Library Journal : In her third novel, New York Times best-selling author Strout (Abide with Me) tracks Olive Kitteridge's adult life through 13 l...More

Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Wall Street Journal bureau chief Blackmon gives a groundbreaking and disturbing account of a sordid chapter in Ame...More

Publishers Weekly : Newsweek editor and bestselling author Meacham (Franklin and Winston) offers a lively take on the seventh president's White H...More

Publishers Weekly : SignatureReviewed by Matthew SharpeAreader might at first be surprised by how many chapters of a book entitled The Brief and Wond...More

Library Journal: Starred Review. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, McCarthy (All the Pretty Horses) here ...More

Library Journal: Wright (fellow, Ctr. on Law & Security, NYU Sch. of Law; Twins) goes back—way back—to 1948 to dissect the personal i...More

Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. Brooks's luminous second novel, after 2001's acclaimed Year of Wonders, imagines the Civil War experiences...More

Library Journal: By analyzing primary sources—including archival material and interviews with hundreds of Kikuyu survivors as well as British a...More

Library Journal: Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in the life, career, achievements, and trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "...More

Publishers Weekly: Fans of Robinson's acclaimed debut Housekeeping (1981) will find that the long wait has been worth it. From the first page of ...More

Publishers Weekly: This sweeping biography, 10 years in the making, chronicles in fastidious detail de Kooning's rise from his humble beginnings ...More

Library Journal: Subsequent to Solzhenitsyn's landmark Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Applebaun, former Warsaw cor...More

Library Journal : There has been a surprising paucity of information produced about the baby boomers' biggest bogeyman. During the 1960s, Khrushc...More

Publishers Weekly : As the Age of the Genome begins to dawn, we will, perhaps, expect our fictional protagonists to know as much about the chemical d...More

Publishers Weekly : Power, a former journalist for U.S. News and World Report and the Economist and now the executive director of Harvard's Carr ...More

Library Journal : Lyndon Johnson's 12 years in the Senate (1949-61) were his happiest years, according to his wife, Lady Bird Johnson. They are t...More

Library Journal : "Elijah Whiting...had not succeeded in killing his wife with a shovel, nor had he recovered from the disappointment." The...More

Library Journal : McWhorter, who was born into Birmingham's white elite, examines the city's pivotal role in the battle for civil rights. Copyright 2...More

Library Journal : This life of Adams is an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary man who has not received his due in America's early political h...More

Library Journal : Joe Kavalier, a young artist and magician, escapes pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, making his way to the home of Sam Clay, his Bro...More

Library Journal : Conventional histories treat the U.S. occupation of Japan (1945-52) as an exercise in which benevolent Americans conferred the bles...More

Library Journal : Vladimir Nabokov's works have come to the attention of the public again with the publication of Library of America editions and the...More

Library Journal : Clarissa Dalloway certainly is a popular lady nowadays, with a recent movie and now a new book based on her life. She is, of course...More

Library Journal : McPhee is the most celebrated contemporary writer on North American geology, and Annals is his magnum opus, combining edited and re...More

Library Journal : Berg, whose biographies of Max Perkins and Sam Goldwyn are central texts in their fields, restores some luster to complicated aviat...More

Library Journal : In his latest novel, Roth shows his age. Not that his writing is any less vigorous and supple. But in this autumnal tome, he is def...More

Library Journal : Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond's thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "Hi...More

Library Journal : Katharine Meyer Graham was a woman born into a world of wealth and privilege who raised four children, became involved in volunteer...More

Library Journal : This story of a 19th-century New York entrepreneur by the author of Edwin Mullhouse (LJ 8/15/72) both introduces the scenery and fe...More

Library Journal : Two recent releases chronicle the history of the current political status of the controversial tobacco industry from different vant...More

Library Journal : McCourt is the eldest of eight children born to Angela Sheehan and Malachy McCourt in the 1920s. The McCourts began their family in...More

Publisher's Weekly : In this sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford follows his middle-aged American everyman, Frank Bascombe, through the transformati...More

Publishers Weekly : Freelance journalist Rosenberg's frequent trips since 1991 to eastern Europe and the former Soviet empire led to this trenchant r...More

Library Journal : Despite its provocative title, this is a serious attempt to come to an understanding of the portrayal of God in the Tanakh, i.e., t...More

Library Journal : Author of the ``most satisfying'' The Republic of Love ( LJ 1/92), Canadian novelist Shields here details the hard life of Daisy St...More

Library Journal : This is an account of Peter and Rosemary Grant's research on the microevolutionary modifications that occur in finch beaks as they ...More

Library Journal : In writing this biography of Stowe, the most substantial since Forrest Wilson's Crusader in Crinoline won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941,...More