Vivid scenery and a likable protagonist mark the second book in a series by David Riley Bertsch. In "River of No Return," Wyoming fishing guide Jake Trent, a former Department of Justice...

Relationships require a certain amount of vulnerability - the willingness to expose yourself emotionally, hoping that happiness is the ultimate goal, but realizing that being hurt comes with it,...

At one time, Bob Hope was the hottest thing in comedy, a fresh face with a fresh delivery. Really. He was cutting edge in the 1930s, practically inventing the monologue as a delivery system for jokes....

At the age of 12 or so - even younger, at times - children stop identifying themselves as children and begin their search for their own identity, somewhere between childhood and adulthood. This is...

Horizons, the local publishers, have just released a new-style book entited Malta Poema Viżiva  by Victor Fenech. The book is a paean to the Maltese islands through selected episodes from...

Noel Grima There are, I expect, two ways how to approach the history of anything. One way is to list the bare facts. The other is to describe the context.When this book was launched, at the...

How many times have you been on a train and wondered about the people who live near the tracks and leave their curtains open so that passersby can watch them? That voyeuristic view of lives as...

The publisher of an authorized best-seller about North Korean defector and human rights activist Shin Dong-hyuk, who has retracted substantial parts of his story, said Sunday that it is anxious for an...

  The Unquiet Dead" (Minotaur Books), by Ausma Zehanat Khan War atrocities reverberate for generations, affecting those who fought on the battlefield and the civilian victims who were...

A recent work of fiction by Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano will be published in the U.S. late next year. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Sunday that it has acquired "So You Don't Get Lost in...