Books High and Low

John Le Carré's second book is a murder mystery that features George Smiley. Ailsa Brimley is the editor of a magazine and friend of Smi...

  This YA novel tells the story of Justyce McAllister, a young black man in his senior year at a prep school, but bound for Yale. When he ex...

Amnesty is about a Sri Lankan man named Danny who has overstayed his student visa in Australia. He has a Vietnamese girlfriend, and works f...

  This is an interesting alien invasion story in which something strikes a lighthouse in the first moments of the film, then continuously ex...

  While I've read a number of John Le Carré books over the years, I had never read his first. When I read Le Carré's obituary recent...

  I really enjoyed this powerful, semi-autobiographical, first novel by James Baldwin. It tells the story of John Grimes on his 14th birthda...

  This is an informative and interesting exploration of the political issues that divide and unite the country, with chapters devoted to ele...

  This book contains chapters reprinted from Edwin Corle's book Desert Country, 1941 , a book in the American Folkways series, and is ac...

  This was my book club's pick for our February meeting, and it was a hit with everyone. The writing is very good, and the plot is compe...

  While the acting in this film is very good, I was not impressed with the film as a whole. It dragged, and I became very impatient with the...

  Safiya Noble was a speaker at the 2020 Association of Research Libraries fall forum, and attendees received a copy of her book prior to th...