Hand over Heart

October 12: “The words of the Pledge have inspired millions, but they have also been used to coerce and intimidate, to compel conformity, and to silence dissent.”  

Brother Kemal

25 years after Happy Birthday, Turk!, Jakob Arjouni’s Turkish private eye Kemal Keyankaya returns to his former home of Frankfurt – where a new murder investigation case leads him into a vengeful web of deceit in the German art and publishing...

Wonder Women

Subtitled “Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection,” this sharp look into the role of women in the workplace was written by the current president of Barnard College.

The Star of Istanbul

Robert Olen Butler’s heroic war correspondent Christopher Marlowe Cobb (The Hot Country) returns in an espionage adventure on the Lusitania, wooing starlets and brawling with German agents aboard the infamous ship.

The Aftermath

Rhidian Brook draws upon his own family history in this story of a British colonel who is charged with restoring a ruined Hamburg after the Nazi surrender, and who finds his own family’s grief entwined with that of his German neighbors.  A Discover Great...