Despite its inauspicious, Bulwer-Lytton-esque opening line (“It was a stormy night when Emma MacDonald found herself walking home alone on a deserted footpath”), "Deadly Encounter" is a lively and entertaining murder mystery, and a... Read More

“Poetry became my escape,” the author writes. “It became my way of expressing how Parkinson’s affected my life. It eventually became a safe way of communicating my feelings to the world that otherwise would have been left... Read More

1969 a Jewish honor student in the Bronx is a school newspaper editor the son of Holocaust survivors and the newest member of a Puerto Rican extortion gang. A strong inciting sequence puts a sixteen-year-old boy in a dilemma of possible... Read More

In 1918 the czar of Russia his wife and their five children were gunned down in a basement room of an old country estate where they were being held in exile. Yet even today the exact details of the murders and the events leading up to... Read More

Although the opening of his book focuses on a human student Jerry Benson the main characters in Dilip Dahanukar’s novel "eMaya on Climate Control" are sentient computer programs. Bitsy an artificial intelligence created by Jerry and... Read More

In the introduction, Whitman scholar Robert MacIssac describes this book as “a dialogue of truth.” Less metaphorically, it is a three-part, two-person dramatization. The author is a poet and editor who founded the literary magazine,... Read More