Books High and Low

  This is a slow-paced mystery that builds slowly to a not very dramatic climax. Isabel Dalhousie is an independently wealthy woman who live...

  Erasure was my Albany book club's May pick and I was excited to read it because it's the book behind the film American fiction , ...

  With How to Think Like an Economist, economics professor Robbie Mochrie provides a historical overview of the development of economic...

  This is a short (233 pages) spy novel about a man who's on the run from his Russian-mafia kidnapping partners. It turns out he is deep...

  This mystery is the 18th in a series written by Deborah Crombie that stars Detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James and which is set in L...

This is an enjoyable and entertaining thriller about the search for the lost Templar wealth and the discovery of the descendants of the 700 ...

  This was my State College book club's April pick, but not something that I would normally have chosen. For some reason, I'm not dr...

  This is a great little book (116 pages) that serves as a primer on how to relax focusing on short meditations using the breath and mantras...

This is one of my favorite books of the past year. Set in Oxford, England at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, it is ...

  I enjoy reading books and articles about both decluttering and feng shui, but this book is light on the principles of both concepts. It...

With Narcas, VICE News reporter Deborah Bonello has provided readers with a short (160 pages) but fascinating look at some of the women who ...

  I really liked this novel set in New Zealand. It's about a group of environmentalists who work together to farm and garden on unclaime...

  This is a deeply moving memoir by Dartmouth University professor of Middle Eastern studies Tarek El-Ariss. Growing up in war-torn Lebano...