News organizations around the world are covering the reveal of the cover of the new Dan Brown title The Lost Symbol., which clearly indicates that the book is set in Washington, D.C. Brown’s editor, Jason Kaufman tells Motoko Rich reports in t...

Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman, a gripping history of the ordeal faced by American forces in battling for the Bataan peninsula in the Phillippines during WWII, rises to #8 on Amazon after a round of coverage from CNN.com...

Jeff Sharlet returned to NPR’s Fresh Air to talk to Terry Gross about the secretive fundamentalist group “The Family,” which counts among its members influential congressmen and senators. Recent news stories, including those about family members John...

Going Rogue does not have an index, a fact widely reported in the press. Satirist Christopher Buckley provides one (who knew an index could be funny?) in the Daily Beast. With all the attention the book has received in the press (try Googling “Tired of...

It seems a famous name on the cover doesn’t always win over readers. Al Roker, book lover and Today Show’s seemingly irrepressible weatherperson, releases his first work of adult fiction today; The Morning Show Murders. Library users are not jumping on...

If one of the functions of book awards is to bring attention to books that may not have received it otherwise, then the National Book Awards achieved that goal with one of the nonfiction nominees, The Poison King. In the Washington Post, Carolyn See...

I had an interesting reference question today from a school administrator of an inner city school with a high percentage of ESL families. A generous donor is going to buy a book for every child in the the school, K through 5th grade, to take home to...