Books High and Low

The Good German takes place during the Potsdam Conference near the end of World War II. Jake Geismar is a reporter who's come to Berl...

The Camel Bookmobile describes a culture clash between a do-gooder librarian from the U.S. and a nomadic African tribe. Fiona Sweeney is a ...

Lawyer and amateur detective Mary DiNunzio's new client is a 13-year-old girl who believes the wrong man was convicted for her sister...

According to Michael Fertik, the founder and CEO of Reputation.com , our digital lives will be used to create reputation scores, similar to ...

Sylvie is a young girl who's lost both her parents to violence. She's living in their house, under the care of her older sister, and...

Mark Lockwood is a writer who has spent recent months getting the story of famous opera singer Merce Casals so that he can ghost write her a...

Amelia Emmet is a tenured college professor who was shot a year ago by an undergraduate student. No one has ever been able to determine his ...

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...