What kept millions of Eastern European Jews from emigrating in the late 1930s, even in 1940 or 1941, while there was still a chance to save their lives? A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother’s Holocaust Letters offers some insights and... Read More

In a successful compilation, even a mini-biographical sketch can have the effect of eliciting energized interest in the subject with a wish to pursue reading. And Birnbaum delivers five such sketches in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The... Read More

When a gruesome corpse is exposed after a semi-truck hits a cement pillar along the freeway system in a suburb of Chicago, the detectives assigned to the case have no idea what dangers they face or how much corruption they will... Read More

Could it be that a mild prank he and a friend pulled years ago is causing all these murders and assassination attempts? That’s the question Matt Kern feels impelled to investigate in this briskly paced thriller. Kern is a freelance... Read More

Sanctuary is a fictionalized work carrying a great deal of information on Quantum Consciousness evaluation techniques that identify and remove subtle energy imbalances. The story is told by an unnamed male observer who knows Dr. Max... Read More

Whatever misgivings one may feel on page one after encountering a spitefully incontinent Doberman, a cheerfully incontinent young Thomas, a vengeful Mum roasting the Sunday joint or a lurking Grandfather with a collection of... Read More

From the hardscrabble Pentecostal Bible-thumping wrong side of the tracks comes Janis Owens to re-tell her acclaimed debut novel My Brother Michael, this time in the voice of one of its main characters, Myra Sims. Myra is the red-haired,... Read More

In his fifth highly acclaimed novel, The Gardens of Light, Amin Maalouf graces his readers with beauty and mysticism. Winner of the 1993 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Rock of Tanios, Maalouf is known for taking a historical figure of... Read More