The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming : a Christmas Story

Publisher Weekly Review Starred Review. Go ahead and cover this book in red, stamp it with gold foil and label it a Christmas story?Lemony Snicket fans won't be fooled. The miraculous birth here is of a potato pancake, which, unlike its less loquacious literary cousin the Gingerbread Man, begins screaming the moment it gets cooked. […]

Inside the Mind of BTK

From Publishers Weekly: Legendary profiler and bestselling author Douglas (Mindhunter), who pioneered the FBI's systematic study of serial killers, offers his insights into one of this country's most chilling killers?Dennis Rader, a seemingly innocuous family man and municipal employee, whose brutal murders terrorized Wichita, Kans., for three decades. Identifying himself by the initials BTK (for […]

What Is the What : the Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng : a Novel

Francine Prose – The New York Times: Reading What Is the What does indeed make it impossible to pretend that Valentino Achak Deng and the other Lost Boys and all the men and women and children who have suffered, and continue to suffer, fates like his do not exist. Dave Eggers has made the outlines […]

Internal Combustion : the True Story of a Marriage and a Murder In the Motor City

Library Journal Review: On the night before Mother's Day, 2004, teacher and mother-of-two Nancy Seaman drove through a storm to Home Depot and bought a hatchet. Three days later, the body of her husband, Bob, was discovered in the back of her SUV, hacked and stabbed to death. These facts aren't in dispute; the question […]