Fifty percent insight into fifty world cultures, 50 percent insight into being a woman in her fifties, 100 percent memorable. Life is never certain. On her fiftieth birthday, Donna Marie Lynch discovered her mother was dying of cancer.... Read More

Realistic and detailed, this story explores the psyche of a woman fighting to come to terms with her difficult upbringing while advancing in a fast-paced career. A gifted woman collides with the chief of trauma surgery in a passionate... Read More

Joseph Collum’s skill with descriptive detail creates action scenes of startling immediacy in this adventure spanning three centuries. Suspense, intrigue, and shifting time frames fuel Joseph Collum’s hefty sequel to Brady’s Run.... Read More

Classic time travel story motifs aid an alien stranger in his mission to save the future. Dealing with time travel and personal transformation, "The Stranger and the Time Machine" is a collection of four adventures through time. Each of... Read More

Safi writes with eloquence and sophistication about a country that is striving to survive under the strictures of fundamentalism and ancient tribal enmities. "One Life: An Afghan Remembers" is a fascinating memoir, not only for its... Read More

Full, realistic characters advance the themes of death and love in this meaningful story. In the novel "The Mourning After", Edward Fahey thoroughly and artfully explores his Irish family’s approach to death, as expressed in the... Read More

Prasad provides a clear, concise guide to writing Java code for web servers. Java Server Side Programming, by Mukesh Prasad, is a welcome addition to contemporary computer science literature. Prasad’s objective is to present an... Read More

Dry humor and a good message rocket this young adult sci-fi novel into orbit. Dunnard’s Pearl is an interesting book full of humor and some very important ideas. The logic in the story has a dream-like quality—full of jumps and turns... Read More