Its magic pure and its mysteries primordial, Lars Mytting’s novel "The Bell in the Lake" is a tour de force set in the untamed wilds of Norway. Fresh out of seminary, Kai Schweigaard receives an assignment to head a remote church in... Read More

Adam Wilson’s near-future "Sensation Machines" is a delayed bildungsroman for a whole generation. Wendy and Michael met as college students in New York while navigating the detritus of September 11, 2001. He was a Marshall Mathers... Read More

In "The Gamesmaster", Flint Dille shares his experiences writing cartoons, novels, and full-length films for some of the best-known children’s entertainment properties of the 1980s. In the eighties: G.I. Joe and Transformers were... Read More

Combining common sense wisdom with psychological insights, What’s Next? argues that change is possible. Leonard Restall’s self-help book What’s Next? contains strategies for taking positive career steps forward. Restall, who... Read More

Oh, the things we know by the way trees grow: about the planet’s climate over the past couple thousand years, about population fluctuation from ancient Rome forward, about solar radiation variations, atmospheric pressure systems,... Read More

When Jeremy meets Alexandra, he believes her light may be enough to eclipse the shadows of his past. Once an operative in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Jeremy was given a new identity as a social worker, counseling clients and... Read More

The re-creation of Paris from a medieval urban maze to the city of lights and boulevards comes to life in Mary McAuliffe’s historical exposé Paris, City of Dreams. When Louis-Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, took power in... Read More

Cozy mysteries don’t get any cozier than Joanne Fluke’s, and her latest in the Hannah Swensen series, Coconut Layer Cake Murder, is no exception. Hannah is a baker and amateur sleuth who’s ordered to take a vacation after a... Read More