"The Last Second" by Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison (Gallery). The launch of a corporate satellite covertly begins the countdown to the end of the world in Catherine Coulter and J.T....

"The Last Act: a Novel" (Dutton), by Brad Parks Tommy Jump has worked in theater for a while, but with a fiancee who is pregnant, he realizes that he has to get a real job to generate a steady...

"kaddish.com" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Nathan Englander: It's 1999, and Larry, a lapsed Jew from Brooklyn, is at his sister Dina's house in Memphis for their father's funeral. Since he won't...

"Run Away" (Grand Central Publishing), by Harlan Coben Simon works on Wall Street, and his wife, Ingrid, is a successful doctor. They had a wonderful family life until their oldest daughter,...

Tom Clancy's widow says in a lawsuit that his estate is the exclusive owner not just of the novelist's famous character Jack Ryan, but the rights to the character John Clark and several...

Literacy Partners, NYC’s premiere education nonprofit, announced today the launch of its “Unreadable Books” campaign, a bookstore activation designed to raise awareness and support...

The Who's Pete Townshend, the man who helped invent the rock opera, has now written a rock novel. Hachette Books announced Tuesday that the British composer-guitarist's "The Age of Anxiety" was...

Żero is a 14-year-old boy who has never met another living being his whole life. Until, one day, the highly technological apartment where he has lived all his life is hit by a power...

To begin with, the book is a mystery. Mystery about the author, mystery about the publishing house. Until, wonders of Google, I found in a page that can no longer be fully accessed, that the...

"Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury" (Alfred A. Knopf), by Carolyn Burke It's been almost a century since Alfred Stieglitz scandalized polite society with...