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Books for children - Feb. 19

 February 19, 2012

AT THE LIBRARY

Burroughs' letters reveal a less complicated man

 February 19, 2012

"Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister," Allen Ginsberg wrote in "America" in 1956. But Burroughs is back. Fifteen years after his death, he is the focal point of a renewed fascination with the literary and...

Book tip: "Fun & Games"

 February 16, 2012

Duane Swierczynski

Mulholland Books/Little, Brown

New book explores Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man

 February 12, 2012

Chief among the many pleasures of Toby Lester's new book, "Da Vinci's Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image," is the Leonardo da Vinci who emerges from its pages. You won't find Robert Langdon's...

Books for children - Feb. 12

 February 12, 2012

AT THE LIBRARY

Britain marks Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday

 February 8, 2012

He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions - Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver...

Books for children - Feb. 5

 February 5, 2012

BOOKS TO BORROW

"Read To Your Bunny" written and illustrated by Rosemary Wells, Scholastic Press, 28 pages

It’s market madness in ‘The Fear Index’

 February 5, 2012

Robert Harris has fashioned solid thrillers from the oratory of Cicero ("Imperium"), the spy codes of World War II ("Enigma") and the dark machinations of contemporary politicians ("The Ghost," retitled "The Ghost Writer" after its film...

Book tip: "Defending Jacob"

 February 2, 2012

William Landay

Delacorte Press

Taking a page from Take Your Child to the Library Day

 February 2, 2012

Pick a library pretty much anywhere around here on Saturday, and chances it's participating in the first annual Take Your Child to the Library Day.

Nadine Lipman of Waterford Public Library dreamed up the whole idea after reading...

Book Beat: ‘Generation Dead' hits the big-time, and more

 January 31, 2012

As always, in our hyper-writerly corner of the world, there's plenty of book news. But it's pretty obvious where to start.

Elmore Leonard’s ‘Raylan’ stories jump right off page

 January 29, 2012

I haven't seen "Justified" on FX, but you don't have to have seen it either to enjoy the low-key dramatic splendors of Elmore Leonard's new novel, "Raylan."

Books for children - Jan. 29

 January 29, 2012

Fiction books are fun, nonfiction can be fascinating, and combining the two into a great book can be sensational. That's exactly what you'll find in today's reviewed books.

New library e-catalogs offer expanded selection of e-books

 January 27, 2012

Library users searching for e-books will soon get to look through a much bigger catalog and help decide what their local branch might carry.

Review: Marine dog handler’s book hard to put down

 January 22, 2012

Every armed conflict that featured an American military presence has inevitably been followed by a cavalcade of books written about the exploits of those who fought in it - from the decision-making generals and admirals to the front line...

Book tip: "The Ridge" by Michael Koryta

 January 19, 2012

The true artist follows his or her Muse regardless of trends or commercial appeal — or something like that. Give Koryta his due in this regard. A respected and award-winning novelist known for his PI series starring Lincoln Perry,...

Local man pens book about War World II in the Whaling City

 January 17, 2012

What ended up as a full-fledged book about New London during World War II started out simply enough for Clark van der Lyke.

Books for children - Jan. 15

 January 15, 2012

BOOKS TO BORROW

Physicist writes how universe evolved from nothing

 January 15, 2012

In fall 2009, the theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss gave a talk about recent discoveries in cosmology that he engagingly titled, "A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing."

Book tip: "1Q84"

 January 12, 2012

Haruki Murakami

Knopf

Carrie Fisher’s new memoir can’t help but entertain

 January 8, 2012

Carrie Fisher has done an excellent job of reinventing herself as ... Carrie Fisher, evolving from ingenue actress and geek pinup to salty, tell-it-like-it-is writer and humorist. And as Just Carrie Fisher, she has a lot to say, mostly...

Books for children - Jan. 8

 January 8, 2012

BOOKS TO BORROW

"An Orange for Frankie" by Patricia Polacco, Philomel, 42 pages

Audubon's 'The Birds of America' to be sold in NYC

 January 6, 2012

A rare first edition set of John James Audubon's sumptuously illustrated "The Birds of America" will be sold at auction in New York.

Book tip: 'The Drop'

 January 5, 2012

Michael Connelly

Little, Brown and Company

Book tip: “Robert B. Parker’s Killing the Blues”

 December 29, 2011

Michael Brandman

G.P. Putnam's Sons

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