"The High Druid's Blade: The Defenders of Shannara" (Del Rey), by Terry Brooks   Terry Brooks is a grandmaster of the fantasy genre, and his latest will both captivate and...

Ever since the original exposure of Malta's larrikin hero Manwel Dimech, through the then youthful yet no less comprehensive research efforts of the budding historian Henry Frendo, much has risen...

"The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing" (Random House), Mira Jacob   At the start of Mira Jacob's beautiful debut, "The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing," Amina...

"A Moveable Famine" (The Permanent Press), by John Skoyles   In an autobiographical novel, which parts are fiction and which are fact? Only the author knows for sure. But when such...

"Jennifer, Gwyneth & Me: The Pursuit of Happiness, One Celebrity at a Time" (Ballantine Books), by Rachel Bertsche   Author and celebrity-watcher Rachel Bertsche spent nearly a...

"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands" (Doubleday), by Chris Bohjalian   Wiser than the adults around her yet convinced she's a hopeless loser, Emily Shepard is a literary descendant of...

"Act of War" (Atria), by Brad Thor   In Brad Thor's latest thriller, "Act of War," Scot Harvath finds his hands full when a snag-and-grab operation for a terrorist...

The component books of this Oliver Friggieri trilogy had come out singly – It-Tfal jigu bil-vapuri; La jibbnazza nigi lura and Dik id-dghajsa f’nofs il-port. They had also been translated...

"The Ways of the Dead" (Viking), by Neely Tucker   Neely Tucker's debut novel is an utterly thrilling mystery set in Washington, D.C., in the late 1990s, just before the...

"The High Druid's Blade: The Defenders of Shannara" (Del Rey), by Terry Brooks   Terry Brooks is a grandmaster of the fantasy genre, and his latest will both captivate and...