Any backpacker who’s felt superior to the passengers filing off the tour bus in front of the Eiffel Tower, and every vacationer who has fretfully sought to experience the “real” culture of a foreign country from the comfort of a... Read More

“Liberalism” has come to mean a government that supports a wide array of political and social programs. In this book, liberalism is defined according to its classical meaning: a system based on personal freedom and responsibility.... Read More

Writing in an elegant style about dark topics, the author invents a shadowy world, in which a sunny summer in 1950s France isn’t quite as idyllic as it might sound. The narrator of this tale is eighteen-year-old Diedre, an American who... Read More

The shadows dividing good and evil, free and imprisoned blur almost beyond recognition in O’Shea’s dramatic collection of the most intimate thoughts and experiences of eleven women. Ten speak from beyond society, behind the bars on... Read More

The holocaust did not end for Whiteley when Russian troops marched into Bergen-Belsen, saving what was left of her family from the daily nightmare of her childhood in the concentration camp. In Appel is Forever, Whiteley gives readers a... Read More

Today’s “snow birds”—older Northerners who frequent Florida’s sun-drenched shores and lush interiors during the brutal winter months—might never care to wonder how this enigmatic state truly began to attract visitors.... Read More

Will Stacks solve readers? dinner dilemmas and turn them into better cooks? Probably not. Will it banish boredom and bring fun and excitement into their kitchen? Almost certainly. Self-proclaimed non-professional cook Fabricant has put... Read More

River of the Angry Moon illustrates both what perceptions and perspectives of the scientist and the sportsman—rigorous reasoning and factual precision on one side and passionate affection coupled with an acute sense of present and... Read More