Books High and Low

  In 1918, white South Africans began to raise concerns about what they perceived as the increasing aridity of the land. These ideas were ...

  I enjoyed these poems by former U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. Her poems ruminate on topics such as Civil War-era Black soldiers and n...

  I enjoyed this novel that alternated between 1940s Paris and 1980s Montana. Odile is a new librarian at the American Library in Paris. She...

  After Leah's writer husband, Robert, disappears, she follows clues that take her to Paris with her two teenage daughters. Once there, ...

I was a little disappointed in this book and feel like the title was misleading. The author spent so much time on the end of the classical p...

The Cartographers presents an intriguing concept about the purpose of maps and how they work. Nell is a cartographer working in a map shop ...

  Before a recent vacation to Scotland, which started and ended in Edinburgh, I wanted to read a novel by Ian Rankin who has been recommende...

  Band director Mike Leckrone shares highlights of his 50-year career in this joyous memoir. Leckrone grew up in a musical family and his ...

  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...