"And the Mountains Echoed" (Riverhead Books), by Khaled Hosseini   My main goal in reading Khaled Hosseini's new book, "And the Mountains Echoed," was to avoid...

"Murder as a Fine Art" (Mulholland), by David Morrell   Murder is horrifying, but what if some psycho decided it could be an art and proceeded to create a masterpiece? In his...

"The Ophelia Cut" (Atria Books), by John Lescroart   A young woman makes a bad decision and her father ends up a murder suspect in "The Ophelia Cut," John Lescroart's...

"Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic" (Simon & Schuster), by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong   Jennifer Keishin...

Professor Henry Frendo's latest two books, Europe and Empire (2012) and Party Politics in a Fortress Colony (3rd ed., 2013) were launched in London by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the...

For the first time there is an ‘alternative handbook’ that gives us a holistic view of the mysterious Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozo.  The handbook offers a different view and...

"And the Mountains Echoed" (Riverhead Books), by Khaled Hosseini   My main goal in reading Khaled Hosseini's new book, "And the Mountains Echoed," was to avoid...

"The Guns at Last Light: the War in Western Europe, 1944-45" (Henry Holt), by Rick Atkinson   Fruitless combat in places like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan can evoke a certain...

"Little Green" (Doubleday), by Walter Mosley   From the moment he first appeared in "Devil in a Blue Dress" in 1990, Easy Rawlins, was an instant favorite of discerning...

Here are some bare details of the author’s life. 1935: born in Algiers. 1962: along with thousands of panic-stricken Europeans, fled Algiers to seek refuge in Marseilles. Lives today in southern...