Books High and Low

This is a historical mystery set in Moscow in 1936. A young woman's body has been found in a former church, and her death appears to be ...

Mikhal Lammeck is an expert on assassination, writing what he believes will be the definitive book on the topic, titled The Assassination...

I occasionally pick up a book because I like the cover, and that was the case with Waxwings , by Jonathan Raban. In this case, I was shoppin...

I've just read Anna Quindlen's first and latest novels, one right after the other. Her first novel was Object Lessons , which I me...

Somehow I got behind in my book reviews; a conference in Chicago late January and early February started off my delinquency and then it cont...

Inspired by How to Deliver a TED Talk , reviewed here yesterday, I watched Sir Ken Robinson's 2006 TED Talk " How Schools Kill Cre...

I've been impressed with many of the TED talks that I've watched online. Standing for Technology, Education, Design, TED conferences...

This is an easy-to-read book about a group of spies who delivered messages to George Washington about British troop movements and other deta...

Seven years after the publication of The 4-Hour Work Week , Timothy Ferriss has come out with an expanded and updated version of the book....

I'm so impressed with my friend Lu Kaiser, who has written and published a collection of short stories, A Daily Dose of Ghosts . These w...

Modern Manners: Tools to Take You to the Top is a guide to modern etiquette aimed at young adults and teenagers. Its authors are Dorot...

James Ellroy. Perfidia . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 695 pages. ISBN 9780307956996. Ever since seeing L.A. Confidential and reading ...

Deborah Harkness. The Book of Life . New York: Viking, 2014. 559 pages. ISBN 9780670025596. The Book of Life is the third volume in Debor...

Nicola Griffith. Hild . New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2013. 545 pages. ISBN 9780374280871. I loved this historical novel about th...

Jeff Sutherland. Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time . New York: Crown Business, 2014. 248 pages. ISBN 9780385346450. ...

Graeme Simsion. The Rosie Project . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013. 295 pages. ISBN 9781476729091. Finding a romantic partner has been...

Sara Midda. A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory . New York: Workman Publishing, 2014. 125 pages. ISBN 9780761145264. A Bowl of Olives is...

Steven Axelrod. Nantucket Five-Spot . Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2015. 283 pages. ISBN 9781464203428. In the second volume in the...

Michael Crichton. Timeline . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 443 pages. ISBN 0679444815. In Michael Crichton's Timeline , he uses the...

Michael Crichton. Prey . New York: HarperCollins, 2002. 363 pages. ISBN 0066214122. In Michael Crichton's thriller Prey , Jack Forman ...

Chelsea Cain. One Kick . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 306 pages. ISBN 9781476749758. Author Chelsea Cain has had a successful run...

Jake Wood. Take Command: Lessons in Leadership: How to Be a First Responder in Business. New York: Crown Business, 2014. 242 pages. ISB...

Natsuki Takaya. Fruits Basket , Ultimate Edition, v. 1-2 (in one volume). Los Angeles: TOKYOPOP, 2007. Unnumbered. ISBN 9781427806895. Whi...

Brian Selznick. Wonderstruck . New York: Scholastic Press, 2011. 637 pages. ISBN 9780545027892. I read Brian Selznick's The Invention ...

Toinette Lippe. Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life . New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. 257 ...

Gabrielle Zevin. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry . Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014. 258 pages. ISBN 9781616203214. ...

Emily Chantiri. The Savvy Girl's Guide to Money: Take Charge and Get the Life You Want . San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2007. 227 pages. ...

Marie Kondo. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing . Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2014. 213 p...

Darrin Zeer. Office Feng Shui: Creating Harmony in Your Work Space . San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. 102 pages. ISBN 9780811842150. ...

Laird Hunt. Neverhome . New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 247 pages. ISBN 9780316370134 I really loved the first few pages, but a...