Books High and Low

This short novel revolves around Carl, a middle-aged single man who is taking care of his favorite aunt, Lil Olive. After falling in the bat...

According to the blurb, Overcomplicated "offers a fresh, insightful field guide to living with complex technologies that defy human com...

With Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis , J.D. Vance reveals what drives a large swath of our population from the s...

Dan Lyons was a journalist for many years, most recently for Newsweek , before he was fired in 2012. He worked for a while as a writer for a...

Trisha is a nine-year old girl hiking on the Appalachian Trail with her mother and brother Pete. Post-divorce, her mother is always arrangin...

Another Brooklyn begins as middle-aged August returns home for her father's funeral. She spends some time with her brother, but is draw...

I'm always interested in reading about the benefits of embracing a healthier lifestyle, so I was intrigued by Arianna Huffington's n...

Sea Miner: Major E.B. Hunt's Civil War Rocket Torpedo, 1862-1863 is the story of the little-known development of a torpedo during the C...

The subtitle of Crawling Out , "One Woman's Journey to an Empowered Life after Breaking a Cycle of Abuse No One Should Have to Endu...

During a recent trip to Scotland, a place that I've wanted to visit for many years, I realized how little I knew about Scotland's ...

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...