"The Invention of Wings: A Novel" (Viking), by Sue Monk Kidd   Meet Handful, 10 years old, a sewing prodigy and a slave. Meet Sarah, 11 years old, a voracious reader and...

"Little Failure: A Memoir" (Random House), by Gary Shteyngart   At age 41, Gary Shteyngart seems awfully young to be writing a memoir. But readers of "Little Failure"...

At the recent Book Fair held in November, children had the opportunity to get hold of Merlin Publishers’ latest picture books - three beautifully illustrated books that take us into Nora’s...

It's the kind of puzzle that might have amused Sherlock Holmes himself.   Now that copyright protections have expired on nearly all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tales about the...

The future of the public library looks a lot like an Apple Store. Rows of glossy iMacs and iPads beckon. Hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout to anyone with a borrowing...

A Washington lawyer monitoring Apple Inc. compliance with antitrust laws after a judge found it conspired with publishers to raise electronic bookprices said in court papers filed Monday that the...

"Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully" (Blue Rider Press), by James J. Cramer   Who wouldn't want to "Get Rich Carefully," as the title of Jim Cramer's new book...

The attempt to close the gap between the rigorous demands and strictures of academic writing and that which appeals to a diverse readership is fraught with pitfalls.  Overcoming such traps as the...

Alfred Palma’s name is invariably linked to poetry, the longer novel and the translation of the great classics, such as Dante’s Divina Commedia, Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets,...

Imagine popping a pill, it scanning the insides of your body and automatically telling your doctor which parts suffer from disease. This is not science fiction but reality stemming from research...