A Cold Wind in August

By Burton Wohl

Her body was an artistic triumph. Whatever it was that sends men to theatres, burlesque houses, night clubs, she had it.

And she used it to become a star. There and been many men in her life. She married three, and then had affairs with countless...

KILLER WITH A BADGE

By Chuck Hustmyre

New Orleans in the 1990s-dirty, corrupt, violent. Often called "the city that care forgot," scandal-plagued New Orleans was already reeling when Antoinette Frank joined the city's beleaguered police force. Soon, she would commit a crime so shocking, ...

PERSIAN LIONS, PERSIAN LAMBS

An American's Odyssey in Iran

By Curtis Harnack

At the height of the Cold War a young American teaches in provincial Iran, near the Russian border. His students reveal their inner selves, their struggles to be modern, while still caught in ancient Persian traditions. Hailed as a travel book in the...

Healing the Spirit

Stories of Transformation

By Rev. Bobbie McKay, PhD

A heartwarming and tranformative book that hints at a theology that transcends denominational and cultural barriers joining the raw material of human experience to the capacity of the divine to transfigure and make new. -Reverend Stephen Parsons, Rep...

The Penny Wars

By Elliott Baker

"Baker continuously turns laughter into pain, then back again, yet always leaving the wound of truth." -The New York Times Book Review "Baker is still the jabberwocky with jaws that bite, tickling the reader into laughter with his left claw while...

BLESSED BY THUNDER

MEMOIR OF A CUBAN GIRLHOOD

By Flor Fernandez Barrios

"Flor Fernandez Barrios ushers readers into startling proximity to a Cuba seen through the eyes of a woman whose childhood was both shaped and shattered by the beautiful island. The indelible quality of barrios observations, specific and true, make <...

WHEELCHAIR CHAMPIONS

A History of Wheelchair Sports

By Harriet May Savitz

"This would be exciting and informative enough if it simply described the growth of organized sports for the handicapped or described sports careers of men and women who are paraplegics and it does. What it adds is a great deal of information about a...

My Mother Ruth

a memoir of love, loss and art

By Hillary Johnson

My Mother Ruth is a beautifully written and emotionally compelling account of how two women get to look beyond the role of mother and daughter and see two complex individuals who are given a final chance to truly know one another under the pre...

Osler's Web

Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic

By Hillary Johnson

"A relentless, meticulous, and highly persuasive expose by a journalist who spent nine years investigating the medical research establishment's failure to take seriously chronic fatigue syndrome In a chronology that runs from 1984 to 1994, Johnson c...

JIM KANE

By Joseph Brown

The story of an American cowboy doing his job in Mexico.