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Elaine St. James. Simplify Your Work Life: Ways to Change the Way You Work So You Have More Time to Live . New York: Hyperion, 2001. 296 pag...

Meg Wolitzer. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman . New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2011. 297 pages. ISBN 9780525423041. Duncan Dorfma...

Minette Walters. The Echo . New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. 338 pages. ISBN 0399142517. Minette Walters is a British author of mys...

S.J. Watson. Before I Go to Sleep . New York: HarperCollins, 2011. 360 pages. ISBN 9780062060556. Before I Go to Sleep tells the story of ...

Laura Lippman. Life Sentences . New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 344 pages. ISBN 9780061128899. Laura Lippman is a seasoned author with many...

Richard Zimler. Guardian of the Dawn . New York: Delta Trade Paperbacks/Bantam Dell/Random House, 2005. 403 pages. ISBN 9780385338813. I r...

Henning Mankell. The Troubled Man . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. 367 pages. ISBN 9780307593498. The Troubled Man is the last book in ...

Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis. Invisible Murder . New York: Soho Crime, 2012. 340 pages. ISBN 9781616951702. Following up on their debut...

Jo Nesbø. Nemesis . New York: Harper, 2009. 474 pages. ISBN 9780061655517. This is my second novel by Jo Nesbø, and I am now a confirmed ...

Ted Bell. Warlord . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2010. 532 pages. ISBN 9780061859298. In addition to the children's books t...

Ted Bell. Nick of Time . New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008. 419 pages. ISBN 9780312380687. Nick of Time is an action-packed and fu...

Michael Chabon. Gentlemen of the Road. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008. 206 pages. ISBN 9780345502070. Zelikman and Amram are the two ...

Veronica Roth. Divergent . New York: Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins, 2011. 487 pages. ISBN 9780062024039. Beatrice lives in a world d...

Richard C. Morais. The Hundred-Foot Journey . New York: Scribner, 2011. 245 pages. ISBN 9781439165652. Hassan Haji was born in India and g...

Katherine de Marne Werner, editor. My Dear Rogue: Sir Granville Bantock's Secret Romance that Influenced the Music of One of Britain...

Miriam M. Brysk. Amidst the Shadows of Trees: A Holocaust Child's Survival in the Partisans . East Stroudsburg, PA: Gihon River Press, 2...

Anne-Marie Simons. Taking Root in Provence . Waitsfield, VT: Distinction Press, 2011. 208 pages. ISBN 9780980217575. Taking Root in Proven...

Mike and I visited Glens Falls, New York this past Saturday. What brought us there was a chance to visit the Hyde Collection, an amazing pri...

Ben Fountain. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk . New York: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2012. 307 pages. ISBN 9780060885618. Billy Lynn is on a ...

Mike and I recently spent a Saturday in Williamstown, Massachusetts, a small, college town that's only 45 miles from our home in Albany....

Harris, Roberta L. The World of the Bible . London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. 192 pages. ISBN 0500050732. I have long been interested ...

Ephron, Hallie. Never Tell a Lie . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2009. 271 pages. ISBN 9780061567155. David and Ivy are a happil...

Fairstein, Linda. Night Watch . New York: Dutton, 2012. 402 pages. ISBN 9780525952633. Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan prosecutor, is involv...

Lehane, Dennis. Moonlight Mile . New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2010. 324 pages. ISBN 9780061836923. For those of you who were fa...

Kaaberbøl , Lene and Agnete Friis. The Boy in the Suitcase . New York: Soho, 2011. 313 pages. ISBN 9781569479810. After writing children...