"Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the '90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion" (Touchstone Books/Simon & Schuster), by Maureen...

"1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever (Da Capo Press), by Bill Madden   As the pennant races head into the fall...

The Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate who was sprung to fame when she temporarily delayed passage of sweeping new abortion restrictions in Texas reveals in a new memoir that she terminated two...

After all the commemorations we are having this year, here is one for next year.   On 15 February 2015, we should be celebrating a centenary of quite significant importance.   For...

"Summer of the Dead" (Minotaur Books), by Julia Keller   Small towns — where everyone knows your name and keeping secrets seems unfathomable — can be hotbeds of...

"Seven Wonders" (Running Press), by Ben Mezrich   Ben Mezrich, known for his non-fiction best-sellers "The Accidental Billionaires" and "Bringing Down the...

A New York Times cultural reporter who has written extensively about Robin Williams is working on a book about the late actor-comedian.   Henry Holt and Co. announced Tuesday it...

"Original Sin" (Reputation Books), by D.P. Lyle   The dying old man on cardiac surgeon Lucy Wagner's operating table was bleeding out from an aortic aneurism. As she...

"Personal" (Delacorte Press), by Lee Child   Jack Reacher reads an ad in a newspaper left on a bus and knows it was meant for him in "Personal," Lee Child's latest...

"Women in Clothes" (Blue Rider Press), by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 Others   In 1995 an advertising executive named Ilene Beckerman narrated her life...