Eye on Books

Life was going great for bestselling author Bruce Feiler -- until the day his doctor told him he had a malignant tumor in his leg, and that there was a good chance it would kill him. His first thought was, what would become of his young twin daughters? Would they wonder who he was? Would they wonde...

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has a lot to say to us now, says conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin. He's written the preface to newly-republished edition of a book his father wrote 45 years ago, called "Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Illustrated."...

When bodies start washing up onshore on Rockaway Beach, New York, ADA Alex Cooper gets involved, because those bodies are victims of human traffickers, in Linda Fairstein's thriller "Hell Gate." But there is another case Alex is working on, as well, involving a congressman with a potentially deadly...

Oprah Winfrrey may be the most powerful woman in media, ever. She's a self-made billionaire, television friend to millions the world over. And she is also a jealous guardian of her public image, her "brand." Now comes biographer Kitty Kelley, whose style is to do the end run around a celebrity's pub...

Sookie Stackhouse is a changed woman, as Charlaine Harris's new novel "Dead in the Family" begins. Sookie is a Louisiana barmaid and telepath who is attracted to men who, themselves, have supernatural abilities. Like vampires. And weretigers. And now they've just emerged from the Faery War that has...

What's funny about being a bedwetter? Probably nothing, if taken by itself - but when turned into a vehicle to tell your story, and poke fun at yourself, it can be golden. Sorry about that. No one knows this better than comedian Sarah Silverman, whose memoir is "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, R...

Flitterdegibbety Maeve Connelly can't seem to hold a job, can't seem to be responsible. So after her latest firing -- and an intervention by her family -- she heads west, in Kerry Reichs' novel "Leaving Unknown." When her car breaks down en route to California, Maeve's life takes a turn that foresh...

Nine men and women trapped in an office building basement after an earthquake turn to storytelling to pass the time -- and, perhaps, retain a sense of civility and calm -- in Chitra Divakaruni's novel "One Amazing Thing." In turn they share stories that each reveal the "one amazing thing" of their...

It's estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans have Asperger's, a form of high-functioning autism. Grant is one of them; his parents have now written their story. Grant's mom and dad, Shonda Schilling and former major league pitcher Curt Schilling, writes that it wasn't until Grant was seve...

Gritty Manhattan is making it awfully hard for former mob fixer Leonid McGill to go straight. But he's really trying, in Walter Mosley's mystery "Known to Evil." His past continues to haunt him, as McGill is called on by a powerful figure to do a favor...