Everyone knows that if you want to be a better author, you need to read. And sure, everyone needs to read, but you can’t ...

Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, ...

Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z(2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Two killers are on the loose. Can they be stopped? In this ambitious mystery, the prolific and popular King tells the story of a serial murderer who pledges, in a note to Buckeye City police, to kill ...

In this illustrated children’s book, kids whose beloved pets have died learn to cope with their loss. “We grew together side by side. / I licked your cheeks when you laughed or cried.” So begins a ...

A young CIA operative engages in a love affair with an Iranian nurse during the turbulent early 1980s in Brown’s novel. In the Shah’s Iran, Shideh Ghasemi lives in a safe world with a loving family.

Well-crafted memoir by the noted media mogul. Diller’s home life as a youngster was anything but happy; as he writes early on, “The household I grew up in was perfectly dysfunctional.” His mother ...

An intrepid princess meets a good witch, angers a wicked wizard, and finds true love in Kulin’s children’s book. Hewing to classic fairy-tale tradition, these five eventful, connected stories by a ...

Mason describes the “evolutionary lineage” of life as a woman in this nonfiction work. Aiming to expand on the old chestnut identifying a woman’s developmental stages as “maiden, matron, and crone,” ...

A decidedly warts-and-all portrait of the man many consider to be America’s greatest writer. It makes sense that distinguished biographer Chernow (Washington: A Life and Alexander Hamilton) has ...