Readers will be swept away by Montmartre Stairs: A Paris Love Story by Douglas Warren. A staircase, two characters, and an accident. The story opens with a meet-cute between John and Michelle during a midsummer night in Paris and from that moment on readers will...

If you are unfamiliar with the author Warren Adler, as I was, don't hesitate to pick up Mother Nile. Mr. Adler is an incredible writer and Mother Nile is an utterly engrossing story. How engrossing? In my eagerness to learn how the book ended, oblivious...