The Texas-Mexico border makes for a thrilling, violent setting for this gritty novel of drug cartels, police dedication, and family. If you live in the American Southwest, newspapers assault you with drug-war statistics. In other parts... Read More

Premise, mood, and longings merge in an intimate way to reveal profound things about relationships. Set in Santa Barbara, California, the twelve stories in "Love Will Make You Drink and Gamble, Stay Out Late at Night" revolve around love... Read More

Valuable information about improving human attitudes toward animals is presented in a friendly memoir style. Veterinarian and life-long animal lover Linda Bender describes her experiences communicating nonverbally with animals in "Animal... Read More