"When Eleanor Harper becomes the director of a renowned artists' retreat, she knows very little of Cliffside Manor's dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, a "waiting room for death." After years of covering murder and violence as a crime reporter, Eleanor hopes that being around artists and writers in this new job will be a peaceful retreat for her as much as for them. But from her first fog-filled moments on the manor's grounds, Eleanor is seized...

"A beautifully drawn portrait of madness, and of the way in which we discover other worlds through literature." --

Two men go on a personal quest for true Swedish hash--a beloved national dish that varies drastically from region to region. The year is 1947. One of them men, in disguise, is Martin Borman, the ex-Nazi. The other is a schoolteacher named Lars. Their story--which of course is about much more than hash--is told from the afterworld by a newspaper reporter who followed their trail across postwar Sweden.

"Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited...

"The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others - rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history...

With the announcement of Juan Carlos Etchepare's death, an unusual tale of love unfolds.