Books High and Low

In Louise Penny's 12th mystery, A Great Reckoning , Inspector Gamache has taken on the leadership of Montreal's police academy in an...

In this riveting, suspenseful novel by Noah Hawley, artist Scott Burroughs and a four-year-old boy are the only survivors of a plane crash o...

I've gotten a bit behind in my book reviews, so I'm just going to mention each book briefly. I wish I had more time to discuss them;...

The Last Brother is by far the best novel that I've read so far this year. It tells the story of Raj, a young Mauritian boy, and David,...

This is the story of two families, American and Indian. Somer and Krishnan met while in school, fell in love and married. Krishnan assimi...

Author Vaddey Ratner was five years old when the Khmer Rouge took over Phnom Penh and forced all of the city dwellers out of the city and in...

This collection of 15 interconnected short stories are about a group of characters centered around 145th Street in Harlem. The central theme...

Everything you need to know about this book is summarized in the title: The Heart-Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Cha...

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...