On September 11 2001 the Twin Towers in New York City were destroyed by two planes hijacked by terrorists. This atrocity perpetuated an iconoclasm that completely changed the sixty-year isolationist and untouchable feeling of the... Read More

*The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. —*Joseph Stalin One million people perished during the nine hundred day Siege of Leningrad but the city didn’t fall. This superb literary novel takes pains... Read More

Forget it Jake — it’s Chinatown. —Robert Towne Chinatown screenplay 1973 Not far into Eric Wilder’s New Orleans crime and voodoo novel "Big Easy" the underlying structure begins to strongly suggest that of a screenplay. Utilizing... Read More

Respected surgeon Dr. Nate Bowen and his young family enjoy a sweet uncomplicated existence until while on vacation they innocently run across a ruthless band of terrorists double agents and madmen on a mission to wipe out large numbers... Read More

Kitchen Craft. A handful of high-quality, petite non-fiction books seek to deliver content in short, pithy, declarative statements believing the technique lends authoritative credibility; the best example being Strunk and Whites The... Read More

What is a rational, idealistic, but skeptical reader to do? With an impressive grasp of science, history, and philosophy, psychologist Edmund J. Bourne in Global Shift: How a New Worldview is Transforming Humanity presents strong... Read More

Vermeer’s Milkmaid is the work of a poet. With a myriad of quirky characters and imagery that captivates the far reaches of the imagination, Manuel Rivas crafts miniature worlds that manage to be as peculiar as they are spectacularly... Read More

With the increasing popularity of TV shows like Desperate Housewives, the wide range of sexual sites available on the Internet, and the revelation that video games like Grand Theft Auto include not only extreme violence but sexual... Read More