"Digging In: a Novel" (Lake Union Publishing), by Loretta Nyhan For the majority of her life, Paige depended on one person. Her husband was her rock, her equal and the one she could always...

Cleo Wade is known for not only her poetry, but her positive, uplifting Instagram mantras that have earned a following that includes Yara Shahidi and Jessica Alba. So it's not surprising that on...

"Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film" (St. Martin's Press), by Don Graham No matter what you think of the 1956 epic "Giant"...

"Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography" (W.W. Norton), by Julia Van Haaften The word gutsy doesn't even begin to describe the great 20th-century photographer Berenice Abbott. Nor does brilliant,...

Father Gioele Galea's Tħabbat Xtaqtek is a diary/memoir recounting the author's authentic experience at the Saint Girolamo hermitage in the green heart of Perugia. It is immediately more...

Merlin Publishers has just published your third book in Irvin Vella series, Il-Każ tal-Gżejjer tat-Teżor. Who is Irvin Vella? What happens in this latest instalment? Irvin Vella is...

"True Fiction" (Thomas & Mercer), by Lee Goldberg In Lee Goldberg's "True Fiction," Ian Ludlow has reached a high level of success as an author as his series character Clint Straker routinely...

Before allegations of sexual harassment, Jay Asher and Sherman Alexie were facing criticisms of a different kind. Asher's "Thirteen Reasons Why" and Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a...

"The Female Persuasion: a Novel" (Riverhead Books), by Meg Wolitzer In the first 15 pages of Meg Wolitzer's new novel, a college student is groped against her will, setting in motion a life...

Sean Penn, Oscar-winning actor, has other passions these days. "I'm not in love with the job of acting anymore," says Penn, whose films include "Milk," ''Mystic River," ''Dead Man Walking" and...