Books High and Low

I first became aware of Walter Dean Myers when I was in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh and attended an event at which Mr. M...

The third book-related event that I attended during the 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting was the AAP LibraryReads breakfast, held on Monday, Janua...

In this 2007 first novel, author Roopa Farooki tells the story of three generations of a Bangladeshi-Pakistani-British family. Truth and dec...

Walter Mosley departs from his more well-known crime fiction with this exploration of a woman's transformation as she leaves her career ...

The Antelope Wife tells the interconnecting stories of many characters across generations. It begins with the tale of a post-Civil War raid...

The Association of American Publishers collaborated with LibraryReads to host an event that spotlighted six new authors. Each author spoke f...

One of the benefits of attending the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting is having the opportunity to attend publisher presenta...

Bailey and Bella (sitting up) After adopting two Lhasa Apsos in November, I'm finding it difficult to keep up with my writing! These...

Here are some recent reads: The girl in the spider's web , by David Lagercrantz. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 399 pages. ISBN 97803853542...

Music is the only thing that will help me stay alert on solo road trips. Many of my friends and colleagues swear by them for entertainment a...

In this historical mystery, aspiring writer Jo Montfort investigates the circumstances surrounding her father's death, first determined ...

Eileen is a twenty-four year old misfit who lives with her father, a dysfunctional, alcoholic, former policeman. She works in a home for del...

The Chess Queen Enigma is the third in a series of steampunk mysteries starring Evaline Stoker (sister of Bram) and Mina Holmes (daughter o...

Police detective Sadie Sparrow has been forced to take four weeks vacation by her senior partner in order to try to salvage her career after...

Oakland cop Robert has been blackmailed by his ex-wife's new husband Sonny to track her down. She's gone missing and as Robert begin...

Todd is a fifty-something resident of a living community for people with brain injuries. His parents are deceased and his younger brother is...

As with yesterdays' post, my review of Rainbow Rowell's Landline , I read John Green's Paper Towns because I'd been hearing...

Rainbow Rowell is the author of six novels, for both young adults and adults. I've been hearing so much about her lately that I decide...

One of the side effects of attending BEA every year is a rapid accumulation of books, more books than I can read in any given year. Sometim...

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...