? That’s the question everyone asks when first learning of the Great Escape from the maximum-security federal prison of Alcatraz on June 11, 1962. Four men spent months planning and implementing the elaborate... Read More

Save those pennies and hike a few stairs, take the metro instead of a taxi, and live like a local in an apartment instead of a three-star hotel. That’s the advice Lain, author of London for Families and London for Lovers dishes up in... Read More