A troubled prosecutor reconsiders her definition of justice in Simone Buchholz’s thriller "The Kitchen". During a sweltering Hamburg summer, garbage bags filled with body parts keep turning up in the bay. Riley, the public prosecutor,... Read More

A story of a family’s resilience and individuality, "Becoming Hungarian" is an affecting memoir that’s flush with political and historical insights. Erika Reich Giles’s memoir "Becoming Hungarian" chronicles her parents’... Read More

Love overcomes racial and religious barriers in Mary Glickman’s historical novel Ain’t No Grave, set against the backdrop of the lynching of Leo Frank and the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. Max and Ruby are friends and... Read More

In Michael J. Malone’s supernatural thriller "The Murmurs", a hidden family history in the Scottish Highlands carries a terrible cost. A drowning and a suicide shatter the childhoods of Annie and her twin brother Lewis. Annie loses... Read More

Drawing a clear line through history and buttressing key moments with references to musical inventions, "Western History in Musical Perspective" is a knowledgeable text. With specific focus on Western development, musicologist John... Read More