BEAUTIFULLY CURATED COLLECTION of Victorian detective stories includes old favorites and some new finds.

IDIOSYNCRATIC, ABSORBING, INSIGHTFUL, snarky overview of the phenomenon of “scapegoating” throughout history.

MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED, HAUNTING psychological mystery set in the art world of Victorian Scotland.

WARM-HEARTED, FUNNY, OFFBEAT memoir of an eccentric family, set in the earliest years of the state of Israel.

FASCINATING BOOK DETAILS research into chimpanzee language, including surprising new observations by the author.

ANOTHER GENTLE METAPHYSICAL mystery for Alexander McCall Smith’s Scottish philosopher-sleuth Isabel Dalhousie.

LAUGH YOURSELF SILLY at this ridiculous comic thriller by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel. R-rated, wacky, fun!

A BRIGHT, CREATIVE TEEN who died tragically young is remembered and celebrated in his dad’s touching memoir.

TERROR AND ADVENTURE in a virtual world filled with digital clones of history’s tyrants and psychopaths. Wow!

M.C. BEATON’S LATEST Highland whodunit swirls environmentalism, family secrets, fairy legends into the mystery.