A riveting investigation into the nature of humans to seek, to search, and to understand by discovery. Biographer Monty Joynes has crafted a compelling biography of an amazing family, the Fishers, combining technical content and personal... Read More

An Iranian scientist, whose accomplishments include a presidential award and working for NASA, shares her enticing story. In "The Sky Detective", author Azadeh Tabazadeh tells an enticing story of growing up in, and escaping, Iran during... Read More

Brisk pacing, sarcasm, and the threat of brawls and bullets all contribute to a satisfying whodunit with a slight film-noir feel. Mike Scofield, private detective and security for hire, feels personally insulted when a murder takes place... Read More

A powerful spotlight on the unseemly practices that pervade the American health-care industry, and a doctor’s loss of innocence. In the muckraking style of Upton Sinclair, Dr. Jim Bailey has written a modern-day The Jungle, but it’s... Read More

Through the narrator’s oral history, this novel examines the forces that cause a young sharecropper to take his own life. "Drought", a novel by Ronald Fraser, revolves around the suicide of a young sharecropper living in rural Spain... Read More

Dislocation, family strife, and the desire to escape the familiar are the driving forces in these stories mostly set in an arid landscape. In this prize-winning collection of stories, Sean Bernard explores themes of dislocation and... Read More

An inspiring mother-daughter tale set in the Civil Rights era Deep South, with religious overtones and headstrong characters. Sanderia Faye’s Mourner’s Bench is an impressive first novel, set between 1964 and 1965 in Deep South... Read More

Kravitz’s canine narrator describes the events around him without understanding their full impact, offering a new perspective on the Holocaust. With "The Jewish Dog", Asher Kravitz succeeds in the difficult task of finding a new... Read More