Fashion and style have forever been in bed with film, television and music, especially the moments that scream love. We all have our top pop memories of romance, lust, marriage, heartbreak...

The narrator of Elizabeth Strout's new novel has a peculiar voice for a twice-married, successful writer and mother of two grown daughters. She sounds like a little girl. Indeed, readers may...

James Thayer delivers a vivid and compelling thriller set in 1937 China in his new novel, "House of 8 Orchids." Readers will travel to a time and place unfamiliar yet also strikingly real. The...

Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it sentimentalizes a brutal part of American history. "A Birthday Cake for George Washington" was...

Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has won numerous awards for her series featuring Boston reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan. She'll probably need to clear some shelf space for more of them with...

"The Early Stories of Truman Capote" collects 14 short fiction pieces by the writer, including some that were published in his high school newspaper in Greenwich, Connecticut, when he was a...

Michael Connelly brings back both of his series characters, now retired detective Harry Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, in his latest novel, "The Crossing." Bosch is restless...

Diana Athill, 98, still has a few things to teach us about growing old with dignity and humor and grace. Her latest memoir, "Alive, Alive Oh!" follows the unlikely literary celebrity she achieved...

In the spirit of "Unbroken" and "The Boys in the Boat" comes "Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice" by journalist Adam Makos. This time the setting is the early days of...

Fans of Cheryl Strayed's unforgettable memoir "Wild" are to be forgiven if they start jumping up and down at the news that Strayed has a new book out called "Brave Enough." But don't get too...