“Prom Mom,” by Laura Lippman, is a suspenseful read based on a true story. The thriller is intense, addictive and sinister, a...

Set in the turbulent year of 2017, “All the Sinners Bleed” is an enthusiastically bloody crime thriller with subtext rooted in the deeply...

Shortly after the U.S. entered the Korean War in 1953, two men flew over the 38th Parallel into Communist territory aboard identical...

One striking feature of “Shark Heart,” by Emily Habeck, is the beautiful cover art of a graceful shark painted in flowers, gliding...

Little Academy Preschool is idyllic. The bright colors, sweet little handprints and chorus of delighted voices in the halls are enough to...

In 1997, social and historical theorists, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss published “The Fourth Turning,” a hypothesis that...

“Family Lore,” by Elizabeth Acevedo, is a multi-generational story of four sisters born with magical gifts that are revealed as they grow...

After traveling the globe for 12 years as the Dalai lama's biographer and observing how people worldwide search for meaning in their...

Lorrie Moore is a professor of English at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. She writes essays, short stories, and has published four...

“The Housekeepers,” by Alex Hay, is a fun debut novel in which “Ocean’s Eleven” meets “Downton Abbey.” Set in London in the 1900s, the...

“Alchemy of a Blackbird,” by Claire McMillan, is a historical fiction novel based on the true story of Surrealist Painters Remedios Varo...

Colson Whitehead “hits it out of the park,” that is out of New York City’s Shea Stadium, in his latest book set in 1970s Harlem. Crime...

Richard Russo is a prolific wordsmith with 10 novels to his credit, as well as short story collections, screenplays, and a memoir....

Family secrets form the basis of “Little Monsters,” an engrossing contemporary psychological novel about Adam Gardner, a renowned...

Notorious cult leaders Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Marshall Applewhite are three of the well-known figures profiled in “Cults” by...

“With My Little Eye” is a contemporary, psychological thriller by Joshilyn Jackson. This page turner contains plenty of suspense and...

Gary Kremer, a 5th-generation Missourian, completed his latest book “This Place of Promise” in celebration of Missouri’s 200th...

In recent years, several authors have written books that humanize mythological Greek characters. In works of fiction, Madeline Miller,...

In 1854, young Ana Ferreira became a helpmate to Mary Todd Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois. Anna helped with the housekeeping and...

Jonathan Eig’s biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) is the first major life history of the civil rights leader to be...