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Eliza and the Dragonfly is an excellent children's book about the life cycle of the dragonfly and the importance of appreciating the wonders of nature and the environment. While...

They may be considered clumsy and unattractive, but one author discovers that schlubs aren't necessarily losers.

Call it the triumph of the outsider.

First things first: Bob Greene is no Chekhov. When We Get to Surf City will not cause you to question your very existence nor will it leave you pondering the complex relationship of the ego to the id. But it might just prompt you to ask yourself, ???Am I having enough fun yet????

I never thought that a book titled Avenues of Spiritual Consciousness (by Roger K. Freeman) would hold my interest. The perseverance of Raven Janamanchi, a young woman of intense belief, is severely challenged after she meets Basil Porter, an outed CIA agent. Their beginnings near Matinicus Island on the Maine coast lead to worldwide [...]

Mystery novelist Janwillem Van de Wetering was once a motorcycle gang member in South Africa, an aspiring monk in Kyoto, Japan and a policeman in Amsterdam. The Dutch author of The Hollow-Eyed Angel, The Blond Baboon and The Maine Massacre died July 4 at age 77.

TELEX FROM CUBA By Rachel Kushner

This weekFICTION Bay Area Last weekWeeks on list 1THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, David Wroblewski (Ecco; 576 pages; $25.95): A mute boy and his unique dogs are forced to flee into the wilderness after a family tragedy. 2THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO,...

Never Been a Time The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked the Civil Rights Movement By Harper Barnes Walker; 293 pages; $25.99 In 1970, I graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and moved to East St. Louis, Ill., just across the river from St....

Novelist Stephen Carter, who is also a professor at the Yale Law School, says his latest novel, Palace Council, is a thriller, a conspiracy, a love story and historical fiction. And the process of writing it was "utterly exhausting."