"Love Life" (Simon & Schuster), by Rob Lowe   When you look at actor Rob Lowe — especially on the cover of his new book, "Love Life" — you can't help...

"The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World" (Simon & Schuster), by Russell Gold   The once-obscure oil and gas drilling process known...

“Updike" (Harper), by Adam Begley   During his lifetime, John Updike was acclaimed as one of the greatest writers of his generation, the poet laureate of middle-class, small-town,...

"The Collector of Dying Breaths" (Atria), by M.J. Rose   M.J. Rose's "The Collector of Dying Breaths" combines fascinating history, torrid romance and a compelling...

"Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice" (Dutton), by Scott Helman and Jenna Russell   A new book about the Boston...

Unseen in the tree-shrouded hills overlooking downtown Portland are rifle-toting coyotes wearing Napoleonic uniforms, birds ferrying human children on their backs and an army of mole knights living...

 "Frog Music" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Emma Donoghue   In 1876 in San Francisco, amid a heat wave and smallpox epidemic, an idiosyncratic frog-catching, pants-wearing,...

"John Wayne: The Life and Legend" (Simon & Schuster), by Scott Eyman   Who's that on the cover of Scott Eyman's splendid biography of Hollywood's most enduring...

Colum McCann, the prize-winning novelist, has rediscovered his fondness for short stories.   Best known for "Let the Great World Spin," McCann has just released the story...

A member of folk music royalty, singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, is working on a memoir.   Wainwright has a deal with Flatiron Books for "Stories I Might Regret Telling...