New Books

Retox: Booze, Use, and Snooze Your Way to Personal Fulfillment by Jennifer Traig So long, South Beach. Farewell, fat-free. Adieu, tofu. Retox is here to help bring back the good times and friends that fell by the wayside on that mind-numbing... More about this book »	Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie For Westerners, this book may be better heard than read. While readers might stumble over the Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani names and accents, Mandvi glides right... More about this book »
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig In the bestselling tradition of Running with Scissors and A Girl Named Zippy, Jennifer Traig tells an unforgettable story of youthful obsession. When her father... More about this book »	Farm: A Year in the LIfe of an American Farmer by Richard Rhodes Farm lyrically recounts a year in the lives of Tom and Sally Bauer, solid Midwesterners who work the bottomlands of the Missouri River to grow “a harvest few city... More about this book »
The Ungodly: A Novel of the Donner Party by Richard Rhodes In 1846 several hundred wagons set out from Independence, Missouri, to follow the California Trail nearly two thousand miles across unpopulated prairies, up... More about this book »	Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches... by Rachel Sarah When she hit 30, single mom and romance columnist Rachel Sarah realized that she had been in domestic overdrive too long. Years of dishing up macaroni and cheese,... More about this book »
A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood by Richard Rhodes When he first published A Hole in the World in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Rhodes helped launch and legitimate a decade-long publishing phenomenon—the... More about this book »	The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes This massive work deals with the history of the people and the science that preceded and then made possible the development of the atomic bomb. Heavily biographical... More about this book »
Pelt by Daphne Gottlieb More about this book »	The Inland Ground: An Evocation of the American Middle West by Richard Rhodes Inland Ground is Richard Rhodes's first book. It was published quietly in 1970 to critical acclaim (The New York Times Book Review named it one of the best books... More about this book »

Story - how the Welsh flag came into being by Phil Cosker This is a short story for children of all ages. You’ve all seen the wonderful dragon on the Welsh flag – well – this is how it came to be there. There’s a dragon, a... More about this book »	Straight to Hell by Michelle L. Scott The moment Lilith Straight dies, the Devil appears to claim her soul and cash in on a longtime family curse. Now, Lilith has no choice but to work for him as a... More about this book »
Thomas O. Larkin: A Life of patriotism and Profit in Old... by Harlan Hague Thomas O. Larkin was among the first to test what would be called the "California Dream." Arriving in Mexican California in 1832, he expected to become a rich man--... More about this book »	American Monsters by Sezin Koehler "An important work of post-modern feminist horror, American Monsters is a poignant, angry volume about predation, the corruption of the rave scene, and... More about this book »
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism, 3rd Edition by Gary G Gach Reach Your Zen Moment! The latest edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Buddhism updates one of Alpha Books's most successful books in the religion/... More about this book »	The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman Over five years in the writing, The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of imagination and research, set in ancient... More about this book »
A Skeptic's Guide To Writers' Houses by Anne Trubek "A remarkable book: part travelogue, part rant, part memoir, part literary analysis and urban history, it is like nothing else I've ever read. In wondering why we... More about this book »	Cool, Calm and Contentious by Merrill Markoe In this hilarious collection of personal essays, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start... More about this book »
The Wedding Shroud by Elisabeth Storrs The Wedding Shroud can be purchased via my website, Amazon, Amazon UK, iBooks and Kobo. In 406BC, the young Roman Caecilia is wedded to Vel Mastarna, an Etruscan... More about this book »	The Big One by David Littlejohn The Big One follows the lives of nine very different but interrelated characters through the day before, the day of, and the day after the... More about this book »