Books High and Low

  Aethelflaed is the oldest daughter of Alfred the Great, but the most important near-contemporary history of that time, The Anglo-Saxon Chr...

  Psychologists Maslach and Leiter follow up their book The Truth About Burnout with this guide to the causes of burnout and how organizati...

On a recent trip to Bennington, VT, we stopped off at the Dog Ears Book Store, where my favorite section is the books about books category, ...

  Communications coach Gallo (Talk Like TED) teaches successful speaking and writing by breaking down the communication style of Amazon fou...

  I picked up this book at the ALA conference in Washington, D.C. in June. It tells the story of author Gilbert M. Governor's life growi...

  I really enjoyed this mystery set in the 1960s. Maddie Schwartz has left her husband and is trying to make it on her own. She begins an af...

  Author Baek Sehee is a successful professional in the publishing industry who grew up with an abusive father and a hypercritical mother....

  This graphic novel tells the story of Alice, one of the main characters in The Magicians , a fantasy novel about a group of students who l...

  It's been 26 years since I read Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy , which I enjoyed as much for the writing as for learning about mo...

  Unable to find work after graduating from a London university, Chisholm followed his girlfriend to Paris looking for any type of work th...

This is meant to be an update on The Brothers Karamazov , but since I haven't read that book yet, it didn't shed any light on this b...

  I enjoyed this heartfelt memoir by actor David Crabb. Growing up gay and goth in rural Texas was not easy; throw in drug abuse and a fract...

  Writer and psychologist Mikita Brottman shares her experiences running a weekly book club in a Maryland prison for two years. The club con...

  With this riveting memoir, former Penn State President Graham Spanier recounts his experiences surrounding his resignation from the pres...