Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting and China’s Secret Solution to its Dissident Problemby Ethan Gutmann“Organ harvesting: the surgical removal, often without anesthetics, of healthy organs without the consent of the […]

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s by Joshua Yaffa Yaffa’s immersing book is a fascinating look at how  Russian citizens manage to live within their totalitarian  government […]

A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis by Francoise Frenkel “It is the duty of those who have survived to bear witness […]

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard Millard’s singular combination of history, adventure, and detailed research consistently deliver […]

Midnight in Chernobyl : The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham The explosion on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl, Atomic Energy Station in what […]

Black House by Peter May A shocking murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis, an island within the Outer Hebrides archipelago off the coast of Scotland. It appears to be comparable […]

Dear Readers by Susanne Dominguez Dear Readers, My goal in writing the PCL Selections is to introduce more obscure, but worthy books to readers who may not be familiar with […]