These stories bring to life a world that most will never see, where native populations, eccentrics, inveterate drifters, entrepreneurs, and foreign service workers meet. Nine memorable short stories set in locales ranging from... Read More

With themes of sacrifice and the search for beauty amid tragedy, this novel lingers in idealism. In "Remembrance of Blue Roses", a divorced United Nations civil servant forges an unusual friendship with a German coworker and his wife,... Read More

This erotica reads like a naughty tell-all, written to be shared over a few rounds of cocktails with the girls. The third book in Suzanne Eglington’s Kate And Robert Chronicles, "Beckham 101" is a breathless, racy romance that pushes... Read More

This is an entertaining, dark novel about the lengths that those in power will go to in order to remain in power. An engrossing depiction of parallel worlds—one ruled by wizardry, the other by science—and the Oxford graduate students... Read More

This ghostwritten autobiography of an African American artist is reminiscent of Richard Wright or Maya Angelou. “Color theory says that black, the absence of all colors, matters; and that white, the presence of all colors, matters,”... Read More

This is young adult work for a crowd that has not yet relinquished its claim to awe. Robin Gregory’s "The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman" is a strange and lovely work that winkingly lopes through one child’s extraordinary... Read More

This page-turning thriller covers a rarely seen side to history—cleaning up the mess left by war. In "The Dolomite Challenge", Tom Joyce’s third novel about Vienna police inspector Karl Marbach, investigations merge with spy craft in... Read More

Unrelenting action elevates this thriller, whose tone is set through the speech and behavior of its characters. The action is unrelenting from prologue to postmortem in Stephen Wilson’s "The White River Killer", a mystery set in a... Read More