Books High and Low

Letters from Skye is an epistolary novel set in Scotland during both the first and second world wars. During the earlier time period a youn...

This is Smith's third book in a series of detective stories set during the Soviet period in Russia. The first in the series, Child ...

Author Kittel lost her young son in a terrible accident in which he was run over by her niece who was backing a car up in their driveway. A ...

After 22 years as a Navy SEAL, author Rob Roy formed a company that provides training in leadership skills to corporate executives and young...

Using humor and amusing examples, author R.W. Bacon provides an introduction to graphic design, page layout, and typography in The Cranky Ty...

No! Maybe? Yes! Living My Truth tells the story of Grace Anne Stevens, née Larnie Steven Rabinowitz, who transitioned from a man to a woman...

After I read Camilla Läckberg’s The Drowning , I was reading a little bit about her online. I noticed another of her books with a dust...

Camilla Läckberg is another excellent import for anyone who enjoys well-written crime novels set in Sweden. Her books are centered on Eric...

Departure begins with the crash of an airliner that was heading to London. When the survivors escape the plane they find themselves in a re...

With arthritis in the family, having been a runner through my mid-40s, (OK, a jogger), and having not too long ago passed the halfway mark (...

In 2012 author Jia Jiang quit his job to pursue his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Four months into his first project, he suffered a cru...

Mrs. Kimble is the story of three women, all of whom fall in love with the same horrible man, Ken Kimble. We never learn what's caused K...

The ALA Annual 2015 Book-A-Licious Breakfast was another fun event sponsored by the Association of American Publishers and LibraryReads . H...

Book Buzz San Francisco was an all-day event held at the San Francisco Public Library on June 25, 2015. This event is sponsored by the Assoc...

Once again I've gotten behind on writing reviews for my leisure reading, so I will list the missing books here along with just a few wor...

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...