Criminal defense lawyer Jackie Flowers returns in SEEDS OF DOUBT, the fourth mystery in the series by Stephanie Kane, herself a defense attorney. When a convicted child killer comes to her, Flowers doesn't want to take her case, and definitely doesn't want her close to her next door neighbor's daughter, but everyone deserves a good defense, even if it means Jackie must face her own, deepest fears to keep from failing her client.

Those who support capital punishment often claim they do so because it provides closure for the victim's families. In CAPITAL CONSEQUENCES attorney Rachel (Don't Kill In Our Names) King reminds us that there are other families and other victims who must be considered in the debate over the death penalty. King challenges readers to question the morality of a punishment that ripples out through future generations of the condemned's families.

"The arrangement of paintings and objets d'art, and perhaps the most critical consideration - the quality of light in the space - together determine how each work responds to its environment" Daniel Parker, Professor Emeritus in African American Studies at Olive - Harvey College, will offer a multimedia presentation on the book AFRICAN ART: The Diaspora and Beyond. Based on his own collection, African Art is a stunningly photographed and lovingly written work by a man who learned to see from his mother's discerning eye.

Franz Wisner had it all-a remarkable career and an engagement to the love of his life. His fiancee was the center of his world until she failed to appear for their wedding. Abandoned, and with his career stalling, Franz dramatically changed his life. The result is his memoir HONEYMOON WITH MY BROTHER. Franz and his brother, Kurt, loved each other but as adults barely knew each other. In a moment of inspiration Franz went forward with his honeymoon, taking his brother on what turned into a two year, worldwide journey.

Ah, Sunday afternoon, the perfect time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the cutting edge of writing and artwork from the Oyez Review, the annual journal of the Roosevelt University Creative Writing Program. Produced entirely by Roosevelt students, the current issue of the Oyez contains work by such writers as Mary Crow, Radamez Ortiz and Joanne Lowrey, as well as art by Stephanie Dean and William Bryant Rozier.

Having spent a great deal of time in large cities Ora Nance has noticed a trend - a tendency to move so quickly from one moment to the next that we often don't allow ourselves to find the deeper meanings in our lives. In DIVING: Poems and Prose for the Fearless Explorer, Ms. Nance asks us to look at those moments, think of the questions that we may not want to ask, and be brave enough to listen to the answers.

When a thief snatches a sack of artifacts from a geographer's library, the tools of transmutation-and eternal life-are scattered. Nine hundred years later, a young reporter finds that someone is collecting them again. While investigating the death of a professor, Paul Tomm finds the dead man's heavily fortified office filled with books on alchemy. THE GEOGRAPHER'S LIBRARY entwines his contemporary reporting with a chain of stories tracking the last time each of the tools changed hands -some bought, some stolen, some killed for.