"Cell" (Putnam), by Robin Cook   Robin Cook has been entertaining medical thriller fans for decades, but he does much more with his latest novel, "Cell."   The...

"Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy" (Beacon Press), edited by Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi   There's the story of an actor whose father was chairman...

Kate DiCamillo's "Flora & Ulysses," a comic superhero tale featuring a deadly vacuum cleaner and a mighty squirrel, has won the John Newbery Medal for the year's best work of...

"The New Democrats and the Return to Power" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Al From   Al From's "The New Democrats and the Return to Power" tells the important story of how...

"My Life in Middlemarch" (Crown), by Rebecca Mead   New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead first read George Eliot's "Middlemarch" at age 17, when she was an ambitious...

Immanuel Mifsud’s poetry collection A Handful of Leaves has just been published in Slovenia by the IRIU Institute, one of Slovenia’s most innovative and culturally committed entities at...

"Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming" (The Penguin Press), by McKenzie Funk   Apparently, if you look at climate change the right way, it looks like money instead of...

"That Old Black Magic" (William Morrow), by Mary Jane Clark   Piper Donovan doesn't care about playing detective. She'd rather design wedding cakes and go to auditions for...

"In the Blood" (Touchstone), by Lisa Unger   Lisa Unger's novels all explore the theme of family and how it shapes people's lives. Her latest, "In the Blood,"...

"On Such a Full Sea" (Riverhead Books), by Chang-rae Lee   Inside the confines of B-Mor, a strictly regimented labor colony populated by the descendants of immigrant workers from...