ACERBIC, ICONOCLASTIC, WITTY take on free-market economists’ dogmas from a University of Cambridge economist.

RETURNING VETERANS’ ANGUISH, challenges are at the core of this complex, thoughtful mystery, 7th in a series.

A MASTERFUL OVERVIEW of cognitive neuroscience and the wonders of the human brain; richly informative for all.

REINVENTING THE MEMOIR as poem, Maxine Hong Kingston invites us into her luminous and introspective life.

LUMINOUS, ENCHANTING MEMOIR about a woman connecting with a wild snail as her own life is slowed by illness. A MINUS

THE SOUND OF A WILD SNAIL EATING
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2010

QUIET, POWERFUL, POETIC, VIVID novel follows four Minnesota Gen Xer friends from junior high through their 30s.

DRY WIT AND BARCELONA flavor make this Catalan mystery (with bumbling Columboesque twin detectives!) awesome.

SPOOKY, ATMOSPHERIC, STYLISH novel about obsession and family–BRIDESHEAD REVISITED times THE SECRET HISTORY!

YEE-HAW! THE HOLMES on the Range boys vs. rival detectives at Chicago’s 1893 Exposition. Lots of thrills here!

CHARLIE CHAN LIVES in this utterly absorbing look at the real Hawai’i cop who inspired the fictional detective.