Books & Literature

"Evil Intentions Come," a noir thriller, is Timothy Lockhart's latest. He'll have a book signing June 10 in Virginia Beach.

Stephan Talty's narrative about David Koresh himself is flawed, but he offers a riveting account of the law enforcement standoff and raid at the Branch Davidian compound — a turning point in U.S. history.

Reporter James Risen's study of Frank Church — whose 1970s work exposed assassination plots, surveillance of civil rights figures, and more — lands on the nonfiction list. These hardcover rankings reflect sales for the week ended May 13.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended May 13.

Grief, notes reviewer Moira Macdonald, "is a strange, disorienting experience, one that you can’t comprehend until it happens to you, and one that doesn’t come with a set of rules." In the memoir "A Living Remedy," Nicole Chung writes about losing her father, her grandmother and her mother within two years — the latter two, in two months. And she writes about how the experience has changed her.

Public writers include scientists, teachers, medical workers, government employees, everyday citizens, journalists — anyone who writes in the interest of the public good. Roy Peter Clark focuses on them in 'Tell It Like It Is.'

Lil Eddie is the star of K.D. Brown’s first children’s book, “Socks for Lil Eddie,” which she self-published in March. Accompanied by bright and colorful illustrations by Mo Childs, an 18-year-old Virginia artist, it tells the story of a little boy who always wanted new socks, for any special occasion.

In ‘The Covenant of Water,’ an intimate, epic tale, three generations of a South Indian family live under a curse. From the author of 'Cutting for Stone.'

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended May 6.

In fiction, the list gets a makeover as Patterson/Paetro, Danielle Steel, Abraham Verghese and Justin Cronin climb on. These hardcover rankings reflect sales for the week ended May 6.

Two birders in Raleigh, alarmed at the famous 3 Billion Birds report — which documented the plummeting bird population in the U.S. and Canada — set out to help. What was needed, they said, was a book on what might be done to reverse the losses before more species became extinct or the continent’s entire bird population crashed beyond recovery.

Memoirist Abigail Thomas turns her attention to her elder years and its particulars, giving us a close look at what it's like to grow old.

The promise of warmer weather and the phenomenal wild beings around us: Children's books columnist Caroline Luzzatto has books to recommend.

Book review: South Boston. A missing daughter, a colleague's murdered son, anti-busing protests — and the writing. It's all vintage Lehane as Mary Pat, only his second female protagonist, seeks answers and revenge.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 29.

And in nonfiction, a memoir by musician Lucinda Williams. These rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 29.

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver’s modern recasting of the Dickens classic “David Copperfield,” and Hernan Diaz’s “Trust,” an innovative narrative of wealth and deceit set in 1920s New York

These New York Times bestsellers rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 22.

"Where are the Children?" gets a sequel at last. These hardcover rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 22.

Dreams are great — and easy. Exploring them is tougher. Achieving them? That's when we all really need help. Children's books columnist Caroline Luzzatto recommends several titles for kids (and their folks).

A cosmologist's view on the origins of the universe, and more, in hardcover rankings of sales for the week ended April 15.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 15.

Review: In 'The Trackers,' Charles Frazier imagines a search for a missing woman and the truth about her mysterious past.

Journalist David Grann happened upon the tale of the HMS Wager, which wrecked off Chile in 1741 during a treasure-hunting mission. A few dozen people survived, and it was one castaway's journal that gripped him. The story, Grann says, is “a story about the disintegration of a floating civilization.”

NONFICTION: How a depraved lout turned the KKK into a force in Jazz Age Indiana. "A Fever in the Heartland:The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them" by Timothy Egan; Viking (432 pages, $30) ——— Let's face it. Timothy Egan could probably write a three-volume history of marshmallows and it would be a gripping thrill ride. His "Fever in the Heartland" is not ...