Not long before Election Day, 2016, Samira Ahmed completed the first draft of her novel, "Internment," a dystopian narrative about the rounding up of Muslim-Americans. As the news came in that...

"Hunt Them Down" (Thomas and Mercer), by Simon Gervais Pierce Hunt has returned from a six-month forced leave after a reporter is injured during a bust even though it's not Hunt's fault. On...

"Freefall: a Novel" (HarperCollins), by Jessica Barry "Freefall" begins as an action-packed/heart-stopping thriller as it logically and smoothly leads into the self-examination of two women...

Ever wondered why boys and girls choose particular toys, particular colors and particular stories? Why is it that girls want to dress in pink and to be princesses, or boys want to be Darth Vader,...

Ed. Sergio Grech'L-Avukat Herbert Ganado - Bejn Storja u Miti'Horizons2015260pp   When I worked at Il-Hajja, I had a small, walk-on, part in producing some of the original volumes of...

For Stephen Colbert and his "Late Show" staff, the best-selling spoof "Whose Boat Is This Boat?" essentially wrote itself. Because all of the words are by President Donald Trump, who is billed as...

Retired NASA mathematician Katharine Johnson, who turned 100 last summer, has waited long enough to tell her own story. Johnson's "Reaching for the Moon" is an autobiography for middle graders...

"All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson" (Harper), by Mark Griffin Had Rock Hudson not died of AIDS in 1985, he might be best remembered as the most successful of the postwar male...

"Pandemic" (Putnam), by Robin Cook When there's a scientific breakthrough, Robin Cook doesn't just stand up and cheer. He uses his fertile imagination and writes a novel about its possible...

The average American reads 12 or 13 books a year, but with over 3 million books in print, the choices they face are staggering. Despite the introduction of 100,000 new titles each year, only a...