The vulnerability of a family - in this case a woman and her two children escaping an abusive home - is at the center of Haylen Beck's "Here and Gone," a tension-laden, sometimes disturbing story with...

A woman drinks iced tea on the veranda with her weary parents. A husband and wife select attire for an out-of-town wedding. An uncle drives his niece to dinner. In each scenario, it seems as though...

Jamie Allenby, veterinary scientist on the planet Soltaire, has a lot on her mind in "The Space Between the Stars," a debut novel by Anne Corlett. She's not sure if she misses Daniel, her lover...

The tale opens with a robbery and closes with a reconciliation. In between these bookends, "Camino Island" by John Grisham is populated with ruthless thieves, witty writers and enough intrigue to fill...

Beset by traffic, smog and other distractions, it's easy to forget that driving a car is an act of free will, in theory transcending race, class and gender. Then imagine what life would be like...

Maine's backcountry is being invaded by feral hogs. Hordes of drunken, half-naked college students are partying up and down the winding Saco River. A teenager who disappeared years ago is about to be...

Mayim Bialik plays smart on TV's "The Big Bang Theory" and is smart in real life, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience as evidence. She joins her intelligence with experience in "Girling Up: How to be...

On their last day together, the Silicon Valley elite couple Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg were sunbathing and playing the popular strategy board game The Settlers of Catan on the iPad. It was...

At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, "Hunger," Gay explains how she got that way and what it's like to live "trapped in a cage" of her own...

Eleanor Oliphant has her life together, or so she would like you to believe. She works in an office, she binge drinks alone every weekend in her apartment and wears gloves indoors when her eczema...