OFFBEAT, ENTERTAINING SCHOLARLY study of the US Jewish community’s role in our alcohol industry and culture.

COMPLEX, ENTERTAINING THRILLER follows a psychiatrist and a cop along the trail of a serial killer.

TROUBLING TRUE STORY of a South Carolina death row inmate’s conviction on shockingly scanty (at best) evidence.

ENTHRALLING RECREATION OF the Nixon administration’s Watergate scandal, with vivid characterizations, detail.

WRENCHINGLY HONEST, BRUTALLY eloquent, a novelist’s memoir of losing her sight and her way in life astounds.

WHY AND HOW we were the only human species to survive, impeccably explored by a leading paleoanthropologist.

TIGHTLY CRAFTED HISTORICAL mystery stars a Sherlock-brilliant detective tracking a serial killer in 1892 Maine.

CHARMING JANE AUSTENESQUE fantasy, set in a world where magic is an art form. Second in a delightful series!

FASCINATING, DEEPLY RESEARCHED account of the creation of “heterosexuality” as a medical and legal category.

A CLASSICS PROFESSOR’S SENTIMENTAL journey down the historic Appian Way: delightful, informative travelogue.