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Kay is unhappy in her job. She gets some extra money and leaves town and opens a Bed and Breakfast. She has been working on book called the The Illustrated Mr. Darcy. Adam also lives in the same town and also a screenwriter. His movie of PersuasionÂ...

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson live on another planet. Better make that "in another universe," and they like it there just fine. Brian Herbert, left, and Kevin Anderson are authors of 12 science fiction books together, including the new "Sist...

Michael Morpurgo grabbed readers' hearts with his novel "War Horse" set in World War I.

The stacked boxes of books that form the 6-foot-high bunker here at Reading Central are once again overflowing. Let's move some of the nonfiction titles out so the incoming avalanche can continue. As an FYI, we donate the books that come to u...

An Elephant in the Garden Michael Morpurgo Feiwel & Friends, $17, 199 pages, ages 10 and up Michael Morpurgo grabbed readers' hearts with his novel "War Horse" set in World War I. Now it's a Steven Spielberg movie. The same could happ...

Love and Shame and Love Peter Orner Little, Brown, $24.99, 448 pages Peter Orner's new novel is a deft character study of a family hiding the usual secrets and lies of contemporary life, but it's also a well-observed portrait of a cit...

Hardback fiction 1. 11/22/63 by Stephen King. An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald. (6 weeks on list) 2. Locked On by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney. Jack Ry...

1. 11/22/63 by Stephen King. An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald. (6 weeks on list)

Peter Orner's new novel is a deft character study of a family hiding the usual secrets and lies of contemporary life, but it's also a well-observed portrait of a city as rich in history, dirty tricks and deception as any of the people he puts in it.

The stacked boxes of books that form the 6-foot-high bunker here at Reading Central are once again overflowing. Let's move some of the nonfiction titles out so the incoming avalanche can continue.