Edward G. Lengel is a military historian whose books have centered on the Revolutionary war, particularly on George Washington, and on World War I. This book is the second with a focus on the American involvement in the battle of the [...]
Five years ago, Jonathan Santlofer, a writer of crime novels and an artist, was working in his New York loft apartment. His wife, Joy Santlofer, a food writer and historian, was reclining on their living room sofa after having had outpatient [...]
A semi-retired public defense lawyer, Janet Moodie, living in a small town north of San Francisco is contacted by an appeals lawyer, Mike Barry, with whom she had previously worked. Janet reluctantly agrees to help him with a death sentence [...]
Ilka Jensen and her mother Karin live in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ilka works as a school photographer. They were abandoned by Ilka’s father, Paul, when she was seven years old. He moved to live in the United States leaving large debts including a [...]
Thankfully the author of this book has chosen to write about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a manner that is understandable to those of us without a significant background in physics, mathematics, or computer science. Additionally he has [...]
The author of this book is a retired Lt. General of the U.S. Army with a special faculty appointment to the North Carolina State University where he teaches military history. He has written a number of books on military history. In 1968 Chuck [...]
While this is a book reporting and exposing the effort on the part of the Mormon Church to “destroy” The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah’s largest newspaper, it is more. Being “more” is especially true for those individuals who know nothing or have read [...]
Raymond Ambler is a librarian at the 42nd Street Library in New York City. He is curating the soon to be completed exhibit “A Century-and-a-Half of Murder and Mystery in New York City.” His friend, Mike Cosgrove, a NYPD homicide detective [...]
Six months after the disappearance of their son Billy in the middle of the night, parents Claire, Mark, and older son Jake Wilkinson are faced with another televised public appeal for information about Billy. Claire believes Billy has run away [...]
A Pakistani immigrant, a naturalized citizen of this country, a lawyer and a Gold Star father has written this book about the significance and importance of our Constitution. This is a small book, but one with a clear and articulate review and [...]
Most of us know there is oxygen and carbon dioxide in our air (atmosphere). Sam Kean makes a book about the makeup of the atmosphere interesting and entertaining. This book is actually about the atmosphere of the earth and the air we breathe. As [...]
The FBI office in Erie, Pennsylvania is neither a very busy nor an exciting place for recent graduate Norah Khalil, especially after having spent four years in her native Philadelphia as a cop. While the department is engaged in trying to gather [...]
This is a memoir of one man’s experience during the Vietnam War, beginning approximately April of 1966 and ending April of 1975 with the fall of Saigon. It is a beautifully told story by a cameraman with 10 years of experience in Japan who [...]
This is a history book of an element of the Revolutionary War most likely little known to us as Americans, and certainly not recounted in our elementary or high school education about the War. From 1776 through 1783 a series of about seventeen [...]
After a period of multiple months of new onset, unexplained hip and back pain, Teva Harrison discovered a painful lump in her breast. Within two weeks, at the age of thirty seven, she knew she had stage IV metastatic breast cancer. With the [...]
There are some of us who read to learn, understand, and broaden our knowledge about events, history, science, people, etc. Some seek pleasure in escaping our world and wish to enter into that of others, whether good, pleasant, sad, or troubling. [...]
If you are not a mathematician, or someone with significant experience, training, or use of mathematics, it is likely you will feel little joy advancing through the pages of this book. Although there are presentations of interesting aspects of [...]
In the early hours of the morning, Cardinal Lomeli, Dean of the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, will begin to fulfill the most important duties of this position – overseeing the papal conclave – as he learns the [...]
Onto a small nightclub stage steps a fifty-seven-year-old “stand-up” comic (Doveleh Greenstein), who spends the next several hours telling a few straight forward jokes, audience insults, self-flagellation, and fills the rest of the evening with [...]
A law firm takes on the case of a whistle-blower whose employer’s company manufactures electronic sights for small arms. This results in the firing of the employee and denial of defective equipment on the part of the company. During the [...]
