American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella  
 
Steven Rinella’s paean to the buffalo begins with this hook, “In the past week I’ve become something of a buffalo chip connoisseur,”...

here are the bestsellers for the week of March 29, 2009 from the New York Times!

Nelson Algren was born March 28, 1909 in Detroit.  He is best known for writing The Man With the Golden Arm, which won the first National Book Award in 1950 and was made into a film starring Frank...

It is August, 1898 Vienna, and four people are dead.  It seems that a serial killer is on the loose, although the only things the victims have in common are the brutal way in which they are...

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet by Colleen McCullough

This sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is set about 20 years later.  Mary, the over-achieving, conceited, middle Bennet...