"Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life" (Viking), by Amber Scorah As an adolescent Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah knocked on plenty of doors and assigned each house a two-...

"Dark Site" (Minotaur Books), by Patrick Lee What at first appears to be a random attack on a man and a woman ends up being far more sinister and disturbing in Patrick Lee's latest thriller,...

"The River," by Peter Heller (Alfred A. Knopf) This novel about two Dartmouth College students on a canoe trip gone badly awry is partly an ode to the Northern wilderness, partly a survival...

"Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age" (Ballantine Books), by Robert Stone and Alan Andres This companion book to the upcoming PBS...

Horizons has just published a new novel titled Ix-Xirka tal-Beati Paoli or the Society of the Beati Paoli. It has been written by Salv Sammut, who needs no introduction among Maltese readers. The...

Publishers poured champagne and toasted the picture book "Summer," a children's book that is the first American release to come out of a long partnership between MacMillan and China's 21st Century...

"Cari Mora" by Thomas Harris (Grand Central). In Thomas Harris' new novel, Cari Mora escaped a violent past and now lives in Miami. She can stay in the United States thanks to a temporary...

British author Hilary Mantel is ready to complete her million-selling trilogy of Thomas Cromwell novels. Henry Holt and Company announced Wednesday that "The Mirror & the Light" comes out in...

Parents often receive books at pediatric checkups via programs like Reach Out and Read and hear from a variety of health professionals and educators that reading to their kids is critical for...

"Deception Cove," (Mulholland Books), by Owen Laukkanen It would be easy for Owen Laukkanen's superb "Deception Cove" to evolve into just a dog story about the power and love of a devoted canine...