The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer Unexpectedly good. Written in intimate and dramatic detail, it reads like a haunting novel; though...

In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South...

It's not about what you think it is. At least not what I thought. Like all Gladwell books, it's eye-opening. In this case, about how...

Picking this up was at the suggestion of Martha after we'd just had a vacation in southern France. It's told by an Englishman who moves...

I've been looking forward to this book. Toying with writing my own memoirs, I've been reading famous examples of them by accomplished...

A delightful, gifted writer; but one of the oddest, freakiest childhood experiences imaginable (vivid gay sex?!). Its otherworldly...

In the face of conventional wisdom that aircraft would not affect warfare, a group of young visionaries with a novel invention - the...

Who would ever think that a sitting judge would be a serial killer? Oops! Spoiler Alert! Grisham is still one of our most talented,...

In the latest Jack Reacher novel (2022), our wanderer comes across an FBI agent trying to find her brother, who has disappeared in a town...

Americans have a vision of the Marquis de Lafayette as the brave, idealistic French nobleman who fought alongside Washington in our...

Very readable and engaging. He's a remarkable writer (with editing help, I'm sure) and offers insights on the thought-process and policy...

If you like escapist thrillers....while interrupting an attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Juan Cabrillo and his team discover something...

A bit of a slog, but Bryson is typically witty and amusing in his writing - if not quite as funny as some of his other books. Really...

A clever twist of an ending. A thriller about a wife murdering her husband and the therapist who tries to reach her. This was...

Erik Larson's books make history engaging and easy to read. In this, he follows Winston Churchill, officials and family members during...

A Russian ballerina is forced by her KGB uncle into 'sexpionage.' Secretly resentful, she learns to trust and plot with a CIA operative....

The ultimate high-energy guy who overcame personal tragedies with intense optimism and idealism - and left legacies for us. He would...

The latest in his 'Amos Decker' series, featuring a detective who, because of a football injury, has perfect memory, but distorted social...

Dramatic, touching, inspirational - made into a movie. A former Olympic athlete now in the U.S. Army Air Force is shot down in the...

I'm an unapologetic Lee Child/Jack Reacher fan;this one was criticized because his son cowrote it. Reacher ends up in a town helping a...