Jon Krakauer is an author I became familiar with 11 years ago when he wrote the book Into Thin Air: Death On Everest. His writing genre generally chronicles lives conducted at the outer limits. Recently a co-worker of mine insisted that I read Under...

One Minute To Midnight By Michael Dobbs Published by Knopf Publishing Group June, 2008 In October 1962, in the midst of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union seemed to be moving toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of...

Slavery By Another Name By Douglas A. Blackmon Published by Doubleday April, 2008 In Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A. Blackmon calls into question one of our school children's most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the...

The Icon was written by Neil Olson and was first published in 2005 in hardcover and came out in paperback in 2006. This is Olson's first novel and is set in WWII Nazi occupied Greece and extends into modern day New York. A religious icon, thought to...

The Angel of Darkness was written by Caleb Carr and published in 1997. It is a very good sequel to his best-seller The Alienist. The characters are extremely well developed and the first book is mentioned just often enough to establish continuity. I...