Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com THE PROCEDURE HAS BEGUN . . . Fifteen years earlier. Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery—from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss was convicted of [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com And now, your winner for the annual John Krakauer Award for Scary Things That Happen On Mountains. This well-plotted survival tale about climbing partners and a deadly fall into a crevasse will certainly slake your 127 Hours craving, but it is a unique book on its own, avoiding the [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of “volunteer ministers” offer aid at [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com From the author of the acclaimed Angels’ Visits comes an inside look at how a handful of ingenious winemakers has transformed—and been transformed by—the California wine industry over the past four decades. In the 1970s, a group of idealistic baby boomers was attracted to the seemingly romantic world of [...]

Click animate to buy from Amazon.Com Neil Fox has made a fortune off the “head we win/tails you lose” venture capital deals negotiated by his brother, costing him almost everything but money. His ex-wife and daughter spurn him, and he lost his young son years ago. He now lives a carefully plotted life, working as [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com I need a little sugar in my bowl, I need a little hot dog, on my roll I can stand a bit of lovin’, oh so bad, I feel so funny, I feel so sad —Bessie Smith When it comes to sex, what do women want? In this [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com In this enjoyable, thoroughly researched volume, author and pop culture commentator George-Warren (Cowboy!) details the life and work of Gene Autry, the influential star of music, movies and television. After a descriptive genealogy, George-Warren takes the reader through Autry’s formative years, featuring his deadbeat dad, the oft-married Delbert, [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com The title of Robert Cohen’s collection, The Varieties of Romantic Experience, should have included the word anxiety, because it is this fretful, uncertain, and mildly deranging condition that most recurs in these 10 short stories. The brilliant title story, a first-person monologue delivered by a psychology professor in the bleating [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. He boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound, and–poof!–disappeared. He would not be heard from again for five days. What happened during those five days, and in the days and weeks that followed, [...]

Click on image to buy from Amazon.Com From those who insist that Barack Obama is Muslim to the European legislators who go to extraordinary lengths to ban items of clothing worn by a tiny percentage of their populations, Gary Younge shows, in this fascinating, witty, and provocative examination of the enduring legacy and obsession with [...]