"The Woman Upstairs" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Claire Messud   Nora Eldridge is "the woman upstairs" in the title of Claire Messud's new novel — "the quiet...

This book by Simon Marsden and Duncan McLaren is a haunting evocation of the ruined country estates of the Russian aristocracy of the 18th and 19th centuries.  Revolution, civil war, invasion,...

"The Hit" (Grand Central Publishing), by David Baldacci   Will Robie, a government assassin seen in last year's "The Innocent," returns in a bigger and bolder...

"Sleight of Hand: a Novel of Suspense" (Harper), by Phillip Margolin   Private investigator Dana Cutler returns in "Sleight of Hand," Phillip Margolin's best book in...

"Rita Moreno: A Memoir" (Celebra), by Rita Moreno   The award-winning actress Rita Moreno opens up — way, way up — in a memoir driven less by recollections from her...

Franklin Covey Co. has been named in TrainingIndustry.com’s 2013 Top Sales Training Companies list. This is the sixth year in a row that Franklin Covey’s Sales Performance Practice has...

Human rights are very much like the air we breathe: all too easily taken for granted. Similarly we rapidly become firmly focussed on respect for our rights when we feel that they have been violated or...

Malta University Press has published the volume Il-Poeżiji, an elegant volume comprising the collected Maltese poems of well-known nineteenth century Maltese poet Ġan Anton Vassallo, who lived between...

A book focusing on the difficult relationship between former prime ministers Dom Mintoff and Alfred Sant by Josef Grech, was launched yesterday morning.   Late last year, Mr Grech had also...

"The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend" (Bloomsbury), by Glenn Frankel   A modest hit in theaters in 1956, "The Searchers" has grown in stature to become, for...