ENGROSSING MEDITATION on Russia’s history and geography by an English expatriate scholar is witty, informative.

STARK, POETIC NOVEL provides a resonant glimpse of life and war in Afghanistan as well as a complex love story.

CANDID AND HEARTFELT memoir of a difficult marriage, sudden widowhood tries a bit too hard for simple answers.

TIMELY, TAUTLY PLOTTED thriller with a likable midlife heroine is compelling despite occasionally clunky prose.

THOUGHTFUL, POETIC MEMOIR of an evangelical girlhood by a writer who came to find the divine in nature.

LUCKY 13! The newest caper starring Serge Storms, enforcer of his own quirky Florida justice, is the best yet.

LINKED NARRATIVES tell the history of a space project, its human (and artificial intelligence) pioneers. Fun!

FASCINATING BIOGRAPHY of Thurston the Magician, Houdini’s greatest rival and a pioneer of modern stage magic.

LYRICAL NOVEL brackets motherhood, daughterhood, women’s friendship with the spectre of Wichita’s BTK killer.

TUDOR COURT INTRIGUE swirls as a conflicted young hero makes his way in the world. Nothing new here, but fun!