[In Biography]
Citizen Hughes
By Michael Drosnin
Driven by phobias, disfunctional genius manipulates the world about him
Maniacal billionaire Howard Hughes interacted with the world through messages handwritten on legal size paper or over the phone from his penthouse atop the Desert Hills Hotel in Las Vegas during the sixties. From his isolated reclusive perch that he never left in all those years, he manipulated politics, the fate of his financial empire and the lives of great and small men.

[In Fiction]
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
The mind of a criminal reveals much about ourselves
In “Crime and Punishment” we follow Dostoevsky’s complex and conflicted main character Raskolnikov, concurrently capable of heinous savagery and compulsive kindness, from the depth of self destruction to the heights of spiritual redemption.

[In History]
The Words of Bernfrieda
by Gabriella Brooke
When an author provides both maps and a genealogical table, the reader senses a reading experience of family intrigue and fascinating locale, which is the case in Gabriella Brooke’s first novel, The Words of Bernfrieda, (EWU Press) a family saga of Eleventh Century France and Italy.
Featuring the House of Tancred of Hauteville, the story is told through the voice of Bernfrieda, bastard daughter of Mauger and older half-sister and lady-in-waiting to The Lady Fredesenda, who is given as bride to Tancred of Hauteville on the windswept coast of Normandy.
By Michael P. Aleman

[In Mystery]
Messiah
by Boris Starling
"It's not hard to select your victims, if you know where to look." p. 360
Detective Superintendent Redfern Metcalf is obsessed with murderers. He can get inside their heads and learn what motivates them. In Messiah, Red, along with three other detectives from Scotland Yard, Jez Clifton, Kate Beauchamp, and Duncan Warren struggle to discover the link between the victims of gruesome and terrifying murders. They race time to uncover why each victim is found massacred, sometimes beyond recognition, each with their tongue severed, and a silver spoon lodged in their mouths. They know that they must find the victim's connection to each other before the murderer can be stopped.
By Robin Fiorello

[In Politics]
Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See
by David McGowan
How America condemns other nations for the very shortcomings it suffers itself
A sort of book-length Harper's Index, this book presents quite a portrait of an America far removed from the official portrayal of peace, justice for all and a booming economy that goes on forever. It uses quotes from sources like Amnesty International, the New York Times, and the United Nations.
By Paul Lappen

[In Sci-Fi]
The Traveler
by John Twelve Hawks“

Big Brother is Watching The Traveler and the Harlequin

The Traveler” Will Have Readers racing as good gal Harlequin and her Traveler evade the evil Tabula. And the chase moves from London to Prague to LA to the desert Southwest to New York. The reader will experience of roller coaster ride all along the way.

[In Travel]
Assembling California
by John McPhee
Looking for the geological origins of the great state of California
Assembling California is a journey through the vast expanse of geological time with John McPhee as your tour guide. At the end of the journey the reader arrives in California just as the Loma Prieta Earthquake catapults the Pacific Plate northward relative to the North American Plate.